Limes with Orange

After last week's Rock Star: INXS, I predicted that Jordis Unga would be the one to volley the top performance back into play (see my Rock Star Volleyball post). And she came soooo close with her stellar performance of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (watch video) but at the last second MiG Ayesa beat her to the ball by singing Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" (watch video). (Okay, volleyball analogy ends here, 'cause I really don't know enough about that game, for one thing, and analogies that go on for too long become pretty tedious in any case.)

The fact that MiG accompanied himself on the piano was definitely impressive, but I think the clincher for me was when MiG's song ended and I found myself thinking: "that poor man must love his wife so deeply and miss her so terribly much," because that's what he clearly transmitted through the song. In the same way that Jordis communicated so eloquently about her friend who died through "The Man Who Sold the World" (right click on song title to download), which is still the standout performance of the whole series for me. It's all about communication, baby.

And I have to give major kudos to Marty Casey for his version of Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time" (watch video). Yep, you read that right: INXS gave Marty a Britney song... how's that for a challenge? But Marty came through with a darker, edgier version of the song that I honestly enjoyed. I gotta admit, that guy and his intense voice is really growing on me. If he doesn't make it as lead singer of INXS, I fully intend to follow whatever career path he ends up on. (I already KNOW that I'll follow Jordis' music to the ends of the earth, no questions asked.)

Labels: music, pop culture, rockstar, tv