01x03 - Big mistake

[bunniefuu]

Hi.

Okay, guys,

this is gonna be quick.

This isn't a discussion.

I'm extremely disappointed in you guys,

not only for your actions,

but the lack of accountability after.

It's very clear

that we need a shift in mindset.

I've worked with trainees

for a long time now,

but this is the first time

something like this happened.

And I'm personally very disappointed.

We've been through this

and reviewed it so many times.

It's a big setback for us.

Okay? All right, thank you.

Oh, we ain't flexin', babe

We do what we do ♪

Love me once

I know you'll love me twice ♪

Love me once

It's time to roll the dice ♪

Time goes by ♪

Take me to the end.

Time ♪

We'll do it together.

One, two, three, four.

- Time goes by ♪

- Time ♪

Smile it.

Time ♪

Yes. Three, four.

Time goes by and I can't ♪

- Same thing with "and."

- And ♪

So when you smile all that out,

that "time" is more intense, that "and I."

Time goes by and I can't ♪

-Hmm. Okay.

-Know what I'm saying? Two, three, four.

Time goes by

And I can't control my mind, yeah ♪

Ooh, yeah ♪

Oh, that was weak.

Ooh, yeah ♪

Push that.

Ooh Ooh ♪

-Oof!

-Aah.

You're cool.

Ooh, yeah ♪

Now listen, you're overthinking.

Ugh!

I don't feel like

I'm the strongest singer, or just like

I'm very kind of insecure

about my singing.

But Adéla and Sophia,

they're amazing vocalists,

and they've definitely helped me

with my own singing.

Iliya, she is such a good singer.

I think she has

the most natural, amazing voice.

I left the taste in your mouth

Can she taste me now, I'm bitter ♪

This month, we're working hard

on the vocal lessons.

So, what you doing tonight? ♪

So, what you doing tonight? ♪

So, what you doing tonight ♪

There will always be work to do.

Beyoncé took vocal lessons,

which means the rest of us

will be taking vocal lessons

till the day we die.

I knew that we'd become

One right away ♪

Sophia is an amazing vocalist.

And what made Sophia,

who was already super good, amazing

is that Sophia,

every month she chooses songs

that, in order to sing it,

she has to get better as a singer.

and I ♪

We're beautiful

Like diamonds in the sky ♪

-Okay. Was that right?

-My pitch is still a bit

- Where?

- In the first part.

- And also the chorus.

- Which part on the chorus?

Uh

Tonight ♪

Yes.

Tonight ♪

Tonight ♪

Tonight ♪

Shine bright ♪

Beautiful.

Tonight ♪

A little under.

You and I ♪

There you go. Good.

We're beautiful

Like diamonds in the sky ♪

Eye to eye ♪

- Lexie!

- Hello.

Dancing is my specialty.

And coming into this program,

I never had

any experience with vocal training,

so it was so new to me,

and I was a bit lost.

Start at the verse. Say

Do that, do that

Do that all night long ♪

Do it like that and I'll repay it ♪

It swings.

afraid, just like that, come my way ♪

That's my sh*t, that's my wave

Do it like that ♪

So much bett Now we're in the world.

I've always been singing,

like, just for fun at home,

but never learned anything

about technique,

so vocals have been my

weakness.

I'm also not dancing

because of my hip injury.

Okay. I can tell

I'm diagnosing our problem right now.

Staccato and bounce still go together.

- Uh-huh. Okay. So both.

- Okay? Yes.

That's my sh*t, that's my wave

Do it like that and I'll repay it ♪

Don't be scared, I ain't afraid

Just like that, come my way ♪

That's my sh*t ♪

As part of this month's

end-of-month evaluation,

we're looking for

an exceptional vocal performance.

Because from there, we will select

some of the girls to work with Bart.

My name is Bart Schoudel.

I'll be the girls' vocal producer.

Overall, anything vocal-related,

I'm involved with.

Bart is a multi-Grammy-winning

producer/engineer.

He's worked with everybody.

Selena Gomez, Katy Perry,

Camila Cabello, Charli XCX.

I've been in the studio

with Rihanna, Beyoncé.

We got our first original song

a couple days ago

that we're gonna start working on,

and I'm so excited to do that.

Um Well, I don't know if I'll get to,

'cause apparently, it's just some girls.

The recording studio is the one place

that I've been dreaming of

being in forever.

Some of the girls aren't ready

to be in the studios.

They're still working on

a lot of fundamentals.

And right now, we're just in the beginning

stages of narrowing down those girls

and seeing who's gonna rise to the top.

Emily is a really dope dancer.

It feels like you don't care ♪

Emily has to work on her ear,

'cause she can be pitchy.

To be pitchy means

that you wobble between sharp and flat.

Your

is sunk a little bit.

It's flat.

