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@AuntieMame – that's from Glee, a show I cannot recommend highly enough.
Here's why I love it: I know a lot of people my age who grew up during the music scenes of 80′s and early 90′s, where all types of new music became popularized: new wave, metal, rap, glam rock, alternative… Even the pop music category was exciting (Michael Jackson, Madonna, Police, U2, …) Then we basically stopped listening to radio. It seems the creative energies have ebbed. We don't like the two main types of music being played: what hip hop had become, and the heavily produced pop acts (eg. Britney Spears). It's sad when Green Day was the premier big act (as opposed to say Guns N' Roses).
So when I first heard about Glee, I thought, 'great, they made high school musical into a TV show'. But when I saw it, I was blown away. Remember how in the old movies where people just suddenly went into song and dance, how silly it looks now? This is the latest evolution of that, where they don't just work the music seamlessly into the story, but music itself plays an vital role in how the young characters work out the issues large and small they're facing in a very dramatic time in their lives.
It reminds me why we loved music, why music is important. It puts us in touch again with the intense feelings those music invoked. And unlike much of what's popular on TV, it's not cynical and cautious, it's not ironic, but earnest and genuine as in 'I take life seriously enough to want to do my best and make the best out of it'.
Most of what they use on the show are pop music from 80′s, 90′s, and present day. But when performed by these kids, it's fresh. Now I'm a huge fan of remixes. It's so surprising what different people can bring to a song that is so familiar, that you think you know The One True Way it should be sung…
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