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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can you believe twenty years the pussy Cat Dolls twenty
years ago and that one song Buttons. I used to
want to just jump off a bridge. All the pussy
Cat Dolls songs are great, but we play Buttons more
than any any song ever in the history of songs.
And we ruined that song to a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now when we.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hear it, you go yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
The nostalgia O g right, and we're like, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So as we celebrate twenty years of pussy Cat Dolls,
we welcome, of course Nicole Schirzinger and of course Kimberly
Wyatt and actually Roberts they're back.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I'm back. That's like a TikTok thing about, isn't
the like?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This is exciting. It's exciting for us and everyone're listening
right now, of course, But then versus now, twenty years
ago versus now. You know, back then they wanted your autograph.
Now they want to sell feet, right, what other things
have changed since last time Pussy Kit Dolls we're together?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh my gosh. Social media is a full time job. Yeah,
it's a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Everything's on the phone, everything is so easily available, and
everybody wants to know everything.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
First tweet.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I remember we were on a bus and I'm like,
I was like, I'm going to the radio station, and
I'm like I tweeted. Now, like my gosh, tweetings things.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Now now you wake up and you're like, oh my god,
it's so early.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Let's fill in. Let's fill in the blanks a little
bit of course, uh, Nicole Scherzinger, of course, A fantastic
run on Broadway. Yes, uh. And do you want to
show Danielle by the way, this is my.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Shows just from this year, so you could have signed
My son said, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Do you have many from this year alone? He's a
true Broadway being.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Such a supporter, love the love it and you were
absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh good you saw it of course times.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Yes, can you sign that?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Thank you honored to sign it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay. Now another interesting storyline between Kimberly White and Ashley Roberts.
Kimberly works on Hits UK, right yep. Then across the
street Ashley works for Heart. Yeah, one of my all
time favorite radio stations.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I mean Heart breakfast radio Monday to Friday and waken
everybody up every morning, you know, so I know what
it's like.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, but so kimberly and actually sort of you compete
against each other on competing radio stations.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, we just want to cover all the sound waves,
so you know, right, we don't want to show favorites.
We got to spread ourselves about and make sure everybody's
got a little bit of each of us.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A doll everywhere, you know what I mean, I'm taking
the States Broadway. So we don't people very well. So
Nicole two radio people, they must drive you nuts because
we are We are our own breed.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
No, I love it because when we were in the UK,
these girls were like I'm running.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I was like, oh my gosh, you guys really do radio.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It's like a whole nother beat, energy, energy, and everything's
so fast paced. And so I was just sitting there
chilling with my celery juice, just winging up.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
They've been up since three am.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
So are you guys a hot commodity in the UK
because you have American accents?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Are you excited that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You called us at a hot commodity?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well, I've been living there for oversh close to fifteen
years and my kids are already fixing my accent. So
nobody knows where I'm from. Amalgamation of different places.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, yeah, my mom was like, don't lose your accent.
And then every now and then a little something goes
a bit higher and I'm like, ooh.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
What was that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It just came out.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Turning it into Madonna that match moment.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Tomato is now a tomato.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's kind interesting about accents because Daniel's son is now
living in the UK.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Yeah, he lives in Leeds and he studies and he
plays soccer there.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So for a while he was getting the British accent
and then one day he came home and it was gone, yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It's weird. And then he hangs when he hangs out
with a lot of Texas people because he has a
lot of Texas people for some reason there, he comes
home with us like southern twang.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
What is going on?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
It depends on who he's hanging out.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I've always been like that.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Simon used to make fun of me for that on
X Factor when I'm back home and I speak.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Pigeon and then I'm back like, oh in the South.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I think also certain brains, because I know some people
that have lived in the UK forever that are American that.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Have not lost their accent. At all, and.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm like, what's going on. I don't know, but your kids,
Kimberly's kids have a little English accents.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's so cute being a Texan moving to New York.
I remember I said the word y'all, y'all.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I can never let go. What brings us all the kids.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Here from the Bronx. Daniel says, you can't say y'all
is use Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
No.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
When I was starting in radio, I went to say
John's University and they were like, they're not going to
want your New York accent. They made me put a
pencil in my mouth and try to pronounce all my words.
Then when I got here, they were like, no, no, no,
we want the New York accent.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Say it more all the stuff I've had to pull
out of her mouth over the years. As we celebrate
the pussy Cat Dolls going on this world tour, I
got to talk about that. We're talking fifty dates, fifty
three dates, fifty three dates, kicking off here in the
States and then over to Europe. I'll get into that
in a second. Okay, we'll start with here Madison Square Garden.
