When boy-band Dujour meet their untimely ends in a tragic plane crash, their manager Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) is quick to sign-up some replacements in the form of girl-group Josie and the Pussycats.

Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook) and her bandmates Melody (Tara Reid) and Valerie (Rosario Dawson) are happy to have found their big break, and head off to the big city where they quickly become teen-pop sensations.

But when they discover that Wyatt and his record company cohorts are using their records to send out subliminal messages to the nation's teenagers, the feline popsters decide it's time to fight back.