the glee project was a fever dream 

It's really cool how you called Lindsey the real life Rachel Berry and then she went on to play Rachel's dream role on Broadway. Truly the real life Rachel Berry

lindsay heather pearce, who was a runner up on the first season, just finished her run as elphaba in wicked on broadway and has just joined the national tour of mean girls as janis. so happy her career grew so much bigger than this show

If Lindsay had won, they could have wrote her in as an exchange student that everyone thought was coming from India. Then this girl shows up and is like "I'm from Indiana". That would have been very on brand for Glee.

I remember when RU-vid’s very own Jon Cozart tried to get a spot on glee project. I never understood why some other contestants made it and he didn’t.

ryan murphy being keen to write a religious character because he "never has before" when i had to endure quinn fabray and mercedes jones giving kurt a hard time for being non-religious and kurt to be portrayed as IN THE WRONG for this for a whole episode. i can't deal with this

The mention of your jealous rage problem as a child took me out 😭 I probably had a similar issue lmao

i love jordan's bf for getting equally invested in her early 2000s reality show moments haha he's a real one

33:43 "starts throwing ass out of NOWHERE" and "That's hot" with tears in his eyes!?!?!?? I died😭😭😭 replayed it a thousand times already I swear

the only memory I have from the Glee Project is when Damien performs Jesse's Girl but sings "I wish that I was Jesse's girl" instead of "I wish that I HAD jesse's girl" ....

You pronouncing Elphaba actually cured my depression. I’m surrounded by theatre kids and it’s actually so refreshing to watch a whole video surrounding glee and then hear that. Thank you for your service

There's a TON of behind-the-scenes stuff that I am shocked you didn't mention. Lindsey in particular- she has said many times that the edit painted her to be much worse than she is, and actually her "fake" card in vulnerability was due to a personal story she shared about being SA'd in the industry and having to pretend like it didn't affect her. I get frustrated seeing people still talk about Lindsey without mentioning this because her edit on the show affected her a lot after the show, she got so much hate, and it doesn't seem like she speaks too kindly on the show. Also, Shanna is actually a lesbian and no longer goes by Shanna (I forgot the name they switched to). There was a tell-all article recently with a lot of background info that I would recommend!

maybe if the glee project actually helped these contestants become singers/actors/dancers it would have had more of an impact.

Damien being so Irish in glee they made him sing It's Not Easy Being Green.

I think about skidoosh-gate like once a year for some reason, thank you for including this cultural moment.

I was in LOVE with Damian from his Celtic Thunder days and OBSESSED with Glee at the time so him being on this show AND WINNING was a dream come true for me

As a Brit, I find the fact that they subtitled Damian at the end so funny. If I remember correctly it was because he got really tired at the end so his accent got stronger, and the producers thought that Americans wouldn't be able to understand him, as if he's not speaking English.

The erasure of this series is insane. You can't find full seasons anywhere online. The only place I know of that they can be viewed is Dailymotion, but even then there are a couple of episodes missing. Mark Salling, who played Puck, was the mentor for the episode about sexuality (yikes) and it's somehow conveniently missing

I LOOOOOVED this show so much I was rooting for the white guy with dreads. lol.

I LITERALLY cried when Cameron Mitchell was eliminated. So you could say The Glee Project had a chokehold on my heart.

I could listen to your commentary on probably any topic 🥰

I never watched the glee project but I did embarrassingly watch all six seasons of glee.

The absolute GRIP Cameron Mitchell’s cover of ‘Blackbird’ had on me when I watched this

For some unhinged reason I only watched The Glee Project, not Glee. I was obsessed with Cameron

I love how after all that Unique ended up being a bigger character than any of the other Glee Project folks who ended up on the show. Alex Newell is really that talented. I've been a big fan of theirs ever since Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (which I watched well before Glee, for what it's worth) so it's kinda wild that this show of all things is where they got their start.

