It’s time to squeeze into those low-rise jeans and dig up that old pair of Uggs from the back of your closet, as another stalwart of early 2000s pop culture is back: The Pussycat Dolls 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, Calif., 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 through 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, 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 Thursday came more than two decades after the release of their most successful album, PCD, which sold more than 9 million copies worldwide.
The Pussycat Dolls released a new song, “Club Song.” Scherzinger described the song as a “casual hot girl anthem” in an interview on the British radio network Heart radio on Thursday.
“We are back and we are going on tour!” Scherzinger, the group’s lead singer, said in the interview.
The band had previously reunited in 2019, but plans to go on tour were postponed because of the pandemic. In 2022, the tour was canceled. (Two previous members of the band — neither of whom appear to be part of the 2026 reunion tour — said that Scherzinger had canceled 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 that Millennial and Generation X styles and music are experiencing a nostalgia-fueled resurgence. Events like the annual When We Were Young Festival have centered 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 in 2019 they performed on “The X Factor UK.” Otherwise, they have not been seen performing together in recent years.
Robin Antin, a Los Angeles choreographer, started the Pussycat Dolls as a burlesque dance group. She has said she called it the Pussycat Dolls because she had a vision of “making everyone look like a real, living doll.” (In 2021, Antin sued Scherzinger after the singer did not take part in a previously announced reunion tour.)
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 Thursday morning.
In recent years, Scherzinger launched her Broadway career, winning a Tony Award in 2025 for her role as Norma Desmond in “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.”
Claire Moses is a Times reporter in London, focused on coverage of breaking and trending news.
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