Popular

"Popular" is sung by Kristin Chenoweth from the musical Wicked. If you haven't seen the musical, here is the synopsis:
Wicked tells the story of Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her relationship with Galinda, later Glinda, the Good Witch of the North (in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz novel, Glinda is the Good Witch of the South). The two women struggle through their opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, their reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace. The plot begins before and continues after Dorothy's arrival from Kansas, and includes several references to the events depicted in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

It was such an incredible musical. I showed the girls the video clip of the song but it only left them with a million questions as to why the Wicked Witch and Glinda were singing to each other.

I also tried to explain to Noelle what popular meant. That was rocky too. How do you explain it without bringing in all the negative that it means? So she used it in a sentence: "Oh yeah, Roxie is really popular to me."

And then the whole song is pretty much "tongue in cheek" which is lost on them as well but we sure enjoyed it :).


Now, I'm not sure if they have my love of dance and whether or not it will become either of their "thing" but I do know that these girls sure do love performing. Noelle belted out parts of the song in the performance and Natalie sure could shake her hips.


I started to feel sentimental sitting down waiting for the performance to start, wondering if I might cry when they came on stage. Then we they started running out, they were so stinkin' funny and cute that I just laughed the whole time.

These are two very loved little girls!
We all headed to Spaghetti Factory afterwards, which was fun, minus the water dumped in my lap, down my pants and in my shoes. But I've got 5 years on me as a mom now, par for the course ;).