The Little Mermaid

Many will argue with me that if you exclude the movies from the last decade, The Lion King is the best Disney animated movie, but I must say that whenever I see The Lion King I don’t really find it that intriguing. The Lion King is, for me, just one more Disney movie with a good soundtrack. 

The Little Mermaid, on the other hand, is one of my favorite movies from childhood with the best soundtrack (although you must exclude the movies from the last decade because those have great soundtracks)! My favorite song is and will always be Under The Sea for two main reasons: the tune and the imagery.

This song is so amazing that whenever you hear it you want to stand up and sing and dance through it. The lyrics and the tune are so friendly and they easily get stuck in your head. Whenever you hear it you can’t stop yourself from singing it. If you don’t sing it out loud it is probably because you think you have a terrible voice and I assure you that you will be singing it all day round inside your head.

WARNING: If you don’t want to start singing don’t watch the video below.

The second reason why this song is so catchy and intriguing is because of the imagery it shows you while you hear it. Can’t you see all those bubbles everywhere? 

Or all those colorful fishes?

Or everything beautiful shown under the sea? 

When I watch this song I feel like I want to live under the sea. I feel like I want my entire world to be underwater.

This is one of the best songs in the entire Disney film industry and it is one of the reasons why I could watch The Little Mermaid over and over and I wouldn’t get bored at the beginning. Well, not only because the song is amazing, but also because I like the storyline and the background message a lot!

The most important question that rises after watching this song is, why would anyone leave? Well, this is what the story is about. In our world, we always want what we don’t have and this is especially strong when we are teenagers.  

Ariel, the little Mermaid, is a classical teenager that falls in love with the outside world and wants to experience that world, but her only problem is that she has no legs because, after all, she is a mermaid. She makes a deal with a witch from the sea named Ursula where she gives up her beautiful voice. The deal allowed Ariel to obtain legs for three days, but she had to obtain a true love kiss from Eric, a handsome man, or she would be transformed back into a mermaid and belong to Ursula just like many others that are trapped like small dead trees in Ursula’s backyard.

This movie is one that I love because it represented the person I used to be when I was a teenager a few years ago. I only wanted what I couldn’t have, just like Ariel. No matter what I had, it would never be enough!