Today I watched Grease. Lately i have become pretty rapped up in how musicals are most definitely back, High School Musical and Glee have diverted my attention from almost everything in my life, and I genuinely think that regardless of what you think of them as stand alone pieces of of film and television the impact of them in making musicals mainstream again is undeniable.
Musical's ability to tap into the very core of what makes me happy is insane, for example i went with my best friend to see the Glee 3D Concert film that has just been released. Now it may have been critically panned and bombed at the box office but for a Glee fan i don't think you can go wrong, i was so excited after having seen it that i struggled to get to sleep.
While I love Glee and High School Musical, having watched Grease for the first time in a long while, I believe it is the ultimate high school themed musical. Zac Efron is basically just Jon Travolta except Jon's better because he has a bum chin! (Don't get me wrong I love Zac, I have a picture of him topless on my wall and I am genuinely considering having it made into wallpaper and creating a feature wall.) I just believe that Jon Travolta wrote the rules about how to be a singing teen and everybody else merely follows them and hopes to match his greatness.
If at the end of my life i am still able to appreciate the pure joy in this song then I know I will have lived well.
Well, I sound like a 14 year old.
Everybody's favourite cut price Caroline Flack
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