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Ariana Grande<\/strong>‘s big number in Wicked<\/em> is “Popular,<\/a>” and according to the composer of the Wicked<\/em> musical, she pushed back when he tried to change it.<\/p>\n

Stephen Schwartz<\/strong>, who wrote the music and lyrics for the Wicked<\/em> musical, tells the Los Angeles Times<\/em>,<\/a> “In the spirit of being open to new things for the movie, my music team and I thought, let\u2019s refresh the rhythm. Let\u2019s, maybe, I don\u2019t know, hip-hop it up a little bit.”<\/p>\n

But, Schwartz notes, “Ariana said, ‘Absolutely not, don\u2019t do it. I want to be Glinda, not Ariana Grande playing Glinda.’\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing she did let him change, he says, is the vocal ending to “Popular.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Ariana was a little hesitant about it, but I told her that if I had thought of it for the original show, this is how it would have been,” he explains. “Once she was reassured that this new bit of music was coming out of character, she was on board.”<\/p>\n

Changes or not, people seem to love the new Wicked<\/em> soundtrack: Amazon Music says that within 24 hours of its release, it became the most-streamed musical soundtrack globally on the platform.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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