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A Mash-up is a song or composition created by mixing 2 different pre-recorded songs, or 2 different versions of the same song. There are several methods for "song blending." The songs in mash-ups do not have to be by the same artist.

The Mash-Up Concept and Composition In Glee

Mash-ups received special attention after the introduction of the concept and the creation of different song mixtures in the popular TV series, Glee. The type of mash-ups that are showcased in the show are the "A vs B" type

In season one, nine mash-ups were showcased. Only two weren't released, neither in an album or as a single iTunes download.

In season two, eight mash-ups were showcased. Only one wasn't shown in the TV series but was released in an album.

In season three, eleven mash-ups were showcased.

The series musical producer Adam Anders is the one in charge of composing the mash-ups that are performed in the show.

Season One

Pilot

One mash-up was briefly showcased (specially on the "Director's Cut" Version). The concept was not introduced in this episode, though.

In the "1993 Western Ohio Show Choir National Championship," Will Schuester (who was 16 in that time) and the McKinley High Glee club performed a mash-up of KC and The Sunshine Band's That's the Way (I Like It) and (Shake, Shake, Shake) your Booty.

That's the Way (I Like It)/(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
By: KC and The Sunshine Band/KC and The Sunshine Band

Performed by Will Schuester and the McKinley High School Glee Club.

Vitamin D

The concept was first introduced and performed in the episode Vitamin D, the sixth episode of the first season. As Will defined it: "A Mash-up is when you take two songs, and mash them together to make an even richer explosion of musical expression."

In this episode, the members of New Directions are split up in 2 teams: New Directions Girls and New Directions Boys, and they both have to create a mash-up and compete with the opposing team, and the winner gets to choose a number to perform at sectionals.

Following this premise then, the girls perform Halo/Walking on Sunshine, a mash-up of Beyoncé's Halo and Katrina and the Waves' Walking on Sunshine. The boys perform a mash-up of Bon Jovi's It's My Life and Usher's Confessions Part II.

Halo/Walking on Sunshine	It's My Life/Confessions Part II
By: Beyoncé/Katrina and the Waves	By: Bon Jovi/Usher

Performed by New Directions Girls, with Rachel and Mercedes having solos.	Performed by New Directions Boys with Finn, Artie and Puck having solos.

Mash-Up

Though there's no Mash-up performed in this episode, the concept is mentioned a couple of times. Ken and Emma are getting married soon, they ask for Will Schuester's help, in order to mash-up two songs for the wedding party: My Fair Lady's I Could Have Danced All Night and Sisqós' Thong Song. Also, as the theme of the episode, Will wants the New Directions members to find a song to mash Young MCs Bust a Move with.

At the end of the episode, Will concludes that Thong Song can't be mashed-up with I Could Have Danced All Night and the New Directions realize that they can't find a song that could be mashed with Bust a Move.

Ballad

In the tenth episode of the first season, one mash-up is performed. Wanting to tell Rachel that he wasn't romantically interested in her, as she was in him, Will Schuester sings a mash-up of The Police's Don't Stand So Close To Me and Young Girl by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap. It should be noted that some lyrics of Young Girl where changed in order to give the song the meaning of a student infatuated with a teacher, contrary to the original song, where a teacher is infatuated with a student.

Don't Stand So Close to Me/Young Girl
By: The Police/Gary Puckett & the Union Gap

Performed by Will Schuester.

Hairography

In the eleventh episode of season one, the New Directions, after watching a Hairography-filled performance of Bootylicious by the rival Jane Adams Academy, decide to perform a number with this technique. To showcase it, they mashed up Beyoncé's Crazy In Love and Hair from Hair.

Hair/Crazy in Love
By: The Cast of Hair/Beyoncé ft. Jay Z

Performed by New Directions with Artie and Mercedes having solos.

The Power of Madonna

During The Power of Madonna, Rachel decided to perform a mash-up of Borderline and Open Your Heart with Finn Hudson, to show the New Directions boys that interpreting Madonna songs can be fun.

Borderline/Open Your Heart
By: Madonna/Madonna

Performed by Rachel Berry and Finn Hudson.

Home

In the sixteenth episode of the first season, Will and April Rhodes cover the Barbra Streisand mash-up of Keely Smith's One Less Bell to Answer and A House Is Not a Home by Dionne Warwick.

