Sirens

Bad Boys

Ep. 4

9. Bad Boys Are A Rock-And-Roll Tradition

Caitlynn stands with Gustavo and Kelly in the sound booth as they watch the boys perform one of their newer songs, "The City is Ours." She was killing time until her meeting for her photoshoot for The Sirens solo promo shots later that week. Due to that, she's been on a little bit of a fashion kick.

This mostly meant she was walking around criticizing what people were wearing. To be fair, she was mostly right.

When their performance ends, Gustavo walks out of the sound booth down to where the boys were. Kelly and Caitlynn follow him.

"Gustavo, the song is great," Kendall says.

"Um, of course, it's great, I wrote it," Gustavo remarks. Kelly rolls her eyes. "But the band isn't great! What's missing is the secret rock-and-roll ingredient," He says, and as he walks down the line, the boys shout out suggestions.

"Hair mousse."

"Chocolate mousse!"

"Spandex? Please don't say spandex."

"A good fashion sense?" Caitlynn jokes. The boys look at her with offended looks, but she just shrugs. "Kendall, don't look at me like that. You're wearing a bowling shirt."

"The bad boy!" Gustavo shouts. "The ill-tempered rebel with a flair for synchronized dance!"

"Is that a rock-and-roll thing?" Caitlynn asks Kelly. Kelly just shakes her head with a shrug, "I'm not sure, I don't think it matters anyway."

"One of you has to be it. I say it's Kendall." Gustavo reveals. Caitlynn squints at the boy and tilts her head. "I can see it."

Kelly nods. "Same here."

"What?" Kendall protests. "Gustavo, why do we need a bad boy? And Cait, why do you agree with him?"

Kelly brings out her phone and plays a voicemail from Griffin, "Gustavo, the band needs a bad boy. Bye."

"Oh come on," Caitlynn laughs, "You can't tell me you're not already the bad boy?" At Kendall's incredulous look, she continues, "You're the leader already, you talk back to Gustavo all the time, and you disagree with every decision management makes to go your own way. I'm not saying it doesn't work, but it's definitely what the bad boy does."

The other boys nod along.

"She's right," Carlos says.

"Yeah, you do all that already," James agrees. Logan just nods. Kendall groans. Gustavo pulls the group out to look at the bands on the wall and emphasize how important the tradition is to the company.

"Boyquake. Notice the back turned to the rest of the band," Gustavo points out the bad boy in the group. "Bad boy."

He leads them to another poster. "Boy blast. Notice, the back turned, the dark clothing, and the scowl. Bad boy."

"But there can only be one bad boy per group, as learned from the bad boys' experiment of '95." Kelly pulls the Boy Blast poster off the wall to reveal the Bad Boyz poster underneath.

"Didn't sell a single CD!" Gustavo shouts. Caitlynn crosses her arms and stares at the poster. "I feel like there were other contributing factors to that."

"But we're best friends, we never turn our back on each other," Kendall protests, and the rest of the boys agree.

"You don't actually have to turn your back on them," Caitlynn says. Gustavo shakes his head. "Yes he does, it's what bad boys do."