Meanwhile Applegate suggested they perform at the Sunset Strip's renowned Viper Room. So Antin invited over a few girlfriends who were also tour/music video dancers and they began to play around with her own choreography, a style endowed with the spirit of famed choreographer Bob Fosse ("Sweet Charity," "Cabaret") but also music from Led Zeppelin to punk rock, Siouxsie and The Banshees to Bjork, and fashion as well. "But I wanted to do something creative and different," she says. Antin had appeared in commercials, and did choreography for music videos for the likes of Smash Mouth, The Offspring and No Doubt. garage of actress Christina Applegate, with whom Antin was rooming in the early '90s. The Pussycat Dolls were born in a tiny dance studio in the L.A. The Pussycat Dolls are not about just being hot but also about saying something with real feeling."įrom triple-threat Scherzinger, to Jessica Sutta, the one-time captain of the Miami Heat dance troupe from Carmit Bachar, the "La Vida Loca" girl on Ricky Martin's world tour, to Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt, two of the most talented young dancers in Hollywood, and Melody Thornton, a young powerhouse singer, these Pussycat Dolls represent the next step for the group whose Sunset Strip performances became the hippest ticket in Hollywood. The line in 'Don't Cha'-'don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me'-is meant to be empowering. "To me, a Pussycat Doll is fearless but also vulnerable," says lead singer Nicole Scherzinger. With tremendous voices, and after working with today's top songwriters and producers (including Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland, Rich Harrison, Sean Garrett and Ron Fair), The Pussycat Dolls are ready to stamp their mark on music and on attitudes. With their debut album, PCD, set for release by A&M Records on Septem(led by the #1 smash "Don't Cha," a duet with Busta Rhymes and produced by Cee-Lo), The Pussycat Dolls go beyond being extraordinarily beautiful. It's about singing and dancing in front of a mirror by yourself and having fun." "It's about female empowerment, about being confident with who you are. "Inside every woman is a Pussycat Doll," says Robin Antin, the innovator behind the singing-and-dancing ensemble that has risen from underground cool to major label hot.
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