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``Rock Angelz,'' a New Line from the World's #1 Fashion Doll Brand, Puts the Bratz On CD With an Album of Rock-Pop Hits This Summer.


LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- "The Girls With A Passion For Fashion(TM)" are ready to rock. Cloe(TM), Sasha(TM), Jade(TM), Yasmin(TM) and Roxxi(TM) are the Bratz(TM) Rock Angelz(TM) -- characters in the Bratz line of lifestyle fashion dolls, a worldwide phenomenon -- whose debut self-titled album is set for release July 26, 2005, by Hip-O/UME. The album features new, original songs by some of the world's most successful writers and producers of upbeat, anthemic pop. "Rock Angelz" brings Universal Music, the world's leading music company, together with MGA Entertainment MGA Entertainment is a manufacturer of children's toys and entertainment products founded in 1997. Its products include the Bratz fashion doll line. External links
  • MGA Entertainment website
, a leader in consumer entertainment products for children of all ages. On August 1, a few days after the album's release, the new Bratz Rock Angelz line of fashion dolls will appear on retail shelves.

Among the 13 tracks on "Rock Angelz," under the supervision of Engine, a leading music special-products developer, is the album's first single, "So Good," one of two songs written by Andreas Carlsson and Jorgen Elofsson, whose credits include Britney Spears' "(You Drive Me) Crazy," *NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" and recordings by Backstreet backstreet
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 Boys, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials.  and Clay Aiken Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. . The single goes to Top 40 and Hot AC radio with a June 28th add date. Two other album tracks were written by Matthew Gerrard (Hilary Duff, Eden's Crush, Jessica Simpson, Raven-Symone, Nick Carter), who co-wrote the #1 hit "Breakaway" for Kelly Clarkson. "Rock Angelz" will also include a special bonus track, a Spanish version of "So Good." A CGI CGI
 in full Common Gateway Interface.

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 animated video of "So Good" will be released a week prior to album release date.

While "So Good" and other songs are performed by the Rock Angelz as a group, several tracks on the album are solo efforts, each matching the distinct personality of the character, such as "Rock The World" (Yasmin), "Lookin' Good" (Jade), "(Rock Angelz)Rock Out" (Roxxi), "You Think" (Cloe) and "Who I Am" (Sasha). But all of the songs embrace the philosophy of the Bratz(TM) brand: self-expression, staying true to one's self, having self-confidence, believing in girl empowerment and having a passion for living life.

Music will also accompany the dolls at retail, with a mini-disc/CD-ROM featuring each character's solo song plus an edit of "So Good" to be included with each doll sold. Other products set to be issued are videogames by THQ THQ Toy Headquarters
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 in October.

Bratz(TM) (aka "The Girls With A Passion For Fashion(TM)") have won more awards and received more press than any other fashion doll brand since their debut in 2001.
TRACK LISTING:
So Good
Change The World
I Don't Care
All About you
Who I Am
So What
You Think
It Could Be Yours
Lookin' Good
Rock The World
Stand Out
Nobody's Girl
Se Siente (Bonus Track)


About MGA Entertainment

Headquartered in Van Nuys, Calif., MGA Entertainment is a leader in consumer entertainment products for children of all ages. The Company creates and manufactures innovative lines of proprietary and licensed products, including toys and games, fashion dolls, consumer electronics, home decor, stationary and sporting goods. Bratz(TM), its proprietary fashion doll line, was introduced in June 2001, and has since become one of the world's premiere toy brands as well as girls' lifestyle brands. The BRATZ(TM) brand is also noted for having won Family Fun magazine's Toy of the Year Award four years in a row and was recently awarded LIMA's (Licensing Industry) top prize for the Overall Best License of the Year. Please visit: www.mgae.com, www.bratzpack.com.

About Engine Brands (USA) Inc.

Engine Brands (USA) Inc., based in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, is a leading concept developer, creating unique music and video products for world-class brands and characters. Engine is responsible for A&R, executive production and project management of the Bratz Rock Angelz CD concept. (www.engine.se)

About Universal Music Enterprises Universal Music Enterprises is the catalogue division of Universal Music Group. It includes Hip-O Records, Universal Chronicles and UM3 (which is the international label for UME).  (UME U·me  

A river, about 459 km (285 mi) long, of northern Sweden flowing southeast into the Gulf of Bothnia.
)

Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, a new media and technologies division.

Universal Music Group consists of record labels Decca Record Company, Deutsche Grammophon, DreamWorks Records, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Here is a list of artists signed to The Island Def Jam Music Group. 0-9
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  • Annie (Island/IDJMG)
 Music Group, Lost Highway Records, MCA MCA
 in full Music Corporation of America

Entertainment conglomerate. It was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Jules Stein as a talent agency. In the 1960s it bought Decca Records and Universal Pictures, and today it produces films, music, and television shows.
 Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor, Universal Music Latino, Universal Motown Records Group and Verve Music Group, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications company.
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