Oh, this song. This Popstars song. It will never leave my head. I've been singing it for days. Days, people. If this also gets released as a single, I might just have to leave the country for a month.
Big props to my new VCR, which is playing the last recorded episode from my last VCR. From now on, smooth recording. Oh, damn! I thought I had figured out finally the closed captioning. Turns out the VCR doesn't record the television's closed captioning. I'll be deciphering mumbles again this week. Curses!
Previously on Popstars: a zillion girls have been cut. Ten remain. In the montage of past weeks, we see girls for the first time. I'm not even going to bother. I'm also not bothering with the narrator's voice-over, which again states that this is a dream that thousands tried out for and now only a handful of girls remain. They're in Los Angeles, and they're at this workshop, which they've been calling "week-long" forever, and now it's pretty clear there were only three days in this "week." That's life in L.A., people. You don't get up until ten and your work week starts on Tuesday and is over on Thursday. Love it. We see the montage of the Six of Sad from last week, where there are tears and dreams shattered. Alexandra gets in one more sobby headshake, just for old time's sake.
The narrator tells us there's another day of the workshop. Again. Christina tells us she's "kinda scared for today." Five more girls will be cut after today's workshop. Petagay says they've made a pact today for "no more crying." Yeah, okay. They're only going to do a high-five whether or not they make it. I'd like to take bets on that. The remaining fifteen girls will be "pampered, primped, and styled with complete makeovers." Then, "a performance at one of L.A.'s hottest clubs: Johnny Depp's The Viper Room." There's a shot of the awning of Viper Room, showing that there's no "The" in the title. Five more will be cut after the performance, leaving ten for the hour-long show week. Slow Tiny Squares of Girls and Fun fill the screen, kicking off this blur of a half-hour.
"To be one of the five would complete my dream." I think that was Cheaza that said that. I'm not sure.
Christina says again, "I'm kinda scared for today."
Sad piano music kicks off as Keitha Lind starts crying in slow motion. Cut to her talking to the camera. "My roommate went home last night," she tells us. "And, oh! She broke my heart!" We see a shot of the crying Curtisha, leaving the room for "some air." "It's…it's sad," Keitha Lind says through a gigantic smile.
Ivette practices in slow motion with an invisible microphone with the other girls. Cut to her telling us in an ugly shirt that she's just going to breathe and realize that it's going to be okay. "Everything happens for a reason." She's good enough, she's smart enough, and gosh darnit…you know the rest.
Slow-motion Scarytwin. She then tells us that you get really energetic at the beginning of the day and you're excited and then at the end of the day you're exhausted. "Takes so much out of you."
Slow motion of someone wiping Rosanna's tear. Rosanna laughs off the gesture. Cut to her sitting at the piano again wearing something Katarina Witt left on her bathroom floor. "I think last night was really challenging. Just 'cause some girls were cut. And that could very well be me." Ciamar cries on someone's shoulder. Back to Rosanna: "Today. Tomorrow. Or whenever they find out who the five are."
"Day Three of the workshop. The final workshop." The girls all sit and listen to their instructions. Man, again we're told that five more are getting cut today and then a show at the Viper Room and then another five are getting cut. We're told that there will be more singing and dancing, as if for some reason the third day could have involved arts and crafts. "And if the girls don't prove it today, they'll be packing their bags."
Cut to Hyphentwin Jaymes: "We need to see confidence in you guys. Even if you're dying out there and it's hard and you're sweating and you think that you're not pulling it off, you need to approach it like this is no problem for you. If you get to the final five, you are gonna have a new challenge every second of the day." Well, that's not being even slightly dramatic, is it? My favorite part of this shot is the completely apathetic Jennifer standing behind Jaymes, who has completely given up having any sort of authority or role in this process. She's looking in the complete opposite direction with this totally glazed look in her eyes. She's just counting down the minutes until her Valium.
Roger Love has now been nicknamed "Vocal Coach of the Stars." This narrator will give anyone a moniker. The girls have to face another "grueling session."
