![]() ![]() Schuester desperately needed some adult friends. But when Emma questioned why he was so desperate to move the wedding up, Schu finally confessed that the real reason he was so anxious to get married was because he wanted all the Glee club kids there. He even hired a wedding planner who wasn’t Jennifer Lopez to assist. But instead of getting married later in the year like they had originally planned, Schu wanted to move the wedding up ’til May. Some other musical high schoolers know all about that.įinally, over in adult land, Schu and Emma were wedding planning. She said she hoped this could be the start of something new for them. Unfortunately, Quinn liked what she heard, and said she would never want him to give up his faith. Joe should be instantly disqualified from The Bachelorette: McKinley High edition for using such a cheesy line. Quinn was getting down on herself, and Joe suggested, “Maybe you could use my eyes to see yourself…the way I see you.” GROAN. Later, when he was at another rehab session with Quinn, he got a little excited, and the two of them talked about their feelings for each other. Sam explained that some of the Bible’s rules are kind of old-school, an explanation Joe didn’t totally buy. Or, as he put it not-so-subtlety to Sam, his in-his-pants feelings were the issue. He went to talk with Sam for some Bible Talk, where Joe confessed that the problem was he was concerned his feelings for Quinn were getting in the way of his feelings for God. Blaine and Kurt’s relationship is going to change in a few months, but their teary confessions and ‘I love you’s’ finally put them on the same page with a promise to always be together. It’s like what Finn wished for last week - you just want everything to stand still. This was the kind of real-life fear that everyone has at the end of high school, when everything is changing super-fast. Don’t do this - and putting bronzer in his moisturizer, they opened their hearts and got to the real problem: Kurt talked about NYADA all the time, and Blaine wasn’t looking forward to next year when he was going to be all alone and away from the love of his life. And Blaine certainly had some complaints: After they got past small stuff such as snapping at waiters - Seriously. Tell me you caught Emma’s quick wink to Kurt when he promised he was “actively listening” to Blaine’s complaints. It’s a sound that will outlive her, and the rest of us.That moment may have had me reaching for tissues, but it was about to get even sadder: After their respective solos, Kurt and Blaine went to talk to Emma, who had fashioned herself a relationship counselor after her talk with Sam and Mercedes. ![]() You can hear it in the stormy final chorus of one of her greatest ballads, “ I Have Nothing.” “Don’t walk away from me!” she commands in a wild gospel growl. There was a reason that African-American women were her most loyal fans: When she unleashed her fearsome melisma, singing about struggle and resiliency, demanding love and fair treatment in the face of indifference, only a dolt could miss the politics. She was criticized for being too milquetoast, too “white,” but you could hear the black church in every note of her records. But she was not just singing for herself. The self-esteem was inseparable from self-regard-she was a diva, after all. A historian wishing to understand America’s late-20 th-century therapy culture can begin and end his research with Whitney Houston: “ Learning to love yourself / Is the greatest love of all.” Her message was self-esteem: She made opera out of Oprah. She captured the zeitgeist in other ways, though. She spent the early ‘90s in a tug-of-war with Mariah Carey for chart supremacy, but Carey’s hip-hop savvy ensured that she’d come out on top in the end-even though Whitney could sing circles around her. She sang about grown-up emotions, and had no feel for the attitude, or the rhythms, of hip-hop. She was old-fashioned, a little bit fuddy-duddy your grandmother loved her. Houston was the queen of Adult Contemporary-but her adultness made her not quite contemporary. There was always another crescendo lurking, ready to blow your ears off, somewhere on the other side of the second chorus. But she was at her best, was most unmistakably Whitney, in the easy listening ballads that she took to a place that could no longer be called easy-rising to peaks of volume and intensity, and then going further. She could sing pop songs: “ How Will I Know” and “ I Wanna Dance With Somebody” belong on the celestial mixtape of the greatest 1980s bubblegum. ![]()
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