Defying gravity I Who sang it best? I Vocal coach reacts! 

the answer is: not enough

MOOD

Its okay to be obsessed

YOU’VE JUST DESCRIBED ME

I didn’t come here to be attacked like this my dude 😅😂🤣

A cover would be cool

Miss Hannah really hit a perfect G#5 while showing us an example of how Defying Gravity is a lot easier for some Elphaba’s. I’m kinda in love ngl

Well not really, she was a bit flat...

@@fcturner she wasn’t trying 😂

Amazing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️

She was also a main-ish character of Élite, a Spanish drama show! I love her so muchhhh

@@laurenhlammers omg yeah i love her

Danna Paola is a queen and I love her as Lu also I did not know she could sing like that

Omg I was so excited to see her

I thought she was italian

Lol she always sounds like that these days lol

Yes Caleb hyles is amazing beyond belief

Nah...that's called the effects of years of bad technique. That's how she sounds now.

Karina Carr agreed

@CarlyCChapman I agree. I know people criticize her technique, but I’ve heard her sing much better than that even recently. It almost seemed like they were trying to make her look bad compared to the others (I can’t definitively say that was their intent, I was just surprised that was the clip they chose compared to the clips of everyone else)

"ranked" lmao

@@evan4905 Si quieres podemos escribir en español esperando a que traduzcas todo lo que escribimos y después de que traduzcas y logres comprender los que comentamos recibiremos tu comentario con mucho gusto. Porque así somos los Latino hablantes nos gusta aprender de otras culturas, sus idiomas y tradiciones etc. a diferencia de quienes creen por alguna extraña razón que todos tiene que aprender su idioma porque el no se da el tiempo o simplemente no tiene la capacidad mental de aprender o si quiera tratar. Consejo si miras algún error de alguien que no habla ingles bien o lo escribe mal hazle ver su error y muéstrale la manera correcta de escribir en lugar de burlarte como si el ingles no fuese el único idioma que hablaras. Actitudes así son por las cuales Los Estados unidos son tan mal queridos en todo el mundo, por mi parte no hay odio pero si mucha decepción cada vez que conozco a alguien y me menciona que Toda América tiene mala fama por esto y si esto de América nos incluye a los Mexicanos y latino hablantes también lastimosamente .

@@AJPerez-hz8ru No decían un error en inglés. El comentarista original dijo que Danna Paola estaba "clasificada como la mejor tercera Elphaba de todos los tiempos", lo cual es ridículo. 😂

@@AJPerez-hz8ru Bro, que ardido te pusiste tu solo/a 😂😂😂😂😂 Bajale a la inseguridad y rencor

Danna Paola is my queen

Nobody cares. Stick a fork in 2010 already

american english is the same as english-english except the free cared more about printing prices way back when

@@LegitamateGamingVideos I think emlyn meant that Willemijn did the show both on Broadway and on West End. There are some musicals that are both performed in the US and in the UK where some words and sometimes even sentences are changed to make it make more sense to their respective public. Also the accents come into play

Bloody oath!

She was who I saw live in London in 2013, and she was INCREDIBLE.

Yeah, same. All Elphies are great, but my personal favorite is Willemijn

she also dubbed elsa and a few barbie roles.

Fun fact, she is gonna play Jenna in the dutch version of Waitress!

Willemijn's last Defying Gravity is the best EVER.

@@deslvdw2019 Waitress is canceled due to covid :(

Exactly

Yep. Years of bad technique has led to this. I've seen bootlegs of both Idina and Jackie doing What/If, and Jackie sounds so much better. It was after both had played Elphaba, so the role can't be blamed. It's the technique.

Idina has AWFUL technique

I love Idina, but there are far too many videos of her singing so poorly. On this song and the Frozen songs. Like shes “throat singing” and not singing from the diaphragm so its screwing with her throat.

Have you heared willemijn. She did it for 10 years

She looks best in green.

She epitomises the character. She is the character. Her voice is perfect 👌🏼

YESSS

I would love a reaction to his defying gravity cover with Rebecca Parham

and as of a number of months ago, is taking vocal lessons and improving even more

Agreed!! Guys boost this comment so that she'll react to him!

@@taylorpoirier1765 or a reaction to Anna’s cover of defiying gravity

i’ve noticed that as a general trend in musical theatre over time, with pretty much every new musical as of late putting in cool and impressive vocal stuff that really isn’t sustainable long term.

Yeah I remember seeing a clip when Idina Menzel was first rehearsing the song and struggling to even find places to take a breath in it

It threw me off to see them in this video lmao

I looked in the comments because I really wanted him in this video haha

I love his version! He is such a Diva!

Mitch does my favorite version of this for sure his voice is beautiful would love to hear him record it

That was hilarious and yet I still got Mitch-slapped by that note!

This is why i don't like turning her up XD (I really do love Hannah tho, she's lovely)

Yeah and I - as a vocal coach - disagree to the should ...closed or open vowel is just a question of taste...breath support wise the closed vowel is much easier and less hard to sustain (especially on a tired or sick day). It is less resonant BUT it is also quieter so a valid choice if you decide to not go 10 on the volume meter in the high belt area. She did open it up in a lot of performances...Willemijn that is...she can do it all. Also a tighter sound does not mean that it is automatically uncomfortable or "squeezed" in an unhealthy way...there are distinctions.

I am legit hardcore OBSESSED with Willemijn and I'm not sorry.

@@simplystreeptacular Me too!!!

