Happy working song
| Happy working song | |
|---|---|
| Amy Adams | |
| publication | November 20, 2007 |
| length | 2:09 |
| Genre (s) | pop music |
| text | Stephen Schwartz |
| music | Alan Menken |
| Label | Walt Disney Records |
| Award (s) | Oscar (nominated) |
| album | Enchanted (soundtrack) |
Happy Working Song is a song from 2007 that was written for the movie Bewitched . It was composed by Alan Menken (music) and Stephen Schwartz (film). It will be sung by Amy Adams . In the German version of the film it is called Flottes Aufräumlied and is sung by Kerstin Heiles .
Happy Working Song was nominated for an Oscar for Best Movie Song .
Use in film
After she was taken into Robert's apartment, Giselle wakes up in a terribly messy room. With Happy Working Song she calls rats, pigeons, flies and cockroaches, which she uses to clean up the apartment. While singing, she finds encouraging words for her helpers and ends the song after the work is done with the remark "Wasn't that fun?"
References to older Disney films
Happy Working Song refers directly to the song True Love's Kiss in the cartoon part of the film. Giselle calls animals from the area with the same sequence of tones. In the world of Bambi come the friendly animated animals, as they are common in a Disney film - something that is of course not to be expected in non-animated New York.
In an interview, writer Stephen Schwartz said that Happy Working Song quoted the song Whistle While You Work from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the songs from the film Cinderella , in which the little mice start to work, with a humorous exaggeration.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cursed. In: Deutsche Synchrondatei. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Michael Buckley: STAGE TO SCREENS: Menken & Schwartz Are “Enchanted”; Plus Bosco, Chenoweth, "Hairspray". In: Playbill. November 18, 2007, accessed January 29, 2016 .