Glee Shooting a Whitney Houston Tribute

By On 03/09/2012 · 33 Comments · In Glee

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According to E! Online, Glee is currently shooting a tribute episode to Whitney Houston that will include 8 songs from her catalog.

A reliable show source told E the show “will not be a typical tribute..”  and that, “unlike the show’s Madonna and Michael Jackson episodes, the Whitney tribute is more of a “character piece” that focuses on Glee‘s graduating seniors having a real hard time letting go.”

Today, Lea Michele tweeted: “Starting a new episode today. A very special tribute to one of the worlds most amazing singers. Very excited about this one.”

Can I say UGH? Double UGGHH?? Triple UGGGHHH???  Last summer, when Creator Ryan Murphy was talking up the season, he promised there would only be ONE Season 3 tribute episode. But now there will be at least THREE.

There was the Michael Jackson episode a few weeks ago.  Production just wrapped on Episode 16,  a Saturday Night Fever tribute, and it looks like the very next episode will be this Whitney thing.   It’s only been a couple of weeks since she passed–did the producers just throw this show together?

I know the ratings are down, but this is getting a little desperate. Whatever, Ryan.

 
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  • Anonymous

    Haha! Coffee addiction will apply to me and I believe lots of ppl. It’ll be funny   topic for sure! 

    As for Chris’s solo. I think I also read from some non-reliable source that Staying Alive was with Naya. (I’m so hoping this is so). I think I remember at a Prop 8 interview Chris said that he was going to record a big big song and he was hoping he’ll do it justice. I remember thinking they have finished Bee Gee at that time. But I’m not sure. I’m not good that keeping track of time and stuff like that. I just want a Chris solo. lol! 

  • Anonymous

    The discussion should be more about whether the appropriate songs are chosen for the scenario they are portraying.

    The problem is that tribute episodes nearly always twist the plot in convoluted ways around the songs, rather that the songs being chosen because it fits the narrative.  Glee does not have a good track record on this.

  • Axxxel

    Chris and Naya rarely sing together on one song…I faintly remember Bad Romance and Constant Craving… So if and if the Saturday Night Fever episode is already wrapped up… No wonder you were thinking of a Whitney Houston song as a solo for Chris.

    Personally I would love to see Chris singing an duet with an unexpected duet partner like Dianna Agron or Chord Overstreet or even Mark Salling…. But more in the style of “Summer Nights” (Chord Overstreet/Amber Riley)… A duet but still seperately performed.

  • http://twitter.com/Carolinacharms Carrie Charms

    This week, she became the first woman to have 3 albums in the BB 200 top 10. I think she had a total of 7 in the top 100. Greatest Hits still at #2. Bodyguard at #5, #1 for soundtracks. Preacher’s Wife #5 for soundtracks. IWALY has moved several hundred thousand, reached HOT 100 top 10 but then radio stopped playing it even as sales continued to increase week over week. The lack of reportage is strange, I agree.

  • Anonymous

    deleted. wrong post

  • Anonymous

    O wow, she’s selling. Thanks for the info!

  • Axxxel

    Just discovered on Youtube that Kurt (Chris Colfer) had a short duet -with harmonies- with Quinn (Dianna Agron) in the middle of the song “One of us” (final group song in the episode “Grilled Cheesus”) but it is cut out and not shown in the episode…but you can see here… http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=gKSRUHEkUOQ&feature=endscreen
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    So there was already a Kurt/Quinn duet. Sort of… Now I would love to see a Kurt/Puck or a Kurt/Sam duet…

  • Anonymous

    Hi, I saw that video some while back. Chris is so adorable there.:). Its not on the DVD. Don’t know where they got the video from. I can’t imagine a Kurt/Puck duet. The voices are so different. But I’d love a Kurt/Sam duet. 

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