Blender’s Heat-Seeking, Sweat-Dripping, Pool-Hopping Summer Music Blowout

Pussycat Dolls
Lead Doll Nicole Scherzinger discusses—and busts a freestyle rhyme about—her sunburned butt.

We’re at a barbecue and your new CD comes on—what happens?
Hopefully people start moving their bodies and getting in a party mood. It’s in the same vein as the first album—it’s Pussycat Dolls part two.

Most painful place you’ve ever been sunburned?
My butt cheeks. Sometimes you don’t think to be putting sunscreen on your butt.

Is there a body part you try to hide during summer?
My burnt butt cheeks.

What’s the worst summer job you’ve ever had?
I was born in Hawaii but grew up in Kentucky, where I worked at the Kentucky Kingdom amusement park. Everybody took turns playing the park’s mascot, King Louis, a ginormous lion. You had to walk around in 110-degree weather—you’re sweating balls inside, suffocating on that Febreze smell.

Who would you rather see in a Speedo: Obama or McCain?
Obama! He’s Hawaiian! Gotta represent.

Can you give us a freestyle rhyme about summer?
Yo yo, it’s your girl Nicole/I’m super psyched about the Dolls album coming out/This summer is gonna be the hottest thing/Even hotter than my butt cheeks right now.

Pussycat Dolls’ new album is due this summer.