Rumours will get the Glee Treatment!
 

A friend just sent me this article. Looks like Glee will do an entire Rumours episode next season! Is this real life?!!

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment...s_will_ge.html

The worst news in the history of Fleetwood Mac. Yes, worse than even the Clinton campaign.

Well, I guess this will be next season then - something I had wondered about.

Which gives more opportunity for it to make sense with regards to the storyline.

I second that.

Please, please, someone say this is just a joke.

Why so negative? This is a great thing. You can only sell the same product to the same fans for so long. Look at the huge boost Glee gave other bands/singers. It's going to introduce Fleetwood Mac to a whole new generation.

This is a good thing. It will bring more exposure to Fleetwood Mac, which seems too hardly get any, anywhere.

May take on the matter...:cool:

Edit: Looks like this topic is also on the Stevie board with 20 something replies. :rolleyes:

I wish...eh never mind...:shrug:

TBH, a majority of Glee's fanbase probably have no idea who Fleetwood Mac is. So all this could do is introduce them to a new generation of people...

Christ on a pushbike..

I know there's hesitation and no one wants to hear the songs butchered...

But seriously this is HUGE exposure (which, I guess may not be what everyone wants for FM).

Think of the other themed Glee episodes: Madonna, Gaga, and Britney. All of those got MAJOR media attention. For them to do Rumours is a pretty big deal.

Shall I just jump out of a window now or...

I can't see myself watching this, but the band will make money. Could sell more concert tickets next time they tour. Good publicity.

Michele

Forcing the songs from Rumours--of all albums ever--into a sitcom narrative is a dangerous form of pop history revisionism. It threatens to divorce the songs entirely from their emotional, aesthetic, material, and historical contexts. These are dark times.

The very last thing I want is to see ignorant kids putting their Katy Perry and Justin Bieber on pause to attempt to listen to Rumours. I think what bothers me most is Songbird, it shouldn't even be touched by Glee. My life is going to suck when I'm surrounded by people that don't even know them saying "OMG I love Stevie, Lindsay, and Kristen! Oh wait, which ones a guy? Oh their the ones that covered Landslide, rite?" >.<"

The sky is falling!

:laugh:

:sorry:

Ehh, doesn't matter to me one iota whether or not this happens. I didn't watch Glee for Landslide, and I won't watch it for their take on Rumours, either.

In the end, it's good the band is still being placed before younger folks. The world needs to be reminded about/introduced to Fleetwood Mac for the band to keep going.

Love this news!! I totally get why people don't like Glee but I just kinda go with it and sometimnes the songs they feature are great! Dunno just how they'll tackle Rumours, and I don't think Dreams will work, but I'm looking forward to it.

This is a sign that the Mayan calendar is true. The apocalypse is nigh.

No, I'm just kidding. Lindsey was on stage playing guitar while Carrie Underwood was singing Go Your Own Way, for a "Fashion Rocks" show. I'm still shivering over that one. These things happen and in the end, it helps us FM fans more than it hurts.

Michele

:thumbsup: I agree 100%! The future generations is who will keep Fleetwood Mac alive, as evidenced by the large number number of young people here on the Ledge.

Fleetwood Mac are never gonna realize that they have albums other than Rumours at this rate.

They should make a two-part Tusk episode, which turns into the most expensive television production ever made, is filmed largely in someone's basement, and requires multiple viewings to fully appreciate. The entire cast will perform their parts on separate soundstages, and the episode will be pieced together by three neurotic editors over a 13-month period. When released on DVD, each disc will be protected by two slipcases which you can never fit back together, and the cover art will be a picture of a dog biting an ear.

Such Glee hate...
Am I the only one that loves the show??

And Kurt (Chris Colfer) should probably do Songbird...
I don't know about Dreams, though.

But seriously, with the story line that is happening in Glee right now,
Rumours would work out well for them because the characters are living it out right now.

I think it will actually be good.

I think this is wonderful news. I watched Glee last summer at the beach because my nieces had it on DVD. I thought it was a very good, wholesome show. I haven't seen the show since but I will definately watch it when they perform Rumours.

Lindsey will record his segment in the bathroom, but this time it will be due to an enlarged prostate, rather than the acoustics.

Michele

possibly the funniest post ever on the ledge not written by michele. ... and you almost lessened the sting of this Rumours news, about which I guess I should stop complaining. BUT I just think that there's a big ol' difference between those who were introduced to the Mac through Rumours, Rumours redeux The Dance, to, now, Glee... The Dance retained (and updated) the spirit and meaning of Rumours--which is uniquely predicated on the personalities/histories/psychologies of the individual artists and their collective dynamic. Glee already perverts the minds a new generation of pop consumers... Rumours is their only hope, but if this is their intro, I fear their imaginations won't be able to expand upon contacting the real thing.

