The New Directions' Girls are the group of girls within New Directions.
The New Directions' Girls are simply just the girls who were in New Directions. They are not a separate club, but they often separated from the boys for "girl power" numbers such as Halo/Walking on Sunshine, Express Yourself and Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer. Tina, Rachel and Mercedes were there since the founding of New Directions and Quinn, Santana and Brittany joined in Showmance. Lauren Zizes joined in Season Two, but left the club at the start of the third season. Kurt was also sometimes considered as one of New Directions' girls and often tried to join their group in gender-split mashups and competitions. However, he was sometimes sent back to the boy's team by Will.
Mercedes, Santana and Brittany leave during the early part of Season Three to join The Troubletones with Shelby Corcoran as the director. Sugar, originally rejected from the New Directions, was the cause of Shelby's group. She later joins the New Directions when Mercedes, Santana and Brittany rejoin. Rachel, Mercedes, Quinn and Santana all graduated in Goodbye, therefore not being in Glee Club anymore. Brittany left New Directions in All or Nothing, after an early admission into MIT, graduating during her second senior year. Sugar has not been seen in the New Directions for unknown reasons after the same episode. Tina graduated in New Directions, while the club was disbanded due to budget concerns. One year later, Rachel donates money to reboot the glee club, Jane Hayward and Madison McCarthy become the first two female members. Kitty rejoins in The Hurt Locker, Part Two.
Others were a part of them for a short time in the past, including April Rhodes and Sunshine Corazon.
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Season One | |||||||
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Song | Episode | Originally by/from | Solos | Backup Vocals | |||
Halo/Walking on Sunshine | Vitamin D | Beyoncé/Katrina and The Waves | Mercedes and Rachel | Brittany, Quinn, Santana, and Tina | |||
Express Yourself | The Power of Madonna | Madonna | Mercedes, Quinn, Rachel, Santana, and Tina | Brittany | |||
The Boy Is Mine | Laryngitis | Brandy and Monica | Mercedes and Santana | Brittany, Quinn, Rachel, and Tina | |||
Bad Romance | Theatricality | Lady Gaga | Kurt, Mercedes, Quinn, Santana, and Tina | Brittany and Rachel |
Season Two | |||||||
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Song | Episode | Originally by/from | Solos | Backup Vocals | |||
The Only Exception | Britney/Brittany | Paramore | Rachel | Mercedes, Quinn, and Santana | |||
Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer | Never Been Kissed | The Rolling Stones/Bon Jovi | Brittany, Mercedes, Rachel, Santana, and Tina | Quinn | |||
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Not performed in an episode | Traditional | Mercedes, Quinn, Rachel, Santana, and Tina | Brittany | |||
Firework | Silly Love Songs | Katy Perry | Rachel | Brittany, Lauren, Mercedes, Santana, and Tina | |||
I Know What Boys Like | Comeback | The Waitresses | Lauren | Brittany and Tina | |||
Hell to the No | Original Song | Glee | Mercedes | Brittany, Lauren, Santana, and Tina | |||
Get It Right | Rachel | Brittany and Tina |
Season Three | |||||||
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Song | Episode | Originally by/from | Solos | Backup Vocals | |||
Run the World (Girls) | Asian F | Beyoncé | Brittany | Santana | |||
I Kissed a Girl | I Kissed a Girl | Katy Perry | Rachel and Santana | Brittany, Mercedes, Quinn, Sugar, and Tina | |||
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Extraordinary Merry Christmas | 'Mariah Carey' | Mercedes | Brittany, Quinn, Rachel, Santana, and Tina | |||
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | Yes/No | Roberta Flack | Mercedes, Rachel, Santana, and Tina | None | |||
Never Can Say Goodbye | Michael | The Jackson5 | Quinn | Brittany, Mercedes, Santana, and Tina | |||
What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) | On My Way | Kelly Clarkson | Brittany, Mercedes, and Santana | The Troubletones | |||
