And then I hear one of the songs from them and I get goose bumps and realize I know every lyric.
Take "Part of Your World" from 1989's The Little Mermaid for example:
The voice of Ariel, Jodi Benson, also voiced an old (non-Disney) favorite: Thumbelina (1994).
Watching The Little Mermaid now, it's fairly apparently film that it has an anti-feminist message about a shapely teenager in a seashell bra who finds out she can still get a man just based on looks. And there's the hidden penises all over the place, and a frighteningly buxom villain; the film is kind of a mess.
But just listening to this song, it's clear there is some brilliance in this, and it helps me get over the fact that I watch this movie 234987 times a week when I was 5.
Alan Menken, you're a musical genius.
*How many versions of "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" did you have to sit through in various talent shows?
But just listening to this song, it's clear there is some brilliance in this, and it helps me get over the fact that I watch this movie 234987 times a week when I was 5.
Alan Menken, you're a musical genius.
*How many versions of "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" did you have to sit through in various talent shows?
TOO MANY
ReplyDeleteNotes: I got "The Little Mermaid" on VHS for my 7th birthday, so it was one of the few movies we actually owned. Also, in the eighth grade, my friends and I re-wrote the lyrics to apply to southeastern pre-colonial Native American tribes ("Part of Our Tribe", anyone?). We made a video where I sang it from inside a teepee at Jenni Ball's house while Lisa Adamson played the piano. It was very sensitive. That is all.
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