Elimination night! Brooke Burke! Gilby Clarke! Tommy Lee! Jason Newsted! Dave Navarro!
Let Us Take You Back To Last Night and Then Take You To A
Reality Segment – Everyone chills out at the mansion. They realize that half of them will be in the bottom three. Storm thinks she’ll be there. Ryan isn’t prepared to go home, and Toby would be shocked if Lukas winds up in the bottom three.
Back in the theatre, Dave congratulates the singers for the Best Show Ever. He then asks Storm if she really wants to be in the bottom three. Storm notes that she wants to rock out any time she can. He asks Dilana if it’ll be hard to say goodbye to one of the singers at this point. She says yes.
Dave then asks Magni about the photo shoot the singers did, and Magni hated it. Dave starts to say something else, which leads to a humourous “Don’t interrupt me, young man” from Magni, which leads to more witty banter between the two, where Dave implies that actually, he CAN get Magni kicked off the show and Magni wants to take it outside. Since I’m typing this, let me stress that this was all tongue in cheek.
Anyways, it time for a new single, and instead of going to a Reality Segment to show the singers putting their spin on a song, Jason instead tells Lukas Rossi he’s up, and he’ll be singing “It’s On” with the “band”.
The song is certainly better than “Be Yourself… and Five Other Clichés” but in truth, this particular song was suitable only for either Lukas or Ryan.
Now it’s time for the encore. But first, some guy wins a trip to the finale because he made a pretty website – not of the singers, mind you, but of Tommy, Gilby and Jason.
Now it’s time for the encore. But first, Gilby tells the singers that he’ll be taking the remaining five to a songwriting clinic, where they’ll each write a new Supernova song.
Now it’s time for the encore. Singing “Rebel Yell” again is Toby Rand. He gets a celebratory pat on the butt from Magni after he’s done.
Bottom three time. In initial jeopardy were Ryan, Storm and Lukas. Also at risk – Toby and Dilana. Magni is safe! And apparently was the top vote getter this week. Dave defies show logic and doesn’t think anyone should be standing.
The first member of the bottom three is Ryan Star. He’s decided to sing The Who’s Baba O’Riley. And… man, it’s bad. Real bad. Unbelievably bad. With this song we’ve gone from pretty darn good (Jordis Unga) to “eh” (Dana Andrews) to a mass butchering (Ryan Star). This is the guy who successfully reworked a Depeche Mode song? Bye Ryan. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
The second member of the bottom three is (finally) Storm Large, and yeah I think she’s ready for this. She’s singing “Helter Skelter” by the Beatles. In stark contrast to Ryan, she’s got focused energy and actually tries to SING the song (imagine that!). In addition, she gets close and personal with the “band”, which I’m sure pleased Tommy to no end.
The final member of the bottom three is… not Toby. It is in fact Dilana. She’s singing a Talking Heads song, “Psycho Killer”. Like Ryan, Dilana speaks a lot of the lyrics instead of singing them. Unlike Ryan, she chose a song that speaks a lot of the lyrics instead of singing them. Overall though, this is a Zayra-weird song, and I think Dilana has earned a free pass, so, buh-bye Ryan.
Gilby thinks that Ryan had a great performance (that’s not what your looks said when they panned to you during it) and that he’s grown the most since the show started. Storm, by contrast, is always good but hasn’t really developed. Dilana has built up a lot of credit with the band, but looked lost halfway through the song.
Time for the Hatchet Man. Instead of sending someone back, Tommy just gets rid of Ryan. Which is cool by me, because I couldn’t take any more of his whiny emo-“rock” anyway.
