This Is the New Year by A Great Big World is featured in Naked, the twelfth episode of Season Four. It is sung by the New Directions.
The New Directions are excited about the coming year after creating the 'Men of McKinley Calendar'. Before the song begins, Becky hugs the calendar as Artie and Sam speak about the coming year. As the song begins, New Directions are in a studio, inspired by A Great Big World's music video of the same song. They dance and sing together as it switches to different characters singing. Brittany can be seen carrying Lord Tubbington in one shot. The scene then cuts to the New Directions entering the auditorium, running and singing the song in their own crazy way.
At the end of the song, everyone falls to the floor except Artie and Sam, who seem excited and high five each other. This is the final song of the episode.
Lyrics[]
Blaine (with New Directions):
Another year you made a promise
Another chance to turn it all around
And do not save this for tomorrow
Embrace the past and you can live for now
(And I will give the world to you)
Marley (with Jake):
Speak (louder than the words before you)
And give (them meaning no one else has found)
Artie (with Sam):
The role we (play is so important)
Ryder and Unique:
We are the voices of the underground
Marley:
And I (Brittany: I)
Would give the world to you
Brittany:
Say everything you've always wanted
Sam:
Be not afraid of who you really are
Jake and Marley:
Cause in the end we have each other
And that's at least one thing worth living for
Jake with New Directions:
And I (Brittany: I)
Would give the world to you
Artie with Brittany and New Directions:
A million suns that shine upon me
A million eyes you are the brightest blue
Let's tear the walls down that divide us
And build a statue strong enough for two
Jake (and Ryder):
I pass it back to you
(And I will wait for you)
Blaine and Sam:
'Cause I would give the world
Blaine, Marley and Sam (and Tina):
And I would give the world
And I (would give the world to you!)
Marley (and Unique):
Yeah, yeah (Yeah, yeah)
New Directions:
I would give the world to you! (Unique: Oh, oh, oh, whoa)
Unique with New Directions:
This is the new year! (New Directions: Yeah!)
Blaine with Marley and New Directions (Unique):
This is the new year
A new beginning
You made a promise (You made a promise!)
You are the brightest
We are the voices (We are!) (Artie: Oh)
Blaine with Marley, Unique, and New Directions:
This is the new year
We are the voices
This is the new year (Artie: Oooo)
A new beginning
You made a promise
We are the voices
This is the new year!
Trivia[]
- The original song was used in the opening of the film "New Year's Eve," which stars Glee-cast member Lea Michele.
- A Great Big World, the original artist, tweeted to Ryan that they loved the version, adding that it "captured the spirit of the song." They also posted a reaction video of this song on YouTube.
- This is the sixth group number in the show with all black and white outfits; the first one being Keep Holding On, the second being Hello, Goodbye, the third being Toxic, the fourth being One of Us, and the fifth being Fix You.
- There are two versions of this performance, one posted by Ryan Murphy in his YouTube channel and the other the one shown in the episode. While the first is full colored, the second one has grayish tone.
- This is one of the performance which is slightly similar to the official music videos. The others being: Vogue, Scream, It's Not Right But It's Okay, Nasty/Rhythm Nation, and Take on Me.