Its The 15th Anniversary Of The Most Awkward Performance Of All Time, And Theres Brand New Drama With The Pussycat Dolls To Go Along With It

The year was 2006.

Katy Perry posed with Tom from Myspace for clout.

Every guy under the age of 22 had this haircut.

And the Pussycat Dolls weren’t in the best place. Like, something was brewing.

But thanks to them, it’s now the 15th anniversary of one of the most awkward and iconic performances of all time.

I’m talking about the 2006 VH1 Fashion Rocks performance of “Buttons.”

BUT BEFORE YOU WATCH THE CLIP, most people don’t know this, but the Pussycat Dolls had more than one singer. Like there were actually other people singing in the group besides Nicole.

There was Nicole Sherzinger and there was Melody Thornton.

Melody, while she considered herself to be a singer, never really got a chance to sing lead.

In 2012, Nicole even admitted to singing 95% of the group’s vocals, which, like, facts.

Sooo, back to the iconic performance. Things came to a head at the 2006 VH1 concert when Melody took the lead and started wailing.

Nicole was clearly and visibly caught off guard. She was about to lose it.

Years later, we found out Melody wasn’t part of the Pussycat Dolls reunion, and now we know one of the reasons why… well, we can guess.

Melody told the Mirror UK: “I was a singer, not a trained dancer, but wasn’t allowed to sing and was told I couldn’t dance.”

But then the pandemic happened and their world tour was indefinitely postponed. A true pandemic loss. Gay rights were canceled.

Now, a year and a half later, there’s drama.

Robin Antin, who is the founder of PCD, is the one suing Nicole.

In the suit, Antin says Nicole was originally supposed to make 49% of the reunion profits, but since the pandemic canceled the tour Nicole refuses to perform until her contract is renegotiated. Apparently she now wants 75%.

The suit claims that Live Nation is demanding re-payment of the $600,000 they spent towards the tour that never actually happened.

So, she’s being sued.

Nicole’s lawyer responded via the Hollywood Reporter calling the claims ludicrous and false: “Robin’s ludicrous and false claims are a desperate attempt to divert blame for her own failures by trying to impose obligations on Nicole that simply do not exist. Robin will fail in her efforts to trade on Nicole’s hard-earned success to pull herself out of a deep financial hole she has created by her own poor business and professional decisions.”