Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:48:00
Rock Star: Supernova - Week 9 Elimination
A little late this week, so I’m TiVoblogging it...read on.
- Another show where they line ‘em up. Storm does a little stripper move just for me.
IT WAS JUST FOR ME AND DON’T YOU CONTRADICT ME!
- More false apology manipulation by Dramalana without mentioning her dangerous behavior. Yay!
- Performance recap. Dammit, I’m not just saying this because she’s hot. Storm legitimately killed on that song last night.
- Back to the mansion. Storm is convinced she’s going home. Ryan seems like he thinks he is as well. I *know* Magni is ready.
- Storm has the best attitude about potentially being bottom three, and she gave props to the House band...deservedly so, those guys are insanely talented. If I wrote a thousand words a week on how much they carry this show it wouldn’t be enough.
- Dilana on saying goodbye to someone: “It’s extremely hard, it’s like losing a limb” Two weeks ago when truth serum (i.e. alcohol) was coursing through her blackened heart: “Send the rest of these fuckers home.” EVS.
- Magni verbally slapping down the Pocket Prince of Darkness, but Dave gives it right back to Magni...good stuff. I like Magni. I like everything we’ve learned about Magni. See how it’s not hard to be a human being on a reality show? She what a great guy Magni comes off as? If you don’t give them material where you act like a raging fucking freak of nature, they won’t edit you as though you were a raging fucking freak of nature.
- Jesus Everloving Behayzeus, even Jason doesn’t seem excited about another Supernova track, so why should I be excited? Lukas gets to front it. In a weird way I hope he blows it and forgets lyrics and acts like a dick. Let’s watch!
O.K. this is doing so absolutely NOTHING for me. Lukas pulled out the Creep note for the chorus, that is nice. He’s mushmouthing everything so much though, it’s not working. The melody line is all over the place. His stagecraft is basically just wandering around.
Lukas is not a fit for Supernova. This song is shit, he’s doing what he can with it, but the song is just not good, it’s poorly written corporate ballad nonsense. Dawson’s Creek wouldn’t even take that song for the soundtrack because it’s too banal.
I reiterate - I do not think Lukas Rossi wants to actually front this band. Last night he killed it on a song he stated he did not like. But he was motivated by pleasing the fans (and slapping Dilana a little IMHO). Tonight? He reverted back to mumblemouth stumbleboy. I’m saying it’s intentional and I’m also saying I do not blame him a bit. I wouldn’t want to win this thing either at this point. He hits just enough of the right notes to prove he can do it if he wanted to, but he’s not pouring his heart into it, and I think that’s intentional.
- Hey, I just spotted Brooke’s babybump! That kid is going to be genetically gifted in the looks department.
- And we’re back from commercial. Supernova picks a winner of the MSN Spaces design contest. Congrats Rob Carlos. At least they picked a fan that did some original art.
- Gilby is talking about writing songs? HA! Dilana will bomb.
- Toby gets the encore. Good choice, he ramped up the room and I think he’s the only one at this point that can work in Supernova.
Look at that...The thunda from Down Unda has total ownership of the crowd again. He’s got that arena rocker vibe, and Supernova will die without a charsmatic arena-rocker leading the crowd. His personality alone can make up for the shit music. Girls will come to the show just to swoon and guys will come to the show for the girls. Guys will go anywhere where there are women getting wet over a boy that can’t fuck. It’s called subsitute fucking. :)
I honestly believe, and Donna said it too, that Toby just won this competition.
- Bottom three time. Who the hell knows.
- YES! THERE IS A GOD! Magni is the only one safe! Looks like his nationalistic campaign worked! I’m crossing my fingers that Dilana makes the actual bottom three.
- After commercial, The first Rocker in the actual bottom three is - Ryan. I suppose the math worked out badly for him, and a lot of people didn’t like the crawling. It was a mix of Army training and gay stripper. Plus he did an original...that’s the fucking kiss of death. He’s doing Baba O’Reilly to save himself. One has to wonder why, exactly.
