Glee

I believe that Glee is rehashing old stereotypes or stock holders because if you have seen High School Musical, it is also about people breaking out of their shell. You see the popular kids, unpopular, and the kids who don't know where they belong. Then, there is this musical audition for those who want to sign up and audition. The motivation to sign up and audition for the musical comes from a past experience of some sort, where it brought that one character to realize that they found some sort of joy in singing. Once the popular kid tries out for the musical, he tries to keep it a secret because he is embarrassed on what it would do to his status as being one of the "popular" kids. Sooner or later, everyone slowly begins to find out about him being in the musical. At first, no one accepted it because if you were popular, you were expected to do things that popular kids do, and musicals are not one of them. The popular kid then stands up for himself and accepts that singing or being in the musical is what truly makes him happy. Then slowly, everyone begins to accept and it becomes something not so out of the ordinary. High School Musical established that story line in their first movie made in January 2006. Since then, they have come out with two following sequels about the same story line as Glee has. What I think by watching Glee it has reminded me a lot about High School Musical. The moral of the story is that you shouldn’t always be stuck in the norm and do what other expect of you; instead you should do whatever makes you truly happy and that no one can stop you from doing what you want to do. Everyone can judge you and think that you are not cool for doing things but in the end it just matters what makes you happy not them. The old stereotypes would be from what we grew up to think was society in high school, that there were different types of people. The popular kids would be the jocks, also known as the cheer leaders, football, basketball and other sport players. These would be the kids who are at the top of the social train and then comes the other people like the nerds, kids who don’t care what others think, etc. The popular kids would only stick to people in their group and talk to only the people in their social class, other than that, they do not even care to know who anyone else is like the nerds. Slowly, the norm of “popular” kids changed and that’s where I see the story line of High School Musical and Glee. To this day, no one really sticks to the old stereotypes of the jocks or talking to people only in their social class. We as a society have grown to do what we feel and not have a care in the world about what others think. We do not classify ourselves as being popular or being a nerd because everyone is equal and doesn’t judge one another by those features. My high school also demonstrated that there is no such thing as the jocks and that they only do what was expected of them. Everyone talked to everyone and did what they felt like doing or whatever sparked their interest and made them happy, no one would judge them for making those decisions either.