A Whole New World
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A Whole New World is a ballad song from the 1992 animated feature, Aladdin. The song was composed by Alan Menken along with lyrics written by Tim Rice. The song was sung by Aladdin and Jasmine in the movie, about the new world that they are about to discover together.
Its original version was sung by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga. The single version was released on November 5, 1992 and was later performed by Peabo Brysonn and Regina Belle. The two also performed the song at the 65th Academy Awards and later, won Best Song. The song was also nominated for AFI's 100 years...100 songs, as one of 15 songs from Disney and one of 17 songs from an animated movie to be nominated. The songs that eventually made the cut was: When You Wish Upon A Star (#7), Some Day My Prince Will Come (#19), Beauty and the Beast (#62) and Hakuna Matata (#99).
Lyrics
Aladdin:
I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?
I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming
Jasmine:
A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now I'm in a whole new world with you
Aladdin: Now I'm in a whole new world with you
Jasmine:
Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky
A Whole New World (Aladdin: Don't you dare close your eyes)
A hundred thousand things to see (Aladdin: Hold your breath - it gets better)
I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be
Aladdin: A whole new world (Jasmine: Every turn a surprise)
With new horizons to pursue (Jasmine: Every moment red letter)
Aladdin and Jasmine:
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you
Aladdin and Jasmine:
A whole new world (A whole new world)
That's where we'll be (That's where we'll be)
A thrilling chase
A wondrous place
For you and me
Trivia
- The song would later be featured in attractions at the Walt Disney Parks and Resort such as The Magic Carpets of Aladdin and Mickey's PhilharMagic. It is also featured in its own scene in World of Color and for a short scene in Fantasmic!.
- The scene is one of the very few in the original script to have made it in the final film.
- Nineteen years after this song was made, a parody of this song, Aerial Area Rug from the Phineas and Ferb episode "Magic Carpet Ride", was done.
- During the song the carpet flies not only in Agrabah but also to the pyramids of Egypt, Zeus's temple in Greece, and the forbidden city in China.
- This is the second duet sung by a Disney Princess and Prince; the first was So This Is Love from Cinderella.
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