Music Video
The video was shot from 15. to 17. March, 2006 by production company DNA and was directed by Francis Lawrence. It features the Pussycat Dolls with rapper Snoop Dogg. The video begins with the lights coming on and Snoop rapping the 1st verse while a hooded Scherzinger steps in and makes eye contact with Snoop and exits after the rap ends. In a sepia-toned setting, The Dolls, dressed in suggestive black outfits, progress through the video performing a striptease that leads to several dance segments. Scherzinger, in one dance sequence in the second verse, uses a chair as a prop. On the chorus, five additional chairs appear in the scene, and five of the members of the group appear, and the dance continues; Melody Thornton, who is separated from the girls in this sequence, is seen doing her melismatic runs on the chorus. As Snoop raps the 2nd verse with his hood up, The Dolls walked up closer to Snoop after his 2nd rap verse ends singing with the name of the doll members. In the bridge, Scherzinger is seen in a spotlight and it shows her face in a glass. During the breakdown, the girls dance while smoke is filled and halfway through the video, the floor turns on fire. The video ends with the girls walking away with Carmit Bachar brushing her hair up.
The video is influenced by both the Pussycat Dolls's old-school burlesque traditions and the Middle-Eastern influence of the musical composition, incorporating props and imagery such as the trademark Pussycat Dolls's method of the silhouetting of bodies in their stage shows, jazz dance moves, and a curtain made from jewelry worn by belly dancers. A different version of the video is shown with smoke coming from some of the dolls during some sequences, and finally the floor bursting into digitally-added fire in the last sequences. As with "Beep", a new piece of music, using the same riff but with a different, faster drum beat was added in, so the dolls could perform a faster dance routine. This piece of music replaces the bridge in the video.
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