—Fire
The Pointer Sisters - Fire (1978)
I feel like songs that have been on Glee are automatically excluded from GSJz, sort of like how all songs from The Big Chill are exempt from High Fidelity’s Top 5 lists, but A) Fuck you, this is The Pointer Sisters. They very happily listed themselves when asked by Rolling Stone to list their top ten favorite singers of all time and I like that kind of swagger. B) I have never finished an episode of Glee because I was the prop mistress for my high school’s theatre department and you know what, oh, GIRRRRLLLL, the headaches you asshole theatre kids can cause. I only know “Fire” was on there because I like to read recaps of shows I hate. And C) Hey, did you know this is a Springsteen cover?
I know, it makes total sense, right? Fire, cars unfulfilled yearning, poorly worded lyrics about, “Let’s not talk about the boner in the room, I mean, Chevy.”
