Snow White Movie Featurette - Music of Snow White
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00:00Walt Disney's Snow White is something that is timeless.
00:04Ho, ho!
00:06These songs, they are in our bones, and so you want to honor that.
00:10And so in assembling a team, we went for the best songwriters.
00:14Justin Paul and Benj Pasek.
00:19We're just the biggest fans of all of the Disney animated movies.
00:23It's the reason why we even got into musical theater.
00:26We are Disney Animation Renaissance kids,
00:29so it felt very thrilling and humbling to get the chance to write some new songs
00:34for the one that started it all.
00:38Good Things Grow is a gigantic chorus of people singing together.
00:44It is a declaration of happiness and joy to bring us into the movie.
00:50From the mountains high to the deepest mines,
00:52we reap what we sow where the good things grow.
00:54It's such a beautiful Disney way of looking at the world.
01:00Don't you love a villain?
01:02I really do. That's the thing.
01:04Secretly as a writer, I think you're sort of like thrilled when you get to write a villain song.
01:12That phrase,
01:13Who's the fairest of them all?
01:15She sort of has her statement of what is fair when you're the queen.
01:18You define fair.
01:19All is fair.
01:20I think that Pasek and Paul did a remarkable job,
01:24and to get to do something different than I've never done before,
01:27it was a revelation for me and I really, really enjoyed it.
01:37A Hand Needs a Hand.
01:38It's a beautiful song.
01:39Also co-written by the lovely Lizzie McAlpine.
01:42Yes.
01:43Getting to bring her into this process and work with her on a song was so fun.
01:50It's such an incredible song.
01:52It's stunning, like the fireflies.
01:54It's a magical Disney moment.
01:58Waiting on a Wish.
02:01It's like the classic Disney I Want song.
02:07I think what makes those songs soar is they can be filled with big emotion
02:11and there's a big orchestra behind it
02:13because they can dream of a life that's bigger than their circumstances.
02:19The other thing too, you give it this beautiful blend.
02:22You know, it's the princess voice of our dreams.
02:24I'm very blessed that I get to sing this.
02:26We love you singing it so much.