Girlicious - Robin Antin and the Pussycat Dolls

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More than nine months after The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious actually finished taping and the final show has aired, the four winners are finally out of the studio (and out of hiding) with two singles, “Like Me” and “Stupid Sh**,” and an album dropping on July 1.
By Megan Cahn

Nichole, Natalie, Chrystina, and Tiffanie (pictured from left to right) have been performing since they were kids, and now, after two grueling months in which 15 girls competed for a spot in Girlicious (thousands tried out), they have a record contract and a chance at stardom. The new group, along with their creator, Robin Antin, stopped by the CosmoGirl offices decked out in Girlicious gear to talk about how all the drama turned into their destiny.

WHAT WAS YOUR IDEA BEHIND FORMING GIRLICIOUS?

Robin: I wanted to play on the words girl and delicious for a group of cute-cute, delicious girls.
Natalie: For the record, Robin created the name before Bootylicious, Fergalicious, and crunkalicious. She had it years ago.
Robin: Yeah. I had the idea for this group 13 years ago. After creating the Pussycat Dolls, I just wanted to do it again but start fresh and from scratch — and a little different. The Pussycat Dolls started as a dance group, and Nicole [Scherzinger] was the lead singer — the other girls are amazing, but they're dancers. Nicole can sing and dance, and she's gorgeous — so I wanted to create a group with all Nicoles.
Nichole [Cordova]: It's really amazing that we have no lead singer. We all sing, we all dance, we all look the part, and we all have great personalities — but our strengths still come in different areas. It's crazy to think that a girl group can have so many strengths.

SO THERE WERE ORIGINALLY ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE THREE GIRLS IN THE GROUP — WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO USE FOUR?

Robin: Yeah, it really was supposed to be three in the beginning, but as I became closer with the girls and got to know them more and more toward the end, I just couldn’t imagine it with only three. And it wasn’t like one, two, three, and she's the fourth. The girls had to come all together. I had to work really hard to get the network to agree with letting me change it. A lot of the people in charge were like, "The audience is expecting three, so you have to give us three." And I was like, "No, now the group is four!"
Chrystina: Three is good, four is great.
Robin: That was my tagline.