Sharp.

You're too high.

- The first "rare" was flat.

- Yeah, it was.

Rare ♪

So when we say your pitch is good,

you are really good

at walking on a balance beam.

Confidence. Let's go. Snap out of it.

Evaluation's in four days.

I'm really nervous because

I don't have dance this evaluation,

because, obviously,

I fractured part of my foot.

So I can't dance this eval,

and I'm just really nervous

because all I have is my voice.

Rare ♪

And it's definitely, like,

not my strongest suit.

Okay!

I'm just like Like, I sound like that.

You're making yourself

sound like that in your head

because you think you sound like that.

You're already going into it with, like

"I'm gonna f*ck this up."

Don't even think about

the pitches or, like, anything.

Just, like, know that

you have it in your system already

'cause you've been doing it so much.

Especially this month.

We're willing to invest in

trainees that might be of lower skill set

because of potential.

Emily does not have

the natural ability to sing.

So she's had to put in

an extreme amount of effort

in order to obtain the position

that she's in,

and, I think, how we view her.

You're gonna be in a girl group,

you have to sing.

You're right. You're right.

- So this is a good thing.

- You're right. I know.

I just wish I was dancing too.

- Is this not too high?

- I think it's a little too high.

I wanna trust me ♪

The way that you trust me ♪

Ooh, 'cause nobody ever ♪

Loved me like you do ♪

I'd love to see me

From your point of view ♪

Okay.

Especially for vocal,

I have performance anxiety.

It's like a physical reaction.

I can feel my heart beating faster,

and, like, suddenly,

I'm hyperaware of my senses.

I did ballet professionally

in Slovakia from the age of three.

Nobody is born being great at ballet.

It's something that's unnatural

to the body.

So you really have to mold your body,

and, like, the only way to do that

is starting it from a young age

and doing it a lot.

So the day-to-day anxiety

of training and stuff, I am okay with.

But the performance anxiety,

I'm still trying to find

my ways around it,

and I think the answer is

just to have more practice with it.

I'm trying to get used to

not really hearing myself when I sing it.

Solid.

No, those That one was pitchy.

Do you wanna stand here

and tell me if I look warmer in the face?

I'm supposed to look inviting,

and I'm not sure

if I'm giving enough of that.

Ooh, for all of my pretty

And all of my ugly too ♪

I'd love to see me

From your point of view ♪

-Yass!

-Thank you.

-No, that was good.

-Thank you.

That was good.

I think don't do anymore or any less.

-Okay. So you think it was warm enough?

-'Cause the beginning was very "shy girl."

You love my lips 'cause ♪

Stop.

Well, sometimes, I go out by myself ♪

And I look across the water ♪

I've had the least amount of time

with Manon,

but she has a good ear,

she has good pitch.

She doesn't know

how she's doing any of it.

And I've missed your ginger hair

And the way you like to dress ♪

Won't you come on over? ♪

Stop makin' a fool out of me ♪

Why don't you come on over, Valerie ♪

Great. I'm gonna stop you,

'cause we're just gonna breathe.

- Okay.

- Okay?

- I'm super nervous.

- You're nervous. We're gonna

Have you heard of the pelvic floor?

Singing from the pel

-Oh yeah.

-Yes. Okay.

Well, I say, squeeze a quarter

between your butt, right?

It's the same thing.

Why don't you come on over, Valerie? ♪

Valerie ♪

We're really at the beginning

in terms of

being able to access and rely on

the things that are good about her voice.

Valerie ♪

- Okay. So pretty.

- Thank you.

You have a really cool character

to your voice.

- Thank you so much.

- So, um

And you have some natural,

really nice textures

that we're gonna exploit the hell out of.

So are you gonna tell me at all

about your experience today?

My vocal teacher's

literally the sweetest woman ever.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

But no, for training, it went good.

I need to show you the video.

Are you gonna send it to me?

You're not going to.

I can show it to you. I can't send it.

So do you have any new friends?

You know, time will tell.

I feel like people who know me don't know

that I'm a shy person. You know?

And then I'm not asking any questions,

because, like, I'm insecure about it.

How are you gonna

get over your weirdness?

- How am I gonna get over my weirdness?

- Yeah.

I don't know, man.

We'll see.

I'm gonna live with them for literally

the next I don't know how long.

Do you want extra plates?

-An extra plate would be great. Just one.

-That would be nice. Thank you so much.

I need to train after this, you know?

I feel like I'm gonna

-Just take it easy.

-Yeah, I'll just

My eyes are like

They feel, like, dry and like

I feel like my eyes aren't awake yet.

How long do you think

the training program will go on for?

Um

I really don't know.

They tell us nothing.

Nothing about deadlines,

or when they're gonna pick

the members of the group,

or when are we gonna debut,

if we're gonna debut,

what is gonna happen to this project,

how it's gonna unfold at the end?

