Thankfully, the dog didn't have to part with the pussycats.
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But she's confronted by the Pussycats in the locker room.
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After being called a "solo diva," the Pussycats break up.
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However, the trio didn't enter my life until 2001, the year Josie and the Pussycats was released as a feature length film starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid and Rosario Dawson as "The Pussycats".
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The best revenge is always success, so she joins the Pussycats.
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Josie and the Pussycats subverted those tropes off and on-screen.
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Let me tell you, dear readers, about Josie and the Pussycats.
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"Josie and the Pussycats" (2001), directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan.
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"Josie and the Pussycats" (43), directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan.
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A second theory is inspired by the plot of Josie & The Pussycats.
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Her touring schedule with the Pussycats kept her away from her boyfriend.
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But the development of Josie and the Pussycats tips it into greatness.
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Wheels IT can make engines sound like purring pussycats — or growling tigers.
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We've been missing our regular fix of the Pussycats on Riverdale lately.
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HUNTINGTON "Josie and the Pussycats" (5163), directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan.
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Now: Sings a song every seventh episode, haven't seen the Pussycats in months.
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It was a far cry from the first time we watched the Pussycats perform.
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Beyoncé Was Almost In Josie & The Pussycats So A Remake Has To Happen ASAP
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Val is able to negotiate singing co-lead when she returns to the Pussycats.
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Move over, Josie and the Pussycats — Casey Cott just might be Riverdale's breakout musical star.
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It makes plenty of sense that this was the Broadway number the Pussycats would tackle.
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If there's one thing Riverdale needs more of, it's music from Josie and the Pussycats.
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Judging from these pussycats' eager paws, Yoshizuki's foodie pets have quite the sophisticated palates. Oishi!
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Will Josie (Ashleigh Murray) and her Pussycats round out the rest of the Pink Ladies?
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"Three Small Words," the opening song from Josie and the Pussycats, is my Proust's madeleine.
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Val decides to quit the Pussycats in order to write and sing with Archie full-time.
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As the newly reformed Pussycats, Josie, Veronica, and Melody are a force to be reckoned with.
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I can only remember my "Josie and the Pussycats" one, but I'm sure I had more.
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Every one of the Pussycats' performances has the glossy look of a really good music video.
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But Josie and the Pussycats was perhaps most prescient in its portrayal of the movie industry.
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The mayor, the principal and the girl group Josie and the Pussycats are all African-American.
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Cheryl and the Pussycats moved completely out of a sync, wiggling their hips in matching short-shorts.
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Don't get picky about the pussycats that cross your path — one could end up saving your life.
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Other Gossip: — Josie and the Pussycats finally make an appearance after being nearly completely absent in recent episodes.
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After destroying the machine used to generate the subliminal capitalist messages, The Pussycats make it on their own.
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Cheryl also continuously encourages a hesitant Josie to pursue the opportunity, reminding her she doesn't need the other Pussycats.
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Josie and the Pussycats' bassist Valerie "Val" Brown (Hayley Law) becomes an unexpected ally aiding him with writing music.
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In practice, it's basically Josie and the Pussycats' satire of product placement and subliminal corporate messaging come to life.
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And in addition to all that, she's appeared in both Sin City movies and the Josie and the Pussycats movie.
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The Pussycats have let him write tunes for them, even though they're so clearly better and all around more interesting.
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The song is no "Sugar, Sugar" — a song Josie and the Pussycats covered in season 1 — but it's pretty catchy.
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Veronica and the other Pussycats decide to take matters into their own hands and follow the pair to Nick's room.
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The bowling alley The Pussycats play in at the beginning has Coca-Cola spraypainted in 20ft lettering on the side.
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However, before she tackled that movie-musical, she was in another: Dawson played Val in the 2001 movie Josie & The Pussycats.
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This poor pussycats never get a chance to chow down on the elaborate meals their owners create — but they keep trying.
