Part of Your World is my gut reaction because I know who I am. I also really love Somewhere That's Green -- Ashman and Menken did really good I want songs

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Scene: "Out There...I think mine might be "Out There"

Part of Your World is absolutely my answer, because I am basic and I was 7 when that movie came out.

all he wants to do is go outside and be closer to people who don't appreciate how precious their mundane lives are and I have feelings every time

Auli'i Cravalho - How Far I'll Go (from Moana/Offici... thirding PoYW but also...this

Part of your world is so good though -- I can't even judge

also does Surface Pressure from Encanto count because i sure can't get it out of my head

what i'm saying is LMM lives in my head a lot

i watched the little mermaid so much i broke our first vhs of it

so part of your world will always have a special place in my heart

The impossible dream - Man of La Mancha - Brian Stok... i'm not sure this totally counts, but this is also high up there

Into The Woods (1991) - Act One - Prologue this totally counts and you know i can sing this entire thing wholesale i listen to it enough

"I Miss the Mountains" from 'Next to Normal' Act 1 i also really like this for a very very sad i want song

jessie: what's your favorite
me: let me list at least four

look sometimes it's a tie

i just have a lot of love in my heart

Skee-Lo - I Wish i'll balance it out with a totally serious answer

MUSIC IS LOVE, MUSIC IS LIFE

One Song Glory i almost forgot this one too

venicebeach: Oh man, that takes me back

good :')

but part of your world is why i get tired of the very strawman argument of ariel only becomes human for A MAN when her i want song is before she meets eric but ok

I mean, all of them. But this came up in the car today. The Wizard and I

like i'm not saying the movie is perfect or anything but it is not nearly as bad as some people make it to be

I have a whole rant about people being bad faith about the Little Mermaid. I won't put it here. I'm just saying though.

people forget that literary exercises are a world of "there are no wrong answers"

Anastasia 1997 "Journey To The Past"

you could argue that Eric is the face that she places on "humanity" and that all her baggage about the surface gets projected onto this Man

yep

also

he's sixteen

*she's

have you met teenagers about the people they like....

but its also her deciding that she's Grown and grownup people are fancy and on the surface walking around having legs

It's just honestly not that serious, guys.

yep

the keychange happens on the concept of wanting to stand up

but it's telling young girls they should give up everything for a man!!!!

"Guys" being those who want to yell about ChAnGiNg HeRsElF

i obviously learned that from all the times i watched that movie

Yeah same.

and didn't relate to instead the feeling of wanting to be a part of the world you don't feel you belong in

I learned it so hard I'm still single at 36 and sitting here being my weird self.

I mean every disney princess movie is arguing that if you view it from a certain lens

which at one point in the 2000s people were

which is why the newer disney movies are like so reactionary about it

Beauty and the Beast is another one they like to !!!

(frozen being the best example)

Like, can we rag on Pocahontas. At least that one deserves it.

it does

(I like the music of Pocahontas. But oh god.)

(i was listening to part of your world and it autoplayed into colors of the wind and it literally starts out with "you think i'm an ignorant savage" )

tlm does interesting things when Ariel is interacting on the surface, which is sorely underrepresented in "She did it all for a man" arguments

yes

And it's my girl Judy Kuhn

my favorite is the montage of ariel and eric through the town and she is just having the time of her life

and scaring eric

but he's into it

he's like here baby u drive I'll hold the baguette

like she's built up surface life in her head for so long and thinks she's such an expert and then the dinner scene happens and people there are acting like she's weird and it's crushing

but she wants to keep trying and it's not For him

when it becomes about him it's because of the stakes produced by the bad guy

Yessssss

yep

also i just rememberd another ashman and menken i want song i love that was technically cut from the movie, put they put it in the aladdin musical so: Proud Of Your Boy - In Studio With Alan Menken (from...

now from Eric's perspective, homeboy could use some reasons to obsess over a girl outside of "I almost died and had a hallucination"

lol

proud if your boy makes me fucking SOB omg

same

I'm glad it got added back in for the stage

me too

especially since it was so dear to ashman and i know it was gutting for them to cut it from the movie so soon after losing him

Les Miserables - Samantha Barks - On My Own (lyrics)... i like this one for the mix of "i want it but im not gonna get it and im sad"

(yes i did watch the documentary on howard ashman and cried a lot)

man if we want to talk about "I Want" songs from the perspective of people who want approval from their parents, I pine for a revival of the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Woe Is Me

SIGH I love 25th Annual

25th Annual Putnam Cnty Spelling Bee - The I Love Yo...

i have not seen that one but i''ve heard such good things

it's just a group of gifted kids who largely enter a spelling bee because they think it'll make their parents notice them more

that does sound like something i would enjjoy and cry about

12. Maps - Fun Home OST idk if this a true i wanyt song but it is about her wanting the truth about her dad and having to piece it together after he died

Man when I thought I was going to get to do academia I wanted to look into/compare I Want songs.

ring of keys is probably more of a true i want song

oh man i would read a paper on that

I did a quick search and omg this abstract Oppression in Musical Theater Songwriting: How the “...

that's not the conversation we're having but holy shit is that a conversation

https://watermark.silver...

oh hey there's a paper on specifically this talk

even opening with PoYW and Out There

yep

did you know katzenburg wanted to cut part of your world out

which is like baffling to hear now.

"“Part of That World” is about more than Ariel’s interest in the human world or the prince. It is about the desire for “something more,” the details of which matter less than the feeling. When it comes to their respective romance stories and the songs that
encapsulate them, neither Ariel nor Belle sings directly to her prince. "

this person gets it

i love how they described ariel's descent back into the water as the song ends too

like the surface is just out of reach

The part about Aladdin is giving me a lot of feelings

same

also man how did i forget i can go the distance

Belle (reprise)

oh and reflection!

10 year old katie: hercules sucks this is nothing like the myths
34 year old katie: it's fun, don't think too deep on it kid

"Aladdin’s audible stretching to reach his lowest notes on the words “world” and “decide” suggest that uncomplicated adult masculinity remains just beyond his grasp, positioning him in the liminal, queer space of male adolescence"

academia is my favorite thing to read T_T

give me insightful readings of moments that have much more practical roots

it's good stuff

Jeffrey Katzenberg is a demon sent from hell to be a thorn in the side of people who actually know how the animation industry works okay -_- Him thinking something is a good idea is my biggest indicator that it's not.

does I'm Still Here from Treasure Planet count?

y e p

oh man that song hits

'When I Grow Up' | Matilda the Musical | The Show Mu... i love this one for oh this sounds like a silly song about things kids think about growing up and then towards the end it punches you in the feelings like any good i want song

(ms honey's part makes me cry)

oh that version cuts off the end weird When I Grow Up studio recording it is

"When I grow up
I will be brave enough to fight the creatures
That you have to fight beneath the bed
Each night to be a grown up
When I grow up". like that verse always hurts me

given how ms honey has been bullied and abused by her aunt her entire life

and i will ad a final addition which is from a show which obviously doesn't cover traditional musical structure but i think it still counts: Steven Universe I "Just a Comet" I Cartoon Network

im gonna second your answer of Out There god it still hits!!!!!

i lied actually my final addition is this: Stephanie Beatriz - Waiting On A Miracle (From "Enca... i know someone mentioned surface pressure and while i love that this screams classical i want song