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No question, but talk about hitting the nail on the head: http://www.usatoday.com/life/televisi...
Isn’t it funny how easy it is for us all to see Glee’s problems and how hard it is for teh creators to take constrcutive criticism? They’re happy to respond when somehting explodes in a good way (Darren being awesome and being worthy of inclusion in everything and getting more solos than LM) but now that the chorus is rising in unison on what is wrong with the show and how to fix i,t they’ve got their fingers stuck in their ears.
Though I would say the most recent eopisode, with the Loser song, did a lot to address all these ideas, these points that this show is and should be about the scruffy startups who are struggling through high school and getting by by singing about it.
However, I was watching the singing of "Loser" again and was struck with the irony that if you were to not know who these kids are at all, and walk in on them singing this song, it would ring remarkably untrue. Only two of them are overweight and only one of those two isn’t "traditionally" beautiful or doesn’t fall into the "it’s OK to be overweight if you’re a gorgeous black diva" stereotype (which I hate. See: Hudson, Jennifer, for proof of divaship independent of size. And i say Diva as a good thing.). The rest of them (maybe not Artie) are STUNNING. Traditional, Hollywood glamour-ilke. Imagine you just walked in on this group. Sometimes we forget because the show forces the idea that they aren’t gorgeous creatures on us, that it is highly unlikely that 90% of these people would be considered losers at their school or that any glee club, especially one that seems to have loserdom and outcastness at its core, would have this high a quotient of traditional glamour. With all that in mind it makes the song ring a little hollow to me, and manipulative, because this was a song DESIGNED to sell to every damn kid in high school in the world who feels that way (read; all of them).
And though I really do like the song – it’s fun, it’s catchy, it’s thematically accurate – all that is totally, completely destroyed by the lyric, "I can only be who I are." ARE YOU JOKING? That is not okay. That is just lazy, lazy writing. Grammar is pliable but does not stretch THAT far.
