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Last PCD album? For Nicole and Melody?
Do you have plans to do something totally solo down the road?
Yes. We all have plans, but I'm going to sing. That's what I'm going to do. Hopefully after this album I will have a chance to branch off on my own.
Speaking of getting to do your own thing and working on solo stuff, you lost a member earlier this year. How did the group react to going from six to five?
It's tough to spend years of your life with people. It's not just people you work with, it's your family. You're on the road with them, and you're working with them. It's not like somebody who works at Starbucks with you and they quit. It was definitely a hard blow because she and I were very tight. She had a lot of ambitions and aspirations that she thought she wanted to pursue, and we support her one hundred percent. I still talk to her. She's doing great actually. Of course it's a toll, because they are people you're used to being around all the time.
With "Doll Domination" already off to a strong start, the question remains: Why did Scherzinger's solo bid meet with such resistance, even with contributions from stars like will.i.am and Timbaland?
According to Scherzinger, the problem was the similarities in PCD's sound and the one she was trying to make her own. "I put my solo album on hold because, one, I'm a ridiculous perfectionist; two, the timing wasn't right; and three, we have so much success with the Dolls, I've got to come with something completely different and unique for me as a solo artist," she says.
Geffen chairman and "Doll Domination" executive producer Ron Fair is confident that the right moment for Scherzinger will come soon. "It was an issue of timing, but we're coming back to it when the time is right and it's going to work. In the meantime, we're going to focus on PCD," he says.
To help ease fans into anticipated future solo moves from Dolls members Melody Thornton, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt and Jessica Sutta, they all have her own songs on the European version of "Doll Domination." "When we perform live, we each get an opportunity to sing our own songs," Scherzinger says.
Scherzinger is confident that "Her Name Is Nicole" will be out early next year and has already collaborated with artists like Sting and Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody in hopes of authoritatively striking out on her own.
"I realized a lot of the songs sounded like PCD songs and that they shouldn't be on my album," she says. "But all that will come in time, full steam, next year. And when I do, there will be room for both of them to coexist because they'll be two completely separate entities."
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