Glenn Beck Needs to Shut Up When It Comes to Music

Glenn Beck apparently stays up at night worrying that our nation is hopeless against that "horror show" Glee.

Granted, I despise Glee as well. But for different reasons. Beck says it lacks moral values and that the entire show is "propaganda," particularly their version of the My Chemical Romance song "Sing," which begs the people who watch the show/listen to the song.

"It's an anthem saying 'Join us'. How can you and I possibly win against that?"

What is there to win against? Yes, Glee does have some pretty non-conservative plot lines. A pregnant high schooler, an openly gay couple, divorced parents, premarital sex. But is it really propaganda?

Propaganda, as defined by Webster's Dictionary, is chiefly derogatory information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

So is Glee propaganda? Eh, not really. Maybe it's propaganda for equality, but I don't see what Beck is getting at. Gerard Way, the singer from My Chemical Romance, has responded to Beck's claim with this:

"I think the word Glenn Beck was looking for was 'subversion' not 'propaganda', because I don't know what it would be considered propaganda for truth? I can't tell what he's angrier about - the fact that it's how I feel about the persistent sterilization of our culture or the fact that it's on network television for everyone to hear."

Not surprisingly, this isn't the first time Beck has taken a song and decided what it was about: he labeled Muse's performance at the Grammy's of their song "Uprising" as a "call for revolution" as well as expressing his love for the band back in '09. They proceeded to ask him to retract his comments about the band, as they don't approve of his general opinion.

Glee and the Entitled Bastards Behind It.

I know I just posted about Dave Grohl recently, but this needs to be talked about.

So to be honest, I was a pretty big fan of Glee the first season. Though it was a kind of clichéd story, it had its moments and could be pretty funny while still pulling at your heartstrings. The songs that the writers picked fit quite well into the story, and the songs they sang were either classic or well known by almost everyone. The creators were ecstatic, as they had a huge hit- I personally know way too many people that watch that show religiously.

But this season has been rather different. I watched the first few episodes of the season, and it honestly just...well, it sucked. The episodes are written around what major artists' music the creators can get their hands on instead of putting songs in that are relevant to the story line- so there's not much of a story going on this semester other than the "Let's get to nationals!" thing from last season.

What bothers me the most is the sense of entitlement the bastards behind the music have. Recently, Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee, wanted to use Guns 'N Roses in an episode. When Slash said no, Murphy ripped into Slash, calling him a "washed up old rockstar" (quite the opposite, in my opinion). Nearly the same thing happened with Kings of Leon (who I can't find myself getting into anymore), whom Murphy called "snot

ty little assholes" for not wanting their music on the show.

So when Murphy asked Dave Grohl if he could use the Foo Fighters song "Times Like These" on the show, Dave declined. Murphy was, according to Grohl, "offended that [Foo Fighters] weren't begging to be on his fucking show."

Dave's remark is the best thing I've heard in a while: "You shouldn't have do do fucking Glee. Fuck that guy for thinking everybody should want to do that show."

And to be completely honest, you shouldn't. It's complete bullshit that Murphy thinks every single artist should want to be on his show. Why is he so entitled? Is it because Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber wanted to be on the show? I mean, they're the biggest pop stars in the world! Every artist and band should aspire to be like them, right?

No. Artists should be able to do what they want with their music, especially if they don't want it to be on some shitty, clichéd musical TV show about high school.