When Nicole Scherzinger started thinking about a solo career while still a member of The Pussycat Dolls, she dipped a toe in the waters by collaborating with a number of other artists during 2006 and 2007, and singing on their records. These included Avant's 'Lie About Us', Diddy's 'Come To Me', Vittorio Grigolo's 'You Are My Miracle', 50 Cent's 'Fire', and Timbaland's 'Scream', and soon afterwards she started to release singles under her own name, although none made any significant impact on the Billboard charts. Work on her solo album carried on throughout 2006 and early 2007, and at one point she probably had about 30 songs to choose from. About a dozen of the best were selected to appear on her debut album 'Her Name Is Nicole', but the release was pushed back a couple of times, before Scherzinger herself requested that it be shelved so that she could concentrate her efforts on the Pussycat Dolls' second album, 'Doll Domination'. At this point all of her solo recordings were consigned to the vaults, and 'Doll Domination' appeared in 2008, with the group embarking on a worldwide tour in support of it, commencing in January 2009 and lasting most of the year. In 2010 Scherzinger left the Pussycat Dolls, and the time was right to re-ignite her solo career, but rather than revisit her 2006/2007 recordings she wrote new material, and those old songs have remained unreleased. I've already posted a reconstruction of the 'Her Name Is Nicole' album here, and so this post is made up of the left-over songs from those sessions, but they are anything but inferior filler, and this collection is probably just as good as her proposed 2008 album.
Track listing
01 Erotica Revolution
01 Psycho
03 I'll Be Your Love
04 Steam (feat. Eva)
05 I'm A Cheat
06 Loser
07 Whatever Happens
08 Get Em Ready (Ladies)
09 Break Yo Chest
10 Punchin' (Punch You In Your Sleep)
11 Still Here
12 Winning Women (feat. Rihanna)
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