{"id":5859,"date":"2024-12-31T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T23:26:31","slug":"ariana-grande-and-cynthia-erivo-name-their-favorite-song-from-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5859","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande And Cynthia Erivo Name Their Favorite Song From Wicked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked to name their favorite song from their film adaptation of Wicked, co-stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo either cannot or will not decide. Eventually Erivo caves and offers \u201cI\u2019m Not That Girl\u201d as a representation of her character, Elphaba, while Grande counters with a pick for her character, Glinda: \u201cNo One Mourns the Wicked.\u201d Then they agree on a joint pick: \u201cDancing Through Life.\u201d Of course, they shouldn\u2019t have to choose, and anyone who loves the musical\u2014whether old fan or new convert\u2014shouldn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n

The good news for fans of Wicked is that the movie soundtrack doesn\u2019t mess much with its source material. And if the performances feel especially dynamic for such a blockbuster production, it\u2019s because they were mostly taken from the on-set recordings themselves\u2014something Grande says she and Erivo were adamant about.<\/p>\n

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Stream Wicked The Soundtrack<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> – Image Courtesy Of Apple Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny because I came home and I made an album and I felt the muscles in my throat singing differently,\u201d she says. \u201cI think of course we can take off one hat and put on another anytime we\u2019d like, but when it comes to giving your voice over, the body creates certain habits.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result is a soundtrack that feels unusually dynamic for such a high-profile production, and less burdened by studio zhuzh, too. The story\u2014based on Gregory Maguire\u2019s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West\u2014remains both clever and contemporary, an underdog narrative that turns a perceived villain into an object of empathy, an allegory of otherness that makes us see in the differently colored Elphaba someone as deserving of love as we imagine ourselves.<\/p>\n

Witty (\u201cPopular\u201d), dramatic (\u201cDefying Gravity\u201d), and probingly bittersweet (\u201cI\u2019m Not That Girl\u201d), these are some of the most beloved Broadway songs of the early 21st century, delivered with care.<\/p>\n

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Asked to name their favorite song from their film adaptation of Wicked, co-stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo either cannot or will not decide. Eventually Erivo caves and offers \u201cI\u2019m Not That Girl\u201d as a representation of her character, Elphaba, while Grande counters with a pick for her character, Glinda: \u201cNo One Mourns the Wicked.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","category-streamapse-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}