I’m watching the first episode of The Next Pussycat Doll and I have to say I’m a bit shocked. (I’m getting to that.) Now in case you think I’m a dirty old man watch scantily clad young women, consider that I wanted to be a classical, jazz and ballroom dancer in my youth. I have performed several times. So I watch most “dance” TV shows out of interest.

Here’s a quick summary. Of the eighteen girls selected out of thousands, two are amazing singers, a few are great dancers, a few more can dance and sing, and the rest just want to win because it’s cool. A few have had hard lives. Unfortunately, one girl got sick with a virus and infected several other girls very quickly. Here’s why I’m disappointed: who ever did the final clip selection decided to show two of the girls actually hurling. You read that right. They showed the actual stream of vomit. How classy.

It’s hard to watch one of these girls and say they have both singing and dancing talent, and can take choreography well, as well as be sexy doing it. Let’s face it. That’s what they Pussycat Dolls sell: sex appeal in performance form. But I’d warrant most of their “concert” attendees are young females wanting to be them, not young men.

Fortunately, nine young women were culled at the end of the episode. And the two young ladies with the best voices got in based on their ability to also dance. Truth is, the girls than didn’t get picked lacked something or other - more refinement than anything. All nine of the girls picked deserved it. Nothing controversial yet, other than the showing of vomit. Let’s hope that they don’t top that next week. They will have rapper Lil Kim, though.