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Or: The Big Damn Bronze Age Disney-Style Award-Baiting End-Credits Power Ballad. Tropers who grew up in the 1990s know what we're talking about, right? It's the kind of song which plays over the end credits (usually) of an animated (usually) Disney (usually) movie (usually) from the '90s (usually). They each share a distinctive style and, as per the title, once you hear it you just know it's going to get nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song, and if it doesn't, somebody's getting fired. They generally have at least four of the following distinctive traits: Starts out soothing and mellow. Chances are high the first thing to come out of the singer(s) mouth is "Mmmmmmmm..." as if they're taking a pie out of the oven and like the smell. Instead of describing events that happen directly in the movie, it usually covers the more sweeping themes used in it such as The Power of Love, The Power of Friendship, and so on. May be a Silly Love Song. Most Award Bait Songs have absolutely nothing to do with the plot (love songs in movies with no romance, for example), and are rarely referenced in the film itself. Extremely feel-good and/or touching; may be a Tear Jerker. Lots of "sparkly" synth. Towards the middle, it gets more and more triumphant and builds to a big, epic finish. Is penned by a (usually) past-their-prime pop/rock star, especially if the film isn't a musical. If the song is a hit, it may prompt a comeback. If it is a musical it may appear in the film, but it's occasionally a Cut Song, as in the Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame examples. Context of a Falling-in-Love Montage (bonus points if it's also a ballroom dance). Truck Driver's Gear Change. A soaring electric guitar solo. Especially since the Turn of the Millennium (as opening credit sequences are almost unheard of except in James Bond films), it's not necessarily considered the film's theme song. A Video Full of Film Clips. The distinguishing trademark, however, is when the song has a reprise, frequently a duet, done over the end credits. Bonus points if it's sung by Barbra Streisand, Céline Dion (or someone who sounds like her), Whitney Houston, Peabo Bryson, or Bryan Adams. Sounds like the kind of song popularized by nineties Disney films, yes? The funny thing is that the film that probably helped to make this sort of thing popular during this particular part of movie history would be "Somewhere Out There" from Don Bluth's An American Tail, although Don Bluth's team had also had "Flying Dreams" in the earlier The Secret of NIMH. And even before that, songs unrelated to the story, usually of the love song variety, often sung by popular singers, had been a staple of closing credits for Asian films — particularly anime — for decades. Award Bait Songs are also found in many live-action films, notably "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic (1997). Many, many films from the late-70's through late-90's had a song like this, leading some critics to call this period the last really amazing time for movie songs. This has been exchanged for "hip" pop songs from the popular artists at the time, and/or more commonly the movie soundtrack. Movie Bonus Songs in film adaptations of stage musicals often fall under this trope, since the songs adapted from the stage play aren't eligible for Best Original Song, and this is the filmmakers' attempt at letting the film receive some accolade for its music. Whatever the song's reason for being, the "Award-Baiting" part isn't the important part, nor is the "End Credits" part. The important part is that the song is strongly associated with the narrative work, serves as a fitting capstone, and is in the style described above. One tactic when trying for an award bait song is to take an existing, usually famous, song and record a Softer and Slower Cover. It should also be noted that, while the song may be blatant award bait, that doesn't mean they still can't be really good regardless. For other kinds of popular and/or Award-winning movie songs, see Breakaway Pop Hit and "I Want" Song. Compare The Power of Rock. |
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The Mrs. Doubtfire stage musical has three songs with this aesthetic, all in the show's last third: "Let Go", the Eleven O'Clock Number "Pretend", and the finale ultimo "As Long As There Is Love". | |
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Only Yesterday has "Love is a Flower, You Are the Seed" by Harumi Miyako, a Translated Cover Version of Bette Midler's "The Rose". | |
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Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer has "Qualia" by UVE Rworld. Don't forget Yuna Ito's "Trust You". |
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Parodied in the Mexican animated film El Santos Contra La Tetona Mendoza with the theme song "Zombilaridad", ("Zombie-larity" in Spanish), who is a parody of "Solidaridad", a propaganda song used by the PRI (A political party in Mexico) in the '90s. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica gives us a soft-rock variation on this with Kyoko and Sayaka's Image Song "And I'm Home" by their seiyuu Ai Nonaka and Eri Kitamura, the ending for the Blu-Ray version of episode 9. Kalafina's Hikari Furu (a vocal version of the already heartbreaking Sagitta Luminis) is this for the second movie. Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion celebrates Homura triumphant in her belief that Utopia Justifies the Means with the heartbreaking "Your Silver Garden". |
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Miami Vice started season 3 with "The Last Unbroken Heart" by Patti LaBelle and Chicago (Band)'s Bill Champlin. | |
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"Seasons of Love" from RENT, to the point where the original cast album has, after the show's finale, a version of the song "featuring Stevie Wonder and the cast of Rent." Also, "Your Eyes", and the reprise of "I'll Cover You", which overlays the chorus of "Seasons of Love" in its last part. |
