Comments | chicafrom3: johnny c's in trouble

chicafrom3

johnny c's in trouble

Jan 18, 2013 23:14

Given that I haven't watched Glee in two seasons or so, save for a YouTube clip of 2Cellos' guest appearance, it's probably weird how fascinated I am by the current Glee-related drama. But fascinated I am.

I am specifically talking about Glee ripping off Jonathan Coulton's cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back".

It's just so bizarre. Did they ( Read more... )

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Comments 2

tallyen January 21 2013, 18:18:31 UTC

This is Jonathan Coulton, know to nerds everywhere as "Dude that wrote "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone". How did they think they could get away with this?

chicafrom3 January 21 2013, 23:16:57 UTC

Yes! The dude has an international extremely vocal extremely dedicated fanbase. How do you think there won't be a PR backlash to this?

Especially since it seems like all they would've had to do to avoid it would be e-mail him to be like "Hey, man, can we use your arrangement of Baby Got Back cuz it's awesome? We'll credit you for it, obvs." and then EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN OKAY.