There are some things a guy just knows.
I’m in the car with Drama Queen Sunday evening and she asks if I have the song Gives You Hell on my iPod. I dig The All American Rejects and I told her I did have it. She asked if it was “The Glee version or the real one.”
I quickly glanced over at her with a look of sheer…I don’t even know what I was feeling at the moment. I was disappointed that my teenage daughter would even consider that I had the Glee version of anything on my iPod. I was also feeling frustrated that a bunch of losers would take a perfectly good song and F it up. I was also holding back laughter. That was quite possibly the dumbest question I have ever been asked.
I glanced at her, then back at the road and asked, “What the hell would make you think that I have a Glee song on my iPod?” She responded with the typical teenage reaction. “I don’t know…..”
“Glee is just High School Musical done on a weekly basis,” I reminded her. “If I think High School Musical is stupid, why would I have Glee music on my iPod? Have I EVER indicated that I had an interest in watching that show? In fact, when you’ve asked if I wanted to watch it with you, what was my reaction?”
“You said, hell no!” She replied. Damn right I said hell no. If my internal filter hadn’t been switched on I probably would have said “Fuck no”. I’m a hetrosexual male in my 40’s. Why would I have an interest in watching Glee?
For the record, that was a rhetorical question. I don’t need your answers on why I should become a Gleek. I will never become a Gleek. I understand chicks who are Gleeks and I guess I can understand homosexual males who enjoy it, but I don’t get how a straight male could think it’s anything but stupid.
You’re probably all asking, ” J.R., how many episodes have you watched?” I will answer you honestly and say, “Absolutely none. Not one single minute.” How do I know I don’t like it if I’ve never watched it? There are some things a guy just knows. That’s all I can say.
P.S. The only nice thing I can say about Glee is I like how they use the fingers to make the “L” in the name. That part they totally got right….
I agree with both @Margaret and @Jenn. I resisted watching Glee simply on principle for the first season. I teach high school, you see, and all of a sudden all of the kids wanted a glee club and they were acting a fool every week. Then, I was home sick for about a week and blazing through hulu in my weakened state, by about day 3 I ran out of stuff to watch and I decided to see what the heck the big deal was with Glee. That was that. By the time season 2 rolled around I had caught… Read more »
I’m a chick, and I don’t find Glee interesting either. I watched a couple of episodes. They put me to sleep. I liked their version of Poker Face, but that’s about it. (I’m guessing that being a heterosexual male, you don’t like any version of Poker Face. My husband certainly doesn’t.) Not gonna waste my time on that show.
Glee is awesome. Sorry. It happens to be one of the most hilariously unpolitically correct shows ever on television. I am amazed at some of the stuff they get away with. It is definitely nothing like High School Musical. Although I have never watched a second of High School Musical in my life (wouldn’t be caught dead doing so) so I can’t say that for sure.
Also, my very heterosexual husband refuses to watch it with me.
His loss.
Aw, hell. I love Glee, I love the music and I have loads of it DLd from iTunes. And yes, I love the REAL stuff, of course! But hey, it’s a “new” version that makes it *hip* (GAWD I’m so old) again and whatever, ya know? So we’ll agree to disagree. And I can let your daughter borrow my iPod. 😉
Good Lord
Thank you.
And I use totally different fingers when it comes to the Glee gang sign
Aww, I like Glee 🙂
My husband would definitely agree with your assessment of the show though.
First of all: LOL.
Second: I like Glee and even I would never, ever, ever download a Glee song. When my daughter wanted to hear Don’t Stop Believing on a road trip and I clicked over to Journey, she was upset.
I like Glee. I really do. But as much as I like them, um, hello, they are just singing covers. Songs that were famous because they were already awesome.
Also? My daughter is 13 and I have to watch each episode and okay it before she watches because it is NOT made for children!
you and I shall have to part ways on this.
And for the record, there are about a million miles between the Disney Channel’s High School Musical, produced for baby tweens and Glee, created and directed by the man who brought us F/X’s Nip/Tuck. This isn’t about conversion of your thoughts, but let’s not lump things together all crazy-like!
And @margaret is correct, Glee is NOT appropriate for 10 year olds. It’s an adult show and should be treated as such.
JR,
Just for the record, I am a strictly Heterosexual woman, and I would not be caught dead watching Glee or High School Musical….Never, Never, Never…
I don’t understand how people can watch that crap, it is right up there with The Batchelor, and Dancing with the Stars….Can someone please tell me what is so exciting about watching washed up stars dance….
I’m cracking up at your response to your daughter. Personally, I’d love it if more people broke out into spontaneous song to describe events in their life, but I don’t need a high school version. I got enough of my own drama, thankyouverymuch!
Glee sucks. But what gets me when I have had to endure this show is how it’s all sexual with these kids. And yet everyone thinks this is okay for the 10 yr olds to be watching the cheerleader try to assist in the nerdy virgin losing his virginity. My niece stayed with me for a couple of weeks and I watched it twice w/her and was shocked at all the sex and sex talk on the show. I think I’m glad I didn’t have kids.
Big fat raspberry :p~~~~~~~
“Glee” is an example of when Hollywood runs out of ideas.