

After all, she never did get answers as to why she has her snow-making superpowers in the first place. Set the Scene: All is well in the kingdom of Arendelle following the events of the first Frozen film, but Elsa (Idina Menzel) remains restless. Thus, we present our 100 favorite songs from the entire Disneyverse: in other words, the happiest list on earth. That means no pre-existing songs that have come to be commonly associated with Disney works (sorry, Sorcerer’s Apprentice fans) and no songs written for properties later acquired by Disney (no early Simpsons or Star Wars) - but it still means there’s hundreds of unforgettable musical moments to choose from, spanning decades and genres and formats and carrying a lifetime’s worth of memories between them. So with that in mind, we’re celebrating the Disney Century with our list of the 100 greatest songs from the Wide World of Disney - any composition, from pop numbers to showtunes to instrumental scores, that was specifically written for a Disney property. It’s played an essential role in not only dozens of the studio’s most classic movies - animated, live-action or both - but also in the great majority of their signature Disney Channel TV shows, and even in most of the theme park rides that keep fans returning year after year. And music has been at the center of all of it all.įrom the studio’s breakthrough Steamboat Willie short (set to “Steamboat Bill” and “Turkey in the Straw”) in 1928, right up to this week’s release of the live-action The Little Mermaid remake (featuring new songs from legendary Disney scribes Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and with pop star Halle Bailey in the lead role), music has been the fuel for the entire Disney machine. In the century since, Disney has become as inextricable a part of American culture as baseball, barbecue and the blues - a cultural constant that has continued to define not only the shared experience of each generation, but a good deal of the connective tissue between people of all ages. Disney founded the Disney Brothers Studio, to have a place to produce the hybrid animated/live action shorts that Walt was then creating. In October 1923, brothers Walt and Roy O.