OK, he’s going home. He’s gimmicking it up and not singing well.
OK, climbing shit is not working. Slapping the guitar player with the mic cord isn’t working. This entire performance is not working. It’s like he’s having a psychotic break. I’ve come around on Ryan’s talent but this is simply awful.
Unless someone else does significantly worse, or the band is determined to dump Storm, he’s gone.
- And the next bottom three-er is my girl, Storm Large. Hey, she said she wanted it. She’s going to do Helter Skelter. Bring it, baby. I know she can do this as a lunatic. And hey look, she’s going crazy. :)
OK, her vocal may not be phenomenal, but she’s working that room like a goddamn champ.
Yes, I saw Tommy paw her ass. It’s possible to innocently flirt and be physical with someone without being a cheap, sleazy prick. Unless of course you’re Tommy Lee.
Bring it Storm. Show ‘em that warrior woman. This is raw rock, and it’s a goddamned Beatles song!
O.K., Storm is awesome. I don’t care. I want to have her babies. :) Fuck Jason Newsted and his golf clap. Good thing we’re going to commercial...some of us have to clean up after that. :)
- And we’re back. God bless baby wipes, right? I’m hoping since the Magni fans obviously went crazy and he must have pulled support from other fanbases, maybe the math worked out. Maybe Dilana will be the last bottom three-er? Maybe Jesus will come back and take me to heaven in a flaming chariot? We all have dreams.
- So the next Rocker in the bottom three is (pleasebedilanapleasebedilanapleasebedilana)...oh boy, here comed the drama...it’s Lukas vs. Dilana for the bottom three. And the loser is…
YES. It’s Dramalana. Finally, someone in the voting public noticed she’s fucking crazy, and not in a good, cool way, but in a breakdown, “kill your family pet and boil it on the stove” way.. Tommy asked “What happened?” Hey, asshole, didn’t you see the show? Magni was put in danger by this psychotic bitch, and the fans responded by protecting him and voting her down. The fans don’t want a psychotic, neurotic mess, they want a balls-out good-time rock star. Ding-dong, the bitch is dead. I plan to vote hard for anyone BUT her from now on, even if she does well. I don’t like to reward selfish, neurotic assholes who lie and pretend to be humble.
But that’s just me.
So what will she be singing? Psycho Killer? Dedicated to herself? Oh fuck you. See? Selfish. Her feelings, not those of the people she hurt. Passive-aggressive manipulation is what that is. She’s such a poseur.
Wow, I didn’t like that acapella opening. And I’m shocked she didn’t say her own name in the chorus. She’s also lost on stage again. At least she’s into it, and her vocal isn’t bad. It’s not magical, and that yodel-screech is grating and annoying. The band looks like they are smelling bad cheese.
The song choice was maybe the worst one she could have made, especially after coming off last night when she did so well.
Donna pointed out that for almost half the song her back was to the audience. Will they call her out like they do with Lukas? I doubt it. And commercial.
Since we know they’re protecting Dilana, and I truly believe Ryan screwed himself and showed he can’t work with a band on a stage, I think Ryan, as wrong as it seems on the surface, will go home tonight. He was never right for these guys, and he’s got a niche that with the right marketing will make him a very wealthy, very respected musician with a lifetime career. Supernova will be a footnote in rock history, an asterisk after the entry about the rock show that “replaced the dead guy from INXS.”
And we’re back from commercial. Gilby tells Ryan he’s grown, but is he right for them? No.
He tells Storm she hasn’t grown...that’s because she’s already way past you, asshole. She takes risks. She experiments with her music, her sound, her clothes, her attitude. She’s an artist, with her own ideas about how things should be and you know damn well she’s never going to sit back and be your hired gun. You can’t see the growth because she’s too far ahead of you.
