Welcome to the Dollhouse (album)

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Welcome to the Dollhouse
Studio album by
Danity Kane
ReleasedMarch 18, 2008 (2008-03-18)
RecordedJuly 2007 – January 2008
Genre
Length48:42
Label
Producer
Danity Kane chronology
Danity Kane
(2006) 		Welcome to the Dollhouse
(2008) 		DK3
(2014)
Singles from Welcome to the Dollhouse
  1. "Damaged"
    Released: November 20, 2007
  2. "Bad Girl"
    Released: July 1, 2008

Welcome to the Dollhouse is the second studio album by American

Bryan Michael Cox, Danja, and inhouse producer Mario Winans
.

The album earned a largely mixed reception by music critics, many of whom were divided on the question whether Welcome to the Dollhouse was superior to 2006's Danity Kane. It became the band's second consecutive album to debut atop the US Billboard 200, with first weeks sales of 236,000 copies. Spawning the US top ten single "Damaged," the album was eventually certified Gold by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The group intended to open for Janet Jackson's Rock Witchu Tour for promotion, but label conflicts forced them to withdraw.[2] Welcome to the Dollhouse was Danity Kane's last album released before the group broke up in early 2009, and it was also their final album to be released as a quintet.

Production

For this album, all of the girls had written and/or produced some kind of song, that they thought was suitable for their second effort. As mentioned in interviews, Danity Kane has stated that they came up with the name of the album when they all had brought in their own material into the studio to see which tracks would make the cut. They also expressed, that it felt as if they were in a music box, hence getting the name, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Each of the girls, also, were given chances to co-write a handful of the tracks that are on the record.

Singles

The album's lead

Global Dance Songs, becoming Danity Kane's highest-charting international single.[3]

Talan Torriero of the MTV show Laguna Beach. The concept of the video is a graphic novel and stays true to the line in the song "When the red light comes on, I transform" as each member transforms into an alter ego of theirs after a flash of red light. "Bad Girl" marked Danity Kane's last single as a group before their early 2009 breakup, and the band's last single to be released with now-former members D. Woods and Aundrea Fimbres. It peaked at number 85 on the US Billboard Pop 100.[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic59/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Entertainment WeeklyC[7]
Slant Magazine[8]
USA Today[9]

Welcome to the Dollhouse received mixed or average reviews from critics. At

Billboard's Mariel Concepcion remarked that "unlikely the quintet's self-titled debut, which took a slightly more hip-hop soul approach, Welcome to the Dollhouse features more mid- and uptempo pop tracks."[11]

Entertainment Weekly journalist Simon Vozick-Levinson felt that with Welcome to the Dollhouse "the group continues to show us precious little in the way of actual personality or soul. On one song after another, they sing about sex with all the feeling of fresh-from-the-factory mannequins."[7] AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album "a paler, plainer recycling of their debut. All five of the DK girls are blandly, conventionally pretty in their voices (not to mention their looks), and no amount of melisma can lend them personality [...] Maybe hearing the end results would be interesting if you've witnessed the labors on Making the Band, but anybody else will wonder why it takes so much work to sound so bland... and why we are bothering thinking about them anyway."[6] The Boston Globe wrote that "unlike their modestly appealing and tuneful debut, this disc [...] is generic and vapid, seemingly geared more for the strip mall than the strip club."[12]

Commercial performance

Welcome to the Dollhouse debuted on top of the US

Nielsen SoundScan.[15] Billboard ranked Welcome to the Dollhouse at number 75 on its Billboard 200 year-end listing.[16]

Track listing

Standard edition
Shanell
  • Reggie Perry
    • Syience2:29
    14."Flashback" (Interlude)
    • Romeo IX
    • Woodgett
    • Richard
    		Romeo IX1:13
    15."Is Anybody Listening..."
    • Nordsoe
    • Winans
    • Hooker
    		3:27
    16."Ain't Going" (featuring Day26 and Donnie Klang)
    • Iyanna Dean
    • Richard
    • Woodgett
    • Rackley
    • Rosser
    • Malik
    		Doss3:12
    Target edition bonus track[19][20][21]
    No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
    17."Make Me Sick"
    		3:40
    US
    Angela Hunte
  • Kristal Oliver
  • Calvin Puckett
  • Frank Romano
  • James Scheffer
    		• 7:26
    17."Show Stopper" (Solitaire Club remix)
    • Hunte
    • Oliver
    • Puckett
    • Romano
    • Scheffer
    • Jonsin
    • Albert Castillo[D]
    • Lewis Dene[D]
    • Solitaire[D]
    		7:29
    18."Damaged" (Acapella)
    • Yip
    • Reeves
    • McKinney
    • Romulos
    • Lawrence
    • Tan
    • J. Smith
    • Walker
    • Combs
    • Winans
    		4:06
    19."Ain't Going" (featuring Day26 and Donnie Klang)
    • Dean
    • Richard
    • Woodgett
    • Rackley
    • Rosser
    • Malik
    		Doss3:12
    20."Damaged" (Music video)   

    Notes

    Personnel

    According to the album's booklet and the

    BMI Repertoire.[17][18][21]

    Charts

    Certifications

    Region Certification Certified units/sales
    United States (RIAA)[28] Gold 500,000^

    ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

    Release history

    Welcome to the Dollhouse release history
    Region Date Format Label Ref(s)
    United States March 18, 2008
    		[29]
    France March 18, 2008 [30]
    United Kingdom April 21, 2008 [31]
    Canada March 25, 2008 [32]
    Germany May 9, 2008 [33]
    Australia September 13, 2008 [34]

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