Top 5 Villain Songs

Disney music has always been a big part of my life. I listen to it all the time. From music from the movies to music from the parks. I have a good collection of Disney music. This is a list of some of my all time favorite Disney Villain songs. They are in no particular order.

Poor Unfortunate Souls (The Little Mermaid)

This song makes Ursula one of the best Villains. I would trade my voice for legs if someone sang this at me (it would be a pretty bad deal too, I already have legs but y'all knew that).

Be Prepared (The Lion King)

Sign me up for your uprising! Nice use of Vocabulary, Scar (Quid pro quo, etc). When I was little I thought it said "A shiny new earring is tiptoeing nearer" so I would sing it as such.

The World's Greatest Criminal Mind (The Great Mouse Detective)

Vincent Price has a set of pipes! Just don't call Ratigan a Rat or you'll be cat food too.

Hellfire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

This is one of the most emotionally charged Disney songs ever. It's dark, moody, and reveals so much about Frollo. I love the use of the Latin. This song is pushing it into the kid-unfriendly zone (some mature themes in this one) but for what they had to work with, Disney really made Victor Hugo's very R-rated classic as G as it could be.

The Mob Song (Beauty and the Beast)

Just try learning all the words to this song, it's harder than it seems. Some friends and I have made it our mission. The lyrics are amazing, complex, but fun and altogether very mob-y, allowing the Mob Song to narrowly beat "Friends on the Other Side" and "Mother Knows Best" from my Top 5.

Review: Disney's Enchanted Rose App

This is the first in a series of App reviews focusing on the iPhone and iPad. I chose the Enchanted Rose Beauty and the Beast promotional app for iPad. Released to inspire interest for the Diamond Edition Blu-Ray and DVD release for Beauty and the Beast, this app is cute but there isn't much to it.

 The game is modeled after "he loves me, he loves me not" but uses the Enchanted Rose for the flower. The graphics are nice, definitely modeled after the animation style of the movie. You can drag , simply poke, or shake the petals off (you actively shake to iPad, and you have to do it quite noticeably for it to register). Before you play, you get to select the name of your crush. To do this, you can select a facebook friend, enter a name yourself, or simply skip a name. After that step, you get to designate the gender of your beloved. This is where I had the most trouble. No matter how hard I poked "he", the app would nearly always give me "she" instead. That function should definitely work better.

The game is cute. But once again there is not much to it.My favorite way to take off the petals is by dragging off, it lends some realism to the game. In the end, Belle and the Beast are either united because "They loved you" or they are lonely because "They loved you not".

This is not a game that will occupy a child for very long. My ADD kicked in mid-game then I started to get fancy with my petal removal techniques. It is kind of fun to rapid fire poke at the rose to see how quickly you can destroy it. Shaking it is, once again, not a reliable method but also a dangerous thing to do with an expensive gadget. Especially if a child is the one doing the shaking.


I was excited to see that there was a trailer in the Extras section. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get any sound from the App. This makes the trailer decidedly less interesting. However, the resolution, even on the iPad, is great. If only I could get the sound to work. Also under the Extras option, there are links that can lead to kids buying the film, either from iTunes or the actual Blu-Ray disc. So beware little fingers making purchases from this app.

Overall, this is not a terrible app. It was free so I can't be angry about wasting any money on an app with some functioning issues. It occupied me for awhile, mostly watching the soundless trailer. It would be a good game for very little ones because there isn't a lot going on and they can learn motor control from the dragging. Also the involvement of Belle and the Beast is a good reward for a little tyke.

Disney has enough money and resources to make an app that works correctly and has sound. They, also, misspell Blu-Ray in the app. It is sad that they allowed this one out with the problems it has.

Pros: Free, good graphics, characters
Cons: not much too it, gender buttons don't work very well, sound won't work, kids could make purchases from the app

The Beginnings an Addiction

Meet my beloved Eeyore. He was my very stuffed animal and I think my parents might regret giving him to me. I don't think they could've imagined what they started by giving their daughter a stuffed donkey. 

Eeyore was my first exposure to Disney and the addiction has grown ever since. I was not Eeyore's first owner, that honor belongs to my Aunt. I'm not sure how long he belonged to her before he became my security blanket, my best friend, and my enabler. I do know that he is OLD. He predates the "All New Materials" thing in toys. My Eeyore is stuffed with Shredded Clippings and Ground Nutshells. So he's pretty darn old.  

Eeyore goes almost everywhere with me. He's been to Disney, on cruises, across the U.S., to the doctor, etc. He's a world traveler as well. He's made appearances in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, and Canada. He's been to Australia, saw the Sydney Opera House, went camping in the Outback and was toted around Ayer's Rock (Uluru). He is my constant travel companion, his head peeking out from my backpack. 

Eeyore is my rock. I know he will always be there to support me even though he is just a stuffed animal. Disney has always been there for me, too. Always making me happy and letting me forget my troubles, making it okay to live in a dreamworld and be a kid again. Even when I thought Disney let me down (when I didn't get the College Program), I ended up growing and learning with other opportunities (Thanks Disney for not accepting me!). 

My Obsession has grown ever since my parents gave me my Eeyore. Today, I have over 300 Eeyore related items (from stuffed animals to a toothbrush holder, decorative items to pins, etc) and countless Disney items as well. I go to the Parks at least 10 times a year (6 times this year already), and am now an annual passholder. I'm a D23 charter member. Disney is even the cornerstone to my career plans and I hope to spend my life continuing to feed my Disney addiction.