Rock Star: Supernova - Week 9 Reality

Now that things are working again around here...back to nit-picking Rock Star: Supernova.  I didn’t get a chance to write up the web-broadcast reality episode last night, so it’s a little late.

Read on…

So guess who was all over the reality episode again? Our favorite selfish phony, Dilana (Smith) Robichaux. So she's upset at the beating she took on the show...which she deserved. Poor baby.

Something that really bothered me was at the dinner table, she said that it was "so hard to not be herself." She was talking about this idea that she can no longer speak her mind and be "honest" (which she never was. Honesty does not equal snarky, self-involved bitchiness to the Nth degree).

All I could think was "It's hard for you not to be a raging asshole to everyone? Wow. Way to let people know you aren't cut out to be in a band, sweetheart."

Then, later that day according to the timeline laid out by her saying the photoshoot (we'll get to that) was the very next day, she flips out on a cameraman. Hey Dilana, you frigging rocket scientist you. You're on a fucking reality show. No one would know your frigging name if it weren't for those cameras.

Now, that's bad enough. But her reaction is pure childish selfishness. She smashes a glass on the concrete and a chunk flies up and cuts Magni's head open.

Get this: HER FANS ARE BLAMING LUKAS FOR STIRRING UP SHIT! Fuck that and, for the first time, I'm saying fuck her fans, at least the ones that tried to pin this drama on Lukas. She was the drama queen, she physically injured someone because of her incessant selfishness, and anyone who doesn't see that is simply being a blindly loyal useful idiot.

Lukas was 100% right in everything he said and did on the show. Yes, I know he supported Dilana during the taping of the performance show, but note this: He criticized the fact that the show was reveling in her pain and that they were broadcasting it to millions. He did not defend her ridiculous actions.

The Dilana faithful need to understand that difference.

Apparently, from what we heard from folks who were at the taping, so does Jason Newsted. I don't read spoilers about the tapings, but my wife does, and she read me some non-performance-related stuff about the reality show response. Newkid went off on a profanity-laced tirade about how the reality show was twisting things, and that Supernova knew exactly what went down, blah blah blah. You'll likely never see any of that in TV, as it would be too much of an attack on the show itself and there's no way Mark Burnett will air it.

However.

I take issue with Newkid's point, that the footage we saw wasn't the whole story. I don't care what the whole story is. FACT: She flipped out on a cameraman on the set of a reality show. FACT: She smashed a glass onto the concrete in a tantrum. FACT: A piece of glass actually cut Magni's head open. In fact, if you watch the video, shards fly all over him. A lot of glass bounced off his face, chest and head.

Would Newsted be defending her if that glass had flown in Magni's eye and he lost sight in that eye? Would he be defending her if by some freak chance, the glass shard flew down Magni's throat throat and damaged his vocal chords? Would he be so hot to defend her if she took away Magni's ability to see his baby, or to ever sing again?

For fuck's sake...the woman is a mess, and someone needs to straighten her out with the quickness.

Her behavior was ridiculous. There's no excuse for the tantrum in the first place. There's no excuse for throwing glasses around the pool. In fact, I'd have a rule if it were *my* production that no glass was ever allowed out on the patio within 50 feet of a pool. You especially don't throw glass around other people. But...and this is just more proof of what I said last week:

DILANA IS SELFISH AND HAS NO RESPECT FOR OTHERS.

Her instincts always come out when she's angry or stressed or tired or drunk, and they are always selfish. Not self-motivated, which I applaud...No, she's selfish. She promotes her own feeling-of-the-moment at the expense of others. She can never just be in a moment without being over-dramatic and making everyone focus on her, or tearing someone else down so she's in the spotlight. She has no respect for them as people or as artists.

One thing that bothered me was that she cried and sat alone and then broke down with Storm, but I didn't see her breaking down and telling Magni she screwed up face-to-face without turning it into her own dramatic scene where she's SOBBING in her room. Magni had to come to her to get a half-assed apology. If I cut someone like that, before I worry about MY feelings, before I sob and demand sympathy for myself, I would be checking to see if Magni was hurt or how bad it was. I would not have even considered my own nonsense until I knew he was OK. Instead it was Ryan that was completely concerned about Magni. Also...she couldn't even clean up her own mess? Notice that Toby and Lukas cleaned up the broken glass.

Selfish. Dilana comes first. Always. There are times when self-preservation turns to selfishness. We're witnessing one of those times right now.

How is she going to handle it if she wins and she realizes that she has absolutely no creative input on Supernova at all? Whoever wins this thing is going to be a hired gun. No writing, no tour profits, no publishing, no nothing. They're going to get paid five grand a week while they are in the band. And that is *it*.

Maybe she'll be OK with never having to make a creative decision again. Lord knows she's the worst lyricist I've heard in a long time.

Moving on. They had a big photoshoot at the mansion, and it was interesting watch. Storm of course was a total pro and looked hotter than hot, and the photographer completely captured Lukas. I loved that Toby looked at his photos and said "I don't get it." No worries, mate, I didn't get the whole jump on the couch thing either. Magni's shots didn't go well, and it was clear he was NOT connecting to the photographer in any way. I totally blame the photographer, it's his job to find the right picture, not the musician's. If the idea of the table-top sucked, move on, try something new, like he did when Dilana's shots weren't working. He stood her up and she came to life and looked great.

Song selection this week was "fan choice." Sort of. They gave us a list of three songs that the Rockers had already performed, and then added a "wild card" song that some other Rocker had already performed. Not exactly much of a choice.

I'll say this: Dilana sounded great rehearshing "Mother Mother." Makes Jill Gioia look like an amateur just from the few moments we see in the webisode. I think she's going to redeem herself performance-wise...she's been a little boring lately.

So Lukas isn't a fan of Nirvana, huh? He must have mentioned at least three times that he didn't like Lithium, he even hinted that maybe the fans were trying to get him to "show up Dilana" a little by picking it for him. I actually avoid all performance spoilers so I don't know what he ended up with, but in the webisode he was talking about re-arranging Lithium with horns. My one beef was the stupid way he kept mispronouncing Nirvana. It's pronounced "Nir-von-uh" with the middle syllable sounding like the German word for "of," von. He kept saying "Nir-VAAN-uh" with the middle syllable sounding like the word for a Ford Econoline. His accent doesn't really excuse it...everyone was saying it correctly around him. It's been my experience that when someone intentionally mispronounces something that is extremely well-known and that the people around them are all saying correctly, they're usually insulting it. Kind of weak, IMHO. Just say the friggin' name right. The band has earned it. I doubt he'd appreciate it much if we all started spelling his name "Luke-ass."

I know...a stupid nit to pick, but it annoys the hell out of me.

Can I just say that I hate that word, "webisode?" I don't know why, I usually love geek-created tech words. I might be the only guy on Earth who actually likes the word "blog." "Webisode," though, it just makes my teeth hurt.

Now, because I love you (yes, YOU, not everyone else reading this), here's the entire reality episode in a Flash player so you don't have to deal with Windows Media. (Video removed due to bandwidth concerns, besides it's a week old!)

Posted by JimK at 12:50 AM on August 29, 2006
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