Nov. 19, 2016, 6 p.m.
America's newest sensation: Chapter 15: Semi-finals (part 1)
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Music used: Pink - fucking perfect, Chainsmokers - closer and Justin Timberlake - take back the night
Luna started squealing as she ran in the backstage room. “Oh my god guys, who is performing with Justin Timberflake?”
The warblers looked at each other and high fived each other proudly at keeping it a secret.
Kurt looked at Blaine with his mouth wide open, “You met Justin Timberflake and you didn't tell me?”
Blaine wrapped his arm around Kurt's shoulder and pressed a kiss against his cheek, “you didn't tell me yet who you are performing with either.”
“Oh my god, I can't believe this,“ Kurt said, “you better introduce us later.”
Blaine chuckled, “now you know about our famous artist, now who are you guys performing with?”
When no one said anything, Blaine started frowning, “seriously?”
“You'll just have to see,” Kurt grinned as he stood up and started making his way towards the backstage waiting room.
All of them followed, chuckling as Blaine pouted behind them.
Olly made his way on the stage, “Good evening everyone, tonight is our semifinals! We have 4 contestants left, trying to steal a place in our finals. Give it up for the warbler, Luna, Roy and Kurt.”
All of them made their way on the stage as they took their designated places.
Roy was the first to start singing as in the background clip of a car driving around the coast started playing.
Hey, I was doing just fine before I met you
I drink too much and thats an issue
But Im OK
Kurt was the next one to take the verse.
Hey, you tell your friends it was nice to meet them
But I hope I never see them
Again
Luna leaned against Kurt as she took the next part.
I know it breaks your heart
Moved to the city in a broke-down car
The warblers started singing the next part.
And four years, no calls
Now youre looking pretty in a hotel bar
And I, I, I, I, I cant stop
No, I, I, I, I, I cant stop
All of them spread over the stage as they started singing the bridge.
So, baby, pull me closer
In the back seat of your Rover
That I know you cant afford
Bite that tattoo on your shoulder
Pull the sheets right off the corner
Of that mattress that you stole
From your roommate back in Boulder
We aint ever getting older
They all started doing the complex choreography they all enjoyed doing so much. All of them were smiling as they went through it step for step as they sang in between.
We aint ever getting older
We aint ever getting older
Luna started singing again as she walked on the small stage behind the judges while she flirted with the camera's.
You look as good as the day I met you
I forget just why I left you,
I was insane
The warblers took the next part.
Stay and play that Blink-182 song
That we beat to death in Tucson,
OK
Next up was Roy.
I know it breaks your heart
Moved to the city in a broke-down car
And
Kurt took over for the last part.
four years, no call
Now Im looking pretty in a hotel bar
And I, I, I, I, I cant stop
No, I, I, I, I, I cant stop
They all got together in the middle to sing the last part.
So, baby, pull me closer
In the back seat of your Rover
That I know you cant afford
Bite that tattoo on your shoulder
Pull the sheets right off the corner
Of that mattress that you stole
From your roommate back in Boulder
We aint ever getting older
We aint ever getting older
We aint ever getting older
They all hugged each other as they knew it was the last time they would be doing this together before they waved to all the people and made their way back to the backstage.
Roy came running up the backstage with a huge smile on his face.
Luna chuckled, “You performed with freaking Bruno Lars. And you are walking of the stage like it was nothing.”
Roy chuckled, “Now I'm so curious who you and Kurt are performing with.”
Kurt grinned and shook his head, “you'll see now hush I want to see Blaine perform with freaking Justin Timberflake.”
Like before every performance their announcement video started playing. This time it started with the Warblers standing in their rehearsal room.
Nona grinned at them, “now you'll probably get really excited about who your famous artist will be.”
The door opened and Justin Timberflake walked in the room with a huge smile on his face.
Jeff, Nick and Blaine immediately started fangirling, like the real thing. Jeff started jumping up and down as Blaine started hugging Nick with one hand covering his mouth.
The short fragment was followed with a bit of advice from Justin Timberflake before the video ended.