This was such a trip down memory lane. And yeah, the wrong people really won. Joe and Ryder especially were such boring nothing characters and a lot of the others would have been great additions to the show! WHY did I not know that Samuel was in After, though? Also I really do want an After video now!

please do americas next top model! u only really need to watch the first 15 seasons to get the gist of the insanity it was 😭

cameron stan here checking in for roll call

my mother used to watch glee when i was like 10 so sometimes i watched it with her, but i could NOT keep up with the story lmaoo i did love the songs, still some of the best covers ive ever heard (the rumour has it/someone like you matchup still has me on a chokehold)

My parents loved the Glee Project version of Raise Your Glass to the point where they still quote the "buku cool" and "yeeehaw" ad libs

tiny correction about melissa and bl*ke! they actually divorced in 2016. she has been with her new husband since then and they have a son (:

I saw Ali in Oklahoma on Broadway and she was INCREDIBLE. obviously she's been incredibly successful so she didn't *need* to get a recurring role on Glee to make it as a performer, but still, the choice not to make her the winner is a yikes from me

I like how you had to warn us they were theater kids lmao

damian only getting a 7 episode arc but still managing to make rory the best glee character… yeah

The Mike’s Mic visit in London was a promo shoot for this omg

The thing I find weird with this whole thing is that they're pushing so hard, like, 'who are you going to represent' as though glee was like the pinnacle of self-acceptance, but you watch glee back and it feels overall those themes really don't shine through as much as it just being a teenage drama.

The song mentioned at around 41:00 is Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae. And holy mother of God, that dates this show.

every time you make a video on a reality show an angel gets its wings

as a 2010’s baby gay glee meant literally so much to me - the unholy trinity ruled my life 💆🏿‍♀️ it was a really well written ICONIC show (seasons 1-3)

its been years and i am still deeply bitter and upset that marissa was eliminated. i will never not be mad about it.

The horror music over the "cursed" scenes is really doing me in😂

Oh man. I remember watching the Glee Project finale at my friend Kristen’s house. Damian was our favorite contestant and we were screaming our faces off when we learned he was also going to win. And her dad came into the room because he thought he needed to kill a spider or something. 😅😅

I totally agree with everything you said. I think The Glee Project was rigged. A lot of talk about diversity, but then the cis men won. Lindsay should have won the first edition, and Ali should have won the second edition. They indroduced Blake to Melissa T_T

I've never watched Glee or the Glee project (not sure how I achieved that as a theatre kid during the height of glee's popularity), but I've seen both Ali and Alex perform on broadway! I had no idea this is where they got their start. They truly killed it and were probably the standout performances for me at each of their respective musicals

This whole show was like high school played out on screen. It’s painfully obvious how immature some of the contestants are, which is understandable since most of them were underage or young adults at the time.

When I was a teenager, I loved Celtic Thunder because of their Christmas album and cos my dads side is Irish, and hearing Damien got on Glee back in the day made me happy for him haha

omg yes, im obsessed with your voice, it always reminds me of that tiktok sound of the girl who’s like ‘NAUR DAHLING, it’s not a pomegranate! give it another go, what do you think it is?’ and it’s sooo cute 😭❤️

19:07 "I would Sue" Iconic

as soon as i saw Samuel i was like "omg he was in after, tragic"

as an american, i am shocked that they didn't know price tag by jessie j, BUT on the behalf of the UK, i am also shocked that jordan doesn't seem to know tonight tonight by hot chelle rae 🤯

Impeccable timing - I just started rewatching Glee this month!!

The original Glee itself was a fever dream for me. I was never interested in it and only knew about it through Tumblr. However, I will acknowledge the cultural impact it supposedly had at its time

Mario came to the institution I was held at and we sang a song together back in 2015. He’s truly such a sweet person.

I was 18 when Glee first aired. You really did just have to be there. The hold it had on everyone was intense.

I can still remember making a fan account for Cameron lol. This was such a trip down memory lane.

i know this is not really about this video but i love the little 'we know how abusers get treated' bit cause so many yt creators have disappointed me and i'm glad you're not one of them cause i absolutely adore your content!

i haven't even watched this yet but i know it's gonna be great bc you always kill it and me with your amazing fits and makeup tf

my best friend and i LOVED the glee project but to this day no one ever knows what we're talking about when we mention it. thank u for this LMAO

Never watched any of the Glee series or project or whatever, but you best bet i'm gonna watch this video because i love your commentary 😊

i remember having a huge soft spot for lindsay when i watched s1 😔 i honestly felt like she was not really ill-intentioned, just kind of abrasive, blunt and a little socially awkward in the way a lot of kids who start in the arts really young can be. im so glad she's had so much deserved success after the show. same with ali and alex who are also both absolute stars 🌟

Omg Ali was on this?? She was on deaf West spring awakening and ended up being the first wheel chair user to preform on Broadway, she's super talented and such a sweetheart

as one of the biggest avril lavigne stans ever, the eliminated contestants singing keep holding on every week truly speaks to my soul lol 💕

Cameron also quit because he missed his girlfriend and they were trying go convince him to kiss Hannah but it went against his morals because he would have felt like he would be cheating. If I'm remembering correctly.