I think the material on Tusk, given that there's more of it, would have been easier to work with and perhaps a little more interesting/off the wall.

But I understand them choosing Rumours - I'm sure they're planning on incorporating the breakup drama into the episode. In fact, Murphy just said this... "We’ve always wanted to do an episode that is not a tribute to a musical act but to an album, and one of the albums that we all three love is Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. … You watch the show with everybody with each other, then breaking up – it’s like the making of the Rumours album!”

As far as a cameo, if Stevie and Lindsey were willing to make fun of themselves I think it could be potentially hilarious if the two of them made a small appearance... but I think they take themselves a little too seriously for that to work out.

Also, I'm consistently seeing Rumours being spelled as Rumors in articles about the show doing the album. It's getting on my nerves haha.

ETA: Another thought, on the subject of cameos... I know Stevie supposedly wants to be on the show (which I find strange considering she's said she doesn't like being filmed nowadays).. it would be pretty funny if the reason the Glee club decides to do Rumours is because Stevie comes to Mr. Schuester in a dream haha.

Yes, this news has gotten a lot of press coverage and the mis-spelling is very annoying.

I have several friends that love it, and I've been forced to watch it....and while I don't actually mind the story lines of the show, I don't care for most of the music. But, I'm a guy who generally detests musicals, so take that with a grain of salt....

I like the bitchy coach, whatever her name is....

I agree it's a cool idea, though it wouldn't be necessary to do a whole Rumours episode. They could choose some mac songs from any albums.

I don't follow the Glee episodes, just watch it while surfing the tv and if I like a song, I stay there. not interested in the entire story.

I enjoyed the To Sir with love scene. And of course the episode where Olivia Newton John appears, as herself if I recall right, singing Physical with the teacher.

So I even think it would be cool to see a mac member there. Anyone.

I'm ambivilant about it. I have never seen a full episode of Glee -- it's just not my thing. But I will watch the "Rumours" episode just for kicks.

It's so great that a fresh new band like Fleetwood Mac gets this kind of exposure. Because they are so over-looked, I think this will be the vehicle that will make them a huge success someday!

That's because alot of Americans are stupid...and annoying!

Now Homer - we need to talk about this. I do like a good musical but unfortunately when you say that you're thought of as liking such terrible ones as Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Oaklahoma, Carousel etc... blleuuurchh!

Gimme Singin' In The Rain, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge, Calamity Jane, Love Me Or Leave Me, Cry Baby, Rocky Horror, A Star Is Born (1954) and Chicago (the show is great but, other than when Catherine Zeta Jones is on screen, the film is poor).

You just need to be a bit more discerning!

Yes...and the proof........Glee is a hit:lol:

Mick

Or Wicked, or Avenue Q!

Jesus Christ Superstar....any Sondheim show.

Mick

Ah but Oklahoma with Hugh Jackman was stupendous!

I just don't care for musicals. In high school, I played in the orchestra, for quite a few, and just never really enjoyed them. Just not my thing...
Ooooooklahoma, where the wind(oh, just STFU!!!!).:D

I don't watch Glee, but I guess I might need to just to understand what's going on when the Rumours episode airs next season. :)

I watch Glee. Come on--Jane Lynch?

I might have stopped watching it this year but the gay storyline is good and responsible. That means a lot to me.

A week or so ago, two cheerleaders and Gwyneth Paltrow's guest character played and sang "Landslide" in a moment of sapphic love. Later, Paltrow's character (a sex ed counselor) said she loved "getting her Stevie Nicks on."

If they do a whole Rumours show I'm wondering who will get to sing what? I can see the leads singing "Go Your Own Way" and "Dreams" but who will sing "Oh Daddy"? Who will take on "Gold Dust Woman"?

Really??
 

Why wouldn't you want today's youth to know about the great music of FM? I would love to see them pause the Biebs or K Perry to listen to our favorite band. I don't know what has caused FM /Stevie fans to become so elitist that they don't want a new generation to learn to appreciate them!? This is great news and great publicity for FM despite the mispelling of Rumours or the possibility that someone from the cast may or may not butcher a song! Stevie herself loves Glee for what it has done to help the music industry and how it has inspired many teens to get into and appreciate music again. Hell look what it did for Landslide!? Whether or not you liked the Paltrow version, it was great for Stevie and she loved it. If you don't like the show, don't watch it. But be happy for our band who obviously wanted this to happen. Any exposure for FM is good. Not sure why everyone is deeming this the end of the world. Get over yourselves.

True this is good publicity for Fleetwood Mac, but if the songs are performed badly, then the quality of the original songs themselves wouldn't get across to the viewers who aren't aware of Fleetwood Mac.

Kinda like on American Idol if somebody screws up a song, it won't exactly send people to Itunes/youtube to download/listen to the original. :cool: