New songs "For the First Time," "Wild Uncharted Waters" and "The Scuttlebutt" are now available to stream ahead of the film's release Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

Alan Menken, the celebrated film composer of the original The Little Mermaid, remembers the first time he heard about Lin-Manuel Miranda — when Broadway's future Hamilton creator was a fourth grader ...

Two classic songs from “The Little Mermaid” received updated lyrics for the upcoming live-action remake to emphasize consent and female empowerment. In an interview published Tuesday, Vanity Fair ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a news story about Alan Menken’s reveal that songs from The Little Mermaid had been edited and updated to be more reflective of modern morality, particularly in relation to ...

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Imagine a landscape where “Part of Your World” doesn’t exist. Ariel’s popular “I want” ballad and other songs from Disney’s 1989 classic “The Little Mermaid” kicked off a golden age of animation ...

The new and updated The Little Mermaid songs have arrived. On Friday, Disney debuted the soundtrack for its live-action re-imagining of the 1989 animated film before it hits theaters next week.