# Mentally pretending that a movie's music is from a different source

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies, music\
**Created:** [July 16, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mentally-pretending-that-a-movies-music-is-from-a-different-source/946654 "2021-07-16T17:36:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mentally-pretending-that-a-movies-music-is-from-a-different-source/946654/1 "2021-07-16T17:36:59Z")

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Wondered if anyone else felt this way:

IMHO, some Disney or cartoon music, such as the orchestral rendition of “Part of Your World” from _The Little Mermaid,_ or other Disney scores, is some of the greatest stuff ever composed. Unfortunately, the fact that it was the soundtrack to a Disney kid’s movie makes it feel silly and takes the shine off of it, so what I have to do is mentally **pretend** that “Part of Your World” was instead the track to some World War II movie or historical drama or something a lot more serious in order to give the music its necessary grandeur. Ditto for movies like _Ever After;_ the movie is horrible but the music is mind-blowing. I have to pretend it’s music composed for some other purpose.