A Song in your Heart

Ever since 2002 when a little show called American Idol came into our lives, there has been a resurgence of the male solo singer. We are fortunate to be living in a time that has long forgotten the days of 5 Man Pop Ensembles, but being that this is Winter Holiday season, we have kept our receipts and turned them in for men with guitars and voices that go higher than some women. Regardless, women flock and pine after these singer in a way that Justin Timberlake was never thought of by anyone over the age of 15.

HOWEVER, we are also living in the real world in which singing in the choir is still lame and having a desire to perform in 3 musicals a year will still get you on the football team's dumpster list. As long as it is always socially acceptable for girls to take ballet, it will be socially unacceptable for a man to make the performing arts his primary past time before the age of 18. At that point, he can go off and study musical theatre or vocal performance. If he ultimately realizes that he's a homosexual, then he'll be in the majority; if he ends up being the almost impossible to find straight, talented male with a pretty face, he'll be sleeping with any and all of the attractive blondes with rich daddies that sent them to college to learn how to sing.

AND YET, there is another hitch. The network that brought us the latent homosexuality of Clay Aiken and Adam Lambert has also created a television series in which men of all statures sing, dance, and somehow avoid wearing the cliche sparkling vests that are always associated with show choir.

Obviously, I'm talking about Glee.

While I'm sure the show's fan base, aka Gleeks, are primarily made of up tween girls, teen girls, college musical theatre majors/gay men, there is clearly some cross over into the important 18-49 demographic that networks love to base ad rates on. The show itself has only one gay character and seems to follow all the female stereotypes that come with a glee club (the fat girl with a big voice, the diva, the hot one) the majority of the male characters would never set foot in a glee club (Ok, the gay and wheelchair kid would still be there, but FOUR members of the football team? That's like saying that a married couple aren't having sex!)

SOMEHOW STILL, it's good.

The show is well written, the young actors are getting heaps of praise, the adult actors are universally loved, and half of them are already recording their first album.

So why is it that we men are universally loved when we sing PROFESSIONALLY but are homosexuals because we enjoy singing?

The answer my friends is an easy one. If your glee club was as good looking as that one on your TV screen is, everyone would want to be in it.

Just remember that popular kids don't have the capacity to put together coherent sentences in high school; they're too busy drinking and smoking pot

I should know, I was in the Glee Club (and I always called those blondes back a few days later)