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Glee’s Heather Morris: ‘Don’t Stop Believin” Doesn’t Make Me Cringe Anymore (Exclusive)

It’s Brittany, bitch! Heather Morris didn’t always love every New Directions tune she sang at McKinley High School. The Glee alum joked exclusively with Us Weekly about how she loathed the Fox show’s breakout cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

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“I’m finally at the point where I can listen to it and it doesn’t bug me anymore,” Morris, 29, tells Us. “We heard it so many times, and it’s about your work, that’s what you do. So every day it’s like, ‘Ugh, going to work listening to that song.’ I have no more memories tied to it anymore.”

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The 1981 hit was featured on the show’s 2009 pilot. It resurfaced several times throughout the show’s six seasons, including at the glee club’s regionals competition (season 1, episode 22) and in the series finale. The last episode paid tribute to beloved character Finn Hudson. (Cory Monteith, who played the quarterback, died at the age of 30 in July 2013.)

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Heather Morris and Britney Spears
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Morris played deadpan ditz Brittany S. Pierce for the entire run of the Ryan Murphy–created show, from 2009 to 2015, and danced in memorable episodes that involved cameos from Madonna and Britney Spears. (Fans particularly rooted for Brittany when she and Naya Rivera‘s Santana Lopez began a memorable same-sex relationship midseries.)

“Madonna sticks out to me because I think it was three weeks of filming. It was superlong,” she tells Us. “It was really cool to do those dances, especially because, growing up, my sisters were always listening to Madonna and obsessed with her.”

She adds of Spears: “I used to record her on my TV and learn her dances. I was doing what I was doing when I was 12!”

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Naya Rivera and Heather Morris
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Morris, who recently starred in the thriller Most Likely to Die, fit right in when she kicked up her heels with Madonna and Spears thanks to her previous stint a backup dancer for Beyoncé on tour from 2007 to 2008. “I would love to work with Beyoncé again. … I don’t know if I have the physical stamina that I would be able to pull that off,” she says, laughing. “I think with a lot of rehearsal and training I could eventually make it behind her.”

For more with Morris, read her Q&A in our Now and Then series:

US WEEKLY: Did you take any props home when the show ended?

HEATHER MORRIS: I did. I took home a picture that was in Brittany’s room. It was like an artwork piece.

US: What was one of your favorite scenes between Brittany and Santana?

HM: Oh, my gosh, there’s too many. There’s too many scenes. By the end, we were having so much fun on set with the wedding.

US: What’s one of your favorite solo performances?

HM: I got to do “Dancing on My Own” by Robyn. It was done privately and never released on the show, which I would have really loved to have done. Regardless, it was a hard song to sing for me. I have a much lower range, but I was really happy with it. It was really exciting to do.

US: Where do you think Brittany would be today? Fans last saw her marrying Santana in a double wedding with Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss).

HM: I mean, in my own private opinion, I would love it if she was going to school and studying journalism so she could be beyond the local news channel.

 

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