- Woo, big day today, yeah. - One, two, three!
(upbeat rock music)
- So, you've never been in here.
Do you have any questions? - Uh.
So today was my first recording session
and I was kinda nervous coming in.
Growing up, you always mess around.
You have like headphones on, and you're like jamming out.
You sing it to like the fan or whatever.
♪ Wake up, wake up if it's all you do ♪
♪ Look out, look inside of you ♪
♪ It's not what you lost, it's what you'll gain ♪
♪ Raising your voice to the rain ♪
- I think Charlie, and Owen, and Madison,
I think this may be their very first
experience in a recording studio.
- Being in like a real recording studio was like surreal.
I was like, "Ooh, I'm recording now."
'Cause that's what you do when you are making an album.
- That spark - That, yeah, yes.
That's perfect.
- Max had told us that like
it takes maybe like 20, 15 minutes of like getting
into the session to get used to like the headset,
hearing yourself, but hearing the music in the other one.
It was the perfect find.
- Right after that you do this falsetto thing.
- Oh, uh,
♪ Wake up, wake up, if it's all you do ♪
- Mm. - Yeah.
♪ Wake up, wake up, if it's all you do ♪
♪ Look out, look inside of you ♪
Wanted to make sure that this song was like
really good and soulful,
that it had the emotions, but it had,
the message was clear also.
The audience would like not only feel the emotion
but also understand what I'm saying.
♪ Relight that spark ♪
♪ Time to come out of the dark ♪
♪ Wake up ♪
♪ Mm, wake up ♪
(group cheering)
It was fun, though.
As soon as I got the first pass, I was just kinda like,
I'm comfortable now.
♪ First things first ♪
♪ We start the scene in reverse ♪
♪ All of the lines rehearsed ♪
♪ Disappeared from my mind ♪
- When I perform with the guys, it's just like, I let loose
because they're there to support me
and we're there to support each other.
So I'm really excited to get in the booth with them tomorrow
and record "Bright."
- Yo, so welcome to my crib.
Right over here is the bean bag chairs.
It's pretty fun.
I wish I could show you around more,
I got a couple of recordings in this place soon.
That's what free loaders look like.
(upbeat music)
- Ready to do "Bright"? - Yeah.
- Yes! - "Bright!"
- Everybody's come so far in such a short amount
of time that I'm just really excited to get in the studio.
I think it will be pretty awesome, pretty magical,
and it'll be fun to see it all finally come together.
- Yeah, everyone's been like so helpful.
Having the people to like coach us and teach us,
like Max our vocal,
like he's incredibly talented and he's sitting there
and like kind of working us through the harmonies.
That makes it a little easier
than going in and singing it live.
- They're always going to have a support system
around them and continue to grow,
continue to learn, continue to blossom.
♪ Life is a risk but we will take it ♪
♪ Close my eyes and jump ♪
♪ Together I think that we can make it ♪
♪ Come on, let's run ♪
(group cheering and screaming)
- [Kenny] You can hold it out another beat and a half.
- Okay. - Right on top of it!
- I'm sweating. I'm sweating in here.
- What they're learning is how to take care of themselves
and how to pace themselves, maintaining their voices,
taking care of their voices, coming to understand
that you don't only warm up, but you warm down
and that probably talk a little bit less now
because you're recording an album.
♪ Life is a risk but I will take it ♪
♪ Close my eyes and jump ♪
♪ Together I think that we can make it ♪
♪ Come on, let's run ♪
- Woo! - Oh!
- Your voice is on fire today, girl.
- It's the onion rings. (laughing)
I feel fine right now.
I mean, the way I felt earlier was just like nerves
and like overthinking.
Now I just feel fine.
Like, you know, I got through it and like, I'm ready
for the rest of the recording sessions
that are gonna come.
♪ Bright forever ♪
- I love it. Now we go up.
Yeah! - Ever!
- That's it! That's the note! - Yeah!
♪ Ever ♪
- Clean, clean! - Yeah!
- Yes, girl, we're good,
you never have to do it again. - Yas queen!
- And now you know that you have that note.
That's kind of a max, like that's high.
(upbeat music)
- Everyday coming to work,
I was like, "I wonder what we're gonna do today,"
because never know what's gonna happen in the session.
We bring something different to the table every day.
♪ And find the spark ♪
♪ And rise through the night, you and I ♪
♪ We will fight to shine together ♪
♪ Bright forever ♪
- I can't wait to actually hear the final product,
it's really gonna be exciting to be in a car
and hear your daughter singing a song that
a whole bunch of people, soon, in a few months,
are gonna be hearing it.
- And now we're able to do some quick comps
and give them an idea of what everything's sounding like.
And they seem to be pretty pleased.
- How loud? Like medium loud or loud loud?
- Loud! - Loud!
- All right. - First time.
♪ If I leave you on a bad note ♪
♪ Leave you on a sad note ♪
♪ Guess that means I'm buying lunch that day ♪
♪ I know all your secrets ♪
♪ You know all my deep-dish ♪
♪ Guess that means some things they never ♪
- They all came in, and I think that in the beginning,
they were all kind of overwhelmed a bit
and stood in wonderment.
Is this really happening?
I mean, both Charlie and Madison moved to tears
in an awakening to, "Wow, we're really doing this.
We're really here.
And isn't this wonderful.
It's where we want to be.
And it's what we want to do."
♪ My life, my life would be real low, zero, flying solo ♪
♪ My life, my life would be real low, zero ♪
♪ Flying solo without you ♪
- Oh! - Yo!
♪ You ♪
Yo! (group cheering)
- Yes! - Finally!
- Man, wow. - Yes.
- That was amazing. - That was so good.
- Marked it, look. - Thank you so much.
- [Alana] You killed it.
You were good. - That was so good.
- I mean, like, I had all the good stuff to work with, so.
It was not hard.
- Wow. - So good!