(05:48):
So pussy Cat Dolls. I know you guys tried to
make a go at it in twenty nineteen, but then
the pandemic hit, so they were like, okay, timing wasn't right,
So what made it happen?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
What was the spark between you three that made you go, okay,
it's time.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Honestly, I felt like being on stage seven eight nights
a week during West End and Broadway. I was like,
I really miss the stage. Oh I also miss a
world tour as well, Like it made me just miss
it more with the girls, and then we were just
we've kept in touch, and I was like, we realized
I think recently there was like we hit twenty billion
(06:24):
views with Buttons on YouTube, saw that song, We're like,
this is the time. It's been about twenty years since
our first album PCD don't You speaking of don'ts? Were like,
I mean, if there's any time, and it kind of
feels like unfinished business. We didn't get I know, the
fans were so excited to see us, and we didn't
(06:45):
get to do the tour. So here we are now
we were you know, we're gonna give them what they want.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So I have to say, like being women, like it's
exciting to get back out on stage and like put
on the outface and like just do the whole thing again,
you know. And I feel like when you're in your twenties,
I look back and I felt like I really understood
myself then.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But I'm like, oh, actually, we get to bring who
we are now today with all the life experience and
our femininity and be a little ferocious in our forties.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I'm excited that fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's ferocious and fabulous in our forties.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeahous, yes, what are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Well, there's just never been a time better than now
for females to feel united and free enough to be
free on stage and dance and just have fun, and
to be able to link up after all these years,
you know, having kids and getting settled and having a.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Whole other life. You know, we almost got that chance.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I couldn't let it go. The Pussycat Dolls lived in
my heart ever since, and I've been DJing and doing
Don't You Disco a little DJ dance show, But nothing
is like sharing the stage with these and feeling that
power that we have together. And I need it, I
want it, and I can't wait to have it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, I think you'll be here in the new York
area in July.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
July twentieth is our show Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You've got a great memory. You're remembering a lot of
stuff here.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You they told me right before.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But also playing in Philly and Palm Beach, I believe.
So you're all up and down Phoenix, our east coast, Phoenix, Ezy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Can't we be like sharing this agame with my family,
you know, all our families, Like it's so.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Exciting, it's gonna be cool for us toward the States. Yeah,
it's been a hot minute a really long time. So
all June and July we're going to be up and
down the states.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
When we think about being on here for thirty years,
but you guys have been together twenty years, that's a
lot of years. How how are you aging? Really well?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Lots of.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Clarify. Outside stunningly beautiful. You can't help at your curse.
But on the inside, how are you aging? You're maturing,
you're adulting, and is it good? Are you still having fun?
Do you miss do you miss being you twenty years ago?
Or would you never ever want to go back to
that ever?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Again?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It's just better than ever for me. I think I
could probably speak on behalf of the girls. Like in
your twenties, there's a lot of camicicals, there's a lot
of things going on inside your body, and then you
just go to your flirty thirties and you're still figuring
things out. And when you hit your forties, you're like,
I feel good. I don't have anything to prove, and
(09:36):
I feel aligned and solid and who I.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Am, And like Ashley was saying, to be able to
be the women that we've evolved into, I mean, we're
redefining what a pussycat dolt is today.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
We ain't trying to be sexy for nobody. We trying
to be sexy for ourself first, you know. And it's
just to be able to love. True empowerment is to
be able to love and accept yourself for who you are,
where you are right now. She said, that's I mean,
that's what's so liberating.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I think twenty years ago, no one could have prepared
us for.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
What really did happen. And it was like it was
a whirlwind, it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Was a roller coaster. We barely got to sleep.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
And I know, for me, a lot of times I
was struggling with a lot of mental health issues and
we were just like, there wasn't a lot of mental
health awareness back then, and we just committed.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It wasn't easy.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And to show up for each other knowing your value,
knowing your lane, knowing what you hope to create, and
have purpose that feels really powerful and that feels different
than ever before.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yeah, to be like standing strong in your purpose and
your power and.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Finally owning that, knowing what that freaking made.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay years ago, grown up two years ago, we swept
all of those things under the rug. And now you
you are, you're setting example, not looking for yourself and
for each other, but for everyone who loves pissy get
dolls Like, no, no, no, we don't s sweep the
under the rug anymore. We keep it out.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
We body it are ye who we are?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You take us for our flaws, you take us for
our great things too. What's up? Gandhi?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Oh my god, I have so many questions for you guys,
But I want to know how the phone call happened
to get this back on the on the road again.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah? Who was?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
It means there's distance and time does a lot of things.
