Somebody To Love is a song featured in the episode The Rhodes Not Taken. It was sung by all the members of New Directions at their invitational right after April Rhodes quit and Rachel Berry decided to rejoin after not liking being in the musical, Cabaret, all by herself. She knew this song but Finn Hudson and the others agreed to help her with the choreography. It was originally sung by Queen.
Critical reception
Zap2it's Liz Pardue praised what she called "a truly outstanding rendition" of "Somebody to Love". Flandez deemed the performance of "Somebody to Love" the show's best number since "Don't Stop Believin'" debuted in the pilot episode. Mike Hale of the New York Times opined that "The Rhodes Not Taken" was "the best episode musically since the pilot", calling the performance of "Somebody to Love" "truly rousing".
Reviewing the episode the day after it aired, Jarett Wieselman for the New York Post commented that he had already watched the performance of "Somebody to Love" fifteen times, and that it gave him goosebumps every time he watched it. The Los Angeles Times's Denise Martin also praised the performance of "Somebody to Love", writing: "Love or hate Queen, when New Directions sings it, it's magical. And it's the first time since Don't Stop Believin' that I got goosebumps. Something about kids singing songs, raising all those arms, makes everyone—can't just be me!—giddy and hopeful. They're not as technically skilled as Vocal Adrenaline—yet—but that only makes their underdog story more real."
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