{"id":282976,"date":"2019-11-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1089436"},"modified":"2019-11-05T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:00:00","slug":"lets-go-under-the-sea-15-secrets-about-the-little-mermaid-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/lets-go-under-the-sea-15-secrets-about-the-little-mermaid-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Go Under the Sea: 15 Secrets About The Little Mermaid Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019104\/rs_600x600-191104110303-600.little-mermaid-3.ct.110419.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>10. Sebastian, one of the biggest breakout characters from the film, wasn&#8217;t written to be Caribbean, but British. But when lyricist Ashman read the script, he suggested making the change because he wanted to infuse a &#8220;Jamaican and calypso influenced score that would give it a pop feeling.&#8221; And that&#8217;s how &#8220;Under the Sea,&#8221; the song that would go on to win Best Original Song at the 1989 Oscars, was born.<\/p>\n<p>11. When Samuel Wright auditioned for his career-making role as a Caribbean crab, he actually had no idea what he was auditioning for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;I was told they were looking for a Sammy Davis Jr.-type of character, a lot of energy, I was going to go in and do Sammy\u2026that&#8217;s all I knew,&#8221; he recalled to <a href=\"https:\/\/madamenoire.com\/311323\/looking-meet-samuel-e-wright-voice-sebastian-little-mermaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madame Noire<\/a>. &#8220;I had no idea it was for <em>Little Mermaid<\/em>. I flipped out because I always wanted to work for Disney ever since I was a little kid. I used to paint Disney characters on window pane glass and mail it to Disney.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>12. While they initially didn&#8217;t want Wright to ad-lib lines, after he had finished his voice-work he was called back in for one last session where they asked him to spend three hours adding whatever he&#8217;d like,&nbsp;which included the line, &#8220;Teenagers, you think they know everything. You gave them an inch, they swim all over you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1089436\/let-s-go-under-the-sea-15-secrets-about-the-little-mermaid-revealed?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. Sebastian, one of the biggest breakout characters from the film, wasn&#8217;t written to be Caribbean, but British. But when lyricist Ashman read the script, he suggested making the change because he wanted to infuse a &#8220;Jamaican and calypso influenced score that would give it a pop feeling.&#8221; And that&#8217;s how &#8220;Under the Sea,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-14 14:36:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}