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1991 vocal by Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson featuring Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury and David Ogden Stiers

"Something At that place"
Song past Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson featuring Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury and David Ogden Stiers
from the album Beauty and the Animal: Original Motion Pic Soundtrack
Released Oct 29, 1991
Length 2:18
Characterization Walt Disney
Songwriter(due south)
  • Howard Ashman
  • Alan Menken
Producer(s)
  • Howard Ashman
  • Alan Menken

"Something In that location" is a song written past lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures 30th animated feature film Dazzler and the Fauna (1991). Sung by the majority of the flick's chief cast, the song was recorded by American actors Paige O'Hara equally Belle and Robby Benson as the Beast via voice over, featuring actors Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury and David Ogden Stiers as Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and Cogsworth, respectively. The simply song performed by the Beast, "Something There" is heard midway through Beauty and the Creature during a scene in which Belle and the Brute finally begin to acknowledge their feelings for each other.

A last-minute add-on to the film, the elementary beloved song was speedily written past Ashman and Menken to replace the more elaborate and ambitious "Human Again" after the latter was cutting from Beauty and the Beast. O'Hara based her own vocal performance on that of American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whom Ashman advised the extra to impersonate, while O'Hara herself convinced the songwriters to take Benson record the song. Critical reception towards "Something At that place" has been positive, with moving picture and music critics alike praising Ashman's abilities as both a songwriter and a storyteller.

Background [edit]

"Something There" was written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken.[i] According to Menken, "Something There" was written as "a very quick replacement for ... 'Human Again'," the latter of which was ultimately cut from Beauty and the Beast considering it was considered "too ambitious" for the film.[ii] Eleven minutes in length, producer Don Hahn explained that the vocal was cut considering "We just couldn't figure out how to make it work and non accept abroad from the central story of Belle."[3] Upon learning that "Human being Again" was removed from Dazzler and the Beast, Ashman and Menken were forced to render "to the drawing lath to write something more than contained and unproblematic," the ultimate result of which was the love vocal "Something There,"[4] which has been described as "shorter and more direct" than "Human Again".[five] The creative team had originally believed that the Beast saving Belle from the wolves was enough to justify the trip the light fantastic sequence near the end of the picture show, though afterward realised they had in fact non however earned this moment; this quiet song where Beast gives Belle his library was pitched and written past Howard Ashman and "as before long every bit that was written, we knew the movie was going to work".[6]

In his biography I'm Not Dead... Even so!, role player Robby Benson, voice of the Brute, revealed that it was co-star Paige O'Hara'southward thought to take Benson'southward character duet with O'Hara's Belle in "Something There".[seven] Co-ordinate to Benson, the actress "explained to Ashman and Menken that [Benson] had made records and sang in Broadway musicals."[8] O'Hara briefly struggled to record i of the song's lines – "a bit alarming" –[9] to which an ailing Ashman, who was forced to communicate with O'Hara and the studio via telephone from his hospital bed in New York due to his illness, only responded "Streisand." By this, Ashman meant that he wanted O'Hara to impersonate singer and extra Barbra Streisand, and by doing so O'Hara finally recorded the song successfully.[x] "Something There" was recorded by O'Hara and Benson accompanied past a alive orchestra.[7]

Context, sequence and analysis [edit]

In the book The Meanings of "Beauty and the Animate being": A Handbook, author Jerry Griswold observed that the "Something In that location" musical sequence is preceded past "the in one case feisty Belle ... bandaging and nursing [the Beast]" after he rescues her from the wolves.[11] Contextually, the purpose of the song has been identified equally "Dramatizing [Belle and the Beasts'] partnership."[12] Leading upwardly to the musical sequence, the Animal first "surprises Belle by showing her his library so they learn to consume together."[13] Author Robin O. Winter observed that "During the scene they begin to see beneath their outer appearances and start to appreciate each other's inner qualities,"[13] while one critic identified this as one of the scenes in "which Belle and the Beast hesitantly slowly open up to i another."[14] Writing for Wesleyan University, Rachel Anne Silverman observed that "Something There" depicts "The commencement fourth dimension Belle and the Beast'due south attraction is introduced," describing the couple's human relationship equally "a passion that has developed over time."[15] Initially, Belle is alarmed "equally she realizes her growing dear for the Animate being,"[16] briefly hiding behind a tree equally she sings.[17] According to the Hal Leonard Corporation and Music Theatre International, the castle's staff of enchanted objects also find "something unlike between Belle and the Beast."[18] [19] "Something There" concludes with Belle and the Creature retreating to a fireplace and reading.[20] In the original moving picture, "Something In that location" immediately precedes the moving-picture show'southward title song. However, for its special edition re-release, the vocal is immediately followed by the newly reinstated "Man Again".[21]

Screenshot of the Beast and Belle finally realizing that they are beginning to fall in beloved with each other during the "Something There" musical sequence.

