WHY IS MUSIC SO IMPORTANT IN ANIMATION? – Chapter 8 A Whole New World.

4th year CSE students continue the project entitled ‘Why Music is so Important in Animation?’ in order to enhance the value of music in animated movies. The main objective of this activity is to analyse the lyrics and discover the moral that songwriters wanted to transmit, why the songs are performed in a specific moment in these movies, and so on. All the songs selected have been award winners and and have been chosen for their valuable messages.

In our 8th instalment, we will talk about the song «A Whole New World», which is the song from Disney’s animated film Aladdin, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. A duet recorded by singers Brad Kane and Lea Salonga in their respective roles as the singing voices of the main characters Aladdin and Jasmine, the ballad serves as both the film’s love and theme song.
Lyrically, «A Whole New World» describes Aladdin showing the confined princess a life of freedom and the pair’s knowledge of their love for each other while riding on a magic carpet.

The song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 65th Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 50th Golden Globe Awards.
«A Whole New World» also won the Grammy Awards for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television at the 36th Annual
Grammy Awards, as well as Song of the Year, the only Disney song to do so.

The theme from Aladdin is a huge appealing big ballad duet. A melodic tour with wide ranging appeal.

We hope you all accept that errors are part of our learning process and we need to fail sometimes to become perfect.

Thanks for appreciating our mistakes in pronunciation.

Presenters, Sergio and Nerea, talk about this song in our radio station.

Let’s listen to what they have to say.