A Guest Note About GLEE and Fleetwood Mac

My dear pal and loyal blog reader, JavaInducedComa, asked to post about this week's Fleetwood Mac themed GLEE. Sadly, we both have only seen the previews thus far.

Enjoy her thoughts, er, rant!

anyways. i am not a music purist in the slightest. i enjoy covers. but one song that should never ever ever in the history of life be touched is "Go Your Own Way"by Fleetwood Mac. Rachel berry's cover for GLEE is soooooo far off from the true meaning of the song, that it sounds naive and clueless. it is not about teenybopper romance. it's about having your heart torn up by your cheating hussy of a band mate. it's about the pain, the emotional anguish, how one man deals with losing the woman he loves because of her cheating ways. there's so much emotion in that four minutes. especially live. And imagine Stevie Nicks, backing up Lindsey Buckingham, knowing the lyrics are directed at her. So much angst.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7sGbnbqxk

Further explanation from songfacts.com :

Lindsey Buckingham wrote this as a message to Stevie Nicks. It describes their breakup, with the most obvious line being, "Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do." Stevie insisted she never shacked up with anyone when they were going out, and wanted Lindsey to take out the line, but he refused.
Stevie Nicks told Q magazine June 2009: "It was certainly a message within a song. And not a very nice one at that."

While the Rumours album was being recorded, the marriage of John and Christine McVie (both of them Mac members) was also coming to an end. With two couples breaking up during the sessions, recording could be quite tense. They were also doing lots of drugs at the sessions, making sure there was plenty of Behind The Music material.

also read the full story of the song at fleetwoodmac.net

http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/interpretations/g/goyourownway.htm

Final thought: Ryan Murphy you suck major balls. And are clueless.