The best girl group of our generation is...the Cheetah Girls? Of course, without the Spice Girls' world domination and Destiny's Child's global success, they might not exist, but the fictional foursome in Disney Channel's first musical original movie paved the way to chart-topping success . The most influential artists of the early 2000s, real and fictional. Galleria, Dorinda, Aqua and Dorinda (Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams and Sabrina Bryan) took the "girl power" motto of their girl group predecessors to the Disney Channel generation and actually made a hit song out of it.
The girls sang feminine R&B pop songs such as "Cinderella," which ranks among the best girl group hits. Their choreography proves they can dance with the best, and their gripping family story gives the film its heart. The film's success spawned two sequels, gave the Cheetah Girls some popular global style ("Amigas Cheetahs" is their best song, don't @ me), and made the film a hit as Byron, Brian and William It becomes believable as Si transitions from character to actual touring artist.
cheetah girls Premiering 20 years ago on August 15, 2003, now is the perfect time to celebrate their legacy and revisit the original film. Twenty years later, the film is surprisingly timeless, and the songs have lost none of their luster. In celebration of the film's 20th anniversary, here are 12 things I've noticed while rewatching The Cheetah Girls for the umpteenth time (that I've lost track of).
1. Whitney Houston serves as executive producer
It's very common to ignore the opening credits of a movie during the first (and second and third) viewing, which is why many fans don't know that one of the executive producers of The Cheetah Girls is none other than the legendary Whitney Houston, she works with the Walt Disney Studios through her company BrownHouse Productions. The late singer didn't appear on screen, but she was certainly a huge inspiration to girls.
2. Aqua is very smart
Galeria said the Cheetah Girls will likely be the first freshmen to win the Manhattan Magnet Talent Show, and then Aqua will head to New York University to take a trigonometry class well above the freshman level. Who knew she had such big brain power?
3. Galleria says celebrities don’t bring hot sauce
In preparation for a meeting with super-producer Jakel Johnson, Galeria told Aqua "stars don't carry hot sauce in their bags" and asked her to act more professionally. But in 2016, Beyoncé proved her wrong when she famously uttered eight words in her seminal hit "Formation": "I've got hot sauce in my bag, so good." If Beyoncé If you say allowed, then allow it.
4. OG Furry takes the world by storm
Jackel Johnson wants the Cheetah Girls to become Global Getdown, an internationally inspired girl group who sing in animal masks. Sounds like furry to us.
5. The Def Duck record should be an icon
The record label in the film is called Def Duck Records, modeled after the real-life Def Jam Records, but their mascot is a duck. They wanted to turn the Cheetah Girls into an animal singing group, probably just interested because they already called themselves "cheetahs." The girls should have seen Global Getdown coming, as they are apparently only interested in musical acts involving animals.
6. "All around the world" is a low-key pop music
Although Global Getdown looked like a disaster, the label's song "All around the World" wasn't as bad as Galleria made it out to be. Try to get that hook out of your mind.
7. Where does Aqua live?
At the beginning of the film, Aqua, who is from Texas, says that she is okay with her father living in New York and not underneath it, i.e. on the subway. But where does she live? Her family is never shown on screen and she is only mentioned as her father, which means she can live out her Eloise fantasies in a hotel known to all viewers.
8. Is “Kaflama” a real word?
Galleria describes one of her meetings with Jackel as "drama and kaframa," and I can't believe I've ignored that word all these years. As one might suspect, "Kaflama" is not a real word, but Urban Dictionary has a "caflama" which apparently means "gibberish, nonsense, exaggeration, over-embellishing and general excess" ". No wonder Disney chose "kaflama."
9. Galleria’s “Boo” declares himself a “real artist”
Galleria's crush, Derek, declared himself an artist and even showed up to a talent show practice with a typical acoustic guitar, where he overheard Galleria singing the intro to "The Cheetah Sisters" and told her She's also "a real artist." Derek, the white boy, bar-raped at the talent show, but couldn't match Galleria's calligraphy. Even in Disney Channel's female empowerment movies, men do more with less.
10. Toto is the real protagonist
Arguably the Cheetah Girls' first known fan, Galleria's dog Toto is cuter than any human on screen and the cherry on top of their impressive talent pool. But he also quietly drives the entire movie. who fell into a construction pit and single-handedly caused a massive traffic jam that cut off power and gas throughout Manhattan, disrupting the talent show, attracting national television coverage, reuniting the Cheetah Girls and giving them a platform to make television for the first time Debut? That's right, Toto. The girls do have him to thank for their newfound fame.
11. 14th Street is not Midtown Manhattan
As all of New York buzzed around Toto (as they should), reporters commented that he had shut down Midtown Manhattan before Aqua got off the subway at 14th Street. Unless you think anything above Canal Street has anything to do with New York, 14th Street is not Midtown.
12. How come the news has time to broadcast Cheetah Girls’ performance?
News is all over TotoGate (rightfully so), but most TV news shows are limited to half-hours or an hour sporadically throughout the day, with time having to be allocated to boring stuff like actual breaking news, weather reports, and sports. Somehow, Galeria and Derek managed to keep the reporters' cameras trained on them, and she slowly reunited the Cheetah Girls one-by-one, dressed in her iconic color-coordinated Cheetah tracksuits, for a prime-time show. An epic debut. If something like this happened in real life, maybe more people would watch the news.