One Less Bell to Answer/A House Is Not a Home
By: Keely Smith/Dionne Warwick (Barbra Streisand Medley)

Performed by Will Schuester and April Rhodes.

Journey

As a part of their Regionals performance, New Directions performed a medley of Journey songs, which included a mash up of Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' and Any Way You Want It.

Rival show choir Aural Intensity performed a mash-up of Olivia Newton-John's Magic and Josh Groban's cover of You Raise Me Up.

Any Way You Want It/Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'	You Raise Me Up/Magic
By: Journey/Journey	By: Olivia Newton-John/Secret Garden (Josh Groban's cover was used)

Performed by New Directions, with Rachel and Finn, Kurt, Mercedes, Artie and Puck having solos.	Performed by Aural Intensity.

Season Two

Duets

In the fourth episode of the second season, Rachel and Kurt perform a mash-up of Barbra Streisand's Happy Days Are Here Again and Judy Garland's Get Happy. The original song, interpreted in The Judy Garland Show by Streisand and Garland, is called Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again. For the performance in Glee, Rachel and Kurt wear outfits resembling those of the performance of the two original interpreters of the song.

Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy
By: Barbra Streisand/Judy Garland

Performed by Rachel and Kurt.

Never Been Kissed

In the sixth episode of the second season (and as a noticed parallel with season one's sixth episode, and the introduction of mash-ups in Glee; Vitamin D) there's a new mash-up competition with New Directions Boys and New Directions Girls. This time the songs that are used should traditionally have sung by the opposite gender.

For the competition, the boys performed as an apology to Coach Beiste, a mash-up of The Supreme's Stop! In the Name of Love and En Vogue's Free Your Mind. The girls, this time, performed a mash-up of Bon Jovi's Livin' On a Prayer and The Rolling Stones Start Me Up.

Start Me Up/Livin' On a Prayer	Stop! In the Name of Love/Free Your Mind
By: The Rolling Stones/Bon Jovi	By: The Supremes/En Vogue

Performed by New Directions Girls, with Rachel, Mercedes, Santana, Tina and Brittany having solos.	Performed by New Directions Boys, with Sam, Puck, Artie and Finn having solos.

The Substitute

In the seventh episode of the second season, Rachel asked Mr. Schuester if they could sing a show-tune with a nice dance beat, and he turned her down immediately, saying that he found a Journey song they haven't done yet. Holly gets on Rachel's good side when she suggests that Rachel loosen up and asks if there's anything she's ever wanted to do that she hadn't been able to do before. Rachel talks about the number, and they perform the song in the way Rachel had wanted to do before. They then perform the song in front of the rest of the glee club

Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag
By: Cast of Chicago

Performed by Holly Holiday and Rachel Berry.

Will after seeing the negative response of New Directions, when he wanted to perform Singing In the Rain by Gene Kelly (a 50+ year old song), asks Holly Holliday to help him improve the song, and make it more cooler and fresh. With that in mind, they mash it up with Rihanna's hit Umbrella.

Singing In the Rain/Umbrella
By: Gene Kelly/Rihanna ft. Jay Z

Performed by New Directions and Holly, with Will, Artie and Holly having solos.

The Sue Sylvester Shuffle

Will comes up with the idea of mashing Michael Jackson's Thriller with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Heads Will Roll, for the Half Time Show of the football championship game, which Glee club is in charge of producing along with the football players.

Thriller/Heads Will Roll
By: Michael Jackson/Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Performed by New Directions and the Football Team, with Finn, Rachel, Santana and Artie having solos.

Born This Way

In this episode, based on the week's lesson about self-acceptance, Quinn and a broken-nosed Rachel perform a mash-up of I Feel Pretty from West Side Story and Unpretty by TLC.

I Feel Pretty/Unpretty
By: West Side Story/TLC

Performed by Rachel and Quinn.

New York

In the final episode of the season, the New Directions perform a mash-up of I Love New York by Madonna and New York, New York from On the Town while a montage of their frolic through New York City plays.

I Love New York/New York, New York
By: Madonna/On the Town

Performed by New Directions, with Rachel, Finn, Artie, Santana, Mercedes, and Brittany singing solos.

Season Three

The Purple Piano Project

In the first episode of season three, Harmony performs a mash-up of Anything Goes from the musical of the same name, and Anything You Can Do from the musical Annie Get Your Gun with backup from other potential NYADA students.

Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do
By: The Cast of Anything Goes/Annie Get Your Gun

Performed by Harmony and the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts Applicants.