@@simplystreeptacular Me neither. She's absolute class.

@@simplystreeptacular ME TOO OMFG

@@simplystreeptacular She's the best one I've seen live for sure!

Yess

She did it !!!😄😄

@@Slightly_Bedraggled Ikr! I loved it TvT

do you happen to know who your Elphaba was? did you keep the playbill?

@@TheWiseGrif i did keep my playbill. We ended up going to the stage door and had a few of the cast members sign them for us. I’m pretty sure Jessica Vosk was my Elphaba.

@@paigehardin5618 a fantastic Elphaba...i'm actually jealous, because i saw one of the tours, and Jessica took over as Elphaba the week after my city (although the Elphie i saw, Emily Koch, was fabulous as well)

YES YES WILLEMIJN IS SO UNDERRATED

ALSO EDEN AND SHO TOO BUT MAN PEOPLE SLEEP ON WILLEMIJN SO MUCH

@@sorellehattori2466 Youre so right! Shes incredible. They all are but I mean the fact she can sing wicked in at least 3 different languages and sound amazing in every one is just crazy.

@@JSandwich13 and for 10 years

@@delibessylvia3 AND IN 2 DIFFERENT ACCENTS IN ENGLISH (AMERICAN AND BRITISH)

Yessss, Danna is just speechless in no good deed!

"No Good Deed" is also my favorite song from this musical. Yay for finding my squad! 🙌 😊 So glad I'm not alone in this since it seems to get less attention than "Defying Gravity" and "The Wizard and I."

@@vocalnerd my favorite are Loathing and For Good. So, basically the entire trajectory of their friendship.

Willemijn Verkaik!!!

Oh honey I’m sure she got paid enough lol

@@alemobra5747 It's not all about the money you know... if you're really passionate about something, it can suck when you know you've messed up and- depending on what kind of person you are of course- you can really beat yourself up about this sort of stuff. I'm sure you didn't mean it in a bad way... it's just that it can be hurtful when people assume you only do what you love for the money and fame. I mean, personally, I sing as well and have never cared about that sort of stuff. I sing because I love to do it, and I want to bring joy to other people while doing it... fame's just a perk and money would be helpful, but it's not why I sing. Sorry for the rant lol. Just wanted to show a possible other side to the story :).

@@le6229 you are 100% right, I didnt mean it that way, and I apologise for how it came across.

@@alemobra5747 it's all good 👍. I get that some things can come across differently to different people... Thx for understanding what I was saying 😊

That’s so rude… who was the singer?

Right? Me neither😂😂 i'm just chillin hete in my bed at 3 AM and suddenly this comes on and it took me a hot second that this is actually my language 😂😂 I was like " wait i- this is - THIS IS GERMAN?!""😂😂

@@denisepointinger7085 I only knew it existed because when you look for the wicked album on spotify the german one pops up for me first. But I dont think Pia Douwes was Elohaba on the Album. I think it was Willemin (dont know how to write her name)

I think this performance was in Tecklenburg and before wicked startet in Germany. Willemijn is singing the German Cast album

But she’s Dutch lol. There’s two German singing Elphabas and they’re both Dutch which is great lmao

@@brodypenn No one denied that. It's still a german performance cause she sang im german.

Yes we do!!

Absolutely! She’s a freaking *QUEEN!*

I know i totally agree

Love her😭💕

@@honey4501 Bad idea reference????

Pia really said agility in that performance! And Willemijn is always my #1!

Here it is! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-92_iEb6oXHc.html

@@roisinnigcrainn7722 That's the one! So fantastic!

Came to comments just to see if they were 😁

omg YESSS i was just about to comment this! 💖

YES!!!!

YES YES YES

Yes I looove her!

Yessss other side of Hollywood

She's seen all of these

ru-vid.com/group/PLfN3H_JraVQPfjf5IVMNbW8uUVB5m6ra5

Here is the playlist for the julie and the phantom reactions

AND IF IM FLYING SOLO- sorry.

I'll put the link here : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Bu-CKEjJk0.html

💯💯💯

Every single one of them is a soprano

@@hollisfortune8791 no actually, they are mezzo-sopranos

You have no idea how long I have been scrolling for a comment mentioning her she was so good in that performance

Absolutely, Beau owns this song now, no contest

Yes, she's on the top of them all.

I was waiting for Lea!

@Ariel Henderson haha

She literally just uploaded a Glee reaction video today!

Yes please!

You need to see Kerry Ellis or Jennifer DiNoia play. Far far better.

@@sarahlouise31984 read my comment again 🤷‍♀️

Idina isn't the best for consistency, but she's probably the best raw ACTRESS Elphaba ever had- her notes have meaning and her acting skills bring her a step beyond- so many other Elphabas come off as grumpy or too snippy, but she was perfect with the vulnerability and the attempts at disregarding others.

Agreed I take Idinas Elphie any day so much emotion.

What exactly is the technique she is doing that is bad?

I literally fell apart when I saw that performance 🤯🤯

Oh i am always down to react to him!!

That is one of my favorite Superfruit performances ever!

I was in the choir of the La Jolla run!!! I want her to review the videos of the show so bad!!

I know there are too many actresses who have played Elphaba to include all of them, but she was the one who worked with Schwartz on the workshop, so I wish she’d been included here-

I scrolled until I saw someone with this comment. Her rendition of The wizard and I gave me fucking goosebumps

Yes, I was hoping to see Jessica in this video.

She should have been!!