Bohemian Rhapsody
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| Bohemian Rhapsody | |
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| Album: | Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals and Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One |
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| Released: | June 08, 2010 |
| By: | Queen |
| Sung by: | Vocal Adrenaline |
| Solos: | Jesse |
| Place: | 2010 Midwest Regional Championship and The Hospital |
| Episode: | Journey |
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is featured in Journey, the twenty second episode of season one. The song is originally by the group Queen from their album A Night at the Opera. It is sung by Jesse St. James with Vocal Adrenaline at Regionals. Vocal Adrenaline wear pink and black during their performance. The performance is intertwined with the birth of Quinn's baby, Beth, by mixing some lyrics with Quinn's pain (for example "let me go"). It is one of the few songs to be performed for the recording length (aside from the mash-up songs).
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Lyrics
Vocal Adrenaline:
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide no escape from reality
Open your eyes look up to the skies and see
Jesse:
I'm just a poor boy I need no sympathy
Vocal Adrenaline:
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Jesse (Vocal Adrenaline):
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter
(To me) To me
Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama (ooooooooh) didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Jesse with Vocal Adrenaline:
Carry on, carry on
Jesse:
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooooooh
Vocal Adrenaline:
Anyway the wind blows
Jesse:
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Vocal Adrenaline:
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o
Jesse:
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
Vocal Adrenaline:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Jesse:
Easy come, easy go,
Will you let me go
Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go
Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let him go
Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let him go
Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let me go
Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Will not let you go
Vocal Adrenaline Girls (Boys):
Let me go (never)
Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Never let you go
Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let me go
Vocal Adrenaline:
O-o-o-o-o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Jesse:
Oh mama mia, mama mia
Vocal Adrenaline:
Mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me
for me, for me
Jesse:
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters, to me
Vocal Adrenaline:
Anyway the wind blows
Charts
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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| Canadian Hot 100 | 68 |
| UK Singles Chart | 67 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 84 |
Trivia
- The choreography was very grueling for the dancers (one sprained her ankle, one got a concussion, one broke her finger, one did a head-whip into the steadicam), and Jonathan Groff was injured during rehearsal receiving a five-inch scar on his biceps from his dance partner's stiletto.
- Because of the extensive choreography, many of the dancers were injured. One male dancer lifting a female dancer onto his shoulders even made it into the final cut and can be seen to the right of the screen of him accidentally dropping her.
- Jane Lynch dubbed the number her favorite of the series.
- Remained the only song on Glee to be played full length in an episode until Season three, where It's Not Unusual was played in full.
- Jonathan Groff does not actually play the piano but he learned how to play the song for this episode only.
- If you look closely the choreography and lyrics mirrored Quinn going into labor. For instance, when the Vocal Adrenaline girls are jumping and landing on their backs, Quinn is lying down on the hospital bed. Also, when Vocal Adrenaline is singing "Let me go!" Quinn screams "Let me go!" right afterwards. Another example, while showing Quinn's Birth, she screams, "No,no,no,no,no!" at the same time as Vocal Adernaline.
- This was the longest song that Glee has done.
- As revealed by Rachel in Nationals, this performance was the gold standard for many show choirs for years.
- This is the second song Vocal Adrenaline has done that is from Queen, the first being Another One Bites the Dust.
- In Nationals, Jesse claims that he lost 10 pounds during this performance.
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