refers to a shiny surface, a superficially attractive appearance, a misleading representation, or the interpretation or paraphrase of a text.

My gloss is on the one hand a commentary on another text: the "Was ist gut?" aria from Trond Reinholdtsen's Ø (part 4); on the other it is a sparkly sheen applied to silly, amateurish, or even trashy material.

There is also a third type of gloss: the superimposition of sound created by layering and made possible through techniques of amplification.