Glee. What are we so happy about? And this is not the kind of peaceful blissful happiness. On the Princeton wordnetweb.edu site the definition of "glee" is "malicious happiness." The television show itself is so good, so utterly, for lack of a better a term, happy, that there must be something wrong.
6 Reasons to Love Glee in a Really Screwed Up Way:
1) Political correctness- You have an asian girl dating a white boy in a wheelchair and a black girl and a gay boy dressing up the sadistic and compulsive coach of the "cheerio" cheerleading squad. These "minorities" in question (the black girl and the gay boy) are being ignored in the glee club and decide to makeover the coach for her favor. They want their peers to really see them.
2) You wish everyone in your high school was that hot- First Lea Michele was in the Broadway show Spring Awakening and now she is in Glee as the leading hotty as well(intimately involved, I might add, with Jonathan Groff). In both a troubled adolescent who deals with sex and song at the same time. Would if high school was filled with such physically developed girls and boys? Wow.
3) Its just a bunch of music videos- Where the hell did music videos go anyway (MTV)?? We need to fill our need of sing along songs and sequenced dance numbers.
4) You wish your high school was that friggin' awesome- No class and when there is class its singing class= awesome
5) You wish you could think of those catch phrases- among many, we have the "Hey William, though I smelled cookies wafting from the ovens of the little elves who live in your hair."
A scripted life would suck but not if you could have phrases like this whenever you wanted them.
6) Why can't we just sing about EVERYTHING?- When everything we think is just as dramatic as a broadway musical, why do we have to hide it? Why can't we just let it out in impeceble harmony?
In short. Glee is good, but too much and you will come away with your world a little grayer in comparison and slight nausea.
Irene, this is great! Your best by far. Really easy to read , and funny. I'm not sure you totally took advantage of the medium, though - maybe a video clip from the show? Remember it's not only writing styles that differ from medium to medium but what you can do. When you're writing online, always think , how can I take advantage of this particular medium: video, sounds, hyperlinks, etc. Really good, though!
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