Mash Off

In the sixth episode of season three, Shelby Corcoran (director of the Troubletones) and Will want to establish some friendly competition between their clubs as a preparation for Sectionals, and they decide to do it with a mash-up competition, where the clubs will perform one mash-up each.

In order to introduce and encourage the competition, the directors perform a Mashup of Lady Gaga's You and I and Eddie Rabit's Just You and I

You and I/You and I
By: Lady Gaga/Eddie Rabbit

Performed by Shelby and Will.

Being constantly bullied by Santana, Finn decides to finally settle the dispute with a dodgeball match after school. During the game, they perform, along with their respective show choir groups, a mash-up of Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot and Blondie's One Way or Another.

Hit Me With Your Best Shot/One Way or Another
By: Pat Benatar/Blondie

Performed by New Directions and The Troubletones, with Finn and Santana having solos.

For the mash off challenge, Finn convinces the rest of New Directions to perform a mash-up of Hall & Oates, and showcase newest member Rory as a preparation for this year sectionals competition. They finally perform I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) and You Make My Dreams.

I Can't Go For That/You Make My Dreams
By: Hall & Oates/Hall & Oates

Performed by New Directions, with Finn, Rory, Quinn, and Tina having solos.

The Troubletones, perform an emotional mash-up of Adele's Rumour Has It and Someone Like You, as proposed by elected group leader, Mercedes. The episode ends after this performance, when a heartbroken Santana, filled with rage slaps Finn for being responsible that people find out about her sexual orientation.

Rumour Has It/Someone Like You
By: Adele/Adele

Performed by The Troubletones, with Mercedes, Santana, and Brittany having solos.

Hold On To Sixteen

In a McKinley-hosted sectionals show choir competition, the Troubletones perform a mash-up of Destiny's Child's Survivor and Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive as their competition number.

Survivor/I Will Survive
By: Destiny's Child/Gloria Gaynor

Performed by the Troubletones, with Mercedes, Santana and Brittany having solos.

Yes/No

Searching for the appropriate song for Will's marriage proposal, Artie, Will and the rest of the New Directions Boys perform a Mashup of Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 (Ft. Christina Aguilera) and Jumpin' Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones.

Moves Like Jagger/Jumpin' Jack Flash
By: Maroon 5/The Rolling Stones

Performed by New Directions Boys, with solos from Artie.

The Spanish Teacher

For their week assignment, Sam and the rest of the New Directions Boys performed a mash-up of Bamboleo by Gipsy Kings and Hero by Enrique Iglesias.

Bamboleo/Hero
By: Gipsy Kings/Enrique Iglesias

Performed by New Directions Boys, with solos from Sam.

Heart

In the Valentine-themed episode of this season, called Heart, Quinn, Sam, Mercedes, and Joe (this group also called "The God Squad ") perform a mash-up of Cherish by Madonna and Cherish by The Association. At Sugar's party at Breadstix, as a "Singing Telegram" for Brittany, from Santana.

Cherish/Cherish
By: Madonna/The Association

Performed by The God Squad, with solos from Joe, Sam, Mercedes, and Quinn.

On My Way

As part of their set list at the 2012 Mid West Regional Championship, New Directions perform a mash-up of Fly by Nicki Minaj and I Believe I Can Fly by R. Kelly as their opening number.

Fly/I Believe I Can Fly
By: Nicki Minaj (Ft. Rihanna)/R. Kelly

Performed by New Directions, with solos from Rachel, Artie, Mercedes, Blaine, Santana, and Finn.

Big Brother

During Cooper's "Master Class," he mentions that he and Blaine used to be a popular singing duet in their neighborhood. He urges Blaine to perform with him, who is hesitant at first, but eventually agrees to sing with him.

Hungry Like The Wolf/Rio
By: Duran Duran/Duran Duran

Performed by Blaine and Cooper with New Directions.

Season Four

The New Rachel

Cassandra performs Dance Again/Americano to affirm her superiority to Rachel when she confronts Cassandra about being picked on.

Americano/Dance Again
By: Lady Gaga/Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull

Performed by Cassandra and NYADA students.

Britney 2.0

When Mr. Schue announces that their next lesson will be another Britney week, Blaine and Artie perform Boys/Boyfriend to show the rest of the group how it's done.

Boys/Boyfriend
By: Britney Spears/Justin Bieber

Performed by Blaine Anderson and Artie Abrams.

