Can’t watch the show live (temporarily no tv) but I’m watching #Wicked15 clips on NBC. And I love it, of course, but...it also gets to the heart of why I never really enjoy pop covers of Broadway songs. Sorry, Idina, but your performance of Defying Gravity left me cold. (1)
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The original has so many timing changes, and amazing cadences and silences with those light drums that just pull on you. All gone tonight. Done right that song is 80% foreplay, and that's what makes the climax so moving and climactic. Instead we got awkward kissing at best.
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I wonder if Alex Lacamoire did the arrangements? He’s usually so much more sensitive than that.
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I do love the song. And maybe I’m being unnecessarily catty. (Moi?
) Also, I just watched the “For Good” clip and now I AM ugly-crying. (That’s one of my “can’t-listen-while-driving” songs.)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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) and in the show, it’s a big, cathartic, amazing moment. (2)