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  • Love tim currey's, love anthony heads, love richard o'brein's, and i love this one! Is it the same as the original? No, not even close. But as far as the song goes? She OWNED it.

  • I think it fabulous! it sounded difrent cause it was THEIR version, and they aren't teens they are fully grown. And they can't say transsexual on glee...I guess it wouldn't be appropriate

  • @2FierceGurlz cause it's fox

  • @2FierceGurlz that makes no sense that they can say "transvestite," but not "transsexual." I have a feeling it has more to do with the licensing, especially since it's an actual woman singing the song.

  • well it certainly is different from the original...

    not in a bad not in a good way, i agree with the others i love glee and rocky horror but this is just too different, i like their version of touch a touch a touch a touch me though

  • WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP!!!!! FOUL, FOUL!!! TECHNICAL FOUL! HIT THE BENCH BITCH!

  • Brittany was amazingly beautiful in this episode <3

  • GOD SHE KILLED THIS SONG!!!!!!

  • I love THRPS and I... I quite like Glee. But to do Rocky Horror wasn´t so good plan how it looked. Girl on Tim Curry´s place and tanned skinny man as Eddie - I, like fan of Rocky Horror must to say that only good on this were costumes. How someone said: I like this both, but not together!

  • Amber Riley can sing anything, awesome!

  • She has no life experience, so she can't sing with real heart or bring anything to the performance.... Not to mention this role was intended for a man... Also what's with the "sensational"??? Is the word "transsexual" to hard for Glee to stomach. Tim Curry is the king.

  • @usa4lifemarine Glee thought parents would have an outburst if they allowed a man to play that role and would forbid their kids to stop watching it. Not only that, but it would be deemed inappropriate and would boycott the episode. A man WAS intended to play the role, but they gave it to Amber Riley for the reason above. Glee's purpose is to entertain people and get views for another season, but if it loses viewers because of a man playing a transsexual then there's no more next season.

  • @BC3602bloopers So sad, personally I would have nothing against a guy playing the role.

  • haters don't hate Amber can sing awesome!!!!!!! fyi i love it!!!!!! <3

  • I love Tim Curry and no one can ever replace him but I really love the twist on the song. :) Oh Amber your vocal chords are making love to my soul :D

  • This amazing, how can you not think that. THis is not trying to replace Tim Curry. The both can live in one in entity. Stop looking things up if you're just gonna hate. The vocals are amazing, and it is wonderfully different. Great job Mercedes.

  • Im sorry but glee totally wreaked this amazing song! when i heard this version i wanted to barf... Tim Curry all the way!!!!:)

  • This is like a mockery of the movie. No one can replace Tim curry so don't even try

  • This SUCKS Big Time... Tim Curry Rules

    

  • she has no personality,Curry sounded like he WAS a tranny unlike her. i perfer the original and suggest people see it first to compare.

  • best song shes ever sang on the show!

  • @FrinGeJum you seem to be tearing down everyones' opinion and this isn't the place.. people wouldn't be listening to this cover if they didn't like its so STFU.. k?

  • @FrinGeJum no? i think i know what i meant... the song may not be as good as the original in your opinion but that does not mean that she can't sing.. I've seen some of her live performances and damn the girl has pipes.. Yeah Glee is constantly releasing music.. but to say things like 'dog shit' is hardly fair... and i'm sure if you were in her position i'm sure you wouldn't want to have that said about you.. I can imagine that she can sing much better than you anyway..

  • Just to clarify to SOME PEOPLE I believe that Tim Curry's version is so much better, Mercedes, no matter how good she is a singer, she has just killed this song. Tim Curry's is an amazing singer, old or young, and might I say, he looks MIGHTY fine as Frank n Furter ;)

  • Gosh, I read most of the comments.. and seeing all those crazy people thinking the bitch that sucks made "a pretty good job".. well it's just depressing.

  • How could they call this Rocky Horror ? Probably the song the most awfully ruined by Glee. Tim curry can cry from where he is.

  • @LennLucky If you watched the show you would know that they offered Kurt the role and he said he wouldn't take it. Well Exactly he said "There is no way I'm playing a transvestite in high heels and fishnets and wearing lipstick."

