Hello Brit & Alex, how might we describe you to our mum (before we brought you home for tea)?

Brit: We're American twins, we're 23 years old. We're singers coming out with our very first single, it's like urban pop.
Alex: We're very sweet girls. We're going to be a very positive influence on our generation!
Brit: Hopefully we won't turn into a train wreck...

Yes, our mum hates those. It says in your biography that you're stopped on the street on a daily basis. Is this just people asking for directions?

Brit: Yes! No, I wouldn't say it's a daily basis, but definitely from the Sheer Blonde commercial. It's weird because it's been so long but people still come up and go: "Are you ready, are you ready." They remember the jingles.

Do they all do it as if they think they're the first people to ever sing it to you?

Brit: Kind of, but they're very happy to be able to sing it to us. We love it though, it's just crazy to us that they remember.

Are you doing this for fame, love, sex or money?

Brit: Fame and money. Ha ha. No, it's definitely about the music for us, I know that sounds totally clichéd but if it was about the fame and the money we would've put out the ad jingle, because we had made it into a song. There was a real demand for it. The John Frieda company had thousands of emails about it asking, "Where can I get the single?" "Who are these girls?"
We had a bunch of labels coming to us but we were like, no. The modelling was a fluke, we fell into it. But it was always about music for us and doing the type of stuff that we love.

You got famous just for having hair. Is fame too easy, nowadays?

Brit: Kind of, yeah. I feel like all the mystery has gone with all the reality shows. We were asked to do those kind of shows and we were like, no. Because the people we look up to and idolise like Prince and Michael and Janet Jackson would never have done it. And I know that it's a different time but I think there's a certain amount of mystique that should always be kept. I think that's what's lacking right now.

Your single has, effectively, been six years in the making. That's quite a long time, did you never think of chucking it in and going back to the hair?

Brit: I always say everything happens for a reason. It was a bit of a gradual thing. It was six years but we finished school in that time and we were modelling at the same time, so we were not able to put everything into it. Once we finished high school we were trying to find our direction and we were toying with the idea of having people send us tracks. And that just brought a whole load of people thinking that they knew who we were, sending us very sugary tracks that weren't really us. It was an uphill battle to get our sound the way we thought was right for us. It only started moving for us when we went down to Atlanta to work with Dallas Austin.
But I think for anything that's good it takes a while. I heard that it took Whitney Houston five years to come out.

Whitney's done what? Oh, we see what you mean. There are probably enough singers in the world, why do we need you?

Brit: I feel that, on the urban side of things there are great female singers like Rihanna and Ciara, Beyonce... But for the crossover pop stuff I feel that there's a real void. If I ask my friends they say that there's no one that they really want to go see at a show, who'll just entertain them. And that's what Britney Spears was great at, she put on an amazing show, she was a great performer, you'd go and see her because you knew you were gonna have a great time. And that's the kind of void we would like to fill.

Before you go, can we just ask how you got that frog to sing at the start of 'Let It Go'?

Brit: Ha ha ha! Everybody thinks that there's a frog, but it's a voice saying "let it go, let it go". But we're happy to be known as the frog girls!

Find out more about the frog girls Brit & Alex at www.britandalex.com