Brooke seems to be repeating herself with her leather vest and denim skirt. And everyone else is back in black, except, of course, Dilana, who has a blue top on. Ho-hum.At the mansion after the performance show, the rockers are worried about who will be in the bottom three. Back at the results show, there's some meaningless banter about this. Then we get to Supermediocre's third debut song, "It's On," which will be sung tonight by Lukas. Notice that what we don't see this week is a clip of each of the rockers singing this in the studio. Hmmm...
Remarkably, I kind of like this drivel. Maybe it's the fact that a couple of House Band members are playing along, and Gilby's microphone is turned down so I can barely hear him "singing" backups. Or maybe my mind has just been numbed by what's gone on before. It's too bad I can't understand most of the words through Lukas's mumbling. Oh, well. I'm not getting any particular chemistry between Lukas and the band - I think Dilana and Toby did better in that regard. But whatever.
Tommy announces the winner of a Windows Live Space competition, who is Rob Carlos. Rob will have the joy of coming to the finale. I'm sure he's thrilled. [They apparently had to re-shoot this announcement because Tommy kept saying "MySpace" instead of "Live Space." Take that, Microsoft!]
Gilby announces that next week, he will help each person who is left to write a new Supernova track. Obviously, he doesn't trust them to do it themselves - hee. Then Tommy announces that Toby has the encore with his version of "Rebel Yell." [What was edited out was them admitting that they chose the encore by using Rock, Paper, Scissors - which doesn't bode well for their decision-making process when they pick a new lead singer.]
We interrupt this review to ask, "Why is Dilana wearing silver horns? And why is Lukas sitting through Toby's song while the other contestants leap up when he joins them?"
Now Toby will demonstrate why Magni was right not to run to the back of the audience, because he's totally lost in the lack of lighting. But he has fun and gets the audience to sing along, and there are no dancing chicks on stage, so it's all cool.
The only person not in the bottom three at some point last night was Magni, who is stunned. So am I. In fact, Brooke later announces that he received the most votes last night. Wow. Go, Iceland!
Ryan is the first person to land in the actual bottom three. He sings the Who's "Baba O'Reilly." Funny how Dana, the person he kept dissing earlier in the season, also sang this song. For some reason, he feels the need to scream the entire thing, pop open a bottle of champagne and share it with his fellow rockers, and leap off a very tall amp, all with the same dark, angry face. Gilby looks bored. Go away already. Both of you. The audience, however, loves this, and we find out later that this song got the biggest response of any song on the show so far. Guess someone sipped a little too much of that champagne.
Storm is next. She sings the Beatles' "Helter Skelter." Now, this is the rockin' Storm I've wanted to see for the past five weeks or so. Yeah, it's a little screamy, too, but she's got a helluva lot of charisma when she's really into a song. And I'm sure Tommy loved her walking up to him and falling in his lap. She ends by collapsing into the arms of her audience, and they love her. We all do. Okay, some of us do, anyway.
The final bottom-dweller is...Dilana. No big shock, after how much her "evil" backstory has been featured over the past week. She sings the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," dedicating it to herself. Um...the lyrics fit her situation, I guess, and she sings it pretty well, but it's a song no one really knows, and it's kind of too quirky for this competition. She's also not quite as compelling as usual, mostly just stomping up and down the stage and turning her back to the audience a la Lukas. Supernova seems puzzled. So am I.
After deliberations [which in reality took the usual 25 minutes], Tommy tells Ryan that he's good, but not good enough, and is thus going home. Supernova is roundly booed. Ryan says that he could have made 20 years of good music with Supernova, and his "good luck" to them sounds for all the world like he's saying, "You're going to suck now without me." Oh, Ryan, Ryan. They'll suck no matter who they choose. Brooke then cheerily tells us that Ryan could be back - apparently, one departed rocker will be allowed to return to sing during the finale, based on an online vote. Gee, can I vote for last season's Marty Casey?
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