Sabrina Carpenter Shows Off Wicked ‘Defying Gravity’ Battle Cry on TikTok and Surprises Herself Hitting the High Notes

Sabrina Carpenter is a Glinda and Elphaba fan.

In a TikTok video shared on Friday, Nov. 29 by user palomaidaliasandoval — a friend of the “Espresso” singer — the Girl Meets World actress demonstrated her impressive “Defying Gravity” battle cry from Wicked.

The clip features several other people demonstrating their vocal range for the dramatic final notes of the Wicked song, featured at the end of the first film adaptation.

At one point, the camera cuts to Carpenter, 25, sitting poolside in a black cardigan and pants to belt out the battlecry. After she hits the high notes, she appears surprised with herself.

Fans were thoroughly impressed with the “Please Please Please” singer. “not sabrina devoured so hard she shocked herself 😭😭,” one wrote. “i thought wow that girl can actually do it and then realised that was THE sabrina carpenter,” another said.

“The 4th person should be a singer fr,” one person joked.

Another user said that Carpenter was “channeling her inner Christina [Aguilera].” The five-time Grammy-winning singer made a surprise appearance at Carpenter’s Los Angeles Short n’ Sweet tour stop in November to sing “What a Girl Wants” and “Ain’t No Other Man” together.

“Defying Gravity” is the final song of the first half of the Wicked film adaptation — along with the closing number of the Broadway show’s first act. Hitting the high notes of the song is no easy feat.

While filming the scene, Cynthia Erivo (who plays Elphaba) performed the song while also flying around on set in a harness after she underwent “rigorous training” for the stunt.

“I had an amazing vocal coach who just helped me find the breath I needed in order to do it. Because usually if you’re singing something like that, that needs a lot of force, that needs a lot of sound. Usually, you need the ground to push off of,” she said at a post-Wicked screening discussion at the DGA Theatre in New York City. ”

“But when you don’t have it, you have to find it somewhere else. And so it was about replacing the ground with literally the air and my non-existent diaphragm because I was in a corset.”

Despite the learning curve, Erivo, 37, was determined “to do the song justice.”

“I endured whatever bruises and chafing and whatever it was necessary,” she explained. “I wanted to make sure that I could experience both what flight felt like and what it felt like to sing that song, in one. And I hope it was worth it.”

Wicked: Part One is now in theaters.