“Speechless” is a song that is new for this updated version of the movie, and as Alan Menken and Guy Ritchie shared, it is designed to not only fit today’s political and cultural climate of women speaking up, but it also fixed the only ‘problem’ some see with the original Aladdin: a somewhat passive princess Jasmine. ![]() I may have tricked you, because one of the songs in that video is a new one from the movie. Give it a listen and tell me how many of them you still remember every single word to! He sat down at this beautiful grand piano and played a medley of some of the most popular Disney movie songs. Our interview started with an almost ten-minute performance by award-winning composer, Alan Menken. (The arm is in the box, too, because I couldn’t reattach it anymore.) “Never Had a Friend Like Me” was one of the few songs my son would sing, and the opportunity to hear it again was the first thing I thought about when I heard Disney was remaking the original animated movie. That CD served us well, and we still have it in a box somewhere, alongside my son’s very raggedy plush Genie, missing the arm that he’d use to drag it around the house, everywhere he went. We’re still happily married, so I think we did it right.Īt the time, we were listening to the movie’s soundtrack on repeat. The lyrics were so fitting and the music as unique as the rest of our wedding. ![]() I stepped onto the white carpet that rolled upwards towards the alter, feeling every bit as much of a princess as Jasmine, walking in time to A Whole New World. When we got married 25 years ago, I chose to walk down the aisle to the music of one of my son’s favorite movies, Disney’s Aladdin, long before I ever knew I’d get to attend a future Aladdin cast interview.
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