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Josie and the Pussycats will perform at the Riverdale variety show, but the trio looks a little bit different this week.
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Val, along with the other Pussycats, deserves to have more going on instead of just being a footnote in Archie's story.
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She's connected to the school newspaper the Blue & Gold, she's a member of the Pussycats, and she is a River Vixen.
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This altruistic canine spends his free time raising tiny kittens so they can become perfect pussycats to their future pet parents.
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Josie and the Pussycats should get all the spotlight they want, and if they choose to rap, I'm here for it.
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Instead, well before 1977, the job had degenerated into one akin to herding pussycats clamoring over an evaporating saucer of milk.
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Congress has become 'mewling pussycats' who 'live to get reelected' Not impressed by this impeachment or this President is former Rep.
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The point I like to think Josie and the Pussycats is making by way of its sheer ridiculousness is: why choose?
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A shining beacon of light in the dark town is the empowered, confident and strong Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray) and her Pussycats.
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Read These Stories Next:The Complicated & Murderous Backstory Of Betty Cooper's Secret Riverdale Brother Why Won't Riverdale Let Josie & The Pussycats Have Anything?
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J. Apa's "Incredible" Dancing Will Be The Breakout Star Of The Riverdale Musical Why Won't Riverdale Let Josie & The Pussycats Have Anything?
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Josie talks to Cheryl about her mom stressing her out and how she's gone behind the Pussycats' backs, writing songs without them.
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While it's unclear exactly how Veronica got a place in the Pussycats — perhaps Josie needed someone who could take the low notes?
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Murray became a breakout star as the leader of Josie and the Pussycats on "Riverdale," which premiered on The CW in 2017.
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After the hotel room beat down, Archie joins his girlfriend, Cheryl, and the Pussycats as they recover from the trauma they all suffered.
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While the Pussycats perform Rent's "Out Tonight" (and it's very well done!), they notice Nick ushering a stumbling Cheryl out of the party.
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And now that Josie and the Pussycats just crushed this song from Rent it's about time Riverdale starts considering re-working that budget.
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Australian bands first arrived in 2007 when the Ooga Boogas, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Digger and the Pussycats played Goner Fest 4.
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"Mind you, I think the Toronto media, pols and public activists are pussycats by comparison, and he may be in for a surprise."
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Think of them as Josie and the Pussycats or the Spice Girls, if the Spice Girls lived in LA and loved The Runaways.
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Josie (Ashleigh Murray) and her band of Pussycats have included Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch), who is white, and Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), who is Latinx.
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Of course, more Josie and the Pussycats means more music — an aspect of Riverdale that many fans looked forward to on a weekly basis.
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Cole Sprouse has been cast as Jughead, and various up-and-comers will be playing Betty, Veronica and Josie (yes, of the Pussycats fame).
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SADIE DUPUIS, 29, OF SAD13 AND SPEEDY ORTIZ Am I the only person who was very inspired by the "Josie and the Pussycats" movie?
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Alexandra Cabot (Camille Hyde) joins as the daughter of powerful record executives, and appears in the Josie and the Pussycats comics as Josie's rival.
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Plus 1940s sipping-at-the-soda-shop starlet crepes in retro prints like rotary dial phones and slinky pussycats, or with judiciously placed rhinestones.
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"Pussycats, she'd been there," Hirshey writes, explaining her subject's appeal to the millions of women who sought her advice on careers, fashion, and sex.
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It's actually the second time that Cheryl was on stage with the Pussycats; they teamed up for a version of "Sugar Sugar" in season one.
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With record-ready voices and attitude to back up their talent, the Pussycats know they're bound for stardom despite being trapped in their small town.
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Read These Stories Next: No One Is Happy About The Cheryl Conversion Therapy Plotline on Riverdale Why Won't Riverdale Let Josie & The Pussycats Have Anything?
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" Graffiti With Punctuation ran "Why Josie and the Pussycats Means So Much To The Millennial Generation" The Los Angeles Times declared it had been "misunderstood.
