SexBomb Girls, you will always be famous

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Admit it. Before you got hooked on K-pop and P-pop girl groups—their girl crush concepts and campy looks that have you creating Pinterest boards for outfit inspirations—the Sexbomb Girls shaped your childhood in the early 00s.

From karaoke nights to your relatives forcing you to dance in front of them in exchange for money, the Sexbomb Girls’ impact is recognizable everywhere you go. A song about loving someone, and you can’t contain it yourself? They have it, and it’s called “Di Ko Na Mapipigilan.” A song that you can use for dance battles with your childhood friends out on the street? That’s “The Spageti Song.”  They have curated songs for every occasion that you could think of, and arguably, that’s what makes them a household name in the country’s music scene.

Tracing Back to the Late 90s

Initially assembled in 1999 as a four-piece dance group of backup dancers, Rochelle Pangilinan, Che-che Tolentino, Debra Ignacio, and Janine Reyes started under the name ‘Chicken Sandwich Dancers.’ This quartet entertained fans for the long-time noontime running show “Eat Bulaga,” but their then-manager Joy Cancio did not expect their rise to fame.

Cancio originally formed the group under her agency Focus Entertainment to provide a livelihood for the talents she employed. Fame may be one of Cancio’s goals for the girls, but it wasn’t the main priority as they were doing gigs left and right to put food on the table.

“For me lang, [the goal was to] have a job. At the same time, to have a good future for my kids. They are my inspiration and that’s why I have to work hard,” says Cancio in a CNN Philippines Life interview back in 2021. “I never thought about becoming an international artist. Parang alam ko mahirap ‘yun at hindi yata mangyayari.”

Because of their gig in Eat Bulaga, the trajectory of their careers changed forever. Main host Joey de Leon called them the “Sexbomb Girls” after getting them to appear on stage as background dancers of the show’s game segments and the rest is history.

Unang Putok…to Fame!

Long after being regular dancers on Eat Bulaga, they formally debuted as a girl group in 2002 with 26 members compared to having only four during 1999. Their first album ‘Unang Putok’ which includes their hit-single ‘Bakit Papa?’ was released in the same year sometime around June. It received quadruple platinum (4x) from the Philippine Association of the Record Industry shortly after its release, having sold 40,000 units nationwide. Their second album ‘Round 2’ includes ‘The Spageti Song’ which received quintuple platinum (5x) certification, which paved the way for ‘Bomb Thr3at’ achieving a double-platinum and both ‘Best of the Sexbomb Girls’ and ‘Sexbomb’s Sexiest hits:3’ platinum.

Aside from being successful recording artists with awards under their name, the SexBomb Girls also starred in their own TV show, ‘ Daisy Siete,’ which premiered after Eat Bulaga. The show’s story is about teens, young girls, and their sisterhood and ran for seven long years under GMA Network. According to AGB Nielsen, during its run, it had an average of 22% TV rating.

SexBomb Girls, You Will Always Be Famous!

In a Twitter post that trended in 2021, it was said that SexBomb’s sales records were the biggest during their peak in the early 2000s and only were broken when 2nd generation K-pop girl groups 2NE1 and SNSD came onto the scene in 2010. While the claim has yet to be proven, it isn’t stretch to believe that the SexBomb Girls are one of the highest-selling girl groups in the country because of their influence in Filipino Pop Culture that we still carry on in the present time.

Despite the general public fawning over third and fourth-generation K-Pop groups and upcoming P-Pop groups, we cannot deny the legacy that the SexBomb girls left in the industry. The OG members may have faded from the mainstream, but they can easily trend on social media platforms in just one snap.

Back in 2021, the OG members recorded themselves dancing to their first hit single ‘Di Ko Na Mapipigilan’ which drew attention to the millennials and Gen Zs. Rochelle Pangilinan’s video gathered 5.2 million views and 372k likes, followed by Jopay Paguia with 352k likes and Aira Bermudez with 247k likes.

And in a recent Netflix advertisement, the SexBomb Girls reunited to announce that the streaming site lowered the price for their Basic Plan from PHP349 to PHP 249. The group reworked their 2003 hit ‘The Spageti Song’ while wearing outfits that resemble Netflix Original shows, including Wednesday, Squid Game, Bridgerton, Stranger Things, and Emily in Paris. The video currently has 1.6 million views on Twitter and trended on other social media platforms, gaining positive reactions from the internet.“Gen Zs, ito yung 1st Gen namin noon *heart-eyed emojis*,” one user tweeted with 870 likes, and the official Netflix Philippines account replied stating, “the ogs!!!”

Many years may have passed since their peak, but you cannot deny that their legacy withstood throughout time. They have already cemented their name in Filipino pop culture and will be famous for years.

(P.S. can we have all seasons of Daisy Siete on Netflix PH? Thanks.)

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