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‘Wicked’ Team Considered Making ‘Popular’ More Hip-Hop. Ariana Grande Refused: ‘Absolutely Not. I Want to Be Glinda, Not Ariana Playing Glinda’
The "Wicked" music team pitched Ariana Grande on singing a more hip-hop version of "Popular," but the she refused.
“Wicked” composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz revealed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he pitched Ariana Grande on a different version of “ Popular ” for the film adaptation that she instantly turned down. “Wicked” director Jon M. Chi told the Times that he first pitched going much bigger for “Popular” in terms of its visual scale, but producer Mark Platt shot him down. “So then it became an extremely huge technical feat to make this closet come to life — grown men in small spaces pulling doors and making things open at the right time, gadgets that unfold remotely with batteries and cords.
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