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" Even more recently, in July 2019, A/V Club made a case for why "Josie and the Pussycats Is The Greatest Movie of All Time.
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They pull up in a life-size version of the Barbie Jeep and make fun of The Pussycats for, like, following their dreams or something.
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He also, at one point, performs a bizarre rendition of "Sugar, Sugar," which is nowhere near as good as the current Josie and the Pussycats version.
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On last night's episode, we got to see that Josie, the Type-A leader of the Pussycats, and the show's major Black character, is no exception.
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There's Josie (Ashleigh Murray) and her Pussycats Val (real-life musician Hayley Law) and Melody (Asha Bromfield), who are basically bonafide pop stars of Riverdale High.
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Animal residents are treated to daily enrichment opportunities like enticing Easter eggs full of treats to puzzle pussycats and peanut-butter covered frisbees for the pups.
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Much like Jennifer's Body, Karyn Kusama's 2008 horror movie starring Megan Fox, Josie and the Pussycats has been enjoying a late-blooming spurt of critical respect.
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Dexter and Fletcher's new "surrogate mom" also ensures that the other family dog is gentle with the kittens and generally protects the pussycats from any harm.
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But, it's more diverse than expected (in mostly supporting roles like black actress Ashleigh Murray as the ambitious lead of Josie and the Pussycats) and compulsively watchable.
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What follows is a 20-second beat down of the predator by Veronica and two of the Pussycats, Valerie Brown (Haley Law) and Melody Valentine (Asha Bromfield).
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The first issues of Josie and the Pussycats are laugh-out-loud funny and extremely stylish, delivering a compelling new start for the feline-themed rock trio.
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On lead single "Only Acting," a plasticky drum beat introduces what seems like a classic KKB song, before Josie and the Pussycats-style guitars herald the song's chorus.
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The video, which was made by Le Tigre and Laura Parnes with artist collective Filmmakers for Hillary, features footage of rallies, protests, angry pussycats, and, yes, pantsuits galore.
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In that sense, Josie and the Pussycats acts as yet another case study proving the importance of a diverse critical body, and that a film's impact isn't always immediate.
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This week, the show's version of Josie and the Pussycats take the stage at the high school football game to belt out a classic tune with a thoroughly modern update.
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Ms. Waldo voiced many other cartoons, including Josie on "Josie and the Pussycats" and, in a departure from her more winsome roles, Fred's hectoring mother-in-law on "The Flintstones."
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" Roger Ebert disparaged the characters, writing that "Josie and the Pussycats are not dumber than the Spice Girls, but they're as dumb as the Spice Girls, which is dumb enough.
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The old world of Archie was saccharine, down to the 1969 single by spinoff pop group the Archies, "Sugar, Sugar" (which gets an update in the series from the Pussycats).
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The film follows Josie, Melody and Valerie – a suburban band called "The Pussycats", who are struggling along; performing at bowling alleys to disinterested punters for $20 (minus $15 shoe rental).
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According to a Billboard interview with co-writers and directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, Beyoncé was up for a role in Josie & The Pussycats, but, tragically, it just didn't happen.
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"Cat-owning MPs have put forward their political pussycats to a public vote, launching their own moggy manifurstos on why they should be the feline to rule the roost," Battersea say.
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However, before he could take advantage of Cheryl in her vulnerable state, Josie and the Pussycats arrived to beat Nick to a pulp and get Cheryl out of the dangerous situation.
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Which means Archie doesn't have anyone who will mentor him — certainly not singer Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), who is only focused on her band, the soon-to-be-world-famous Pussycats.
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In addition to her work as the animated teen of the future, Waldo voiced a number of Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, ranging from Penelope Pitstop to Josie and the Pussycats' Josie.
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The entire town of Riverdale turned out to support Pop's Diner, lining up in the parking lot to watch a performance on the rooftop from the local trio Josie and the Pussycats.