Like, we don't know those things.

That's the scariest part.

- This whole thing is very unpredictable.

- It's so unpredictable.

Like, you don't know

what's gonna happen next.

We don't know anything.

At this point, we're just training.

Yeah. Maybe it's some kind of a test.

I just woke up, and this is

the second time I stubbed my toe My

- Sophia!

- I can't speak English anymore.

Yeah!

They don't know the timeline.

We withhold information,

because with a project like this,

things can change.

So I would hate to tell the girls

one thing, and then it would change.

They are already going through so much.

It's better fed to them

in slow increments.

In a couple months,

everyone's gonna know who you are,

and you're gonna be on a huge platform.

But we need to focus

on one thing at a time.

When you push yourself,

when you challenge yourself,

does that encourage you?

Does it excite you? Does it propel you?

Everything. All of that.

I feel like

I was brought in because,

I think as the program evolved,

the stressors became harder,

more demanding.

And I think that they clearly recognized

there was a need

for increased mental health consultation.

What they felt confident in doing

before they started this program

is not gonna get them through

to the other side of this program.

And that dynamic

can negatively impact mental health.

This is like

This is where we have

our mental breakdowns.

-This is the mental-breakdown patio.

-Yes.

Sometimes it's overwhelming

when you have a lot of girls around you

and you just wanna be alone.

-Yeah.

-Yeah. Because it's, like, the only

Not the only, but, like,

the open space, I feel like.

-'Cause if you're out down here

-Everyone can see you.

-Everyone can see you, and you're

-Here, you can also

Look, here's my windows.

If you're sitting here

Yeah, if you sit here,

Lexie and I can see you breaking down

and that's not the vibe.

So that's why people

tend to go around here and cry.

Are you going

What time are you guys going?

Oh, to the nails?

Now and 3:00 p.m. So maybe later.

- Wait, what do they call you guys?

- Lexrela.

Lexrela. The twins.

Yeah! The twins.

-Yin and yang.

-We have matching hip problems.

Matching hip problems.

And then yours started on your right side

and mine started on my left.

-Yeah, and now we have it in both.

-Now it's progressively worse.

When Missy wanted us to, um,

do the hip movement in dress rehearsal

-I saw you. I was like, she's suffering.

-I was

-I was about to cry. I was literally

-I saw that.

Just fake it for a minute

and then you're fine.

-We fake it. We fake it.

-Fake it until you make it.

How is your mental health doing?

I feel like, um

Obviously, with my injury

and not dancing and everything,

it's, like, hard.

- Yeah.

- 'Cause I really want to.

So then your focus is your vocal

and then the injury.

Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

- I feel like

I'm just worried about, like,

my participation here.

Like, if surgery would mean

that I cannot be here anymore,

um, that would be really sad.

Yeah.

But if there would be any possibility

of still, like, actually fixing it

Yeah.

but for me to still in some way

be part of this.

Yeah.

I mean, that would be a win-win, you know?

Before singing,

I can't drink coffee,

'cause coffee dries out your throat.

And then I can't use mouthwash

because it has a percentage of alcohol

that makes you phlegmy.

I can't drink milk.

I can't have anything fizzy

because it'll make me burp,

and it's hard to burp when you sing.

It's hard to sing when you burp!

It's hard to sing.

It's not hard to burp when you sing.

Sophia's really special.

Her self-confidence is there,

but she builds herself up.

She takes care of herself.

Before I go to bed, it's a routine,

I'll write a letter to myself.

And then I always end it with a message

to say that I'm proud of myself

and that I love myself,

and I'm pretty and all that.

And how's your journey with dealing with

trying to get out of the musical theater

and shift more to pop music?

It's a little hard, obviously,

because my body

is used to over-enunciating sometimes

Yeah.

or making it super clear and clean

when you need more texture and raspiness

and stuff like that.

So I think I'm enjoying it

even though it's hard.

It's still a fun time.

Musical theater is something

that never fails to make me happy.

It just reminds me so much of home

because of my mom.

The winner for Best Featured Actress

in a Musical is Carla Guevara Laforteza.

My mother is a performing artist

from the Philippines.

I grew up watching her.

I saw two to three musicals every month,

and majority of the time,

she was the one starring in them.

There were times growing up

when people thought that I got

certain opportunities because of my mom.

And that's why my mom

was really proud of this

because this isn't exactly what she does,

but it's still in line with

what we both love, which is performing.

She's proud that I was able

to do this on my own.

I can really put my name on it,

and nobody can say that

anybody got it for me.

- I didn't tell them I auditioned.

- Oh, you didn't?

I wasn't even planning to tell them

until I was gonna get an email

that I was gonna move here.

- Oh my God. Are you serious?