About the After thing...if you do make a video pls talk about how HS himself (who the movies are based on) has repeatedly stated how damaging it was for him to be seen as a "sex symbol" and a "womanizer" while he was just a teenager. More people need to talk about that. If he was a teenage girl, I'm sure it would've been a bigger deal sadly. But just like Taylor Lautner, they were just kids being sexualized by grown adult women in the 2010s. - EDIT: yes I understand the fan fic came before the real book then movie. Yes, I also know Harry Styles was "technically an adult" when it was made, but 19 is still a teenager. Hardly of age. Who knows how young he was when it was actually in the process of being written. And no I didn't mean the "if they were a girl" part as a sexist thing. But people speak up more when it's us young girls being sexualized. They should, but it also shouldn't invalidate wrongful sexualization of young boys. 19 year old Taylor Swift with 30 Jake Gyllenhaal is still WAY more talked about than 17 year old Harry with 31 year old Caroline Flack. I believe before she died, Caroline also went on to date more younger boys. We should speak up for all underage and recently of age kids. Harry has said how these things always made him uncomfortable. It's sad. ALSO ALSO I commented this days ago. Don't message looking for a fight please. What I said still stands. Guys assult and over-sexualization needs to be talked about MORE. Never said more THAN girls. Just more. Because 17 year old Harry with 31 Caroline Flack wasn't cool. 16 year old Vinnie Hacker with a grown woman wasn't cool. He said so himself. It was grooming. Taylor L having grown woman run up to him on the street (with their babies on their hips) just to touch his abs certainly wasn't right. He was 16. Taylor Lautner was just 16. This isn't a competition. Girls and boys sexualization by adults NEEDS to be talked about so hopefully and teens and children can realize what's happening to them before it's "too late". So they can tell someone. Younger guys having older women go after them is so normalized it's sick. Stop looking for fights. Don't be a toxic fake feminist. Us real feminists understand this happends to guys also and should be talked about too. We fight for everybody. All I said. Sorry if you took it the wrong way.

16:30 listen for the most part you are completely correct, but as a wheelchair user I will never get over Proud Mary. did that stop me from blasting the glee version of proud Mary when i got my electric wheelchair while i went full speed round my office? no it did not.

I have never watched a single episode of Glee but for some reason the Glee Project had such a hold over me when it came out

i started this video thinking i totally skipped over this show bc i thought it was a waste of time…..now i’m remembering everything. i watched everything. i had FAVORITES. i think i had successfully cleansed my brain of it…..until today, completely undoing ALL of that hard work

I had no clue Alli was in this show. She is so incredible and inspirational. She was so above this show and the fact that her and Alex have had the most success from this makes the most sense. Like she’s so successful I had no clue this is where she got her start???

can't wait till i outgrow my jealousy phase, as it is it's killing me ngl

Im surprised you didnt mention, but Charlie states openly in the show that he has ADHD and some minor ASD. Thats why he's so Out There sometimes, and why he can occassionally mess up- he has medical issues that directly impair his impulse control and social behaviors. (Obviously this isnt an argument against how the cane situation happened, he absolutely needed to be reprimanded for that) That's actually one of my biggest frustrations with the show. Youre right about them being really good with disability, but. Unfortunately they seem to kind of, Stop at physical dysabilities? Like they made all the necessary accomidations for all of the physically disabled contestants- which, again, is wonderful- but then someone like Charlie comes in, being very open about having disorders that present a lot of obstacles for him socially, and there are just. No accomadations. Nobody ever approaches his difficulties or odd behaviors with any consideration for his neurodivergency, and when he acts up or his social differences cause tension, it's played up for drama and exploited. Obviously, I know that the accomodations for mental and physical disability are much much different and I wouldnt have wanted him to be coddled or anything, but idk. I guess Im just sick of people treating adhd like it's just when a boy is a little rowdy and not like. A disorder that people really struggle with, and it was frustrating to see a show that usually tries so hard to provide marginalized representation gloss over it like every other piece of media.

