Here's the video, approach it with an open mind and judge for yourself [video] Think it's one of their best performances,
Okay, I did what you asked. It's a bunch of capable singers who've gone into a studio to record a desperately cheesy cover of a song. What is meant to be interesting there?
Bah, you people have hearts of stone if you don't think that video is at least slightly moving in the context of the show and what happened
Sounds ok if you don't watch the cheesy video. Probably better if you watch Glee and have a clue what it's all about but I suspect it's still cheesy.
OK, I read your post above and decided to have a listen, because 1] I have The Joshua Tree album, and 2] I'm as fair minded as the next person. I managed to get up to the bit where the girl started up with the wobbly gospel voice, then the cheese was just too thick. I'd managed to block out the 'it was his favourite song' bit as I didn't know the context [and please don't enlighten me] and it felt like cheesiness taken to Disneyesque proportions [and believe me that's almost indigestible]. Other than that it was a reasonable 30 seconds. Well sung and well arranged. Just don't give me the overtly sincere wobbly gospel voice stuff. It makes me want to puke. If I want to hear that song I just put my vinyl album on. It's a good U2 song. Sorry. I did try.
well, I appreciate you giving it a try TSS, that's very open-minded of you. I feel i should explain the favourite song bit as without that the song would lack it's emotional...ness and is just mediocre song. Basically the actor who played Finn (Corey Monteith) died from a drugs overdose back in the summer. He was pretty much the main male character in Glee. So this performance was a tribute to him, hence the flashbacks and the fact that it was 'Finns' favourite song. If it didn't have that background to it, I wouldn't be posting about it.
I watched the video and yep it is cheeeeeeeeese. I would have thought they would have toned it down given it was a tribute to a guy that died. It is far too cheesy for a tribute song, but guess I was hoping for too much given it is Glee.
Americans love overstated schmaltzy cheese. Just watched the video and I would sum it up in one word....Tacky.
Any sitcom from BBC1, take your pick...Miranda, Citizen Khan, Count Arthur Strong, Mrs Brown's Boys.... Seriously, the head of comedy at Auntie needs to be axed.
I find traditional comedy series something of an oddity these days. I sat through one episode of Not Going Out, and thought what a pile of complete dog's do it was. I've never seen the comedies mentioned above, but I have seen the trailers, and if they are meant to attract me as an audience then they got the wrong person. Does anyone honestly sit through them and properly laugh..? I also sat through 10 minutes of Mrs Brown's Boys. Awful. I do laugh out loud at comedy, but the material has to have some substance. The stuff above are merely modern versions of Terry and June, and that old creaking series was possibly funnier than them anyway. Thing is, my yardsticks were comedies like Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Red Dwarf or The League of Gentlemen. I mean, how can you not find this funny..?
That's probably why I love Americans so much. Screw being understated, let's be over the top and make everything a big event.. No way would you get anything like the NFL pre-match shows before any football game in this country, it's far too overstated for us reserved British people. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong country. But yes, contemporary British comedy is terrible nowadays. Miranda has it's moments, but not that often. Mrs Brown's Boys, Not Going Out, Benidorm, Citizen Khan, all terrible