- I didn't tell my parents.

'Cause my mom did the same thing

when she was my age.

She did the musical Miss Saigon,

and auditioned

without telling her parents.

She told them when they were,

"You're going to London

to do Miss Saigon."

- And she was 19.

- Oh, wow.

So I pulled the same thing

on my parents.

Daniela is reading a book.

- You're reading a book?

- Why is that so surprising?

- I've never seen you read a book.

- I've never seen anybody here read a book.

Yo, we've been knowing each other

for less than a year.

Some people read a lot of books.

I wanna trust me ♪

The way that you trust me ♪

Ooh, 'cause nobody ever

Loved me like you do ♪

I'd love to see me

From your point of view ♪

Thank you.

Your pitches today are not as solid

as they normally are. Are you nervous?

- I just Yeah, I'm nervous.

- Okay.

We gotta find a way to channel this

so you can come in a bit more grounded.

Because we're at a point where

your pitches are there every single time.

And right now,

they're not as good as usual.

Spend a little bit more time in it.

But you've gotta figure out a way

to breathe out, channel that energy

so that when you walk in here,

you feel grounded.

- Okay.

- Cool?

- Cool. Thank you.

- All right.

- Thank you.

- Where do I

I've been ♪

I'm naturally just an anxious person

when it comes to performance.

But I love writing songs

and poetry and just lyrics,

so I thought about going into open mics

and just kind of getting

in front of people more

and, like, learning how to get used to it.

Give it up for Adéla.

Hi, I'm Adéla,

and tonight I'm gonna be singing

an original song

that I wrote about, um

how when somebody likes you,

but they don't like you enough,

and you wished they liked you

a little bit more.

So that's that.

Your soul carries my love letter ♪

Why won't you take me forever? ♪

Exhaling recklessly ♪

I hope you will like me better ♪

When my perfume's

On your dad's old sweater ♪

I think there are some ducks over there.

I really wanna go and see them.

Aww.

They're so cute.

I'm very scared,

because eliminations, it's a real thing.

And with singing,

I struggle a little bit with pitch,

so that's something

I need to fix before evaluation,

'cause I can't be sent home.

You know? I really

Like, I can't be sent home at all.

But I do sense it in the energy

that something's about to change.

And I don't know what it is, but

Today, we're going to have eval,

and this is kind of like

a really big month,

so I think everyone's kind of nervous.

I just hope I don't make,

like, any unnecessary mistakes,

'cause I've been working really hard

this month on my singing.

Today, the girls will be judged

on their vocal performance

to determine who will

go into the recording studio.

And of course, any end-of-month eval

can result in elimination.

Hey, what's up, y'all?

My name is Emily Kelavos.

Hi. My name

is Megan Skiendiel. I'm 16 years old.

I'm gonna be singing

"Boyfriend" by Dove Cameron.

I could be a better boyfriend than him ♪

I could be a better boyfriend ♪

Thank you.

Nice job.

I thought that you just need to work on

not losing your soft voice,

You know? It was almost too dynamic,

if that makes sense.

So just work on that.

But overall, nice job.

I'm so sick of that same old love ♪

My body's had enough, oh ♪

It's just control,

really, with you.

'Cause, like, even when it repeats

in the same part,

the second time you do it is great.

I mean, like, the "oh ohh" happens twice.

The second time you nailed it,

the first time you were searching for it.

So that's just a control thing.

so alive ♪

We're beautiful

Like diamonds in the sky ♪

I think the sound was amazing.

It felt like a lack of presence.

what is mine ♪

I want to love me ♪

The way that you love me ♪

Ooh, for all of my pretty

And all of my ugly too ♪

I'd love to see me

From your point of view ♪

Thank you.

I think it was good. When you got into it,

the key of that song works for you.

And I think you sounded great.

Thank you.

I don't have it all ♪

I'm not claiming to ♪

But I know that I'm special ♪

Yeah ♪

And I'll bet there's somebody else

Out there ♪

To tell me I'm rare ♪

To make me feel rare ♪

Thank you.

Uh, it was just a little inconsistent

with the pitch.

Yeah. There were some nice moments

that came out of it.

As Bart said, I think it's just

working on the pitch of it.

I think there were certain moments

when there was a middle-ground key

you could've hit that I know you have.

Finding that control

and finding that middle ground

would've helped.

The rankings are a lot on all of us.

All of us sang different songs,

danced different routines,

had different hours of training.

Every time the rankings come out,

we all know what our scores are

because it's exposed to all of us,

so I feel like the ranks

bring out a lot of the competition.

This month, our top vocalists

was Iliya, Sophia, Karlee,

Adéla, Brooklyn, and Megan.

Our top three trainees

were Megan, Daniela, and Lexie.

Emily did not dance this month

due to injury.

