Dancing Through Life Isn’t Just A Fun, Catchy Song In The Middle Of Act One. It’s An Exploration

Dancing Through Life isn’t just a fun, catchy song in the middle of act one. It’s an exploration of Fiyero’s deep seeded depression and apathy. And it shows how isolated and desperate for companionship he really is.

During Fiyeros introductory song Dancing Through Life we get introduced to his character. He’s a playboy, rule breaker, and above all else, superficial. Now Fiyero REALLY wants us to know how superficial he is and he also REALLY wants his fellow students at Shiz to be as superficial as he is, but he never explains why.

Well if you read in-between the lines, it’s a shockingly depressing reason. He wants people to be superficial and empty because it the only way he can relate to and befriend them.

He’s been conditioned his whole life to only be surface levelled and shallow, so much so that when it comes to real, authentic social relationships he has genuinely nothing to offer

He has no interests, no ambitions, and no opinions. So much so that until Elphaba snaps him out of it, he really has no other quality’s other than beings empty. Like genuinely none.

So instead of admitting that he is uninteresting and socially inept, he tires to get everyone around him to be as shallow as he is. If EVERYONE is empty and hollow, then that means he doesn’t have to grow or change. He can stay comfortable and brainless.

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