Rockstar: Supernova ~ Week 9 Elimination
Watching Dave Navarro act like a prick is a painful experience, an experience most of us reality TV junkies are unfortunately familiar with. Just when I thought I had exhausted myself of the reasons why I should hate this guy, he’s there on my TV screen acting like a total bitch that he is.
The show starts with everyone in a mood to kill some time. Happy little chit-chats. A safe and uncontroversial question and answer session. Cameras zoom in on Dave who asks Magni about the photo shoot [yeah that photo shoot where some stuck up, overrated and probably overpaid French photographer asks Magni to ‘scream without screaming’]. Magni says he hates photo shoots. Dave tells him it’s a part of the gig. Magni tells Dave not to interrupt him. Or at least that’s what I think the Icelander said. Sorry, but my mind was busy devising ways to torture Dave to near death. Then Dave calls Magni a SOB and “jokingly” warns him he can influence the vote. I see some long repressed anger itching to erupt here. Can’t we get a replacement and send Dave to a good therapist before he pulls a Paula Abdul here?
Wait! It’s not yet over. After Dave’s You-know-I’m-sort-of-a-boss-around-here thingie, it’s Dilana show again. For one more time [and I hope it’s the last this season], we are subjected to recaps of Dilana’s so-called “apology” to her “friends”. Somehow to me it sounds less of an apology and more of “believe it or not, I’m human – even if I don’t look like one – hence I screwed up; so live with it” speech. After last week’s bitch-fest, our moth has evolved into a butterfly. She’s now full of love and compassion for everyone [yes, even Lukas whom she wanted to strangle till very recently] and doesn’t want to see anyone leave because they’re like a family. How very touching! Somebody pass me the insulin, all that sweetness is making me diabetic.
So, tonight Lukas is all smiles because it’s his turn to perform with Supernova. Honestly, I couldn’t understand a single word, thanks to Likas’ trademark garbled enunciation. But I kinda liked that wail in the chorus; that saved the song. Though this is the strongest number Supernova has unveiled so far, it's still very very mediocre.
Starting last night, our rockers have started boldly going where no contestants had gone before. There must be something very interesting in those unlit back rows. Yesterday it was Magni. Tonight we saw Toby hanging out back there during his encore, forcing the production guys to switch on the lights around that otherwise dark area.
Time to finally open the dreaded envelope. Brooke Burke tells us that Lukas, Toby, Ryan, Storm and Dilana all made their way through the bottom three last night; everyone but Magni. By the way, how do they determine that? That’s one of the mysteries of Rockstar: Supernova vote counting system that I’d want to be unveiled. Finally, it’s Ryan, Storm and Dilana who hit the bottom three spot.
Ryan’s first with The Who’s Baba O'Riley. This is a pure gimmick-laden performance. Three seconds into the song and Ryan’s already popping open a champagne bottle, shaking it all over and then pouring it over Toby! May be he wants to go on a fishing trip to the Brokeback Mountain. Then he goes on pretending as if the mic cable were a lasso and he a rodeo cowboy. And then, he awkwardly climbs over the speakers, which looks more pathetic than cool, and jumps off it. I guess that’s called trying too hard. This performance truly, awfully sucked! It was sad to see such waste of his talent.
Storm’s up next with The Beatles’ Helter Skelter. Uh-oh, another one trying too hard. She’s on the judges’ side of the stage, half on Tommy Lee’s lap and half on Gilby Clark’s face, and Gilby’s pushing her away with all his might. Didn’t the Jill ‘grinding’ episode teach this girl anything? Another bad performance.
Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in the bottom three, Dilana! Seems like she pissed a lot of fans off by her backstabbing ways. So what does she sing to redeem herself? Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer. She begins with an acappella, which is not a whole lot impressive. It slightly gets better once the music gets going but not enough to sound good.
After three stinkin’ performances, Supernova does the most gentlemanly [or politically correct or commercially feasible] thing to do – they save the two damsels in distress and send Ryan home. Ryan returns the favour by telling the band they could have made 20 years of great music together but now that he has been axed from the show, he’ll go back to being a solo artist and see Supernova on the charts because that’s where he’s gonna be hanging out [Ryan’s words, not mine!].
