The other glee club kids are Mercedes, a glory-note singing diva who says she’s “Beyonce; I ain’t no Kelly Rowland” when she’s forced to sing backup; Kurt, who is pretty much Will & Grace‘s Jack McFarland in high school; Tina, a shy, stuttering girl, who may or may not be a lesbian (she auditions with Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl”); and Artie, a wheelchair-bound nerd who plays a mean guitar.
The last to join is Finn, a closet singer that Will discovers when he overhears him in the lockeroom shower and blackmails him into joining to avoid detention. (He uses dimebag of medical marijuana given to him by Ryerson. He’s begun to sell it since he was fired–ha!) You see, Finn’s the son of a single mother whose former boyfriend introduced him to the wonders of Journey as a child in the 80s. He’s clearly a different spin on Oz, Chris Klein’s character from American Pie; a tough jock on the outside, but conflicted and sweet at his core. In this case, rather than getting into choir for the girl, he’s doing it to indulge his secret passion for music, which the other jocks don’t appreciate. He’s dating the head cheerleader, Quinn, who’s also the president of the Celibacy Club. This sets up another dynamic, pitting the popular kids against the glee kids for the season.
