[music playing]
[phone ringing]
Hello.
This is Abby Lee.
Hello.
You know who he is?
Yes.
I'm like freaking out right now.
I'm a huge fan of MattyB.
He's like one of my favorite singers on YouTube.
I wonder what he wants.
[suspenseful music]
For this music video, they're picking a lead girl.
And this girl is going to sing vocals on the record.
If my girls want to be stars, they better
get acting like it right now.
Hi.
So what we're looking for is basically like this.
There's one girl who's going to be in MattyB's lead girl, OK?
That's kind of the main role that everyone's competing for.
And then there's going to be three more girls who
will be kind of the waitresses in the video,
kind of like level two.
And then the rest of girls will be level three.
We want to see what you guys-- how you interpret the music,
and what you would bring to the set.
Let's go one at a time.
Keep it upbeat. Keep it fun.
But don't-- don't rely on tricks,
because there's going to be a little to no tricks in this.
[MUSIC - MATTYB, "TURN UP THE TRACKS"]
(SINGING) It's MattyB.
Next.
(SINGING) Dancing in the streets with a little Georgia peach.
She begging me to stay home.
You know, that I wish I could.
Thank you.
Next.
MattyB is one of my favorite singers.
He's so cute.
And I just really hope that they pick me,
because it would be awesome if I could be in this video.
(SINGING) I just wanna dance.
Turn up the track and party.
Let me see your hands.
Turn up the track and turn up the track.
Turn up the track and party.
Let me see your hands.
[inaudible] hold on.
Mason, come on the floor.
Go.
Turn up.
Turn up the track.
I just wanna dance.
Turn up the track and party.
Mackenzie, thank you.
JoJo, come out.
(SINGING) Turn up the track.
And turn up the track.
I just wanna dance.
Turn up the track and party.
Turn up the track.
Thank you.
Now we're going to be focusing more on the vocal talent.
And we'll just do like a little acapella audition.
(SINGING) I just wanna dance.
Turn up the track and party.
Let me see your hands.
Turn up the track.
And turn up the track.
(SINGING) Turn up the track and party.
Let me see your hands.
Turn up the track.
Very nice.
[applause]
(SINGING) I just wanna dance.
Turn up the track and party.
(SINGING) Let me see your hands.
Turn up the track.
(SINGING) Let me see your hands.
Turn up the track.
(SINGING) Let me see you dance.
There you go.
(SINGING) Turn up the track.
Turn up the track.
Let me see your hands.
Turn up the track.
[inaudible] to get into it.
(SINGING) Turn up the track.
Thank you, JoJo.
And Ms. Mackenzie.
This music video girl.
Let's hear it.
(SINGING) I just wanna dance.
Turn up the track and party.
Let me see your hands.
Turn up the track.
All right.
Very nice.
Thank you.
Is that everyone?
Did we get everyone up?
So why don't we do this?
Let us talk it over a little bit.
Cool?
All right.
[inaudible], girls.
[suspenseful music]
I really liked Mackenzie for the lead.
She's MattyB's size.
She has experience doing videos.
But I'll tell you who gave her a run for her money.
That's JoJo.
Yeah.
I thought JoJo was really, really good.
Might be a good fit with her expression
from just from a personality standpoint.
But I feel like JoJo out--
out wanted it today.
I think MacKenzie could have stolen that part.
But JoJo was competing.
So I'm really back and forth between MacKenzie and JoJo.
Well, perhaps MacKenzie went into this thinking, well.
I'm the artist in this group and--
Yeah. No.
That type of stuff-- - I got this in the bag.
It doesn't work that way.
Hi, girls.
ALL: Hi.
How are you?
There he is.
Everybody had an amazing audition.
I think every single one of you could be a star lead
role in a music video.
The lead is Mackenzie.
[cheering and applause]
Yay!
I'm so excited that MacKenzie got the lead in the MattyB
video.
So this is a great way to end LA.
