{"id":2164688,"date":"2025-11-18T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2164688"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:53:23","slug":"ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-return-for-follow-up-to-viral-wicked-jingle-this-time-with-special-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-return-for-follow-up-to-viral-wicked-jingle-this-time-with-special-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande &#038; Cynthia Erivo Return for Follow-Up to Viral \u2018Wicked\u2019 Jingle, This Time With Special Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The follow-up to <em>Wicked <\/em>is coming to theaters in just a few days, so <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ariana-grande\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ariana Grande;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ariana Grande<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/cynthia-erivo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cynthia Erivo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cynthia Erivo<\/a> had to give their viral <em>Tonight Show<\/em> jingle from last year a sequel, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a video posted by the late-night program on Sunday (Nov. 16), the two leading ladies perform a second song in the same style as their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DJQqWbvwpPg?si=8mIDGOi34bgNqIdk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2024 musical explainer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2024 musical explainer<\/a> of the premise of <em>Wicked<\/em>, which blew up online and inspired countless copycat videos on TikTok. This time, Grande and Erivo were joined by special guests from the musical duology\u2019s cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alternating each line, the two women sang back and forth, \u201cElphaba\/ And Glinda, too\/ Back again\/ For something new,\u201d before diving into a role call introducing Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Bowen Yang and Marissa Bode\u2019s characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jeff Goldblum \u2014 who also appeared in the women\u2019s original<em> Tonight Show <\/em>sing-along \u2014 made another cameo, as did Jimmy Fallon. \u201cBoo!\u201d the talk-show host interjected at one point, leading Erivo to ask, \u201cWho was that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The new video was posted one day shy of the one-year mark since the original, deeply catchy \u201cAriana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Perform a Song About Wicked\u201d came out. The clip currently boasts nearly 22 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The clip also comes just a few days ahead of the Nov. 21 worldwide release of <em>Wicked: For Good <\/em>in theaters, closing out one of the biggest film sagas of the 2020s. The first <em>Wicked <\/em>premiered in November 2024 and immediately smashed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/wicked-now-top-grossing-film-141800760.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:box-office records;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">box-office records<\/a>, later taking home Oscars for best costume design and best production design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the <em>Wicked <\/em>cast sing a follow-up to their viral <em>Tonight Show <\/em>song above.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Billboard VIP Pass<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/31XsHSx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TkcoeG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TntOHq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The follow-up to Wicked is coming to theaters in just a few days, so Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo had to give their viral Tonight Show jingle from last year a sequel, too. In a video posted by the late-night program on Sunday (Nov. 16), the two leading ladies perform a second song in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021507,"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":[25172],"tags":[24076,40246,363487,340559,357018,357874],"class_list":["post-2164688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ariana-grande","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-ethan-slater","tag-leading-ladies","tag-tonight-show","tag-wicked"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charli-XCX-and-George-Daniel-marry-for-second-time-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164688","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=2164688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164689,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164688\/revisions\/2164689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}