- We're gonna do a whole day of being pop stars.
We have a makeup team, a music video, photo shoot.
All this is gonna be done in one day.
(spunky music)
Let's see if we can make it out alive.
(upbeat pop music)
- My alter ego would be Sneaky Pepper, 'cause I put pepper
on everything, and I wear sneakers a lot.
- My alter ego's name is Gemini, but I'm a Pisces.
You didn't see that coming.
- I'd like to be called Srirachachacha.
I'm kinda like the bag of hot Cheetos of the girl group.
I'm spicy and I got a lot of fire in me.
- I'm Divalicious.
I'm not really a diva, but I do command presence
when I enter a room.
- Some of the best girl groups came from the 90's.
The Spice Girls, Destiny's Child, TLC.
I feel like the 90's girl groups were all
about female empowerment, it was all about friendship.
They could sing, they could act, they could dance.
- The girls have less than 24 hours to get a lot
of shit down, which includes getting their looks down,
getting a dance routine down, getting a song down,
and also getting into their characters.
A lot of girl bands actually don't stay together,
so hopefully this one does, because I'm managing them.
- Based on our dynamic, I think that
we should be called Glitter Girls.
- We not only sparkle.
- We shine.
(exciting pop music)
- I'm really excited about this,
'cause we're gonna have some extra help
with Ashley Everett, who's Beyonce's back up dancer.
So, if she can't help us, I don't know who can.
- How are we feeling, y'all?
- I suck.
- Oh, my god. - How did they do this?
♫ Small dress showin' off what our mama's got us
♫ Ain't nobody gonna say we kids
- I think it takes a lot of practice.
- I think so, too.
- I'm gonna be the motivating one
and say that we're gonna be fine.
- Laura needs to work on her steps a little more but--
- [Shila] She looks like a tarantula.
- [Laura] I looked like a baby giraffe
that was learning how to walk.
- You have to believe.
- I agree.
- Who cares if you're doing it wrong.
If you believe, the audience will believe.
- I'm the stylist brought on to help these
four ladies find their signature looks
for the video shoot and the photo shoot.
We have a sexy, sleek look, we have a fun, cutesy look,
we've got sporty and athletic, and crazy scary.
I am so excited to see these ladies all dressed up,
pretty much anything that I touch works out pop stars.
- I got my hair and make up done.
It's definitely giving off a mix
of a Yorkshire terrier vibe.
It was very Baby Spice.
I feel good about that, I feel like I stood my ground
as a true 90's pop star.
The props seem like all fun and games in the photos,
but I was hit a few times in the face.
I was like, oh, everyone's gonna look similar to this,
and Shila walked out in a black, sexy dress,
and I was just like, is this The Bachelor?
What Nickelodeon show am I on?
- [Shila] During my photo shoot, I really tried
to channel Posh Spice.
I felt like she's very fierce, sexy, but super serious.
I really got into character and had fun with it.
- The photographer's taking the pictures,
and I slammed on the ground and did this pose.
I was like, I don't know where that came from.
My prop was the basketball, which was so fun.
I dribbled it, I put it over my head,
I pretended to throw it.
I really felt like I channeled my Sporty Spice.
- I got to sit on this black leather couch,
and wear prints, all these different prints,
channeled my inner Scary Spice.
Music was pumping, people were watching,
balls were getting thrown.
A lot of different energies on this one set, but was all
fun, excited, fierce, empowering women energy.
(exciting pop music)
- We had to go into music video mode,
had no time to really collect my thoughts.
We just ha to jump into it.
- It's interesting to dance in front
of a choreographer who's a world renowned choreographer.
That shit was scary.
- You've come a long way.
I just really want you guys to focus on your characters
and be in the zone, and just perform.
You guys look beautiful, so really sell it
to the camera and you'll be great.
- I think we have a fan, and he keeps
on coming to our set every minute.
- I'm number one fan, Gustave.
I listen to all your records.
- What's your favorite one?
- Tell me what you don't want, what you really do not want.
(all laughing)
- I was definitely that girl that was
constantly practicing throughout the set.
We should practice one more time before we have to go on.
When you have three other girls behind you,
you wanna make sure that everyone's on point,
because if one of them fucks up, then you all look bad.
- Shila put me in the back for the diamond formation,
nobody puts baby in the corner, okay?
Then there's the lip-syncing.
- [Shila] I usually sing in the car anyways,
it just felt like I was in my car jammin' out.
- I did not know the words as well as I thought I knew them.
This is not what I do on a day to day,
I don't know if I'm cut out for this business.
- I dunno what the fuck they're doin'.
- Oh god, this just popped open.
- Curly was a little sassy.
- You guys, please get it down, please.
- What would you say we need to work on?
- Everything.
(laughing)
- He was like, on top of us, and making sure like,
nope, wrong bih, no, do it again.
- From the time we have left, we need to really up it.
So hit those marks, make sure you're makin' eye contact,
make those words, get your positions together over here,
stop blockin' people, Shila.
This isn't the Shila show.
- [Julissa] As a true dancer and a true girl group,
you gotta do it a million times.
You have to keep doin' it over until everyone gets it right.
- We did a day being a 90's pop girl group,
how do we all feel?
- I'm so tired, can I go to bed?
- 24 hours of being in a motherfuckin' pop group is real.
- It was really fun just to be with all the girls,
and to relive my childhood, and have crimped hair again.
- Today made me realize how much
you can get done in 24 hours, and what you can do
if you set your mind to it.
We managed to learn a dance, to lip-sync,
have a song out, and shoot a freakin' music video.
The 90's were all about girl power and being
with your friends, and singing about having a good time,
and I think that's what we did.
- [Together] Glitter Girls!
(increasingly intense music)
("Girls Night Out" by the Glitter Girls)
♫ Come on, girls
♫ Are you ready
♫ All my girls so fine
♫ Yeah my girls so strong
♫ We pull up jammin' a Spice Girls song
♫ Yeah it feels so right
♫ I don't need no man
♫ To tell me I'm so fly
♫ 'Cause I know I am
♫ Do what we want, what we want
♫ Never think about it
♫ Late nights at the club
♫ With my girls around me
♫ Small dress showin' off what our mama got us
♫ Ain't nobody gonna say we kids
♫ Feelin' so fly
♫ So fly
♫ Do what we like
♫ Like hey, hey
♫ It's about to be a girls' night
♫ So fine
♫ Do what we like
♫ Like hey, hey
♫ It's about to be a girls' night out
(distant squealing)
- I love you Glitter Girls!
I love you!
Whoo!
♫ And fly
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