And here we go. Baby misses her cue and sings just a beat off from where she's supposed to be. "When I see you sad. With your head down low." Oh, this song. This song! So stuck in my fucking head. Baby starts stomping and gesturing while she sings. Roger stops her and says, "Give up on it." He tells her that her body is already connected, and it's time for her voice to know the song. Her body is connected to any rhythmic beat. That's what she's paid to do back in Atlanta, y'all. Roger makes a grand gesture and says, "Don't waste a lot of mm…a lot of energy on the choreography because, because that's energy that I, all that I want to funnel through the voice." Baby smiles because she thinks he just complimented her "dancing." Baby starts the song again, but her hands are trained to go straight into the Determined Point of Girl Power and the Wavering Palm of Soulful Singing. "No hand gestures!" Roger screams at her while she sings. Jaymes immediately whispers over to Jennifer, who has a thin line of drool coming from her mouth. Baby just keeps on twitching and gesturing, because she knows she looks cooler with her arms palsied that way. We cut to Jaymes writing something on her Very Important Clipboard Complete With Highlighter. Baby has decided to take the emphasis out of her voice and put it all back into her arms. Instead of belting out the song, she starts singing quieter, but really giving Roger a finger-pointing of his life. Like a good bitchy vocal coach, Roger hammers down one awkward note on the piano as Baby finishes and turns to the other girls to talk angrily: "This song really is…is about proving something to this guy. This guy doesn't think that you're attractive enough, or you can handle enough, or you can really give him what, what he needs. I want it bigger, fatter, thicker. I don't want to get the feeling like you're a smaller person." Keitha Lind and Ivette smile at Roger, thinking, "Baby, you have no idea what a girl wants."
Crystal's up . She starts singing, and three words in, Roger screams, "Bigger!" Crystal interprets "Bigger" to mean "Using the Whitney Houston Squint of Painful Love." She doesn't change her voice at all. "Let me see it in your eyes!" Roger screams, which confuses Crystal, as she thought that's what she was just doing. She changes tactics to the Fuck Off Glare of Destiny's Child. The other girls watch and bob their heads, silently judging her. Roger barks something else at her, but I can't understand it. Whatever it is, it frazzles Crystal so much that she hits her head and starts to laugh while she sings. "Stop being nice!" Roger screams, and Crystal holds her head and laughs some more. The other girls laugh, because they are now one step closer to their dreams. Roger can't take the second-rate talent anymore and starts singing along with Crystal. We split-screen to the other girls watching and bobbing. They all practice silently as Crystal sings. "Meaner!" Roger screams, and we see the silent Alexis practicing her Eartha Kitt impersonation. "You're not a nice person!" Roger snaps. He then sneers at her. So much for Crystal, y'all.
Cut to Camille, who knows lesson #492 of being a Popstar: Hot Pink Lipstick equals Callbacks. "Bigger!" Roger yells. Camille does absolutely nothing different. "Now, louder!" Roger barks. Ivette flinches when Camille hits a bad note. "Don't get softer at all!" Camille immediately gets softer and then louder again. Oh, this is so much nicer for you guys. You haven't just had to hear, "I'm not as naïve as you think I am" sixteen times by now. I have.
It's Garland's turn as Roger yells, "Louder! Bigger! Never get soft!" Oh, man. There are so many jokes about that last sentence that I'm just going to slowly step away from. Look at that. Just handed to me on a big shiny platter. As the workshop has progressed, these girls have become just incredibly slutty. There is so much blue eyeshadow in this room. Hair is teased and sprayed. Sparkly, butt-enhancing outfits all around. Lip liner and gloss and just nasty skank girl all up in this place.
Camille takes a quiet moment to lie down and share her thoughts with us. "This is probably one of the most grueling audition processes that I've ever had to go through in my whole entire life." We see a split-screen of Camille's Montage while she talks. She tells us that she's grown close with these girls and she doesn't want this to end, but she knows it could be over at any moment. Where are the damn catfights? Camille says that the rejection part is scary, but something you have to deal with in this business.
"That fear has taken hold of T.V. Carpio." God. The drama they create on this show. We're told that her confidence has gone down since the New York audition. For proof, we're whisked back to the New York audition, where we see T.V. sing poorly and loudly. We see T.V. wince and look around nervously. Okay.
We're told that David "Lay off my bitch Hyphentwin Sister" Foster is now going to break the girls up into groups and have them harmonize. This is supposed to be some scary cutthroat part where the girls who really can't sing and have been fooling the judges all this time will be finally found out. St. Elmo tells the girls he has no time for them and he won't wait around for them to figure out their parts. "If you don't think you can harmonize…get out. 'Cause I will beat you up in the studio beyond belief." Oh, that Foster charm. Winning us over with every word.
Crystal, Nikki, and Scarytwin attempt this concept known as "harmonization" first. Scarytwin opts for the Finger Pointing of Note Hitting that Christina Aguilera loves to do so much. My roommate looks up from our bills and says, "Those are supposed to be quarter notes, not eight notes, I believe." My roommate. The Roger Love.
