Jodi Benson defends changes to The Little Mermaid text
Some songs coming soon The Little Mermaid The remake may sound a little different to fans of the original animated film.
This is because songs like “Kiss the Girl” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” went through lyrical revisions before making the final cut.
Composer Alan Menken, who wrote the score for the 1989 film and worked on the remake, explained that the updated lyrics reflect a more modern Disney princess.
“There are some lyrical changes in Kiss the Girl because people were very sensitive about the idea that [Prince Eric] he would force himself on her in any way [Ariel],” he said Vanity Fair.
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He continued: “There’s some reworking in ‘Poor Unfortunate Souls’ in terms of lines that the young girls might feel like they shouldn’t speak out of line, although Ursula is clearly manipulating Ariel into giving up her voice.
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It was all part of the film’s modernization, which star Halle Bailey said “changed the perspective of justice [Ariel] I want to leave the ocean for a boy.”
“It’s much bigger than that. It’s about you, your purpose, your freedom, your life and what you want,” he said. Species.
As for Jodi Benson, The Little Mermaidoriginal Ariel, feeling all the changes, says she’s totally on board.
“We’re talking about getting started [voiceover] ’86 sessions,” he said Entertainment Weekly. “It’s 2023, so we have to develop, we have to learn, we have to be aware of our environment.”
Jodi added: “We need to be aware of how we’re growing as people and what’s important right now and what’s maybe not so important.”
“Things are changing. We have to move forward with this… But we need to grow. It’s very important to stay relevant to where we are, what’s happening around us. We have to be aware,” he said. .
Jodi shared that she thinks director Rob Marshall and producer John DeLuca “did a nice job with this” while “still honoring and paying homage to our original film.”
“So the adjustments and fine-tuning that they had to do was a must, but it turned out beautifully and I’m really, really thrilled with it,” Jodi concluded.
You can read all that Jodi had to share here.
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexgurley/jodi-benson-little-mermaid-lyric-changes
