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"Glee" The Good Guys, The Bad Guys

By Harris posted October 02, 2009 at 09:55

This week while watching Fox’s new hit dramedy, I discovered something interesting. Although the plot is pretty well put together, the music is fantastic and the acting is solid, the writing has taken a very interesting turn. The idea of protagonists against antagonists crept into my head and I started listing them side by side. Here’s what I came up with for “Glee.” With this in mind, it seemed to me that all the characters you root for on a weekly basis are men, and all the characters you cheer against are women. Of course there are some discrepancies, I’m sure not everyone is going against Rachel Berry, the stories centerpiece diva. The point of this is that in general, the men are the good guys, where the women are the bad girls. Only one (of the main characters) woman in the entire story has a favorable plot line and [...] Continue...
The Songs in my Head: Hide and Seek

By Harris posted October 01, 2009 at 20:40

Do you ever find something out and then realize you were the last person to find out? That happened to me this week. Usually I wouldn’t care but being a pop music guy, I was a little embarrassed to of not know this one. After jamming out to Jason DeRulo’s first single “Whatcha Say” in my car a number of times last week it was brought to my attention that the signature chorus was not written for this song. British singer Imogen Heap released the song “Hide and Seek” in 2005 and DeRulo sampled it in his hit single. It is a shame that the truly fantastic song by Imogen Heap, made up entirely of vocals will go unoticed and “Whatcha Say” (a great song on it’s own) gets almost all of the attention. Apparently, the reason I was unaware of the Heap song is because I don’t watch “The [...] Continue...
Harris’ Album of the Month: Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson

By Harris posted October 01, 2009 at 00:41

American Idol. Those two words have forever changed the music industry, the way artists are discovered and the level of stardom you can attain overnight. The first person to ever have this experience was (at the time) 20 year old Kelly Clarkson. She not only won the first ever season of American Idol but then went on to lead an extremely successful career in music which continues today. As Clarkson prepares to go back on the road this month alongside The Veronica’s I thought it perfect to honor her best album to date. When “Breakaway,” first came out I gave it a look and then moved on to other more exciting music, or so I thought. Years later as I went back to revisit the album I realized that it might be one of the best complete works we’ve seen by any artist in a long time. From the opening [...] Continue...