Glee Tackles Controversial Teen Suicide Issue

Ricky Martin Spices Up Glee (Brings the Duende!)

Naya Rivera is a beautiful and talented singer and actress. I'm glad that they are finally giving her more solo and air time on the show.

 


OK at some parts (not the Espanol parts of course) he sounds uncannily like Enrique Iglesias!

 


This is just awesome. This song is so ridiculous but so addicting. (I didn't realize it until I read some YT comments but Ricky Martin really DOES look like Johnny Bravo here haha!  It's the bouffant.)

 

MJ (Glee)

Dianna Agron is simply beautiful.

The cellos stole this performance.

Lesbian Love at Its Finest

Teach Me How to Dougie

Glee Version:


MMA fighters version:

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

When Stevie Nicks goes high on that "it's only right" part, it gives me chills.


Thanks to "Glee" for reminding the next generation of the classics.

I also liked this scene where Santana professes her love for Brittany (doing a cover of "Songbird" by Fleetwood Mac).:

"Glee" — Born This Way

I just finished watching the hour-long special episode of Glee, 'Born This Way,' and I'm so impressed by the writing.  It dealt with so many taboo topics like the trend for adolescent Jewish teens to get rhinoplasty, self-hating Asians who have no Asian sex symbols in the media to look up to so they resort to wearing blue-colored contacts to emulate their idols, and gays and lesbians staying in the closet to avoid social ostracization.

In this fun scene, the Glee cast convinces Jewish Rachel to cancel her nose job appointment by singing a number about Barbara Streisand, who famously refused to fix her deviated septum with rhinoplasty.



This scene doesn't deal with any of the aforementioned topics, but Darren Criss' voice is just so mellifluous here:



This is the closing number, where the cast performs Gaga's "Born This Way."  It's significant because you see them wearing t-shirts displaying their personal hang-ups.  (Santana wears "LEBANESE" because Brittany is slow and meant for it to read "LESBIAN.")

I'll close with Tina Cohen-Chang's words in the episode (originally said by Gandhi):
"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Darren Criss Discusses Challenging Preconceived Notions

I found this to be a great interview because Darren Criss delves into how great and how pioneering the Glee episode was to show an accepted homosexual male question his orientation and explore bisexuality and heterosexuality — since the standard is for heterosexual men to be 'bicurious' or 'experiment' but Glee flipped this on its head.

He also stresses how it's important to never accept the status quo and how it's always good to question and challenge accepted dogma. Darren makes a good point that when you are different in any way — whether it's personality, religion, spirituality, what have you — you tend to want to cling to that glimmer of hope that you are indeed just like everyone else but in the end you have to embrace your own personal truth and to live comfortably in your skin truly as yourself.



(The insightful nuggets come late in the interview about 3 minutes in. Darren discusses ignorance and stereotypes around 5 minutes in.)

O Father

So I don't need to remind you all how seminal a role a father plays in the emotional and psychological development for a child, especially a boy.

Also, it was my father's birthday yesterday.

So without further ado, here are some emotionally-charged musical numbers from Glee about fathers:


Glee's rendition of "Rose's Turn" (the video footage is flipped, so YouTube won't remove it):





Glee's rendition of "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" by Barbara Streisand (audio only):




From a female perspective (Glee's light-hearted rendition of "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna):

Glee

Yes, I caved in to peer pressure and watched two episodes of Glee (haven't seen any of season 1) and it's becoming a guilty pleasure.

And O.K., I know this has nothing to do with spirituality (well, not entirely true because it's about love); I know it's the ultimate in cheesiness; I know it's auto-tuned like mad, but I'm a total sucker for romance and sentimentality.  Ignore this post if you don't enjoy corniness and camp like I do.  The following are the musical scenes from "Furt" (season 2, episode 8) (Sorry for the poor video quality, but it's what I found on YouTube.):

Glee's rendition of "Marry You" by Bruno Mars.



Glee's rendition of "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars.



I like how they take superficial pop songs from the radio and add a little depth and storyline to it and thus give it an extra dimension.  These scenes from the show just warmed my heart and made me smile.


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Season 2, episode 9: "Special Education."

Glee's rendition of "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes.