While we’ll be celebrating Halloween dressed as Glee‘s cast of characters, the New Directions crew is observing the candy-promoting holiday another way — by butchering the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Okay, maybe we’re a bit more critical than usual of Glee‘s covers (if that’s even possible), but these campy songs have a special place in our heart, and we don’t want them tampered with unless they’re done right. Listen to John Stamos, Jayma Mays (!) and all the regular glee club members belt out the classic tunes below, and let us know if they’re a worthy companion to the cult hit’s original soundtrack.
Glee Cast - Science Fiction, Double Feature
Glee Cast - Damn It Janet
Glee Cast - Over At The Frankenstein Place
Glee Cast - Time Warp
Glee Cast - Sweet Transvestite
Glee Cast - Whatever Happened To Saturday Night
Glee Cast - Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me
We’ve got John Stamos sounding higher pitched than we would have expected on “Whatever Happened To Saturday Night” (we love you, John, but you’re no Meat Loaf) and Jayma Mays finally getting a song in the naughty-loving “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me”. (Apparently the term “seat-wetting” was too hot for TV, as they changed the line to “bad fretting.” Ugh, terrible rewrite. Plus we highly doubt there will be any breast-cupping during this number like there was in the movie.)
Dianna Agron is the human equivalent of NyQuil on her limp take of “Science Fiction, Double Feature”. (Or is it Naya? Or Jenna? It’s certainly not a good sign that we’re unable to tell their voices apart.) But Amber Riley, who has some major platform heels to fill singing Tim Curry’s deliciously kinky “Sweet Transvestite”, absolutely kills it. (Wonder if she’ll be wearing a corset and fishnets, or if she’ll be cross-dressing as a man instead?)
Here’s a promo for next week’s episode. It’s not all bad — somehow they get Sue involved. Yay!
science fiction, double feature sounds like jenna, not diana.
am i wrong?
Hmm, sounds like Dianna to us. Actually, it could even be Naya. Unfortunately for the show, the fact that many of their singers’ voices aren’t distinct enough to tell who is actually singing is a pretty bad thing.
Awful.
“There’s A Light” is actually called “Over at the Frankenstein Place”.
All of it sounds awful.
Parking lot of whale vomit.
Leave Rocky Horror alone. Campy Journey covers, who cares?
It was like when Susan Boyle wanted to sing “Perfect Day”.
I cried.
The lyric is “seat wetting” not “bed wetting”
If you want to criticize at least get the lyric right.
Ah, true. It is seat wetting. Still, bad fretting? Is there a way to fret that isn’t considered bad?
I went to band camp and watched this movie so many times……. These people just don’t do it justice. Of course, we can’t blame them for not being the actual cast of Rocky, but I don’t think they should have touched it. It sounded so weird to hear a woman’s voice singing Frank’s part hahaha! It just doesn’t have the sexiness it needs XD
Good job for trying though! lmao
My favorites were TTTM and Time Warp, the others are absolutely dreadful.
I REALLY like whomever is singing TTTM, is it the guidance counselor?
She needs to sing more, I love her voice.
It’s Naya. Just listen to it. Naya has a very distinct voice–kind of nasally, especially noticeable on the higher notes. Just listen to Bad Romance or TBIM or another Naya song.
I downloaded the entire EP from Itunes and I think they did a fantastic job on every song. Mercedes belts out “Sweet Transvestite.” Some of the more racy lyrics were changed by the producers for prime time television. Perfect in every way and will become a classic episode.
I can’t believe I preordered this on itunes ughh >.> On the bright side, “Saturday Night” seems decent, besides the tenor solo sounding like crap… I’m picky regarding instruments I play :P
Let me put it this way: They are getting Rocky on prime time and sneaking in lots of naughty bits. They are obviously having a blast with the songs (especially Cory with “Dammit, Janet!”). I enjoy the music in part for the character interpretation. I don’t need every cover to be mind-blowingly, amazingly different.
I think it’s cynical to lambast the show. They are playing high school students performing Rocky. Horror. They are taking on heavily sexual themes, cross-dressing, bisexuality. Let’s give a cheer for them going the distance on a Tuesday night.
Hating the lyric changes and why oh why did they think it was a good idea to have the role of Frank as Amber Riley (aka Mercedes). Ugh her voice is so wrong for that part and if it wasn’t for the rest of the cast, I so would miss this episode! She’s great in other episodes, she’s just wrong for that part!!!
Uncle Jesse’s still got it! He looks awesome for a guy who’s almost 50.
This is the one GLEE epsiode I was absolutely dreading, and hoped that somehow it would never have made the air. There are so many things wrong with this episode I can’t even begin to mention all of them. The first one being, RHPS is NOT and I repeat NOT kid/family friendly. When you change the lyrics to the songs (Sweet Transvestite comes to mind), you are changing what is great about Rocky Horror. Having a girl play Frankenfurter was the wrong thing to do. First of all, she says she’s a transvestite, which makes the line absurd because she’s a GIRL.
The only performance I likes was the TTTM. It was about time to see Jayma Mays freaky side come out. If they ever redid the movie, she would make the perfect Janet.