#sameer gadhia

[d-criss-news]

andthatswhatyoureallymissedpod: Thank you to @sameergadhia of @ youngthegiant for joining us and sharing your thoughts on Glee’s version of “Cough Syrup” ✨ Not only one of @ darrencriss’ best covers, but one of the best of the series. Listen to the full conversation at the link in bio 🎙️

[ytgtourdiary]

A great interview with Sameer Gadhia, singer of Young The Giant. Not sure if you’ve heard of our singer, Sameer Gadhia, singer of Young The Giant. 

[americanbollywood]

youngthegiant: We loved breaking down how “American Bollywood” was created with all of you last night on @twitch. What song should we cover next?

[innovacancy]

Young the Giant Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA 22 August 2024 words and gallery w/ Cage the Elephant

[publicacionesdeunachica]

I'm heavy on your love.

I missed that train.

[rubywingsracing]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, and publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

✨Here’s 10 since I got sent this ask twice! ✨

1. Karma by Sarah Kinsley

2. La Robe rouge by Granville

3. Dinosaur Bones by Stoplight Observations

4. Hills of Fire by Sarah Kinsley

5. Saturn Return by MS MR

6. Run the Credits by Oliver Sim

7. The Walk Home by Young the Giant(my all time fav band)

8. The Heart is a Muscle by Gang of Youths

9. The King by Sarah Kinsley (idk what she put in this one but it’s like crack)

10. Dancing in the Rain by Young the Giant

[grntaire]

“darren criss’ version of cough syrup is better than the original” be so fucking for real.

[7scorpio]

saw cage the elephant (and more importantly young the giant) last night bc my friend had extra tickets and it was so nice. sameer gadhia you are my everything

[rubydubydoo122]

Batfam Band AU

In my head this is how I think each of the Batfam members sound when they sing

Dick - I would like to think that he sounds like Noah Kahan, but like... with a hint of Sameer Gadhia (singer of Mind over Matter).

Jason - I don't really know, mainly because I think death and the Lazarus Pit messed up his puberty, so I think he has a pretty deep voice, but he can also hit ridiculously high notes. So like, he'll be singing Frank Sinatra one moment, and then like, Ariana Grande the next. but depending on how high he sings, he starts to sound like a 12 year old, so he tries not to with people who aren't immediate family

Tim - he sound like Conan Gray. Specifically like Conan Gray in the bridge of 'The Cut that Always Bleeds'

Cass - She doesn't sing, but I feel like if she did she would sound like Billie Eilish, or she wouldn't be able to hold a pitch

Stephanie - Gracie Abrams. I think she would sound like Gracie Abrams, but she doesn't like listening to Gracie Abrams because of the little hitching thing she does with her voice.

Duke - He would rather die before letting anyone hear him sing, but he has the voice of a literal angel. It's smooth and like honey and makes you feel all warm, but he will not sing for anyone. He'll hum, but that's it.

Damian - sounds like that one tenor in the school musical who should've gotten the lead in the play, but didn't because the main character is white

[tinybaileaf]

if i could get sameer gadhia's voice tattooed on me i genuinely would

[sillyname30]

I just listened to the latest episode of and that's what you really missed on Glee. For once I have to say something nice. They had the recap of On My Way on Monday, Max Adler as a guest to talk about On My Way on Thursday and the lead singer of Young the Giant as a guest to talk about Cough Syrup (and more) on Friday. Good work.

Kevin said one of the most memorable and most important songs and performances Glee ever did was Cough Syrup.

Sameer Gadhia said that they were aware  of Glee, but haven't seen much of it. When they were given the treatment and how the song would be placed they felt it was a really important message.

He thought Darren really did justice to the song.

When Glee played the song it was a huge moment for the song. He thinks it's done a lot for the legacy of Cough Syrup. They'll alway be thankful for that.

[americanbollywood]

posted on young the giant’s instagram!

[squeakadeeks]

Young the Giant!!! One of my favorite bands and I never see them talked about!!! I also get nervous sharing my music tastes but everyone you mentioned is great so you’re good lol

yeah!! honestly im still really surprised I dont run into people who like them more often.  Sameer Gadhia's voice is so soothing and incredible and all the surrounding instrumentals are fantastic. theyre my favorite band to listen to to calm down to. also their higher energy ones are straight up bangin too.

[aurrieattorney]

it has been a While since I've remembered/interacted with any fallen hero stuff but I AM dying to know more abt suranga so pls. holds out hands.

