
There are moments it becomes hard but she reminds herself why he loves her and why she loves him. This song represents that he is like an addiction to her and some moments may be strained but that is with all relationships. Kerry Ellis - (FINAL) Defying Gravity (.To me this song is about thinking that you are bad for each other but in the end you know that you keep each other on a realistic ground level reality. Willemijn Verkaik - Ik lach om zwaartekracht Rachel Tucker singing Defying Gravity in 2012 on the West End Willemijn Verkaik singing Defying Gravity at the Olivier Awards 2014 in London.ĭefying Gravity Teal Wicks & Katie Rose Clarke 5-14-11-1 Glinda, dreams the way we've planned 'em.ĭefying Gravity -full- Olivier Awards 2014 - Willemijn Verkaik

Together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been (Sung) Unlimited, together we're unlimited I hope you're proud how you would grovel in submission I hope you're happy how you hurt your cause forever (Spoken) Elphaba, why couldn't you've stayed calm for once instead of flying off the handle!

The song touches on elements from some earlier themes, with Elphaba singing "Unlimited!" as sung in " The Wizard and I" and the Citizens of Oz again singing that " No One Mourns The Wicked." The musical has generally received thunderous applause after this song due to the song's status as a showstopper. The song is widely regarded as being the musical's signature song, although the songs " Popular" and For Good have lived up to its name as well. During the song, Elphaba, apparently cornered by those who are hunting her, enchants a broomstick to levitate and, in the last verse, rises from the stage and levitates above the angered Citizens of Oz, who try in vain to "bring her down." She sings of how she wants to live without limits, going against the rules that others have set for her, trying to convince Glinda to follow her, by a moment, without success. Realizing this, and despite Glinda's attempts to dissuade her, Elphaba vows to do everything in her power to fight the Wizard and his sinister plans. Dillamond, for instance, initially starts to lose his speech in " Something Bad" when he pronounces bad as 'baaaad,' bleating like an actual goat). Dillamond), who have been oppressed to such a degree that they lose their powers of speech or worse, never learn to speak at all. The Wizard's regime, in fact, is waging a propaganda campaign against the Animals of Oz (including Dr. Defying Gravity is the finale for Wicked's first act, when Elphaba, who, until now, has seen the Wizard of Oz as a heroic figure who can give her life some noble direction, discovers that he is not at all what he seems.
