i actually really like that they decided not to set the amount of members. i appreciate how he's giving them motivation with the ranks, but not encouraging them to fight against each other and rather see each other as teammates. im really rooting for these girls

I love how Yuna was so supportive to Kaylee the way she encouraged jyp to try that sour candy. 😂

CRISTINA SAYING "that's our babyy!" ABOUT KAYLEE HAS ME IN TEARSS

Wow Melissa... For me personally, even without the dance stone yet, I can't imagine JYP not wanting her in the group... it's not just because she has a fantastic voice... but being a songwriter + able to make the audience feel those emotions... not an easy thing, because besides the talent you have to let yourself be very vulnerable...

Ain’t no way camila didn’t get in the top 5. She literally composed her own rap in 3 different languages.

Melissa seems like she's been singing in front of a large audience for years. She is so comfortable performing and confident!

All the girls performances were amazing but Melissa’s definitely was the highlight of the show for me. I feel like people don’t talk about her enough and it’s crazy cause this girl is so talented. Writing a whole song at the age of 13 AND it being a very emotional song isn’t easy at all. And not only that her vocal range and the way she controls her voice is always so shocking to me. Rooting for her throughout the way and I’m rlly hoping she debuts along side all the girls.

Melissa is something out this world. How can someone be this beautiful, strong and talented at such a young age? I thought I'd cringe at her 13 Yr old self song..I can't believe how many times I've rewatched her part. Same with her last performance. She is so strong and amazing that she should be a solo artist

This probably the first survival show ive watched all the way through. I just love that theres nothing but positivity, talent and love since everyone could debut

I love how Lexi and Yuna supported Kaylee’s performance by encouraging and persuading JYP to eat the candy lol. Love how everyone gets to express themselves individually. ❤ Also, how Yuna was getting emotional in Melissa’s performance touches m.

Lexus proved her star quality by showing her ability to be able to remember and pay attention to even the shortest interactions with people. Being able to remember interactions with fans and remembering what they said before the next time you meet them is an important quality for any star.

The way Kaylee just casually put another warhead in her mouth was so cute and funny 😂

As a youngster who grew up without a father, I completely understand Melissa. I felt her pain. While listening to the song lyrics and watching her perform, I found myself in tears.

Yuna crying while Melissa was singing is everything ❤

I actually cried during Melissa’s performance. Girl I cannot imagine the pain. I have difficult relationship with my father too so it hit a cord for me.

Melissa being that vulnerable and sharing such a personal story, while turning it into art was so inspiring and truly brought me to tears.

I'm loving the interactions between the girls and the conversations and jokes jyp encourages. All survival shows should be this wholesome wtf 😭😭😭

Kaylee randomly stopped on her performance and pulled out warheads candy was something else 😂😂 she even got JYP to tried it also. Maknae power!

Melissa is insanely talented with her singing and song writing! Even if she doesn’t debut as a k-pop artist she can seriously make it in the US - a record label needs to sign her!!!

i love how kaylee went from strong and fighting to eating candy, its such a kaylee thing to do LMAO

Melissa is really something special. She’s brave for being so vulnerable and tough as nails performing something so emotional in the most beautiful way. If she doesn’t become a star I will riot.

Kaylee really made JYP suffer eating Warheads 🤣That's something only a cute maknae can do.

Melissa gave me so many chills 😭 She’s so talented, i can’t imagine JYP wouldn’t want her in the group

i love gina’s expressions she’s always like 👁️👄👁️

I really liked Gina's performance. They asked her to show why she's a star and she literally introduced herself like she knew she was a star all along

I love the way gina watches the other contestant it’s like she’s mesmerized she smiles with her eyes big 😊

All the performances were amazing ! I am speechless. We can feel that the girls are improving so much. A2K has to be a 11 members group !

I’m a Japanese who watches all episodes of NIZI project. In the audition, JYP valued “personality” the most for the debut member. Even if they don’t have good skills, have all talents, contestants who has a good attitudes or great personality will be chosen. I really want them to debut! They are gonna be super cool group😊

Lexi’s ballet rendition of “Pop” was one of the coolest things someone could have done here

kaylee proving that she is the maknae of the group. cuteness overload!

