It’s been a big week for Beauty and the Beast news thanks to the recent Entertainment Weekly cover story. As part of that, Oh My Disney has pulled the best quotes from EW’s conversation with Alan Menken about three of the new songs that will appear in the film.
Here’s what he had to say:
“Our Song Lives On”
“The first time it’s sung, it’s Belle’s father singing as he’s completing a music box, and basically it’s [about], ‘How does a moment live forever? How do you hang on to precious moments?’ Then, it’s reprised by Belle, and then it’s the song that’s actually over the end credits at the end of the movie.”
“For Evermore”
“‘For Evermore’ is this moment where the Beast now loves Belle, and he realizes that she misses her father, and he acknowledges she’s no longer a prisoner, and when she sees her father’s in trouble, he says, ‘Go to him, go.’ And he voluntarily lets her go. He’s basically singing about how he now knows what love is, as he watches her leave, and he’s climbing up the turret of the castle as she recedes into the distance, just watching her go further and further away.”
“Days in the Sun”
‘Days in the Sun’ is a moment when all of the objects in the castle —and Belle — are going to sleep. Basically, everybody in the castle is having memories of what it used to be when they had their days in the sun. It’s sort of a combination of a lullaby and a remembrance of happier days for everybody.”
Disney’s new live-action Beauty and the Beast, featuring new songs my Alan Menken and Tim Rice, will dance into theatres March 17th, 2017.