I'm glad other people liked it too!!

I like Rocky Horror well enough, I guess, but I will totally admit to not quite understand why it is SO popular.

I had to explain what it was to my parents when they watched the episode, which puzzled me. How did anyone live through the late 70s without seeing Rocky Horror? It's not like they were children then or anything.

Thanks Morgana! That'll definitely help ease the sting of missing out.

Is Cthulu pronounced "ka TOO loo"? I always thoguht it was "ka Thoo loo."

I liked it, too. I have found the characterization sloppy throughout, but I just don't care. Pretty People! Singing! Dancing!

Is it bad that I sort of enjoyed Glee this week?

Nope! Amber Riley in a corset alone was worth the price of admission.

Nope! Amber Riley in a corset alone was worth the price of admission.

I just listened to her version of "Sweet Tranvestite" again and it's like listening to Aretha do it. Vocally it's awesome but there's no connection to the lyrics at all. Zero.

I don't believe for a second that she's that character or that Mercedes is expressing any of the song's intent. There's none of Tim Curry's salacious little slurs and innuendo. It's just well sung. But that isn't the point of this song. It's like listening to Linda Rondstadt mangle all the bitter little ironies in an Elvis Costello song.

I really wanted to like Mercedes as Frank but I couldn't. Maybe she wasn't trying to play the character, she was just playing, "the lead".

Vocally it's awesome but there's no connection to the lyrics at all. Zero.

David, yes that is it exactly. I really wanted to love her doing it because I generally love anything that Amber sings but she just sang it, instead of meaning it.

I think that's pretty typical of today's R&B singing. The focus is on melisma, on virtuosic technique, and not upon lyrical interpretation. And I agree that's a bad thing (in Glee and in the music world in general).

I really really loved Glee for its first half season. But since then it has become less interesting. I still watch it, but I'm no longer bowled over by it. The theme episodes have been driving me nuts because things are done mostly to find a way to shoehorn some artist's songs in rather than writing a good story and choosing the music to fit. I enjoyed the Rocky ep more than the others but that's probably because I enjoy the RHPS music more than I enjoy Madonna or Britney or whoever. Even so, the music is produced so squeaky clean that it has become annoying as well.

The songs I've liked best from Glee are things like their cover of "Dancin' With Myself" which was a significant reimagining of the song.

But wasn't that based on an already-existing cover of the song?