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Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout

Posted by timothy on from the copyright-and-covers-oh-my dept.

The TV show Glee may have borrowed Jonathan Coulton's arrangement of "Baby Got Back" without asking him first, but he's got a response of the kind that it'd be hard for the show's makers to criticize without looking churlish. Borrowing it back, and using it to raise money for charity. As CNET puts it, "Coulton has foxily tossed up on iTunes his own version of the song and titled it 'Baby Got Back (In the Style of Glee).' He terms it 'my cover of Glee's cover of my cover.'"

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  1. Re:This story is still boring. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Concur. Coulton is was one of the last straws for me when it came to "geek" fandom.

    His works are not clever, they're not funny, and they're not interesting. I never realised just how similarly all geeks thought until I noticed how similar and shallow their cultural tastes are.

    HURRR PORTAL DOING APERTURE SCIENCE IMAGINE IF MACHINES WERE EMO etc. Shut up. Just shut the fuck up.