about high school. and they take pop songs that are already out there and make them part of the story. ♪ i'm dancing with myself ♪ >> it's about these misfits in high school and they're in the glee club. there's a lot of themes about, a, not fitting in, but b, homophobia. ♪ i'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game ♪ >> it was so specific to my childhood. whoever thought that, you know, a bunch of misfit show choir losers would become a global thing. i never did. ♪ don't stop ♪ >> i think "glee" and ryan murphy really got the general public understanding that, oh, there is a person behind this, and there is a person's sensibility that is driving this