I was obsessed with Michael and Nellie!! lol they formed a band after the show and I just loved them so much 😂

I never personally watched glee but i have been obsessed with Celtic Thunder since i was a child, Damian McGinty (the irish one) started off in that group when he was also a child. I found the glee project / glee through him. which is so niche, i know because no one knows who he is outside of the irish one from glee but he’s actually extremely well off outside of it with Celtic Thunder, which tours. I actually got to meet Damian finally a few years ago at one of their shows, i’ve seen them 4x times since i was a kid. They still tour and he’s still with them!

This triggered another memory I had stored far far away in my brain, it was a show like this but for camp rock and so teens would come in and compete as if they were at camp rock, I can’t be the only person who remembers this??? Please do a video on it Jordan

How did this timing work out like this?? I didn't think of this show for years until last night when I watched two different videos about it, and now this?!? amazing

I was obsessed with Cameron like any other teen girl at the time. Also Alex was an absolute STAR and completely stole the show when they were on Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist.

As someone who has been cursed with the burden of analyzing and liking Glee one episode I wish they did on TGP was an actability challenge but more in the vain of testing if the contestants could be funny. Everyone in season 2 waxes on and on about how Blake was a great actor and they could do anything with his character but frankly some of the worst line readings on that show are from him and considering how quippy Glee was and the fact that it's a comedy I'm surprised they never did a challenge like that.

Oh my gosh yes please do an after documentary. I would love to see you talk about it.

back in TGP days i ran a Dani Shay Stan blog, like... that's how far into glee i was lol

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MENTIONING JACK BLACK!!! I was screaming at my tv when I saw that "she stole that from kung fu panda!"

Lyn cleared Samuel QUICKLY!

I also enjoyed how this show gave the contestants in the bottom for the week a chance to plead their case. I feel like that would have been a game changer in other reality shows.

I totally agree with the title, it was a fever dream, I think I only saw the first season and liked Cameron, didn't even remember he was religious or that he left but that's it. Thank you for the refresher, also I'd love to see your take on After and Harry Styles.

Can confirm that price tag was a popular song in the US

I have never seen an episode of Glee in my life but OH MY DAYS have I rewatched Glee Project like 5 times. Matheus giving his all (arguably too much) on stage brings me life

I’m living for the way they were so aggressively pushing Avril Lavigne with Keep Holding On

the sudden horror movie cut to Mr Shue break dancing actually genuinely scared me sfjlskdjfkl

FINALLY SOMEONE TALK ABOUT THIS, BLESSED BE

Ali is fully on bway and has performed at the Tonys! She played Ado Annie in Oklahoma and was incredibleeee

The girl looking like a 12yo would make for a great child prodigy character

I was about to be obnoxious and comment first but my baby dachshunds came running into my room so I had to turn off my phone to hug and kiss them and cuddle them. Just felt that everyone would like to know.

THE MUSIC OVER THE CURSED DANCING BYYYEEE

Literally screamed when I saw this

The ratings for the glee project may have been weird anyway bc that was back when hulu had free content with no account needed and new episodes of some shows, including the glee project, would be available for free for a week or so before being locked behind a paywall. Idk if this was a thing outside of the us, but that was how most people I knew watched it.

The Glee Project made me obsessed with the Move Like Jagger x Milkshake mashup! I even downloaded it onto my old Nokia phone. Gosh, the memories...

The "I woke up with a strange tattoo" dying is hot chelle rae! They're still a band. Pretty cool

You’re literally my comfort RU-vidr

This was the funniest video! I’ve replayed so many parts several times 😆 Love this funny side of you and can’t want to see more.

It was so nice seeing a goofier side of you in this video! I feel like we don't often get to see your sense of humour a lot because of the darker subject matter of some of your other videos

Only 11 minutes into the video and this sounds like something from a fever dream. I am going to watch the glee project after this video.

I’m rewatching your videos while recovering from surgery because I’m in too much pain to sleep and I find your energy so unbelievably comforting, thank you 🤍

I remember a lot from the first season of Glee Project but not from the second, maybe cause I liked the cast better in the first one. Especially Cameron and Lindsey, they were the best imo