Growing up, I was obsessed with the video and its story of deep-seated insecurity and yearning to be seen (something to unpack in therapy, perhaps).
#SONGS FROM RECENT DISNEY MOVIES MOVIE#
My love for A Goofy Movie – a relatively obscure entry in Disney’s catalogue – is at this point inextricable from my personality.
Laura Snapes Poor Unfortunate Souls (The Little Mermaid) (Let’s ignore the fact that Ariel gives up her voice for a boy!) Growing up means growing out of The Little Mermaid, but I’ll still be at the multiplex in May, curious about what I hear in the new live-action version, 30 years on. “Ask ’em my questions and get some answers / What’s a fire, and why does it – what’s the word – burn?” Jodi Benson sings, on fire with yearning. But Ariel wants even more than that – freedom, respect, knowledge. The scene where you see Ariel’s cavern of “ whozits and whatzits galore” is one of the most beautiful Disney animations, and her pride in them chimed with a fledgling age where you’re starting to build a sense of self through your own trinkets and toys. I wanted to be big, and Part of Your World, like many of the biggest Disney songs, is about hungering to have your potential fulfilled. Although I was the big sister, I was the baby at junior school, where I’d skipped a year, and would become tearful and angry at being referred to that way. I was two-and-a-half when it hit VHS and it probably wasn’t ejected from the VCR for another two years, at least until my little brother was old enough to start making his own cinematic demands. I didn’t care for Barbie or princesses, just Ariel, a wily little outcast with miraculous hair.
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