What does Defying Gravity from Wicked mean? Here are the song lyrics explained ahead of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande's Oscars performance. This pivotal moment in the musical has come to mean so ...

Yes, Fans Have Been Singing the ‘Defying Gravity’ Riff to Cynthia Erivo in Public "I'm still trying to figure out how [to react to it]," she joked.

Within “Wicked’s” storyline, “Defying Gravity” marks Elphaba’s reaction to discovering the Wizard of Oz does not actually have the magical powers that he claims to hold.