Upon speaking with some members of O-Town (the chosen five band members from Making the Band) it became clear that this exciting road to fame isn't without its potholes.

"It got difficult at certain times," Erik Michael Estrada explains, "especially since I'm an only child and I need time alone. Just being raised that way, I need time alone. I'm an artist and some of by best work in music and song writing is done when I'm alone. With the cameras there, you can't be alone as much as you want to. I think that was the most difficult part. It got frustrating at certain times."

Bandmate Jacob Underwood agreed that the cameras took some getting used to. "At first it was an invasion of privacy for anybody, because there areno locks on the doors; there's no time when you're not free game. It was kind of rought for like the first two weeks and then we all kind of adapted."

Once the boys got adjusted to living infront of cameras, they ran into other problems. "Yeah, one time they printed our address in the Orlando Sentinel," recalls Ashley Angel. "So, they printed that address and like two days later we were driving home from rehearsal and a news van was followin us. We had to run inside because at that point we were trying to keep our identities secret."

Jacob also reminds us that "viewers are seeing us at our worst. They see us when we look really gross, like when we don't do our hair before rehearsal or we're biting our nails or picking our nose or something. I think people can relate it though. 'Oh, he's real. He's doing something real.'"

As the final addition to the group after the departure of Ikaika Kahoana, Dan Miller was thrown right into the middle of the madness. He notes that having the group's progression taped and televised before his arrival helped him understand what happened before he joined O-town. "It's weird because a lot of stuff that happened, I don't know about. I'm here now, but I don't know what happened in the weeks prior. I know little bits and pieces of what they've told me, but I don't know what's been happening. So I'm sitting there going, 'wow, that's what you guys did? This is what happened?' So it's crazy," he says.

Trevor Penick points out one of the best aspects to us. "I liked the experience a lot because you get to have the greatest moments in your life caught on camera. It's not something that everyone can say." Although, like that annoying uncle with the camcorder at the family barbecue, after a while, enough is enough. "At the end you just got completely annoyed," Trevor explains. "Like the last two weeks, you just wanted it to be over so bad. Now that it's over, I want the cameras back again."

Well, Trevor, the, er, good news is that Making the Band is coming back for a second season in the spring. "I am so pumped there's going to be a second season," Erik enthuses. "Now that we've already been through it, we know how important it is to be totally genuine. We tend not to be as genuine as we are as people because of the cameras. Because you always want to have this private life. And it's private life that people need to see so they can relate. So you kind of eliminate the whole power of the show when you try to hid stuff. Now that we've learned that, it's going to be the best season."