Her breaking down and running away is one of the few times Glee has actually surprised me. He was always so much better at tone than musicality; it shows here.Idina Mendzel was always such a great fit as Rachel’s mom, despite their very strange “Poker Face” cover. Is that story any good? The original song is at least a little silly and unique. It’s performed right after Kurt and Blaine meet, and it is such a fun, catchy song.
I’m a sap. Idina Menzel There are around 50 chairs in concentric circles surrounding two cellos. They win the Warblers (who previously assaulted their teammate) over.Half of this song is insufferable rapping and overproduced vocals, and the other half is by R Kelly so it feels a LOT less inspiring than it used to be. These seem like fixable problems. Singing in the rain doesn’t work at all, no matter how much production they throw at it. They beat it to death in commercials, but it was always catchy and caused a small resurgence of the original Journey song. Browse Though it is ironically, not a very good party song.Another song with terrible rapping but a couple of redeeming qualities. THERE IS A TONE PROBLEM!The vocals are purposefully annoying and the plot to this episode made no sense. (e.g. It’s a very Kidz Bop arrangement at a time that made NO SENSE. He took care of his family after his dad lost his job and still came back for a show choir! The eye candy can’t save this. Blaine is visiting his longtime beau, Kurt, in New York after cheating on him. But it also isn’t THAT funny. Does it somehow make the original worse? The swankiness of the voice, the unexpected solo from a routinely underestimated member of the cast, the excellent dancing.We don’t get a lot of dance solos including Britney and Mike Chang, but that’s only due to the coaching failures of Will Schuester. 2015 One of the few times in the series that a moment feels really intimate, not like it’s behind 5 layers of performance. He is impossible not to like.
Lea Michele’s tour de force performance of “Make You Feel My Love” still makes me cry. The puppets make no sense. He proved that the Warblers were taking steroids (it’s a long story) in order to get them disqualified and give the New Directions an unearned spot at regionals. This is sad. The noises are deeply discomforting, as is the auto-tune. That Warbler assaulted Blaine. Creep is not supposed to be easy to listen to. Radio if a moment has been hyped up for a season like regionals is, the songs for it better be good) A song may score very low on this metric if the song selection is bad, the song doesn’t meet the moment, or it doesn’t seem to matter or make sense to put a song there.Is the song better than the original? This has nothing to do with the scene but it’s worth a reminder.Blaine and Sue are arguing about… something and decide to have a diva-off to decide who wins for… reasons. She only needs her voice and guitar to fill a room. Do they hit all the notes (which seems basic but comes up more than you may think)? Finn’s rapping is another particularly rough spot.This is a weird one. I feel like I’m driving in a car where the radio is broken and the station keeps switching.Listening to Creep is supposed to feel like getting punched in the stomach. How is the tone of the performance? The original is bad, this cover is also bad, the decision to do it is also bad.Worst mash up in Glee history.
I ultimately decided that this is, musically, the better song. Blaine can’t rap. 2015 It features all songs from the Season Five episode The Quarterback. This might well be the worst song, but Unique is good and Will mercifully doesn’t do the last verse.Artie’s vocals sound strange and over-produced here and the vibe is much more karaoke than anything good. Try it free. In fact, the only way to strip the emotion out of the song is to try too hard.
The song is kind of in Kurt’s range, but not comfortably. 6 Songs. The courage to commit to this moment of incredibly honest pain in an acoustic cover of Katy Perry perfectly reflects how Glee could create an absurd world with very real emotions in it.I’m not saying everyone who likes this song is gay, but this is every gay person’s favorite Glee song.The Quarterback isn’t just one of the best episodes of glee, it’s one of the best episodes of television from the decade. The Quarterback isn’t just one of the best episodes of glee, it’s one of the best episodes of television from the decade. It is raw, difficult to listen to, and very good.Generally, the New Directions’ performances look absolutely nothing like a high school show choir would. The saving grace of this episode is the duet “La Isla Bonita”, between Ricky Martin and Santana.This is among Glee’s most brutal performances. What are glee songs that always make you cry (besides songs from The Quarterback) For me, it's Roots Before Branches. Artie’s rap is bad, particularly because he is talking about race relations with a pretty clear and bad blaccent. The song is so good, it makes you forget that Glee spent the whole episode fumbling some kind of message about religion that’s never quite clear.In the opening number at the first real competition the New Directions go to, Rachel Berry kills it.