This will be short and sweet.
Tonight I went to a "Glee" performance Sophie's fellow Med students had organized to benefit charity.
I had no idea what I was getting into.
The show featured students singing songs from popular musicals and other common pop culture songs, and also had a loose plot. At first I thought they were being bad on purpose, but as they sang song after song I noticed no improvement. As for the plot, I had no idea what was going on the whole time. Luckily Sophie and her friends shared my opinion of the music and we joked about it the entire time. These kids massacred some of my favorite showtunes such as "Out tonight", "Seasons of love", "I'm not that girl", and "Phantom of the opera", as well as "Help", and "Thriller" to name a few. To give you an idea, key was off, pitch was flat, and there was barely any vibrato. Now, I'm no highly trained opera prodigy, but compared to these people my voice is Broadway quality. Yeah.
I think of it as terrible American Idol auditions live, with microphones, and an accompanying band which is almost as bad as the singers. At least you can put the TV on mute. Poor Simon, I feel so bad for his ears right now. He doesn't mind I'm sure, after all he is getting paid millions to listen to and insult horrible singers.
This was even worse than that community theater production of Little Shop of Horrors I took David and Miles to. Needless to say, we left halfway through. No such luck this time. It was highly comical, and pretty painful all at the same time.
Whatever that was, it certainly did not make me feel "Glee"ful. XP
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