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[Annie]

I was listening to the PCD albums the other day..and it is kinda stupid how they moved away from the burlesque jazzy vibes. The second album is Nicole's solo album written by Ne-Yo. They could have had their own niche and create a Broadway show or a movie...but instead let go of their original brand and gave Nicole her solo album with Doll Domination

[Annie]

The original Don't Cha saga

AHHA: What you think gets lost in their version?

Tori: What's missing is me. To me, the record companies tend to think consumers are ignorant. You throw some formula out there, which is this pop group, and expect them to just ride along like nothing happened. Some people do that and some people are like, Wait a minute; that doesn't sound like the same version I heard. And there is more than one example of beauty.

AHHA: You mentioned that the girls emulated your voice and everything. So they knew about the whole thing.

Tori: Of course, of course. And I don't wish them any ill will. But I just have a feeling that at some point—yeah, it may look grand right now, but I think at some point it will backfire. 'Cause seriously this song has been out almost a year. I got at 3100 spins, with very little marketing and promotion. I got this song on "Beauty Shop" twice. I have a feature in VIBE Magazine's April Hollywood issue. It's not like I'm some chick who just crawled from under some rug from some little town in Georgia. My name is Tori Alamaze. I have a lot of respect; I respect a lot of people. I have a lot of love and I have a lot of people who have my back.

[Annie]

AHHA: It seems like, to the label, maybe the Pussycat Dolls are more marketable.

Tori: I don't think it had anything to do with marketing at all. I don't think it has nothing to do with marketing because there's absolutely nothing wrong with me. I mean nothing. I'm not overweight. I mean, I could understand—I remember when I was younger I heard about the whole Martha Wash thing, the Weather Girls, and that whole thing about whether she was really singing. And then they gave [the song] to this group [because] she was overweight, that was their issue. I'm not even any of that. I'm very marketable.

AHHA: Some people might look at it like you're envious of the group's success with your song.

Tori: They're riding off of my success. That's what it is. They're riding off of what I got started. [Laughs] People were already going bananas over that song, like last August, September when it started in Los Angeles.

It's kinda sad but this interview


https://prince.org/msg/8/161072

[Annie]

AHHA: So is your main concern basically not being credited for the original song?

Tori: I think what really gets up under my skin is the fact that—before I get into that, I have to say that it's still possible that I may be able to do a video for "Don't Cha." So we're kind of entertaining that at the moment. So with that said, I think it just bothers me that I'm a [solo] artist, I'm an African-American artist, but my music just so happens to transcend race, time, age, gender, whatever. It transcends that - and it just bothers me that you have these six girls, not really artists, just some Burlesque cabaret group. It just seems like, from what Cee-Lo told me, they attempted to study my voice with such reverence, they looked at me with such reverence, like, "Oh, Miss Tori." They attempted to study my voice, copy every breath, every sigh, every ad lib that I did, and it still lacks the original soul.

[Annie]

Better than nicole Afro you have to admit

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Tori was so bitter about all this. She didn't even write Don't Cha.
Ron Fair did a phenomenal job with the PCD version, adding guitars and horns. It's miles better than Tori's version, which doesn't even sound properly mixed.

[klappa.]

this thread u posted  was BETTER than GODcoles mess

yes.