To find out more about how this crew of hungry young artists are preparing for their big break, we went to visit them in their bedroom studios back in China to hear about their personal paths to stardom.
As ever (she's something of a regular), the staff were both professional and delightful, and once it had been established that nothing was actually broken, we went home.
But the only reason why I had that perspective, to be honest, is because my brain broke on "Away We Go".
Then it broke and we went to Target and got a regular toaster.
However, they disintegrated when wet, stained the contents, and the clasps soon broke so we went sensible and bought lightweight, stiff, black plastic cases.
"When things like that happen, you say to yourself, 'My God, how many bad breaks are we going to have?' " the normally upbeat Minaya said.
Unfortunately, the spell broke when we went to get our camera: the movement caused her to run off into the desert.
"Whenever he felt like he was throwing too many breaking balls, we went right back to his fastball — his bread and butter," Barajas said, Barajas hit a solo home run in the second.
A story breaks, we then go to their home, we ask them to pose up, if they say no we'll move on and go away," Silva said.
"So I fly"—leap out of the ring—"and you're down there" (breaking my fall) "and we go into the seats.