And I think, like I said, I'd never let go
of the pussy cat dolls and always wanted to create opportunity.
But I'll just never forget when I got the phone
call from Nicole and we were on the phone for
about two and a half hours and it felt like
ten minutes. It literally did. But there was so much excitement.
We were just so linked on what this could look
(11:43):
like and feel like as we're just talking.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
About as women today.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, like talking to each other, we're like, oh, that's beautiful,
that's perspective, that's healing energy, that's moving forward, that's we're
wanting the same we're aligned in the same things that
we want.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Know each other. We hear each other's voices and laughs
and we're like, oh, I know that person. But actually
it's like, oh wait, but I'm also reintroducing each other
to each other.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It's like we're showing up differently. I was this morning
doing my breath work sessions.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean I definitely wasn't doing that twenty or you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like, it's not just we've we've evolved a bit.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And we have a five pm dinner as well.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
As they got off the planets like girls that Okay,
we do it, really we want.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
We love it so now that you guys are touring
and you've done it before. Obviously twenty years ago you
guys were doing things. Can we talk about tour awards
like who is the messiest?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Okay, I go back in that, who is the messy?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't They might not be here, No, I.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Mean it was. Joe wouldn't have counted any of you
as messy.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Yeah, there's not one messy person in the group. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I remember being.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Messy with my makeup, Like I would take black eyeliner
just like panda eyes.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And I was like, fabulous people doing you.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Up here?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
You did not.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
We just giving it real. I might be messy in
my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Sometimes we're keeping it real. We're keeping it real because well,
we didn't have anyone.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We didn't have full gloun following us.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Okay, what about it was the most pleasant in the
morning versus the most unpleasant in the morning.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Oh, I'm not pleasant in the morning.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
I know that about Probably actually because she, especially with
her show, she wakes up so early.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
She's always very chipper. We need it bubbly and chipper.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You want to put her in a wood chipper coffee.
I can't energy.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And she's looking at she's an old lady. Okay, where
you come, girl.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Today is the day the Pussycat Dolls were Union tour
tickets going sound.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Today.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Today's the day today, little Kim and Maya.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I mean, honey, the dances I was doing, even to
my you know, by myself, to these artists and we
get to share the stage with him.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yes, they're supporting us here, right.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Little Kim and Maya.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, such a show show right, no empowerment cat Dolls
at one point, that's right.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Your boots are made for walking.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh my gosh, she throw back. Also, see ourselves up
in Leicester Square the other day, Honestly, I got like,
I'm square shivers.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, sorry, I gotcha, girl.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Seeing ourselves in Times Square the other day, I got
flashbacks of being in our twenties and being like, it
just gave that feeling again, like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
God, people are and we're excited. We're excited.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It feels it feels really good.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
You know what I'm thinking, you are going to have
now moms and you know, Dad's grew up listening to
you and watching you. Now their kids are going to
do the same. They're going to come to the concerts
with them. That's like the coolest thing generations.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You know, every generation needs the Pussycat Dolls.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I went to all Backstreet Boys like recently and I
literally was teleported to being a fourteen year old girl.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
And I can't wait to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Give that energy back to our audience.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know what I mean, because it's so nostalgic and
you remember where you were, and like you said, then
we get to share with different generations. The TikTok kids
seem to know what's going on with us, so we're
excited about it.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
This idea, we need to book you in the sphere.
We got to get you in the sphere. I'm just thinking,
I don't know why, but I'm thinking for once twenty
years ago, we thank thanking for twenty years ago. You
just think about where the world was, what was going on.
(16:10):
I don't even know what the headlines of the day
were back twenty years ago, but look at where the
world is now. The world is in a place where
people need this energy to say that more than anything,
this is a time where people want to sit in
a seat or stand and dance at a show to
make them forget about what's happening past those exit doors
(16:30):
when they leave the arena, and that's.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
What we're here for.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Good, thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
To inspire people and to still bring hope and uplift people.
