Gleek

Challenge: To record a 'Glee' style song with some amigos

Skills Developed: The ability to incorporate the word 'boobies' or 'boob' into any film title.

Overview/Rant: For those that haven't watched Glee yet- shame on you. For those that haven't heard of Glee yet- just leave. 

The major selling point of Glee is obviously the music- but I implore you (feel implored) to watch it for Sue Sylvester as well... 

After a week of watching Glee, from beginning to end, I was feeling incredibly motivated to break into a Glee style musical number. So with this motivation I e-mailed some of my drama buddies (yes- I have specific friends for specific occasions) and we decided to meet Friday last (I'm late with this post- could have been the Friday before... or maybe it was a Saturday?) and work on a little Glee magic. Rather than be a dictator and pick a song I decided I would open it up to the group to decide a musical number... this was an error which took several hours of discussion and heavy drinking to correct.

At some point we talked about whether or not we wanted to be original and do our own take on a popular song that hasn't been done by Glee. The latter was deemed the best option by most people. Once this was decided we had a short (3/4 hours) discussion on whether to do a mash-up of two songs, and if so- which two. We EVENTUALLY decided that we would mash-up the Killers song "I Got Soul" with... well... another song that we hadn't actually decided upon yet...

So we tried learning some harmonies...

I continued to drink... others joined... we gave up learning harmonies...

J* whipped out a backing track to the Glee version of "Don't Stop Believing" and the rest is history.

Then we went to the Poets room which is littered with film posters and "re-titled" them: Transboobies, Pulp Boobies, Edward Scissor Boob, Star Boobies, Boob... and so forth... 

Conclusion: Glee night was awesome. I got a Mohawk. We didn't sleep till 6am. When we'd finished singing Journey, we just sang other musical show tunes. In terms of challenge completion I'm going to give this one a good olde tick- BUT I may revisit this later to do an actual mash-up of two tunes and see if we can reattempt this fiasco.

Recommendation: Watch Glee. Sing. Get a Mohawk.

Special Thanks: Thanks to Boozing Bourke, Drama Bob and Robin Hood who offered their services but couldn't make the night- worry not- we will have a Glee 2.0 night! Special thanks to J who did the recording and editing of the track. Thanks to the Sweetman for a bit of 3-in-1.... Boo to Alice McFail who left early! Thanks to the singers: Cidona, Clong, Sexual, Mr. Mortar, the Poet and Brendan O'Rourke**

Here is my favourite Glee song... I mean- it's Kelly Clarkson... KELLY CLARKSON... epic...

* All names have been changed to protect identities
** Named as it was felt his identity did not need protecting. He's the guy making that chicken clucking sound you hear in the background.