The Gospel of Glee

I do not like Glee. It is entertaining, but it is over-the-top in caricaturing people and promoting an amoral self-centerd approach to life. Everything's OK if you like yourself, and the weirder the better.

I have heard the actors talk about the message of acceptance and affirmation in the show, and how wonderful it is.

Now the creator of the show points out that acceptance and affirmation only goes so far... to those who like Glee! Hypocritical?

Well, fine, Ryan Murphy doesn't want to use someone like you, either. Nyah-nyah!

The Glee creator, in acknowledging all of the big stars just dying to be on the Golden Globe-winning series or have their music adapted for the show, made a special point of singling out the more reluctant Kings of Leon in a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

"F--k you, Kings of Leon," Murphy said. "They're self-centered assholes and they missed the big picture."

And it doesn't get any bigger than Glee, apparently...

Meanwhile, Kings frontman Caleb Followill says he certainly didn't mean to be the Sue Sylvester of rock.

"This whole Glee thing is a shock to us," he told THR in response to Murphy's diatribe. "It's gotten out of hand. At the time of the request, we hadn't even seen the show. It came at the end of that record cycle, and we were over promoting ["Use Somebody"]. This was never meant as a slap in the face to Glee or to music education or to fans of the show. We're not sure where the anger is coming from."

"Usually I find that people who make those comments, their careers are over; they're uneducated and quite stupid," Murphy said, this time referring to Slash, who, unlike Followill, actually did make a crack about Glee, calling it "worse than Grease" as far as licensing went.