And we're all all the good energies and vibes. We've
been through it as women, we know, and we've got
so much. We've waited twenty years. We've got so much
love to give and so much to give back. So
it's going to be awesome. And we got like also,
you know, the.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Hits as well to shive back.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's funny before you guys came in today we're listening
to this is some of the hits and we're like,
God forgot yes because we played we mutilated that song too.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, No, we love it. We just stare at each
other and we're like telepathically like.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
We are.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Excellent. Well, the world tour announced. If you want to
check out the fifty three dates, go to Okay pc
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go on sale today, so make sure you check it out.
And this is gonna be the show to see. This
is the one.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Today's the day.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
That's what my character, Norma Desmond would always say, today's
the day.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well, I think you're gonna outsell Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Oh goode.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
There, Yeah, I'm predicted big things.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Make sure to do a song every.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We're going to ruin that song. Just what's up? Gandhi?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Okay, So you guys have mentioned women empowerment many times,
which is something that's very important to me and I
love it. Twenty years ago, things were wildly different from
what they are right now, and you guys were touring
at the same time that boy bands were touring. But
how were you approached differently, trained differently as far as
what you could do on the road and how you
had to conduct yourselves versus what these boy bands were
just out there doing.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't know many experiences from the boy bands, but
I know we had a very demanding show. We were
out there putting down some serious choreography, making sure the
vocals were on point every night. So as much as
we wanted to sort of let go, there was no
room for that. It was really about given the show
everything that it needed and deserved. So we were out
there just putting on a show, trying to eat some
good food, getting the bus and head to the next spot.
(18:41):
There was nothing left for anything else except for that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And we were working. Now, we were, you know, we
were and we are hard workers, I think relieving still
to this day, we do have a bit more balance,
you know, like we're discussed maybe having an earlier dinner
tonight that didn't maybe happen back in the day. But
you know, back then, we were just we just wanted
to you our best and go out there and work
hard and hopefully deliver.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Boy fans, it's so easy for that. They don't have
to get into glam and everything. They just like wake
up and rock up.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Were there?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Did anyone ever tell you guys, watch how you behave
Do not go home with people after the show, don't
party too hard.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You have an image that you have to uphold.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Gosh, we didn't have time to party. Wanted like us.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Talk about it because I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Are you going to play Paris? Just go around?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
You know what I want to know.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
So Nelsy had said that if the Spice Girls were
around now, with all of this social media and all
of that, it would have been so much harder for them,
and that they she doesn't know if they would have
even been able to do it because of the criticism.
Do you guys think of it in the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
It is tricky, you know, the social media. In some
ways it's exciting because you get to see the reaction
in real time. But then also, like you said, if
there is some kind of criticism that you know, we're
human at the end of the day, that you feel that.
But it is such a different world with all that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Now, that's a good point, ash because I think we
were before social media and as it came out, you
didn't know how to have a balance with it, and
it can be really tormenting to your mind and your
soul if you get lost in it. But I think
over time I've certainly learned how to have a boundary
and not get lost in that criticism. But at that
age you just don't know how.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I've not been happier in a long time.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I gave up social media for Lent this year, and
I was like, I'm going to give up something that
I feel like really distracts me a lot and doesn't
necessarily serve me all the time, and I spend too
much time on there. So I gave it up for Lent,
and I'm blissful right now. I love it, I really am,
but yeah, it is. It is difficult, But I think
(20:58):
the most important thing is that we do the work
on ourselves. We know the truth. There's a lot of
stuff that goes out there that isn't real. So as
long as we know the truth, and as long as
we're we're tight and connected and transparent and always working,
like we're always thinking about how do we move forward,
how do we grow from this?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Then the other stuff is just noise.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And you got to remember that and all those kids
out there, you can't let it define who you are
as well.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Protect your self, protect your heart and your mind. Definitely. Sorry.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
The three of you sat around and laughed out loud
at some of the rumors that you say, what where
did that one even come from?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Like what, like, I mean, maybe, yeah, I know I
know one for me personally.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Which I might be it might be the one I'm
thinking too.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But there was one.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
This was before I make it up. PRETERI and I
were at the same club together and they were like,
Ashley might be dating Prince Har's Like, can you imagine me? Missus?
Latex PCT Like I don't know, I.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Can see that.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Why what were you thinking about?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Oh, something else, something else that we know that somebody
may have said something. And then we were all like, wait, what, No,
that ain't our truth, Tunny, you need to speak for
your sales.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What's kind of great even though this is a reunion, Uh,
all three of you have been in the public eye
since then for different reasons. You're used to social media,
so you're just hopping hopping back into a reunion with
each other, already knowing how to ride that horse. So
you're good. So what I say is, let's get together
in Paris and get the thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
We love you, Thank you
Can you believe twenty years the pussy Cat Dolls twenty
years ago and that one song Buttons. I used to
want to just jump off a bridge. All the pussy
Cat Dolls songs are great, but we play Buttons more
than any any song ever in the history of songs.
