First Time Watching *THE LITTLE MERMAID* These Songs Are Amazing

No hate at all, but I just wanted to call out how she's obviously been obsessed with the human world for years at least. I think her being into Eric was the push she needed to do what she probably would've ended up doing anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think people tend to forget that yes, Ariel was in love with Eric, but she has ALWAYS a wanted to be a part of the human world. While yes, she maybe made a bad choice trusting Ursula, she made the choice that felt most right for her in the moment. She had always wanted to be human and her father destroyed everything she cared about, so in the heat of the moment when the eels came to her she made an impulsive decision to not only be with eric but also to be a human in general.

Ariel is definitely the most realistic teenager in animation.

Fun fact: Jodi Benson who voiced Ariel also voiced Vanessa, she’s the only one who voiced a Princess and a Disney Villain

Part of what makes the music hit so hard is the lack of autotune; these people have pure skill and it shows through the music.

I think for what Disney tries to communicate when the princess or female main character puts their faith in the villain is to show kids how naive you can be while in love.

Howard Ashman (who wrote the songs for this movie) also wrote the songs for Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin . He believed animation was the best medium to show off musicals because they go in and out of reality similar to stage theatre. He was the unsung hero of the Disney Renaissance. Unfortunately he died of AIDS at the age of 40.

When Eric first saw Ariel, her hair actually looked dark because of how the sun was hitting her from behind her head. I dont think he knew what her actual hair color was when he was just waking up and then she disappeared before he could get a better look at her.

Ah yes, the film that pulled Disney out of it's darkest era, and into a new age of greatness. There are just so many reasons to love this movie. The characters are all great, the animation and music are gorgeous, and the songs are next level Broadway style hits. "Part Of Your World" is just beautiful, "Under The Sea" is a massive bop, and "Poor Unfortunate Souls" is still one of the best villain songs Disney has ever made.

Jodi Benson probably has the best voice ever lent to a Disney princess. It's so clean and pure, and the amount of emotion that she can imprint in her sound is magical. I agree...it really is the music and animation that carries this movie.

Jodi Benson: the voice of Ariel says her performance especially in Part of That World is all due to Howard Ashman coaching her in how to sing every note in order to get the right emotions and message across. These songs are part of the story and not just a break for some music. The acting is just as important during the singing. This movie focused on the important parts of the story needed to tell it. The animation and everything just comes together perfectly. Part of the Disney Princess magic is finding your True Love. That person that is your other half that some part of you recognizes when you first see them. Love that you recognized how Triton is desperate to keep her safe. He is terrified that she will die. 😂 Ariel is very hard headed Ursula is a complete badass.

'Part of Your World' is probably the best Disney song ever created. And she nails it perfectly.

Fun fact: Disney wanted Sebastian to have a Jamaican accent but the actor who voiced him couldn’t do it so he did a Trinidad accent and the director loved it so Sebastian is actually Trinidad

In 1989 I was 10 and Ariel was my first film crush.

Two things you gotta remember with the first time Eric saw Ariel is he had just recovered consciousness and she was back-lit (if you go back you can see how her hair color is darkened because of the lighting). So being half conscious and unsure of hair color, you can see how he confuses Vanessa for Ariel

Ariel was in a very vulnerable state after Triton destroyed her grotto, that's why she went to Ursula and she was already obsessed with the surface, as obviously shown by her whole song about it before she ever met Eric. Eric and her father destroying the grotto was just a final push to make her do something drastic.

IMO, this film is NOT a love story, but story about parent-child dynamic. Triton and Ariel learnt to accept eachother point of view. Triton learnt that humans aren't that bad and dangerous as he thought, and Ariel learnt that her father just wanted her to be safe.

This is the film that got Disney out of their dark era. After Walt Disney’s death, they’ve been producing mediocre work and most of their films lost money. So they were pretty much on the verge of shutting down and They needed a Hail Mary pass. What they came up with was something they haven’t done since Snow White, a fairy tale musical. Enter The Little Mermaid. It went on to win two Oscars (Best Original Score and Song) and began the Disney renaissance, and followed up The Little Mermaid with Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

What surprises me is how so many people don't realize Disney's stories are happy versions of the Brothers Grimm fairytales. Most are from European cultures and lore. They were warnings, explanations, or morales. The real version of this was warning against obsession. "Ariel" didn't get the prince's affection and turned into sea foam that would always hug a ship's haul hoping to be close to him.

And just to let you know that you were actually right about Ariel's mother being killed by humans because in the actual story she was killed by pirates and one of the pirates had a hook, so the theory is that Captain Hook possibly killed Ariel's mother. Plus King Trident is actually the son of Poseidon and they actually had made it official to let you know that only is he the son of Poseidon but also Ursula is King Trident's sister