5 Fun Facts About Disney Princess Movie Songs

With August upon us, The Walt Disney Company is celebrating the Disney Princess franchise this month! Among this year’s celebrations is the global campaign “Disney Princess: Create Your World,” which was created to encourage girls of all ages; check out the campaign spot!

Through various initiatives that will be launched over the next three years around the world, the project’s intention is for girls and women to feel motivated to put their imagination and creativity into practice, believe in themselves and remember that, as the studio’s princesses have already learned, dreaming is the first step to fulfilling desires and charting one’s own path.

To celebrate the new phase of the franchise and World Princess Week — celebrated annually in the last week of August — below is a list of 5 interesting facts about the songs in Disney princess movies, as they help tell the story of each character within their own worlds, and make the experience of watching the movie much more fun and inspiring; check it out:

1. “Knowing Who I Am” — “Moana – A Sea of ​​Adventures”

The song “Saber Quem Sou” from “Moana – Um Mar de Aventuras” is sung by the singer and actress Any Gabrielly (ex-Now United) in the Brazilian dubbing version. In the original version titled “How Far I’ll Go”,Auli’i Cravalho is the one who gives voice to the track, and due to her interpretation, the artist won the 2017 Behind the Voice Actors Awards for Best Female Vocal Performance.

In addition to these, there is also a great interpreter of the song who appears during the film’s credits and had her version included on the soundtrack: Alessia Cara.

2. “Colors of the Wind” — “Pocahontas”

“Colors of the Wind”, the theme song from “Pocahontas” which in Brazil features the voice of the singer from Bahia Daniela Mercuryreceived several awards at the time of its release, held on June 23, 1995. Among these are: the Oscar® for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, the Golden Globe® for Best Original Song and the Grammy® for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television.

3. “I’m Free” — “Frozen”

“Let it go”, known as “I’m Free”, surpassed the soundtrack song mark when it was included in “Frozen – An Icy Adventure”, and became a true hit when portraying the moment in which Elsa finally manages to overcome the bonds of her past and be free.

The track was essential for the Elsa that the public knows, because it was after listening to the song that Chris Buck and Jennifer Leecreators of the story, decided to transform Elsa, who in the first version of the script was a villain, into the protagonist who for years was repressed due to her ice powers that were misunderstood by everyone around her.

4. “Almost There” — “The Princess and the Frog”

Did you know that the Portuguese version of “Quase Lá”, the theme song for “The Princess and the Frog”, is one of the only ones that are part of the official soundtrack released in Brazil? In addition to this, the second and last song that appears among the bonus tracks in the English edition released in the country is “Lá em Nova Orleans”.

5. “When Will My Life Begin” — “Tangled”

In a chat given to the Los Angeles Times that was reported in 2010, the composer Alan Menken revealed that six versions of “Quando a Minha Vida Vai Começar” (“When Will My Life Begin?”, from the original) until Disney approved the song that reached the final version, and which, according to him, has a lot of 60s folk rock.

“On a gut level, ‘60s folk rock seemed like a new and interesting place to go,” Menken recalled. “I brought it up with Disney to see how interested they were, and ‘60s folk rock was one of the ideas that came up. As is typical with Disney Animation, everyone loves to discuss a lot of choices, and not just say, ‘Yeah, let’s do that. ’ We discussed it in terms of other musical choices, but ultimately we decided to try the opening number in that style. Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Jackson Browne — those are all songs that I love, and it was a little bit of that mix.”