this wish (make a difference ver.) ft. natalie 【disney x synthV】

before i say anything else:

julia michaels, if you are reading this, i have nothing against you. i will place no judgement on you personally for the quality of these songs and how they arrived in the final film. writing a musical is hard! writing a musical for disney is even harder! from one songwriter to another, i will make no assumptions about the conditions under which you had to write these songs.

but something... happened to wish. something with wish did not work. to everyone who worked on this film, i commend the presumably countless sleepless nights putting it together. but the final film is... a bit baffling? it made me really sad as a lifelong disney fan to watch, and i don't think that was their goal. it lacked the... magic? depth? storytelling? a plot? music with a consistent sense of lyrical thought or rhythm?

my friends and i got particularly obsessed with the music not sounding quite right since it first started being previewed. obsession lead to tinkering, lead to a full rewrite of the flagship song. i could talk for hours about my process and intention here, but all that matters is that asha feels like she has a true and clear purpose. i think i got it there, despite my lackluster skills at wrangling a digital orchestra.

thank you for listening.

especially you, julia michaels. i hope you're having a lovely day.

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lyrics:

So I'm here at wits end
Running far off the road I had planned
If it's one against many, what then can you do?
When everyone's counting on you?

So with what I've trusted thrust aside.
With nowhere I can turn to but the sky

Like a fool, staring idle
If it's true, I know I will-

Take a chance,
It's worth the try

So I'm asking now,
Tonight

Can I make this wish?
Even though there's part of me that is,
Doubting you exist
Cause there must be more for us than this.

Let me make this wish,
Just to hear the magic if I listen
To the wisdom you could give.
Please just let me make
A difference

I'd make it for you.
If it could come true.

So what if someone's wish is naive?
Why deny them the possibility?

Like a river that must meet the sea,
There's a dam, I won't stand,
'Til the day that they're free.

But the river's just a drop.
Like a precious and private little thought.
Like a wish that you're scared if you want-

That there's some kind of cost-
Like you've lost self control.
That's the story we're told.
But I just know-

I can make this wish.
Even if it's foolish.
I will make this wish.
To find out what the truth is.

If you grant one wish tonight:
Tell me why you'd let someone deny,
Their every hope and dream?
Well this isn't a game to me.

I believed in the role I played
So I just need to know there's a way
We can wish on the stars in the sky
Without fear someone else will decide

I wish for your pity on them.
I wish for the time that they've spent-
Only wishing and falling for lies they were calling
Their hope to end

I wish for my people to be
Happy or somehow just feeling complete?

Permission to just... exist.
To follow their dreams as they see fit.

So I make this wish.
For me, him, all of them.
So I make this wish.
And I will make

A difference