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Does anyone even know who Danity Kane is?

Diddy does such a horrible job with promoting his artists.  Remember Dream - the all-white girl group with that one song?  Or Da Band - the first Making the Band flop?  And Cheri Dennis - the nameless talent that sings “I Love You,” the background track in almost every MTV show?  I didn’t think so.  What do all of these artists have in common?  They are meager one-hit-wonders whose names no one remembers.

Danity Kane was in this same position.  After Making the Band 3, they earned mild fame and once they released their one and only hit “Show Stopper,” they became known by their song rather than their band name.  Before even getting a good grasp on success, the girls were KOed, leaving their followup single “Ride Wit U” to the Mary Magdalenes that cared to pick up their scraps.

What gave their career the CPR it needed?  They did.

Realizing that Diddy is nothing but a money-hoarding screwup, these chicas called him out in an episode of Making the Band, demanding he use his millions to help revive their career with top-tier producers and writers and a video for their first single that had a budget that was, at the very least, more than that of the second-class Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland (her career might as well be nonexistent).

Techno-pop lead single “Damaged” gave Danity Kane’s career more life than the Energizer Bunny on cocaine and then some.  Yet, could the girls follow it up?  Or will they forever remain lead-single wonders?

When you have Danja producing your track, that shouldn’t even be a question.  After pumping oxygen back into the limp corpse of Britney Spears, clearly, the man can turn water into wine.  “Bad Girl” is nothing less than another one of Danja’s miracles.

“When the red light comes on I transform,” chant the bad girls over a Jetsons-like atmosphere with a back-beat that lights the track on fire (with Missy droppin some lighter fluid on it) and will set off the party in any club (just wait until you hear their followup “Strip Tease”…).

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