A very disappointing week.

1) Dilana – Cyndi Lauper “Time After Time”
Top of the heap almost by default. The fact that she was willing to take the song on at all suggests she’s conscious of showing versatility. Frankly, it’s not a number you can do very much with other than keep it simple. I liked it. And I can’t take my eyes off her.

2) Storm Large – Dramarama “Anything Anything”
Excellent. Storm knows how to get a crowd going. I’m not at the stage where I’m giddy with excitement waiting for her to perform, though. Yet.

3) Magni – David Bowie “Heroes”
A perennial favourite well sung, if far from spectacular. Maybe Supernova were looking to knock him down a peg or two just for the sake of ‘keeping it real’ but I call BS on the whole guitar thing.

4) Ryan Star – Live “I Alone”
I thought he was good last week doing CCR and this kept the momentum going. One thing: you can almost imagine that him doing the song stemmed from some unrequited love at college/high school experience. And to which the reaction is more *cringe* 'oh, puh…lease' rather than ‘aw…how touching.’

5) Dana Andrews – Nirvana “About a Girl”
She deserves props because her voice, arguably the weakest on the show, could have bombed with an acoustic arrangement. It didn’t. An improvement but it’s clear she’s living on borrowed time.

6) Josh Logan – Blind Melon “No Rain” I don’t know this song. Josh did a competent job but there was little hook to it at all. My prediction is that if he’s in the bottom three he’ll be kicked out – he’s too pretty boy for Supernova and not enough a rocker.

7) Lukas Rossi – The Verve “Bittersweet Symphony”
Urban Hymns was my de facto album in college and continues to resonate with me strongly. With apologies to Glow, I hated the way Lucas snarled throughout, an antithesis to the song’s title; it just came across angry and angst ridden. I am grateful, however, that he didn’t get the chance to take on "The Drugs Don’t work" instead – I do believe I would have had nightmares. Personally, the song would have been better for Josh (who might also have fitted Richard Ashcroft’s vocal style more).

8) Toby Rand – Billy Idol “White Wedding”
Toby is regressing and with each passing week is being exposed as having more style than substance. Compared to when Lucas did "Rebel Yell," this was dross

9) Phil Ritchie – The Wallflowers “One Headlight”
Either the band was too loud or Phil was in limp mode. No oomph, no depth, very little of anything. Barely beyond the minimum pass mark, IMO.

10) Jill Gioia – The Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar” What.Was.That.

Not worth ranking:

Patrice Pike – The Black Crowes “Remedy”
Excrutiatingly dull. The only thing worse than being bad is being forgettable.

Zayra Alvarez – Blondie “Call Me” Um, the whole performance began and ended with that outfit. Racy, curve-hugging, fetching……in a Cirque-du-Soleil kind of way. The singing? I’ve banished that to the far reaches of my memory and that’s not even remotely far enough. Out of tune, out of here. I’m begging.

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