Ralph Breaks the Internet

There was a song I wrote over 10 years ago, a big opening number for another Disney project and then it went back into development. The song became one of those lost classic numbers that people loved and would listen to the demo. And Tom MacDougall found the track for that, wiped away the lyrics and said, “This music is perfect.”

So they started with that piece of music, added their lyrics to it and said, “What do you think?” I said, “You can’t use that song, because I might still use it. But I’ll go back, knowing that that’s the style of Menken that you want, and I will give you a brand new version of that.” I know that I’m reaching into “Alan Menken” as a genre, and I know that I’m refecting other moments that have been associated with my music at Disney, and it’s being done in a kind of subversive but emotionally true way.