Okay, I love me some Glee, BUT

[nolabear]

they are bleeding the sexuality and deliciousness right out of Rocky Horror.

[applegrove]

1. I have two Glee CDs. I listened to them too much and now i can't stand them.

Seems my unique ability to listen to sappy songs over and over again has left me all of a sudden.

[nolabear]

2. I could see that. I truly like it and maybe it's what they have to do

but I'm a grownup and maybe I'm a little more complicated than that.

[applegrove]

4. I don't understand.

[pokerfan]

3. Never watched Glee before but I'm a RHPS fan so...

A female Frank-N-Furter was an interesting twist but it really worked for me. Still, I was a little uncomfortable watching kids (well, actors playing kids) performing some of the numbers. A student doing Touch-a Touch-a with a teacher as Rocky? :shrug:

[Lyric]

5. That wasn't a student. That was Emma, the guidance counselor.

;)

[pokerfan]

7. Oh well, then carry on then

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Glee is such a sterilized industrialized faux-artistic endeavor

that takes good music - or music that's maybe sometimes close to good - and takes everything out of it that's special in order to turn it into an easily consumable musical product equally palatable to all tasteless people from age 12 to 112.

If there was a Glee equivalent for literature, they'd take all the drinking and violence and hunting out of Hemingway; they'd take the magic out of Harry Potter; they'd take the murder and crime out of Sherlock Holmes; and they'd take out the robots and scientists from Asimov.

[nolabear]

9. LOL! I see your point. I like the fact that 12 to 112 will see it even in pablum form

and maybe will go to the originals, so I don't hold it against it, but I'd just watched Rocky Horror before I saw it and was on a "BOY was this seductive and wonderful whe I was 19" high, so it bothered me that they would give Tim Curry's part to a girl rather than have a guy wear drag and that they'd "clean" the lyrics, but I appreciate the homage and was tickled shitless to see Barry Bostwick and Meatloaf. Just reminds me how much more conservative the country is than it was in 1975.

[pokerfan]

11. They haven't done Hair, have they?

Can't imagine what they would do to that.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

8. I thought it was a little watered down

but got sort of choked up when Will explained what RHPS meant to us odd balls in the 70's, with some reminiscing to my teen aged daughter about being her age and driving around all Saturday night with NOTHING to do and ending up at the midnight showing of RHPS, not once, but many, many times. She actually thought that was pretty cool (it wasn't that cool) and had lots of questions. Which was kind of nice, to share some memories, such as they were.

[nolabear]

10. Totally. Don't dream it. Be it. Still chokes me up.

[blogslut]

12. It was...sigh

I think I'm going to give up on Glee. I really love Jane Lynch and every once in a while the show has inspired moments, but for the most part, the whole thing strikes me as a bunch of Johnny Bravos, auto-tuning for the marketing department.