Musical Advent Calendar: Day Seven

Just in time for the Christmas episode of Glee, I offer you a handful of songs from the recently released Glee Christmas album. Chances are you have these already, but you know, Tuesday is Glee day, so it seems only right.

Chris Colfer and Darren Criss -- Baby It's Cold Outside
Matthew Morrison and k.d. lang -- You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
Glee Cast -- Deck the Rooftops

That last one I include just because I find it completely LOLarious that Cory's voice has to be synthesized as much as it does. Oh, Cory. Bless. But the first one is the Big Gay Number, so clearly everybody's going to want that, and the second one has random k.d. lang, IDEK. Which also makes it a gay number, in a way, I suppose. (And awesome, but that goes without saying.)

Anyway, I don't think the Glee Christmas album is very good, and there is not a single Hanukkah song on the thing, which...what the heck, producers, you make such a big deal about Puck's Jewish identity and you don't let Mark sing The Dreidel Song or something? There's some good Hanukkah music out there, you bastards.

This morning I have a health screening deal for work which requires a fasting blood test. Which means no coffee or food until sometime after 10:00 am. If I don't murder someone it will be a Christmas Hanukkah frigging miracle.

Fanmix: Back to the Start (Will/Finn, 99 Problems series)

(A little while ago Bess walked into my office and said, "I read that Will/Finn story you posted. Afterward I needed a beer and some M&Ms." I think that's possibly the best feedback I've ever gotten on a fic. And from a coworker, no less! It's not hard to make her blush or anything, but sometimes it's kind of fun.)

For a little while now I have been working on a Puck/Kurt-centric fanmix -- working title: Wedding Mix (spoiler alert: THEY GET MARRIED AT THE END) -- and there was this one song that I loved, but it just wasn't working for them. Then it dawned on me that it was actually a Will/Finn song, which launched a new Will-centric fanmix. I haven't given Will much of a voice in this series to date, mainly because while Will's a part of the relationship, certainly, up to now it's mostly been about Finn's journey of growth and discovering what he wants. (Puck calls it 'becoming a real boy'.)

So now Finn's figuring it out, and he knows what he wants, which is Will. The trouble, of course, is getting Will to believe that. So I suppose going forward that Will will have more of a voice in the series, and as a way of easing into that I started thinking about kind of a soundtrack for the two of them. The first fanmix* I made for the 99 Problems series was completely Finn-centric, and while this one isn't All About Will, it definitely focuses on him more.

Uh, vague spoilers for the future of the 99 Problems series, I guess? I mean, it's not like you can't guess where we're going with this thing, but if you really don't want to be spoiled, you should skip the notes after each track** and just download the zip file.

( Back to the Start: A Will/Finn Mix. )

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* None of those links are good anymore, so if you need the zip file let me know and I'll upload it again.
** Whatever, everybody knows fanmixes are just an excuse for posting cheesy covers anyway. I mean, come on, look at his Drama Face. How am I supposed to resist that? Though this is actually what I was listening to while I wrote that story that made Bess blush, so it must be doing the trick.