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2000 & ndash ; 2001 girls@play
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girls@play

girls@play were a british five-piece girl group , consisting of vicky dowdall , lisa-jay white , rita simons , lynsey shaw and shelley nash .
they were signed to gsm records and produced by stock & aitken -lrb- mike stock and matt aitken -rrb- .
each member of the band had a different character that they played in their music videos .
dowdall played a cowgirl , white an executive , simons a mechanic , shaw a new york city traffic cop and nash a pilot .
this gimmick led to girls@play being described as the female version of village people .
