yeah, i'm not sure this is any "harder" than incubus. band also sounds awful.

FWIW, Sass Jordan was huge in Canada about a decade ago. She currently fills the Paula Abdul role on Canadian Idol. I'm sure that she must have a Greatest Hits out, and it would be worth checking out.

Except Clint has talent. Lukas is annoying and even weirder looking.

Can anyone provide a recap? There were some serious storms in the St Louis area and the local CBS affiliate decided to show about 10 minutes of Rock Star and discuss weather and what the anchors did this evening with the other 50 minutes.

Came down to Josh, Jenny, and Dana. Jenny was eliminated. Some how Zayra squeaked by again.

Can someone please punch that foreign chick in the throat for me? I cannot stand that stupid Penelope Cruz wannabe.

the right person went home tonight. jenny tried to be "harder" but she basically ended up looking like a poser. weak vocals, and what seemed like orchestrated stage antics.

i thought josh sounded great.

He has a bizarre elvis lip thing going on.

I don't understand why it sounds like Zayra's name is always pronounced "Siedah". Whenever Bwak Bwak mentions Siedah, I'm like "who?"


It's kind of funny that these performers keep doing Nirvana since didn't grunge effectively end the heyday of most of these Supernova guy's careers?

They did sound pretty bad on vasoline. Also, I really wish that of the four times he's played it, Rafael would properly play the riff to heart shaped box.

I wish they had given Jenny some practical advice like this - "Jenny, when you raise the pitch as much as you do, you really change the tone of the song drastically. Like Drive, it changes it into a Paula Cole song. You need to try and stay closer to the original key to keep the tone correct".

I also noticed that she changed most keys to A, which has a "happier" tone color than say D or E.

Either way, she should have gone. The other two really brought it, and she did not.

You could see Josh saving himself with that scream at the end. I guess the right person went but all three are weak. The young girl has pipes but she has absolutely no idea what anyone is talking about. "How can they say I don't rock hard? I PUMP MY FIST AND STOMP MY FEET!"

you're right, i never thought about that. Thats pretty funny. At least in Tommy's situation.

I dont like Josh. It sounds like he is singing with his teeth closed and I cant understand a word.

Dana can sing loud, but her voice is so un-melodic, it's painful to listen to her sing at times.

Jenny couldn't sing loud at all and was totally wrong for this competition. She needs to veer into the Adult Contemporary territory where you don't have to sing like a banshee to get noticed.

Completely agree with you there.

gilby said it better than anyone could the other night. she's lilith fair, they're ozzfest (although they keep saying their band won't be a metal band... which again goes back to the main question - WHAT THE HELL IS THIS BAND GOING TO SOUND LIKE? NO ONE KNOWS! i don't think supernova even knows).

the riff they play coming back from commercials is supposed to be from a song they're recording, if i remember from the reality shows.

and i agree with what someone said about dana. she's just not going to cut it. she even admitted herself that she's a rock and roll virgin. stomping your feet does not a rock 'n' roller make. and her vocals are praised often (and they were good last night), but i thought she sounded AWFUL on the Bon Jovi song.

and again, tommy continues to look like an idiot. i'm not sure he's said anything worthwhile in this entire show. i didn't know much about gilby before this thing, but i'm liking him more and more every show. on the elimination show, he makes it a point to say something positive about the person, but also lay out where they have concerns.

oh, at least tommy does say some nice things after eliminating someone. the "it's just another time" is a nice sentiment. but yet again, INXS did it better last year. nothing's better than "you're just not right for our band" in an australian accent.

speaking of last year, i miss suzie, marty, and especially jordis. hell, even ty.

Dana just strikes me as a Pollyannaesque groupie. She should front an 80s retro gogos type band.

No, you're right. He clenched his teeth through the whole song. Frankly, I'd send him home for the terrible Elvis impersonation. I also got the impression he was crowning and trying to keep it in.

Nobody needs to see a bad Elvis impersonator singing Heart Shaped Box. Nobody.

Patman my friend, I have noticed that you and I have very differing views of these competitors. I feel the exact opposite, that she is one of the best singers in this competition. Right for the band is another thing, of course.

Your husband listen or Howard Stern? Howard mentioned that yesterday on his show.

Dana just needed a rock makeover. It's too late now but if she would do somethign funky with her hair and wear some odd makeup then she would be one of the best on the show. I think she has the best voice on the show for the women.

Dana is like the Mandisa of Rock Star this season. She sings loudly, but her voice just can't sustain melodies or sing the quiet stuff.

I just think you don't care for her tone, which is cool. IMHO, she certainly can do all of the above.

As a fellow Georgian, you'd think I'd be rooting for Dana, but after hearing her sing for the past 3 weeks, I just don't find her vocals all that interesting or pleasing.

