Rockstar: Supernova ~ Revelations

Normally I don’t do Rockstar: Supernova reality episode recaps but this week it demands a mention. For this week, we witnessed the emergence of Dilana the strategist.

Flashback to last week: It’s a given that everyone at the Rockstar show have their lips ready to kiss Tommy Lee’s skinny ass at all times but when Dave Navarro [or was it Gilby Clark?] asked the contestants last week why they did not jump at the chance of performing with Tommy, it was not just plain ass-kissing. This was a pretty direct message to the contestants, a message that was surprisingly decoded only by Dilana.

Cut to Reality Episode Week 6: After Dilana finds the week’s songs and brings them to the dining room, she makes sure every camera is trained on her when she enquires if anyone was interested in performing The Who’s Won't Get Fooled Again with Gilby Clark. Interestingly, no one seems to be in a mood for engaging in any catfights or bar brawls over Gilby. So Dilana, without any opposition, gets the song, besides bagging major props from Supernova who obviously watched the video clips and gave her a mental thumbs-up. Then to make sure the point is driven home, she labels her competitors “what idiots!” Brilliant!

Another revelation: Ryan - the pissed bedhead is not as dumb as he would like us to believe. Just kidding. He’s in fact the only person in the mansion who sees through Dilana’s game. “This isn’t a house of brilliant strategists. This is a house of musicians,” he says. And my post-losing-my-religion newfound respect for him multiplies like rabbits.

Yet another revelation: During this week’s reality episode where each contestant was challenged to write lyrics and melody for a new Supernova track in less than 24 hours, Dilana showed us she isn’t exactly the best lyricist in the house, which was a big surprise! I know many Dilana fans here will skin me alive if I say this but I found her lyrics plain silly. I mean, seriously, she can do better than that!

More revelation: Lukas did an amazing job this week. It was crazy coming up with lyrics and melody in 15 minutes flat! Though he’s a bit of a mush mouth and mumbled his lyrics as usual while singing for Supernova, when they show the song writing footage where Lukas reads out his lyrics, you realise how good this guy actually is. His efforts went well with the band too, with Tommy saying Lukas “really gets it”. And what Chucky himself had this to say about his song? “It was dirty and sexy, like myself”. This guy is right up my alley.

Dilana makes her next move: Lukas’ song writing skills surely did not go unnoticed from Dilana’s discerning eyes. Sensing Lukas to be a serious threat to her, our wild-haired strategist makes another genius move. She convinces Lukas to sing Radiohead’s Creep which, she tells him, will show his vocal range. What she doesn’t tell him is that if he screws it up, it will prove that the Canadian can’t do much besides growling through the songs. In that case, Dilana wisely points out later, Lukas doesn’t deserve to be in the competition. Whoa! Sheer Brilliance! Don’t miss next week’s show where Dilana convinces Ryan to do Backstreet Boys number and Storm to do a Britney Spears.

Some more revelation: No one can beat Lukas when it comes to being a total pest. Oh, you already knew that? Watching Lukas pester Ryan who was already struggling with the lyrics/melody writing task at hand was priceless.

Even more revelation: Though he needs a lot of space and time writing songs, Ryan’s pretty good at it as was apparent from what he brought to the table. Impressive!

Observations & comments: Jill sucks – she overdid it again and the band definitely hated it. Storm is all about energy – she writes songs while working out on a treadmill. Zayra needs the great outdoors to get creative, though I’m not sure if she was working on her lyrics or her wardrobe of the week. Magni’s son is one brave kid – he didn’t even cringe when he saw Lukas. Toby, Lukas and Ryan are probably the worst basketball players in the world; the house band trounced them so bad! LOL!