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Disney’s The Little Mermaid is now streaming on Disney+“The Little Mermaid” reimagines the beloved story of Ariel, a curious mermaid who longs to experience ...
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Aug 11, 2023 · "Wild Uncharted Waters" as Heard Around the World [From The Little Mermaid] by Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda released in 2023. Find album reviews...
- "For The First Time"
- "Wild Uncharted Waters"
- "Scuttlebutt"
The first song Menken and Miranda tackled for the new movie was "For the First Time," an additional piece for Ariel. It was based on a melody Menken composed for the 1989 animated Little Mermaid, when Ariel and Prince Eric are touring his kingdom. Menken describes it as "lilting." Miranda suggested he slow down the tempo and throw on a dancehall be...
Jonah Hauer-King, the 27-year-old British actor who plays Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, gets his own musical number: a power ballad called "Wild Uncharted Waters." It's the song Miranda says he was most intimidated by because it felt like it lived more in the Menken-Ashman wheelhouse than his own. "All you want to do as a lyricist is earn it a...
If the title didn't already tip you off, "Scuttlebutt" was inspired by the seagull Scuttle, voiced by Awkwafina. Daveed Diggs, Miranda's former Hamiltoncostar, voices the crab Sebastian, who also features on this number. "What I love about Scuttle is, Scuttle will start the sentence this way and goes like..." Miranda starts to say before making zig...
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- "Part of Your World" It’s been well-reported that Ariel’s iconic ballad served as Bailey’s audition number, with her performance reducing Marshall to a puddle of tears.
- “For the First Time” Audiences hear what Bailey’s Ariel is thinking as she gets acclimated to the human world, with music that riffs on Menken’s score for the 1989 animated movie.
- “Wild Uncharted Waters” There’s more to Hauer-King’s Prince Eric than just a pretty face, or his love story with Ariel — he gets his own number too, a ‘90s-era power ballad that illuminates the young royal’s desire to find himself at sea.
- “The Scuttlebutt” “Sebastian has two songs, but where’s Scuttle’s?” Marshall says the filmmakers realized when crafting the adaptation. DeLuca came up with the title, playing off the slang word for “gossip,” which Scuttle (Awkwafina) excels at – sort of.
May 29, 2023 · Of the three songs we did together, one is more in my and Howard’s wheelhouse, “Wild Uncharted Waters.” It’s a ballad sung by Prince Eric, and it’s the roiling inside him — it’s very ...
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May 19, 2023 · Miranda and Menken collaborated on three new numbers: “For the First Time,” a second solo song for Ariel; “Wild Uncharted Waters,” a ballad featuring Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King); and the...
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The Little Mermaid (2023 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2023 live-action adaptation of Disney's 1989 animated film of the same name.