  • The episode is about the fact that doing Rocky Horror is inappropriate for high school. The lack of sense in giving a girl the part of Frank was probably intentional.

  • *Facepalm*

    Wow. Um, What the hell? Considering that the character of Dr. Frank N Furter is a MAN and a Transvestite... Giving a girl this role just doesn't seem, accurate?

    Aside from that she doesn't give the song "Frankie Attitude"

  • i get where all of u are going but a lot of parents don't like the gay and lesbian thing on this show and the last thing they need is someone singing about transexualness.

  • nice cover, but not dirty enough. once you've heard tim's version, everything else doesn't work.

  • Mercedes did an amazing job. It sounds way better considering that she's actually singing.

  • @OliiveeTM .. How can you say such a thing ? How can you even compare the two versions ? That girl has nothing to do on a stage, there are millions of kids who know how to sing, but men like Tim Curry, well there is one and one only. That girl shouldn't even be allowed to sing this song. No one should be.

  • She tried to make the song with soul. Dont work that way

  • A woman singing this just does *not* work.

  • I love Mercedes...

    I love Rocky Horror...

    but not together.

  • Uh what? Why don't they let Kurt do this song.. He would rock it

  • news flash people originally that part was played by a woman! get over it!

  • @rosekoller715 LOL no it wasn't TIM CURRY who's A MAN sung it.

  • NOPE

  • This song makes no sense with a chick singing it. That's just plain fact. "Sensational?" "Much of a girl?" Geez, and the creator of Glee is gay, wtf mang.

  • Wow like I can't even start, she's just over singing it and she's a girl

  • This girl can belt it.

    But... she just can't beat Tim Curry.

  • this was stupid... just as the thriller version

  • I jus went to the picture show lastnight shitz pretty fuckin fun I gt sacrificed

  • i haaate the way that mercedes sings this. Makes the show all broadway ish which it isn't :/

  • @ThisIsEnglaaand aha! Are you kidding? Half the songs they do were on broadway first!

  • @Briaaah i meant like, because it was quite under ground wasn't it? she doesn't sing it in the original way and it makes it ultra shit

  • @ThisIsEnglaaand I guess you're right. It was basically big in the 70's for the 'rebels'. Also, it would be superbly hard to copy Tim Curry in this song, for half of it is speaking. I agree, she should of kept it somewhat like the original, but for such a well-known and big statement song I think she did pretty well.

  • @Briaaah not really for the rebels haha just for the people that liked it :') And yeah she did well, sounds good and that but just not the right style for this song at all :L

  • it's sad they couldn't keep the transexsual thing...

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  • It does not suck. It's a cover, and a good one at that.

  • @Xardox17 no it's not. it's all shrieky and crass.

  • not even a CLOSE to tim curry

  • @gannon1op heck it's not even close to the character of Frankenfurter, the subversive sensuality is sacrificed for shrieking power vocals. horrid.

  • A transvestite is a MAN who likes wearin WOMANS clothes

    NOT the other way you bunch of wannabee cunts

  • @stormscorpionuk You can't be a woman in man clothes? Or are you just talking about Her? Because, that's pretty ignorant.

  • glee seems to screw up almost every song they do a cover for

  • my guess if that GLEE didn't change the lyrics....but rather censorship did

  • SHE IS AMAZING! man what a voice.

  • @bluesheep29 You probably mean what a good arranged by computer voice :) She isn't even awful next to Tim Curry. She's like.. dog shit. Or maybe dog shit's shit. Whatever she is, she'd better go and train with some Bieber. How could they compare her to such a man as Tim Curry ?.. It's a mystery.. Oh, wait, no it's not, that's Glee.

  • It's not bad, but I don't think that having Mercedes sing a song that made so many people question their sexuality be seeing Tim Curry do it, has the same effect...I neither hate it nor love it.

  • no, just no

  • Why the hell is she singing this like a power ballad?

  • @LoonyInSpace coz she is. thats how she sings. a bit like how you sing like a cat been stragaled

  • @SUPERCUTE101able How astute you are...

  • SIN-sational . . . .

  • okok i love glee and everything big fan but they so ruined sweet transvestite DDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

  • I love this version much better. her voice fits the song so well

  • @kykyscanlon no it doesn't. frankenfurter is a cross between shock and subversion. she's all screamy. frankenfurter's sensuality was more decadent and regal. he was foie gras, she's KFC.

