WHY IS MUSIC SO IMPORTANT IN ANIMATION? – Chapter 11 Part of Your 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

Today, we will talk about the song «Part of Your World», which is a song written by Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Disney’s animated film The Little Mermaid.
Performed by American actress and singer Jodi Benson in the role as Ariel, a mermaid princess, «Part of Your World» is a ballad in which the main character expresses her strong desire to become human. The film’s theme song is later reused by Ariel after she rescues Eric, a human prince with whom she has fallen in love, from drowning.

«Part of Your World» has won critical acclaim; both film and music critics praised the song’s quality and Benson’s vocal performance. Several media publications agree that «Part of Your World» ranks among the greatest Disney songs ever written.
«Part of Your World» is like a monologue in which Ariel expresses her desire to become part of the human world. «Part of Your World» reveals that Ariel feels repressed and unhappy in her current environment despite her belongings and royal family.

Voicing her frustration over being confined to the ocean,Ariel is not shy about what she wants, choosing to belt out her desires instead.

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, Lucía and Érika talk about this song in our radio station.

Let’s listen to what they have to say.