And we ruined that song to a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now when we.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hear it, you go yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
The nostalgia O g right, and we're like, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So as we celebrate twenty years of pussy Cat Dolls,
we welcome, of course Nicole Schirzinger and of course Kimberly
Wyatt and actually Roberts they're back.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I'm back. That's like a TikTok thing about, isn't
the like?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This is exciting. It's exciting for us and everyone're listening
right now, of course, But then versus now, twenty years
ago versus now. You know, back then they wanted your autograph.
Now they want to sell feet, right, what other things
have changed since last time Pussy Kit Dolls we're together?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh my gosh. Social media is a full time job. Yeah,
it's a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Everything's on the phone, everything is so easily available, and
everybody wants to know everything.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
First tweet.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I remember we were on a bus and I'm like,
I was like, I'm going to the radio station, and
I'm like I tweeted. Now, like my gosh, tweetings things.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Now now you wake up and you're like, oh my god,
it's so early.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Let's fill in. Let's fill in the blanks a little
bit of course, uh, Nicole Scherzinger, of course, A fantastic
run on Broadway. Yes, uh. And do you want to
show Danielle by the way, this is my.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Shows just from this year, so you could have signed
My son said, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Do you have many from this year alone? He's a
true Broadway being.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Such a supporter, love the love it and you were
absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh good you saw it of course times.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Yes, can you sign that?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Thank you honored to sign it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay. Now another interesting storyline between Kimberly White and Ashley Roberts.
Kimberly works on Hits UK, right yep. Then across the
street Ashley works for Heart. Yeah, one of my all
time favorite radio stations.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I mean Heart breakfast radio Monday to Friday and waken
everybody up every morning, you know, so I know what
it's like.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, but so kimberly and actually sort of you compete
against each other on competing radio stations.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, we just want to cover all the sound waves,
so you know, right, we don't want to show favorites.
We got to spread ourselves about and make sure everybody's
got a little bit of each of us.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A doll everywhere, you know what I mean, I'm taking
the States Broadway. So we don't people very well. So
Nicole two radio people, they must drive you nuts because
we are We are our own breed.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
No, I love it because when we were in the UK,
these girls were like I'm running.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I was like, oh my gosh, you guys really do radio.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It's like a whole nother beat, energy, energy, and everything's
so fast paced. And so I was just sitting there
chilling with my celery juice, just winging up.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
They've been up since three am.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
So are you guys a hot commodity in the UK
because you have American accents?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Are you excited that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You called us at a hot commodity?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well, I've been living there for oversh close to fifteen
years and my kids are already fixing my accent. So
nobody knows where I'm from. Amalgamation of different places.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, yeah, my mom was like, don't lose your accent.
And then every now and then a little something goes
a bit higher and I'm like, ooh.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
What was that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It just came out.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Turning it into Madonna that match moment.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Tomato is now a tomato.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's kind interesting about accents because Daniel's son is now
living in the UK.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Yeah, he lives in Leeds and he studies and he
plays soccer there.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So for a while he was getting the British accent
and then one day he came home and it was gone, yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It's weird. And then he hangs when he hangs out
with a lot of Texas people because he has a
lot of Texas people for some reason there, he comes
home with us like southern twang.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
What is going on?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
It depends on who he's hanging out.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I've always been like that.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Simon used to make fun of me for that on
X Factor when I'm back home and I speak.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Pigeon and then I'm back like, oh in the South.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I think also certain brains, because I know some people
that have lived in the UK forever that are American that.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Have not lost their accent. At all, and.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm like, what's going on. I don't know, but your kids,
Kimberly's kids have a little English accents.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's so cute being a Texan moving to New York.
I remember I said the word y'all, y'all.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I can never let go. What brings us all the kids.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Here from the Bronx. Daniel says, you can't say y'all
is use Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
No.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
When I was starting in radio, I went to say
John's University and they were like, they're not going to
want your New York accent. They made me put a
pencil in my mouth and try to pronounce all my words.
Then when I got here, they were like, no, no, no,
we want the New York accent.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Say it more all the stuff I've had to pull
out of her mouth over the years. As we celebrate
the pussy Cat Dolls going on this world tour, I
got to talk about that. We're talking fifty dates, fifty
three dates, fifty three dates, kicking off here in the
States and then over to Europe. I'll get into that
in a second. Okay, we'll start with here Madison Square Garden.