At this time, there's no one

that T&D would recommend eliminating.

Megan was our first overall.

Megan scored first in visual performance,

second in dance,

tied for second in vocal,

and third in star quality.

I have the pleasure of being

with the girls when they're nailing it

and when they're not nailing it.

But what they do

on that one evaluation day

is all Bang knows of these girls.

Although I'm

a relatively proven executive producer,

I have no desire

to make decisions on my own.

I work with a brilliant team of people,

amazing producers and staff members.

I will take their feedback into account.

But if you're asking technically

who pushes the button at the end,

of course it's me.

♪some advice

I would leave with me ♪

The universe must have divined this ♪

Ah, okay.

There's this inflection

in her voice that she does

every single time.

♪with the best of them

You are beautiful ♪

Yeah.

She can do those

to spice things up occasionally,

but not every time.

So Karlee?

Pop-up visits

Hands tied, no grip ♪

I ain't got the room for extra baggage ♪

To be honest,

I'm not sure this is interesting enough.

Her vocals are very stable,

but I don't think people

would pay money to hear it.

So, Lexie.

It's 10:35

And I can feel your arms around me ♪

Let 'em drown me ♪

- Thank you.

- What happened?

Sylvia happened.

Her fundamental is totally changed. It is

It's impossible.

She got her spark back.

- I'm so happy.

- Yeah.

Yeah, from the first moment

I saw her audition, I found potential,

but yeah,

she couldn't meet my expectation.

- Hey.

- Yeah. You were right.

John, honestly speaking,

what do you think about her vocal?

I think it's strong.

It's hard like just her on her own,

if an A&R person brought it in and said,

"Hey, this is what's unique."

But I think maybe mixed in

with the right artist,

I think it could be interesting.

Jay, you know what?

Actually, I think we should make

their debut as fast as we can.

Usually after these kind of, uh,

quick improvements,

then they have, uh

They plateau for a period.

When they wait too long to debut,

they get frustrated and lose their spark,

which shows in their eyes.

What is the target number

of trainees before voting?

Twenty to twenty-five.

Wow.

At some point,

you have to stop training

and move on to the debut phase.

Trying to endlessly improve

the quality or the skill

is not how T&D should be done.

Honestly, I don't think I ever missed

the right timing

to move on to the next phase.

Because Bang

decided to move the debut up,

we need to hurry up and find

the rest of the girls.

And to be honest,

I don't know if I could do it.

Megan, Sophia,

Daniela, Naisha, Lexie

What happened?

Well, guys, um,

so we do have some good news.

Charlie has done his A&R magic

and found an amazing song

that we're gonna start, um,

bringing you guys into the studio.

To hear you guys on an original recording.

And it's a really great song.

- Thanks.

- Charlie finally did something right.

I know that you guys

don't know the timeline,

but I think little things like

some of you getting to work with Bart,

taking the next step

in your vocal training,

I hope that you guys take these

little baby steps as huge wins for you.

-Hey!

-Hey!

So today we have Lexie,

Megan, Karlee, and Adéla.

And we're actually

taking the trainees into the studio

to record them on an original song.

I'm actually vocal producing them

as I would any other artist

that I work with.

So we can see whether

they can take direction or not

and hear what their tone

is gonna sound like on a final record.

Saw it in the movies ♪

And the movies told me

Something's missing ♪

Yeah, I was convinced

A couple soulmates on my arm ♪

That was all that I needed ♪

Learning a song

just on your own in open air

is like such a different animal

than when you get on the mic.

You left me ♪

In the studio,

certain talents are gonna shine

that won't shine in a live evaluation.

Our feelings change ♪

And ever since

I've never been the same ♪

Same ♪

Yes, that's it. What you just did.

Same ♪

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And feelings change ♪

And ever since I ♪

And ev ♪

And ever since I've ne Oh!

Ever since I've never been the same ♪

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

It was just a feeling ♪

And feelings change ♪

And ever since

I've never been the same ♪

Ever since I've ♪

That "ever since

I've never been the same" was perfect.

Baby, I'm ♪

Baby, I'm a queen when I dance ♪

Hear how it's just up to the note

instead of coming off the note?

Ba Baby, I'm a queen ♪

When I dance to the rhythm

And nobody else ♪

Yes.

Baby, I'm a queen

When I dance to the rhythm ♪

And nobody else ♪

Nobody, nobody ♪

Nobody ever sees

'Cause I dance by myself ♪

I don't need nobody ♪

Better.

Nobody, nobody ♪

- That's good.

- You did great.

- Thank you.

- Come on in.

- You're a natural.

- Thank you.

- It was so much fun.

- Good. I'm glad you had fun.

Yes. See ya.

-All right.

-Bye.

Bye.

Now I'm realizing

that Bang was right about her.

