Favorite Enchanted Song

[emily]

I think for me it's between True Love's Kiss and How Do You Know. True Love's Kiss is just SO sweet, and a little funny too. I love when Giselle falls into Edward's lap and they start singing together! :]

But then, I love Robert and Giselle together (mostly because I myself am infatuated with Patrick Dempsey) so How Do You Know is so cute, how you can see Robert sort of entering her world of fairy tales. Plus that song is just adorable, I was sitting next to my guy friend (who I dragged to see the movie) and I kept looking at him going "isn't it SO cute??" =P

So I guess I'm going to have to go with How Do You Know. :]

[Briar Rose's Dark Knight]

As I listen to the soundtrack, I conclude that I don't like Ever, Ever After that much, but when I listen to it separate from the other songs in this film, I find it be a fine song. I think it comes down to the fact that every other song in the film has references in the classics, whether it be the Walt era combo in True Love's Kiss and Happy Working Song, the show stopping musical number in That's How You Know, or the quiet reflection on what's happening in So Close. In that context, Ever Ever After feels like an out of place pop song, but it works much better when disconnected from the rest of the music.

[Silver]

I can see where your feelings would be mixed. "Ever Ever After" is very much an upbeat country/pop song that departures from Alan Menken's usual contemorary ballads. When he does finish with an closing song in the pop genre it usually falls along the lines of albient pop. (Listen to Beauty and the Beast, A Whole New World, or Colors of the Wind) This was the first time I had heard this form of music come from his work. And it is a bit bubble gum. And the rest of the songs on the soudtrack come from either a showtune style or soothing ballad from musical theater standpoint. Therefore "Ever Ever After" stands out and strays away from the typical pop we'd hear in the credits.

But I still adore it! Maybe I come from a biased position because I like all forms of pop and I'm a big fan of Carrie Underwood! (Compared to many artist these days, Carrie has impressive vocals for her age and puts heart into the lyrics) And the song still stays true to the theme the film was getting across.

[Briar Rose's Dark Knight]

They play Ever Ever After while Giselle goes by riding a carriage at Disneyland and when I heard it then(separate from the context of the score), I found that it wasn't such a bad song. It's kind of an interesting thing because as you noted most of the time, Disney's big song for a movie fits thematically with the rest of the music in the film. I really wish they had made it the last or second to last track on the soundtrack because I think it would fit better there. But that brings up a whole new issue. I really don't care for how Disney usually orders the soundtracks. I would much rather they go chronologically with how the film plays out instead of lumping all the songs together and then playing all the score pieces.

[barkydog2000]

princessaurora said:

They play Ever Ever After while Giselle goes by riding a carriage at Disneyland and when I heard it then(separate from the context of the score), I found that it wasn't such a bad song. It's kind of an interesting thing because as you noted most of the time, Disney's big song for a movie fits thematically with the rest of the music in the film. I really wish they had made it the last or second to last track on the soundtrack because I think it would fit better there. But that brings up a whole new issue. I really don't care for how Disney usually orders the soundtracks. I would much rather they go chronologically with how the film plays out instead of lumping all the songs together and then playing all the score pieces.

Yes!!! I really really didn't like that about the CD. I really wish it was chronological. It is to a point, the songs are in order and the scores are in order, they should have put them together. People would still listen to the songs. And I really like some of the instrumental pieces, especially Nathaniel and Pip how it starts out with the dramatic soap opera version of Beauty and the Beast

[Briar Rose's Dark Knight]

The beauty of the music of Enchanted is how it's a grand tribute to the musical styles of both the Walt classics and the Menken classics(which are quite different though equally tremendous). Organizing the tracks in the way that they did tends to lump them all together, which is really too bad since Menken did a brilliant job of meshing the two together. I also think it really detracts from Ever Ever After because the style of the song clashes with the songs before and score pieces after. Putting it at the end of the CD(and it's proper place in the film) would not make it stand out as much.

[Pride]

^also, along with all that, I don't really like So Close ((please don't eat me)) and Ever Ever After in comparison to the rest of the soundtrack (the 3 other songs), because they aren't sung by characters. That's one of the things I miss about the older Disney classics. Enchanted was poking fun at Disney a little bit by doing that, like in "How Do you Know", where Robert is kind of confuzed. But then in So Close, it's just a background song.
I guess it really doesn't have anything to do with making it good or not, but I just wanted to point that out. :/

[Briar Rose's Dark Knight]

That's actually one of my "issues" with Ever, Ever After. So Close works for me because it fits in perfectly with the context of what you're seeing onscreen. Even though it's not sung by

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Robert and Giselle

, the song is clearly about them and revolves around them. In some ways it reminds me of Once Upon A Dream in that the unseen choir takes over for Philip and Aurora and carries the rest of the sequence without them. (See, Aurora's so incredible that she even has unseen choirs that magically follow her around).

[dumboxthexelephant]

I have not seen this film but i did a search on youtube and i really liked Happy Working Song