(05:48):
So pussy Cat Dolls. I know you guys tried to
make a go at it in twenty nineteen, but then
the pandemic hit, so they were like, okay, timing wasn't right,
So what made it happen?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
What was the spark between you three that made you go, okay,
it's time.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Honestly, I felt like being on stage seven eight nights
a week during West End and Broadway. I was like,
I really miss the stage. Oh I also miss a
world tour as well, Like it made me just miss
it more with the girls, and then we were just
we've kept in touch, and I was like, we realized
I think recently there was like we hit twenty billion
(06:24):
views with Buttons on YouTube, saw that song, We're like,
this is the time. It's been about twenty years since
our first album PCD don't You speaking of don'ts? Were like,
I mean, if there's any time, and it kind of
feels like unfinished business. We didn't get I know, the
fans were so excited to see us, and we didn't
(06:45):
get to do the tour. So here we are now
we were you know, we're gonna give them what they want.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So I have to say, like being women, like it's
exciting to get back out on stage and like put
on the outface and like just do the whole thing again,
you know. And I feel like when you're in your twenties,
I look back and I felt like I really understood
myself then.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But I'm like, oh, actually, we get to bring who
we are now today with all the life experience and
our femininity and be a little ferocious in our forties.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I'm excited that fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's ferocious and fabulous in our forties.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeahous, yes, what are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Well, there's just never been a time better than now
for females to feel united and free enough to be
free on stage and dance and just have fun, and
to be able to link up after all these years,
you know, having kids and getting settled and having a.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Whole other life. You know, we almost got that chance.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I couldn't let it go. The Pussycat Dolls lived in
my heart ever since, and I've been DJing and doing
Don't You Disco a little DJ dance show, But nothing
is like sharing the stage with these and feeling that
power that we have together. And I need it, I
want it, and I can't wait to have it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, I think you'll be here in the new York
area in July.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
July twentieth is our show Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You've got a great memory. You're remembering a lot of
stuff here.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You they told me right before.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But also playing in Philly and Palm Beach, I believe.
So you're all up and down Phoenix, our east coast, Phoenix, Ezy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Can't we be like sharing this agame with my family,
you know, all our families, Like it's so.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Exciting, it's gonna be cool for us toward the States. Yeah,
it's been a hot minute a really long time. So
all June and July we're going to be up and
down the states.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
When we think about being on here for thirty years,
but you guys have been together twenty years, that's a
lot of years. How how are you aging? Really well?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Lots of.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Clarify. Outside stunningly beautiful. You can't help at your curse.
But on the inside, how are you aging? You're maturing,
you're adulting, and is it good? Are you still having fun?
Do you miss do you miss being you twenty years ago?
Or would you never ever want to go back to
that ever?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Again?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It's just better than ever for me. I think I
could probably speak on behalf of the girls. Like in
your twenties, there's a lot of camicicals, there's a lot
of things going on inside your body, and then you
just go to your flirty thirties and you're still figuring
things out. And when you hit your forties, you're like,
I feel good. I don't have anything to prove, and
(09:36):
I feel aligned and solid and who I.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Am, And like Ashley was saying, to be able to
be the women that we've evolved into, I mean, we're
redefining what a pussycat dolt is today.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
We ain't trying to be sexy for nobody. We trying
to be sexy for ourself first, you know. And it's
just to be able to love. True empowerment is to
be able to love and accept yourself for who you are,
where you are right now. She said, that's I mean,
that's what's so liberating.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I think twenty years ago, no one could have prepared
us for.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
What really did happen. And it was like it was
a whirlwind, it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Was a roller coaster. We barely got to sleep.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
And I know, for me, a lot of times I
was struggling with a lot of mental health issues and
we were just like, there wasn't a lot of mental
health awareness back then, and we just committed.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It wasn't easy.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And to show up for each other knowing your value,
knowing your lane, knowing what you hope to create, and
have purpose that feels really powerful and that feels different
than ever before.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yeah, to be like standing strong in your purpose and
your power and.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Finally owning that, knowing what that freaking made.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay years ago, grown up two years ago, we swept
all of those things under the rug. And now you
you are, you're setting example, not looking for yourself and
for each other, but for everyone who loves pissy get
dolls Like, no, no, no, we don't s sweep the
under the rug anymore. We keep it out.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
We body it are ye who we are?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You take us for our flaws, you take us for
our great things too. What's up? Gandhi?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Oh my god, I have so many questions for you guys,
But I want to know how the phone call happened
to get this back on the on the road again.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah? Who was?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
It means there's distance and time does a lot of things.
