Kings of Leon Shuts Door on Glee
For those of you were dying to see Artie perform a heart-wrenching rendition of Use Somebody…this most recent news will shut you down.
While Glee has made use of dozens of hit artists’ music (Madonna, Lady Gaga, Neil Diamond, and The Rolling Stones to name a few), and with many other artists begging for their music to be covered (cough Paul McCartney) their most recent musical attempt has been unceremoniously denied.
Kings of Leon, when approached by Glee producers with hopes of using their music, slammed the door in their faces.
“We could have sold out so much more. We turn stuff down constantly,” says the band’s bassist, Jared Followill. The band says they’ve never watched Glee. “Although apparently everyone loves it,” remarks frontman Caleb Followill, ever so knowlegable.
They’re not lying about the turning down. Apparently, the band also shut down another hit comedy with thousands of adoring fans: “We got an offer to appear on an episode of Ugly Betty. They wanted us to play ourselves.” But they said no.
The band went on to further confirm the selectivity of their musical privileges: “We had some people call us up wanting to know if we’d allow Use Somebody to appear in the trailer for their next movie, and we turned them down,” Caleb Followill tells NME magazine. “Next day, they called back and tried to put us through to the star of the movie—I won’t name names, but he’s an incredibly famous actor—to let him try and convince us to agree to do it. I was like, ‘Man, don’t even waste your energy’.”
In a bizzare twist of events, Gossip Girl was deemed worthy of the band’s hit music. An episode in 2008 featured three songs from their album Only By the Night: Closer, Sex on Fire, and Use Somebody.
What do you think? Were you dying to hear these corporate rock gods? Or are you content with the already diverse supply of classics already available for cover? Like, say, Queen?
