JP
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Brit and Santana have an unspoken thing going on. Britt and Artie started out of Britt trying to make Santana jealous and Santana totally got jealous. They are totally in lesbians with one another.
And oh look....Joanne and Maureen is a lesbian relationship. It's a song about two powerful voiced lesbians singing about women (Yes, I'm aware that Santana has a more powerful voice than Brit.) Rachel and Mercedes are two straight women with belty voices. Something just seems off and weird about them singing it.
I suppose you could have Rachel and Mercedes sing it to men as a duet, but oh wait...nope. Mercedes is forever alone.
The song, at its surface, is about a lesbian couple getting into a fight. Santana and Brit are not currently a lesbian couple. BUT, if they were, do you really think they'd get into a fight and just break out into "Take Me or Leave Me"? This is GLEE. Characters RARELY bust out into song, and if they do its usually by themselves "in their head" kinda thing. When people sing on Glee is always "HEY GUYS I WANT TO SING THIS SONG FOR YOU TODAY".
Now, in the case of Mercedes and Rachel, Rachel is finally getting over Finn, and Mercedes is telling her "Being single is great because you can work on yourself". And in that context the song works perfectly for the two to sing.