Welcome to the Dollhouse
by Danity Kane (featuring Puff Daddy)

Album: Welcome to the Dollhouse (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • This 46-second cut introduces Danity Kane's second album, Welcome to the Dollhouse. The record was released by Bad Boy Records and features the label boss Puff Daddy.
  • The song was produced by Amadeus, who was a member of Bad Boy Records production team, The Hitmen. He recalled the story of the production to Billboard:

    "I got a call from Harve Pierre and Conrad, the head of A&R at Bad Boy Records at the time. They needed an intro for the album. The album was done and they gave me the song title 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' and I just kind of thought how can I recreate a dollhouse. So I thought about the crank on the side of a jack-in-the-box.

    I went and searched that sound the crank makes online and I sampled that sound. When you think of dolls houses and scary movies that always have that bell sound, that little twinkle bell sound, I kind of created a melody. I originally put a beat behind it but they wanted it to change the tempo as time goes on to become faster.

    When Puff and Harve heard it, they loved it but they scratched it making it faster in pace and they removed the drums and actually just kept the wind up and the bells. Puff laid his vocal on top of it introducing the group and the album and that was really it."
  • Welcome to the Dollhouse debuted on top of the US Billboard 200, Danity Kane's second consecutive #1 album. They became the first female group to have both their debut and second albums enter the main charts at the summit.

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