Cough Syrup
Album:	Glee: The Music, The Complete Season Three
Released:	February 21, 2012
By:	Young The Giant
Sung by:	Blaine Anderson
Place:	The April Rhodes Civic Pavilion
Episode:	On My Way

Cough Syrup by Young The Giant is featured in On My Way, the fourteenth episode of Season Three. It is sung by Blaine. He sings it in the auditorium to Kurt as he thinks he has an idea of what to perform at Regionals to fit the theme of 'Inspiration'.

The performance is intercut with a scene where Karofsky is being bullied at school for being gay. He goes to his room only to discover that the bullying is continuing online. After the song, he climbs on a chair in his closet and it is understood later that he tried to hang himself but his father had found him barely alive, though unconscious.

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Trivia

• Max Adler said about the song: "Darren and I are great friends; he killed the song in my opinion. I enjoy listening to that more than Young the Giant's version. I listened to it when I got the script and I thought it was so brilliant. I loved Ryan Murphy from "Nip/Tuck" because of these kind of scenes where he'd play some amazing song that would inter-cut with an emotional scene. I thought this song was perfect, where it's not too sad or depressing of a song that is forcing the way you think, but has that anger and rage to it that has a sense of something building and something mounting. Darren had emailed me the song the morning of shooting that scene, so I listened to it a few times in my trailer. I thought it was a brilliant performance on his part, and a brilliant choice on the writer's part." Source
• Young the Giant about the meaning of the song on Glee: "I don't think we ever had the intent of the song... in such a serious scene, "YTG frontman Sameer Gadhia tells Billboard.com. "It's very, very intense, very, very impactful, and we most definitely empathized with that. All of us have been victims of bullying -- and been bullies at some point in time. It's something that hits everyone." Source
• Young the Giant about the permission for Glee to use Cough Syrup: "Obviously there is that initial feeling of, 'Oh yeah, it's Glee,' and none of us watch 'Glee' and there are some problems with that," he explains. "But at the end of the day I think we're happier people are watching something that's music-based. There's so much bulls*** on television. I mean, there's 'Jersey Shore,' y'know? With 'Glee,' there are a lot of people that it really strikes a chord with and they feel emotional about it and it appeals to them enough to watch it every week. There's nothing we can say about that. We're open for all applications for the music...and just excited and gracious and happy that people want to use our stuff." Source
• Cough Syrup won the awards for 'Best Male Solo' and 'Best Overall Solo' at the 2012 Glee Wiki Awards.

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Glee - Cough Syrup(04:11)
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Glee - Cough Syrup (Full Performance)(02:41)
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Young the Giant - "Cough Syrup" (Official Video)(04:10)
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