  • ....Does she really count as a transvestite since she's not cross dressing?

  • @maxumms yeah because she's doing it in drag yet she is a girl playing a cross dressing man... confusing i know.

  • @SUPERCUTE101able

    Ok, I get it....I still find this a very weird choice for the role of Frank N Furter...it's like the polar opposite.

  • @maxumms very true. but i still thinks shes amazing though

  • @maxumms My thoughts exactly, sir/madam.

  • @maxumms not really. Tim Curry was best Frank'n'furter

  • @maxumms ummm it's just a song.. lol

  • @maxumms does it really matter

  • It's unacceptable they changed so much and that so many people think we like watching photo's and pictures instead of actual footage.

  • HOW DARE THAT TURN TIM CURRY INTO THE FAT BLACK GIRL!!!! IT IS UNEXCEPTABLE!!

  • @butheadbros RACIST MUCH!!! NOW THAT'S UNEXCPTABLE!

  • @SUPERCUTE101able You're spelling's *unacceptable* and no it's not, she is fat and she IS black, what's racist about it??

  • I love this version but i do like tim curry's better, not because its the original he just pulls off the transvestite look better. haha.

  • @Libbymarie14 um, do you know the definition of a transvestite? I don't think she falls under that word as the "look" she is trying to pull off.

  • @ZalamalFaulkwing umm she is deffinatly trying to look like one, considering thats the part she's playing. obviously you don't know.

  • this is so bad it makes me want to cry. 

  • "Sensational"

    Saddest lyric change in history.

    So much for LGBT support, Glee.

  • @Unlimited517 If you seen the episode you will understand why they did this

  • @Unlimited517 I think the lyric was changed for a number of reasons...

  • @Unlimited517

    I think it's actually sin-sational, and the only reason for the change is probably Fox censors, the same reason they changed lyrics for all the other Rocky Horror songs and half the top 40 songs glee does. I'd say Glee is the most supportive of LGBT issues of all the shows on mainstream tv. Just sayin'.

  • ok its not so much that they casted a girl for frank-n-furter yes it still pisses me off buuuuuuuuuut how she sings the song and the fact they CHANGED a classic pisses me off even more WTF people!!!!!! the song doesnt even have the same feel to it...... this is just wrong in so many ways......

  • homegurl can blow ands down...tim curry couldnt even concieve this in his mind lol

  • dont blame stuff the singer couldnt change make u think the song is bad if she wanted she wouldve said transexual bt fox didnt want her too u know and she sings this pretty good and no of the boys had the voice t sing this song any way

  • @dksbiggestfan What the fuck is wrong with Glee fans ? Is it about your ears, your brain or something in your musical culture ?

  • @FrinGeJum i love this version but i like the other more because i can sing it in the shower i like songs like that i can sing in the shower and u cant really sing the original version in the shower ecusetto oand i also like faster paced songs so thats probably why but were not all alike we all like differennt songs just because im a gleek doesnt mean i think like all gleeks they ness up songs but they also improve some to but hey glees a good show and rocky horror picture show is my 4 fav movie

  • Needs a little ........ something - Not keen at all...

  • @LottieKIWI it needs a little man in it!!!!!!!

  • WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING!?! This is horrible! They changed the fucking words and besides that: They have a CHICK playing Frankenfurter! You have to be fucking kidding me! It's not a Transvestite if a chick plays it! It would've made more sense if they would've put a suit on her or some fucking thing, put they didn't! All they did was FUCKING RUIN IT! Tim Curry could kick this fat bitch's ass any day! Sensational?! C'mon!

  • Sensational?!?  F-ing cowards

  • WTF!!!!!???? But this what's her name singing don't overtop Tim Curry's speaking in rhythm with musical accompaniment.

  • I enjoyed this when I first saw it but then seeing how great Tim Curry does it and how much better the original is. Well this sucks!!! I love glee but really, sensational!!!!

  • @GottaBeSomthinMore Are you serious ? You discovered The Rocky Horror Picture Show because of Glee ? Where has the world I lived in gone ?

  • I love how they can say transvestite but not transsexual.haha.forever the original!

  • This is great but I still wish Mike had done it...

