"Baby Doll" is the third single released by American girl group,

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. It was performed for the first time by Girlicious on television, when they were on ''

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'', on August 6, 2008. This was the last single of Girlicious having four girls in the band. After

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's departure,

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started performing her verses.

Release

A 1:30 preview of "Baby Doll" premiered online on August 1, 2008. It was confirmed by Natalie Mejia that the song was the group's third single. The single was released on

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, in November. It was also stated by Tiffanie that "Baby Doll" will hit the US in the beginning of the 2009. However the music video was already available on

in the US since 2008. It first entered the

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at #75 due to digital downloads during the week the album was released. It re-entered the chart and peaked at #55 after approximately 4 months due to its single release.

Music video

According to

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' official

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page, Girlicious would be going to the United States to shoot a music video for "Baby Doll".

confirmed on her MySpace blog that they would be shooting the video on October 6, 2008. The music video premiered on the show ''OnSet'', at the popular Canadian music station

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, which took viewers behind the scenes on the set of "Baby Doll". It was directed by Matt McDermitt. The video starts off with the girls in metallic mini dresses and fur, singing in a green

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with hydraulics. They move on to singing in separate scenes of them dancing outside the Cadillac, with the hood up. The Girlicious group then goes onto the "party scene" performing with male back-up dancers and ends with the girls having pink money falling from above. The video was shot in Los Angeles, at the Quixtoe Studios and was overseen by

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and Mikey Minden, which was released on iTunes on November 20, 2008. "Baby Doll" also reached number four on Canada's 'MuchMusic' Countdown.

Charts

References

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