It’s the week 5 performance show for the “band” known as Supernova. Brooke Burke, Dave Navarro, the “band”, Reality Segment… you know the drill. Let’s get to the songs.
First up tonight is Patrice Pike, and she’s singing Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground”, which being Rock Star means that they do the Red Hot Chili Peppers cover. During the Mansion footage it was made known that Tommy would be playing drums on this song. Patrice and Josh fought for the song, and Patrice won, I guess. And just like the previous two performances with “band” members, it rocks. Patrice will probably be safe.
Jason Mraz Josh Lucas is up now, and after repeatedly being asked to bring the rock, he instead brings the ska-punk with Sublime’s “Santeria”. Not that it’s a bad song, but it’s pretty much the type of song you expect Josh to do. And the “band” inexplicably likes it this week, telling me that they have no idea what to make of Josh, or how to get rid of him, so they’re going with reverse psychology.
Fortunately, the always-entrancing Dilana is up next, singing “Can’t Get Enough” by Bad Company. Dave thinks Dilana stole her pants. Actually it was from Ed “Brutus Beefcake” Leslie’s wardrobe. Gilby likes that she sang right in front of him.
Courtney Love must REALLY need some royalty money, as we get ANOTHER Nirvana song, “Pennyroyal Tea”, and this week’s Nirvana singer is Toby Rand. I was a bit leery of this choice, as this song has a slow build to the grinding rock sound the “band” is looking for but as they say, he works it out, and the band is duly impressed.
And now this should be interesting: Zayra Alvarez is singing Tommy Tutone’s “867-5309 Jenny”. And it is indeed interesting, as Zayra turns it into a punk song, wearing what I think is a superhero costume left over from the “bad girl” era of comics. The song, by the way, was awesome – I never would’ve envisioned reworking the song that way, but in the world of Zayra, it fits perfectly. And in a funny moment, Dave and the “band” are absolutely gobsmacked, and we take a break so they can figure out what to say. And when we come back, the general consensus is that she’s unpredictable and makes for great television. But we get a bit too much information as Tommy asks Zayra to mud wrestle with him and Dave confirms that Tommy is good at it… or so he’s heard.
Anyways, it’s Magni‘s turn to sing, and he got Coldplay’s “Clocks”. It’s a good performance, although not his best. Apparently, he missed his kid taking his first steps because he’s stuck in the Rock Star Mansion (this was shown at the beginning of the show), which strikes a chord with Tommy, and the “band” has decided to fly Magni’s family in from Iceland to see him. That, folks, is an awesome thing to do. It’s not enough to make me take the quotes off of “band”, but still, awesome. And basically, the “band” gave him a free pass this week. We’ll see if the voters do the same.
And now, singing “Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds (what’s with the 80’s songs this week?) is Jill Gioia. She tries to bring the rock to this song, but this is one of those tunes where if you try to give it a harder edge, it becomes Just Another Rock Song. It’s simply “eh”. Dave and the “band” agree, with Dave calling it a piss break song. Ouch! Gilby simply thinks Jill oversang it. I guess he hasn’t been paying attention to Jill’s singing the past four weeks?
Ryan Star has decided to play the “baby grand” (which looks like a regular grand piano) while singing R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”, and it’s probably the best performance he’s EVER done. Probably because he’s forced to, you know, SING this time around. Great work switching things up though, and this could be our encore performance tomorrow. The “band” seems to agree. Tommy wrote a song on piano and he says that he could totally hear Ryan’s voice on the track. He also says that that performance is so gonna get Ryan laid. Watch the reality show footage for more on that, I guess.
Lucas Rossi apparently drew the short end of the stick this week, as he’s singing “Celebrity Skin” by Hole. I have no idea what the heck he’s doing though, as he spends half the performance looking at the drummer. It’s very distracting, and I’m sure the band will ream him on it. And sure enough, they do, and Lucas confesses that he kept forgetting the words – so I guess he had crib notes back there. And I also guess that he’s got really good vision.
Storm Large dials it down a bit this week, and she’s singing “Changes” by David Bowie. And like anything done by Storm and/or Dilana, it’s awesome. Dave once again changes his mind and says that this was his favourite Storm performance. Jason says he’d take this “classy” performance over her overdramatic one from last week any day.
Dana Andrews thinks she’s evolving, but really she’s went from happy southern rocker-chick to dark rocker chick, much like Marty Casey went from crazy emo guy to moody emo guy. Whatever gets you votes, I guess. She’s singing The Who’s “Baba O’Riley”, and I’d put it down as mediocre. Jordis was a lot better with the song, I thought. Dave thought she sang really well, and Tommy wonders why Dana chose “Baba O’Riley”. And instead of saying “I love CSI: New York” like I expected her to, Dana explains that she loves the guitar hook. As the late Ray Combs would say, “Good answer, good answer.”
That’s it for the performances, and the voting window opens.
Brooke reveals the results of the first few minutes of the vote, and the bottom three (so far) are Toby, Zayra (of course) and Jill (also of course). The results show… tomorrow.
