[Oh yeah, the girls can sing, too. At least Scherzinger can. It's not exactly clear what the five other Dolls do.] We all dance, ... Melody [Thornton] and Carmit [Bachar] sing some, as well. And a couple of the others do backup — sometimes. |
[Then came the material.] At first everybody was submitting really tacky songs, ... Like 'miaow, miaow'… stuff about pussy power, bad kitties. |
A lot of time we didn't know where we were going or how it was going to transition from fishnets into hip-hop, ... But it's worked out. We believe in what we do and I think people get that. |
All I could say was, 'Go get our album. And God bless you,' |
I knew by the people who were involved, the machine behind it, that this was going to be something. Where we are today, it's kind of unbelievable to think about, that in a year we'd have two No. 1 hits, been No. 1 in 11 countries. But that's why I signed on to the project, because I felt it was going to be big; I just didn't know how big. |
It gets both crowds. People loved the beat of the song, and it's a lot of fun and flirtatious. When they got to see the video, they saw these are real girls having fun, not taking themselves too seriously. It actually turned out to be a huge summer female anthem. |
It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The Pussycat Dolls originated, ... So it wasn't just another nightclub. It was somewhere where people can go and see an old school show with real dancing and real performing and real singing. It's perfect for Vegas. It's got that whole cabaret, burlesque-inspired review of dancing, and the whole fishnets, and boas. |
It was like a train and it was moving fast and people had to jump on board -- it's been crazy, ... When you're in the Top Ten, you never dream of being No. 1. Eventually, not with your first debut song. When our song hit No. 1, it was like, 'Is this real? Are you guys kidding me?' But it's great. |
Our group has evolved since our The Viper Room shows and has become a little more family-friendly, it's definitely more PG, ... So when we go on tour we just want to bring the same energy and the same excitement and the same performance level that we had at The Viper Room and just multiply it times 100. |
The word feminism has negative connotations for men. Rather, we are wanting to celebrate females and their confidence. There is no political agenda behind my work. I'm just trying to make music that makes me feel good and confident. We've got a cool message. |
We don't take ourselves too seriously. I don't think we're trying to be anything that we're not. We're not, like, trying to reinvent the wheel or anything. |
We were lucky enough to work with Will, and that kid is a monster. He just came in, spit his verses and then got to work on the beat. And the whole time, we were like, 'Wow, we can't believe this is happening!' We're fans of the Black Eyed Peas for a long time, and we always wanted to do a collaboration with them. |
We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can. |
We're very sensitive about what we do, or don't do. We're sassy and classy. |
When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to see where we are eighteen months from now. It's also such an honor to have the baton of a number one song passed to us by an icon like Mariah Carey. |