"When I Grow Up" is a dance-pop song written by American songwriters Rodney Jerkins, Theron Thomas and Timothy Thomas, and produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins for the Pussycat Dolls' sophomore studio album Doll Domination. Released as the album's lead single on May 27, 2008, the song has peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, giving the group their fifth top ten single on the chart. The music video won the award for "Best Dancing in a Video" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, and was nominated for an additional five awards, including "Video of the Year". "When I Grow Up" was recently covered by Pop Punk band Mayday Parade, and is going to be released on Fearless Records's upcoming compilation album "Punk Goes Pop 2". "When I Grow Up" is going to be one of the songs in Dance Dance Revolution 2009,[1] as a small part of the video was shown in Konami 2009 Dance Dance Revolution presentation.