Rock Star: Supernova -- Reality Episode Week 6

The latest reality episode of Rock Star: Supernova showed that, while she may not be the best lyricist, Dilana's probably the smartest person in the house. And only Ryan understands just how big a threat Dilana is.

The day after Dana's elimination, Gilby Clarke dropped by the mansion bearing gifts: brand new Gibson guitars for the remaining ten rockers. The guitars were to help them get started on the challenge he'd issued during the elimination episode: each contestant must write lyrics and a melody for a new Supernova track.

The track itself sounded like a cross between "Takin' Care of Business" and a slow-tempo "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." I'm surprised none of the contestants accidentally wrote, "I got there in the nick of time, before he got his hand across your state line, yeah."

Even though they were given less than 24 hours to finish their challenge, almost all of the rockers finished the task quickly. Storm wrote her lyrics while jogging, and the always laid back Lukas wrote his lyrics and melody in 15 minutes.

That left Lukas plenty of time to pester Ryan, the only one who had any real trouble with the task. Used to writing music by himself, he struggled to put lyrics and melody to someone else's song. Lukas' frequent interruptions kept Ryan up until long after the other rockers had partied and gone to bed.

But the hard work paid off, as Ryan's angsty lyrics impressed Supernova. Jason Newsted said that he'd like to hear Ryan sing other Supernova tracks as "his voice cuts through the music very well."

Lukas' first draft efforts also went over well with the band, and Tommy Lee was said that Lukas "really gets it." No one was more impressed with Lukas' song than Lukas: "It was dirty and sexy, like myself."

Of course it was impossible to verify Lukas' claims about the song, since he garbled his lyrics, as usual.

The big losers in the task were Jill (no surprise) and Dilana (big surprise). Once again, Jill oversang and left the band shaking their heads. The fact that she hasn't toned things down like they've asked her to makes her the top candidate for elimination this week.

Dilana's problem was that her lyrics were just silly: "And if your trains on time you can get to work by nine, and start your slaving job to get your pay." Actually, she wrote a song about a pool party, mentioning tanning lotion, wine, and a thong. At one point, she even sang the word "hiney."

Footage was shown of Storm and Toby performing their lyrics, but that was it. Since Zayra didn't make the final edit, I can only assume that she was competent; if she would've been embarassingly bad, the editors surely would've included footage of her.

The real question is: if Zayra did especially well, would they show the audience, or just let us keep assuming that she's horrible?

Later in the day, as promised this past week, Magni's wife and son visited the mansion. Mini-Magni might be the happiest baby in the world. He didn't even scream when he saw Lukas. And Magni was so pleased to see them that he even let baby play with his very expensive new guitar.

The next day, Dilana found this week's songs and brought them to the dining room. She asked if anyone else wanted to perform The Who song "Won't Get Fooled Again," accompanied by Gilby. No one else wanted it. Dilana took song for herself, and later said of her competitors, "What idiots!"

Ryan fully agreed with her. "This isn't a house of brilliant strategists," he said. "This is a house of musicians." He wasn't surprised that he was the only one to realize that Dilana could steal Tuesday night's show, and possibly the whole contest, with a good performance alongside Gilby.

In her second genius move of the day, Dilana convinced Lukas to sing Radiohead's "Creep" as a way of showing his vocal range. The flip side of that is, if Lukas can't sing "Creep," it will prove to Supernova that all he can do is his mumbly growl, leaving one fewer competitor between Dilana and the prize.

Next week, she'll try to convince Ryan to sing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and Toby to do anything by Hilary Duff.

There wasn't much footage of House Band rehearsal in this week's webisode, although Dilana did warn Gilby that she planned to pull a Jill and grind on him during their performance Tuesday night. But we did get to see what the House Band does when not in rehearsal.

Several of the guys challenged the male rockers to a game of basketball. As we saw in last week's reality episode, Ryan, Toby, and Lukas are possibly the world's worst basketball players. And they haven't improved any since last week.

Team House Band made shot after shot, while the rockers through up brick after brick. The guys in the House Band celebrated their victory by giggling their way through a series of awkward chest bumps.

If the rockers ever manage to beat the House Band, it'll be a bigger comeback story than "Hoosiers."