Rock Star: Supernova, August 29 – Walking on Broken Glass

It’s viewers’ choice night, which I guess means that the popular singers get good songs and the less popular singers get bad songs. There were four song choices for each singer, three songs each had sung before and a wildcard, a song that another singer did. Interesting. Hi, Supernova. Hi, band.

We get a mini recap of last week, namely the Dilana drama. In this week’s mansion footage, Storm tries to lighten the mood by toasting Dilana’s “first spanking,” but Dilana isn’t in the mood. Thus begins Dilana’s descent into drama queendom. She interviews that she’s still angry and sad. Ryan says that he has to live with himself, so he won’t talk bad about people. Dilana says that she was under the impression this was a clinic and she was supposed to speak her mind. I’m not sure she realizes which side of the clinic she’s supposed to be on. Lukas replies that life is a clinic. He interviews that Dilana got caught saying things she should have kept to herself, and now she has to live with the consequences. Dilana says it will take her a little while to get over this. Storm tries to comfort her.

Dilana says she could feel her tears and emotion waiting to explode. She cries out by the pool with Lukas and interviews that everything that happened was going through her head like a hurricane. She felt weak and vulnerable: “My whole world ended.” Wow. Dramatic much? Also, I’m under the impression that she’s feeling sorry for herself, not for the people whom she made nasty comments about it. So I don’t have a lot of sympathy for her. Maybe if she paid more attention to the Golden Rule, she wouldn’t be in this mess.

The cameras start closing in on Dilana and she flips out, breaking a glass and going inside. An approaching Magni gets hit with some glass, as he tells Lukas after Dilana leaves. Lukas interviews that Dilana was reckless with the glass; what if a shard had hit him in the eye? Lukas goes inside and tells the others what happened. Ryan heads up to check on Magni, who says he’s fine, though he has a streak of blood on his head and forehead. Outside, Lukas tells Toby that he was trying to talk to Dilana. Speaking of Dilana, she’s upstairs crying and apologizing to Magni. Storm hugs her in bed, and I’m sure some people are very happy after seeing that. Toby winds up cleaning up the glass, telling Ryan that Dilana has probably had one of the sweetest rides of anyone in the competition. Ryan says that some people can’t handle being on top, and Dilana may be self-destructing. Dilana says she feels lonely. She’s worked hard her whole life and can’t screw up now. She has to get out of this, but she’s not sure how to fix it.

Back at the Aztec, Dave says that last week was heavy and things in the house seem raw. He wants to put everything to rest so they can move on. He checks on Magni, who assures everyone that his cut is just a flesh wound. Actually, you can’t even see it now. Dave asks Dilana how she feels going into tonight’s performance. She says she feels like she’s going to rock it. No one’s perfect and we all stumble. She fell hard, but she’s back and stronger than before. She loves her fellow singers and won’t do anything to hurt them again.

After wasting about 15 minutes on Dilana drama, we get to song selection footage. The singers learn how the votes turned out via TV. Ryan has been given Magni’s previous song, Coldplay’s “Clocks” (with 39% of the vote), which Toby thinks he’ll do well because of the falsetto. Ryan likes getting his assignment from the fans. Lukas gets Nirvana’s “Lithium” with 42% of the votes. He wonders if people want him to show up Dilana, who previously sang the song. 59% of people want Magni to sing “I Alone,” which Ryan did before. A whopping 68% of voters picked Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” for Storm, despite the fact that we’ve already heard it twice (once from Jill and once from Zayra). Storm says she knows the melody but not the lyrics. Dilana, who will be doing Tracy Bonham’s “Mother Mother” (also performed by Jill) says she’s ready to get on stage and show that she’s back. Storm reads off a fan’s comment that Dilana gives women who love rock someone to look up to. Dilana says she feels a new energy and can’t let her fans down. Interestingly, every singer wound up a wildcard song. Makes sense to me - let’s hear something new.

Back at the Aztec, Dave tells the singers that the six of them are the best of the best. Some of them will be comfortable with their songs for tonight and some won’t, but they all need to bring it. We can’t have any train wrecks this week. Lukas is up first with “Lithium,” but since there are only six singers left, first we have to kill some time with an American Idol-like clip package. He says he hopes the fans see him for who he is. When he’s not on stage, he’s just like everyone else. He plays basketball and video games, and he loves beer. He notes that before he came here, he worked at Hooters. “I am everybody else, I just wear more makeup than everybody else,” he says. Heh. However, when he’s on stage, he has to turn it on again.

Lukas doesn’t even let Brooke finish talking before he starts encouraging the crowd to cheer for him. The song starts out with just a piano accompaniment, which is soon joined by claps from the audience. Lukas keeps the first verse stripped, then gets to rocking. He sounds pretty good, though pretty much what you’d expect from Lukas. It’s very high energy and fun to watch. I think I’m warming up to Lukas now that he’s stood up to Dilana the way he did.

Dave thinks Lukas’ arrangement of a classic, “sacred” Nirvana song was awesome. Tommy is a firm believer in letting music do the talking, and that was talking. His pink cowboy hat is distracting. He says that the second Lukas sang, he was captivated, and he was sure the whole world was. Gilby says this was Lukas’ best performance yet. Jason calls the performance “dynamite,” saying that Lukas sang it right and let it go. He adds that this was a great way to start the show.

In Magni’s clip package, he says that the only thing that will save him is a campaign to get fans voting for him, since just the population of Iceland won’t be enough. He tells Australia that he looks better than Toby, and Canada and America that they can do better than Lukas and Ryan. Just because Ryan is American doesn’t mean we have to vote for him. “I learned your language!” he argues. Hee. I’m wondering if Magni’s resemblance to the lead singer of Live affected anyone’s votes. Like Lukas, Magni starts out “I Alone” calmly, then waits until the chorus to tear it up. I’m not surprised that this song fits him really well. He makes it look effortless. Magni is all over the place, including the judges’ platform, which, of course, they love.