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Album Reviews
Album Review: Glee – Glee: The Music: Volume 1 (Sony/Columbia)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 9 March 2010
‘Glee’ is a very special thing. If you haven’t had the pleasure of watching it yet, I suggest that you do. Right now. Go on. I swear, ‘Who is Josh Groban? KILL YOURSELF!’ will be your new favourite insult.
So, this album has been out for a while (well, nearly a month), as has the show, which has been airing in the US of A since last autumn. But my CMU colleagues have been a bit dismissive about the whole thing so far, so I thought I’d make a belated leap into the Reviews slot to sing its praises. ‘The Music: Volume 1’ is a selection of fantastic covers as sung on the first series of the show. Every corner of pop music is touched, old and new, from Kanye (the cover of ‘Gold Digger’ sells this album alone) to Winehouse, and from Queen to Heart, along with some added gems from classic and contemporary Broadway productions such as ‘Wicked’ and ‘Cabaret’.
Okay, so not everyone is going to love this – musical theatre is a tricky thing and has a somewhat… acquired taste, if you can call it that. But, ‘High School Musical’ this is not! ‘Glee’ does everything that Disney should be doing, if they could just shake off their right-wing sensibilities (ooh, hooray for them for finally creating an African-American princess!). A true and absolutely needed positive representation of diversity, it’s chock-full of cheese, but in the best possible way. TW
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