An Obsessive ‘Depraved’ Fan Breaks Down the Film Model’s Soundtrack

If you happen to’re like me, and Jonathan Bailey singing, “Woes are fleeting, blows are glancing,” has distracted you out of your desk job for the previous two weeks, otherwise you couldn’t fairly consider the notes that Ariana Grande hits as she trills “No One Mourns the Depraved” in Depraved’s trailer, then it’s time to rejoicify: The Depraved: Half I forged album was launched at midnight.

The songs in Depraved have been the soundtrack to my life, from my early childhood (once I first noticed the present at three years outdated) via to only final week, once I attended the movie’s premiere in New York (RUN, don’t stroll!). So, how does its Stephen Schwartz rating, reinterpreted by Grande and Cynthia Erivo, maintain up? Right here, fellow Ozians, a recap:

“No One Mourns the Depraved”

Starting from the highest: “No One Mourns the Depraved” could have one of the iconic opening chord progressions in all of musical theater. Nonetheless, in Jon M. Chu’s movie, the intro followers know so nicely is briefly interrupted with—if you’re fast sufficient to catch them—the strains of “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Lifeless” from The Wizard of Oz. And that’s simply one among Depraved’s many good allusions to that 1939 movie, starring Judy Garland.

In any other case, maybe probably the most important change to the track is the supply of “inexperienced” as Elphaba’s father (Andy Nyman) remarks on the colour of his new child daughter’s pores and skin. In contrast to the multi-beat belt of that phrase on the Broadway recording, right here, it’s uttered in affecting disbelief.