(uhhhhh my brain is a little bit scrambled by exhaustion so please heed that there's some tough themes from the source material in this, but at least a cw for mention of suicide and eating disorders)

[inhale] ok SO 

Basically, i missed original suranga a lot given i made him when things were kind of going to shit in my life, and my very nebulous webcomic iteration wasn’t scratching the itch to have him back quite enough, and round about early feb i found out retri was coming out.

So i kinda did a redux of him, keeping some of the things i had and tossing out others while adding other stuff. Much of this i’ve already yelled at with joel and mort, but i’ve never actually sat down and put all those yellings together lol. He’s lebanese-sri lankan (not that he would know, just generally he’s some unplaceable kind of south/west asian and using that to his advantage for fake names) and his voiceclaim, both speaking and singing (suranga sings! both in arabic and english) is hamed sinno (though sameer gadhia also works). For faceclaims, basically the closest person i can get to faceclaim inspo is varada sethu, esp pre-transition with the nose and the skin-tone. He’s also a little bit taller at just under 5’5’’ rather than 5’1 cos I took mercy on him, but he still has to crane his neck to look at ricardo being the giant he is (though suranga Did used to be 5’6’’ before HB fucked his spine up, and becoming even shorter than ortega makes him very grumpy).

freddie purrcury the lint monster is still there, but suranga adopts him pre-hb (ie. sidestep days). It’s thanks to fred that suranga stays with the rangers after a near-miss with the media (which i’m writing a fic up about!), and helps him grow into himself by having to look after another being. After HB, ricardo takes him briefly while he figures out what to do with himself. He’d ultimately love to keep fred but knows he can’t do a very good job of it esp after he decides he can’t retire yet, so fred goes to elena’s (spoilers for retri ending, theres a path where you can visit her ranch!!). I’m still deciding when would be the best point for them to reunite but basically suranga very sad w/o his cat, someone help him :(

however! He’s a mob step (at least, that’s what i’ve tended to default to, i love the crime found family :3 anarchist is also a good fit tho, and i’ve read through the code for thief which could also be fitting, so i’m planning to do), i debated whether he’d want to let the gang in on his identity and the base and ultimately decided yes, it was worth it if he wanted their full trust. He also accidentally becomes a parental figure to nehal, the gang’s driver, which is unexpected for everyone, suranga especially dsakjlfdksj. nehal has spud the pomeranian now, who essentially acts as the gang’s mascot. I have a few ideas about writing fic about their misadventures b/c i am very soft about them and suranga having people who’ve got his back

i changed his suit and his villain name (Argos) to be peacock themed! (here’s some concept sketches i’ve been sitting on a while lol, it’s meant to be imposing but whether it’s actually that remains to be said lol, mysterious might fit better

I was inspired by my trip to a SL temple belonging to a god which has peacocks associated with him, as well as music and dance. Peacocks fit well with his high arrogance anyway (tho his arrogance/obscurity stat might fluctuate a bit depending on the scenario). Thus, his gang is called the panoptes. This also extends to the cyranga au with @/geek-o13’s cyrus, whose villain name is Helios, and whose namesake is also sometimes described with the panoptes epithet :D if i go into that au this post might double in length so i’ll save that for another one, but thinking about the dynamic between the two and bouncing ideas back and forth brings me so much serotonin :’) 

i know for sure suranga would have the speed mod, as it’s what i always pick, but it might make more sense strategy wise to flip from strength (which, ouch, poor rangers) to telepathy to play to what he does best, (yes to cape, cos he’s a theatre nerd in spite of the inner edna mode telling him not to lol, spent so much time designing the stupid armor and sitting in the library as yasmin poring over books for inspo.) 

i’ve also decided suranga’s got chronic pain/fatigue from the fall in HB, especially in his legs and lower back (like… that was a four storey fall. i’m doubting the farm would bother to fix sidestep’s body enough to given them full mobility/painlessness again if they’re using the MC for experiments, doesn’t seem like giving them back those things was high on the list :V), and therefore also uses a back brace and a custom-made telescopic cane he made himself that can be extended/collapsed as necessary. He also wears a leg holster over his clothes that he can slot the cane into when he doesn’t feel like carrying it. Or doesn’t want to draw attention to himself by having it fall over like thirty times after propping it against something lol. it’s also on the same leg he had the holster for his gun during his sidestep days (and the cane also can function as a self-defense weapon in a pinch). The cane very much becomes part of his physical body language, he’ll gesture/point with it, fidget by twirling it around (he’s dropped it a lot practicing, but he’s a real pro these days) knock on doors with it, or hook things with the handle, etc etc. fhr having a bunch of medical advancements in commonplace prosthesis makes a realy interesting thought experiment about what ableism would look like, esp when chen’s (and to some extent ortega’s) conversations bring up that mods aren’t all great and come with their own issues/challenges.