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Somewhat Success 1: Josie and the Pussycats did a nice-to-listen-to, but not-so-fun-to-watch performance of Kelis' "Milkshake," which probably didn't bring many boys to the yard.
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For me, there can only be one explanation:The subliminal messaging from Josie and the Pussycats is real, and it's in Ed Sheeran songs, telling us to listen to more Ed Sheeran songs.
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It began well enough, with a fun, moody pilot and early episodes in which an all-black Josie and the Pussycats sang "Sugar, Sugar" and a corpse was dredged from a river.
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But Josie and the Pussycats made me pick up an instrument that wasn't the piano or the oboe or any of those other classical instruments that "nice girls" are supposed to play.
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Hell, the Pussycats don't even get full autonomy over themselves because there's always someone using their band or their songwriting skills for personal gains, namely Archie, Cheryl and Josie's mother, Mayor Sierra McCoy.
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Characters like Kevin, like Josie, and like the Pussycats, so 22 episodes is just a much, much bigger canvas and allows us to kind of spotlight those characters in a really big way.
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This exotic kitty with two different colored eyes, and a furry face similarly split between two different colors, belongs to a rare, V.I.P. group of pussycats who may (or may not …) be chimeras.
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Josie and the Pussycats also got their own show that same year, though produced by a different studio (hence the reason they didn't interact with Archie the way they did in the comics).
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Josie and the Pussycats will get more screentime in season 2 of Riverdale, and it should be music to any fan's ears — especially those hoping that Riverdale would celebrate its amazing actors of color.
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While Blink-182, Sum 41, Good Charlotte and friends played host to the great commercial pop-punk sausage party of 2001, Josie and the Pussycats spoke about the teenage girls experience to teenage girls.
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Archie and his pals have been hell bent on being a part of it since episode one, when Archie got shut down by Josie after offering his untested (and lackluster) songwriting skills for the Pussycats.
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Since finding breakout success in 1999's American Pie, Tara has gone on to roles on the big and small screen — including 2001's Josie and the Pussycats and a three-season arc on Scrubs.
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Nuh-uh. Back in the 183s and early 218s, Letters to Cleo were all over the teen movie soundtracks of the era—The Craft, Josie and the Pussycats and 218 Things I Hate About You.
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Instead Riverdale uses the foundation of these comics — Josie and the Pussycats and the central love triangle with Archie at the center are here — but injects the series with a heavy dose of angst and brooding.
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Scooby-Doo has also joined forces with Josie and the Pussycats in the cartoon series, so maybe McSlever is on the right track when they say Riverdale could be borrowing a trope from the classic cartoon.
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While even the most surface-level Archie Comics follower knows Josie wishes for a music career as big as Beyoncé's (she was the leader of the Pussycats, after all) Katy may be more of a mystery.
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Speaking of which, Josie and the Pussycats also gives a meditation on millennial teen girls and their tendencies with a level of self-awareness that went unmatched until Mean Girls fucked shit up three years later.
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This piece focused on the many TV adaptations of Archie properties, but it has to be noted that in 2001 a Josie and the Pussycats movie managed to beat any sort of Archie movie to the theater.
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Sierra, as the unofficial momager of her daughter's Pussycats band, puts a tremendous amount of pressure on her to be the best, despite the fact that Josie's dad thinks the band lacks integrity with their pop sound.
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The time jump might present some interesting complications for other crossovers between the world of Riverdale and Katy Keene, but as long as we get more of the Pussycats, we are excited to see where it goes.
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Looking back on Josie and the Pussycats as someone who has lived through being a teenage girl and is now what society deems to be a grown up, I see it as a work of high art.
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The most interesting thing in regards to Archie this week is that he uses the goodwill accrued from admitting to hearing the gunshot to get Cheryl to talk Josie and the Pussycats into working on music with him.
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Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray) — the lead singer and titular Josie from her band, Josie and the Pussycats, and one-time Archiekins love-interest — is taking her show on the road, literally, and heading off to New York City.
