yougottaletitout:Finn: I’ve got chillsThey’re multiplyin’And I’m losin’ control‘Cause the power you’
yougottaletitout:Finn: I’ve got chillsThey’re multiplyin’And I’m losin’ control‘Cause the power you’re supplyin’It’s electrifyin’!Rachel: You better shape up‘Cause I need a manAnd my heart is set on youYou better shape upYou better understandTo my love I must be trueFinn:Nothin’ left, Nothin’ left for me to doBoth:You’re the one that I want oh, oh, ooh, honeyThe one that I want So the next thing that Schuester deems appropriate to make the Glee club sing is… You’re the one that I want, of which the transformation scene of Sandy had a terrible message. An attitude which we know canon shares because Hairography shows us that Rachel shouldn’t change for Finn. He doesn’t even want her to. As a result, the Grease-scene is reversed. Because if Rachel can stay the girl she is, Finn is the one who needs to change in order for this to work. (And by this I don’t just mean Finn/Rachel as a romantic couple, I mean Finn/Everything On Glee.)In Grease, Danny is ashamed of being in love with a proper girl like Sandy. If Sandy can stay herself, then he should change- not radically, but enough to be proud about liking her. (Danny does intend to change before Sandy shows up.)Finn sings about losing control, which makes a nice follow up to “I can’t fight this feeling anymore.” and gets told to be a man, which are words that show up in his storyline many times. Rachel will never not project, and if this is her new Duet partner to sing love songs with she totally will be in love with him. Later, when they’re in line while visiting Vocal Adrenaline’s invitational, she mentions:“I think the rest of the team expects us to become an item. You, the hot male lead, and me, the stunning young ingénue everyone roots for…”She literally thinks in stock characters.Nobody on the team actually expects this to happen. She does, because they sang together, and that means things on Glee. (She gets a crush on Will when they sing a duet in Ballad, she falls for Jesse because they sing together in Hell-O, and so on.)All the other kids get their tropes reinforced, by Rachel’s overshadowing techniques:- Kurt is shown to be annoyed by Rachel’s moves on Finn- Artie is nearly driven off the stage- … And Mercedes breaks the two up with a loud “Hell to the no” and how she refuses to do back up singing.Which brings us to the start of another musical, namely, Dreamgirls. One of the first things Effie says in the movie is, ”I don’t do back up.” (Her declaration even goes together with an ‘I’m Beyoncé, I ain’t no Kelly Rowland’) 1: Rachel thinks in stock characters.2: Loving the always-on Mercedes-is-Effie.3: Finn is always so scared and confused.4: Singing a duet is basically like second base in this club, isn’t it.5: I love how the songs Will is choosing for them reveal his (profoundly flawed) expectations for how this club is going to work. -- source link
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