The Pin Up Girls are a

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and

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, founded by

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native Vixen Romeo in 2005, which began as a burlesque-style performance group based in

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. Performing at Hollywood's most notorious venues such as

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and Roxy the girls quickly gained local attention with their girl-on-girl themed,

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and hip hop routines. Between 2006-2008 The Pin Up Girls started to become poster girls for the lesbian scene with performances for

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, a guest appearance on LOGO network's reality series ''

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'', a web series segment on

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, a performance for the

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community hosted by

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, and performances in

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's Sensuous Woman Show. In 2008 The Pin Up Girls first recorded single "There She Goes...She's Real Fly" was picked up to be played on

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's hit lesbian series ''

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''. In 2009 The Pin Up Girls music video, "There She Goes...She's Real Fly" premiered on

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(an

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network), on New Now Next Pop Lab. The Pin Up Girls' "Girl Candy," filmed in N.Y. and L.A., was released in 2011. The Pin Up Girls' "Pretty Things", featuring actress

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, was filmed in L.A. by Director Joe LaRue in 2012 and was released in June 2012.

History

2005-current: Beginnings as a dance troupe The Pin Up Girls' director, Romeo, began her dance career in New York at the age of three and became a sought after dance instructor by the age of seventeen. In 2006, upon moving to LA, The Pin Up Girls were originally developed to be a variety show which combined burlesque, ballet, hip hop and belly dance. At the time the group did cover songs of classics such as "Fever" and "Criminal." In 2007, when the group was asked to send in original music to Showtimes' hit series ''The LWord'', group leader Julia Romeo recorded "There She Goes...She's Real Fly." The hip hop lyrics of "There She Goes She's Real Fly", were written by Romeo just after high school and the soulful hook was an impromptu first-draft recording. Co Director Top DeWilde and director Vixen Romeo came up with the song's musical hook together and the song first aired on season 5 episode 7 (later airing on Logo Network, MTV hive, VH1 and Spike). In its third year running fire tribal, hip hop, live zills & doumbek playing was added to the show. Also many other songs, some of which include Girl Candy, Boushie B*tch and Pretty Things were released. The Pin Up Girls have published three music videos.

Discography

Singles

* "There She Goes...She's Real Fly" (2009) * "Boushie B*tch" (2009) * "Pin Me Up" (2010) * "Girl Candy" (2011) * "Pretty Things" (2012)

Other appearances

* ''

'' Music in Season 5 Episode 7 (2008) * AfterEllen.com (2008) * New Now Next Pop Lab (2009) * MtvMusic (2009)

References

External links

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