Does Patrice remind y'all of Suzie McNeil (last season), but with more darker hair/lowlights?

So much so that I said it on the first page of the thread. :D

I agree with you. I like Patrice.

Jenny was totally out of breath after doing that one number -- no way she could sustain herself through a whole concert of "harder" music. I've never liked her, but she had some nice parting comments.

thats what I thought about JD last season when he had to get some water halfway through the song w/ INXS on the finale.

To JD's credit, he did sing three songs before the final outro. BTW, whatever happened to Easy, Easy?

To get back to Jenny, I always got the feeling that she wasn't authentic, that she really wanted to do music closer to the "Lillith Fair" genre than rock.

Patrice is far and away my favorite female singer on the show. And, she's yet to give a bad performance, either. Unless something goes really wrong, I see no reason why she won't make it into at least the Final 6. (with the rest filled out by Dilana, Lukas, Storm, Toby and possibly Magni).

Yes, but I'm talking about him getting visibly winded on the second song (I think it was What You Need). Easy, Easy was a bonus track for the CD on rhapsody, but not released as a single.

Since it's been mentioned here a few times, is there a thread devoted to The One? I am just catching up on it now.

I havent seen one, but I'll start one for "The One"...I didnt like it very much, but I'll give it another week...seems to be the band is very karoake and sound awful!

Hell, man, if I'd just sung three times already, AND THEN found out I actually won the spot in INXS, I think I might end up a bit winded when singing again, too. Probably more from the shock than anything else.

:( you guys must not remember the episode. this was before they announced the winner, when it was down to JD and Marty. it was his second song of the night.

From Canoe.ca:

The Rock Star contestants are giving a big thumbs down to Supernova's debut single.

At least that's the word from ousted Vancouver singer Jenny Galt.

"A lot of people in the group are skeptical about what kind of music they are playing.

"(Supernova) say they want to do something fresh and new, but then the first track we got to hear, a lot of people were just like, 'Ew. I'm not sure if I like this,' " says the 29-year-old Montreal-born pop-rocker.

"It sounded just like that same old, boys rock 'n' roll kind of glam thing they said they weren't going to be doing. It was a bit surprising."

Galt, who was eliminated from the CBS/Global reality series this week, says the finalists are also questioning Supernova's commitment to itself.

Many feel its members, Tommy Lee (Motley Crue's drummer), Jason Newsted (former Metallica bassist) and Gilby Clarke (former Gun N' Roses' guitarist), are not exactly hellbent on making the band a success.

"Because Tommy Lee's got Motley Crue and Jason Newsted's very passionate about (Canadian metal band) Voivod, there are a lot of questions as to whether this band is going to really take off. That's up in the air," she says.

"And then, how much commitment do the actual members of Supernova have? There was a lot of chit-chat in the mansion about that."

While only time will tell if the finalist's concerns are justified, only one -- the person who is named the band's singer during the show's finale in September -- will truly be affected.

And that person, Galt says, will likely be Toronto's Lukas Rossi, Australia's Toby Rand or South Africa's Dilana Robichaux.

"When I first got there, I really had the attitude that I wanted to win. But then, as it went along, and Lukas, Dilana and Toby kind of emerged, it was a little hard for everyone else," Galt says, adding she hopes Rossi takes it, but not because he's Canadian.

"I think he's most suited for that particular band. He's got that arrogant rock 'n' roll personality about him and his style suits them."

While Galt was prepared to change her own style to fit into what Supernova wanted, she now admits she wasn't the best choice.

"I am a rocker chick to an extent, but there is a whole softer side to me. I have always loved playing a piano ballad to a room of silent listeners and, above all, I'm a songwriter. I want to release an album of great songs."

Galt, who once toured Canada with the band Cherrybomb, is planning to return home to Vancouver in the next week.

After that, she says she's going to take advantage of all the opportunities life throws at her -- no matter how scary.

"All my complaints in my life have been I want a bigger and fuller life. Now I've realized, through this, that it's me who's been holding myself back because I've been too afraid," she says, adding Rock Star changed her.

"It's not like I can flip this switch and I'm this crazy and wild person, but it's a path I'm on. Things from here on out are going to be very different for me."

Or maybe he just read the beginning of the thread.

Just watched Jenny get the boot. The right person went home, but I think they all did a decent job for a change. Josh must really love Nirvana to do another one of their songs right after one put him in the bottom three. He saved his ass at the very end.

Dana made a great song choice.

You have something against Pollyanna? :mad:

For comparison sake, I actually just re-watched that entire season (well, most of it, forwarded through some of the perfomances) - and I saw what you were refering to. I'm still going to chalk it up to nerves, or maybe even that he could have been sick. There was one point during his performance with INXS where he had to run off to the side of the stage and grab a drink of water. But since I wasn't actually there to see ALL of what happened, I guess we'll never know.