Rosanna, Cheaza, and Nicole actually can harmonize. Maybe it's because they've opted to sing with one arm around each other, and the other arm raised to plug fingers in their ears.
Now they've put Nicole with Alexis and T.V. It's a much quieter version of the song. Alexis keeps the beat by scratching her nails along the top of the piano in a circular motion.
"The stakes are high," we're told for the three thousandth time. St. Elmo stares with a look of anger as the narrator reminds us that St. Elmo is paid to be that mean. Roger Love busts in to tell the girls how to sing the song, and then immediately turns to St. Elmo for approval. St. Elmo gives a Sopranos nod and then the girls quickly repeat the lyric. St. Elmo immediately interrupts them and turns to the rest of the girls and says: "Right. And just a point so all of you know, like…I asked you to do the serious thing and I don't even know who didn't do it, but it just wastes time. Now I'm going to ask you to do it again so you can get it right. Okay? Quiet." T.V. looks incredibly guilty.
Cut to Garland, Keitha Lind, and Christina. We're told that Keitha Lind's singing has "fluctuated since Day One," which pretty much means she keeps getting sucky. This whole "harmonizing" thing might "pose more of a challenge" for her. Split-screen to Keitha Lind telling us she has a hard time having confidence when she sings. People. She has a hard time having confidence in her singing. She has a hard time singing. So, what better place for her than an all-girl pop group? She whines to us that she's always worrying if she sounds okay or if she's hitting the right notes. Get your bags and go, Keitha Lind. Back to the Karaoke room for you. Have Nikki show you the way.
"Christina Petty, who has faced numerous obstacles, now faces a new challenge." I am so in hate with the narrator. Christina tells us, "I ran in the rain and my head got all wet. And now I'm gettin' kinda sick on the third day. So. I don't know. I feel kinda weird. Like, I might be sent home today. I hope not."
Travis steps up to finish off the workshop day with some dancing. I know. We didn't even get to hear everyone sing. The girls are split into new groups to learn the moves to the song. We're told again that this is the last time the judges will have a chance to evaluate the girls before five more are cut. Several shots of girls slowly practicing dance moves while Travis counts numbers and shouts out, "Uh, uh, uh!"
Jean (you remember, the student we never hear much about who has a mom lighting candles praying she'll get cut?) tells us that everyone is so talented and she feels like everyone else "has an upper hand" on her. "Because they've taken dance lessons before." Jean starts to pout and sneer as she says, "But I'm not going to let that get to me. I'm gonna dance my heart out. I'm gonna sing my heart out. And just have fun while I'm doing it." I'm pretty sure she stole that line from Fame.
Travis pulls Shaunda to the side to talk to her. Apparently she's having a hard time with the choreography and her confidence is starting to wane. He tells her that he wants to see the confidence he saw in Atlanta. She nods and says, "Okay." He tells her to relax into where she is now and have fun with it. Shaunda remains tense and says, "Got it."
Boom. The workshop is over. We see the girls celebrate and hug and clap and laugh. We see a quick montage of the day, full of shots we didn't get to see, including their final workshop performance.
The girls wait around in the Room of Sad for the judges to make their cuts. Petagay says that they made a verbal agreement today. No crying. There is so much fucking repetition in this show, y'all. I can't take it anymore. The high five is the "universal language of the day," she tells Kerrie.
T.V. tells us that it's out of her control now, but she knows she did her best. She looks like she knows she's about to get cut.
Huddled against a wall wearing headphones, tears streaming down her face, is Shaunda. Ivette is by her side, trying to comfort her. They both repeat that Shaunda is tired. Shaunda says she gives so much of herself in everything that she does, but she doesn't always get anything back.
Nicole tells us that she feels very confident about how far she's come. We snap to a triple screen of Nicole's "accomplishments." She says she's very grateful for getting this far. She sighs and says, "So, we'll see. Right now. Whatever's meant to be is meant to be. That's what I always say." Nicole walks out of the room to the sound of the sad, sad flute as the narrator tells us that five girls will get the cut following this commercial break. Tiny Squares of Girls and Fun.
