Don’t Cha... Wish the Pussycat Dolls would go on tour?

NEW YORK – It is time to squeeze into those low-rise jeans and dig up that old pair of Uggs from the back of the closet, as another stalwart of early 2000s pop culture is back: The Pussycat Dolls have released new music and announced a tour.

Three original members of the burlesque dance troupe-turned-pop-sensation – Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt – will reunite for the PCD Forever world tour, which will start in June in Palm Desert, California, the group announced on Thursday.

Lil’ Kim and Mya, two other icons of the early 2000s, will join the Pussycat Dolls.

The group will tour North America, Britain and Europe through October, when they close the tour in London.

The Pussycat Dolls were one of the girl group sensations of the early 2000s. They are known for chart-topping hits such as Don’t Cha, which spent 40 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as Buttons and When I Grow Up.

Their announcement on March 12 came more than two decades after the release of their most successful album, PCD, which sold more than nine million copies worldwide.

The Pussycat Dolls have released a new song, Club Song. Scherzinger, the group’s leader, described it as a “casual hot girl anthem” in an interview on the British radio network Heart radio on March 12.

“We are back and we are going on tour,” she added in the interview.

The band had previously reunited in 2019, but plans to go on tour were postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, the tour was cancelled. (Two previous members of the band – neither of whom appear to be part of the 2026 reunion tour – said that Scherzinger had cancelled the tour without telling them.)

The Pussycat Dolls are the latest group from that era to reunite – Oasis and the Spice Girls are other recent examples – at a time when millennial and Gen X styles and music are experiencing a nostalgia-fuelled resurgence. Events like the annual When We Were Young Festival have centred artists and groups who came to prominence at the turn of the century.

The Pussycat Dolls came together to perform the song React in 2020, and performed on The X Factor UK in 2019. Otherwise, they have not been seen performing together in recent years.

Los Angeles choreographer Robin Antin started the Pussycat Dolls as a burlesque dance group. She called it the Pussycat Dolls as she had a vision of “making everyone look like a real, living doll”.

The group was recast as a singing group, with Scherzinger providing the lead vocals.

Scherzinger, Roberts and Wyatt did not immediately respond to requests for comment on March 12 morning.

In recent years, Scherzinger launched her Broadway career, winning a Tony Award in 2025 for her role as Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard.

“After I dedicated my every waking breath to theater over the past three years, I was like: This is amazing,” Scherzinger said on the radio show. “This is so triumphant. And now I miss my girls and I miss touring.” NYTIMES