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He still makes an effort to see Josie and the Pussycats perform at the Riverdale High School variety show, and her mother insists that they do a good job because it'll "somehow" be Sierra's fault it he's not impressed.
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But fans have invested time in every conceivable pairing, imagining relationships between Jughead and Archie; Veronica and Riverdale High's queen mean girl, Cheryl Blossom; and Archie and Valerie Brown, one of the members of the girl band Josie and the Pussycats.
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For one, Mary + Jane was created by the writing team of Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, who have plenty of experience writing very funny teen movies — most notably Can't Hardly Wait and Josie and the Pussycats — but virtually none in television.
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While it's obvious that the new hot teen soap Riverdale will overlap with a few other famous comics (Josie and The Pussycats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch), it's safe to say there's one kid-friendly universe it won't mix with — Disney's.
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With manager Alexander Cabot (Paul Costanzo), his twin sister Alexandra (Missi Pyle), and Josie's unspoken crush/friend Allan M (Gabriel Mann) in tow, the newly rebranded Josie and the Pussycats head off to New York City to make it big.
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In this week's episode of Riverdale, Josie & the Pussycats perform in an event to save the beloved diner where the gang regularly rehashes small-town drama over fries and shakes — and where Archie Andrews' (KJ Apa) dad Fred (Luke Perry) was recently shot.
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Early in Josie's chapter, her co-Pussycats Valerie Brown (Hayley Law) and Melody Valentine (Asha Bromfield) confront Josie for branching out as a solo act, which is something Cheryl put in motion through her connections with Abbey Road Riverdale knockoff Shabbey Road Studios.
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And the publisher is making that transition from TV to comics easier with the January 31 release of Road to Riverdale, a collection containing the first issues of the new Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Josie and the Pussycats, and Reggie & Me books.
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A self-aware meditation on fame, fortune and fandom, Josie and the Pussycats transcends the sum of its parts to satirise late 90s/early 83s consumer culture whilst operating entirely within the same vacuum – kind of like the music industry's answer to Scream.
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But through the four episodes previewed the basic premise and tone holds together reasonably well, while dropping in touches like Josie and the Pussycats (an all-girl band at Riverdale High) that provide frequent Archie touchstones, even as the material drifts away from those origins.
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The underappreciated member of Josie and the Pussycats (well, okay, compared to Josie... I'm pretty sure poor Melanie hasn't actually spoken yet) knows how to write a fantastic track, even if Josie (Ashleigh Murray) refuses to let her actually sing lead on her own songs.
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Stacked with songs that sound ripped from the soundtracks of teen movies like Josie and the Pussycats or Ten Things I Hate About You, Guppy is both a loving throwback and an exciting look into the future—and, most importantly, it's also excellent fun.
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Riverdale High even plays host to Archie Comics characters Josie and the Pussycats, who perform at a pep rally with "Sugar, Sugar" (which, okay, was technically sung by Archie's band "The Archies" on the 1960's Archie TV show, but give Riverdale a break).
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The Pussycats are discovered after DuJour mysteriously disappear in a plane crash and their manager (Alan Cumming) almost mows them down in his car, which is of course plastered with Ray-ban stickers, while trawling a deadbeat town for a new act to exploit.
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If you cut out the two DuJour songs, good as they are, the Josie and the Pussycats OST was one of the only pop-punk releases from a band comprised of all women at the time besides The Donnas Turn 21 by The Donnas.
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" –Kara Warner, Staff Writer Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse Why we're excited: Executive Producer Greg Berlanti (Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill) promises a "subversive take on the wholesome town of Riverdale and residents Archie, Betty, Veronica, as well as Josie and the Pussycats.
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In the end, Josie and the Pussycats achieve immediate chart success and go along with it for a while before Valerie and Melody notice that all the media attention is on Josie – a narrative that is basically an all-girl version of what happened with No Doubt.
