One of my favorite Disney songs along with "When you Wish Upon a Star" and "Can you Feel the Love Tonight" and yet, this was the song that won the Oscar!
So much emotional nuances in the voice. Disney is ambitious in the stories they select they just need to risk take to expand what an audience appreciates.
@@madamemim770 She was Cosette for the original broadway production, and reprised her for the 10th anniversary. I believe she also played Fantine in a later production as well.
I don’t remember the first Disney movie I’ve ever watched, but I do remember the first Disney song I’ve ever heard, and it was this very one. Now I’m 24 years old and it’s one of my go-to Disney songs ♥️
+KaedeVM maybe, but for Pocahontas, the story is completely different, you can wonder why they called it Pocahontas. At least, the other Disney movies have some respect for the real story (except Hercules, maybe)
@@nanalove3819 ... it does? Pocahontas created a peace treaty with the settlers. Pocahontas 2 was by no means good, but it cleared up the John Rolfe stuff and actually made the treaty more accurate.
@@trapmix1951 The difference is that other Disney movies are fictional tales made to be glorified But Pocahontas was a real person who was in a real and horrible situation. She was ten when she was raped by an adult John Smith, her people were pillaged and hurt and given diseases and eventually succumbed to full colonization. It’s not very fair to romanticize and real life event that killed so many people and make it seem to be a story about love and peace.
You think I'm an ignorant savage And you've been so many places I guess it must be so But still I cannot see If the savage one is me How can there be so much that you don't know? You don't know ... You think you own whatever land you land on The earth is just a dead thing you can claim But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew you never knew Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth Come roll in all the riches all around you And for once never wonder what they're worth The rainstorm and the river are my brothers The heron and the otter are my friends And we are all connected to each other In a circle, in a hoop that never ends How high does the sycamore grow? If you cut it down then you'll never know And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon For whether we are white or copper skinned We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain We need to paint with all the colors of the wind You can own the earth and still All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind
+Mental Grunge IKR?! It's my favorite Disney song! I just love the message behind it! And it not only applies to the time period the film took place in, but in today's time period as well. Another reason why more people should listen to Disney music! :)
This actually makes me cry a little, to think that people can look at a wild animal and think "If I killed this animal and cut off its body parts, would someone give me money so they could look at its corpse?"
If ONLY they had just made thos story with *different character*. Making up new names for the characters, changing some things of the story, make it up. Then it all would have been ok, because this is a beautiful story, the animation and music is stellar, and the message is beautiful Instead they made it with iterations of a real life little girl who was sold into marriage, misleading people about the real Pocahontas.
@@chilathecreativefox9098Pocahontas was a historical character who existed in real life, and her story is far more tragic than this movie leads us to believe.
@@Arthus850 I know, but what does he mean that the people behind this movie should've changed the story and the characters' names based on the historical event?
@@chilathecreativefox9098 Because they changed and romanticized something horrific that happened to a real life little girl. Why did they have to name the two leads in this movie after Pocahontas and John Smith when this isn't at all what happened? Instead of naming them something different because this isn't historically accurate anyway - and the movie has been controversial because of how they're romanticizing an awful historical event? The poor naming choice has made such a gorgeous and beautiful movie become controversial since how it disrespects the actual Pocahontas and fails to condemn the actual John Smith
I was sent here by Genie’s snippet of the song during Friend Like Me in the stage version of Aladdin and by Wonderful Life from Smallfoot. Because the song gives me vibes of this one since Meechee (voiced by Zendaya) is the village leader’s daughter and she sings it to her love interest Migo.
They the british settlers believed they were better than all the other races and seen themselves as people and others as savages so their saying all people should be treated fair no matter what their color and their upbringing and to walk in the footsteps of a stranger and you would have a better understanding of the situation
And then it keeps pointing out that while the white people couldn't see the earth as more than just earth to be conquered, and claimed, and the people within as savage, they're pointing out that the wealth of the earth is in itself- the people, the animals, the vegetation and the stories it holds. I wish they'd understood this.
Historically inaccurate? Yes. Racist? No. Pocahontas and her people were portrayed in a very positive light, unlike the majority of the English characters.
Did she just say White or Copper-skin the only people with Copper-skin are so call black Americans if the the case all the Indian are the real so called black people
