The crowd screams and Alexa introduces the last song, “Teenage Calamity.” There’s a chant of “Fair Fight rules!” which turns into a chant of “Alexa!” and she replies, “I love you all!”
And this is where we came in. After the performance, Alexa’s riding a high, her face a mess of emotions. And Frank is down the hall nearly crying. Earlier, he had said that while MTV may have picked him for this “role,” he wasn’t going to be a bullshit MTV guy. He’s going to keep in touch with Alexa, to serve as a mentor. In the middle of the hall, Alexa’s mother and Becca’s mother are clucking over Frank: “When I first met him I was like, ‘Oh, god,’ but he was really impressive. The things I heard him say are really wise.”
Brought in for the last week of filming, another Made producer, Kristi, a dead ringer for Veronica Mars, asks Frank to fill in the blanks: “When I first met Alexa she was blank, and now she is blank.” Frank freezes up. “No, no, Kristi, give me a break,” he says. The other camera has moved past Alexa, who is now shrieking unintelligibly with her friends. Her best friend, Sarah Mann Byrd, calls tonight “a gift for them too. They can see who she really is. Everyone goes crazy when Josh is around.”
The cameras are on the sax player, Kevin. He’s sweaty in his Pink Floyd shirt, standing in front of the MTV camera, answering the same question: “Alexa used to be blank, and now she is blank.” He looks at the camera and proclaims the truth: “She has the essence of rock.”
MTV’s Made episode featuring Fair Fight premieres Monday, January 23 at 3:30 pm and repeats January 24 at 2:30 pm, January 25 at 9 pm, January 26 at 11 pm, and January 29 at 10 am and 6 pm.
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MTV's Made: http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/made/series.jhtml
Waltham: http://www.walthamtheband.com/
