Being allowed to find your own voice is a right, right? Taking the stuff of life and putting your own spin on it. Doesn’t matter how anyone else did it, this is how you’re doing it.

From Tweets to Instagrams, the internet virtually surges on an uncontrollable tide of voice-finding. Self-expression also is key to Pitch Perfect, an enjoyable teen comedy for adolescents. Out now on DVD and Blu-ray, it shamelessly sponges off the “singing clubs are goofy but cool” success of Glee.

Pitch Perfect has a posse of predictably diverse chicks who comprise an acapella troupe at a college. Incredibly, on the way to The Big Competition, they have to find a united, distinct voice – if they want to stand out AND be true to themselves.

 

Like Glee, Pitch Perfect is full of songs being performed differently to their original versions. These covers and remixes subtly celebrate the “do your own thing” vibe of our times. But should old and young alike be more concerned about the negative implications of doing things our own way?

Let’s pick a meaningful example: the Bible. Is it right to treat the Word of God like a mish-mash symphony on Glee? Can you sing the parts you like and dump those you don’t? Is the Bible defined by how you choose to use it? Should your voice get top billing over God’s?

Pitch Perfect and Glee value self expression. At what cost can we do the same?

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