If its content seemed daring (and perhaps downright sacrilegious), the work, a "sung-through" musical echoing operatic and oratorio traditions, was structurally perfect for an album just as remarkable as its subject matter was the fact that its musical language was full-blown rock music. Jesus Christ Superstar had been conceived as a stage work, but lacking the funds to get it produced, the two collaborators instead decided to use an album as the vehicle for introducing the piece, a fairly radical rock/theater hybrid about the final days in the life of Jesus as seen from the point of view of Judas. It was all devised by then 21-year-old composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and 25-year-old lyricist Tim Rice. Retrieved 28 March 2023.Jesus Christ Superstar started life as a most improbable concept album from an equally unlikely label, Decca Records, which had not, until then, been widely known for groundbreaking musical efforts. "Carrie Hope Fletcher on how Cinderella went 'bad' ". "Andrew Lloyd Webber releases first song from 'Cinderella' ". "Watch: The Cast of Bad Cinderella Performs 'It Has to Be Her' on Today".
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In August 2022, Linedy Genao, who would originate the role on Broadway, recorded her version of "Bad Cinderella" in London, in both English and Spanish. The music video for the song was released on 10 December 2021.
Fletcher's rendition of the song was released on 30 October 2020 it was recorded during lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 14 February 2020, it was announced that Carrie Hope Fletcher would be creating the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's upcoming musical Cinderella in its West End debut production. In his review of the original West End production of Cinderella, Matt Wolf of The New York Times states that "the aggressive number "Bad Cinderella" early on establishes the gifted Fletcher's clarion-voiced rebel as a troublemaker". By the end of the song, she get tied to a tree by the mob. Cinderella, standing on the statue of Prince Charming, which displays the words "Beauty Sucks", starts singing, establishing herself as a rebel, in contrast to the rest of the picturesque townspeople. In Act I of Cinderella, the song follows "It Has To Be Her," after the statue of Prince Charming has been defaced by Cinderella. A version by Linedy Genao, who plays Cinderella in the Broadway production, renamed Bad Cinderella, was released on 3 October 2022. Fletcher originated the title role in the West End.
The song is sung by and introduces the main character, Cinderella, in Act I. "Bad Cinderella" is a song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella, written by Lloyd Webber and David Zippel and originally sung by Carrie Hope Fletcher, released as a single on 30 October 2020. "Bad Cinderella" (West End version) on YouTube
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