There's a new G.R.L. in town and she's bit of a wild card. Paula Van Oppen of girl band G.R.L. says she enjoyed being arrested on the set of the group's new music video "Ugly Heart."
Luckily, it was all for the camera.
"It's terrible to say, but it's the best way to get arrested right? On set, rather than in life," she said adding "everybody wants to be like a little bad and get arrested but not like real arrested, so it was a nice fake arrested fantasy."
After having to wear outrageous clothes and dancing on tables for the video, the girls weren't fazed by anything. Not even when Van Oppen took a face plunge onto a stage at a presentation.
"I was looking out smiling at people and then it's like all fours," she explained, "Emmalyn was the only one who turned around. Lauren walked passed me, kept going."......
Although the group was put together by choreographer Robin Antin - the brain behind the formation of Pussycat Dolls - the girls say there are not many similarities between the two.
"Only related in the way that she put both groups together but we're very different , we have different music, we were five very different girls and then we all sing where they have like one lead singer. Than you know back ups and stuff like that and primarily dancers that dance to the group as well and it's just like completely different energy altogether," said Natasha Slayton.
Simone Battle admitted they are influenced by the band only to a certain extent.
"We're definitely influenced by the Pussycat Dolls in just the way we're influenced by Destiny's Child and TLC. We're inspired by them because they're all fierce dancers and that's all I wanted to add."
Most of them had met each other on various music video sets in their back-up dancer days or met through friends. The one exception was Canadian member Emmalyn Estrada, whom they discovered on YouTube.
The group has already seen success after featuring on Pitbull's 'Wild Wild Love" track. Van Oppen had known him from before, when she was his backup dancer. The six shot the video together at the Playboy Mansion and the girls were blown away by Pitbull's attitude.
"He's so fun to work with. He's really. He's a genuine person. We were just, I was surprised when I met him to be like, you know he walks into the room and he just commands everything, the room. He'll remember your name, he's a gentleman, he's so much fun to work with," said Emmalyn Estrada.
"We did dance until like three in the morning. Yeah we got some dance moves from him. His reggaeton. Some salsa. He can dance."
Single "Ugly Heart" is out now.
