Entertainment

Glee
The Leavitt Buzz Page #3

... a new kind

of television.
Alexander
Jackman

Glee is a new kind of television. From

it's interesting marketing scheme by FOX
Broadcasting to the fact that it is a week-
ly musical, it is evident that Glee is some-
thing different.

It all started on May 13, 2009. After

Kris Allen defeated Adam Lambert in a
shocking American Idol finale, the pilot
episode of an unknown show called
"Glee" aired. It was instantly a fan
favorite, it left audiences (adults and chil-
dren alike) salivating for more ... But they Photo Courtesy of: Fox Broadcasting Company
would have to wait until September 9,
2009 for a second episode.
The cast of Glee: (Left to Right) Jayma Mays, Jessalyn Gilsig, Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith, Kevin McHale,
Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Lea Michele, Jenna Ushkowitz, Mark Salling, Diana Agron, and Jane Lynch.
It was a daring move made by FOX
Broadcasting Company to air the pilot of members of the cast! Cast members did a 2009. Glee left our airwaves on December 9, Fan favorite guest-star Kristin
a show 4 months prior to the actual begin- brief promotional tour at Hot Topic stores 2009 after the 13th episode of the first Chenoweth was promised to return as the
ning of it's first season. Within these 4 across the nation and signed autographs The fans were dedicated from the season, "Sectionals", and wouldn't return adorable homeless wino that is "April
months FOX created a massive marketing and took photos with the fans that showed beginning... Giving the first part of the until April 13, 2010. The extended hiatus Rhodes" and Idina Menzel, who played
campaign. Songs from the first episode, up ... And oh, did they show up. first season an average of 7 million view- was due to a combination of the typical Chenoweth's frenemy in the broadway
including Journey's "Don't Stop ers per episode and buying all of the TV Show's Winter break and the new sea- musical "Wicked", was scheduled to
Believin'" were made available for down- And when 4 months were up, it all paid products that were produced. These prod- son of FOX's American Idol which owns make an appearance when Glee returned
load on iTunes, a DVD of the first off... Glee truly kicked off it's first season ucts include (already!) two soundtracks Glee's timeslot from February to April. in April.
episode was released exclusively to with it's second episode "Showmance" for the first half of the first season and a
Wal*Mart stores, and Hot Topic picked which drew in 7.3 Million viewers. DVD set of the first 13 episodes called But when Glee came back fans were Glee fans were also promised an All-
up a full range of Glee products from t- Impressed by the new hit, FOX made "Glee: The Road to Sectionals". promised several things that made the Madonna-Music episode which fans have
shirts to buttons. Glee the first new show to be picked up wait worth their while. been promised since the first episode...
for a full first season and even a second Then Glee went away.
Also at Hot Topic stores you could find season on any network in the Fall of Continued on Page #6

You're invited to Ke$ha's party.

... but the party won't start 'til she walks in.
Alexander
Jackman

Ke$ha has been around for years, call her back, but it’s Ke$ha’s vocals
you just didn’t know it yet. But that’s The album begins with “Your Love that really make this song simply
all changed this year. She made an Is My Drug,” a dance track about superb. With less vocal effects than
appearances in Katy Perry’s “I Kissed being addicted to a boy which leads we’ve seen applied to her thus far on
A Girl” video in 2008 and made Flo right into “Tik Tok,” which is another the album, it is evident that Ke$ha is
Rida’s head go “Right Round” in upbeat track about partying night in not just talented post million-dollar-
2009. But it’s not until now, 2010 that and night out. Up next is one of my effects.
Ke$ha truly arrived with her debut favorites off the album, “Take It Off”,
album, containing all of the necessary which is heavy in vocal effects and is Next up on the album is “Blah Blah
ingredients for a smash hit: Sex, all about a “place downtown, where Blah” which features guest vocals by
Drugs, and Rock & Roll. the freaks all come around”. Ke$ha 3oh!3, the band that brought us “Don’t
then brings her listener to “Kiss N’ Trust Me”. “Blah Blah Blah” is one of
Ke$ha is a rare pop star in today’s Tell” which is another fast & fun track the dirtiest songs on the whole album,
world as on her debut album she co- about a boy who cheats and runs his with more raunch (both implicit and
wrote all 14 tracks, a feat that Britney mouth about it. explicit) in the first 30 seconds than
Spears has yet to accomplish in her 10 other songs have in their whole 3 min-
year career. And the tracks don’t all On Track #5, “Stephen”, Ke$ha utes. After this, Ke$ha takes it down a
sound the same. The range of the shows us a different side of herself. few notches when the album’s first of
album is quite great, really, from bal- Less upbeat, but still not a ballad, two ballads pops up in “Hungover”.
Photo Courtesy of: RCA Records
Ke$ha in one of the promotional photos for her debut

Jodi Picoult: "an unassuming brilliance."

lads like “Hungover” to addicting “Stephen” is perhaps my favorite song
upbeat tracks like her first single, “Tik
Tok”.
on the whole album. Lyrically
“Stephen” is about a boy who won’t
Continued on Page #6
album "Animal" which was later used for the "Tik Tok"

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them it seems as if we need to really be My Sister’s Keeper is among Picoult’s the syndrome. develops this obsession with forensic
put into their story. best selling books. The book won Best Her new book, House Rules brings a analysis.
Novel from the Latino Book Awards, as reader into the life of Asperger’s “One out of one hundred kids is diag-
Jodi Picoult is most famous for her well as the Best Book of The Year in Syndrome (AS). nosed on the Autism Spectrum " it was Continued on Page #6
novels about the medical community 2005. time to write a book taht explored this
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