Is the Chipettes a nod to all the great girl groups like Destiny’s Child?
Ross Bagdasarian Jr: You want The Chipettes to be tremendous performers that not only Ian (David Cross) is going to say is the best animal group he has ever found and can destroy the Chipmunks who kind of put him in the ground because he was so miserable to them the first time around. So they had to move great and sing great and we were lucky enough to find a great choreographer who had his female dancers do all the moves and film them and then the animators watched the film of all those girls and then animated them. How do you select the songs? Janice Karman: There are certain songs that fit the Chipmunk and Chipette voices and certain ones that don’t so you always take that in consideration and we want to use songs that we really like. Ross Bagdasarian Jr: We listen to hundreds of songs. The Chipmunks have been around for over fifty years so you want something in the movies to last for quite some while. We won’t pick a song that is very hot for today but in five or ten years no one i