1, 2, 3. Shimmy.
[MUSIC - MATTYB, "TURN UP THE TRACKS"]
5, 6, 7, push.
And slide.
Here you go.
Good.
This is exciting, because this is what LA should be like--
working on a set of a music video.
But of course, Abby is throwing a wrench into it.
Oh!
She's an idiot.
Mackenzie has a lead role singing in this video.
Now, Melissa, her mother went ahead and signed a contract.
And that contract was for her to appear in the video, not
to sing.
If she is singing, she should be billed as a featured artist,
because McKenzie is a recording artist.
And as her manager, I am not going to let this happen.
There is no way that this kid is taking a step backwards.
She represents Mackenzie, Maddie, Kendall, and Nia.
All of our four kids, she is manager and--
MOTHER: Oh! - Right.
Well, you guys can let me know.
Thank you.
I guess my kids are being called and maybe yours too.
Why? Since when?
We've been talking about this for a week.
Why now?
I can understand--
Mackenzie.
--Mackenzie, because she's her own artist in itself.
But why would our kids be pulled?
Our kids have no reason to be pulled.
I have no idea.
We have to talk to Abby.
[sighs]
Abby has ruined every opportunity for Nia
that's come her way since you've been in LA.
Nia finally has an opportunity to make a splash in LA.
And I am not letting Abby take this one away.
They are my dancers here.
You are not here because your kid went to an open audition.
But this is the opportunity [inaudible] that was provided
to our girls.
And as their manager, I am telling you,
this could have been a wonderful thing.
Right now, it is not a good thing.
What has changed for our girls who are the dancers?
Nothing has changed for the dancers.
We're going to shoot a video.
And if anybody wants their daughter to be in it,
you guys can decide.
Just thought I'd throw that in.
Of course.
This little boy's manager is fine with the girls
being in his video.
Well, I guess we'll see who trusts me as their manager
and who doesn't.
I do want her on.
But I'm not going to.
And that's how I feel, but I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to--
Because I have to go back to the studio, which I went to
and make my child comfortable there.
Think it's easy for Melissa and Jill to side with Abby
and walk out.
But is it the right thing to do?
LA is a small town.
People know each other.
And I don't want Nia's reputation
to be damaged whatsoever by walking off on an opportunity.
As a person who said, on your honor,
I'm going to do this job.
How do you back out of the job now?
We're teaching them to be professionals.
We're teaching them to honor their word.
When we say you're going to do a job,
and you're-- you're able and capable of doing it,
nothing has changed since the beginning of the week.
Holly's right.
JoJo is staying and doing this music video.
It's a small world.
And you don't want to be at an audition
someday and have the choreographer go--
oh.
Don't use her.
Her mom pulled her out when I was halfway through a project
one day.
Like come on, Abby.
Oh!
She's gone.
Once again, Holly has stabbed me in the back.
She's the only original ALDC member
that is staying to participate in this video.
She obviously doesn't trust me as her manager.
We have our last competition in LA tomorrow.
And at this point, I'm not sure I even
want Holly and Nia to attend.
They didn't stand by the team today.
So I'm not so sure they should be standing with the team
tomorrow. - Can't do it.
Come on.
Let's go get dressed.
Come on, guys.
I tried several times to get Mackenzie back on.
And Abby wasn't having it.
She wasn't changing her mind.
Regardless, this is Abby's decision, not mine.
And the other moms should listen to Abby more often.
And maybe things would happen more for their kids.
So do you want to do it, Nia?
Because there's no going back after this.
Like if you want to go, like I'm just being upfront.
She's had a rough time with Abby and LA.
She's going to torture me if I do it.
[laughter]
I know Abby is going to be really upset if I
do this video.
But I really want to do it.
I'm going to do it anyways.
MOTHER: Obviously, I didn't start off LA trip
on a high note with Abby.
Definitely not going to end on a high note.
Abby doesn't forget anything.