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Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is", and Mariah Carey's Cover Version, which includes a Truck Driver's Gear Change. | |
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Roundhouse has a few, notably "I Can Dream", "Don't Wanna Play Games", "The Bridge", "If I Give You My Heart", "Trying To Reach You", "Sunrise", "Do Not Care", "Have A Little Faith", "Give Me A Second Chance", "Just A Dream" and "Can't Let Go". The first and last named songs won Best Song trophies from the Cable ACE Awards and the Youth Excellence Awards respectively. "Just a Dream", on the other hand, wouldn't be eligible for any such awards, as it was written by Madonna independently of the show, but she never recorded it (lyrically it wouldn't sound too out of place on Like a Prayer). Neither would "The Bridge", which was written by the show's primary musical director Benny Hester and dates back to 1978, 15 years before it was performed on the show. | |
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Shawn Michaels was injured at one point in a real life altercation in which he suffered a concussion in the mid-90s. He collapsed mid-match a few weeks later and when the medical report on why it happened came out, it was revealed that he was suffering from post-concussion syndrome. Apparently the doctors (and for that matter pretty much everyone) Failed a Spot Check, since nobody knew about this at the time, and even Shawn thought he was back to full health at the time. Anyway, it was briefly feared that Shawn would be forced to retire due to the incident both in-universe and out. To really drive home the point that Shawn's career might be in jeopardy, they aired a special tribute video set to an award bait song, "Tell Me a Lie". | |
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Talespin has "Home is Where the Heart Is" which was used in the uncut version of the pilot and is sadly edited out of the syndicated release of the episode. There's also a full-length version as can be heard in the link, which was available on the Disney Afternoon soundtrack. | |
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The Road to El Dorado has "Someday Out of the Blue" and "Without Question", both performed by Elton John. | |
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From All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, there's "I Will Always Be with You". | |
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The Unlimited Blade Works anime has Brave Shine from Aimer on the opening, which actually won a Best Anime Theme Song award in Japan. | |
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AIR gave us the lovely "Aozora". There's also the ED, "Farewell Song". |
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Curious George's 2006 film has "Upside Down" by Jack Johnson. | |
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Raya and the Last Dragon has "Lead the Way" sung by Jhené Aiko, blasting The Power of Trust. | |
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Home (2015) has "Feel the Light", courtesy of Jennifer Lopez. | |
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Sleeping Beauty has "Once Upon a Dream". | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: The song Ce mur qui nous sépare ("This wall between us") is a love duet between Marinette/Ladybug and Adrien/Cat noir and intended for the upcoming movie Ladybug & Cat Noir Awakening. | |
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Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin: "Wherever You Are". Attached to a Direct to Video Winnie-the-Pooh movie that got a mixed critical reception, it failed to get nominated for any awards, though it's since become one of Disney's most popular songs of this type from the '90s. "The More I Look Inside" from Piglet's Big Movie. |
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"Last Midnight" in Into the Woods is a possible example, though it does forward the plot. | |
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Hi-5, a competitor to The Wiggles, has ''Three Wishes'' (which is interesting considering that The Wiggles have never really done one themselves). | |
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"It's A Giant Mystery" and "Without You" from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion: The Musical. | |
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Speaking of Christmas specials, the infamous Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa closes out with "Through the Eyes of A Child", sung by Paige O'Hara and Peabo Bryson. It's a bit more upbeat than a lot of other examples, but it still falls under this. Also, it's pretty much the only genuinely good thing about the special, while the rest of it falls squarely into So Bad, It's Good. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has "Orphans no Namida" by MISIA, "Streetlight of War", and "Freesia" by Uru. | |
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Bambi II had several country pop songs, though "Through Your Eyes" by Martina McBride plays over the end credits and fills most of the usual credentials best. | |
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Pinocchio's "When You Wish Upon A Star" was the first Disney song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and has been covered by many artists since then. If the Walt Disney Company has a Bootstrapped Theme, this is it. | |
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"Fantasies Come True" from Avenue Q, also doubling as a major Tear Jerker. | |
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The Teacher's Pet Finale Movie has "A Boy Needs a Dog", an emotionally-driven number where Spot and Leonard spell out the importance of their bond. | |
