Take note, parents with teenage girls – these are your daughters’ potential role models.
Girlicious, an all-girl group spawned from the hit reality-TV show Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious will open for the Backstreet Boys when they hit Victoria this Friday (Sept. 5).
Los Angeles native Tiffanie Anderson was one of the four lucky contestants selected from the show, modelled after the widely successful Pussycat Dolls Presents, which spawned the widely successful all-girl group Pussycat Dolls. Anderson was filmed going through the audition process, while living with 14 other contestants in a mansion.
“It’s really surreal, the feeling of being on camera all of the time,” said Anderson, on a tour stop in Toronto.
“It’s weird too, because you can see the stories unfolding. You’re like, ‘Oh that’s going to be a story for the next episode’ and stuff like that. But after awhile you just kind of forget that the cameras are on.”
The 20-year-old Anderson was one of the winners along with Natalie Mejia, Nichole Cordova and Chrystina Sayers. During the shows taping, a rivalry developed between Anderson, Cordova and Charlye Nichols (who would be voted off) with Mejia and Sayers. After taping, however, there was a months-long gap between airing, in which the four winners recorded their debut CD and became friends, ending the riff.
“A lot of people don’t know that,” said Anderson, “is that we were like, together so much after the taping and we all became friends and forgot all about that stuff.”
The group’s debut self-titled CD was released mid-August and the quartet has been opening for the Backstreet Boys as part of the rekindled boy band’s ‘second act’ after they achieved worldwide popularity in the late 1990s. Anderson said it’s been great to watch such seasoned veterans on stage almost every night. The girl group has also branched out with solo shows in between concert dates with the Boys.
As for being role models for young girls (the primary audience for Girlicious), Anderson said it wasn’t something that dawned on her until after the group was formed.
“It’s tough, because we get asked that a lot in interviews, about being a role model to young girls and I’m just being myself. I’ve always been myself, I’ve always kind of naturally stayed out of trouble, I’ve never drank or smoke. I’ve never been into that stuff. But it’s definitely something that you think about a lot and have to be aware of.”
Girlicious open for Backstreet Boys at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre on Friday, Sept. 5. Tickets may still be available at the door.
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