The image changed back towards the studio where the lights were out. The only thing heard was Olly announcing the Warblers.
The lights went on and the whole changed in something park like. There were benches and fake trees spread around the stage with a fountain. It look pretty cool. On the background, New York city, was projected.
The warblers were dressed nicely in suits. Blaine was wearing a full suit with bowtie and looked hot as hell in Kurt's opinion. Nick wore only some suit pants and a button up with a tie while Jeff whore some suit pants with a button up, a vest and a tie.
They looked really awesome and Kurt could already tell they would kill this performance.
The music started playing and Kurt let out a quiet oohh as he recognized the song.
Blaine walked forward on the stage, moving along to the music, showing off some of his moves as Jeff took a seat on the bench and Nick leaned against a tree.
Blaine started singing as he flirted with one of the cameras. Something that still felt so weird:
Yeah, this was your city
You did it all and more, broke every law except for one, babe
Attraction, are you ready
I know you feel it
Pull you nearer til you feel it again, oh
Nick and Jeff stood up as some background dancers come on stage. Each took one person to dance with as they did the next part together in a more rap voice.
I wanna do something right
But we can do something better
Aint no time like tonight
And we aint trying to save it til later
Stay out here living the life
Nobody cares who we are tomorrow
You got that lil something I like
A little something Ive been wanting to borrow
Blaine took over again for the next part:
Tonight the nights, come on surrender
I wont lead your love astray, astray, yeah
Your loves a weapon
Give your body some direction
Thats my aim
Then, we could
They sang the next part together:
Take back the night
Come on, use me up until theres nothing left
Take back the night
Dizzy, spinning, sweating, you cant catch your breath
Take back the night
Ooh, dont know when the sun is rising next
Take back the night
So if the feelings right, then raise your glass and lets
Take back the night, take back the night
They gon try to shut us down, Ill be damned if we gon let them
Take back the night, take back the night
You know you gon mess around and find out there aint no one better
Take back the night, oh
Yeah
Jeff used the little break to announce their special artist: “give it up for Justin Timerberflake.”
Justin walked on the stage as the crowd went nuts as he started singing the next full part.
Rare, theres not too many
No one but you and crowded rooms, we can do anything yeah
Attraction can drive you crazy
The way you move, you go crazy, thats incentive for me
I wanna do something right
But we can do something better
Aint no time like tonight
And we aint trying to save it til later
Stay out here living the life
Nobody cares who we are tomorrow
You got that lil something I like
A little something Ive been wanting to borrow
Tonight the nights, come on surrender
I wont lead your love astray, astray, yeah
Your loves a weapon
Give your body some direction
Thats my aim
Then, we could
The warblers joined him in the next verse as they stood next to Justin Timberflake who high fived all of them.
Take back the night
Come on, use me up until theres nothing left
Take back the night
Dizzy, spinning, sweating, you cant catch your breath
Take back the night
Ooh, dont know when the sun is rising next
Take back the night
So if the feelings right, then raise your glass and lets
Take back the night, take back the night
They gon try to shut us down, Ill be damned if we gon let them
Take back the night, take back the night
You know you gon mess around and find out there aint no one better
Jeff and Nick first did a few moves with Blaine and Justin before Jeff and Nick did the next part more in a rap.
And the horns say, alright
And the horns say, alright
Uh, ooh, and the horns say, alright
And the horns say
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Take it over
Yeah, yeah
And before they knew it they were all standing in a half circle singing the last part with everything they had.
Take back the night
Come on, use me up until theres nothing left
Take back the night
Dizzy, spinning, sweating, you cant catch your breath
Take back the night
Ooh, dont know when the sun is rising next
Take back the night
So if the feelings right, then raise your glass and lets
Take back the night
Blaine, Nick and Jeff were all out of breath as they gave each other a hug before giving a hand to Justin Timerberflake, thanking him for performing with them.
They went over to Olly who talked for a few seconds with Justin Timberflake about his new album and they asked him what he thought about the warblers. When he said nothing but positive things, Blaine felt like he was flying.
