The Pussycat Dolls dive into the group’s Billboard chart history and share stories from their iconic career. The members discuss collaborating with CeeLo Green on their smash hit “Don’t Cha,” filming the music video for “When I Grow Up” and teaming up with A.R. Rahman on the global hit “Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny).” They also discuss meeting and working with Snoop Dogg on “Buttons,” and how Britney Spears’ “I’m a Slave 4 U” served as inspiration. They reveal a surprising backstory behind “Beep,” where will.i.am originally wrote “My Humps” for the Pussycat Dolls but decided to keep it for himself and more!
The Pussycat Dolls: Hi, we’re the Pussycat Dolls, and this is our Billboard chart history!
The Pussycat Dolls: [sings “Don’t Cha”]
Ashley Roberts: We gotta go over this choreo, right?
Kimberly Wyatt: I still got it.
The Pussycat Dolls: [sings “Don’t Cha”]
Nicole Scherzinger: Debuted at 95 but peaked at No. 2. I thought we was No. 1! What kind of show is this, Billboard?
Ashley Roberts: Come on, Billboard. Let’s get it back. Maybe now we’re doing this next round. We can push it to No. 1.
Nicole Scherzinger: We’re coming for you, Natasha Bedingfield!
Kimberly Wyatt: But “Don’t Cha” made a splash around the world. It was unbelievable.
Ashley Roberts: Yeah, I remember them saying we’re gonna put Busta Rhymes on this track. And I called my mom. I was like, “Mama P, Busta Rhymes is gonna be in our song.” She was like, “What?” I was like, “We’ve made it!”
Kimberly Wyatt: Insane!
Nicole Scherzinger: It’s crazy. Yeah. I mean, who knew with that song like we didn’t know how infectious it was going to be. How you know that people would embrace it all over the world, internationally. So much love. Thank you so much to CeeLo Green for writing that song.
Kimberly Wyatt: It was CeeLo, what a beautiful spirit that man is. Meeting him and being in his presence. He was just so grounded and so loving and held so much space for us in that moment and then to see him do his thing with Gnarls Barkley with “Crazy.”
Nicole Scherzinger: So we had worked with CeeLo for “Don’t Cha” and we were like, “OK, what’s that next song for PCD?” I was in the studio with him, and he’s playing me a bunch of stuff. He played me a song called “Crazy.”
Ashley Roberts: Honey, you heard it first?
Nicole Scherzinger: And I said, “Whoa. That’s not our song. That’s your song. Nobody can touch that song.” Then we were touring, came back to L.A. and I was driving up to, like, the Record Plant in my car, and I was like, they were like, “That’s ‘Crazy’ by Gnarls Barkley.” I was like, “Who is Gnarls Barkley?” Isn’t that crazy?
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