Don't Cha

Album

PCD

Label

A&M Records

Genre

Rhythm & Blues

Composer(s)

Anthony Ray;Thomas Callaway;Trevor Smith

Entered Chart

May 7, 2005

Peak Date

Aug 20, 2005

Released

April 19, 2005

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

A&M 004709

This song is about a girl who taunts a guy about his girlfriend, making her jealous by asking if he wishes his girlfriend was hot like her. The Pussycat Dolls are more a dance troupe than singers, and they convey a very unapologetically sexual image that fits the lyrics quite well. >> The writing credits on this song read: Thomas DeCarlo Callaway and Anthony L. Ray. You know them better as Cee-Lo Green from The Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley and Sir Mix-a-Lot of "Baby Got Back" fame. The song was originally recorded by Tori Alamaze in 2004. Alamaze was a makeup artist and backup singer who was signed to Cee-Lo's production company. Shortly after her version was released as a single, her record company dropped her and stopped promoting the song, so very few people heard it. The next year, The Pussycat Dolls recorded it in a version also produced by Cee Lo and with Busta Rhymes on guest vocals. Heineken beer used this in TV commercials. Cee-Lo Green recalled to The Guardian newspaper March 22, 2008: "I originally wrote it for another artist - Tori Alamaze - but it found its way to the Pussycat Dolls and the rest is history. I was more than content with it going to the original artist, but of course the Pussycat Dolls took it to another level." This was the Pussycat Dolls' first single. Many critics predicted a quick demise for the group, but they went on to record several more hits. >> Report this ad Q magazine January 2012 asked Cee-Lo Green if he pretended to be an attractive girl to help him get into character when he penned this song? He replied: "No, I was trying to think of an ideal woman - who would be so bold as to say something as outspoken as that song." Speaking on a 2012 Behind The Music special for VH1, Nicole Scherzinger said she did most of the singing "on my own" for the PCD album: "People don't even know the whole story. They have no idea. I was in the center because I was singing," she said. "I hope I don't get in trouble for the stuff that I say but I'll never forget I finished the album, PCD, and Ron (executive producer Ron Fair) and I brought the girls into the studio and we played it for them. It was the first time they'd ever heard the music." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" she continued. "We played the album for the Pussycat Dolls. It was the first time they'd ever heard the songs." "Don't Cha" featured in the Sims 2 Pets video game. The Pussycat Dolls recorded the song in Simlish, the fictional language of the Sims.

Ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha

Ooh, baby
Dolls
Fellas
Are you ready?

Let's dance
Ooh, baby
I know you like me (I know you like me)
I know you do (I know you do)

That's why whenever I come around
She's all over you
I know you want it (I know you want it)
It's easy to see (it's easy to see)

And in the back of your mind
I know you should be uhh with me

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?
Don't cha
Don't cha

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me?
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me?
Don't cha
Don't cha

Fight the feeling (fight the feeling)
Leave it alone (leave it alone)
'Cause if it ain't love
It just ain't enough to leave my happy home (uh-uh, uh-uh)

Let's keep it friendly (let's keep it friendly)
You have to play fair (you have to play fair)
See I don't care
But I know, she ain't gon' wanna share

Hmm uh (don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?) uh
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? (like me)
Don't cha, don't you baby
Don't cha

Alright, you saying
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me? (raw)
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me? (big thrills)
Don't cha
Don't cha

I know I'm on your mind
I know we'd have a good time
I'm your friend, I'm fun
And I'm fine

I ain't lying
Look at me shh
You ain't blind

I know I'm on your mind
I know we'd have a good time
I'm your friend, I'm fun
And I'm fine

I ain't lying
Look at me shh
You ain't blind (don't go, ha)

I know she loves you (I know she loves you)
So I understand (I understand)
I probably be just as crazy about you
If you were my own man

Maybe next lifetime (maybe next lifetime)
Possibly (possibly)
Until then, old friend, your secret is safe with me (shh, ha)

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? (oh)
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? (like me)
Don't cha, don't cha, baby
Don't cha, alright, sing
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me? (raw)
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me? (big thrills)
Don't cha (ahh)
Don't cha
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? (oh)
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? (like me)
Don't cha, don't cha, baby
Don't cha, alright, sing
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me? (raw)
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me? (big thrills)
Don't cha (ahh)
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha
Don't cha