About her?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Yeah, because she was one

of the promising trainees, you know?

-According to Bang's opinion.

-Mm-hmm.

So Yeah, I definitely got that

she has some type of star quality

from the beginning.

But after listening to this session,

I was really surprised, to be honest,

because I thought

she's on the, like, weaker side

- Yes.

- when it comes to vocal.

- Totally.

- But now, she's

She was really amazing.

Yeah, 'cause the first evaluation I did,

I think she got a one and a two.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

Bart, you're so good

with the people.

- You're so good.

- You guys are amazing.

-Oh, thanks.

-Thank you so much.

Okay, so you can come up,

right up to the mic.

- Like, right here?

- Yeah, exactly.

That's a perfect distance.

Let me raise it just a little bit more.

Baby, I'm a queen

When I dance to the rhythm ♪

And nobody else ♪

Nobody, nobody ♪

Nobody ever sees

'Cause I dance by myself ♪

I don't need nobody ♪

Nobody, nobody ♪

To fill my heart when ♪

Nice. Let's go up till there.

- Okay.

- Nice.

To take me out from the start ♪

To take me home ♪

Oh, I'm the queen ♪

That was the one. Nice job.

Well, you kind of blew

through your takes really fast.

I just got some harmony stems

that I'd love to have you

try some harmonies.

- Okay.

- Beautiful.

Queen, dance, rhythm, I'm nobody else ♪

Excellent. Next part.

Nobody sees, dance, self ♪

I don't need nobody ♪

Nobody, nobody ♪

Mm!

Nobody, nobody ♪

Nobody, nobody ♪

-Yeah, you're doing great.

-Good.

To take me out from the start ♪

- Oh, she's good.

- Yeah.

Less lead voice sound in there.

Just give me a little more air, less lead.

To take me out from the start ♪

-Good.

-Amazing.

-Well, I think you got everything.

-Yay.

- Nice job.

- You're a natural.

- Oh, thank you.

- So good.

-That's what that is.

-Really good.

Can't believe you've never done that.

It was my first time.

- First of many.

- Bye.

Nobody, nobody ♪

You guys.

Wow.

- She's She's the dark horse.

- Yeah.

I mean, talk about kicking open the door

of a recording studio for the first time.

I can't believe

she's never done that.

Kicking the door open.

And for her to pick up

those notes like that

Gave all of my love from my heart

But it wasn't beating ♪

Try more of a whine-in

instead of a fry-in.

Mm-hmm.

Gave all of my love from my heart

But it wasn't beating ♪

That was the one.

Baby, I'm a queen

When I dance to the rhythm ♪

And nobody else ♪

There, now she's on again.

Now she's on again.

Nobody ever sees

'Cause I dance by myself ♪

I don't need nobody ♪

Nobody, nobody ♪

She brings back the gears

for the pitch.

You owned it.

- Really nice.

- Give it.

- I get a hug from Sylvia.

- Yes. Always.

-The best hugs. Thank you so much.

-What'd you guys think?

She's been doing so great

in our evaluations,

so I have some kind of belief in her.

Mm-hmm.

So that's why my expectation

is a little bit higher

than other trainees.

Yeah, her tone,

where the other girls felt natural

in there, she was

Didn't really work.

She's presenting her voice

instead of singing.

- It's too in control.

- Yeah.

And so the control is taking away

from the story and the tone.

But she took the direction so well.

- Really good.

- And also she can hear.

- Yes.

- And, yeah, ear is great.

- Yeah.

- So, yeah, everything's fine.

I speak Spanish.

Oh, how nice!

So nice to meet you!

Nice to meet you.

Hello!

- So why do you speak Spanish?

- Oh, I grew up in Spain.

-In Spain? Oh wow.

-Yes. In Spain, the Balearic Islands.

So you're staying at the house?

-Yes, exactly.

-Ah, you're going to help me.

Because my English isn't great.

No worries. We're gonna help you.

Dani also speaks Spanish.

-Yes.

-That's so great!

Oh, I'm so nervous.

Wait right there.

Yeah!

Yeah!

It's so nice to see you dancing!

Today is my first day dancing

without my boot.

And I'm finally back.

I'm so excited.

It's a little painful, I'm not gonna lie.

But it feels so good.

In this program

and, like, what I wanna do,

I have to have everything.

So I need to keep really focusing

on getting my vocals

to where they need to be

and just evolving into an artist.

Manon, what's going on with you this week?

I feel like I'm holding myself back.

You know?

What do you think

is really holding you back?

Definitely, like,

the confidence thing.

Like, I'm learning something new.

- I'm not good at it 'cause

- Well, you're learning.

- No one's a pro at the beginning, right?

- Right. Exactly.

Um And I'm surrounded

by girls who are pros.

-Who have been here much longer than you?

-Right. I tend to forget that.

