Hello Gleeks! and any other readers who may have stumbled upon this blog! WELCOME! I would like to take this first post to introduce myself and to tell you a little bit about this blog. Here goes:
Who am I?
My name is Molly, I'm a sophomore at Rice University, and I love love love television. I will pretty much watch anything. But right now, my biggest addicition? GLEE.
What is Glee?
If you for some reason have been living under a rock and have completely missed the cultural phenomenon that is Glee (just kidding, it's totally cool if you're new to Glee), the show is about a group of high school students who are in the school glee club (show choir). The group is composed of a variety of kids--the cheerleaders, the football players, the drama queens, the nerds, the open and not so openly gay, and everywhere in between the typical high school cliques and stereotypes. But the thing that all of these kids have in common? They love to sing. And together they form a motley crew of underdogs. The show is about how they come together to face the difficult time that is high school. I think the theme of the show can be summarized best in what has become the Glee anthem, Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." Check out this clip of the club's very first performance of the song if you want to feel all warm and fuzzy.
So what's this blog about? And why are we talking about Glee?
I'm writing this blog for my Communications class. The assignment was to pick a topic that we are passionate about, and blog about it for a month. If you haven't already noticed, my passion is Glee. So I knew I wanted to blog about Glee...but how would I make my blog (A) different from the millions of other Glee blogs and (B) interesting and relatable to a large audience, not just Gleeks?
Well, my solution was to make this blog about the social issues on Glee. Because yes, Glee is about singing and dancing, and sometimes petty high school drama, but I love it because it also tackles really important issues that many teenagers face. Bullying. Body image. Popularity. Pressure to succeed. Sexuality. Relationships. And many more.
The goal with this blog is to talk about those issues, problems that everyone can relate to on some level, through the lens of Glee's lovable (and sometimes totally frustrating and unlovable) characters.
Here we go!
So, on the eve of Glee's return to television after the summer break, I invite you to come along on this journey with me! Please be patient, it's my first time blogging, so I haven't quite worked out all the kinks yet. But, (and forgive me for sounding a bit cheesy) I hope that together we can learn a little bit about ourselves and our society, while still having some fun with a really great TV show.
Cheers!
Molly
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