He’s still a tech/fighterstep, but he’s had to think more like a tactician since then cos he can’t rely so much on his body in fights, which is making me consider doing a tactician run to see if it fits. Anyway, the powersuit mortum makes is basically a mobility aid of sorts, but he has to be careful not to overdo it. He keeps pain meds on him/uses adaptive tools around his apartment (during rebirth, it’s a comfortable flat, and one of the lower ones of the complex in the off-chance the lift breaks down, before he moves into the flat above the tech shop being used as a front for the panoptes) ie. shower chair, a grabber so he doesnt have to bend too far down if he’s dropped something/otherwise would need to get onto a step-stool and potentially eat shit if he loses balance, generally having places to sit throughout the flat in reach, heat pads, etc. 

sometimes he has a habit of drinking (so a secondary vice to sweets) as a way of coping with the pain when it gets a lot, but he tries not to do it too much, and only in the privacy of his apartment. i noticed in the code diving that this vice develops because of telepathy being so energy-intensive, and that a sweets vice mc will also want food in general, not just sweets. Given one of ortega’s love languages is sharing food, they work really well with a sweets vice sidestep, romanced or friendship route :D suranga might have some kind of eating disorder alongside textural issues with food where some days he’s just not able to eat anything. He doesn’t generally do meat, because he likely never had it at the farm and is too expensive in the FEZ anyways, fish is usually ok, but pre-HB if he was having it at his flat, he had to make sure fred couldn’t eat it while he wasn’t looking lol

Basically i’m projecting some of my own crip problems onto suranga and no one can stop me lol. 

Anyway, that also means he really understands chen as a fellow physically disabled person when they start talking in retri (ortega has their own can of worms with the military-grade mods giving back their ability to walk after being paralyzed by the accident way back when they first meet chen), ie. understanding why he named his dog spoon. I’d like to hc that given how happy suranga was with fred, after hb, part of chen’s decision to adopt a dog was that he saw how helpful it was for him, even if he didn’t fully trust suranga, but! given Suranga’s a techstep, it’s canon that techstep mcs used to help chen manage his mods/do tune-up (which would require some degree of trust) and there’s even an option in retri when you meet him at HQ where you notice he’s having problems with his prosthetic limbs and suggest how to adjust it so it works better, which is a nice touch - tactician steps also played chess with him in their downtime!

He’s got yasmin to hop into if his own body gets laid up too bad, but he’s still got reservations about what he does with her body (flirting for information is alright, but no romantic relationships/sex). Her being (presumably) cis, at first it’s a little disconcerting having to perform being a woman again, but the more he gets used to being her, the more he realises feminine stuff isn’t so bad when it’s an opt in thing and begins to experiment with his own presentation sometime between rebirth and retri now he’s got a bit more freedom and confidence to try now he’s debuted as a villain.

He’s always had a fascination with how one can change how they’re perceived just in the way they carry themself, how they dress/behave etc (which then led to an interest in costumes/theatre/fashion, and i’m imagining if there were powerpoint nights at the rangers, suranga would come in with a 20 slide presentation on tearing into x villain of the week’s fit, much to themmy’s delight)

He also has an interest in sewing instead of knitting (although he still does that too, it’s just that sewing is his main thing now, which first started out as fixing holes in his clothes rather than just throw them out, then began teaching himself from books, and then on a trip to tia elena’s, asks about the broken sewing machine she never really used, and then fixes it. Elena teaches him a few of the basics, then he gets into making his own clothes, and makes a gift for elena as thanks (an embroidered shawl with sunflowers on it :3)

this then meshes really well with the puppetmaster scar (in retri, the suicidal scar from rebirth becomes a seperate tag and there’s options throughout the game to convert it to one of the other scars), which has funky implications esp when paired with fate motivation as a fourth-wall break/slightly self-aware kind of step, BUT ALSO THE AUTISM SCRIPT THING (the mc/sidestep is so autistic coded, which makes sense given the author is also autistic). If you’re a baby regene escapee that’s used to following scripts and orders, once you break out there’s only so much you can do before you have to do improv, something something how do you know what your real personality is when you’ve always had to perform? Puppetmaster being similar in flavour to the outsider scar (his original scar, iirc) with a few more bells and whistles, I think it’s p fitting, esp since it works with the strings/thread stuff featuring a lot more heavily in retri, ie. more opportunities to possess people/meet other telepaths/reflect on your relationship to your puppet (yasmin, tall latina gal in suranga’s case). I have no idea how much spoilers you’d want for retri but i’ve been code-diving big time, specifically cos retri is such a sprawling beast of code/divergent story paths.

