Over the last couple months, “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy has had clashes with some of the musicians who balked at the prospect of their songs beings co-opted for a high school musical and raped by the cast of the popular Fox show. And now Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has delivered a righteous blow in the name of rock and roll:
“It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do f—ing Glee,” Grohl told THR... “And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his f—ing show… f— that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.” [...]
Recounting anti-Glee comments made by Slash earlier this year and subsequent retorts by Murphy, Grohl explained to drummer Taylor Hawkins: “The Glee guy, what a f—ing jerk. Slash was the first one. He wanted to do Guns ‘n’ Roses and Slash is like, ‘I hate f—ing musicals. It’s worse than Grease.’ Then [Murphy's] like, ‘Well, of course he’d say that, he’s a washed up ol’ rock star, that’s what they f—ing do.’ And then Kings of Leon say, ‘No, we don’t want to be on your show.’ And then he’s like, ‘Snotty little assholes…’ And it’s just like, Dude, maybe not everyone loves Glee. Me included.” [THR]
YES. Hey, I understand that “Glee” is massively popular, and I don’t mind musicians cashing the checks that “Glee” writes them. But I think it’s more than fair for grown men who’ve written rock songs to say, “No thanks, I don’t want Matthew Morrison’s curly hair helmet queerin’ up my song so it appeals to high school choir kids.”
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I honestly had hopes for the show when I thought it was about recognizing how talented these kids are- but how excruciatingly lame and cheesy their singing goes over with most people.
I hope Grohl’s comments make Murphy recognize that being wildly popular with lonely women and aging homosexuals doesn’t make Glee this era’s Ed Sullivan show.
I was with Glee up untill the season 1 finale, when they did that awful bohemain rhapsody cover, that ruined the show for me, now I just can’t stand it.
It won’t chazz, it won’t. Murphy has now been adopted by Hollywood as a “genius.” If he drinks the kool-aid it is too late for him to ever come back. He is untouchable. Hell, an 18 year gay kid playing a gay kid won an Emmy and a Golden Globe on Glee. Glee has been given a lifetime pass. Nobody should ever be given a pass, ever.
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If I’m going to watch gays on TV it has to be lipstick lesbians having a pillow fight not this crap!
Murphy needs to get pimp slapped w/ the giant hand from the Everlong video.
I honestly cannot stand Glee, but now that I know the guy behind it is an uppity piece of shit; I hope he gets cancer of the butt hole.
If you watch the acceptance speeches, that gay kid really gays it down for the show, so maybe he deserves the Emmy.
Awesome, glad more musicians are standing up to this arrogant prick and telling him to F off.
@ Roast Geef: Yes, Yes and once again YES! Grohl rulez Glee sucks like a black hole
Lea Michele was at my neighborhood bar last Sunday. Didn’t talk much to her, but she did invite me for a toast…
To herself. Not kidding.
“To Lea!”
Popularity is popularity, money is money…
It’s their loss. And Glee is big with the kids these days. It could revitalize their music for a new era. But no, egos will be egos, prejudice will be prejudice.
Yeah, that or Dave Grohl just doesn’t like Glee and Mr. Murphy is a whiny bitch.
Soapy, you’re an idiot. Foo Fighters don’t need their music to be “revitalized.” Do you know how big their last album was? I guarantee that their next album will be close to it or even bigger. They are one of the biggest bands in rock history and no stupid whiny Fox show can change that.
It IS their right…but everyone mentioned in this article IS either a has been or a never was. Kings of Leon is one of those bands that people are embarrassed to have ever listened to the minute they graduate….high school.
Don’t know what music you listen too but it sounds like you don’t keep up with rock. Slash is an iconic rock musican that’s transcendedhis GnR days. And Dave and the Foo Fighters are by far one of the best touring rock bands who put out consistent and quality music.
Sounds like the creator of the shows a whiney douche who doesn’t like being told no.
To each their own if you like it. I personnally hate it.
Stop raping rock songs for ratings I say.
Slash might have more credibility if he hadn’t participated in a Black Eye Pea’d gang rape of “Sweet Child of Mine” in front of 30 million people wearing a suit made of glow sticks.
I don’t think the target audience of the Foo Fighters watches Glee, anyways.
@Lakawak…you must live under a rock. to even hint that Guns N Roses or Nirvana or Foo Fighters were a “Never was” is just plain ridiculous. Yes, Guns N Roses are past their prime, and yes Nirvana is no more, but Foo fighters? Those guys are epic live, and the Dave Grohl is an incredible, mult-talented musician. That, and glee sucks. Just because a lot of older women and gay men(a few straight men too) love musicals and pop music doesn’t mean that the rest of the music industry should bend to the show’s every whim in order to appease their following. Music by itself should warrant listening to it, or it doesn’t. Not someone else’s wacky interpretation of it set to dancing. I’m stepping off of my soapbox now.
Musicals are the worst thing that ever happened to mankind. Everyone on the cast of glee should be suffocated or drowned.
I’m sorry, but the Foo fighters are not one of the biggest bands ever, by any reasonable standard. You’re just hitting the rock if you believe that. David Grohl is alright on this point but we all know that he belongs where he’s at his best playing drums in worthwhile bands.
what the fuck is Glee?
to dave: you are a stupid fuck if you seriously believe grohl needs to stay behind the drums. multi-platinum sales, a few grammys and muthafuckin BOB DYLAN personally asked mr. grohl if he could “teach” him how to play everlong. assclown.
@kung fu robot
In Dave’s defense…
Foo Fighters
OR
Queens of the Stone Age
Probot
Them Crooked Vultures
Tenacious D
Maybe Murphy’s just pissed because having Pat Smear back in the Foos gives Grohl more cred in the gay community than Glee will ever get.
/FUCK YEAH Pat Smear back in the Foos
I accidentally watched 5 minutes of Glee, then had 5 days of explosive diarrhoea.
lesson learnt!!!!
I actually enjoy watching Glee, and I am married, and not as a cover. I enjoy all walks of music and believe that every musician has the right to say no to Glee. But you have to take into consideration that the quotes of Ryan Murphy are being delivered from an angry musician who is repulsed by the fact that he was even asked to be on Glee.
Why would it upset someone so much that he was asked to have his song used on Glee, sure kids will be singing it. But I am not going to watch Glee and when they song sound terrible bitch that the Foo Fighters are the worst band on the planet. Their songs are wrecked daily by coverbands and karaoke singers…maybe they should walk from bar to bar with a big sticking hitting people who make them look bad.
@Lolz
Grohl isn’t mad because Glee asked for FF songs, Grohl’s mad because the creator of Glee tends to make bitchy remarks about anyone who refuses to have their music on the show.
To the people saying the bands are “has been or never was”, what’s that say about Glee that they’re having to resort to has beens or never was type bands to provide material? Pretty sad really, and now they won’t even be able to get that with the shit talking Ryan has done, they’ll have to find some local bar band wiling to sell themselves out.
Dave is a douchebag