Rockstar Supernova was moving!
Rockstar Supernova was moving! By Roxanne McDonald
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Rockstar Supernova, Tuesday, August 29, 2006 was a moving recap of the emotions and follow-up of Dilana’s comments to Ryan and to the press last week. After she had apologized on the show, back at the mansion, Brooke reports, emotions were still raw. |
Storm offers to toast, and Dilana is reticent. Lukas says to her and everyone at the dinner table that “life is a constant clinic.”
Though they were forgiving and supportive, supporting her by telling her to overcome it, a choked-up Dilana says it will take her a while to get over it. She feels, she tells the camera, her whole world has ended (implicit in this end is also the end of her rock career).
Having drinks with Magni and Lukas poolside, however, the cameras move in and piss her off. She flips the bird, then smashes a glass, which bounces back to hit Magni in the head, leaving a hefty gash over his brow.
Toby, sweeping up the wreckage, says he doesn’t get it: “She’s probably one of the sweetest broads here ….” Some people can’t handle the climb to rockstardom he says.
Back on the stage of RockStar Supernova, Brooke asks Dave what he thinks, and he notes that yes, emotions are still obviously raw. But he would like to put this thing to bed, he says, and asks Magni how his head is. Magni says that it’s “just a flesh wound,” and that “I’ve cut myself worse shaving.” Dave then checks in with Dilana, who says she is stronger than ever before and that she will never ever dis her friends like that again.
We get scenes of the players checking the fan comments on the website, as we are reminded that this week the songs the group will do have been chosen by us, the viewers / fans.
Lukas is up first. He has told the cameras that “hopefully, the fans will see me for what I am – just a hard working person.” He adds that he jams most often, but when he’s not practicing his art he is playing basketball; he loves video games; and was not long ago working at Hooters and flipping burgers. He does “Lithium” – soft and seamless to start, then authentic with wailing, and then closing with a tongue to the mic.
Dave, in mock disgust no one is really sure is fake at first, stresses how Lukas took a classic Nirvana song and rearranged it like that … which after a moment of Lukas hesitating in dumb response says was awesome. Tommy agrees, Gilbey says, “I think your best performance that I’ve seen on the show so far,” and Jason caps the good responses with, “Way to start the show” and “Good job.”
Magni says to cameras that statistically, if he’s in the bottom three again this week he’s going home. Then he jokes with America, soliciting their sympathy (and votes) by saying we should face it: he’s a lot better looking than Toby … and he has learned the language! He does the song “I alone”, rocking it in his Eddie Vedder intonations, working the audience, and, evidently, raising the game. Dave says, “Man, that boy can sing!” Tommy wishes Magni had gone all the way through the crowd to the ones in the far back, but Magni jokingly says, “You know, I was gonna, but then a little voice in my head said,’No lighting,’ and you gotta look good.” Jason and Gilbey agree with Dave and Tommy that he did an awesome job.
By the way, Brooke announces that Supernova world tour tix are on sale now!
Ryan’s moment has him first commenting on how he was early on dubbed by Dave the Dark Horse. He gives nods to how at first he was a “little lost” and yet he hung in there, he says, getting better and better. “As long as my true self keeps coming out I feel like I can win this,” he adds. Then he does a unique Dark Horse version of Cold Play’s “Clocks”. He starts out absolutely pristine, playing piano and singing the intro, then kicks the bench away, jumps up on TOP of the piano, and rips into the song’s guts.
If I heard right, Jason tells Ryan that piano and voice are his forte and that he kinda loses the plot when he gets out in front. But Dave prefaces his critique with how it’s gonna be a tough night and says how Ryan’s willingness to jump and stand on the piano was ballsy, while Gilbey thinks the performance was inspired.
In her preliminary talk, Storm speaks of how she has never done the song the fans have chosen for her tonight, and how she doesn’t know anything about the vocals. But she brings it with “Bring Me to Life,” and adds substance on top of substance by having Toby do back-up vocals, which he delivers in punkish, jabbing, interjections that harmonize and amp up the song. Dave admits that when he heard she was assigned this piece he was worried she wouldn’t have the right register … but comments that she did it. While Gilbey says she wasn’t there for him, Jason softens the remark by noting that effort counts a lot. Toby got the props too, as one who “stole a little bit of the heat.” (See, I told you.)
Toby takes his turn, after cams show him and the boys playin’ pie-in-the-face at the dinner table and teasing and rough-housing (sound like my mother there, sorry). He does a simulation of Billy Idol, with “Rebel Yell,” that is current, loud, and almost spot on. But why do Toby’s songs all feel so cranked out, so speeded up? Almost manic for me, but with his invitation to moshers to come up on stage and dance and writhe while he sings, and with his prompting the crowd to finish the lines with “more, more, more,” the wunderkind rocker from down under elicits props. Dave says he was worried that Toby might not be able to deliver as Lukas did with the same song weeks back (which Toby agrees he too worried about), but that he pulled it off … that the crowd interaction thing was great, etc.. Jason and Gilbey agree, and Tommy, giving nods, also adds his classic, flirty wink-wink “… get those girls back to my dressing room” repertoire.
As is likely the planning of the staff and creators and producers of the show, Dilana closes the show. After a replaying of some of her softer, more contrite, and thoughtful moments, and after some replayed clips of her jamming with Supernova, she says (ala Tommy Lee) learning her lessons” and moving on…. And move on she does with an original (of course) rendition of “Mother, Mother,” which Dave is most impressed by. “Out of two seasons of Rock Star, that might be my favorite of all.” He finalizes his comments on the whole drama / debacle, saying we all say stupid things to the press; and Tommy picks up with how we must learn from our mistakes and hopefully not make them again. That’s the key to mistakes, man. You need them to help you learn, but then you get the opportunity to put them to practice when they come back in a different shape. Hey, last season, JD said to everyone and God that he wanted the gig MORE than any other rocker there. He was raked over the mansion coals for it, he had to suffer extra air play over it, but we got what he meant and he got … the front man job.
Who knows how things backfire, upsweep, or overwhelm and transform?
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