It's another edition of RenVenns! Music is arguably the
Renaissance's greatest achievement. I know I've spent a lot more time playing this music on long car rides (when I can sing along, it helps me stay awake) than I have actually watching the movies.
I already wrote about the types of songs featured in these movies, as exemplified by
the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack. So here, I present some of the lyric and content similarities.
There aren't too many patterns here, at least none that are surprising. The most common theme in songs are the main character's search and longing for meaning, fulfillment, love, etc. (every movie except
Tarzan has a song about this). Makes sense--these are clearly emotions and thoughts that can only be expressed in song. Wouldn't it be awesome if life were a Disney musical? Whenever I was feeling sad, happy, excited, confused, I could just burst out into a musical number and it'd be exactly what I need.
The design is a bit messy because I added in samples of some of the song lyrics. I know that not everyone knows these songs by heart, as I do.
Where are the villain songs?
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