What time is it? Rock Star: Supernova time!
Well, Patrice is done, and likely resigned to a career of playing 100-400 seat venues out of the back of a van, but I have a hunch she's good at that. And maybe it's because I don't know the Killers tune well enough, but I have no idea what T. Lee meant when he said "check, please" and slammed down the microphone after Lukas' performance this week.
Once again, Storm -- who apparently has never met a sponsor plug she didn't like -- seemed visibly upset not to make the bottom three, but she seems visibly upset at pretty much everything, doesn't she? Need a rocker reaction? Lukas and Ryan aren't going to give you one, so let's pan to Storm!
Big shakeup in the leaderboard this week, in that I think Dilana gets knocked off her perch after becoming the Queen Bitch outside of the performances and turning in a merely adequate reading of "Every Breath You Take."
- Magni (^) This is exactly why Storm is getting upset at being out of the bottom three, and she's attuned to it while Lukas and Dilana aren't. Magni has gotten two live performances a week for two weeks and has sounded great in all of them. And he resisted the urge to overdo "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which was wise.
- Dilana (v) The story about her mom was touching and all, but it didn't compensate for her behavior or her performance. "Every Breath You Take" doesn't really show off any vocals, nor does it afford you the chance to show stage presence unless you're Sting. And some of her answers to the media were just too honest, but some of them were just flat-out mean, which seems quite the contradiction to earlier shows when she was being supportive.
- Ryan (-) I almost want to put him ahead of Dilana, except that Dilana still looks like she'd be more comfortable actually fronting the band. Ryan is starting to remind me of Marty, which is to say he's got talent, but there's some bit of rockstar quality that's missing. With Marty, it ended up as a sort of endearing humility that helped him reach the final episode, but with Ryan, I think it won't translate.
- Toby (^) He still has a tendency to get all Scott Stapp in his delivery, but he brought the rock pretty consistently. I even liked parts of the reworked "Layla" vocal melody.
- Storm (v) She took too long to figure out the long game, focusing just on execution of performances for probably two or three episodes too many. Now she's stuck in this "extremely competent" mode that she can't break out of without a bottom three performance, which she may get next week. Gotta love the banter, though.
- Lukas (v) TV Guide's "watercooler blog" pointed out that the sure way to avoid going home is to sing something Lukas has already performed when you're in the bottom three. And to think he was an early frontrunner.
I can't seem to find the page on which you cast your votes for who sings what next week, so I don't know if you can pick anything you want. I, for one, want to hear Dilana sing "War Pigs."