I hate all Pepsi commercials. They've become so bad that they've ruined all past Pepsi commercials. Remember that old one with the little boy and all of the puppies? I know it still makes my mother cry, but man, it fills me with anger now. Because Pepsi keeps trying to become the drink of "my generation" and we just couldn't possibly hate it as a beverage any more than we do. Now Pepsi is stalking me, and sometimes when I go to see a movie, they've cleverly rigged it so I can't buy anything that's not a Pepsi. I hate Pepsi. With its tinny taste and it's over-sugaring. The way they know they don't taste as good, so they try and say that at least it's old but still hip because they keep changing their can. I hate Pepsi. Hate it.
We return to Jaymes addressing the girls: "If it was…if it was easy everybody would be doing it. It's a really hard business to…for people to succeed in, from executives to the talent. And, um, you know it's hard. But I hope that everybody here leaves here thinking that this is the beginning for you."
The narrator takes an ultra-somber tone as an Angelo Badalamenti song starts droning in the background. The girls hold hands and look at the floor. It's time for the cuts. Nikki is cut. The Corrs start playing over the slow-motion montage of Nikki dancing and singing.
Garland is cut. A judge tells her that "it's just not quite there." Garland nods and smiles. There's the montage with her bad shoes and Axl Rose look.
Alexis is cut. Oh, yeah. The dream is over. What can I say? The dream is over. Yesterday. Jaymes delivers the bad news. Montage of happier times, including yesterday when she danced in front of all the others because she got called back. That's some Karma, yo.
Scarytwin has gotten the boot. Her montage includes her twin, her leaning over to sing in Roger's ear, and hugs from all of the other girls.
Here's the big cut: Cheaza. I guess they felt she had been just too powerful for a girl band. That's a shame, as I liked her. And I'm the one deciding and judging around here. The judges tell Cheaza that they like her voice and they like her as a person. Cheaza, by the way, has done a total Danny Zuko for these people and now has light makeup and normal hair and regular clothes, and I almost didn't recognize her. She completely Popstarred up for them and they're still cutting her. Cheaza starts crying and says, "It's hard." We cut to her montage of dancing. She walks out to the girls for comfort, wiping her tears, and immediately Baby is holding her. Cheaza looks stunned, and just keeps gasping for air. The group counseling session begins with Baby telling Cheaza she has the most beautiful voice. Cheaza cries into her hand and says, "I've been turned down for everything. I just wanna succeed at one thing in my life." All of the girls start whining back, "You will!" and "You have!" and "This is just the beginning!" and "Just not in my slot!"
The remaining fifteen walk with their arms around each other back to the hotel.
Either we just switched to a Popstars infomercial, or someone on the mixer needs to be fired. Some incredibly cheesy sound effects accompany split screens of the girls getting their makeovers.
Christina looks up at us with rollers in her hair and says, "This is the first time I've had something like this in my hair." I think they're keeping her just for the story. She'll get cut. "I can't wait to see the finished look," she snaps through her gum. "I'm excited." I still like her, though.
Ana Maria turns to the costumer and says, "No, I'm not too happy about that. I'd like to wear a bra."
Jean pulls some fabric from the front of her outfit and tells us she doesn't have the boobs to pull off the clothes they're giving her.
Baby walks out wearing a black bra with a chain-metal bra over it. She's stuffing every other part of her body into the ass of her pants as the costumer says: "It's a little too…not what we want to see." Cheesy graphics take over again and suddenly Baby's in jeans and a grey shirt, giving us the, "Oh, well!" face.
Rosanna is having a problem with her outfit. The problem is simple: they've made the dress slit all the way up to her crotch. If she does any sort of dancing (which, I think is still part of the audition process, right?) she's gonna pull a Sharon Stone. She says she doesn't have modesty issues, but this is sort of ridiculous. She says she doesn't want to "distract" and doesn't want to be "vulgar." Christina stands to her and agrees, but I think they make Rosanna wear the vulgar distraction anyway.
Margeaux stands and dances and looks at herself. Once again, we never hear her speak. Maybe she's got a lisp or something.
Petagay is trying to explain her personal style: "The thing with me is I'm very flexible. I love to [mumble, mumble]. It's kinda like B-Boy sexy. You can't tell right now. That's what we're going for." Cut to Petagay dancing in her new black pants and aqua blue shimmery halter-top.
"Are you changing my look?" Baby asks hesitantly. The make-up artist says they're going for "a sexy, sensual look" with Baby. This means washing off the whore parts on her face. Baby cuts in with a voice-over: "They did like this natural fresh look with me, and, um, it didn't do a lot for my eyes. But I was just not feeling it." We see Baby fidget with her new clothes, trying to figure out how to get her boobs and her butt to hang out of them. She tells us: "I'm funky and sexy and a little on the gaudy, tacky side sometimes. That's my personality." A little?
