Glee: Mash-up versus Originals (video)

October 22, 12:43 PMDancing ExaminersIan Ono and Jana Monji :

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So Gleekers, who did a better job? Which is better: the original or the Glee version?

I found a live performance of Young MC. See video below. For "The Thong Song," I provided a link to the official MTV censored version. Seriously, that's a wedding night song and not a wedding dance song. Ken Tanaka's mother should be knocking him in the head.

The  official version of "What a Girl Wants" is also a link.

A 1937 version of "Sing, Sing, Sing" is embedded below. No dancers though.

You can compare "Sweet Caroline"--the Glee version and the Neil Diamond version. Diamond wrote the song for Caroline Kennedy when she was still a young girl.

For "I Could've Danced All Night" you can also see the Glee version and the Audrey Hepburn movie version.

Of course in the movie, Hepburn wasn't doing her own singing.

Songs:

"Bust a Move," Young MC (1989)

"The Thong Song," Sisqo (1999, used in the 2000 "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps")

"What a Girl Wants" Christina Aquilera (1999)

"Sing, Sing, Sing with Swing," Benny Goodman (1936)

"Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond (1969)

"I Could've Danced All Night," Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (1956)

To see the full episode go to Fox.com