Reasons why Glee is stupid, #436363637
Out of all the musicals they could’ve chosen from, at McKinley they decide to do West Side Story which is one of the most difficult musicals to sing.
For the role of Maria a soprano is needed. It’s okay because the Glee club has a girl who can hit those notes…no that girl is not Rachel Berry. The only girl in Glee club who could have handled Maria vocally is Mercedes Jones. But Mercedes is black and not a size 2 so they decide to give the part to both her and Rachel, instead of doing the right thing and give only to Mercedes the role. Mercedes of course is pissed and refuses, letting Rachel perform every night as Maria. Rachel does the best she can of course but she sounds thin and strained. Conclusion: Beiste, Emma and Artie are idiots.(i love all these 3 characters but they were idiots here)
The role of Tony now. Blaine visually is a pretty perfect Tony, let’s be honest and this is why they chose him in the end. They chose him because he is visually the perfect Tony and because they are incompetent fools. Why are they incompetent fools? Because Blaine cannot handle it vocally. Tony has a very smooth, silky voice but also a voice full of vibrato. If you want to sing a Tony song you have to have a vibrato and Blaine wouldn’t recognize a vibrato if it smacked him in the face. He auditioned with a Tony song and sang it poorly, as the amateur that he is. Now i suggest you go on youtube and look for the song “Maria”. That song is full of vibrato and i thank Grilled Cheesus everyday that RIB+ didn’t make Darren sing that song on the show because he would have murdered it. Kurt auditioned with a song from Funny Girl, I’m the greatest star, and maybe that wasn’t the smartest choice but it showcased the impressive control Kurt has over his voice. Emma, Artie and Beiste should have recognized that the quality of Kurt’s voice alone would’ve made him a better Tony than Blaine ever could be, instead we got that scene with Romeo!Kurt where Kurt actually played the role really well and everybody laughed at him. What i got from that? Emma, Beiste, Artie and Rachel are all incompetent fools who put Kurt in a box and REFUSED to see and recognize his talent because he is not the ideal Tony, visually he is not leading material, nevermind the fact that he, unlike Blaine, can vocally handle Tony and judging by his Romeo performance is more than capable of playing a male lead, even though he doesn’t look like one (and he doesn’t look costipated when he sings, i’m looking at both Blaine and Rachel here).
Mercedes and Kurt got screwed over by the narrow-mindness of people who are more interested in seeing a plausible-looking Tony/Maria instead of looking for someone who may not look ideal for the role but can actually handle it better. The result was this: Rachel and Blaine looked very nice in their costumes but sounded strained and thin (both of them) on the songs (and are apparently such mediocre actors that they had to coerce their boyfriends into having sex with them to be more believable).
We could’ve had Mercedes sounding heavenly (like she did in Not Getting Married), we could’ve had Kurt sounding absolutely stunning on Maria (i get emotional just thinking about it) but unfortunately she is too black and too ‘not-thin’ and he is too flamboyant and in-your-face gay, right?
And thinking that this was born as a show who celebrated the underdogs…
