Do you have a gleek in the house?
Posted on 04-23-10 · Entertain Me Tags: Alex, music, Sam, Speedy, televisionFor the past few months, I’ve been tempted to conduct a survey among parents with teenage kids. The question: has Glee invaded your home? It sure has invaded mine. Because of Alex, not Sam. Sam is nuts over Adam Lambert. Her classmates say that if Adam comes to the Philippines to do a concert, Sam will just waste her ticket — she won’t see the show at all because she’ll faint at the sight of him.
But I digress… I was going to write about Glee. Alex, our resident gleek, can’t seem to open her mouth without mentioning the show and its star, Lea Michele. Sometimes, I feel like sticking cotton balls in my ears. Not that it would deter Alex. When she wants an audience, she’ll demand an audience which, in most cases, is me.
Not that Glee is all that bad. Okay, I find many of the antics exaggerated. Speedy says the plot is not proper for teenagers referring to the sub-plot involving Mr. Schuester, Glee Club director, who is married to Terri, his high school sweetheart. Mr. Schuester is smitten with the school’s guidance counsellor, Emma, and in an attempt to save her marriage, Terri fakes a pregnancy and makes a deal with Quinn, a pregnant Glee Club member, to adopt her baby. There was one scene where Terri brings her husband to the hospital for her sonogram and, with the connivance of a technician, a CD was played to show a live baby on the monitor. It might seem funny for some but neither Speedy nor I laughed.
But I have to admit that some production numbers are good. Like the one when the cast sang Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors and Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked (oh, I have the book and I still haven’t read it). And the most recent episode, yet to be shown in the Philippines, features the songs of Madonna.
The curious thing is that, until recently, Alex thought that Madonna only sang “serious” songs. And that’s mostly because, as a child, her exposure to Madonna was limited to the movie Evita. I told them Madonna was a huge star before Evita and I’d sing snippets of Like A Virgin and they thought I was joking. I think Alex was shocked when, years later, she saw portions of a DVD with a compilation of Madonna’s concerts. She was much younger at the time and I couldn’t let her watch everything as some of the numbers were very racy indeed.
So, eventually, Alex discovered that Madonna was a pop singer before she landed the role of Evita in the movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical. And now Madonna’s songs, including Like A Prayer, are on Glee. If you’re not familiar with Like A Prayer, it raised howls of protests when the music video came out in the late 1980s. The video featured burning crosses (Ku Klux Klan plot), Madonna making love to Saint Martin de Porres and Madonna developing stigmata.
And now that Madonna’s songs are on Glee, perhaps, they can serve as a form of meeting ground for me and Alex. Her Glee generation and my Madonna generation. I just introduced her to Live to Tell, one of Madonna’s best songs in my opinion. When the Madonna episode of Glee is aired, well, at least we can talk about it without me feeling like reaching for cotton balls.
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oh, ms connie, i also love glee like alex =)
Count me in Ms. Connie…I too have gleeks here!
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No gleek in the house but me, if I am one. Minsan lang kasi manood. But your Madonna conversations with Alex… that’s very interesting. It’s like my son getting to know Michael jackson after he died.
I’m suffering from LSS right now — Like A Virgin playing inside my head. hahaha
I haven’t seen GLEE yet, maybe because I think I am too old to watch the show.
Madonna rocks, and I like LIVE TO TELL too but I am more of a Cindy Lauper fan (girls just wanna have fun fever)
My younger sister is a gleek. I’ve seen a few episodes and they are indeed funny. Brings back the glory days of high school, making fun of other people at school.
Though I’ve yet to find the time to sit down and finish the first season. Perhaps one of this days…
Warning: they say it’s addictive.
can’t wait for season 2!
like a virgin? hehehe singing with emotion pa. hahaha!
I should have done the costume thing too hahaha
i sometimes watch glee when i have the time. yeah! i would agree that some are way too exaggerated but i like their musical productions. my favorite was when Puck sang “Sweet Caroline”.
me and my husband are gLeeks… we watch for the fun of it… we enjoy the musical numbers…
i was a member of the glee club in highschool, and i just hoped that we sang songs like the ones in the glee show (two thumbs up for the mash-ups).
now i’m so looking forward for the second season, especially with madonna music… i am such a madonna fan… true blue, baby i love you….
My mother told me before that when she had an unfortunate miscarriage and undergoing “raspa”, she was half awake and singing Like a Virgin! am sure nashock yung doctor! LOL.
zara, whoa, I don’t think I saw that… but then again, I don’t remember seeing any episode in its entirety. I just watch the musical numbers hehehehe
gracegab, I was in Glee Club too and if we sang the way they do in Glee, we’d all be Broadway materials now hahaha Re Madonna: they didn’t sing True Blue, according to Alex.
Mella, hahaha was that an effect of the anesthetic or her way of dealing with the miscarriage?
I just watched that ep. Not a Gleek but I do love my show numbers! I don’t care about the characters in the show so I just fast-forward to the songs. Have you seen it yet (early download or anything?). It’s amazing! The songs that is.
Not yet. Heard the audio of some of the songs though.
anesthetic plus her being a madonna fanatic i guess hehehe…
When I read an article a few weeks ago that the Glee cast were invited to the White House,I don’t have any clue who they were.Your post got
me Gleekilized.Hee,hee.
Love Tuesdays episode when they sang old songs of D.Warwick and The 5th
Dimension, I guess to attract the boomers.
The Glee concert in LA is mostly sold out except for some not-so-nice
seats on May 20th.Let’s go Alex.
Sus, nahawa ka na! hahahaha
Haven’t seen Glee but my daughter is a fan, and my sons seem to like it too. Kailan ba palabas ito at anong channel?
Star World. I think every Wednesday evening. I get to see parts of the afternoon replays. Oh, and I saw the Madonna episode already. I wasn’t impressed.