“Our sensuality has always come from a place of strength,” says Scherzinger. “But times have changed so much, you know, now women in their 30s and 40s are single and owning it. We’re setting a new standard for what it means to be a woman at any age. You don’t need to be married! Club Song is literally about leaving your man at home when you go to the club.”
The three women shimmy their bejewelled hands in the air as they demonstrate sashaying into a club, while Roberts says: “You know, I’m in my 40s, I’m not married and I don’t have kids, and sometimes I think, am I OK with that? Because in the back of your mind there’s this structure you’re supposed to have. But realising I could choose to live this way instead has been quite liberating”.
I ask them if they’ve read the Vogue article headlined “Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?” which went viral earlier this year. They look puzzled. “If you do have a husband you can still go to the club!” says Wyatt. “In fact Max would be the first person to say: ‘I’ll watch the kids – you go to the club!’”
Wyatt has three young children with her British husband Max Rogers, a model, whom she met in 2010. Scherzinger, who is based in New York to be close to Broadway, says Wyatt lives “round the corner from my fiance” – Scottish rugby union player Thom Evans, whom she met in 2019 following her breakup with F1 champion Lewis Hamilton.
Roberts affectionately calls Wyatt the group’s “mama bear”, while Scherzinger describes herself as a “serious perfectionist”. Roberts, both Wyatt and Scherzinger agree, “brings a young, goofy energy that we have always found very healing”.
All three women were in their early 20s at the height of their fame. “When I look back at those pictures I just think, we were babies, I can barely believe it’s me,” marvels Roberts. By the time the group disbanded in 2010 following the moderate success of their second album Doll Domination and rumoured tensions over plans by Scherzinger to go solo, Roberts and Wyatt were just 28; Scherzinger 31.