
Source: Rolling Stone | Written By: Erik Hedegaard | Published On: 20 May 2011 | Type: Article | Filed Under: Glee
You’d really think that those kids on Glee would be super-duper extra-special entertaining. On TV, they’re dizzyingly fun to watch. They sing. They dance. They lace their bake-sale cupcakes with weed. They get involved in extortion plots involving their panties. They wind up pregnant, even when they’re president of the celibacy club. The show is crazy and camp and has done so well that Fox airs it in one of the most coveted time slots in all of TV: right after American Idol, the very show that paved the way for Glee in the first place. Plus, after only 13 episodes, it has already become a kind of multimedia cash cow. Sales of the songs it covers (among them, Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious,” John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”) regularly take the top spots on iTunes. Its first two albums became instant bestsellers. And the upcoming national Glee tour is already selling out. As one TV analyst recently observed, “It’s a merchandising bonanza!”
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