My placement would be 1- Melissa 2- Lexus 3- Savannah 4- Gina 5- Kaylee / Camila

The way Melissa smiled after her performance like it was another happy song. We know how strong she is

Kaylee's segment is just perfect!She showed who she is right now. She doesn't need to act like an adult to be able to compete against older girls.

melissa needs to drop her song on streaming platforms, that's an amazingly well made song, can't believe she wrote it when she was 13, i would totally believe a well seasoned professional artist made it

"thats our baby" awwww i love how close everybody is getting already

I'm kinda sad that we didn't get to see Misha's full performance bc it was cut by the prod. She looks like a great contemporary dancer and I'm sure it might have deserved a top 5 rank but we'll never know :(

I'm sorry but lexi's smile is the cutest thing I have ever seen

They deserved the stones! This is the first time i see an audition which all members have their unique star quality and talents to show! 👏👏👏

not kg rolling her eyes at the beginning of lexi's performance

MELISSA. You are an amazing artist!! As someone who grew up without a father beside me, I felt the pain and overflowing emotions from your song. You sang it with your heart and I think that’s the most important thing when singing. I literally bawled my eyes out after hearing your song cause I can completely relate to it. You deserve the first place!! Keep going~ You have my support 🫶

Has anyone else noticed the way Gina looks at her teammates, she looks at them with admiration and her eyes shine

YUNNA DID SO WELL!! SO PROUD OF HER AND HER RANK! YUNA FIGHTING 💗

Camila was ROBBED. She definitely should’ve placed Top 5. Kendall’s performance was FINE but Camila showed skill and finesse and a talent that would 100% strengthen this group.

Melissa is outstanding. she would most definitely be an amazing part of this group. I hope he picks her as a final member. Her effort, maturity and drive is just beyond her years

*Melissa experienced the pain of a toxic relationship with a family member as a child and created a song out of it when she's just 13 yrs old. An artist indeed.*

30:50 JYP complimenting M, giving her the light touch on her shoulder and saying "I'm so proud of you", knowing she didn't get that from her dad.😭 This moment was so heartwarming and I'm so glad that JYP is there for her. She deserves all the love and support in the world.♥

Came back to listen to Melissa’s song again. I found myself humming the melody earlier .

It's honestly so funny to me how Lexus did EXACTLY what Mina did in Sixteen 😭❤

Everyone has such varying personalities. What I like about Lexi is how levelheaded, quiet, determined and humble she is. Gina is Korean, but still, she is so good at Korean. Maybe she is a genius, spoke Korean at home, gone to Korean school, etc. I think my biases are Cristina and Camila. So positive, strong, caring, loving. All deserved stones and the top 5 were deserved as well!

Melissa #1 for vocals. She can connect so deep emotionally 😢her experience flows through her and it puts her at a different level

Melissa's song is so heartbreaking. I know someone who's in the same situation. His dad left him when he was young, he's a grown up now and his dad has never been around although they live in the same city and they're not in contact anymore. He is now a father himself and he does his best to never be like his own dad. He loves and adores his daughter, doing his best to give the best care for his girl. It's almost like he's getting healed from the past through his own child. Melissa, I can see how genuine and loving person you are. I believe one day your own child(ren) will comfort you and heal your pain as well. You gave such comfort to a lot of people who're in the similar situation as yours through your song. You're a great artist.

Melissa's vocal and the spirit to let her pain go in a faithful way would definetely help the group and many people who suffer in similar circumstances and the positive way of her presence looks really encouraging. Lexus showed beautiful move on her ballet with strong control on her motion with stable balance, then the Pop move was really impressing as well as enthusing. Her sense on both fast motion and slow gentle one was really flawless. Surprised at Gina's fluency in three languages, the commercial acting of water was charming. Kaylee showed strong powerful taekwonmoo impressively. And her eating sour candy reminded me of NiziU MAKO who ate lemon without showing bitter impression and said tasty as Kaylee did, and she looked like just a cute girl next door. And loved Yuna encouraged JYPark to try the candy when Kaylee recommended him to. Also surprised that both Kendall and Yuna practiced Taekwondoo before. Really really interesting assembly of talented girls!

I infinitely love Melissa's voice, it's so heartbreaking and authentic. She definitely has to be in the group. Savanna's radiant energy is spectacular and Camila is sweet, full of surprises.

I like the friendships blooming within. Especially Kendall and Kaylee I hope they both debut. Plus Kendall is supportive too

My heart broke when Melissa sang. She is an absolute star that girl. Not just in her performance and songwriting abilities, but her character is on another maturity level that I haven't seen in adults.

