Songfacts®:

• Explicit words have been beeped out of songs before, but this is the only one we know of that makes the beeps the focal point of the song. The song is a collaboration between The Pussycat Dolls and will.i.am, with will spitting lines in the chorus like:
  
  You got a real big heart, but I'm lookin' at your [BEEP]
  You got real big brains, but I'm lookin' at your [BEEP]
  
  Will, who wrote the song with Kara DioGuardi before she became a judge on American Idol, has never said what word is being beeped out - it's up to you, the listener, to decide.
• The song was released in 2005, when Will.i.am was also busy cranking out hits with his group The Black Eyed Peas. He wrote a lot of goofy lyrics for their female vocalist, Fergie, to sing, so it wasn't a stretch for him to write something similar for The Pussycat Dolls. Before writing "Beep," Black Eyed Peas had a big hit with "My Humps," where he famously asks Fergie, "What you gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?"
  
  In both "Beep" and "My Humps," the girls are nonplussed by Will's leering. They're used to it and happy to be firmly in control of his hormones. Will.i.am could pull this off because he never came off at threatening - always playful and fun on songs like this.
• This song will sound vaguely familiar to classic rock fans became it samples "Evil Woman," a 1975 hit for Electric Light Orchestra. That's where that little string section that opens the song comes from.
  
  Because of the sample, Jeff Lynne, who led Electric Light Orchestra and wrote "Evil Woman," is credited as a writer on "Beep."
• The Pussycat Dolls were quite the sensation in 2006 after releasing their debut album, PCD, and embarking on a world tour. The first single from the album was "Don't Cha," a big hit in the summer of 2005. "Stickwitu" came next, then "Beep," which was a hit in the spring of 2006. That year, the group made the cover of Esquire and Blender, and made lots of TV appearances. Peak PCD was probably September 2006 when another song from the album, "Buttons" (featuring Snoop Dogg), gave them yet another hit. They released another album in 2008, but fell apart soon after. Lead singer Nicole Scherzinger didn't make it big as a solo artist but ended up being a really good panelist on shows like The Masked Singer and won a Tony Award in 2025 for playing Norma Desmond in the Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard.
• The Pussycat Dolls were a dance troupe with rotating cast of members from 1995 until 2003, when they picked out a new lineup from auditions and became a singing group. Dance was still a big part of their act, though, which you can see in the music video.