Cell Block Tango | Choke | Chicago | Brittany, Mercedes, Santana, Sugar, and Tina | None | |||
Shake It Out | Florence and The Machine | Mercedes, Santana, and Tina | |||||
Edge of Glory | Nationals | Lady Gaga | Mercedes, Quinn, Santana, and Tina | The Troubletones |
Season Four | |||||||
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Song | Episode | Originally by/from | Solos | Backup Vocals | |||
Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee | Glease | Grease | Kitty | Brittany, Sugar, Tina, and Unique | |||
Beauty School Drop Out | Grease | Blaine | Kitty, Marley, Santana, and Sugar | ||||
Tell Him | Sadie Hawkins | The Exciters | Brittany and Marley | Kitty, Sugar, Tina, and Unique | |||
Locked Out of Heaven | Bruno Mars | Marley and Unique | Brittany, Sugar, and Tina | ||||
Diva | Diva | Beyoncé | Blaine, Brittany, Tina, and Unique | Kitty and Marley | |||
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl | Girls (and Boys) on Film | Marilyn Monroe/Madonna | Marley and Unique | Brittany, Kitty, Sugar, and Tina | |||
Wannabe | Guilty Pleasures | Spice Girls | Brittany, Kitty, Marley, Tina, and Unique | None | |||
I Love It | All or Nothing | Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX | Brittany, Kitty, Tina, and Unique | Marley and Sugar |
Season Five | |||||||
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Song | Episode | Originally by/from | Solos | Backup Vocals | |||
Mary's Little Boy Child | Previously Unaired Christmas | Harry Belafonte (Boney M. version) | Marley, Tina and Unique | None | |||
Love Child | The Supremes | Unique | Marley and Tina |
Season Six | |||||||
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Song | Episode | Originally by/from | Solos | Backup Vocals | |||
Chandelier | We Built This Glee Club | Sia | Madison, Kitty, and Jane | New Directions |
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- The first three members (Mercedes, Tina, and Rachel) auditioned separately and joined on Pilot.
- The second three members (Quinn, Santana, and Brittany) auditioned together and joined in Showmance.
- Of the third three members to join (April, Lauren, and Sunshine) only Lauren lasted the episode still being a member.
- All of the members until Season Three, with the exception of Tina and Sugar, have been in a romantic relationship with Puck.
- Four out of six of the girls in Season One had a relationship with Finn. Quinn dated Finn but they broke up because Finn found out Puck was the father of Quinn's baby. Rachel and Finn have kissed a number of times while he was still dating Quinn. See Fuinn. In Hell-O, Rachel thought she was dating Finn, but Finn resisted (see Finchel). Also in Hell-O, Finn went on a date with both Brittany and Santana. In The Power of Madonna, Finn had sex with Santana.
- The six Season One girls all had romantic relations with Sam Evans, as he dated Quinn, Santana, Mercedes, Brittany and Rachel and kissed Tina in Trio.
- So far, only girls have had solos in a competition.
- Rachel, Santana and Tina are the only girls to have a solo in a competition.
- All members of the group, with the exception of Madison, have had a romantic relationship, kiss, crush on, or date with another member of New Directions:
- Mercedes with Sam and Puck, (she had a crush on Kurt). It is assumed that she was kissed by Finn in Silly Love Songs when raising money for the Glee Club.
- Tina with Mike, Artie, Blaine (crush) and Sam (kissed in Trio). It is assumed that she was kissed by Finn in Silly Love Songs when raising money for the Glee Club.
- Rachel with Finn, Puck, Jesse, Sam and Blaine (kissed).
- Quinn with Puck, Finn, Sam, Santana (one night stand), and Joe (crush and crusher).
- Santana with Brittany, Quinn (one night stand), Puck, Finn (one night stand), and Sam.
- Brittany with Santana, Puck, Finn, Artie, Kurt, and Sam.
- Lauren with Puck. It is assumed she was kissed by Finn in Silly Love Songs when raising money for the Glee Club. She had a date with Joe in Sadie Hawkins.
- Sugar with Rory and Artie.
- Marley with Jake and Ryder.
- Kitty with Jake, Puck, Artie and Ryder (crush) and Myron (crusher).
- Unique with Ryder (crush).
