The 25 best Disney songs to make your heart go bippidy-boppidy-boop
11. Poor Unfortunate Souls - The Little Mermaid (1989)
Pat Carroll sneers a✤nd derides in her spectacular solo number as nasty sea witch Ursula ("life's full of tough choi🎶ces, innit?"). In fact, the song's so strong that a test version of it (recorded by co-writer Howard Ashman) is what convinced Carroll to take the role in the first place
Biggest Goosebump Moment: "SING!" The sea witch demands that Ariel exercise her pipes in order for them to be plucked from her gullet. As the mermaid's fragi♒l𝓰e notes sound, Ursula's voice booms over them. Scary stuff.
10. Reflection - Mulan (1998)
&nb🥃sp;"Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me?" Our gender-swapping heroine has a crisis of identity, voicing her feelings of low self-worth through ꦫa song. Because this is Disney, and that's how they roll.
Biggest Goosebump Moment: "When will ൩my reflection show who I am inside?" Mulan gets𝓡 a little philosophical
9. Zero To Hero - Hercules (1997)
It's montage time as our singing ceramic narrators show Hercules' stratospheric rise – yep, from zero to hero. Cue fainting girl fans, plus lyrics about pecks and how to pronounce the wo﷽rd 'vase'.
Biggest Goosebump Moment: The clapp𒊎in' starts and the ladies commence jubilantly trumpeting our hero's name𝓰.
"Her-cu-leeees, Her-cu-leees!"
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8. Hakuna Matata - The Lion King (1994)
Lion cub Simba stumbles upon the jungle's oddest duo in Timone and Pumba, a meerkat and warthog, whose outlook on life is refreshingly laidback. This, basically, is The Lion King's "Bare Necessities".
Biggest Goosebump Moment: While Pumba's gospel-style interlude is enough to stir even the chilliest of spirits, the grub-munching stirs goosebumps of a lesꦗs pleasant nature
7. Cruella De Vil - 101 Dalmatians (1961)
Roger Radcliffe comes up with an imminently catchy ditty on the spot about the smoke-puffing, fur-lo🐻ving Cruella De Vil. It's just one of three songs in the film (obviously the tradition of an uber-soundtrack hadn't quite taken hold yet), but it's easily the most catchy.
Biggest Goosebump Moment: Cruella comes storming in, interrupting the song (just plain rude), insulting everybody in the immediate vicinit﷽y, and proving the validity of Roger Radcliffe's every lyric.
6. Friend Like Me - Aladdin (1992)
Bracing as a smack in the chops but entertaining as, well, a singing genie, this Robin Williams solo number is blessed with the energy of a thousand excitable puppies and just doesn't let﷽ up. As creative as it is manic, it's essentiall𓃲y Genie introducing himself to Aladdin in the most spectacular way possible.
Biggest Goosebump Moment: The song screeches to a crescendo and Williams shows🥃 us what his pipes are really made of.
5. Bare Necessities - The Jungle Book (1967)
Baloo the bear teaches wild child Mow▨gli how to enjoy life on an even keel. Originally conceived by Terry Gilkyson and then given a spruce-up by the Sherman Brothers, it's an upbeat, imminently hu✃mmable tune that sort of makes you want to wrap up warm on a winter night and watch the stars while sipping hot chocolate.
Biggest Goosebump Moment: Things get all tongue-twisty "Now when you pick a pawpaw, Or a prickly pear, And you prick a raw paw, Next time beware, Don't pick ဣthe prickly pear by the paw." Impressive.
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