The Next Pussy Cat Doll is...Asia?!

So the search for the Next Pussycat Doll, aka the most addictive, awful, horrible vapid car-crash of a show to hit TV since the dawn of the reality genre, is over, and...it's Asia. The least popular, cat-fightin', smack-talkin' 17 year old single mother who says "ax" instead of "ask" and proudly declared that she only ate cheeseburgers and fries, has become young girls' newest role model.

This makes me mad on a couple of levels.

1. She sucked. She can't sing but did the whole fluttery-hand-on-the-mic thing a la Mariah Carey. The only thing she did well was flick her weave and shake her booty.

2. She was downright mean and all the other girls hated her. She was also edited so that the viewing audience would dislike her, and we did. One way to make me lose what little interest I HAVE in the Pussycat Dolls is to put the contestant I liked LEAST in the group. Way to go, producers.

3. This whole role model thing. The core audience for the Pussycat Dolls is pre-pubescent girls. Is a 17 year old mother who has been arrested for beating people up, who swears and has a criminal record really the model of "female empowerment" we want to provide?! I guess the answer is, they really only want to sell records.

It's a sad, sad state of affairs. What to do? Well, the answer is clear. I have to audition for Season 2 of the Pussycat Dolls. I'm going to start working on my audition tape tomorrow. ..