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Monday, January 3, 2011

My Life In A Quote

The minute I saw this quote in an outdated copy of Rolling Stone Mag, peeking out at the top of the "Random Notes" section, my heart exploded into a million pieces of grateful, fleshy confetti. Thank you, Damon Albarn (of 90's band blur, and currently Gorrilaz).

"Glee is a homogenization of everything, and ultimately will lead to emptiness."

Now, I could go on pretentiously psychoanalyzing this, or I could spend my time basking in its sheer simplicity and boldness and loveliness. I think I'll take the latter.

Now, readers, I don't mean to be one of those extreme, mainstream-television-program-haters who goes around trying to make a point about how bad Glee is, but if you're a person with a passion for good music, like me, you don't take it lightly when a preppy, make-believe glee club with pregnant teenagers and obnoxious cheerleaders sing (originally) great songs in ridiculous, suburbified harmonies. And it's aired on Fox.

Sorry, Glee, but you've destroyed the musical excellence of Beck, Parliament-Funkadelic, The Police... and you'll probably never read this post anyway. Once again, I have a newfound respect for a man whose music was already dangerously catchy. If only they had made the print a little bigger.