Suranga is still a pining dumbass for ortega except from afar as the secret crush route, which hasn’t changed (although he’s a bit more clued in that ortega is up to something and has to keep his guard up somewhat). this is made DOUBLY hilarious when also paired with the chenmance (SPOON!!!!!!!!) wherein you find out chen also. has a crush on ricardo. You have to see chen instead of going to hoots with ortega to find that out tho (what a mess lol, everyone here assumes the others are straight.)

I’m angling for the poly route, since so far in retri you can only set up for it, as opposed to chargentstep where if you’re already dating ortega and you get the auction kiss with argent and mention that, you can say you want both of them and there’s no issue cos actually, ortega (julia AND ricardo) flirted with argent when she first joined, and she also likes them lol.

SPEAKING OF ARGENT suranga did enjoy fighting her (if with some degree of stress because ‘oh shit, you would be so mad if you knew i was in your head’ and being an unknown), such that he doesn’t use telepathy against her out of respect even though that’s the only thing mostly keeping them matched. On the bridge, he flirts with her to throw her off, accidentally leaning too much into his yasmin confidence, then gets confused by her actually being interested and then has to re-evaluate what exactly his gameplan is with her. He gets kissed (and bitten) at the auction when he takes his helmet off, and then when he turns up at the HQ has a very awkward conversation with her in the breakroom trying to figure out what the hell their relationship is (some kind of weird friends but the argentmance route is very cute too)

Herald/daniel is kept at arms length, suranga’s his coach and thinks he’s nice enough but a bit sensory overload with all his thoughts (he can’t really teach by sparring since he’s not up to par anymore, and it’s kind of half-true, outside of the suit he can only do so much, but he can offer pointers/maybe bring in nehal?) - maybe or maybe doesn’t pick up on the crush, idk

there's plenty more to add i likely forgot but that has been an Infodump abt suranga the current favourite oc, THANK YOU FOR INDULGING ME <3

[nelsonwoodlane]

no way how did i only just now learn that sameer gadhia did backing vocals on coming apart

[mthguy]

GLEE - Cough Syrup (Full Performance) HD

“Cough Syrup” was one of the most memorable songs covered in Glee. The vocals by Darren Criss are incredible, but the intense scene that accompanied the episode deepened the original song, turning it into a poignant reflection on homophobia and mental health. The “Cough Syrup” episode had a much heavier storyline than most episodes of Glee. While the show didn’t shy away from serious topics, this was one of the first times creator Ryan Murphy pushed the boundaries of its content.

The episode, titled “On My Way,” introduced the heartbreaking plot that led into the “Cough Syrup” sequence. The former McKinley High School bully Dave Karofsky - who had just transferred schools - is outed at his new school and mercilessly bullied by his peers in person and online, a cruelly ironic parallel to the way he treated Kurt Hummel earlier in the series. Facing merciless harassment from his classmates and unprepared to process his feelings about his sexuality, Karofsky attempts suicide.

Young The Giant, the band that originally recorded “Cough Syrup,” was receptive to the song’s use in the show. They rose to popularity in the indie-rock scene with the release of their self-titled debut album in 2011. The six-piece band, led by vocalist Sameer Gadhia, made waves in the alternative scene, but did not break into the mainstream until their Glee feature.  “I don’t think we ever had the intent of the song… (to be used) in such a serious scene,” Gadhia told Billboard. “It’s very, very intense, very, very impactful, and we most definitely empathized with that. All of us have (either) been victims of bullying — (or have) been bullies at some point in time. It’s something that hits everyone.”

The majority of songs Glee tackled were already big hits as the show tended to capitalize on popular music. “Cough Syrup” was an exception, but after Criss’ performance, the cover charted at No. 65 on the Billboard Top 100, marking the first time the song had ever hit the Hot 100, and one of only two Young The Giant songs to do so. Rather than fall into indie-rock obscurity, the exposure Glee gave to “Cough Syrup,” in one of the most memorable scenes, led the band to further success outside of the show.

This specific storyline, and the interwoven cover, had an impact on those who witnessed it, specifically leading to a spike in traffic to The Trevor Project for people seeking guidance about their queer identity. Using a more obscure song for this heart-breaking sequence gave space for the message to really sink in. Rather than focusing on the fact that your favorite Glee character was singing a top 40 hit, it made it possible to sit in the track’s obscurity and contemplate the scene free of distraction. The choice to tackle such a difficult topic with a song as meaningful as “Cough Syrup” made this episode unforgettable and brought attention to the terrible repercussions of bullying and homophobia.