  • What the hell did I just listen to? How in anyways can this be considered a cover of sweet transvestite? THE PERSON SINGING IT ISN'T EVEN A TRANSVESTITE!

  • nothing beats the original not ttaht this is bad

  • Love you guys!!! Mercedes is the best singer and my favorite character!!

  • @ aerdna 14 haha oooh right ''transexual'' is a baaad word xP hahaha btw great minds think alike ;D lol

  • also the original one with tim curry says ''im just a sweet transvestite from TRANSEXUAL transylvania'' and in the Glee version Mercedes says ''im just a sweet transvestite from SENSATIONAL transylvania'' does anyone know why that drastic change?

  • @americasnextopmodel1 Likely because of censors at the network. I guess "transsexual" was just too much, although I don't really understand why.

  • @americasnextopmodel1 it was censored like the line: "keep his dick wet" from Back to Black by Amy Winehouse was changed to "keep his lips wet". Although i think the word transexual is not that bad to be replaced. *sigh*

  • @ aerdna14 THANK YOU! FINALLY someone gets me lol x)

  • @americasnextopmodel1 Haha, yeah, you and I seem to be some amongst a very few that feel that way.

  • hhmmm..voice is good, but isn't it sweet transvestite?..too obvious a female voice, and Tim's pauses were soo much better.

  • I love this version. And I love the original, I don't see why people think that you can only like one or the other. I love the power in Amber Riley's voice in this one, but Tim Curry's acting is excellent in the original.

  • @aerdna14 It is possible to love both :) for people who don't mind listening to singers AND crap.

  • I'm confused.. Why is a girl singing it? O.o

  • @TheDobbyDies It's part of the Glee storyline, none of the guys wanted/could do it and so this character (Mercedes) volunteered because she's always wanted a lead role.

  • @aerdna14 Truth be told.. That's kinda of moronic. It's supposed to be sung by a man. If they couldn't do that, then they shouldn't have done the song.

  • @TheDobbyDies I didn't mind it. In the entire context of TRHPS it doesn't make a lot of sense, but on Glee itself it made sense in its own way. Like the character is confident and in charge of her own sexuality, which Frank N Furter up and down. Glee's version is meant to mirror what is happening in the episode: the guys who play Brad and Rocky are concerned about their bodies and one of the more prudish teachers finally embraces her sexuality while singing "Toucha Touch Me" Know what I mean?

  • @themademoiselle35 actually i did,ive seen it 3 times since the last 2 weeks,(they pass it on logo like @ midnight) lol i loooove tim curry,but i like the upbeat rythm of the Glee version C:

  • i love her, but not the conceps of she like a transvestite

  • I WISH A GUY PLAYED DR.FRANKNFURTER CUZ A GIRL RUINS THE TRANSVESTITE THING.

  • I don't like the glee version as much, with the changed lyrics.

  • How come she can say transvestite but not transexual?

  • They ruined the song. Why is it a girl singing it? It's supposed to be guy! D: DX -cries-

  • @FmaEdElricLover in the episode, none of the guys were willing to be Frank and Mercedes wanted to shine...not making sense with this song, but that's the story :P

  • @AbbyReidMcGee I don't like glee anyway but that's still messed up

  • @FmaEdElricLover The song isn't really ruined. You can still go listen to the original version. It's not really affected by Glee remaking it.

  • I like mercedes version better,she enfisizes more on the lyrics lol (just my opinion) c:

  • @americasnextopmodel1 Are you're crazy?, did you see the original movie?

  • Ew

  • @Februarylover7 stfu

  • I'm amazed by her performance...A girl singing about being a tranvestite is indeed funny. Very good version (but not as great as the original one)

  • mercedes is amazing but i prefer tim curry's version better :)... I don't think glee should of done this unless they used the actual lyrics... just my opnion

  • @grechyweiners Agreed. Tim Curry's personality made his performance. This one's good but it can't touch Tim Curry's.

  • This was excellent!! I love mercedes!!!

  • I prefer the original like well all of the songs glee do. Yes they're good, but they don't capture the originals feeling. They create their own which is good, but I haven't found a single Glee song that I prefer :/

  • uhhh. ik there is alot of this but, they ruined this one. srry ppls

  • God I LOVE when they let Mercedes go :) such an amazing voice

  • I think Puck or Finn shoulf of sung this xD

  • this is good but nobody can beat the origonal!!!!

