I’m fully aware that half of my followers are metal-heads and the other half (or majority) are theater geeks who love Glee more than life itself, and would get into a flame war with me if I said anything against them or that Cumber…batch fellow (eesh!), but I’m just going to come out and say it.

I don’t like Glee. I’ve listened to some of their versions of songs, and I was not impressed. All they play is cheesy pop songs (like justin bieber): yes, they got to play “School’s Out” once, but that was it! There’s never gonna be “Paranoid”, “Iron Man”, “Solitude”, “Black Dwarf”, “A Tout le Monde” or “Ride the Lightning” on Glee. I mean, the hardest they’ve gotten is Alice Cooper!

But apart from that, another reason I don’t like Glee is because it gives credence to the much held stereotype that men who are into musical theater are automatically gay. I’m straight but I love theater (Sound of Music, R&H’s Cinderella, and, yes, Wicked), and yet I will forever be stygmatized as gay because I love theater. I’m not saying that gay people can’t be into theater, but i’m sick of being wrongfully associated as gay just because i like theater and Glee promotes the “theater is gay” stereotype.

Don’t hate me because I don’t like Glee, I don’t hate you because you like it.

I’m sick of seeing Glee all over my dashboard! So I’m gonna start posting metal videos! \m/

Alice Cooper is letting Glee cover “School’s Out”…

I feel like a part of me has just died

I bet if, by some strange coincidence (that’s probably completely unlikely in reality), a Black Sabbath song appeared on Glee, everybody would blame Sharon Osbourne…

Even though Tony Iommi “owns” the name Black Sabbath and the Gleeks would have to go through him before they could use any Sabbath songs.

Double standard much?

Back in the days when William Shakespeare wrote those lines (yes, I’m still a firm believer in William Shakespeare), theater was looked down upon as low. The majority viewed actors and drunk, dissolute types. Women were either forbidden from participating or, when they were, considered whores since they were ‘showing their bodies’ before large crowds of people, mostly men. Theater was not respectable in any way.

Then time went on, people grew up, became smarter (and more stupid), but theater suddenly became renown. Big names like Patrick Stewart, Alan Rickman, Sr. Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Ian McDiarmid, Helen Mirren, Roger Rees and many others helped bring credibility and respect (dare I say nobility) to the position of actor. Theater was now something to admire, something to look upon as a worthy ambition.

Then came the 21st century. Someone had the idea to make a TV drama series in the style of a Broadway show-tunes production and suddenly, we have Glee. Though its mainstream popularity has definitely sky-rocketed, the cheesy, stereotypical characters of Glee and its hammy, re-use of cover songs (the majority of such by modern pop-artists) have also furthered the rumor that musical theater is something effeminate and only gay people want to be in theater.

In affect, Glee made theater disreputable again.

Have I listened to Glee? Unfortunately, I have. I’ve found their covers of good songs like the Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” or Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” to be quite unexciting to say the least. In contrast, their covers of cheesy, corny and cliche pop songs like that dog-awful “Baby” made me want to scream “bloody murder” and listen to black metal. (yeah, that bad).

One of the worst jabs (you’ll never believe this) was in a commercial I saw for one of these notebooks in which Lea Michelle appeared. Now my brother, who’s one of these people who has been fooled by Glee into thinking that all theater is gay, thought that the person in the commercial was Idina Menzel. Now I’m not her biggest fan, but I found myself sticking up for her hardcore like! I mean, come on, Menzel’s voice is much more enjoyable than nasally old Michelle. And get this, unlike the majority of Glee, Menzel can actually sing and did so in spite of her asthma problem (which is to be greatly commended). Like I would much sooner hear her sing one of those songs from Wicked or her I Stand album than hear Glee butcher another great song, or make bad songs worse.

Now obviously, I’m not one of these hipsters who thinks all popular things are evil. After all, I love Lady Gaga - and some 78violet and Katy Perry when I’m in the mood for it. But I actually find their material enjoyable. Glee? Please, give me NWOBHM any day over that. It’s just not my cup of tea! Period.

So I will go back to Shakespeare, where they had musical verse with their theater that didn’t make me want to bash my brains in while I listened to it. In this case, I think it is nobler in my mind to ‘take arms against a sea of troubles [namely Glee], and, by opposing, end them.’

No, this isn’t a news update about Wicked the Movie. I know as much as any of you do. One thing I heard, however, was that they’re planning on postponing the production of a film adaption of Wicked until the play loses its popularity.

Well, its 2011. In two more years, it will be 2013, the ten-year anniversary of Wicked. It’s still going strong on Broadway, still touring (I think they have a 2nd tour cast now), West End is still playing, its even gone to the Viking lands of Denmark and Finland, and I even heard tell that the LA performance is opening back up (if only San Fransisco would too).

Pretty much what I’m saying is that Wicked doesn’t look like it will be going anywhere any time soon. That is why I implore the movie directors to bring out a film adaption of Wicked now. If it is a success, it might A) successfully finish the musical or B) draw even more attention to the musical and make it even bigger and keep it going. If it’s a failure, it might do the other two as well.

But another reason I want it to be over with is to just end all of these rumors and speculation - the innuendo and out-uendo is getting to me! I just want to have it done, finished, and know sooner rather than later if they’re going to slight and snub all the good actors and actresses who have brought this show to life just to pander to OBC fan-girls.

Although, as much as I loathe that possibility, I would gladly accept seeing Idina Menzel as Elphaba in the movie adaption of Wicked if it means no one from Glee will be in the movie. I think it’s safe to say that the majority of Wicked fans (regardless of sex or orientation) love Glee. Well I’m part of the (very) small minority that doesn’t! I realize all too well that Glee is not the end-all be-all of musicals, and that some people are in agreement with me that it’s not really that good (mostly people outside of the musical fandom, which Wicked the movie must appeal to in order to be a success as well as the die-hard musical fans). I’m already a little bit miffed about Monsters Inc. II having Mike and Sully back in their school days, starting out as being ‘hostile’ and then growing into their friendship. (if I watch the movie, I will scream “Rip-off!” if they start a duet of “What is this Feeling”). If Wicked doesn’t come out first, the critics will complain that the story-line is “unoriginal”, even though it came before MI2 (not Mission Impossible II, but Monsters Inc. II lol).

But yeah, that was off-topic. Back to Glee. More on why I’m not a “Gleek” later, but right now I just want to say that having Glee actors in a movie about Wicked would make it seem like just an off-shoot of Glee, like it’s Glee’s pet-project. Wicked can stand alone as a worthy story of its own right, and it needs to! That’s why no “Gleeks”. Plus, as I said before, it needs to cater to a larger audience in order to be accepted. Because the film audience will be more than just the theater-goers, and if it only appeals to theater-goers, then what we have is another “cult” film that will probably be a flop and all interest in Wicked will probably die.

So yeah. Wicked must be original! End of story

First off, they’re shoving their fingers in the shape of an ‘L’ in my face! Hello! That’s what you say when you think someone is a loser! I don’t even know these people and they have judged me as an unworthy loser already!

No thanks, Glee, I’ll stick with William Shakespeare.