Testimonials

Now that the niceties are over, it's time to recap the year for both the bands and Brillo. The guys are on their second single. They have to keep working hard to get it moving up the charts. Brillo has a harder road to travel. His sales were decent, but he's on the same path as every other recording artist. Diddy compares him to Rihanna, saying that Rihanna is big now but she's also on her third album. So Brillo needs to stay focused. Now he wants to see the girls alone. So everyone else should keep doing what they're doing, and he'll see them later.

Dramatic music plays, and Diddy recounts their four year long relationship together. He says it's been great watching them grow, and his proudest moment was watching them on tour. But even with all the awards and record sales, he's unsure about the future of the group. He says part of their lives are in front of the camera and part of their lives are when the cameras are off. And now they're at a crossroads. He needs honest, real talk about where the group is going. He says that the reality of the situation has changed with the vision.

He starts with Aundrea by saying that a few months ago, he received an email saying that she was thinking about leaving the group. Aundrea gets choked up and says there's a lot of internal things. He asks her to elaborate. She says that she was going through a lot of personal things on top of issues with the group. Aundrea says that her dream was to be in the group, and she just wants to sing. She doesn't want to act to do all the other stuff; it feels forced.

Diddy calls it out and say, "You and Aubrey don't get along, right?" Aundrea backtracks and tries to say that's not it. Diddy turns the focus to Orangebrey and says that he also received an uphappy email from her. She says that she never wanted to quit the group, but she's fed up with feeling unhappy in different situations. Orangebrey looks around and asks if it's okay that she brings up things they've talked about before. No one says anything, so she carries on. She says that it's hard enough keeping five women together but what makes it especially hard is the amount of non-support they've received from management. She says that they've had bad seed after bad seed, and it makes it hard for them to pull their act together. I'm not exactly sure specifically what she is talking about, but I bet it has something to do with Nurse Margaret.

Orangebrey continues, saying that they need parents in the house to keep the five sisters straight. Then Orangey says there's also a lack of trust. And it's hard to feel like there's a future for the group when they have outside ears coming in all the time saying that Diddy wants to move forward solo with different people. She brings up Dawn going solo, and says that nothing can exist without communication.

Diddy changes the subject and says that there's an obvious click in the group and that's Orangebrey and D. Woods. He thinks it's weird how divided it is and that Aundrea and Orangey never talk.

Finally Dawn gets real. She says that they are never all together. After the show, they go separate ways. They all have different commitments that seem to come before the group. And all the personal issues get in the way with the business end. She said they talk to each other, but they don't really TALK to each other.

D.Woods and Orangebrey skirt the "click" issue. D says that she has a special relationship with everyone in the group, but her relationship with Orangebrey is more obvious because they're together more. Shannon chimes in saying that they have the potential, they just need to refocus. Diddy says that they always blame him, but he's tired of looking like the bad guy. They were blessed with a once in a life time opportunity, and it could go away right now. Not because of him, but because they are doing it to themselves.

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