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"The Song That Goes Like This" from Spamalot is largely a spoof of this type of song, as well as Andrew Lloyd Webber ballads (there's some overlap between them stylistically); "Find Your Grail," meanwhile, plays it straighter, albeit with the Lady of the Lake hamming it up. | |
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The Princess and the Frog has "Never Knew I Needed" by Ne-Yo. It's a little more R&B than previous examples, but then you hear that synthy sparkle. Ahhh... | |
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Earwig and the Witch has "The World is in My Hands" by Sherina Munaf (the Japanese voice of Earwig's mother), with an instrumental example in "Memories are Always Beautiful". | |
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"It's All Too Much" caps off the animated bulk of Yellow Submarine. While the song itself didn't get any Grammy nods, the soundtrack did get nominated for Outstanding Original Score for Motion Picture or Television. It should also be considered that "It's All Too Much" was not composed specifically for the film; it was one of four songs done during the Sgt. Pepper sessions (the others being "All Together Now", "Only a Northern Song" and "Hey Bulldog") that John Lennon had delivered to Heinz Edelmann at TVC-London with a note that read "Can you use any of these?" | |
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The song "Wishes" from the Madeline Christmas special stands out as this because of its pop-like quality and sound despite not being sung by someone famous. It doesn't lose the syrupy nature of most Madeline songs, and it fits. | |
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Tenchi Forever, which was meant to be the conclusion of the Tenchi Universe canon, has Love Song ga Kikoeru, which is appropriate considering he actually picks someone in this continuity. "Tenchi Muyo! in Love" has "Alchemy of Love" by Nina Hagen and Rick Jude. |
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Even Rush (Band) did one. Listen to "The Garden". | |
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"Our World" and "When The River Meets The Sea" from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas . Both were composed by Paul Williams two years before he did "Rainbow Connection" for The Muppet Movie. | |
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''Attack on Titan has several. The main highlights are: The first ending of season 1, Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai by Yōko Hikasa, which is written from Mikasa's perspective Akatsuki no Requiem/Requiem der Morgenröte written and sung by Linked Horizon. 13 no Fuyu (13 Winters) Written and performed, again, by Linked Horizon with vocals from Yui Ishikawa. A tragic love ballad about the main couple of the series. Ai Higuchi wrote and sung not just one, but two Award Bait ending songs: Akuma no Ko/Child of Devil and Itterashai / See You Later. Interestingly, both serves as sort of a reply to each other. The Ending songs of the series finally reached their triumphant conclusion with Ni-sen Nen... Moshiku wa... Ni-man Nen-go no Kimi e/To You, 2000 Years, Or Perhaps, 20,000 Years Later, also by Linked Horizon but with a twist, featuring Yui Ishikawa and Yuki Kaji as vocals. The song pretty much summarize the main themes of the series as whole: starts with a reprisal from 13 no Fuyu above, then transition to reprisal of Requiem de Morgenröte with a different , but no less grievous lyrics, followed by going all in with the glorious melody reprise of the series first opening song Guren no Yumiya before finally ended with a somber outro which signals the end of the story as a whole. |
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Cats Don't Dance has "Our Time Has Come" and "I Do Believe", the former being a reprise of an upbeat version appearing in the opening credits. | |
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The second ending theme for Season 2 of Assassination Classroom, "Mata Kimi ni Aeru no Hi" (Until the Day I See You Again). | |
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Gankutsuou's intro, "We Were Lovers". | |
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My Neighbor Totoro has the titular theme, "Mother" and "A Lost Child", both performed by Azumi Inoue, as well as "The Path of the Wind" performed by the Suginami Children's Choir. The former is played during the end credits of the film while the latter three songs are played as instrumental versions in the film. | |
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"Tomorrow" from Annie. | |
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Cowboy Bebop has The Real Folk Blues and the final ending theme Blue. The Movie has Knock a Little Harder. | |
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Evita (and Madonna) give us "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina". | |
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One Piece Film: Strong World has Fanfare by Mr. Children. There's also "One Day" by The Rootless, although it kind of spoiled the fact that Portgas D. Ace got Killed Off for Real. ''Tsuki to Taiyou'', the twelfth ending, definitely sounds like one of these. |
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The obscure Ocean Waves has "If I Could Be the Sea" by Youko Sakamoto. | |
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Goldust's theme, true to his film-obsessed gimmick, sounds like an instrumental mashup between an award bait song and a more traditional symphonic score. | |
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For the 2012 parade, Thirza Defoe contributed the Pocahontas-esque anthem "Tree of Life". | |
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Panda! Go Panda! has "Nennen Panda" by Ado Mizumori in The Rainy-Day Circus. | |
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Guilty Crown gives us three songs for consideration: "Euterpe", "Departures ~Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta~", and from the Lost Christmas OVA/game, "Planetes". | |