  • @missmusic44 I totally agree. He is freaking king! No one could possibly beat him when it comes to frank n furter.

  • I was so disappointed with this episode. Mostly just with the choice for Mercedes to play Frank N' Furter. The point is for the character to be a MAN dressed like a transvestite.

    And yes, I get that the whole transsexual thing maybe wouldn't be allowed on T.V. or would be too controversial or whatever. I'm just saying that I was really looking forward to the episode and I was very disappointed with some of the decisions they made.

  • @Jumily1Emulia XD you've got it wrong. it wasn't too controversial, I just think people where expecting what you said, plus, have you SEEN the rockyhorror show. if so (which you probebly have) than do you honistly think any male could follow up frankie?

  • @Jumily1Emulia Exactly! Like I just commented, I think Puck or Finn should of played Frank 'N' Furter, they shouldn't of chosen something like this if they couldn't do it correctly

  • Sorry, but I think this sucks.

    No one could ever beat the original Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania, Tim Curry a.k.a Dr. Frank N Furter. *_*

  • @MissMusic044 THANK YOU <3<3<3<3

  • @pinkangel901 Thank you for what? :o

  • @pinkangel901 for saying the truth, this is the best version :/

  • @pinkangel901 What can I say.. ? Raaah I'm just gonna explode ! I don't want to be rude and I think it's stupid to get mad about a song, but.. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU ?! How can anyone say such a thing ? Even drunk, or crazy.. I just don't understand, you need a new brain, and a musical education, before it's too late. How can someone say that... Fuck. I can't even stop writing I'm just.. She sucks so much, her voice is a computer, aren't you able to see talent and shits ? Fuck.

  • @FrinGeJum I might of wrote a typo :/ If you read my comments and hers, you would see that she's saying the original was the best and I'm saying thank you for saying the truth, I wrote the wrong word down because I was probably tired. BUT you have no PLACE IN LIFE TO SAY TO ME THAT I NEED A NEW BRAIN, YOU DON'T KNOW THAT I MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN TUMOUR, (i don't but YOU NEVER KNOW!) ! I DON'T GIVE A FUCKING SHIT ABOUT "MUSICAL EDUCATION" I JUST LIKE LISTENING TO MUSIC. SCREW YOU BITCH!

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  • "from sensational transilvania"? really? theyve already got openly gay teens, kids in lingerie, the word "tranvestite", y not transexual? how does it make it anymore open? *sigh* sensoring in our world. if they wanted sumthing family friendly, maybe rhps wasnt the best choice? o well, at least mercedes kicks ass! move over tim curry <3

  • @nanarosemay Same reason they left out the 'gay, straight, or bi' verse of Born This Way, I guess. I don't get how they can have two girls talk about scissoring or have two guys making out and change the word 'transsexual'.

    She's already dressed like a transvestite. Saying transsexual wouldn't do much harm, LOL

  • @nanarosemay Oh, but nobody could ever beat Tim Curry in this role. Just saying.

  • I don't appreciate the censors changing "transexual" to "Sin-sational", but I see why they did.

  • @Alura1111 XD And yet they can talk about sex, and yet say transvestite and homophobe words and etc? XD I mean, what's the point of it? XD

    And changing the theme... Ugh...

  • @BarelyBeatingDA dont dis glee

  • @kimboolly I'm not dissing it, I'm just saying I don't see the point of changing the simple word, "transexual." I don't even think that's a real word XD I like glee, minus some points. And besides, if you can't notice the flaws, you can't appreciate the parts where it gets REALLY good and drags you in.

  • @Alura1111 i dont. they had tranvestite in there. o well, still rocked <3

  • Why is a GIRL doing this part?!

  • @whatwouldjudydo because MIke Chang's parents made him drop out of the play and she volunteered :)

  • @whatwouldjudydo she wanted a solo... and she did great... differentb not better just different...

  • This was drop dead TERRIBLE!

  • ... I'm highly disappointed in this since I love the real Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think part of me just died. :(

  • I like her voice, but she isn't a transexual.

    She does good, but it just isn't the same without a guy singing.