He tells Dilana that Psycho Killer came out of left field and that she seemed lost, but she has so much credit with them. Yeah no shit, Gilbs. Not a word about her back being turned. Asshole. Hypocrite. Inconsistent dickweed.
Dilana looks like she’s crying. Here comes the Tommyhawk.
It’s Ryan. He’s not right for the band, and it was the right decision without playing in to the drama. He left by saying that he was going back to be a solo artist...as he should. He’s the male Tori Amos, and he can have a very successful and artistically satisfying career doing his thing, his way.
So, they’re going to bring back an eliminated rocker. Luckily I’m a Verizon Wireless subscriber. I voted to bring back Dana. I want to see if she’s all tatted up and slutty yet. :)
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Posted by JimK at 11:48 PM on August 30, 2006
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#2 Posted by Joe R. 
on 08/31 at 10:05 AM -
Three chords can be done brilliantly well. It ain’t as easy as it looks though.
I’m having a hard time caring anymore. I think Dilana, if she was in the running for the job, just lost it with her “Aiieeee! Aoooooooh!” during her song. You could see the look of “No. Fucking. Way. On. Our. Stage.” from the band.
I’m with you, I’d rather follow Ryan and Lukas on their post-show careers.
#3 Posted by jo-jo on 08/31 at 11:38 AM -
Storm legitimately killed on that song last night.
sweetie, i’m sorry, but i have to disagree with you. your penis is clouding your ears. (????) vocally, she made the song cry. in fact, it’s the one song that i can say jill sang the best.
i thought the performance was excellent though, and isn’t THAT what really counts? also, my new found love for toby comes from his backing vocal of that song, followed by that great performance. yup. i told john last night “i suddenly love toby.” haha
i thought ryan and storm should have both been cut and beaten for their bottom 3 performances. john and i were convinced they were both throwing the competition, it was so bad. dilana wasn’t MUCH better, but compared to those two, there was no contest. storm and ryan sucked in ways that neither of them should have sucked. i was shocked.
i’m not buying into the lukas theory that he’s throwing the contest. i just don’t think he’s as good as he thinks he is ;)
#4 Posted by GripeBoy on 08/31 at 07:34 PM -
Three chords can be done brilliantly well. It ain’t as easy as it looks though.
In fairness, it can actually be harder than using more. Complexity is easy. Simplicity is hard.
vocally, she made the song cry
Where are you coming from on this? Helter Skelter is kinda that kind of song.
Storm has the strongest voice in the competition. I’m not talking about what people like or dislike, what’s right for the band or memorable performances. I’m talking about things you can objectively measure like range, pitch accuracy, volume and technique. Last night was more of a punk performance than a vocal performance.
I wouldn’t say she killed it last night but Ryan WAS the right one to go.
I’m wondering if Toby is the only one that wants the gig at this point.
#5 Posted by jo-jo on 08/31 at 10:04 PM -
oh, i think storm is good. i just did not like what she did to helter skelter. it made me cringe! i also think ryan was the right one to go a while ago ;)
#6 Posted by JimK on 08/31 at 11:13 PM -
If my penis could clog my ears, I wouldn’t be writing on a blog, I’d be doing porn and waving at people in the goddamned street! :)
I just totally disagree, I think Storm’s passion and strong vocal came through on the Evanescence (holy crap I spelled it right) song. It wasn’t Amy, by a long shot, but Storm has a very different voice.
I dug it.
I’m wondering if Toby is the only one that wants the gig at this point.
I’m starting to think so.
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#1 Posted by GripeBoy
on 08/31 at 02:17 AM -
Am I the only on who gives a shit about what you have to say on this subject? Fuck!
Anyway…
Gold!
Wouldn’t that be it? Must go spank it now.
SN’s song tonight was better than others but everyone is still faking like they like their music. I’m going to be very interested in Gilby’s little songwriting “clinic” this week. I’m not the greatest songwriter but if you’re only going to use three chords, try doing it in a way that no one else has done it. Damn.
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