The show starts with everyone in a mood to kill some time. Happy little chit-chats. A safe and uncontroversial question and answer session. Cameras zoom in on Dave who asks Magni about the photo shoot [yeah that photo shoot where some stuck up, overrated and probably overpaid French photographer asks Magni to ‘scream without screaming’]. Magni says he hates photo shoots. Dave tells him it’s a part of the gig. Magni tells Dave not to interrupt him. Or at least that’s what I think the Icelander said. Sorry, but my mind was busy devising ways to torture Dave to near death. Then Dave calls Magni a SOB and “jokingly” warns him he can influence the vote. I see some long repressed anger itching to erupt here. Can’t we get a replacement and send Dave to a good therapist before he pulls a Paula Abdul here?
Wait! It’s not yet over. After Dave’s You-know-I’m-sort-of-a-boss-around-here thingie, it’s Dilana show again. For one more time [and I hope it’s the last this season], we are subjected to recaps of Dilana’s so-called “apology” to her “friends”. Somehow to me it sounds less of an apology and more of “believe it or not, I’m human – even if I don’t look like one – hence I screwed up; so live with it” speech. After last week’s bitch-fest, our moth has evolved into a butterfly. She’s now full of love and compassion for everyone [yes, even Lukas whom she wanted to strangle till very recently] and doesn’t want to see anyone leave because they’re like a family. How very touching! Somebody pass me the insulin, all that sweetness is making me diabetic.
So, tonight Lukas is all smiles because it’s his turn to perform with Supernova. Honestly, I couldn’t understand a single word, thanks to Likas’ trademark garbled enunciation. But I kinda liked that wail in the chorus; that saved the song. Though this is the strongest number Supernova has unveiled so far, it's still very very mediocre.
Starting last night, our rockers have started boldly going where no contestants had gone before. There must be something very interesting in those unlit back rows. Yesterday it was Magni. Tonight we saw Toby hanging out back there during his encore, forcing the production guys to switch on the lights around that otherwise dark area.
Time to finally open the dreaded envelope. Brooke Burke tells us that Lukas, Toby, Ryan, Storm and Dilana all made their way through the bottom three last night; everyone but Magni. By the way, how do they determine that? That’s one of the mysteries of Rockstar: Supernova vote counting system that I’d want to be unveiled. Finally, it’s Ryan, Storm and Dilana who hit the bottom three spot.
Ryan’s first with The Who’s Baba O'Riley. This is a pure gimmick-laden performance. Three seconds into the song and Ryan’s already popping open a champagne bottle, shaking it all over and then pouring it over Toby! May be he wants to go on a fishing trip to the Brokeback Mountain. Then he goes on pretending as if the mic cable were a lasso and he a rodeo cowboy. And then, he awkwardly climbs over the speakers, which looks more pathetic than cool, and jumps off it. I guess that’s called trying too hard. This performance truly, awfully sucked! It was sad to see such waste of his talent.
Storm’s up next with The Beatles’ Helter Skelter. Uh-oh, another one trying too hard. She’s on the judges’ side of the stage, half on Tommy Lee’s lap and half on Gilby Clark’s face, and Gilby’s pushing her away with all his might. Didn’t the Jill ‘grinding’ episode teach this girl anything? Another bad performance.
Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in the bottom three, Dilana! Seems like she pissed a lot of fans off by her backstabbing ways. So what does she sing to redeem herself? Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer. She begins with an acappella, which is not a whole lot impressive. It slightly gets better once the music gets going but not enough to sound good.
After three stinkin’ performances, Supernova does the most gentlemanly [or politically correct or commercially feasible] thing to do – they save the two damsels in distress and send Ryan home. Ryan returns the favour by telling the band they could have made 20 years of great music together but now that he has been axed from the show, he’ll go back to being a solo artist and see Supernova on the charts because that’s where he’s gonna be hanging out [Ryan’s words, not mine!].
posted by MockingBird at 11:15 PM
2 Comments:
Bird - you're so goood! I've come to depend on your posts heavily...
I missed the last two shows and guess the first place I looked for an update? No offical Rockstar fan site, no official nothing. Straight to the Mockingbird's nest! :-)
Wow! Isn't my blog turning into an unofficial Rockstar Supernova blog? LOL. Thanks Sundancer for the lovely comment. I wish we could use smilies in the comments section; I really need to put a huge grinning face here and this --> :D just doesn't do it justice.
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