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Audience Participation: Madonna Opens Her Catalog to "Glee", But Who Should Sing What?


The Queen of Pop invades high school.Hide the children!

So the latest news to leak out of Entertainment Weekly’s upcoming Glee issue is that Madonna has granted Ryan Murphy’s baby full rights to use anything in her catalog for the show. And that the show plans on producing a full blown Madge episode.

I’ll wait for a minute while some of you finish squealing. Done? Because the rest of the class wants to hear the rest of the story, and I figure you do, too.

So we were just looking at the Material Girl’s catalog, and it includes a huge amount of content from over the years. There’s a sound for just about everyone, and the topics range from sex (Erotica) to politics (American Life). So we got to thinking about what song would be perfect for what character to sing in the all-Madonna episode.

I will have my revenge.

That’s when the fighting started. And the hair pulling. And the wet willies, which snicks is awfully adept with. Pretty soon things in the newsroom had escalated to purple nurples and the Flying Monkeys were called in to settle everything down before we had to call for paramedics. After all, we wouldn’t want to be dropped from our health insurance carrier over an atomic wedgie.

So we're going to let you guys decide. I’m going to list out Glee's primary cast, and what we think they should sing from Madonna’s extensive song list. Your job, in the comments, is to make a case for our  choices, or if you have a better idea, one of your own.

Then the wise simians that live upstairs (I love that I get to call my boss a monkey and he can't complain!) will choose the best, and we’ll put up a post with them, maybe with some creative illustrations where possible.

Sound fun? Great, let’s move to our first cast members…