Kerrang magazine gave it 4 out of 5, saying "If you give your heart to a rock goddess this year, let it be Harry."

Sinewy and powerful, Xyzena is a perfectionist: psychiatry intern by day; acoustic rock goddess by night.

But Ms. Boym, in her mind, is also a rock goddess, who quotes Aerosmith as reliantly as her husband quotes the late Tibor Kalman, so a little Dionysian display at home was not such a bad thing.

Her duet of "Slow Ride" with Lambert received further praise from the judges, with DioGuardi describing her as a "rock goddess".

And much of my obsession centered on Dilana, a South African, neon-dreaded, facially-pieced, sandpaper-throated rock goddess who wowed me and her judges/prospective bandmates with her first riveting, hoodie-shrouded, seemingly possessed performance of Nirvana's "Lithium."

So what will the 36-year-old singer do without the mentor who shaped her career since she was 15 and transformed her from a cute provincial girl into a rock goddess?

But Ms. O's commitment to a rock goddess's hardscrabble existence ends at her doorstep, in a town "in the same general area" as the one in which she grew up.

Although American pop has no obvious equivalent of Lauren Waks, the French rock goddess who struts and sulks through Emmanuelle Bercot's film "Backstage," the toxic relationship Lauren cultivates with a besotted teenage fan is still uncomfortably believable.