I love sensibilities when it comes to protecting delicate ears. Transsexual even though everybody who’s ever heard of the show knows is transsexual. It reminds me of the YouTube clips of a very good- almost professional quality- Belmont University production of the musical Ragtime.
For those who haven’t seen the show or read the novel it’s based on, it’s set ca. 1910 in NYC and racial violence and the horrors of the immigrant neighborhoods are major themes and scenes where a woman buries her newborn child who is still living, where a woman is clubbed to death by police because they mistake a petition in her hand for a gun, and where a man tries to buy a Jewish immigrant’s prepubescent daughter, several instances of the N word, bombings and murders and reference to a man defecating in a car all go unchanged. However a line (sung by Emma Goldman to a character who’s coming out of an unrequited fixation over Vaudeville star Evelyn Nesbitt) is changed from Poor young rich boy/masturbates for a Vaudeville tart/what a waste of a fiery heart… to *Poor young rich boy/salivates for a Vaudeville tart…[etc.]".
It would be interesting if they ever decided to let Rachel (Lea Michelle) and Jesse (Jonathan Groff) star in a Lima production of Spring Awakening (the play Michele and Groff performed in on Broadway). The original features nudity (including by Michele and Groff) and songs featuring feigned masturbation and all sorts of sexual fetishes.
Yeah but song titles are almost always listed on the back, so it’s harder to accidentally turn it over and read it than to merely see the front. I’ve never watched an episode of Glee and even I know they’re making a RHPS episode due to the promos, so I can’t imagine too many viewers would be shocked to learned about the upcoming episode by seeing the front of the CD cover.
I can’t even figure out why it’s bugging me so much. I don’t hate spoilers. In fact, I read The Office threads and Glee threads here before I watch the shows just to be sure to catch all the nuances the first time I watch on Hulu. And maybe fair wasn’t the best word. I was just surprised to see it on the shelf. To be honest, I really don’t shop for music or videos nor spend much time browsing in stores, and I rarely sit down and watch an evening of TV these days, so maybe I’m just late to a marketing tool that everyone else accepts. It’s just that between the teasers and trailers and now the CD it seems like the actual show will be an afterthought.
But now that you all are saying they’ve changed the words…sigh. Oh, well…it’s not like I’m a huge Rocky Horror fan. I think I saw it once in 1978 and once since then. I do NOT have it memorized! But even just from viewing the teasers, it seems like the camera work isn’t going to let us appreciate the costumes and makeup anyhow. Too many fast cuts. They go to all the time and expense and then no one really sees anything unless you play it back frame by frame, which is what I did with the Brittany/Britney episode, just to see the costumes!
Traditionally, the Indian movie industry (Bollywood) would sometimes release soundtrack albums up to a year before releasing a big motion picture. It would aid the promotional machine.
If you like the CD you’re more apt to watch the show
And on the flip side, if you buy the CD and hate it, well…You’ve bought it and now there’s nothing you can do about it. If you watch the show first and hate it, you won’t buy the CD
I’m confused. How could it be unfair to release the CD before the episode airs? It’s not as if they’re forcing you to watch the episode to make the CD work or anything like that.
I know, Skald the Rhymer. Unfair was a poor choice of words. Just pining for the good old days when they didn’t market the toys and the t-shirts and the lunch boxes for some animated movie 6 months before it comes out. Heck, how do you even know if you are going to like the character enough to want a stuffed toy of it sitting on your bed? It just struck me as odd, and I guess I was confusing DVD’s and CD’s a bit. I work in retail, so I do understand marketing…I just don’t have to like it.
To be fair, the episode went out of its way to remind the viewer that this show was completely inappropriate for a High School production, and hence, there had to be a lot of re-writes. Sort of “hanging a lampshade” on the fact that they had to make re-writes to make it palatable to the network. The bowdlerization was part of the plot.
I still didn’t like the episode, but the changed lyrics didn’t bother me. (although I don’t really like the RHPS songs to begin with, so YMMV)