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Robin Hood (1973) "Love" was nominated for an Oscar, and later featured in other media, such as Fantastic Mr. Fox as well as Amazon's 2023 Super Bowl ad "Saving Sawyer". Notably, it was one of the few newly written songs not written or sung by Roger Miller. "Not in Nottingham" is another example, this one actually performed by Miller. |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion celebrates Homura triumphant in her belief that Utopia Justifies the Means with the heartbreaking "Your Silver Garden". | |
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Ready Jet Go!: "The Spirit of Christmas" from "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace", has all the makings of one, including a piano instrumental, soft vocals, a message about friendship, and an overall warm tone. Jet even notes that the song is a crowd-pleaser. Despite this, it never won any awards in real life. | |
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The Vision of Escaflowne: A Girl In Gaea has You're Not Alone. | |
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Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker's "Make a Wish". By that extension, the Japanese version's "Chiisaki Mono" (A Small Thing). |
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Kamen Rider Kuuga has "Aozora ni Naru" by Jin Hashimoto. | |
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Kamen Rider Ryuki caps off its final episode with Yui's character song, "INORI". | |
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The Raccoons has three; ''Ain't No Planes'', ''All Life Long'', and ''New World''. | |
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"Send In the Clowns" from A Little Night Music, popularized by Judy Collins. | |
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Horus: Prince of the Sun has Hilda's songs. | |
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The Japanese dub of The Peanuts Movie ends on a surprisingly melancholy note for a lighthearted family film: "A Song for You" by Ayaka. That said, it stands out as more of this trope than the two Meghan Trainor songs featured in the North American release. | |
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Babar: The Movie has "The Best We Both Can Be" by Molly Johnson. | |
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The eponymous song from the ending of the 2004 Phoenix anime. May sound like a fairly ordinary anime vocal ending at first, but easily becomes Tear Jerker by the end of the story by sheer stunning context with it. Effect may be amplified if you are particularly moved by the style of The Carpenters. | |
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Turning Red with "1 True Love" performed by the in-universe boy band 4*Town. | |
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GaoGaiGar has "Itsuka Hoshi no Umi de" (Someday, In the Sea of Stars) by Shinomari Satoko as its ending theme. | |
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Grave of the Fireflies has "Home, Sweet Home" by Amelita Galli-Curci. | |
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind has the titular theme song performed by Narumi Yasuda, which does not play in the film itself but played prominently in promotional material. The film itself has instrumental examples with "Nausicaä - Requiem" during the climax of the film and "The Bird People" during the end credits. The first Cantonese dub also has "Green Water, Clear Wind", a Cantonese cover of "The Bird People" With Lyrics, performed by Sandy Lam (most known for singing a Translated Cover Version of "Take My Breath Away" for Wong Kar-wai's first film As Tears Go By). | |
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Jetsons: The Movie has "Home" and "I Always Thought I'd See You Again", both by Tiffany (who also provided the voice for Judy). Also, a young Shane Sutton performs "With You All the Way". | |
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The theme song to the English dub of The World of David the Gnome. | |
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Komar, Melamid, and Dave Soldier invoked this with "The Most Wanted Song," which was literally based upon survey results about what people liked and disliked in their songs—down to the keychange! The counterpart "Most Unwanted Song" is anything but. | |
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Quite a few in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- "Tsubasa" by FictionJunction KAORI "Yume no Tsubasa" by Yui Makino there's also a duet version with Miyu Irino "Ring Your Song" by Eri Ito "Kaze no Machi He" by FictionJunction KEIKO "You Are My Love" by Yui Makino and there's an English version by Eri Ito ''Dream Scape" by FictionJunction KAORI |
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Slayers has "Somewhere in the World" that was used as the credits theme for the anime's third season finale, sung by Houko Kuwashima (the voice of Fillia). Sung in English no less. | |
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Caillou has the closing credits song "Everyday" in Caillou's Holiday Movie, a Direct to Video film. | |
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The Noddy Shop: "Thank You For Being You" from the Season 1 finale, "Noah's Leaving", could be considered this. So much so, that Dennis Scott wrote a Rewritten Pop Version for a tribute album to another PBS Kids show, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, in 2005, which would be re-recorded again for another Mister Rogers tribute album 14 years later. From the Season 2 finale, there's "One Goodbye At A Time". Another song that qualifies is "The Friend You've Found in Me", a song about friendship. |
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Princess Mononoke has the titular theme, sang by Mai Hisaishi (composer Joe Hisaishi's daughter) in the Image Album, Yoshikazu Mera in the Japanese version of the film, and Sasha Lazard in the English version of the film. | |
