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phatmag: Did you guys actually have anybody that inspired you to achieve your goals?
Charisse: It's starts at home with parents, they were hard workers and hard strivers so that was like inbred in you.
phatmag: Did anybody in the music industry inspire you?
Cassandra: Basically soul train was inspiring, that's all I had really to look at and see, I mean you can hear the artist on the radio but at that time when we were growing up it wasn't video play like now. Video is a major force right now for any record sales in the music industry. But when we were growing up all we had was Saturday morning Soul Train, you know and that's when you got to see the great's like, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Pattie Labell, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, and you looked at them and said I can do that and that was the closest thing to knowing it can happen.
phatmag: Well talking about videos, what do you think of music videos now a days?
Charisse: Boobies and Booties.. And I know you're a man so don't have much of a problem with thatŠ.. But it's getting very futuristic now.
Charisse: But they know that booty shaking and titty shaking is making them number one, you know, they see the video and they wanna reorder it to see it again.
Cassandra: But nine times out of ten it's not the artist themselves, you know what I mean. But I love videos like Busta Rhymes, Missi Elliot, R Kelly. They don't just get treatment but they create it.
phatmag: It's been three years since your last album, now apart from recording, what have you ladies been up to?
Charisse: Actually It's been two years. We were on different labels each time around, so it was just a matter of getting on the same page with the new workers here at Atlantic and making sure that everybody else was on the same page we're on. Before moving forward you have to make sure you're happy legally and professionally.
phatmag:Why did you change labels?
Charisse: It was the same label but we were under different subsidiaries of Atlantic.
phatmag:Now Time After Time was a big hit for you guys, were you tempted to do another big cover this time round?
Charisse: We actually did do one, it's not here in the states but it's over there with you, "Just Us", it's the last track on the album, it's by the Weather Girls, you probably don't have it on your promo CD.
Cassandra: We shipped it out for sale with our remake on there, it's wonderful. We gave it to folks who will appreciate it, we know that you guys will appreciate it. Americans are a little funny, you know.
