I’ve decided to start a new category that will further be known as “How Have We Not Talked About This?”
As you all know, I have a real job and it sometimes gets in the way of me sharing my rambling and opinions about nothing as much as I would like. Not that I’m complaining…several of my best posts are direct results of things I experience while on the job. See here, here and here.
With that said, days…weeks…even months may go by and one day I realize that we’ve never discussed something or someone in pop culture that was newsworthy enough to stop me in my tracks and take notice.
Case in point?
Glee.
How have we not talked about this?
I must have been in their perfect demographic range or something, because I was intrigued the minute FOX started pimping out this new show about Glee Club during American Idol commercial breaks. In fact, I was so much the perfect demo, that I stopped my DVR in the middle of fast forwarding because I spotted something that looked to be musical theater.
Oh how I love musical theater. Although Hallsville High School did not have a Glee Club, the theater department did perform musicals each fall. I’ll have you know that you are currently reading the words of Cha Cha Digregorio…the best dancer at St. Bernadette’s. I’m just saying.
Since I was watching the season finale of American Idol live, I was delighted to find out that Glee debuted immediately following.
It’s your typical high school storyline: Teacher was Glee back in the day and wants to resurrect it. Drama queen, diva girl, weird girl, nerd and gay guy are the only ones that sign-up. Teacher hears football star singing in the shower after practice one day and tricks him into signing up. (Of course, it turns out he begins to secretly loves Glee and wonders how this will go over with his buddies on the team.)
I have to admit, it was a slow start for me. But I stuck with it. And this was the pièce de résistance.
Don’t stop believing in this show people.