Back from the clip, Brooke is all, "Ladies, ladies!" She asks for Tommy's opinion, like we don't already know, and Tommy waxes gross about catfights. Like seriously, shut up, you caveman. Unfortunately, Jill and Patrice play into it, making cat-faces at the camera while snuggling up to each other in the Nut Gallery. Tommy says he's glad to see the Supernovices taking song selection seriously: "You guys are finally starting to act like rock stars over there." Everyone cheers like that's a compliment.
Brooke makes a little announcement: apparently one of the members of Supernova will be joining one of the contestants on stage tonight, although we don't know which member or which contestant. If we also didn't know which member was playing which instrument, then that would make things even more exciting.
Patrice is singing -- wait for it -- "Helter Skelter." I know, can you believe it? She sounds good, and her voice is as strong as always, but she's smiling too much. "Helter Skelter" is not a smiley song. It's not the House Band's best performance either; you can barely hear the bass at all, and this song needs a bottom (sit down, Toby). Jill rocks along in the Nut Gallery, dutifully showing us all what a good sport she is. When Patrice is finished, Tommy tells her that it's a song worth fighting for and he would have done the same thing. Tommy Lee, role model. His overall judgment: "Horns up." Uh, okay. Dave thinks her performance was "on the cute side," but "vocally, you brought it. It was dope." Jason also compliments her, wordily. Surprisingly, none of those words is "dope."
Finally, some love for the House Band! Brooke tells us to give them a round of applause. Round of applause! Okay, that’s enough! No more love for the House Band!
Time for this week's other Bossy McBossypants, Josh. Let's see what he had in mind for that Nirvana cover, shall we? Alas, his brilliant idea was to reenact Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance. He's accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, with the House Band also in acoustic mode behind him. He sings louder than usual, and even drops in a little rasp now and then. But again? Smiling too much. There's no smiling in Nirvana songs. Also, his voice sounds like Lyle Lovett's tonight. Once he's done, Dave tells him that it was "terrific," and he commends Josh for fighting for his songs, but next time he wants Josh to "bring something heavy and ugly...these guys are going to be playing at Wembley, not at a coffeehouse." Well, that's optimistic. Nevertheless, Josh readily agrees to do something heavy and ugly. I bet even his car isn't heavy and ugly. Gilby tells Josh that he's done a good job of representing himself, but hasn't represented Supernova. In other words, "Be more of a poseur." Dave tells Josh to bring the intensity he had in holding onto his song to his performance next week. And so next week, we'll see Josh announce his song and immediately leave the stage.













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