Get Your Gleek On: Songbird

[bookgazing]

I’m not a huge fan of Glee and I drop in and out of watching it. I tend to be hyper critical of the show (probably it falls down so often under the weight of my dreams for it). Sometimes it’s just another episode about the never ending girl fight over whichever bland hero is deemed hottest that week. Sometimes I find shiny gems. This weekend it delivered up such a perfect, female centric musical moment that I thought I’d share it here at LB:

I’m not sure I’ll ever go back to being a Gleek (the idea that Flynn is regarded as hot boy material still seriously stretches the bounds of realism for me) but the fact that this televisual moment exists makes me very happy indeed.

Comments

[bookgazing]

That is exactly the way I feel too! I just try to avoid the anger making episodes now.

I think because Santana started out as kind of a meanie and now they want to make her more sympathetic, she has to have character development to swing her round in the audiences eyes. Yay. Rachel can basically stay the same way she started (flawed, needy, desperate for recognition) and sing a few power ballads occassionally to suggest she's getting a bit stronger, while the audience continues to easily identify with her. She's essentially the Bella Swan of Glee - you know she could be so much more complex (flawed and yet not a total doormat) but the story she's in won't allow it for some reason. I heart Quinn, because she's come kind of a long way from where she started too.

I need to see if I can find that, because I haven't seen it and I over-identify with that song. There seems to be a lack of real feeling behind the words of their performances sometimes, it's all about the blast (agree, sometimes you just want to shush them and tell them to pull it back). I can just see Sheila Hancock guest starring in Glee (she judges one of our singing talent contests over here, but she's this proper classy veteran of the arts) telling them to really understand what they're singing about.

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Le fu. I had this whole comment typed out that got eaten because I forgot I wasn't logged into blogger for open ID.

Sigh.

Rachel being the Bella Swan of Glee is the perfect metaphor. It bugs me week after week that she seems to have no ambition at all beyond getting Finn's attention. Even Quinn called her on it one week, but Rachel still pursues him for some reason.

Sigh.

I found the video for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-RbPVUzDlU :-)