#i was very much into klaine but only watched glee until the original cast graduated so i never saw klaine's whole cheating downfall

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Playlist Meme

Tagged by @nejineeee!

Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people.

By Your Side - Jonas Blue, RAYE

Bittersweet Symphony - The Crown Soundtrack (they did a special remix for the trailer and it's all cinematic and atmospheric)

Free Them (feat. Teddy Swims) - ONE OK ROCK

โชคดีแค่ไหน (The Luckiest Boy) Boy Sompob

Somewhere Only We Know (feat. Darren Criss) - Glee Cast

Escape This Moment - Lightscape

Let Me Let You Go - ONE OK ROCK

I'm Alive - Celine Dion

Drove You Away - Fly By Midnight

You Set Me Free - Michelle Branch

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I was reading the Glee page on Wikipedia and tried to come up with a reason on why the sharing decreased so much with time. I came up with some options, the first is that Glee lost a lot of viewers after Cory's death, then, because they added more and more writers during the seasons making things quite confusing. And at last, also because fans kept analyzing every episode too seriously forgetting that it was supposed to be taken way more lightly. What are your opinions on this?

Hi Nonny! 

So, @snarkyhag and I discussed this very subject a lot in two of the podcasts of the TDB Podcast, let me link them for you : 

Special Podcast 11: The Road to Season 4 Special 44: Glee Retrospective

While I really recommend them, because they were great conversations, I’ll give you a shortened version! 

I can’t underestimate how big the show got in seasons 1 and 2.  It was huge.  It was everywhere.  And you couldn’t walk two feet in 2009-2011 without seeing something Glee related.  It was A LOT.  So, yes, a lot of people glomped onto it, fandom swelled to huge proportions, and media covered every aspect they could, because Glee was the hot new thing, and everyone wanted to be a part of it.  

One of the reasons it was so unique -- was because musicals on TV weren’t really a thing, and it had this darker humor about it, while incorporating musical styles, and was, believe it or not, edgy for the time.  Not to mention - social media was in its infancy, and suddenly, Glee was using social media in this crazy new way.   And - it’s lead in was American Idol, which was in its heyday of being a huge national craze. 

The problem is, with all great things -- they can’t last.  And the faster they are to rise, the faster they are to fall.  

So -- a couple of things happened around the end of season 2.  A) The marketing was non-stop for two years, and the culture got burnt out really quickly -- media found the show not as endearing, the cast was getting incredibly tired, and all the bickering within fandom made that not as much fun within fandom. (As an aside - no, nothing fandom did really had much of an impact on the show production, tbh.)  B) Showrunner Ryan Murphy kind of handed it off to a new group of writers, who just didn’t handle it with the same kind of care as the original three writers... 

So, when Season 3 came a long, it was a big, convoluted mess.  The story lines were terrible, there were too many characters and not enough plot, they were trying to do too much and in the end, kinda failed.  It was no longer the dark and edgy show it began as, and when it wasn’t a jukebox creator, it was telling PG stories about regular teen dramas.  The media fell out of love with it.  People got tired of waiting for their favorite characters to have screen time.  

And believe it or not -- people though that it was too gay, or... not gay enough.  Hilariously.  But yeah - if you look at the ratings, there’s a huge drop off -- 2 million people leave after Original Song.  (Which is unfortunate)  Meanwhile - the people who were tuning in for Klaine and Brittana and Mercedes and other minorities kinda tuned out when all they got is Finchel, Finchel, crappy Will story, Finchel.  Suddenly -- your audience drops.  

Then Season 4 happened, and that killed A LOT of interest in the show.  Now, Glee kind of wrapped up its story in season 3, and effectively, there were a lot of people who thought the season 3 finale was the end of the show, and just didn’t come back.  The media no longer cared for it, and it was no longer the social media juggernaut it original was.  The beginning of season 4 killed a lot of the remaining interest in the show. 

Not only did they graduate a lot of the old cast, but then they brought in characters who were, for all intents and purposes in the beginning, the same characters as before, only with different names.  On top of that -- they break up every popular couple on the show in one fell swoop.  Now, season 4′s grown on me a lot over the years -- and I get creatively why they did that, but from an economic stand point, it was one of the worst things they decided to do.  The general audience lost interest, and was mostly gone, and the fandom that remained was slowly fizzling out.  

The real nail in the coffin (eesh, my apologies for the wording choice) was Cory’s death.  I think a lot of people decided they just didn’t want to watch anymore, and really only the hardcore fans stayed through season 5 and 6.  And -- remember that season 6 didn’t premiere until 2015, so there were 9-ish months between seasons five and six.  Most people didn’t know the show was even on any more, especially since Fox dumped it to a Friday night spot.  

Glee did have a relatively normal life as a TV show, only it cycled through its shelf life a little faster than most normal hit television shows that might go on for eight or nine years.  

If you have any other questions - let me know! And if you can, try to check out the podcasts, they are really awesome discussions on the subject. :)