I am so in love with Melissa. Her voice, emotion and performance are already professional singer. She will be a valuable member of the group if she debuts.

I love how Kaylee called out how Kendall knows taekwondo too. Really shows her humility and that she values her teammates!

JYP is certainly a great artist, a very strategic CEO and a philosopher. I love the quality of his comments.

Gina was sooo good. She wrote and performed an entire sketch comedy bit by herself. That commercial break part was funny, not even to mention the 3 languages she used seamlessly!

Ginas was soo amazing and literally so creative, she gives me such idol vibes, love her❤

The A2k team really has talent in every way possible….flexibility,art,singing,dancing,sourness🤣,strongness,lyrics and even more.It’s exiting to see a soon to be K-pop group with a lot of races and cultures.And even tho A2k is still in the process of debuting I know A2k will be on of my favorite groups.♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

I’m in love with Lexi and Yuna’s personality they seem SO sweet, totally rooting for them to debut! Plus I loved Melissa’s honesty and vulnerability, loved Kendall’s talent, Savanna’s gymnastic skills left me speechless, Camila being an all rounder… I overall loved this “star quality” round, and I think it made me love every member!

I love Gina shes so underrated. she's so talented she definitely is gonna debut!😄

Melissa’s performance made me cry because it hit me really hard

I can actually see all of them debuting. I've never seen such a talented, hardworking, and interesting cast in a survival show before. A testament to the girls and also to JYPE and JYP for organizing a show that really destroys harmful "kpop survival show" conventions.

Melissa inspired me with her song, i felt deep emotions as somesone who’s been in a toxic relationship with her father It’s not easy to stand there and sing perfectly about your child wound, she’s brave and truly an ARTIST i hope she debut She’s amazing and worth all the love in the world

Despite everything Melissa's been through, it seems she's truly grown up well. Those lyrics were so touching.

This star quality evaluation is so fun and unexpected and good for them to express themselves !! I'm happy how all of them got star quality stone!

Gina's talent was obviously languages, but besides that, being MC on a music show for example or starring in ads is super important to idols. She did such a good job and I was grinning the whole time!

JYP seems to be fathering these girls so kindly and positively.

watching A2K makes me realize how good jyp as a mentor. I don't know why people keep saying mean words towards him.

I couldn’t help but cry during Melissa’s song😭💕 She’s so talented

JYP truly felt Melissa’s song, and he is close to tears. Being a girl dad himself, maybe some aspects of the song have deeply affected his soul 🖤🖤

melissa’s performance actually had me tearing up

自分のスター性、強みを理解することは簡単では無いと思う。その中みんなは期待を超えるパフォーマンスだと思った 1位〜5位決められないほどみんなハイパフォーマンスで見てて面白かった A2Kファイティン🇺🇸

did anyone else cry when melissa performed?

CAMILA AND LEXI DEFINITELY GOTTA DEBUTE FOR REAL.

i really love gina!! she is so cute and she is always smiling watching the members i wish she could debut

LOL I love how Yuna and Lexi immediately jumped on JYP to eat the Warheads. That was cute. And Kaylee being absolutely stoneface with that in her mouth was insane. THEN she popped a lemon one in to assert her dominance further hahaha. My face twitches and spasms on its own when it hits. EDIT: Wow. Melissa's songwriting ability is on par with her expressiveness. Can you imagine how unstoppable she'll be as she grows? It's one thing to be hurt by someone, but it's another to be able to channel the emotions into a well-made song. And it's another thing, again, to be able to perform it flawlessly.

みんな魅力的だからみんなデビューしてほしい😂 1つのグループにするのが難しかったら2つのグループになっても良いからここにいるみんなの活躍が見たいです🎉

I really love how CHARACTER is evaluated in all JYP groups/survival shows. Like you can be the most talented, but if you don't have a good character, you won't flourish well here. JYPE artists are known to be the nicest idols in the industry.

I REALLY DON"T THINK YA'LL UNDERSTAND Melissa's performance was among the best i've seriously ever seen ( even among professionals). there are a lot of people who write songs but they don't really have the talent to deliver so much emotion to their audience Mellissa is a GEM she not only showed her talent in writing and let's remember this is a song she wrote at 13!!!! cause god knows some people write lyrics and are very technical about it but don't make sense. Melissa gave us a story that I know myself and others can relate to but she didn't just give the story she delivered the emotions SO WELL for a song she wrote at 13 it was so RAW and fresh. this is an emotion I'm still feeling even after her performance. I WAS AWSTRUCK BY HER. I SAW TALENT THAT YOU DON'T SEE EVEN IN ARTISTS NOW. yes, I had to CAPITALIZE THAT.

