Rock Star: Supernova -- Reality Episode Week 8

If loose lips sink ships, then Dilana's dinghy is sitting on the floor of the Pacific right now. The fan (and band) favorite trashed her fellow contestants in front of the media on the latest Rock Star: Supernova reality episode.

This week's music clinic was replaced by media boot camp. Several journalists interviewed the rockers at the mansion, although someone on the production staff mistook Mark Long (the 45-year-old who keeps showing up on Real World/Road Rules Challenge) for a journalist.

While most of the interviews were pretty tame, radio host Jamie White did her best to rattle the rockers. She told Storm she shook hands like a man, and then questioned Toby's rock credibility because he didn't have many tattoos.

Toby defensively snapped back, "I have five. How many have you got?" Reminding Toby of the one lesson he was supposed to learn that day, Jamie said, "This isn't about me. This is about you."

Instead of focusing on why she was right for the job, Dilana was relished the opportunity to dish the dirt about her fellow mansion dwellers. According to what Dilana told the interviewers:

• Toby is just along for the ride.
• Magni is too set on being near his family.
• Storm hated the lyrics to the Supernova track that Dilana performed last week.
• Ryan hated the music for that same track.
• Patrice shouldn't even be here.
• Lukas needs to be strangled.

When Lukas sat down for his interview with Jamie, she told him that people said he was hard to deal with. Lukas fell for the bait and asked who'd said that about him. When Jamie told him that it was Dilana, he said, "Tell her to mind her own business."

After hastily wrapping up the interview (in part because Jamie told him he was being "a complete dick"), Lukas found Ryan and complained about Dilana. In his opinion, she'd crossed "the fine line between professional and punk."

But any kind of a showdown would have to wait, as the following day was song selection. This week, two contestants would get to perform original songs--an honor nearly everyone wanted. Storm suggested settling the argument with fisticuffs, but Magni had a less violent approach.

He proposed that Ryan get one of the originals since he'd given it up to Zayra last week, and that Patrice get the other, since she's already been in the Bottom Three several times. The group voted for Magni's idea, and Storm put her boxing gloves away.

Picking up the slack since Zayra's departure, Storm took the song that no one else wanted: "Cryin'" by Aerosmith. A practice session with Magni made her feel more confident about her choice -- so confident that she straddled him for a hug as he sat on a deck chair. Magni asked an obvious question...

Magni: "Is my wife going to be happy that you're sitting on my lap with your breasts in my face?"
Storm: "I'm sitting on you like a brother."
Magni: "I have two brothers, and that's never happened before."

Toby, seeking payback for his naked run around the pool last week, fought Dilana over "Every Breath You Take" by The Police, even though he didn't want the song at all. He set the same price as she did, so Dilana got naked and ran her own lap of shame. Toby told her that, naked, she resembles "a 12-year-old boy in a wig."

Only after she started practicing the song did Dilana realize that perhaps her dignity was too high a price. Years of smoking have robbed her of her falsetto range, rendering parts of the song nearly impossible. Toby and Lukas went to investigate why the mansion's pet dog was howling, only to discover that it was Dilana practicing.

Unless she rearranges the song, Dilana could have an onstage meltdown to rival Jordis' horrific version of "Dream On" by Aerosmith last season. That marked the end of Jordis' reign as the likely winner, and the same thing could happen to Dilana if she can't make "Every Breath You Take" work.

Rehearsal with the House Band showed Magni to be in similar vocal trouble as he battled the flu. Toby sounded much better as he practiced his tune: "Layla" by Eric Clapton. But the big hit of the night could be Ryan, whose original song could steal the whole show.

Not bad for a guy who admitted in one of his media clinic interviews that he prefers the magazines Teen and Vogue to Maxim.