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The Macross franchise has a few J-Pop-style showstoppers, but special mention must be given to "Do You Remember Love?", specially written for the Summer Blockbuster of the same name by the late Kazuhiko Katoh. | |
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After the epic fight to finish the first season of the anime series, the finale ending song for One-Punch Man has "Kanashimi Tachi Wo Dakishimete". Sayonara indeed. | |
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All the Yarudora games have memorable Ending Songs, but the one that fits the trope out them all is "Kisetsu o Dakishimete", from the game of the same name. A love ballad sung by Oto Fumi in 1998, it's the only song in the Yarudora games to have entered the Japanese weekly Oricon charts, reaching the #64 rank and being charted for four weeks. | |
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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya has "When I Remember This Life" by Kazumi Nikaido, with instrumental examples in "Flying" and "The Procession of Celestial Beings". | |
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Freddie as F.R.O.7 gives us "I'll Keep Your Dreams Alive", performed by George Benson and Patti Austin. | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the film that launched the Disney Animated Canon, has "Some Day My Prince Will Come". And then the song got a cover version to coincide with the Diamond Edition re-release of the movie which brings the song up to the same sparkly synth standards as other songs of this trope from the Disney Renaissance era. The cover released for the Platinum Edition even moreso. |
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Fangbone! has a nice tribute fan song called "Fight for Your Heart" which is a nice ballad about our favourite barbarian. | |
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"A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from Cinderella. | |
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies playfully lampoons these types of songs with "Upbeat Inspirational Song About Life". For extra parody kick, it features Michael Bolton. | |
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Heathers The Musical has a three-fer: "Our Love Is God", "Seventeen", and "Kindergarten Boyfriend". | |
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"Say It Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza. | |
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The Transformers: The Movie has "The Touch" by Stan Bush, the franchise's unofficial theme song. | |
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"Key To This Wonderful City" (2007), by Feinstein and Anika Noni Rose is similar to "When Hope Was There" in that it's more upbeat than all of these examples, but still fits this mold. | |
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On Johnny and the Sprites, the songs were all written by composers from Broadway shows, many of them Tony award-winners. Of all the songs they've written for this show, "Brightly Shining" stands out as the most blatant example of Award Bait. (It was going to be part of a stage show entitled Magical Holiday, but that was canceled and retooled as a more general non-holiday-themed stage show.) | |
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The Rise of Darkrai uses, of all things, "I Will Be With You (Where the Lost Ones Go)" for its award bait song—even in the Japanese version! Can lead to a bit of Soundtrack Dissonance over the ending credits, which has the beautiful, soulful ballad played over scenes of adorable frolicking Pokémon. | |
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Naturally, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut took this one on with Satan's big ballad, "Up There", which specifically lampoons "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid (1989) and "Out There" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. A more traditional example is "Through the Eyes of a Child", played over the back half of the end credits. It's performed by Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers and only slowly tips its hand with lyrics like "Sure, life is kinda gay/But it doesn't seem that way/Through the eyes of a child". Ironically, it was "Blame Canada" that was nominated for the Oscar... and it lost to the aforementioned "You'll Be in My Heart". (Matt and Trey did not react to this well...) That this was nominated over "Up There" is even funnier given that the latter is about the only song in the entire film lacking profanity. The idea of "Blame Canada" even being performed at the Oscars was a bit controversial back in 2000 due to the lyrics, but Robin Williams was equally awesome and hilarious singing it! |
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Howl's Moving Castle has "The Promise of the World" by Chieko Baisho, Sophie's Japanese voice. | |
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Smurfs: The Lost Village is a great example of this with the song "You Will Always Find Me In Your Heart" performed by Shaley Scott. | |
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Castle in the Sky has "Carrying You" as performed by Azumi Inoue in the end credits. Another example would be the Image Song "If I Could Fly in the Sky" by Yohko Obata, which was used in some early promotional material but never played in the film itself nor was included in most soundtrack releases. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED has "Mizu no Akashi" sung by Rie Tanaka (as the character Lacus Clyne). The sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, takes the trope further, by using the song "Fields of Hope" to accompany visuals of a space colony crashing into the Earth, destroying entire cities and killing millions. |
