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Long before she got the part of Glinda, it\u2019s clear that Ariana Grande has been a true Wicked<\/a><\/em> devotee. And so, when one of the most soaring voices of her pop generation was cast as the Good Witch in Jon M. Chu\u2019s cinematic adaptation, it was a true ruby-slipper moment. The wish fulfilment is elevated even more so in Wicked: For Good<\/a><\/em>, adapting the second half of the stage musical, since Grande truly gets to put her own stamp on Glinda: receiving a brand new song from original composer Stephen Schwartz, providing even more insight into the character\u2019s complex world.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n That number is called \u2018The Girl In The Bubble\u2019, a moment of reflection for Glinda that propels her forward. \u201cWe get to see [Glinda] decide, \u2018I\u2019m going to change the course of Oz. I\u2019m going to become deeply, truly good and make a safe space for people,\u2019\u201d Grande tells Empire<\/em> in our world-exclusive Wicked: For Good<\/em> issue<\/a>. \u201cShe earns her title for real, and we get to see that self-discovery. I\u2019m so grateful for that song, because she deserves it as a character.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s safe to say things won\u2019t be easy for Glinda \u2013 or for Elphaba, who gets her own new song too<\/a> \u2013 in For Good<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s traumatic event after traumatic event after traumatic event,\u201d as Grande puts it, \u201cand they\u2019re all shaping her and propelling her into her actual goodness, that has quietly been there all along, but she wasn\u2019t ready for it yet.\u201d Get ready for Glinda 2.0. \u201cEven in the first film you get to see those layers slowly peeling away, but in this film, it\u2019s rapid and urgent,\u201d Grande promises. \u201cIt goes even deeper than imaginable.\u201d Buckle \u2013 or should that be bubble? \u2013 up.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read Empire<\/em>\u2019s world-exclusive Wicked: For Good<\/em> cover<\/a> story \u2013 speaking to Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, and Michelle Yeoh on the epic musical culmination \u2013 in the November 2025 issue, on sale Thursday 25 September. Order a copy online here<\/a>. Wicked: For Good<\/em> comes to UK cinemas from 21 November.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.empireonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long before she got the part of Glinda, it\u2019s clear that Ariana Grande has been a true Wicked devotee. And so, when one of the most soaring voices of her pop generation was cast as the Good Witch in Jon M. Chu\u2019s cinematic adaptation, it was a true ruby-slipper moment. The wish fulfilment is elevated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Inside-Elphabas-New-Wicked-For-Good-Song-No-Place-Like.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}