McKinley High’s most adorable girl / girl Cheerio couple Santana and Brittany appear to have recovered from last week’s leaked sex tape scandal – or rather evil genius Brit’s plan to set Santana on the right path regarding what stardom really is.
This week’s episode featured the pair singing, dancing, hugging, frolicking and hand holding throughout the Whitney Houston-themed episode.
Here’s a mini re-cap of what our favorite Cheerios got up to:
Ep. 3:17 “Dance with Somebody”
McKinley High’s most adorable girl / girl Cheerio couple Santana and Brittany appear to have recovered from last week’s leaked sex tape scandal – or rather evil genius Brit’s plan to set Santana on the right path regarding what stardom really is.
This week’s episode featured the pair singing, dancing, hugging, frolicking and hand holding throughout the Whitney Houston-themed episode.
Here’s a mini re-cap of what our favorite Cheerios got up to:
Ep. 3:17 “Dance with Somebody”
The episode kicks off with Mercedes (Amber Riley) singing an a capella version of “How Will I Know.” Soon, Santana (Naya Rivera) joins her in perfect harmony followed by Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Rachel (Lea Michelle). The quartet of big-piped titans will graduate in a mere 40-ish days and the song is a stand-in for their post-graduation fears and apprehensions, since I’m in the mood to over analyze the choices on Glee. The foursome delivers a moving homage to Houston all before the credits roll.
Cut to the choir room where Mr. Schue (Matthew Morrison) attempts to deconstruct the glee kids attachment to an icon not of their generation when the tart-tongued Santana calls him out.
“We’re hanging on to Whitney because she was incredible and we love her, so don’t put your baggage on us,” she says.
Later, Brittany (Heather Morris) is the first to take on Mr. Schue’s Whitney assignment and shows off her moves to the ever-infectious “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” McKinley’s terpsichorean dreamboat Brittany dances around with a few of her classmates including Blaine, Mike Chang and even wheel-chair bound Quinn before singing the line “I want to dance with somebody – with somebody who loves me,” and grabbing her lady love Santana from the gallery.
And here’s where I have to give Glee credit for employing some old-school movie musical tropes. Immediately after Brittany plucks Santana off of her chair the number cuts from the representational—the choir room—to the non-representational—a recreation of Whitney’s classic “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” video that illustrates the transformative power of love. At least in my mind it does. Santana and Brit continue to sing to each other changing pronouns to fit their particular love story. I imagine that “aws” emanate from couches across the nation as the silver-clad lovelies embrace at the end of the number.
“Obviously I like dancing with Santana best, but you guys are all still cool dancers,” Brittany says, adding a typical spot-on Brit comment. “And Quinn, you’re still dancing in my dreams, and you can fly and breathe fire.”
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