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Most of the ballads in Jekyll & Hyde, in particular "This Is the Moment" and "A New Life", seem written only to be showstopping applause getters. | |
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The Prom has "Dance With You", which gets a Final Love Duet Triumphant Reprise to start off the finale. Other contenders include "The Acceptance Song" and "Unruly Heart". | |
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Meanwhile, its pseudo-sequel Spirit Untamed has "Fearless" by Isabela Merced. There's also a Spanish duet version featuring Eiza González that plays during the credits too. | |
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Flashdance: The Musical has a romance duet of this style titled "Here And Now", which also incorporates a reprise of "Don't Stop". The Beta Couple also gets one with "Remember Me". | |
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Tales from Earthsea has two examples from Aoi Teshima (Therru's Japanese voice actress): "Therru's Song" and "Song of Time". | |
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Pokémon: The First Movie features "We're A Miracle", which fits the trope fairly well, except being a little less epic and sung by a big pop star, Christina Aguilera. Curiously, the Japanese version of the film featured "Kaze to Issho ni", which certainly sounds like one of these. Honestly, every Pokémon movie makes an attempt at this. It Was You by Ashley Ballard. |
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From Up on Poppy Hill has Aoi Teshima doing a new cover version of "Summer of Farewell", originally a theme song for an '80s dorama. | |
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Team America: World Police parodies this trope with "The End Of An Act". | |
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The first anime movie adaptation of Heaven's Feel, Presage Flower has Hana no Uta, or Song of Flowers also by Aimer, which, in full of Heaven's Feel Tear Jerker glory, captures perfectly Sakura's feelings of his past treatment from the Matous, as well as to Shirou, being her only hope to get out of the mess. | |
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The Boss Baby has a cover of "What the World Needs Now is Love", sung by Missi Hale (who voices Mrs. Templeton). | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) has the song Bratya which was featured at the end of the episode where we see Ed's and Al's past. Even though it's in Russian, a language most viewers probably don't understand, it definitely packs a punch. | |
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The Land Before Time with "If We Hold On Together". Throughout the film, the song appears, eventually using Diana Ross' vocal version — over the end credits, naturally. The fifth film, The Mysterious Island has the gentle and plaintive "Always There". The tenth film, The Great Longneck Migration, has "Best of Friends" by Olivia Newton-John, a cover of another song heard in the film. |
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Arrietty has "Arrietty's Song" and "The Neglected Garden" by Cécile Corbel. The Image Album has more such songs like "Sho's Song", "Forbidden Love", and "Sho's Lament". The American Disney dub also adds in Bridgit Mendler's (Arrietty's American voice) "Summertime". | |
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Matilda: The Musical has "I'm Here" and "My House", the former of which is reprised in counterpoint at the latter's climax. "When I Grow Up" also qualifies. |
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Starlight Express has the Starlight Sequence and its titular song, which was dialed up with the El DeBarge cover. | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has two which qualify: "Sunflower" by Swae Lee and Post Malone, as well as "What's up Danger" by Blackway and Black Caviar. | |
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Glee usually just does covers, but they also churned out a few original songs that qualify as award baity: "Get It Right", "Pretending" and "As Long As You're There". | |
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The Lion King (2019) has two all-new songs that fit: "Spirit" by Beyoncé, who played Nala in the remake; and "Never Too Late" by Elton John, who wrote all the songs of the original film (which all carried over to the remake). | |
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On Your Mark was made as a music video to such a song from Chage & Aska (of Street Fighter: The Movie fame) | |
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While not an original song and thus ineligible for awards, the original Shrek uses Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (as performed by John Cale) as its award bait-style song. That said, Shrek actually does have an original award bait song, but it's on the back end of the credits and was overlooked: "It Is You", which also uses the tune of the movie's instrumental theme "True Love's Kiss". | |
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A Very Potter Musical has the affectionate parody "Not Alone". | |
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My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising has "Might+U", an epic arrangement of "You Say Run" that plays during the film's final battle after Midoriya transfers One For All to Bakugo. | |
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Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro has Kodoku no Hikari, the lyrics especially capture the feeling of trying to be hopeful in a very depressing environment which is very not that far from the actual events in the story especially with all of the Big Bad Sicks' atrocities and the death of Sasazuka while having a bittersweet tone that the show tries to give us. | |
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When Marnie Was There has "Fine on the Outside" by Priscilla Ahn. | |
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Balto has "Reach for the Light" by Steve Winwood. | |
