I've admitted it before somewhere: I don't watch Glee. I never bought into the hype, the glitter, the uber-gay chic that it stands for. Maybe I am missing out, but what do I know: I'm a Discovery IDdict and proud of it. I'm much more at home with shows about forensics than Bright Young Things singing about what Bright Young Things sing about. What I do know is that I follow pop music and whenever Glee does a cover of a song, suddenly that artist gets a giant boost in sales and voila: single reaches new heights on the Billboard charts and stays relevant for far longer than it might have on sales and radio airplay alone.
Case in point: fun.'s We Are Young. I hadn't heard of the song until it hit Glee, and the song's been around since the late summer of last year. [And you're talking about someone who scours the music field for new music to listen to.] Glee picks it up from the pile, uses it in one of its segments, the song does much better than the original who after dropping out of the Billboard Hot 100 (after a low entry, which was its peak) it shot back up into the top five and remained on the number one spot for what, six weeks? Right.
Now Gotye has a beef it seems with Glee because they botched his current (global) number one song Somebody that I Used to Know. This considering their cover kinda helped him crack the number one spot in the only country that was holding him back (although to be fair, airplay and strong sales would have eventually ceded him the spot alone).
I actually like the cover. While Kimbra isn't around to counterbalance a storm the emotional turmoil - applied this time to two brothers who don't get along - is still there. So what's the big deal?
Case in point: fun.'s We Are Young. I hadn't heard of the song until it hit Glee, and the song's been around since the late summer of last year. [And you're talking about someone who scours the music field for new music to listen to.] Glee picks it up from the pile, uses it in one of its segments, the song does much better than the original who after dropping out of the Billboard Hot 100 (after a low entry, which was its peak) it shot back up into the top five and remained on the number one spot for what, six weeks? Right.
Now Gotye has a beef it seems with Glee because they botched his current (global) number one song Somebody that I Used to Know. This considering their cover kinda helped him crack the number one spot in the only country that was holding him back (although to be fair, airplay and strong sales would have eventually ceded him the spot alone).
I actually like the cover. While Kimbra isn't around to counterbalance a storm the emotional turmoil - applied this time to two brothers who don't get along - is still there. So what's the big deal?
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