We cut to the studio, where the girls are working on another single. We're told that the girls are trying to "adjust to the pressures of living together." This is done by showing a clip of Ivette rubbing her forehead. She tells us, "It isn't always an easy thing." Oh, that smells like a new single. The girls are going to find out they have twenty-four hours to come up with a production number to perform in front of a live audience. The narrator says the audience will be composed of hundreds of television critics, and that the performance "could make or break their careers." Yes. Because the television critics have the final word on all pop groups. I remember how the New Kids totally lost album sales when TV Guide gave them a "Jeers." Tiny Squares of Girls and Fun.
The opening credits now include verses from the song, and not just the "oh"s. That means the opening credits (there are no names, only flashing photos) are now even longer.
Apparently six weeks have passed since the girls moved into the studio. Oh, I guess we won't get to see any of the conflicts from that time. Now they just live together and everyone's happy. Great. What kind of reality show is this? We're introduced to the producer, Chris Farren, who worked with 98˚, so you know these girls are with the best of the best. Farren kind of looks like an exhausted Chris Elliott, who already looks pretty exhausted at all times. He tells the girls that he wants to spend "a minute or two" on the bridge of the new song, and then move on from there. As Ivette practices "You Know I Can" in the studio, she split-screens to tell us that you can practice as much as you want, but you could still end up sucking behind the microphone.
Cut to Nicole having an orgasm behind her microphone. In a split screen she tells us she's never done anything like this before. Farren laughs and stops Nicole's moaning. "Great! Let's go again. Nothing to say. Just keep doing that." She's going to hear those four sentences a lot in life, I think.
We flash through the other girls singing. Rosanna hits a note that causes Farren's spine to arch up like a cat in heat. Because there's nothing interesting or entertaining about this show anymore, we're forced to just watch the levels go up and down on the mixer.
The narrator: "While there's harmony in the studio today, back at the house, the girls are trying to adjust to living together." See, aside from the stupid pun, there really isn't any conflict in that sentence. And there isn't any that they're showing us here, either. I guess they want us all to think these girls are sweet as honey, so we'll buy their album. We watch Rosanna make coffee, Ana Maria apply lip liner, and Ivette grab some breakfast. Can you handle this much conflict? Can you?
Ivette tells us that one of the nice things about a job is that when you go home, you aren't with your co-workers anymore. She doesn't have that. She also isn't allowed to go out of the house and have any life other than with these girls.
Nicole's wearing glasses to make herself look smarter, and she's wearing darker lip-liner on the outside of her lips than the gloss inside to make herself look sluttier. She says she's learning more about the girls every day, learning the boundaries each girl has. To illustrate, they split-screen to the girls sitting in a circle working on their harmonies. Because there's nothing else to show, I guess. Nicole says the first half of a sentence, but they cut her off before she ever comes near something resembling a point. I guess so she doesn't hurt herself on the sharp object.
Maile tells us that many people need quiet time and it's hard to get in a house of five women.
The narrator tells us that the girls are learning how to work through their differences, and I guess it's a good thing he told us because otherwise we'd have no idea there were differences, or what steps, if any, they were taking to resolve the conflicts. It doesn't matter, because the girls are back at the studio to record their single. "Love This Way." The audio goes funky here, as they've obviously changed either the title of the song or the first producer. We're having to hear about the producers again. They are Carsten Lindberg and Joachim A. Svare. They've worked with Mandy Moore and Monica. When, exactly, am I supposed to start getting impressed with any of these people?
Ana Maria is singing the ballad and is stopped by Joachim (I guess), and he says he just wants her to sing a smaller part of the song. Ana Maria split-screens to tell us how she gets into the zone when she sings and pretends that she's not behind a mic in a studio, but is in front of an audience. The other side of the screen is Ana Maria standing in a room with a tiny plate of candles, all bundled up. She's trying everything to stay warm, isn't she? Those candles are so sad looking.