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Bambi has "Love Is A Song" sung by Donald Novis. Though it's primarily used over the opening, a short reprise is also used during the ending. | |
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Dragon Ball GT may be not have been seen as great in everyone's eyes, but this Sabitsuita Machine Gun by WANDS was a great song to finish off to finish the franchise. Dragon Ball Z had "Hikari no Tabi" for its "Bardock: the Father of Goku" special. Bonus points for being a duet. |
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The Wind Rises has Yumi Matsutoya's '70s hit "Vapor Trail" as the Award-Bait Song. An instrumental example would be Nahoko's leitmotif throughout the film. | |
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"I Dreamed a Dream" and "Stars" from Les Misérables. The 2012 film versions are especially tear jerkers. | |
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My Neighbors the Yamadas has Akiko Yano's "Quit Being Alone" and a Translated Cover Version of "Que Sera, Sera" performed by the cast. | |
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The Castle of Cagliostro has "Fire Treasure" in the opening credits and ending, being a much slower and more sombre song for the otherwise action-packed Lupin III franchise. | |
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The tenth film, The Great Longneck Migration, has "Best of Friends" by Olivia Newton-John, a cover of another song heard in the film. | |
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The first Rugrats movie had "Take Me There" by Mya Ft. Blackstreet, Mase, & Blinky Blink and "I Throw My Toys Around" by No Doubt, the second film had "When You Love" by Sinead O'Connor. No Oscar nomination for either — at least one newspaper review expected the latter to be snubbed for "Where Are You, Christmas?" (see Film — Live-Action), but that song wasn't nominated either. David Bowie originally wrote Safe — which went on to be the B-side for his 2002 single Everyone Says 'Hi' — for the first film, it ultimately went unused in favor of "Take Me There". |
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Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie has two. Surprisingly, it was the end credits song "In The Belly Of The Whale" that was considered for Oscar nomination: "It Cannot Be", the song Jonah sings about not wanting to go to Ninevah. "Second Chances", the big musical number at the climax of the film, is an amazing number that gets the message of the film across. It helps that it was performed by Anointed. |
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Titanic: The Legend Goes On just wouldn't be a complete knockoff of the James Cameron hit without its own sappy ballad, and "Holding Me" delivers. | |
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Wish (2023), Disney's Milestone Celebration film for the company's centennial that actually was partially inspired by "When You Wish Upon a Star" and incorporates its melody into the score as part of numerous Company Cross References (one character later notes "a dream is a wish your heart makes", too), has two: "This Wish" (which gets the choral reprise in universe) and "A Wish Worth Making" (which gets the end credits, though it appeared in a Deleted Scene). "This Wish" was nominated for a Golden Globe but lost; a common complaint about the songs and film as a whole was that they were so focused on hitting all the "traditional" Disney animation tropes that they ended up generic. | |
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While the titular theme of Ponyo may not count, the Image Song "Rondo of the House of Sunflowers" by Mai Hisaishi, which plays in the film as an instrumental version, definitely does. | |
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Ice Age: The North American version doesn't have an awards bait song, but, in Japan, there's "Hitoshizuku" by Zone. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has the rather upbeat, but still very sappy, "Raining Sunshine", performed by Miranda Cosgrove. | |
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The original Hellsing anime has "Shine" by Mr. Big as the ending song. | |
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The Tigger Movie: "Your Heart Will Lead You Home" by Kenny Loggins. | |
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"What We Gonna Do?" and "Do the Right Thing" from The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie. They both are very upbeat and catchy. | |
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"Sleeping Sun" by Nightwish | |
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After War Gundam X featured Human Touch, which was one of the last works composed by the Soulful Rain Man himself Warren Wiebe. | |
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm has "I Never Even Told You". | |
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Ronja the Robber's Daughter has the "Wolf Song". | |
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Thumbelina has this with "Let Me Be Your Wings", with co-writer Barry Manilow and Debra Byrd handling end-credit duties. (In an odd inversion, the comedy number "Marry the Mole" won a Razzie for Worst Song, the only animated feature that can claim such a "feat".) | |
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Jelly Jamm has a more upbeat and lively use but manages to keep it's positive message about diversity with ''Holding Hands.'' It was also used for a Christmas album that Guille Milkyway, the person behind the songs in the show worked on. | |
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A group of unofficial fan dubbers creating an English track for the movie One Stormy Night took it upon themselves to actually pen an all-original award bait song for the end credits, replacing the movie's original end credits theme, "Star". "Watch the Moonrise" is actually quite sweet. Can also become a Tear Jerker, depending on how you look at it. |
