Inside The Pussycat Dolls Comeback: ‘It Felt Like Unfinished Business’
"We’re going to give them what they want — and then give them things they didn’t even expect," Nicole Scherzinger previews for fans ahead of the reunion tour.
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More than two decades after debuting with the confident “Don’t Cha,” The Pussycat Dolls are back — and this time, the girl group’s members are more empowered than ever. Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt have reunited as a trio, releasing a high-energy new single, “Club Song” (produced by Mike Sabath and co-written by Caroline Ailin and Sarah “Solly” Solovay), and announcing a 53-date tour across North America and Europe.
For fans, it’s a chance to relive the hits that defined an era. For the Dolls, it’s an opportunity to celebrate their growth while reconnecting with the power and confidence at the heart of the group’s identity. “This is really exciting for us,” Scherzinger says. “To be able to reclaim The Pussycat Dolls within us, in this era of our lives. Celebrating the women that we’ve evolved into and have become — and are still becoming.”
Having experienced personal milestones like motherhood and launched solo careers, the Dolls saw this as the perfect moment for a comeback. “It just feels right,” Roberts says. “We set an intention for this era of PCD to be unified and to show up as the women we are today — more mature, communicating differently, with new tools we didn’t have back then.”
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You’ve all had your own journeys since 2010. What made now feel like the right time to bring back The Pussycat Dolls?
Nicole Scherzinger: I had dedicated my life to the West End and Broadway, and it was amazing to connect with those audiences — it was a dream artistically, just being on that stage. But PCD had come together in 2019, and then COVID hit, so we weren’t able to go on tour. It felt like unfinished business. After my theater run, I reached out to the girls and said, “Wow, we’re celebrating over 20 years, and I miss being onstage with you all. Let’s do a world tour, connect with a whole new audience and have fun.”
Kimberly Wyatt: Having three kids is the most amazing gift in the world, but along the way, you do kind of lose your sense of self. Now, the kids are old enough that we’ve found our rhythm, and with [Kimberly Wyatt Dance Academy], they get a real understanding of what it means to be a Pussycat Doll — owning your space, having that power.
“Club Song” is your reintroduction. What did you want this first single to say about the Dolls’ new era?
Scherzinger: Our music is designed to make you feel good, to feel confident in your own skin, to get you moving. You don’t even have to be at a club — just turn the music on in your kitchen, in your bedroom, anywhere, and remember who you are. Reconnect with that inner baddie within.
You came up in a completely different era of music. What’s been the biggest adjustment recording and promoting music today?
Ashley Roberts: Streaming, social media, podcasts. Promo is a whole different animal now.
Wyatt: I do think it’s a bit more fun these days. Because of social media, you can connect with everybody so much easier than you could back then. The amount of promo we used to do — traveling to every country around the world — was relentless, and we loved it.
What’s something about today’s industry that you wish you had during your original run?
Roberts: Mental health awareness.
Scherzinger: There were no boundaries; we just worked ourselves to the bone. We didn’t have any breaks — no sleep, no nothing.
Roberts: It just wasn’t spoken about back then. It wasn’t a thing where people asked, “How are you feeling? How is your mental health? Your emotional health? Your physical health?” That just wasn’t part of the vocabulary at the time. And on a lighter note — things like FaceTime. Kim has three kids back home and can connect with them in a way we never could. I remember being on the road, feeling really lonely some nights, in a different country, different time zone, just wanting to talk to family or friends — and all you could really do was send a text.
What do you think about the current state of girl groups?
Roberts: KATSEYE’s phenomenal. They’re singing. They dance and they throw ’em down.
Wyatt: Little Mix has done some brilliant things. It’s just so lovely to see girl groups find their success and carve out their own lane, and we’ll always champion that. The Spice Girls came before us, and we felt like we were blazing the trail from what they left behind. Being able to then create our own lane and build our own legacy is just incredible. Empowered women empower women.
This is your first official tour since 2009 — what can fans expect from this show?
Scherzinger: We’re going to give them what they want — and then give them things they didn’t even expect. I’m excited because I want this to be the dream tour we never got to do. Back then, we didn’t have the budget — I don’t even know if we fully have it now — but what we do have are ideas. It’s about adding that artistic flair for the kids but still giving people what they want: the choreo, the hits.
This story appears in the April 18, 2026, issue of Billboard.