And then it was time for the next performance. They waved to the fans before they ran to the backstage, hopefully on time to still see Kurt perform with his special guest.
The small video on the start of Kurt's performance started playing. Kurt was waiting next to Leona who had a hand on his shoulder.
“When we knew about who was going to go the finals, I started looking for an artist that has a message and I think I found the perfect artist for you and the perfect song.”
And then the doors were going open and Red walked into the room with a huge smile on her face.
“Oh my god,” Kurt squealed as he ran towards her and gave her a hand. “I love your music.”
She smiled, “Let's get started then.”
You could see them rehearsing without music on it so the song was still a secret and you could definitely see how much respect Kurt had for red.
And then the screen turned black and the video showed once again the stage.
Kurt was dressed neatly in some dress pants and a white button up which was rolled up on the sleeved.
He held the microphone to his lips as the music started playing. The whole background was filled with stars as the room was totally dimmed now.
There was only one spot on Kurt as he started singing.
Made a wrong turn
Once or twice
Dug my way out
Blood and fire
Bad decisions
Thats alright
Welcome to my silly life
Kurt looked around the crowd as he walked around the stage.
Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss "know it its all good"
It didnt slow me down
Mistaken, always second guessing
Underestimated, look Im still around
He stopped in front of the judges as he started giving his all.
Pretty pretty please dont you ever ever feel
Like youre less then, fucking perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like youre nothing youre fucking perfect, to me
Red started walking on the stage from the side of the stage. She started singing as Kurt did the background.
Youre so mean (youre so mean)
When you talk, (when you talk) about yourself
You were wrong, change the voices (change the voices)
In your head (in your head)
Makes them like you instead
So complicated
Look how we all make it
Filled with so much hatred
Such a tired game
Its enough, Ive done all I can think of
Chased down all my demons
I see you do the same
Oooh oooooh
Kurt and Red started singing together.
Pretty pretty please dont you ever ever feel
Like youre less then, fucking perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like youre nothing youre fucking perfect, to me
And then there were gasps in the crowd as Kurt started rapping the next part on his own. He smiled widely as he loved that he got a chance to do this.
The whole world scared so I swallow the fear
The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer
So cool in lying and we try try try
But we try too hard, and its a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics, cuz theyre everywhere
They dont like my jeans, they dont get my hair
We strains ourselves and we do it all the time
Why do we do that?
Why do I do that?
Why do I do that?
And then Kurt took the very long note and stretched it a bit perfectly while red was standing next to him and smiling widely.
YEAAAH
OOOOH
Kurt took a deep breath before they did the next part together, smiling at each other.
Ooh, pretty pretty pretty,
Pretty pretty please dont you ever ever feel
Like youre less then, fucking perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like youre nothing youre fucking perfect, to me
Youre perfect
Youre perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like youre nothing youre fucking perfect, to me
They were both a bit out of breath as they gave each other a hug before doing a bow.
People were standing up and clapping along for them and to Kurt it was the best feeling ever.
When he walked to Olly, he couldn't help but feel the nerves coming up. It was like suddenly he was hit with the fully reality that this was the semi-finals. The last step before he got to the grand price, the big final which he had dreamed about for so long.
Olly smiled at them and congratulated them on their performance as he did some small talk.
Kurt looked around the crowd and waved at a little girl standing in the front.
And before he knew it, they were going off the stage, waving to the people. As Luna was making herself ready to perform with Maroon 4.
Kurt smiled as Blaine wrapped him in a hug, “don't you already have to be getting dressed for the next performance?”
“Yes and I'll leave in a minute. I just want to say you were amazing out there. I can't believe you performed with Red!” Blaine said excitedly.
Kurt smiled, “and I still can't believe you performed with Justin Timberflake. Now get to the dressing room to chance so we can both go to the finals.”
Blaine pressed a soft kiss on his lips before he ran after Jeff and Nick.
Kurt smiled softly and rolled his eyes as Roy started making kissing sounds.
He punched him lightly on the arm as he turned towards the screen.
No matter where he would end tonight, he would still have made amazing friends and have an amazing boyfriend and that was worth so much.