MTV: What was it like the day the camera went off and you realized you were together in the real world?Maile: I got sad.
Ana Maria: It was a little sad.
Rosanna: I went through "Popstar" withdrawal.
Ana Maria: It was very therapeutic for me. It was [also] a false sense of freedom because you're like, "Oh, you're done with the show. Now you can get out there and do whatever you want." No, you're done with the show and you're on the road. The night we were revealed, we were out on the road.
MTV: If you had to point to one thing that people who watched you on "Popstars" didn't get to learn or know about you, what do you think it was?
Rosanna: People meet me in real life and they're like, "You're really goofy." On the show I guess they posed these questions and they'd be like, "How do you like living with the girls?"Ana Maria: Are you still sick?
Rosanna: Are you still sick? How do you feel about getting laryngitis? So they didn't get a sense of me doing splits and the running man and stuff like that to songs that we perform.
Ana Maria: Most of us, I have to say this, are really goofy girls. We have a great sense of humor, and I think that's what keeps us going and they didn't really show that in the show, did they?
Rosanna: No.
Nicole: No.
Rosanna: It was a more serious documentary. We have a tape of the outtakes.
Ana Maria: I remember one talk we had with [the show's producers] and they were like, "The WB's having a real hard time finding drama [on] you girls, what's happening with the drama?" We were like, "We get along. What's the deal here?"
Maile: I didn't cry a lot, because I think I was crying other times rather than on camera. My emotional side wasn't showing too much on the show.
Rosanna: She's sensitive, though. Can you tell by that comment?
Maile: It's a joke, it's a joke. [RealVideo]
MTV: How did being on camera as you recorded your first album affect what people hear on the album? Did it help, did it hurt?
Ana Maria: When we were starting to record it was a new experience, because we hadn't really formed our sound. You really, really have to put yourself in another world when you're recording. I know I do, and I can't have distractions. I can't have things like that, so I was not feeling that. I had to ask them to leave a couple times.
Nicole: I know it's more comfortable for me to sing in front of the camera instead of speak most of the time. I felt very comfortable.
MTV: Did it help you go all-out into performance mode because you knew someone was watching you?
Nicole: I felt like that when I was in the studio.
Ivette: It's also a reality show, so I know I never wanted to pretend and perform something that wasn't real. If I wasn't feeling it, I wasn't going to pretend like I was, because millions of people were going to be watching. If I was going to mess up, everybody was going to know and believe me, they did.
