Rock Star: Supernova

Well, the new season of Rock Star has started, and while it seems awfully optimistic to call Supernova a mega-group (Velvet Revolver didn’t work out that way, now did it?) and it seems kind of charitable to call Gilby Clarke a legend, the show’s off to a good start.

As always, everyone on this show is as good or better than the finalists on American Idol, with the added benefit that none of them seems as lost on stage as many of the winners on AI do. That said, we could probably skip forward a few weeks and drop a bunch of these guys right now:

• It’s one thing to be ballsy and sing Axl Rose-style in front of a former Guns N Roses band member, but when even the normally kiss-up Dave Navarro (what happened to him?) tells you your arrangement sucks, it really sucks. I’m speaking, of course, not of Australian Toby Rand’s taking on “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in the GNR style — he did quite well, actually — but Chris Pierson butchering “Roxanne” to no end that I could fathom.
• Likewise, Jenny Galt is gorgeous, but she doesn’t have the range to pull off a relatively unchallenging song, and she’s destined to be gone before long.
• Josh Logan and Ryan Star seemed to have gotten lost on the way to American Idol: Too squeaky clean, not enough oomph and, frankly, unimpressive voices.
• Magni may be the biggest singer in Iceland, but I’m the biggest singer in my shower, and it doesn’t make me any more likely to front Supernova than him, I’m sorry to say.
• Jill Gioia and Zayra Alvarez are both interesting, but I’m not sure either has much of a long-term chance. Their voices so far haven’t been there and their performances haven’t been anything terribly exceptional.

At this point, after a whole one episode, I’d say Dilana, Lukas Rossi and Storm Large are the ones to beat. We’ll see if that ends up being true in a couple of weeks.

If Storm doesn’t win the whole thing, here’s hoping she ends up hosting next season. Not only is she just as beautiful as Brooke Burke, she’s much more believable on this show than Burke, who is the equivalent of dressing up Malibu Barbie as Rock Star Barbie and pretending it somehow has changed said plastic figurine.

• Bonus fun with the-very-ready-for-Internet-stardom Storm Large: Sexy home page in the process of being remodelled and a wacky comic strip from a Portland alternative weekly. That’s right, her band is called The Balls.

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