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'Glee': Ryan Murphy calls Kings of Leon 'self-centered'
"Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy is at it again. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Murphy decided to comment on Kings of Leon turning down the show's request to perform "Use Somebody," which happened six months ago.
Clearly, Murphy is not a man who hears "no" very often as he is obviously still bitter about the snub. "F*** you, Kings of Leon," Murphy proclaims. "They're self-centered a**holes."
"They missed the big picture. They missed that a 7-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song, which will maybe make them want to join a glee club or pick up a musical instrument," he explains. "It's like, OK, hate on arts education. You can make fun of Glee all you want, but at its heart, what we really do is turn kids on to music."
OK, snubbing "Glee" and snubbing arts education are two different claims entirely. We're pretty sure KOL not giving the rights to the song to the FOX show isn't a symbolic middle finger to arts education.
After Murphy's unsolicited verbal attack, the band's frontman Caleb Followill released a statement: "This whole "Glee" thing is a shock to us. It's gotten out of hand. At the time of the request, we hadn't even seen the show. It came at the end of that record cycle and we were over promoting "Use Somebody." This was never meant as a slap in the face to "Glee" or to music education or to fans of the show. We're not sure where the anger is coming from. We just said no to a license for a TV show, which we do a lot."
What?! You mean Followill & Co. don't know this is Ryan Murphy's world and we're all just living in it?
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screw the producer of Glee. Glee is gay! They have already ruined Journey for me. he is the self centered one for BELEIVING everyone should love his show or just turn over their intellectual rights to Glee. I RUN everytime that show comes on.
Murphy you are such a drama queen, like Caleb said, they have turned down a lot of offerts to use their music in some tv show, you can't always get what you want and is not very mature to say "f*ck you" just because they declined you, seriously you need to take "no" for an answer, not always is going to be "yes"...
Thanks for the note Tierney
I am so sick of Glee. They (mostly Murphy) feel like they are entitled to everything...All the music and awards, recognition. Gah. Can someone vote Ryan Murphy off? He's the one that's ruining the show. Go back to FX.
Shut the F up noneyo, take your homophobic views back to backwards places like the Republican Party.
"PEE" i mean glee, and it's co-creator are as smart as a pile of flaiming dung.does he not know that some bands and singers don't want their "music" to be sung KARAOKE style by a bunch of "actors" who could not sing well if their life depended on it!! they don't want their songs ruined by hacks!! his ego is way to large at the present time,and he truly is the self-centered one,not the band,this guy is a bag of hot air and needs to shut-up!! none of the "actors" on this over-hyped and unfunny show are even high school age,some of them look too old even for college.the co-creator needs to shut his big trap,and be thankful for all of the hollywood-hype and entertainment weekly covers his stupid show has got,because soon the hype will be gone and this piece of dung will be cancelled!!BOO-YAH!!
"PEE" i mean glee, and it's co-creator are as smart as a pile of flaiming dung.does he not know that some bands and singers don't want their "music" to be sung KARAOKE style by a bunch of "actors" who could not sing well if their life depended on it!! they don't want their songs ruined by hacks!! his ego is way to large at the present time,and he truly is the self-centered one,not the band,this guy is a bag of hot air and needs to shut-up!! none of the "actors" on this over-hyped and unfunny show are even high school age,some of them look too old even for college.the co-creator needs to shut his big trap,and be thankful for all of the hollywood-hype and entertainment weekly covers his stupid show has got,because soon the hype will be gone and this piece of dung will be cancelled!!BOO-YAH!!
Kudos for Kings of Leon! I wouldn't want Glee ruining my songs either!
"PEE" i mean glee, and it's co-creator are as smart as a pile of flaiming dung.does he not know that some bands and singers don't want their "music" to be sung KARAOKE style by a bunch of "actors" who could not sing well if their life depended on it!! they don't want their songs ruined by hacks!! his ego is way to large at the present time,and he truly is the self-centered one,not the band,this guy is a bag of hot air and needs to shut-up!! none of the "actors" on this over-hyped and unfunny show are even high school age,some of them look too old even for college.the co-creator needs to shut his big trap,and be thankful for all of the hollywood-hype and entertainment weekly covers his stupid show has got,because soon the hype will be gone and this piece of dung will be cancelled!!BOO-YAH!!
"PEE" i mean glee, and it's co-creator are as smart as a pile of flaiming dung.does he not know that some bands and singers don't want their "music" to be sung KARAOKE style by a bunch of "actors" who could not sing well if their life depended on it!! they don't want their songs ruined by hacks!! his ego is way to large at the present time,and he truly is the self-centered one,not the band,this guy is a bag of hot air and needs to shut-up!! none of the "actors" on this over-hyped and unfunny show are even high school age,some of them look too old even for college.the co-creator needs to shut his big trap,and be thankful for all of the hollywood-hype and entertainment weekly covers his stupid show has got,because soon the hype will be gone and this piece of dung will be cancelled!!BOO-YAH!!
YOU SHUT THE F UP TJ DYKE!!YOU TAKE YOUR HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS BACK TO BACKWARDS PLACES LIKE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. noneyo you are right with what you said earlier.noneyo don't listen to TJ DYKE this "person or alien" is an IDIOT AND A TRUE MORON!!