New Melody Thornton Interview

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How hard is it to get five hot and often scantily clad girls in a room to chat?

Near impossible as Emmanuel Ezugwu found out when he sat down with Melody Thornton of the Pussycat Dolls to pitch your questions...

RWD: Where’s everyone else?

(Laughs). Well I’ve just not long woken up and the rest of the girls are really tired. We stayed up all night, last night in the studio recording.

Pedro: We hope it’s worth a severe lack of sleep - how’s it sounding?

It’s called Doll Domination. We’re still recording and we have been very blessed to work with Timbaland, who has been amazing and he executive produced half of the album. We’ve done six songs in six days, so when you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll. We’ve worked with Cee-Lo who we worked with on the first album on Don’t Cha and we’ve worked with Sean Garrett who wrote Buttons. We also worked with Rodney Jerkins who did our first single When I Grow Up. We have a lot of diverse songs that would surprise a lot of people that don’t think the Pussycat Dolls can pull off.

RWD: With Carmit leaving the group and Nicole’s failed solo attempt, how is the morale in PCD?

Well to clarify one thing I don’t think Nicole had any intentions of leaving the group. She was definitely pursuing and making a solo effort, but her intentions were definitely to do both. Fergie did the same thing with her solo album. Carmit decided to leave the group and she is a very creative person and we have lost a major asset to the Pussycat Dolls because she was a firecracker on stage. But I personally talk to her all the time.

RWD: Were you shocked when Carmit told you she wanted to leave?

Yeah, I was. It came as a surprise to me because I knew that she had a number of things that she was working on, where she couldn’t do both at the same time. She couldn’t devote time to the Pussycat Dolls and still make everything else that she wanted to do a success - but it came out of nowhere. I still get sad when we perform songs like Stick Wit Chu because we recorded all of them together, but...

Caolan (pronounced Key-Lin): Will any of the songs from Her Name is Nicole, be re-recorded by you?

I don’t know because Nicole recorded loads of songs for her solo effort so you never know what songs may end up on the album. But, like I said we’re not done recording yet.

Ella: Do you have any collaborations on Doll Domination?

Well we have done a collaboration with R Kelly in a song called Outta This Club but we’re still recording so I’m not sure what’s set in stone. But the possibilities are endless and we’re definitely trying to work with new people on the album.

RWD: You’ve got an amazing voice but a constant criticism is that no one seems to share singing duties apart from Nicole. How will the singing be shared out on the album this time?

Well first of all I want to say thank you to all the fans more then anything. Sometimes they send me blogs and they seem to know exactly what I’m feeling and they know exactly what to say. They support me so much, and that means more then anything. I am recording more now then I did on the first album. On the first album I was very young and inexperienced, so it’s understandable that they wanted to give Nicole the responsibility as she had been in two groups prior. But we’re definitely working on it and I appreciate you saying that comment as well. All of us are recording songs, so we’ll see if they make it.

Louise: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve been sent by a fan?

Well luckily I haven’t had anyone figure out where I live, so no one sent anything to me directly but we’ve gotten weird tasting candy. It’s not like we don’t appreciate it, but some of them are awkward gifts. I haven’t had anything too crazy, like I got a teddy bear but when you squeeze it, it laughs and cackles like a witch and I was like ‘Ok, thank you!’

RWD: Do you think you’re sending out a positive message on When I Grow Up for being famous for famous sake?

Yeah, that’s the one thing that we’ve been asked over and over again and I can only speak for myself. I never wanted to be famous, I always said I wanted to be a singer and with singing comes fame and even if I wasn’t famous for being a trendsetter, I would still like to be appreciated as a vocalist for the music I make. I think that nowadays with reality TV there’s so many outlets for people to gain more attention and exposure and we get a lot of people who just want to be famous. But I think we still have to show our appreciation to people creating their art and music.

Courtney W: What’s the hardest thing to deal with being a Pussycat Doll?

One of the worst things is privacy and people making negative preconceived notions about you just from looking at you because you’re a Pussycat Doll. People don’t realise that the Pussycat Dolls are a brand. So it’s hard sometimes when people pass comments and make rude judgments about you when they don’t even know you.

RWD: There’s been a whole lot of speculation about you dating Bow Wow and Nicole dating Lewis Hamilton.

Well I don’t think it’s my place to talk about Nicole and Lewis’s relationship but she has confirmed that she is with Lewis Hamilton and I’m so happy for them but that’s as far as I’ll go on that topic. But as for Bow Wow, we are just friends. I think he’s a wonderful person, he’s just a great friend of mine and that’s about it.

When I Grow Up is out 8 September. MySpace.com/PussycatDolls

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