My bottomless love for GossipGirl can be attributed to these 60 seconds of the show’s six seasons.
that opens Season 1, Episode 3. It might be dramatic to say, but much of my bottomless love forcan be attributed to these 60 seconds of the show’s six seasons. Onscreen, we see Jenny Humphrey in a group of prep school girls dressed in peak private school outfits: Peter Pan collars and plaid skirts with American Apparel tube socks, their hands clasped together like obedient children.
The performance encompasses everything I love most about the show: it’s campiness, it’s ability to not take itself too seriously, it’s ambition, how it both celebrates and satirizes opulence, it’s grasp of high and lowbrow culture, and how it masterfully captures the peak late-aughts.
Much of this is, of course, due to the song. We have to give credit where it’s due and in this case it goes to Fergie, who, in the likes of Jennifer Lopez’s “Jenny from the Block” and Gwen Stefani’s “Luxurious,” created an anthem about staying true to yourself amidst wealth . It’s timeless, reaching a new cultural significance recently, with Jack Harlow sampling the chorus inGossip Girlwhich used “Glamorous” as its theme song.
But the song certainly deserved a place in the show’s iconic soundtrack, which includes mid-aughts gems like Ting Ting’s “Shut Up and Let Me Go” and Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.” “Glamorous,” is, after all, the secret theme song ofa self-aware tale of remaining yourself amidst opulence, which the characters in the show can never do because they were born into it, making it the campy satire that makes the show a perfect relic of its time.
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