Margeaux tells someone she doesn't want her "boobies" to hang out. "You have to wear a bra?" someone asks incredulously. Nice work, there, insulting Margeaux's breast size right before y'all perform. Margeaux insists that yes, she does have to wear a bra.
The costumer runs up to Kerrie and pulls at her pants for a second. "You're showing a little skin," he says. "But not too much," Kerrie pants like a good Christian gal. "But not too abrasively," the costumer says. What does that mean? ["Maybe she has scaly skin or something?" -- niki]
Christina Petty is beaming. She should be. She's all pretty. "I feel good," she tells us. "I look so pretty. I don't think I've ever looked this nice." Petagay says she's so happy for her. Or she says "hot-looking." I can't tell over the deafening roar of the harpsichord they've got going on. We see Christina staring at herself in the mirror. "I don't think I've seen her this happy since we've been here," someone voice-overs. Someone takes a few pictures of Christina. "Did you see Christina's hair?" someone asks incredulously. Cut to Ana Maria telling someone, "She's so beautiful with that hair." Petagay tells Crystal, "I hope that's the boost that she needs. You know? Now she'll get out on stage and she'll do her thing." I love me some Petagay. She's so about everyone succeeding.
The makeovers are done. We see professional photographs of all of the girls post makeover. They are some pretty girls. The girls clump down an ally as the narrator tells us the Viper Room performance is coming up after the break. "Can they handle the pressure?" the narrator asks us right before the Tiny Squares of Girls and Fun fill the screen.
Oh, look. An O-Town commercial. Nice try. Our girls can sing, though.
Okay, we're at the Viper Room. Fifteen girls, five will be cut. They set the stage while the other girls half-move in rehearsing gestures. Travis and St. Elmo give some final words of advice. Basically, "Dance" and "Sing."
The camera swims through the girls. Christina says hello and says she's excited. Nicole tells us she's nervous.
This is gonna be hard to describe, but we then see the three groups of five sing this song and do the choreographed dance. They did this one at a time, but we get treated to a triple-screen of fun, which will make it hard for recapping. How about I just point out the highs and lows?
Group one: Christina, Petagay, Rosanna, Baby, and Kerrie. Kerrie has one hand on Baby's thigh. Petagay has her head on Rosanna's shoulder. Baby and Christina have Diva arms.
Group two: Nicole, T.V., Shaunda, Crystal, and Keitha Lind. Everyone is leaning to their right so far that Keitha Lind is sticking out like a sore thumb. Oh, that and she's wearing a giant silver snake instead of clothes.
Group three: Jean, Ana Maria, Ivette, Margeaux, and Camille. I think they went for some sort of Rent pose, here.
The three groups start dancing and the split screens start to move together. Each girl flirts with the audience during the incredibly long introduction to the song. It's like a magical MIDI.
Margeaux gets the first spotlight. "When I see you sad. [gasp!] With your head down low. [gasp!]"
Shaunda's up, but she's in the distance. "Didn't know what she had. She's a fool to let you go."
Petagay's pumping it up. "Wanna take away your pain. [incredible wheezy breath noise] Make her loss my gain."
Christina: "Know you haven't seen me yet."
Camille touches her hair: "Or thought of me that way."
Nicole slides around like she's on some heavy drugs: "But I've been watching you. Waiting for this day."
Hesitant and quiet and just off, T.V. rounds out: "I'll be all you need to forget her."
Baby, in complete disregard for what anyone has asked of her, has put on massive amounts of blue eyeshadow, eyebrow pencil, mascara, and eyeliner. She whores, "You'll see through different eyes."
They've made Ana Maria like Sporty Spice: "'Onna make you realize."
The girls all start dancing in unison for the chorus: "I'm not as naïve as you think I am. Know what goes on between a woman and a man. Don't act so serious, just take my hand. If you wanna know, can I do you right? Can I make you want me? You know I can."
The judges watch as the girls awkwardly strut into their places on the floor.
Kerrie's turn: "You've got perfect lips." What a strange little lyric, there. Anyway, Kerrie, as I called it during the pilot, looks great with her makeover. Very nice work on her.
"I always dreamed of kissing." Crystal, but her head is turned up, so we're just looking at her chest.
Jean: "When I wake up boy."
Kerrie again: "It's always you I'm missing." The other girls are slinking around her.
Jean: "Wanna be with the real you."
