Yes, I took a break last night from
laundry/organizing/panicking to watch Glee
– and I cannot recall a more enjoyable hour of television … EVER.
As everyone knows by now, last night was Glee’s “Madonna Episode”. I found myself clapping, vogueing, and squealing
in the midst of the mess that is my apartment.
It was like someone picked the brains of a bunch of 30/40-something gay males and created a television episode based on the results.
Madonna is the gay icon of my generation. Like Judy Garland before and Lady GaGa
currently, Madge was/is THE entertainer many gay men my age idolize. Yes, there are others – but Madonna was/is
the one for me.
I will never forget in 11th grade when my friend
Stacey played the “Madonna” album (Madge’s first - above) for me. It was instant love. And every time my high school gang took a
road trip in Stacey’s huge Pontiac/Buick/Whatever, we always played that Madonna
cassette.
My favorite song at the time was Burning Up. In fact, I can remember doing a little
in-the-car lip synch performance to the song with lots of gyrating, yearning
and general writhing. Goodness, I was
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gay (and yet still in the closet).
So, for your musical enjoyment, I present to you a gay icon ... Madonna ...
"La Isla Bonita" was the first Madonna song my 11 year old heart fell in love with.
ReplyDeleteI could not agree more David. I laughed, I screamed, I got up and shook my thang!
ReplyDeleteGlee was so good last night!
ReplyDeleteThat's one of the few M songs I like
ReplyDeleteDo you know if I can watch the episode online yet?
ReplyDeleteBehrmark -
ReplyDeleteYes - you can watch it on Hulu.
xoxoxoxo
I loved the whole episode and by the way Borderline was always my fav...
ReplyDeleteIn the early 90's I would rock out to 'Holiday' even though it was passe
ReplyDeleteGreat in Korea...
I was more than jealous watching the episode... THAT was the high school that I wanted to be in and the kind of club I would have loved to have been in!!
Great show.
"Lucky Star" was the first Madonna song I heard, in london!
ReplyDeleteMy fave is probably "Open Your Heart" but the videos for "Vogue" or "Like A Prayer" or "Express Yourself" are classics.
Anyone else have "Remixed Prayers"?