And I think, like I said, I'd never let go
of the pussy cat dolls and always wanted to create opportunity.
But I'll just never forget when I got the phone
call from Nicole and we were on the phone for
about two and a half hours and it felt like
ten minutes. It literally did. But there was so much excitement.
We were just so linked on what this could look
(11:43):
like and feel like as we're just talking.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
About as women today.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, like talking to each other, we're like, oh, that's beautiful,
that's perspective, that's healing energy, that's moving forward, that's we're
wanting the same we're aligned in the same things that
we want.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Know each other. We hear each other's voices and laughs
and we're like, oh, I know that person. But actually
it's like, oh wait, but I'm also reintroducing each other
to each other.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It's like we're showing up differently. I was this morning
doing my breath work sessions.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean I definitely wasn't doing that twenty or you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like, it's not just we've we've evolved a bit.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And we have a five pm dinner as well.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
As they got off the planets like girls that Okay,
we do it, really we want.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
We love it so now that you guys are touring
and you've done it before. Obviously twenty years ago you
guys were doing things. Can we talk about tour awards
like who is the messiest?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Okay, I go back in that, who is the messy?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't They might not be here, No, I.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Mean it was. Joe wouldn't have counted any of you
as messy.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Yeah, there's not one messy person in the group. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I remember being.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Messy with my makeup, Like I would take black eyeliner
just like panda eyes.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And I was like, fabulous people doing you.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Up here?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
You did not.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
We just giving it real. I might be messy in
my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Sometimes we're keeping it real. We're keeping it real because well,
we didn't have anyone.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We didn't have full gloun following us.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Okay, what about it was the most pleasant in the
morning versus the most unpleasant in the morning.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Oh, I'm not pleasant in the morning.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
I know that about Probably actually because she, especially with
her show, she wakes up so early.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
She's always very chipper. We need it bubbly and chipper.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You want to put her in a wood chipper coffee.
I can't energy.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And she's looking at she's an old lady. Okay, where
you come, girl.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Today is the day the Pussycat Dolls were Union tour
tickets going sound.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Today.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Today's the day today, little Kim and Maya.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I mean, honey, the dances I was doing, even to
my you know, by myself, to these artists and we
get to share the stage with him.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yes, they're supporting us here, right.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Little Kim and Maya.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, such a show show right, no empowerment cat Dolls
at one point, that's right.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Your boots are made for walking.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh my gosh, she throw back. Also, see ourselves up
in Leicester Square the other day, Honestly, I got like,
I'm square shivers.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, sorry, I gotcha, girl.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Seeing ourselves in Times Square the other day, I got
flashbacks of being in our twenties and being like, it
just gave that feeling again, like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
God, people are and we're excited. We're excited.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It feels it feels really good.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
You know what I'm thinking, you are going to have
now moms and you know, Dad's grew up listening to
you and watching you. Now their kids are going to
do the same. They're going to come to the concerts
with them. That's like the coolest thing generations.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You know, every generation needs the Pussycat Dolls.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I went to all Backstreet Boys like recently and I
literally was teleported to being a fourteen year old girl.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
And I can't wait to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Give that energy back to our audience.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know what I mean, because it's so nostalgic and
you remember where you were, and like you said, then
we get to share with different generations. The TikTok kids
seem to know what's going on with us, so we're
excited about it.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
This idea, we need to book you in the sphere.
We got to get you in the sphere. I'm just thinking,
I don't know why, but I'm thinking for once twenty
years ago, we thank thanking for twenty years ago. You
just think about where the world was, what was going on.
(16:10):
I don't even know what the headlines of the day
were back twenty years ago, but look at where the
world is now. The world is in a place where
people need this energy to say that more than anything,
this is a time where people want to sit in
a seat or stand and dance at a show to
make them forget about what's happening past those exit doors
(16:30):
when they leave the arena, and that's.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
What we're here for.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Good, thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
To inspire people and to still bring hope and uplift people.
