Gwenyth Paltrow on Glee!

Gwenyth Paltrow has been a long time advocate of karaoke. She has never (to my knowledge) turned down a request to lend her star power to an event for one of the karaoke charities, such as KOUGH Karaoke Opportunities for Unkempt Geeks and the Homeless, or ERK (Equal Rights for Karaokephiles). Many will recall that it was her sheer determination that brought together KK (Karaokeholic Konfidentialous) that has does so much to turn around the lives of karaoke addicts everywhere.

Gwenyth has appeared in two of my previous blogs. The first was for appearing in the greatest karaoke flick ever produced, Crusin'. Just recently, I published a blog where I quoted some bloviator who had the unmitigated audacity to say that Crusin' is a movie that only a karaoke fanatic could love.

Gwenyth finds her way to my blog a third time. My sources tell me that she will be appearing on Glee, which has been voted an Emmy in 2010 in the category "TV show that is most like karaoke in it's hokeyness, but which isn't quite as bad as American Idol". She will be singing the original words to Cee-Lo's recent hit song: "Forget You".

Glee is bigger than the Beatles!

Wow. Who'd thunk?   The Beatles were bigger than God, but Glee has surpassed the Beatles. Glee has had 75 hits listed on the Billboard top 100.

Caveats: The Billboard Hot 100 isn't everything. And it isn't everything it used to be. Billboard Hot 100 does not necessarily mean song sales. The Beatles are way ahead of Glee on that. The Glee version of Don't Stop Believin' hasn't quite gone platinum.

But still, it's pretty impressive that in a few short months, Glee has managed to place 75 songs on the Hot 100 list. That beats out the Beatles, who "only" put 71 songs there. Not quite up to Elvis and James Brown (108 each), but still pretty impressive.

There are some who say that Glee is just karaoke with a plot. Those are perhaps the same people who say that American Idol is just karaoke with a million people in the audience. Why does everyone seem so interested in putting down karaoke??!!?

I think it's time for the nattering nabobs of negativity to finally admit that karaoke is an art form.