As someone who is still watching Glee, I can confirm that the songs are the best bits of the show by a mile. This week the girls and the boys each had to do a competitive mash-up while high on cough syrup. Although the storyline wussed out and neither side won, clearly the girls' Halo/Sunshine medley was better.
As someone who's never watched Glee, I emphatically say the numbers don't work outside the context of the show, whatever energy they add within - though see first blip of enjoyment below.
Helping Haiti "Everybody Hurts": I've hated the original for years; this version makes me realize that the song really does have a nice melody. Not that the original swallows the melody, but it falls so fully into the song's ache that it becomes a parody of feeling. This strange showcase (voices in such small snippets) is less gloopy and chewy, at the expense of being wooden. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Glee Cast "Halo"/"Walking On Sunshine": The girls sprint through "Sunshine" and give it zero feeling, at least that I can feel, but "Halo" comes through as its intro, not 'cause of anything special from the Glee-ers, but because of the backbone and melody that Tedder and Bogart gave it in the first place. A tick to Ryan and Evan but not this track. NO TICK.
Glee Cast "It's My Life"/"Confessions Pt II": When I subjected myself to all this Glee shit back on
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Helping Haiti "Everybody Hurts": I've hated the original for years; this version makes me realize that the song really does have a nice melody. Not that the original swallows the melody, but it falls so fully into the song's ache that it becomes a parody of feeling. This strange showcase (voices in such small snippets) is less gloopy and chewy, at the expense of being wooden. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Glee Cast "Halo"/"Walking On Sunshine": The girls sprint through "Sunshine" and give it zero feeling, at least that I can feel, but "Halo" comes through as its intro, not 'cause of anything special from the Glee-ers, but because of the backbone and melody that Tedder and Bogart gave it in the first place. A tick to Ryan and Evan but not this track. NO TICK.
Glee Cast "It's My Life"/"Confessions Pt II": When I subjected myself to all this Glee shit back on ( ... )
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