Kaya

Walk This Way (1x2)

Air date: Oct 29, 2007

Kaya lingers at her hotel room window, taking in the sun's rays, when the doorbell rings. It's Kaya's friend Natalee, who tells Kaya that bloggers and tabloids are going berserk over her onstage antics that left her band, Crossing Coldwater, high and dry in front of a live audience. The rising rock star slumps down on the couch, feeling like the whole world is out to get her. Over at Metro Sound, the record label fat cats meet with Kaya's father/manager, trying to concoct an excuse the media will buy about why Kaya walked off stage. Dehydration? Exhaustion? Drugs? After deciding on a game plan, they blame her father for the fiasco, chastising him for his inability to keep Kaya under his thumb. As Natalee rushes an extremely late Kaya to the recording studio, Kaya wonders where she stands with her bandmates Gunnar, Taylor and Manny. She's fearful that they might throw in the towel. Meanwhile, in the studio, her bandmates are discussing the exact same thing. They're afraid she's going to walk out on them. When Kaya arrives, the tension is thick. Flashback to a small garage, as a fledgling band argues over whether they should name themselves Genitalia. Yup, that's the name Crossing Coldwater originally wanted to go with. Well, at least that's the name Gunnar, Taylor and Manny picked out. But, after realizing it didn't really sum up their vibe -- and Taylor mentioned that it takes him an hour to cross over Coldwater Canyon to get home -- they decided on Crossing Coldwater. Now, that same band sits in the studio, facing a mountain of problems. Kaya apologizes, saying she didn't think about how her actions would affect the rest of the band. Relieved, everyone decides it's time to start over, and they begin to record a new song, "Kiss and Make Up." As Kaya builds into the chorus, the door opens. In rushes Rossi, an executive from Metro Sound. He stands there staring at Kaya, then says that the label won't spend millions of dollars so that she can walk offsta