I felt very vulnerable when Melissa sang her song because I’m in a very similar situation with my father. If not worse (not trying to one up her). I very rarely see my father 3 times a year. I will see him on my birthday (if I’m lucky), my older and younger brothers birthday. And sometimes on Christmas. I related to that song so much I actually cried. The fact she has the strength to cut him out to move in for the better of her life shows that she is a very strong girl.

Melissa is such an amazing performer and her song is sooo relatable it must be released as her solo soon. The ability to sing such a deep hurtful song with all those emotions and keep composure is so amazing. I was crying my eyes out as soon as she spoke about her father because i know that feeling

I feel like Melissa is legit born to be a singer. Her vocals are outstanding, like whether she will do well or not in Kpop or to have such a powerful voice to even become a huge celebrity singer she has a fantastic vocal range. Its crazy. I hope she gets noticed by a record label because she is amazing.

MELISSA'S PERFORMANCE WAS SO EMOTIONAL, I LOVED IT

melissa's performance made me teary eyed.. i relate to her so much and it is SO brave of her to go up there and sing about it 💖

Melissa 😭 that was such an outstanding performance. I really want to see her on a K-pop stage with those types of songs.

The hug between Kendall and Melissa at the end is so sweet

When Cristina said "That’s our baby" about Kaylee I was about to cry myself 😭😭😭💗

I LOVE THIS SHOW , no competition, everyone has pure talent

I feel like kendall is jyps fav because i don’t understand how she always places 1-3rd even tho there are so much better ones than her ( don’t get me wrong i love kendall)

Melissa’s song was really something. It was so beautiful and the way she delivered it was amazing. So cool of her to show her vulnerable side.

Melissa is so special. That song left me in tears, it was so sad but so powerful. She has genuinely one of the most powerful voices I’ve ever heard. I love all the girls so much but she’s just so special

Keep rewatching Lexi. Esp her POP. She really knows her every movement and meaning behind it. Her facial expression/ smile/ confidence is sth else. And thanks JYP for being so genuine. He makes me fall in love with Kpop.

Kaylee is really a baby. She bought sour candy to eat without making faces. This is too cute for me.

The moment Melissa started singing, I feel sadness and emotions thru this song. She delivers it so well. Love her 💕

GOD! I would listen to Melissa singing all day. Love the emotions she puts in her singing. She's my favorite with Camilla ❤

Melissa’s song about her dad really touched me, it literally brought me to tears 😭 my dad left my life when i was around 6 because he didn’t pay child support and the police looked at his records and he got himself deported to Mexico, he’s allowed to come back now, actually since last year, but he won’t. he even keeps saying how he’ll send money bc he knows how much my mom struggles but it’s just words, he hasn’t sent a single dime. it hurts me every time he tells me “i love you” because i think in his eyes he doesn’t understand that he needs to show it and not just say it because i don’t understand at all his actions. i have him blocked since last year i can’t stand to hear his “i love you”‘s. when i was little, i cried missing my dad and now i rlly just cry because of how much he makes my mom suffer with his actions. 2 days ago i told my mom i loved her and hugged her which I never do because it’s hard for me to say that to anyone, but she was really stressed she always is because she’s rarely home and always working. after i hugged her i literally cried in front of her because i love her and i wish she didn’t have to be so stressed like obviously being a mother is stressful but working day and night then only sleeping 4 hours max before having to work again basically never being home then on days off she still needs to go to the grocery store without a car and puts food on our plates, like if only my dad just helped she wouldn’t be as stressed. I’m glad Melissa has moved on or at least is learning to move on, but for me idk why im still blindly hoping things will get better, im 17, & idk for how long i’ll have this hope but i think im still hoping because i cant forget our memories when i was young & because part of me wants to believe there was truth in his “i love you”‘s. plus im always seeing daughters with great relationships with their dads and i always hope that could be me someday. damn i didnt know i typed out so much so sorry for the long rant if anyone actually reads this 😭

Kaylee's performance was so well put together and really allowed her to show her strengths, plus the end was funny as hell