Nicole Scherzinger is reclaiming her voice amid her lawsuit with Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin.
The PCD star blasts her former band in her forthcoming solo tune, “Freedom.”
“Please permit me to introduce myself / I’m not that little doll you knew / She paid her dues / Now she owns herself / I’ve acquired a brand new angle down within me / I’ve acquired a brand new pair of sneakers / Step apart, please / I’m via working for you / Was killing me to compromise / B—h, I simply awakened redefined,” she reportedly sings on the observe.
Scherzy debuted the tune throughout a dwell efficiency at Sydney WorldPride in Australia on March 4, the place she was a headliner.
In keeping with Web page Six, the tune is ready to be launched someday later this yr, and Scherzinger stated she hoped to make the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood “very proud” with the dance observe.
“I don’t suppose it’s going to be a homosexual pop anthem; I do know it is going to be,” Scherzinger apparently stated.
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After a quick Pussycat Dolls reunion in 2019 that produced single “React,” the group fell aside as soon as extra in February 2020 amid plans to tour and document a brand new album.
Following the reunion, the group’s founder, Robin Antin, filed a lawsuit towards Scherzinger in 2021, alleging that Scherzinger breached contract after requesting more cash than her bandmates in addition to artistic management of their reveals.
Antin claimed Scherzinger refused to tour if these requests weren’t met.
In a joint assertion in January 2022, Dolls Carmit Bachar and Jessica Sutta stated:
We need to say how extremely upset we’re to be taught of an announcement made on Instagram that the Pussycat Dolls reunion tour is canceled. As of now, there was no official notification of that.
Scherzinger has known as Antin’s lawsuit “a meritless effort” over an “expired settlement.” The swimsuit is anticipated to play out in court docket for a lot of months, with the subsequent standing listening to set for March 2024.
Nevertheless, Scherzinger nonetheless carried out Pussycat Dolls hits equivalent to “Do not Cha” and “After I Develop Up” throughout her WorldPride look.
“It was such an honor and a blast to rock Bondi Seaside final week on the first ever Sydney World Pleasure!” Scherzinger wrote on Instagram.