So, Mercedes takes that moment and continues absolutely killing Rumour Has It. After all, songs have been Santana's way of expressing all that vulnerability she's been hiding for so long and this point in the story might just be her most vulnerable moment. I think that’s worth pointing out.īecause the show really does must go on even as Santana’s world is crumbling around her. We look at her from Mercedes’s perspective as the two exchange worried looks, almost as if Mercedes is asking her “is that really what you want?” Do you really want to sing right now as your world is crumbling? It’s a small moment but even the fact that it was allowed to exist in this four-second timeframe in such a hectic show, in a run of episodes that are so breakneck speed and that it centers these two characters who oppose the protagonists at this time in the story. Not here, though here, we do take those four seconds to stop and look at Santana. After all, the show’s gotta go all over the place or something. It runs headfirst into the next plotpoint and the next musical number they can sell on iTunes, into whatever needs to happen.
And I know, I know, four seconds of a 45-minute episode, so what.
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In the episode version? It’s a full four seconds. On the studio version and Adele’s original Rumour Has It song, this space between the first verse and the pre-chorus only exists insofar as that last note of “want” does. Now, indulge me and let me dwell on this for a second because it might just be my favourite part of the performance. Cocky and going way too far, only to be brought back down in such a horrible way. Even Adele said this song had a bitchy feel to it and what is Santana in the storyline leading up to this performance if not just that. But like I said, there’s also this “gotcha” feeling to Rumour Has It as a song, that triumph over someone, which is how Santana’s been acting ever since she joined the Troubletones. And I even quite like that surface-level look at it because watching Santana emerge from the shadows as the Troubletones are all singing “rumour has it” is already emotional, after the scene we just witnessed in Sue’s office. Yes, the use of Rumour Has It has a very surface-level reading that there literally is a rumour going around about Santana at this point in the story. What matters is that they capture the overall feeling of tension and the context of Santana’s journey. Neither of the songs fit perfectly well thematically because, well, this is Glee and the lyrics are never going to be an exact mirror of what’s happening in the show. That tension falls on the shoulders of the Troubletones and this one performance as the episode draws to its last few minutes and those drums begin to play. The tension of Santana’s arc about her sexuality, beautifully portrayed in season 2, coming to such an abrupt milestone.
Tension between the clubs and between Finn and Santana, yes, but it’s now much more than that. This isn’t just about show choir rivalry anymore or two stupid kids constantly one-upping each other this is about tension. So, when Santana runs down the hallway sobbing and the drums begin echoing to the beat of her steps, we know what the stakes have become. The most important and consequential battle being fought here is that of Finn and Santana as their rivalry keeps getting uglier and more personal and resulting in a public outing, made worse by Glee’s heightened reality and storylines intersecting in the weirdest of ways. As things and the myriad of storylines crammed into these first few episodes of season 3 escalate, we get the two groups fighting on several frontlines, be that dodgeball or the mashups that they both perform. The main focus of the “Mash Off” episode is the rivalry between the two glee clubs: the newly formed Troubletones and our eternal underdogs, the New Directions. First, let’s set the scene for the number within the context of the episode it's in.
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