{"id":118791,"date":"2024-11-14T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/14\/hear-ariana-grande-sing-glindas-big-number-popular-from-wicked\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:01:15","slug":"hear-ariana-grande-sing-glindas-big-number-popular-from-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/14\/hear-ariana-grande-sing-glindas-big-number-popular-from-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Ariana Grande sing Glinda&#8217;s big number &#8216;Popular&#8217; from &#8216;Wicked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-13\/M_WickedSoundtrack_100924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Republic Records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC\"><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong>\u00a0is here to help you be &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1EbQQymPd6M&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Popular.<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The pop star&#8217;s version of the, well, popular song from the <em>Wicked<\/em>\u00a0musical, which will appear in the forthcoming film adaptation, arrived online Wednesday, Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\"><strong>Kristin Chenoweth<\/strong> first made the song famous when originating the role of Glinda, which Ariana is now playing, on Broadway in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The song is about Glinda deciding to help her unpopular roommate, Elphaba\u00a0\u2014 originated by <strong>Idina Menzel<\/strong> on the stage and played by\u00a0<strong>Cynthia Erivo<\/strong> in the movie \u2014 become more popular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\"><em>Wicked<\/em>\u00a0fans were also treated to Erivo&#8217;s version of the song\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i73U3UpaVHc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Wizard and I<\/strong><\/a>&#8221;\u00a0the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">In the song, Elphaba sings about meeting the Wizard and having her whole life change as she teams up with him to form &#8220;Oz&#8217;s favorite team.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\"><em>Wicked<\/em> flies into theaters on Nov. 22.; the soundtrack is released the same day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1EbQQymPd6M\" title=\"Wicked | Popular\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republic Records Ariana Grande\u00a0is here to help you be &#8220;Popular.&#8220; The pop star&#8217;s version of the, well, popular song from the Wicked\u00a0musical, which will appear in the forthcoming film adaptation, arrived online Wednesday, Nov. 13. Kristin Chenoweth first made the song famous when originating the role of Glinda, which Ariana<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/14\/hear-ariana-grande-sing-glindas-big-number-popular-from-wicked\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}