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"Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" is a song performed by American girl group The Pussycat Dolls for their second studio album ''Doll Domination'' (2008). It was released on February 23, 2009, by Interscope Records as the fourth single from the record. After watching ''Slumdog Millionaire'' record executives Jimmy Iovine and Ron Fair wanted to turn "Jai Ho" into a "pop record without deviating from the original melody" and asked Scherzinger to do her own interpretation of the song. The song was credited as "''A.R. Rahman and The Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger''" which the eventual split of the group. Upon its release, the song received generally positive reviews from music critics, applauding it as a great adaption. "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" was commercially successful. On the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100, the song debuted at number 100. The following week it peaked at number 15, experiencing one of the largest upward movements on the chart. Internationally, the song charted strongly, topping the charts in countries including in Australia, Finland, Israel and Ireland, as well as peaking within the top ten of the charts in countries such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The music video was shot in Vienna, Austria at a Tramway Museum, recreating the last scene from the movie ''Slumdog Millionaire''. In the United Kingdom, the English-language version of the song was sung by various voice actors of British children's shows during the 2009 Children in Need Promotional dance video. It was also sung in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley, which topped the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in late-2009. The Pussycat dolls has performed "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" during several live performances, including the ''Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'', and an episode of ''One Life to Live''. ==Background and development== At the top of 2009, ''Billboard'' magazine stated that ''Doll Domination'' failed to make a commercial impact on the ''Billboard'' 200, unlike their previous effort, ''PCD'' which sold 3 million copies in the United States. Subsequently, Scherzinger confirmed that the current album would be re-released with new songs. In the interview she said: "it's a new life, a new push for ''Doll Domination''. In this industry these days, that's what we're trying to do, always put new music out there and get people to pay attention. So this is a way for people to get new songs of ours and for people who haven't picked up the album so far to get another spin of our music." After watching ''Slumdog Millionaire'' record executives Ron Fair and Jimmy Iovine wanted to turn "Jai Ho" into a "pop record without deviating from the original melody".〔 Fair and Iovine were successful from getting a green-light from Rahman, they asked Scherzinger, the leader singer of the Pussycat Dolls, to write an interpretation of the song. Scherzinger was hesitant at first, stating in an interview that: "() I was scared to death to touch it () afraid for people to hear it before I even wrote it". Scherzinger put her "heart into writing the lyrics and put in themes from the film ''Slumdog Millionaire''. Love and destiny were elements from the movie that she put into the track". She stated that she "prayed every night to do this right". Fair and Iovine additionally hired Brick & Lace, The Writing Camp and Ester Dean to write their own interpretation of the song.〔 E. Kidd Bogart, a member of The Writing Camp, stated that: "They (and Iovine ) wanted to get a bunch of different versions to see who could nail a version for the Pussycat Dolls." Once all interpretations were complete, "they (and Iovine ) took parts of The Writing Camp version, parts of Ester Dean's version, and parts of another version, and they put them together, and then Nicole () and Ron () filled in the blanks that they thought were missing". Bogart additionally stated that it was "a very unique and awkward way of writing a song". Scherzinger, Fair, Dean, Bogart, Erika Nuri, David Quiñones, Candace Thorbourne, Nailah Thorbourne and Nyanda Thorbourne are credited for writing the track, while its production was handled by Fair and Scherzinger. The song was recorded in London, while Scherzinger and Rahman corresponded via webcam. Scherzinger's version replaces the original tune's Hindi words with English lyrics, including the chorus, "You are the reason that I breathe/ You are the reason that I still believe/ You are my destiny/ Jai ho." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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