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I’m The Villain (18 entries): - It’s sung by the villain (exception: Cruella De Vil) - It always comes after the I Want songs - It usually expresses the villain's desire, but can also be mocking the main characterpic.twitter.com/DQRtChVjRC

We Should Bone (17 entries): - Never happens in the first-third of the movie (exception: One Song, Love is an Open Door) - Can be a duet, monologue, montage, OR a separate character egging things on - If a man is singing, he’s either egging things on, or in a duetpic.twitter.com/TgJFyAkzlX

Cheer Up, Kid! (17 entries): - It’s always sung by a supporting character who likes the protagonist - The theme is always positive - It generally builds up to dancing or fevered choreography, with an element of "let's put on a show!"pic.twitter.com/CIhAbY1IIt

Here’s My Deal (21 entries): - It expresses a character’s their joie de vivre, often in a bragging way - While the I Want song is about inner desires, this expresses outward joy - It is sung by the main character or clear second, soon after we meet thempic.twitter.com/PO8GRbN7Ri

Here’s Our Deal (18 entries): - It expresses the MO of a group of characters and their motivations within the movie - It is usually very early on the film - The song generally shows the characters working, or talking about a specific desirepic.twitter.com/1fzSGNJXzD

Here’s Their Deal (13 entries): - A character or two best friends is being described by another person or group - Usually sung shortly after we meet the character (or Aladdin’s case, reinvention of the character) - Often has elements of a montage & and an unseen singerpic.twitter.com/ZGufU78L2z

Things Will Be Okay (17 entries): - The downbeat counter to "Cheer Up, Kid!" - The song expresses hope, but can indicate doubt - The tone is warm, quieter, or downbeat. No dancing happens - It’s generally sung by a supporting character that helps the protagonistpic.twitter.com/VeSWD0bXf0

It’s Dancing Time! (11 entries): - Sort of self-explanatory - The protagonist never instigates the dancing, and if they’re in the scene, the dancing sort of happens around them - generally serves as an intermission for the moviepic.twitter.com/njjEWruyaa

Montage (13 entries): - It’s a montage. You know what a montage is. - There are no great montage songs, only acceptable ones - There were no montages before Hercules - Half the songs Phil Collins wrote for Tarzan and Brother Bear were montages, and that was a poor choicepic.twitter.com/DNyyIZ7akx

Package Movie Shorts (13 entries): - Hey, remember Melody Time and Make Mine Music? - No? Well they were Disney movies that were just a bunch of shorts jammed together - Lots of those shorts had songs - Nobody cares about those songs - But we're including EVERY SONG, sopic.twitter.com/K1ehLsra6E

We Won! (8 entries): - Is about celebrating that something good has just happened, or is about to happen - Typically happens at the end of the movie - Is never sung by the main character, but they’re often around - Three Winnie the Pooh songs!pic.twitter.com/241uccwtGa

It’s Nature Time (8 entries): - Is a song where the focus is on the place or the weather - Is never about a person - Is often a short song setting up a scene - You're right, none of this sounds interesting!pic.twitter.com/qqWDzcrwtU

Here’s A One Note Character (7 entries) - Is sung by or a minor character who usually only appears once (exception: the harp in Fun and Fancy Free) - Is essentially a short “I Want” or “Here’s My Deal” song by someone you don't care about - Three Alice in Wonderland songs!pic.twitter.com/PkUFSHoxLT

The Drug Song (7 entries) - Trippy as heck, maybe nightmare inducing? - More an excuse for animators to be creative than advance the plot - Supernatural powers displayed by characters in song are never explained - One could argue every Alice In Wonderland song should be herepic.twitter.com/YlqITumGEO

Life Lesson Time! (6 entries) - Advice on how to live one’s best life is given - It is always directed to the main character (exception: Scales and Arpeggios) - I’ll Make A Man Out Of You is here - Which is weird, because that's a great song! And great songs don't live herepic.twitter.com/jJOPQL2hpk

Problematic (6 entries) - The only category filled with songs that used to be part of other categories - Has not aged well! - No, I will not be explaining this further, for what I hope are obvious reasonspic.twitter.com/wtWOSkjHiP

This is the Disney Songbook Table of Elements. It contains every single original Disney animated song, put in categories, organized by time era, and colour-coded for specific films.pic.twitter.com/Ay8s410ytZ