I watched last week's Glee, and I honestly don't get the love for it. I mean, is the viewer supposed to be aware that the actors aren't actually singing, or are we supposed to believe that they are? Because oh, my god. It made me cringe.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
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Steph L. - Sep 15, 2009 12:10:19 pm PDT #1923 of 5827
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Dana - Sep 15, 2009 12:11:51 pm PDT #1924 of 5827
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The actors are singing. Half of them have serious Broadway cred. They're just overproducing the musical numbers, which I get, in a sense, but I wish they'd do it less obviously.
Steph L. - Sep 15, 2009 12:14:13 pm PDT #1925 of 5827
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The actors are singing.
Seriously? Like the cheerleaders singing "I Say A Little Prayer"? That was actually them?
It sounds and looks like lip-synching to me.
Dana - Sep 15, 2009 12:17:24 pm PDT #1926 of 5827
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
They may be lip-synching to recordings of themselves, but yeah, they're singing.
Once music rights are cleared, songs are arranged and pre-recorded by the cast.
Auditioning actors with no theatrical experience were required to prove they could sing and dance as well as act.
From here.
And I have to say, aren't you like the opposite of the target audience for this show?
Laga - Sep 15, 2009 12:17:46 pm PDT #1927 of 5827
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It sounds and looks like lip-synching to me.
I thought maybe that was the teacher's voice.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 15, 2009 12:26:35 pm PDT #1928 of 5827
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The numbers in the 2nd episode were WAY overproduced compared to the ones in the pilot. I mean, that was still some pretty amazing singing for high school kids, but it didn't take me out of the show from wondering when Artie got possessed by the spirit of Barry White.
Dana - Sep 15, 2009 12:28:54 pm PDT #1929 of 5827
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
but it didn't take me out of the show from wondering when Artie got possessed by the spirit of Barry White.
Yeah, he's the only one I can't figure out. Apparently he was in a lower-tier boyband, but I'd like to hear him actually sing like everyone else did in the audition scenes.
Vortex - Sep 15, 2009 1:06:10 pm PDT #1930 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Apparently he was in a lower-tier boyband,
okay, I had to look it up. He was in something called NLT, which never released their debut album because most of the songs got leaked. They were going to rework it and release it, but in the intervening time, the band broke up.
Steph L. - Sep 15, 2009 1:12:54 pm PDT #1931 of 5827
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And I have to say, aren't you like the opposite of the target audience for this show?
I don't actually know what the target audience is. Surely black republican men aren't the target audience?
le nubian - Sep 15, 2009 1:13:46 pm PDT #1932 of 5827
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hahahaha.
This is Michael Steele's SHIT!