But, um, then I just get frustrated

and insecure.

What has worked for you

in the past

that may have kept you motivated,

maybe during school, or

Girl, nothing.

- I mean, I've tried everything.

- You've tried everything?

In school?

Like getting my phone taken away.

But this is something I do want to do.

Uh, I feel like I'm in pop-star school,

and that's like a dream coming true.

'Cause I hated my normal school

Like, just public school.

- You didn't like academics?

- No, I didn't like it.

So this is like

It's cool learning something

you actually wanna learn, you know?

Just do the rhyme.

Go till the sunrise ♪

Done at the same time ♪

Now try it with your mouth.

Open your jaw.

Started at midnight ♪

Night ♪

Yes.

Next month, I'm gonna be wearing,

like, this black leather set.

It's a much darker vibe than I usually do.

It's more of me telling a story,

being able to show different sides of me,

just so that I can show them

that I can do different colors.

I don't wanna keep you up ♪

But show me, can you keep it up ♪

'Cause then I'll have to keep you up

sh*t, maybe I'mma keep you up ♪

The vibe

that I have been giving off

is more like soft and lighter,

so I'm really excited to show that

I can do my best to pull it off

with what I've learned so far.

Sophia has this charm about her.

She's very kind, and she's very sweet,

and she's a hard worker.

And those things

are so in alignment, in my opinion,

with a K-pop idol.

That said, she needs to be

well received by Americans.

We need someone who's cool,

someone who pushes boundaries.

someone who breaks rules.

I think that Sophia

will continue to develop in time.

Or she won't,

and she's not gonna end up in this group.

-Oh my God. You are.

-You look pretty, though.

The edges were done.

The edges were still done.

- I'm not.

- I'm still 16 on this.

So I found out that all the girls

have private Instagram accounts.

This is a huge violation

of the NDA and confidentiality rules

that they signed and agreed to

at the beginning of the program.

We would, like, post pictures

and videos with each other,

and just, like, things like that.

We'd put it on our close friends' Stories.

Our close friends' Stories

would only have the girls in the program.

We thought it'd be okay.

This is, like, something

that everybody else our age does.

When everyone's doing it, you're like,

"It's okay, everyone's doing it."

It was all enclosed in our community,

so we thought it would be okay to do that,

which it wasn't.

It wasn't, yeah.

To us, it's like having

a WhatsApp group chat,

but it was Instagram.

Missy started asking me about it, like,

"Are you guys following each other?"

Some of them have followers

outside of the program.

"What's getting uploaded?"

But the most alarming one to me

was one of the girls posted a video

of her singing one of the original songs.

And then it ended up with Missy

wanting me to, like, show her it,

um, and that's kind of how it all started.

And it kind of escalated from there.

So I was kind of scared, 'cause I didn't

wanna, like, put anyone out there,

like on the spot, or like "out" anyone.

Missy was really angry.

Really mad.

You cannot expose

original music like that.

Nobody knows what

the potential sound of our group is,

and that build up,

that hype around our project,

will lead to our success.

It feels like a slap in the face

to all of us.

We just made a big-a*s mistake.

I sent everybody home.

We don't know what's gonna happen,

and it's kind of scary.

We're not allowed to train

until she says so.

The program,

it might just be discontinued.

There might be eliminations happening.

And we're all basically

just, like, extremely stressed

and just, like, not knowing what's next.

- Hey.

- Hi.

How's it going?

- Good. How are you?

- Good.

Um Okay. So I have to let you know

that HYBE x Geffen has decided

to eliminate you from the program.

Um It is not based on skill set.

Um It is based on you sharing

an original song.

And I know that the account was private,

but it did have people following it

that are outside of the program.

That No. That is not true.

-It is true.

-It is not true.

Naisha, I reviewed the account myself.

Missy, I screenshotted it

as soon as we finished the meeting.

-I reviewed the account myself.

-That is not true.

Okay, well, I reviewed the account myself

prior to me meeting with you guys.

-So, Naisha

-Missy, I have a screenshot.

-Naisha, that's

-But okay.

Um I in no way think that this is

a career-ending situation for you.

I think you will go on to do

other great things,

but your time with this project is done.

And that's just what this is. Okay?

Hey, T. How are you?

I'm gonna be

going back to London on Sunday.

I was wondering if you know

of, like, a room or something

that I could rent

for, like, a month or two.

I'm just upset about how it ended

and the reason I got eliminated,

and the fact that Missy said

that I had more followers in the account

than what I did have.

It's my word against Hollywood, so

I hope they bring in,

like, 20 Black girls.

At least one needs to make it.

- Uh

- What's next?

I don't know.

I have a month's worth of money.

But it's not the first time where

I've been broke,

I've been having to leave houses

and go to someone else's, so

What did your mom say

when you talked to her?