- Jane with Mason (crush)
- At one point, Tina and Quinn were the only girl members in the club. Due to Mercedes, Santana, and Brittany joining the Troubletones, Lauren quitting, and Rachel being suspended. If Shelby had accepted Quinn's offer of joining the Troubletones, then Tina would have been the only one left. Coincidentally, they joined the Troubletones in the 2012 Nationals.
- So far, New Directions girls never surpassed having 8 members. At the beginning of each year, there have always been less than 7 members.
- First Year: six members (Rachel, Tina, Mercedes, Brittany, Quinn and Santana)
- They all auditioned and got accepted.
- Second Year: seven members (Rachel, Tina, Mercedes, Brittany, Quinn, Santana, Sunshine)
- Sunshine auditioned and was accepted but she left the club to join Vocal Adrenaline, then Lauren joined as a replacement of Kurt.
- Third Year: four members (Rachel, Tina, Mercedes Santana Brittany Sugar)
- Both Quinn and Lauren left the club but Quinn later returned, Santana was briefly kicked out of the club, while Sugar joined after The Troubletones lost Sectionals.
- Fourth Year: five members (Tina, Brittany, Marley, Sugar and Unique)
- Rachel, Quinn, Santana, Brittany and Mercedes graduated, while Marley was accepted after she auditioned, Unique transferred to be in McKinley, and Kitty later joined the club.
- At the beginning of the fifth season, since it continued the same year, they were four members and it is seen that Sugar quit while Brittany graduated early after All or Nothing. Because of the lack of members for the 2013 Nationals, three unknown Cheerios joined the club but left after the competition, as they were filling places. Tina graduated in New Directions, while the club was being disbanded due to budget concerns.
- Fifth year: during this whole period, the club was still disbanded. Marley and Unique were transferred to other schools by Sue. Kitty was not transferred.
- Sixth year: two members (Madison and Jane)
- Kitty refused to rejoin the glee club after being mistreated by Artie and the rest of the original group, while Jane was originally a student at Dalton Academy, but, when she was not accepted to be a part of the Warblers, she was transferred to McKinley. It's implied that since she rehearsed Tightrope with Rachel helping her, Jane did not need another song to audition. Madison joined (along with her brother) after singing Home. Kitty rejoined the glee club just in time at Invitationals.
- First Year: six members (Rachel, Tina, Mercedes, Brittany, Quinn and Santana)
- In Season Three, Santana was featured in every New Directions Girls number.
- Not including Rachel who was suspended from the 2011 Sectionals and Lauren who only participated in one Sectionals competition, Quinn is the only member of the New Directions Girls never to have lost Sectionals.
- Mercedes, Santana, Brittany, and Sugar lost Sectionals in Season Three.
- Tina, Marley, Kitty, and Unique lost Sectionals in Season Four and Nationals in Season Five.
- As of Wonder-ful, Rachel is the only girl not to help mentor in any way.
- Kitty, Unique, Brittany and Tina strongly disliked Chris Brown and his music.
- Tina spent the most time in the club, out of the girls, being there since Pilot. She graduated in the fifth season.
- Rachel is the only girl off the original group to have never been a Cheerio at any point in the series.
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New Directions | ||
Directors | Emma Pillsbury • Finn Hudson • Holly Holliday • Kurt Hummel • Rachel Berry • Sam Evans • Will Schuester | |
Members | Alistair • Jane Hayward • Madison McCarthy • Mason McCarthy • Myron Muskovitz • Spencer Porter | |
Alumni | Artie Abrams • Blaine Anderson • Brittany Pierce • Quinn Fabray • Finn Hudson • Kitty Wilde • Kurt Hummel • Mercedes Jones • Mike Chang • Noah Puckerman • Rachel Berry • Roderick Meeks • Sam Evans • Santana Lopez • Skylar • Tina Cohen-Chang • Unique Adams | |
Former Members | April Rhodes • Joe Hart • Jesse St. James • Lauren Zizes • Matt Rutherford • Rory Flanagan • Sugar Motta • Sunshine Corazon • Marley Rose • Jake Puckerman • Ryder Lynn | |
Related | New Directions Boys • New Directions Girls • Dalton Academy Warblers • Sue Sylvester • Dakota Stanley • Bassist • Drummer |