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Heck, even the film's writer/directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan stuck a Can't Hardly Wait Easter egg in the only other film they directed together: 26's Josie and the Pussycats, in which if you look closely you'll see "'Can't Hardly Wait' was underrated … " scroll across a marquee.
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Other iterations of the characters are under development for network broadcast or streaming: a horror-tinged animated series starring Josie (of the Pussycats); an animated series with a humorous vibe featuring Archie and his pals; and a live-action show centered around a private detective named Sam Hill.
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At one point, while loading their gear back into their shitty van, The Pussycats are approached by a rival trio of girls we can identify as "the popular ones" on account of the fact they are all dressed the same and one of them is constantly applying lip gloss.
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Their attitudes and behaviors are worsened only by their ever-worsening looks: Jax's expanding face, Sandoval's hair extensions, which, in a later season, are braided by a braiding professional, and Katie's leopard print forearm tattoo, which looks like a temporary tattoo from a Josie and the Pussycats–themed loot bag.
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The lineup includes Luke Perry as Archie's dad; Sarah Habel as his tempting young music teacher; Ashleigh Murray as his would-be mentor, Josie, with her band, the Pussycats; Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom, the school's queen bee; and Cole Sprouse as the aspiring writer Jughead Jones, the show's narrator.
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In 1969, Josie and the Pussycats member Valerie was added to the story as the first black character, and the comics line has a history of progressive action both in terms of its business models (it was the first big-name publisher to embrace same-day digital release of its comics) and representation within its stories.
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There was less resistance to concepts that weren't guaranteed to make a shit-ton of money (which is why the only cinema listings at the moment are based on comics or have The Rock in), and more artistic license placed in the hands of creators (which is how films like Josie and the Pussycats ended up being made).
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Before even listening to a millisecond of their music, he flies the girls to New York for sexy makeovers, renames them "Josie and the Pussycats" – because how are people supposed to pit women against each other if they don't know who the main one is – and plasters them up on a giant billboard in Times Square.
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Josie and the Pussycats sat in my Walkman for years, on rotation with pop-punks more widely accepted allumni – only they didn't chastise me for breaking their heart, they didn't hope I'd get a disease from snogging someone else and then burn to death in a plane crash, or fixate on whether or not I was wearing underwear.
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The indie outfit most famously recorded a cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me," which would eventually find its way to the 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack, but less-known is the fact that Hanley took on the vocals of Josie and the Pussycats for the 2001 movie (2016 marks its 15th anniversary).
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Instead, the internet buzzed with the kinetic energy of a thousand music bloggers frantically looking up old videos from said band, Foss, which was a seminal post-hardcore outfit who served as an early launching pad for Cedric Bixler-Zavala's music career in At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta (Rolling Stone unearthed a jammy, lo-fi track off the band's The El Paso Pussycats EP if you're curious).
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The new teaser certainly drives home the fact that this darker redo of the cheerful '90s sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch is coming from the makers of Riverdale: the dark streets, old-timey cars, and trio of cool girls in matching outfits (in Riverdale, it's Josie and the Pussycats; here, it's a clique known as the Weird Sisters) all keep it in the same universe as the hit CW show.
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If the second season maintains this focus on friendship, while using a larger episode order to flesh out characters who have gone underserved—for starters, Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), the bandleader of Josie and the Pussycats, is overdue for her own storyline, and Petsch's Cheryl is way too much fun of a character to be wasted as an inconsistent narrative prop then Riverdale's warm, wacky, maple-syrup-mood piece reign should continue long past the calendar year.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. In seminal 2001 movie Josie and the Pussycats, which I may or may not have watched this weekend, music by the titular band is used by evil record label Mega Records as a vehicle for subliminal messages: Please just sit on that for a minute, while I tell you about something else that happened this weekend: Ed Sheeran released his third album, ÷ (Divide), on Friday and broke the following records on Spotify: Further to this, ÷ has also received four-star reviews almost across the board (The Guardian are the only dissenters, with a two-star review for its "everybloke" schtick).
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