She's, like, upset.

She even hit up my dad

She doesn't really talk to my dad.

So she hit my dad up.

Um

It's just

It's sad, 'cause my mom is sick,

and her health

is just, like, getting worse.

Oh, this is stupid.

I just feel bad knowing she's, like,

the only one, you know?

Yeah.

Like, this isn't gonna hit me

until, like, right before she leaves,

and then I'm just gonna lose it.

It sucks.

Yeah. Is Dani here?

-She's upstairs.

-She's upstairs.

What happened?

I just put my makeup on.

No.

What did she say?

She kept saying how I had more,

like, followers on my account.

-Did you?

-No.

So she thinks you're lying.

I mean, I don't know

if she thinks I'm lying.

I did have a song, but not more followers.

We kept going back and forth.

It was kind of, like,

my word against hers, so

I'll miss having someone

to speak German with.

Hey, what time is it?

You can always call me.

I'll call you.

No joke. Every week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Are you coming to the studio?

No. Not anymore.

I got my heels, though.

- Are you taking them with you?

- I think so.

- You should. They're expensive.

- Yeah.

I'm extremely disappointed

in you guys,

not only for your actions,

but the lack of accountability after.

It's very clear

that we need a shift in mindset.

Okay?

This has never happened before,

because it's just simple.

This is unacceptable.

Was it that irresistible?

My trust and confidence in all of you

has been really shaken.

When you arrive here,

you'll leave your phone in the office.

When you need to use it,

you can go to the office,

um, but otherwise it stays there

until you leave.

So, one at a time, I'd like to speak

with you in a conference room.

I'm gonna have you guys read

the social media rules

that have not changed,

so that you are fully aware

of what the rules are.

- Okay? All right, thank you.

- Thank you.

So

Naisha was the most I've cried

about someone's elimination.

I did not see it coming at all.

Like, I was mad.

You're childish!

I don't know, that one really broke me.

Do you remember happy together ♪

I do, don't you ♪

Then all of a sudden

You're sick to your stomach ♪

Is that still true ♪

You said, "Forever" ♪

"Do not post photos or videos

of program instructors, staff,

or anyone related to the program."

"Do not post about HYBE UMG program,

or information about other contestants

or staff on social media."

"Can I post a video

of my good friend Missy from T&D?" No.

This is, like, squeezing my

"Can my parents tell their friends

I'm going to be in the program?" No.

"Can I like a post on my Instagram by HYBE

about their auditions?" No.

you're disappointed ♪

"Can I post on Reddit about

this training program I'm doing?" No.

-No.

-No.

in the way I wanted ♪

Every corner ♪

I think that it's realistic

to start to think about surgery.

On Monday, you guys are going to meet

the incoming girls.

I'm sorry ♪

I don't wanna go ♪

My whole world is on repeat,

and I don't know when this is gonna end.

They're bringing in more people,

and that's confusing us.

I don't wanna go ♪

You are extremely talented

with the gift of dance,

but you're not a dancer who sings,

and you're not a singer who dances.

You are an artist.

Think I'll make it worse ♪

Everything I know brings me back to us ♪

I don't wanna go

We've been here before ♪

Two, three, up,

four, five, up, six.

The girls are improving,

but we need a vocalist

that will sell out stadiums,

and we still don't have that.

More girls will be coming.

Anybody could be that final member

that we need.

That could be the death of us ♪

The death of us ♪

Baby, you know how to drive in rain ♪

And you decided not to make a change ♪

Can we get back to the way it was ♪

Oh ♪

Mmm ♪

Yeah, yeah ♪

Mmm ♪

I got birds that told me stories

'Bout how you been singing ♪

Comes as no suprise been days

And months my ears are ringing ♪

Didn't think it'd turn

So quickly into jealousy ♪

What you got is make believe ♪

I don't got the time, to vibe

With all your lies ♪

You're so funny to me ♪

I can't help but feel real bad for you ♪

It's what you're doing ♪

Looking foolish, insecurities

Been through the roof and ♪

You been stunting

Your own growth it seems ♪

Way you stopped moving ♪

It's looking clearer to me ♪

The pain that you weave

Is really why you're losing ♪

You vibe, with all your lies ♪

You're so funny to me ♪

So if you feel a way, tonight ♪

Try to make it right by you ♪

Reserve the right ♪

To do it like, nobody else can ♪

Take the time ♪

Work it out 'cause it you deserve it ♪

Wish you could be so untouchable, yeah ♪

Wish you could be so untouchable, yeah ♪

Wish you could be so untouchable, yeah ♪

Think you're better than the next ♪

But what you really fail

To even see is ♪

You can't touch this ♪

Nothing worse than this delusion

You been manifesting ♪

Made up haters got you swimming

Miles way in the deep end ♪