Marley and Jake (with his guitar) meet up on the bleachers after disapproval from some of the other members. During their conversation, Marley mentions that it's Britney week and they sing Crazy/'U Drive Me Crazy, and nearly kiss at the end.

Crazy/'U Drive Me Crazy
By: Aerosmith/Britney Spears

Performed by Marley Rose and Jake Puckerman.

Makeover

When Kurt and Rachel sneak into vogue.com to give Rachel a makeover and film a music video for the site, Isabelle catches them, but joins in the process. They sing a mash-up of The Way You Look Tonight fron Swing Time - sung by Fred Astaire, and You're Never Fully Dressed from Annie for the music-makeover video.

The Way You Look Tonight/You're Never Fully Dressed
By: Cast of Swing Time/Cast of Annie

Performed by Rachel Berry, Kurt Hummel and Isabelle Wright.

Thanksgiving

In the opening scene, Quinn walks back onto the stage, followed by Puck, Mike, Santana, Mercedes and Finn. The perform Homeward Bound/Home together to celebrate them all coming back for the holidays, just like they promised before.

Homeward Bound/Home
By: Simon & Garfunkel/Phillip Phillips

Performed by Quinn Fabray, Noah Puckerman, Mike Chang, Santana Lopez, Mercedes Jones and Finn Hudson.

At Kurt's and Rachel's apartment, they receive a knock at the door and are immediately bombarded by a bunch of partygoers that were invited by Isabelle. Isabelle later walks in after calling Kurt, and the three of them break into Let's Have A Kiki/Turkey Lurkey Time to get the party started.

Let's Have A Kiki/Turkey Lurkey Time
By: Scissor Sisters/Cast of Promises Promises

Performed by Rachel Berry, Kurt Hummel and Isabelle Wright.

At Sectionals, The Rosedale Mennonites perform an America/Thanksgiving themed mash-up, Over the River and Through the Wood/She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain

Over the River and Through the Wood/She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
By: Lydia Maria Child/Carl Sandburg

Performed by The Rosedale Mennonites.

Naked

Sam helps the glee guys with a warming "bro-ga" - "yoga for bros," who also suggested preparation tips to be fit for the calendar, they are prepared with the mash-up of Centerfold/Hot In Herre.

Centerfold/Hot In Herre
By: The J. Geils Band/Nelly

Performed by New Directions Boys with the Cheerios, with solos from Sam, Ryder and Jake.

Girls (and Boys) on Film

For girls vs. boys mash-up week, the New Directions boys choose Old Time Rock & Roll/Danger Zone to pay tribute to macho cinema of one Mr. Tom Cruise.

Old Time Rock & Roll/Danger Zone
By: Bob Seger/Kenny Loggins

Performed by New Directions Boys with solos from Sam and Blaine.

For girls vs. boys mash-up week, the New Directions girls choose Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl and perform in the costumes, inspired by Marilyn Monroe's pink dress and diamond necklace.

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl
By: Marilyn Monroe/Madonna

Performed by New Directions Girls with solos from Marley and Unique.

Feud

For the feud week, Ryder and Unique try to settle their feud over Unique's gender identity by performing The Bitch Is Back/Dress You Up inspired by the long running feud between Elton John and Madonna.

The Bitch Is Back/Dress You Up
By: Elton John/Madonna

Performed by Ryder and Unique.

For the feud week Will and Finn try to settle the feud between them over the kiss that Finn shared with Emma by performing Bye Bye Bye/I Want It That Way.

Bye Bye Bye/I Want It That Way
By: 'NSYNC/Backstreet Boys

Performed by Finn and Will with New Directions Boys

For the feud week Blaine and Sue have a sing-off to determine whether or not Blaine is to stay a Cheerio, they perform I Still Believe/Super Bass inspired by the infamous Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj feud on American Idol

I Still Believe/Super Bass
By: Mariah Carey/Nicki Minaj

Performed by Blaine and Sue with New Directions and Cheerios

Released Only

The mash-up of Up On The Rooftop and Deck The Halls was released on the Christmas album, and is as-of-yet the only mash-up recorded by the Glee cast whose title is also a mix of the songs mashed-up, being named: Deck the Rooftop

Deck the Rooftop
By: (Both Christmas Carols)

Performed by New Directions, with solos from Rachel, Finn, Mercedes, Artie, Santana and Tina.

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