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Music in the Prime Time

Music in TV

Glee, the hit television show about a revived glee club at fictional William Mckinley High School, has become a pop culture phenomenon.

On Glee, when they're not singing, the fictional students are going through their day-to-day lives in and out of school.

Here is an interpretation of the song "Empire State of Mind", by the Glee cast: []

Glee has spawned a spin-off, the Glee Project, a reality TV show on Oxygen about contestants trying to win a spot as a character on the next season of Glee. Besides this, a 3-D concert movie was made about Glee.

Just as Glee has inspired several spin-offs on the screen, off of the screen Glee has inspired events, like this, a Glee flash mob in Rome, to take place all over the globe.

[|Glee Flash Mob]

Other important parts of music in the prime time are the music award shows, most notably the Grammy's. Recently, award shows like these have come under scrutiny for handing out awards to more commercially successful albums than to ones percieved as having a higher quality, as noted by Randall Roberts in a 2011 Los Angeles Times article. Roberts wrote the article in response to Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", an album many believed to be the best of his career, not recieving a nomination for Album of the Year.

[|Wikipedia Page on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy]

The winners of this year's Grammy's were: Record of the Year: "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum Album of the Year: "The Suburbs" by Arcade Fire Song of the Year: "Need You Know" by Lady Antebellum Best New Artist: Esperanza Spalding Best Pop Vocal Album: "The Fame Monster" by Lady Gaga Best Rock Album: "The Resistance" by Muse Best Alternative Music Album: "Brothers" by The Black Keys

Since their inception, award shows have become more than just a way to honor great music and its creators. Today, they are enhanced and prolonged with musical performances,and famous presenters, like LL Cool J, tell jokes on stage to lead up to the next award or performance. Today, they really are shows, rivaling anything on Broadway in terms of grandiose and spectacle.

American Idol & Friends



Just as award shows have grown in recent years, vocal competition shows like American Idol have grown in popularity, spawning competitors like The Voice, America's Got Talent, and various reality-tv shows on singing. Started in 2002, the first season of Idol attracted about 10,00 for the auditions, ending with Kelly Clarkson as the victor. After appearing on Idol, Clarkson's career skyrocketed, making her the most sucessful Idol winner to date, with her sophmore album Breakaway selling over 12 million records.

One of the more popular parts of these shows is the auditions, where the viewers get to see the best, and the worst, that the show has to offer.

[|Some of the Worst Auditions on American Idol]