Crystal: "Come and make my dreams come true." Now the girls start to dance in a circle around the one girl who's singing lead. Keitha Lind: "I gotta go easy." Ivette: "Gotta take my time." The girls dance around her as someone cues the fog machine. "I got my arms here waiting."
Rosanna smashes her legs together and sings, "Help you cross the line!" She then Beyonce's over the rest of the girls. It's okay. We all know the chorus, which the girls sing here. Then we get the second part of the chorus, which seems to surprise Ivette to sing (or remember): "You look at me and see innocence. Might seem like I don't have experience." Now the music is gone completely and they just sing a capella with the screen busting out in three different squares to see fifteen little Barbie dolls strutting and gesturing. "Nothing you give to me is too intense. If you wanna know, can I do you right? Can I make you want me? You know I can." The small gathering of Viper Room attendees claps politely, wondering when Jonny Fists-Me and the Pukefest is gonna take the stage.
Club music takes over as the girls have celebratory hugs and cheers. Roger Love says without a trace of excitement, "I'm so proud of all of you. Really. You all rose fifty billion times."
Nicole tells us that she finally had someone to sing to. She finds someone and sings to him.
Ivette: "Everything comes together and you're not thinking anymore." Shaunda busts in with, "It's all gravy, baby."
T.V. tells us, "All I know is that I came alive. When I was on that stage we were given a chance to shine. A fair chance to shine. And that's all I ask for."
Christina takes a moment with us: "I was in no way, shape, or form nervous. I was relaxed. Finally, for the first time since I've been here."
Margeaux sits at a booth and smiles. "Margeaux the banker kinda left. And Margeaux the Popstar came out." They then repeat this "I shook my leg, Mama!" thing that I guess is some in-joke they forgot to let us in on.
Kerrie says she didn't realize until after they stopped singing that this was their last moment together, and this was the final part of the audition process. She says they should all be really proud and excited about what's going to happen.
There's more hugging and celebrating as the narrator tells us that the judges are right now deciding which five to cut right now.
Cut to the "Judges Room." The pieces of paper with names and Polaroids are back on the table. They look at a picture of Baby and Roger says that she's a little too wild, but if they told her to cut back and only let her do "fifty percent of it," she might be okay. "She still can sing," Roger says. But I'm sure he meant, "Can't." "Crystal Donahue!" someone shouts. They put her in the "maybe" pile. Someone else says they have to pick someone from the "maybe" pile to get cut. They pick two names and stick them at the end of the table. "To go," someone says. There are five girls in a line at the edge of the table. Those are the cuts.
The girls sit holding hands. Travis says he'll read the ten girls that are staying, "In no certain order." Margeaux Yap. Margeaux grimaces and smiles. "Nicole." Nicole bows her head and says, "Thank you," already learning how to act like a diva. "Ivette." She closes her eyes and smiles. "Camille." Camille squints and smiles. "Christina." Someone grabs Christina's chin as she starts to cry. "Ana Maria." She shows no emotion. "Kerrie." She smiles. "Jean." Jean smiles and hides behind Nicole's shoulder, since she knows we have no idea who she is or why she's come this far. "Rosanna." Rosanna pouts. "And…Shaunda." Shaunda exhales and wipes her eyes as everyone breaks out into applause.
The Corrs start playing again as everyone hugs and kisses. So many tears. Everyone's crying and hugging.
Check out the narrator, who is out of ways to say that people have been cut: "For those five girls that have come so far, the dream is now over for this day. But their dreams will go on." We hear the five cut girls with their Montage of Talent in slow motion. Crystal Donohue. Baby Norman. Can I get a Whoop-Whoop! Keitha Lind Brown. We never really got to find out anything about her, anyway. Petagay Rowe. Man. I was just starting to really like her, too. T.V. Carpio. Come on, we knew this was coming, anyway. She should have been cut the last time so Cheaza could have at least had the Viper Room performance.
We see all sorts of girl hugs as the narrator tells us there are now ten girls left, and within a week the judges will pick the final five. There aren't any more auditions or workshops, so now they're just going to sit back and choose five, which seems silly. Couldn't they have let the five that got cut tonight have a week to enjoy the moment before getting cut with the rest of them? Well, anyway. week the judges will go to each girl's house to tell her if she made it or not. Oh, the drama! I can't wait to see some pissed-off moms.
After the five girls are chosen they will start recording the album. This is some dumb editing work, here, because they flash by the girls in the studio recording, and you can totally see which five girls have been chosen. I won't tell you, but man. Dumb.