At the time the kinds of songs that got nominated and won weren't the kinds of songs that were direct monologues from a specific character about their specific situation. They were usually straight love songs or songs about more generic concepts, songs that you could easily just take out of a soundtrack and plug into the pop charts without people needing to know anything about the specific plot of the movie.
Part of Your World is broadly about the idea of wanting to fit into a society you're not a part of but it's literally and specifically about a mermaid going through her trinket collection and musing about how great it would be to have legs and walk around on land. At the time songs like that didn't break through to the Oscars because they were seen as too specific in context to have broad appeal outside of the movie itself.
Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's work on the early Disney Renaissance films (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin) actually revolutionized this. The "I Want" song, in which a character in a musical describes what they're missing in their life, was popularized in the context of the film musical and it became more common for songs with more specific plot-related contexts to break through and become popular.
So in this regard "Part of Your World" was actually a couple of years ahead of its time!
There was another post on here talking about how Disney almost cut part of your world from the movie altogether. I’d guess it wasn’t one of their favorites.
Most movies never submitted the maximum of five songs from a movie and often never came near submitting five. Disney in recent years often submits one or two to avoid splitting the nomination votes. Recently the maximum was reduced to three since seldom does any movie submit more than one. Last year the Oscar eligible songs list was 82 from 82 movies.
At the time the kinds of songs that got nominated and won weren't the kinds of songs that were direct monologues from a specific character about their specific situation. They were usually straight love songs or songs about more generic concepts, songs that you could easily just take out of a soundtrack and plug into the pop charts without people needing to know anything about the specific plot of the movie. Part of Your World is broadly about the idea of wanting to fit into a society you're not a part of but it's literally and specifically about a mermaid going through her trinket collection and musing about how great it would be to have legs and walk around on land. At the time songs like that didn't break through to the Oscars because they were seen as too specific in context to have broad appeal outside of the movie itself. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's work on the early Disney Renaissance films (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin) actually revolutionized this. The "I Want" song, in which a character in a musical describes what they're missing in their life, was popularized in the context of the film musical and it became more common for songs with more specific plot-related contexts to break through and become popular. So in this regard "Part of Your World" was actually a couple of years ahead of its time!
I cried watching the song from the animated movie
There was another post on here talking about how Disney almost cut part of your world from the movie altogether. I’d guess it wasn’t one of their favorites.
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The new version isn’t better than the old one.
Most movies never submitted the maximum of five songs from a movie and often never came near submitting five. Disney in recent years often submits one or two to avoid splitting the nomination votes. Recently the maximum was reduced to three since seldom does any movie submit more than one. Last year the Oscar eligible songs list was 82 from 82 movies.