Identifying the vocal as "where the genius of music as storytelling kicks in," Simon Brew of Den of Geek felt that "Something There" is "the rails with the heaviest workload." The author observed that "In two minutes and 19 seconds, [the song] gets beyond just how the position and feelings of the characters have changed."[22] For example, "At the commencement of 'Something There,' Belle admits that she thought the Beast was mean, coarse, and unrefined. By the end, she's feeling pretty smitten," according to Oh My Disney.[23] The song also depicts the pic'due south passing of time,[24] while providing audiences with an opportunity "to appreciate Beast and first see the potential for Belle and him."[25] On the song's role in the special edition version of the film, co-director Kirk Wise explained, "There's a ... piddling suite of music now that starts with 'Something At that place' ... which segues into 'Human being Over again' which gives the object perspective on what they hope for when [Belle and the Beast] fall in love and that transitions into 'Beauty and the Creature' the carol, which is the culmination of their relationship."[26] Dubbing the song "soliloquies of Belle and the Beast," Tv set Guide drew comparisons between "Something At that place" and songs from the musical South Pacific.[27]

The "Something There" musical sequence was added towards the stop of Beauty and the Animate being's filmmaking procedure. Belle was animated by Mark Henn, while the Brute was blithe by Aaron Blaise. Henn described "Something There" as "a great sequence," continuing, "I love to animate songs."[28] [ self-published source ] The Los Angeles Times ' Charles Solomon felt that Belle was drawn inconsistently throughout the film, observing that the character appears "noticeably slimmer" during "Something There".[29]

Limerick [edit]

Written in the key of D major at a quick allegretto tempo of 108 beats per minute in common time, the "playful"[30] "Something There" is a Broadway musical-inspired duet in which Belle and the Beast finally conclude that "there's something there that wasn't there earlier."[eleven] The vocal spans a duration of 2 minutes and eighteen seconds, making it the tertiary shortest song on the soundtrack behind the reprises of "Belle" and "Gaston", respectively.[31] Describing "Something There" as "a fluffy song," Filmtracks.com observed that the song "shares many instrumental devices with 'Belle';" one of Belle'southward verses in "Something In that location" serves as "a reprise of the secondary phrase from ['Belle']".[32] Combined, O'Hara and Benson's song ranges bridge two octaves, from the low note of G3to the high note of Ev.[33] The song, described every bit "a poignant character number"[34] performed "Confronting a groundwork of the easy rhythms of soft, lilting violins,"[12] "allowed [O'Hara and Benson] to alloy their voices."[35] In improver, Women'south Studies in Communication observed that the "tentative bursts of notes symbolize the uncertainties of this new way of relating".[12]

In the song'south start verse, "Belle articulates how her allure to [the Animal] stems from his shut-off demeanor," singing, "In that location's something sweet/And almost kind/But he was hateful/And he was coarse and unrefined/Simply now he'southward honey/And so unsure/I wonder why I didn't see it there before."[36] [23] The Creature's poetry reads, "when we touched she didn't shudder at my mitt."[37] Co-ordinate to Laurence Eastward. MacDonald, author of the volume The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History, Benson "shocked many filmgoers with his richly resonant baritone."[35] Finally, Belle sings the vocal's bridge, which reads, "New and a bit alarming/Who'd have ever idea that this could be?/True, that he's no Prince Charming/But there'southward something in him that I only didn't run into." According to the Los Angeles Times, past the end of "Something There", "the audience understands what Belle and Beast feel and how disconcerting those emotions seem."[29]

Reception [edit]

"Something There" has garnered mostly positive reviews from film and music critics. Writing for Den of Geek, Simon Brew felt that "Something There" is "where the genius of music as storytelling kicks in." In Brew'due south stance, the "utterly convincing and un-mawkish" song works "because the two characters aren't on screen singing directly at each other." Mash concluded, "Everyone who makes an animated film that has a honey story at the heart should sentinel this."[22] Filmtracks.com described "Something There" as an "affable" vocal.[32] Peculiarly praising Ashman's songwriting, Charles Solomon of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Ashman'due south songs advance the plot by exploring the characters' emotions and making story points more concisely than conventional exposition." Solomon concluded, "By the cease of the deceptively simple-sounding 'Something There,' the audience understands what Belle and Beast feel and how disconcerting those emotions seem."[29] O'Hara continues to cite "Something There" as her favorite of the film's songs,[38] [39] elaborating, "Every time I see the Beast with that grin on his face and the bird in his hand, my heart just melts."[40]

For the studio'due south pending live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Julia Emmanuele of Hollywood.com suggested that the filmmakers "feel costless to drop 'Something There' if there'due south no room for it" considering "it won't be missed."[41] All the same, when English actress Emma Watson confirmed in January 2015 that she will exist portraying Belle via Facebook, she cited "Something In that location" as 1 of her favorite songs from her babyhood.[42] Irving Tan of Sputnikmusic jokingly called "Something There" "the closest the movie comes to admitting its horrendously inappropriate opinion on man-beast sexual relations."[37]

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