Rock Star: Supernova -- Reality Episode Week 5

Zayra was as surprised as the rest of us when she survived another elimination on last week's Rock Star. So how does she plan to reward Supernova's faith in her at this week's performance show? By turning the poppiest 80's hit of them all, "867-5309," into a punk rock song.

After Phil's elimination, the wannabe rock stars raised a glass to him. According to their comments, Phil was much cooler than he came off onstage. Zayra admitted that, if the band had voted according to their personal taste -- and not based on who they thought wanted to be in the band more -- she probably would've been out.

Later, all of the men hung out in the billiard room bemoaning the fact that fewer men than women now remain, and vowing to show the women just who wears the leather pants in the mansion. Married guy Magni wisely kept his mouth shut during the discussion.

Magni's wife sent him a video from home. Since he left Iceland for California, their infant son has learned to walk. Tearfully, Magni said the video was the fuel he needed to keep competing.

The next day, Jason Newsted stopped by the mansion to coach the rockers on the finer points of performing. As a group, they watched videos of last week's performances, much to the dismay of several contestants.

Patrice knew that "Remedy" was not her finest work and was eager to prove herself this week. Dilana felt that her vocals on "Time After Time" were terrible and actually cried, despite rave reviews from her competitors.

Jill took the harshest criticism from Jason, and several of the rockers laughed at the footage of Gilby running away from her during their performance of "Brown Sugar." As a defense mechanism, Jill wouldn't stop talking and rationalizing. Tired of listening, Lukas and Toby played a game of tic-tac-toe.

Lukas was the first person to find the new batch of songs the following day, and he immediately took all of the sheets off of the wall and brought them out by the pool. Not having to stand in front of the wall and negotiate relaxed everyone, making song selection an easy process.

Josh initially wanted to sing "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder, until he realized that Tommy Lee would be playing drums for the song. Josh assumed that Tommy would want to do, in his words a "Hot Red Chili Peppers-style" (sic) version of the song, and he gave the song to Patrice.

As Patrice walked around the house after song selection, Ryan asked how she felt about performing with a rock legend. A tense Patrice told Ryan to quit saying Tommy Lee's name in her presence. Always eager to fight, Ryan told Patrice that this was the first and only time he'd uttered Tommy's name. Patrice backed off, but Ryan still walked away shaking his head and muttering "bitch" under his breath.

House Band rehearsal showed a few of what should be the more disastrous performances tomorrow night. Ignoring Supernova's advice to bring the rock, Josh chose the ska song "Santeria" by Sublime. To make it as un-rocking as possible, he supplied his own beat box effects. If only it were Rock Star: The Fat Boys. Not only would Josh make the band, he'd have a sweet role in Disorderlies 2.

Zayra, likewise ignoring the advice to rock, chose "867-5309 (Jenny)" by Tommy Tutone. As if following a Blondie tune with another 80s hit wasn't bad enough, she insisted on changing the song's rhythm to make it more punk rock. Band leader Paul said, "Zayra has taken everything that was cool about the song and gotten rid of it."

Guitarist Jim suggested that it would show more of her skills if she would just perform a song straight for once instead of always rearranging things. She insisted that a straight performance wasn't her style, and the band caved to Zayra's demands -- content to play the song her silly way, so long as they were also free to giggle.