CECILIA REACTS to Ariana Grande singing "The Wizard and I"

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[@inkeriananas]

I love how happy she was during this performance. She was having a really rough day and week, even came close to having a panic attack or had one but still showed up and slayed. Seeing her lit up on stage like that is just so precious.

[@musiccecilia7754]

She’s such a resilient person and has gone through so much in her life, as someone who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks myself it’s so amazing to see people like her getting up there and killing it even in the craziest of circumstances! This was such a fun performance to react to! Thanks for stopping by 💕

[@TVidsnow]

So cool to see Ariana return to her roots of musical theater!

[@Matheus-pp9yw]

BIG NEWSS!!! Ariana Grande will be taking on the role of Glinda for Wicked movie. I'm so exciteeeed

[@musiccecilia7754]

I saw that!!! That is so cool! I’ll have to do a reaction to that when it comes out!

[@Matheus-pp9yw]

@@musiccecilia7754 🥳🥳🥰🥰🥰

[@philgaringer9065]

Great, thoughtful analysis. It is difficult to do a genuine analysis of a well known artist without getting picky and trivial and I thought yours was inspired.

[@iGooseMax]

Loved this! Thank you! ❤️❤️

[@BYGTraining]

Park and bark lol never heard that before. I love it

[@musiccecilia7754]

Lol it’s a great phrase. Mostly thrown around in the opera community haha

[@robertn800]

Could you do Janis Joplin singing Ball and Chain at Monterey- She’s Fire 🔥 And maybe Sinead O’ Connor’s video of Nothing Compares 2 U -she shows her pain so differently from Janis I just found them & can add the way under my Favorites List, along with Adele 🎶 Also what do you think of whistle singing ? It seems all Ariana’s teenage fans love them, but on a video that supposedly showed her lypsyncing at live concerts so all these comments of her fans were debating if she lypsynches or using autotune 😵‍💫 some think that if she keeps doing whistles she’ll ruin her voice like Mariah Carey 🤐 I myself don’t like them- your opinion ? The “ Wings of Pegasus “ channel did an extremely interesting video showing how autotune/works. Cheers 🤗

[@robertn800]

By the way, Callas is the top of my favorite singers list. ❤️💔❤️‍🩹

[@musiccecilia7754]

@@robertn800 hello! You have such wonderful taste in music! Yes I will add those recommendations to my list for sure! Yes whistle register singing is a controversial topic, I actually talk more in depth about it my video about Sophia (a contestant that went viral from the voice tv show)- whistle from a pedagogical approach is actually different then how popular culture refers to it, actual whistle is not something I am a huge fan of because it’s not the most sustainable, although I am largely of the opinion that it’s up to the artist and their desired performance aesthetic. I think a lot of what Ari does (in my opinion) is more of a stylized head voice, because it has a lot more resonance then what I would consider an actual whistle tone (even tho sometimes there are whistles in there)- someday I wanna do a whole video on why artists may lip sync and my thoughts on that, I doubt that Ariana does much lip syncing live because her voice in genuinely very strong and vibrant, but she’s very in demand as a performer. If she is going to perform that many concerts I would almost rather have certain things lipsynced to avoid extreme vocal fatigue and a knock to her vocal health (even though she knows how to care well for her voice, that’s still a very demanding schedule no matter how skilled you are). But that’s kind of controversial of an opinion compared to others out there.. I prefer a raw organic tone too but the health of a singer and the preservation of their career is more important to me. But that’s just kind of my initial thoughts! Create questions and awesome topic for a future vid!

[@musiccecilia7754]

Lol I meant great question not create… sorry about the typo! I have an interesting perspective on how capitalism and supply and demand in the music industry can effect singers, especially if they are as well known as her.