And we're all all the good energies and vibes. We've
been through it as women, we know, and we've got
so much. We've waited twenty years. We've got so much
love to give and so much to give back. So
it's going to be awesome. And we got like also,
you know, the.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Hits as well to shive back.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's funny before you guys came in today we're listening
to this is some of the hits and we're like,
God forgot yes because we played we mutilated that song too.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, No, we love it. We just stare at each
other and we're like telepathically like.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
We are.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Excellent. Well, the world tour announced. If you want to
check out the fifty three dates, go to Okay pc
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go on sale today, so make sure you check it out.
And this is gonna be the show to see. This
is the one.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Today's the day.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
That's what my character, Norma Desmond would always say, today's
the day.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well, I think you're gonna outsell Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Oh goode.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
There, Yeah, I'm predicted big things.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Make sure to do a song every.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We're going to ruin that song. Just what's up? Gandhi?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Okay, So you guys have mentioned women empowerment many times,
which is something that's very important to me and I
love it. Twenty years ago, things were wildly different from
what they are right now, and you guys were touring
at the same time that boy bands were touring. But
how were you approached differently, trained differently as far as
what you could do on the road and how you
had to conduct yourselves versus what these boy bands were
just out there doing.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't know many experiences from the boy bands, but
I know we had a very demanding show. We were
out there putting down some serious choreography, making sure the
vocals were on point every night. So as much as
we wanted to sort of let go, there was no
room for that. It was really about given the show
everything that it needed and deserved. So we were out
there just putting on a show, trying to eat some
good food, getting the bus and head to the next spot.
(18:41):
There was nothing left for anything else except for that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And we were working. Now, we were, you know, we
were and we are hard workers, I think relieving still
to this day, we do have a bit more balance,
you know, like we're discussed maybe having an earlier dinner
tonight that didn't maybe happen back in the day. But
you know, back then, we were just we just wanted
to you our best and go out there and work
hard and hopefully deliver.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Boy fans, it's so easy for that. They don't have
to get into glam and everything. They just like wake
up and rock up.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Were there?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Did anyone ever tell you guys, watch how you behave
Do not go home with people after the show, don't
party too hard.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You have an image that you have to uphold.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Gosh, we didn't have time to party. Wanted like us.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Talk about it because I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Are you going to play Paris? Just go around?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
You know what I want to know.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
So Nelsy had said that if the Spice Girls were
around now, with all of this social media and all
of that, it would have been so much harder for them,
and that they she doesn't know if they would have
even been able to do it because of the criticism.
Do you guys think of it in the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
It is tricky, you know, the social media. In some
ways it's exciting because you get to see the reaction
in real time. But then also, like you said, if
there is some kind of criticism that you know, we're
human at the end of the day, that you feel that.
But it is such a different world with all that.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Now, that's a good point, ash because I think we
were before social media and as it came out, you
didn't know how to have a balance with it, and
it can be really tormenting to your mind and your
soul if you get lost in it. But I think
over time I've certainly learned how to have a boundary
and not get lost in that criticism. But at that
age you just don't know how.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I've not been happier in a long time.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I gave up social media for Lent this year, and
I was like, I'm going to give up something that
I feel like really distracts me a lot and doesn't
necessarily serve me all the time, and I spend too
much time on there. So I gave it up for Lent,
and I'm blissful right now. I love it, I really am,
but yeah, it is. It is difficult, But I think
(20:58):
the most important thing is that we do the work
on ourselves. We know the truth. There's a lot of
stuff that goes out there that isn't real. So as
long as we know the truth, and as long as
we're we're tight and connected and transparent and always working,
like we're always thinking about how do we move forward,
how do we grow from this?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Then the other stuff is just noise.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And you got to remember that and all those kids
out there, you can't let it define who you are
as well.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Protect your self, protect your heart and your mind. Definitely. Sorry.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
The three of you sat around and laughed out loud
at some of the rumors that you say, what where
did that one even come from?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Like what, like, I mean, maybe, yeah, I know I
know one for me personally.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Which I might be it might be the one I'm
thinking too.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But there was one.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
This was before I make it up. PRETERI and I
were at the same club together and they were like,
Ashley might be dating Prince Har's Like, can you imagine me? Missus?
Latex PCT Like I don't know, I.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Can see that.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Why what were you thinking about?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Oh, something else, something else that we know that somebody
may have said something. And then we were all like, wait, what, No,
that ain't our truth, Tunny, you need to speak for
your sales.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What's kind of great even though this is a reunion, Uh,
all three of you have been in the public eye
since then for different reasons. You're used to social media,
so you're just hopping hopping back into a reunion with
each other, already knowing how to ride that horse. So
you're good. So what I say is, let's get together
in Paris and get the thank you guys.
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