Kimberly Wyatt on the songs that shaped her, from roller rinks to the school run

Kimberly Wyatt, the American dancer and singer best known as a member of the Pussycat Dolls, has shared some of the songs that have marked key moments in her life, from her teenage years in Missouri to her daily routine of getting her own children out of the house each morning.

Among the tracks she named is Eminem's Lose Yourself, which she now uses as motivational fuel for the task of getting her kids ready and out of the door, describing it as her personal anthem for that particular battle.

Looking further back, Wyatt traced her musical awakening to Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are), the 1998 hit by Pras Michel featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard and Mya, which she says was the first song she truly fell in love with. She associates it with the freedom of learning to drive and getting her first car, recalling driving with the windows down and singing along at full volume.

Her first single purchase came a little earlier, bought on cassette from a Best Buy in her hometown of Warrensburg, Missouri: the Beach Boys' Kokomo, from the soundtrack to the film Cocktail. She has said the song was inseparable from Friday nights spent at the local roller skating rink, where she waited each week for the DJ to play it.

Elsewhere in her reflections, Wyatt says she has "completely" moved on from Gangnam Style, the Psy hit that dominated charts and playlists more than a decade ago, and she points to one song in particular that reliably moves her to tears whenever she hears it.

Taken together, the selections sketch a playlist running from carefree teenage nights to the demands of parenthood, with Wyatt's own pop career - and her years in one of the best-selling girl groups of the 2000s - forming the backdrop throughout.