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The German version of Felix the Cat: The Movie has the song "Something More Than Friends" sung by an unknown duet. | |
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The infamous 1988 musical version of Carrie would have had an example of this in "Unsuspecting Hearts", if the existence if a "pop version" demo is any indication. | |
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50th anniversary of Disneyland (2005): "Remember When", sung by LeAnn Rimes and written by Richard Marx. The finale of the Remember...Dreams Come True fireworks show was sung live at the park by Rimes on May 5th, 2005. | |
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El Cid: The Legend, a Spanish animated film, has "The Power of a Broken Heart"; there are versions of the song in both Spanish and English. | |
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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King features the beautiful and uplifting song Utsukushiki Mono (Something Beautiful) by R&B artist Ai, from her album Independent Woman which topped charts in Japan. According to The Other Wiki she felt it was the most vocally challenging song she had ever recorded. Guts' Theme from the Berserk (1997) series is an instrumental example. Wish by Mika Nakashima, from Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition. |
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During Obama's last day in office, Lin Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson perform "One Last Time" from Hamilton and the song becomes an award bait song midway through as seen here. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants had a parody in the form of "This Grill is Not a Home". "All You Need Is Friendship" is a straight example. |
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Pom Poko has "In This Town of Asia" and "Always, Someone Is", both performed by Shang Shang Typhoon. The former is only used in the film's marketing while the latter is the end credit theme. | |
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Rainbow Rocks has "Shine Like Rainbows" from the end credits, and Sunset Shimmer's post-movie Image Song "My Past Is Not Today". | |
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The Cat Returns has the end credit song "Become the Wind" by Ayano Tsuji. | |
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Pat Benatar's "One Christmas Night" debuted in 2015. | |
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And Legend of Everfree has "Embrace the Magic". It's notably Sunset Shimmer's first in-movie solo. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "Love Is in Bloom," from the "Canterlot Wedding" two-parter. Appropriately, a Disneyish season finale ends with a Disneyish song. The Season 3 finale, which is also a Musical Episode, has "I've Got to Find A Way" and "Celestia's Ballad". Pinkie Pride, the show's second musical episode, gives us "Pinkie's Lament", which according to writer Amy Keating Rogers, was inspired by the aforementioned "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina". Season 4's finale does it again with "You'll Play Your Part" in Part 1, and "Let The Rainbow Remind You" in Part 2. Especially the former, with its Disney-esque instrumentation and lyrics. The Mane Theme itself has recieved an Award Bait arrangement sung by Kaylee Johnston, which was intended for the Equestria Girls ending credits but dropped in favor of the aforementioned "A Friend For Life". Crusaders of the Lost Mark, the show's third musical episode, marking the CMC's earning of their Cutie Marks and the fifth anniversary of the show's premiere, appropriately has "The Pony I Want to Be", also Diamond Tiara's first solo song. Season 5 Episode 24, "The Mane Attraction", features "The Magic Inside (I Am Just a Pony)", sung by Tony Award winner Lena Hall. The Times They are a Changeling gives Spike an award-baiting solo number with "A Changeling Can Change". Season 7's "The Perfect Pear" was the episode to finally give a backstory to Applejack's parents and naturally featured "You're In My Head Like A Catchy Song" - a love song from her mother to her father. Also performed by guest star Felicia Day. "Fame and Misfortune" climaxes with the Mane Six breaking into "Flawless" - an anthem about how none of them are perfect but it doesn't matter with The Power of Friendship. In six-part harmony too! The Grand Finale of the series, fittingly titled "The Last Problem", gives us an award-baiting final number called "The Magic of Friendship Grows", celebrating all the good times throughout the years. |
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The fifth film, The Mysterious Island has the gentle and plaintive "Always There". | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie has "The Best Day Ever". Let's see... Sparkly synth? Check. Moving lyrics (the term "The Best Day Ever" could symbolize SpongeBob getting his manager placement at the end of the film)? Check. Backing vocals for the chorus? Check. Truck Driver's Gear Change? Check. Yup, this one qualifies. | |
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Undertale the Musical has "Home". | |
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The sequel, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, takes the trope further, by using the song "Fields of Hope" to accompany visuals of a space colony crashing into the Earth, destroying entire cities and killing millions. | |
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"Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail is the Trope Maker. | |
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie has "Do I Miss You?" and "All in How Much We Give", the latter of which is a closer example of this. | |
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The Grand Finale of the series, fittingly titled "The Last Problem", gives us an award-baiting final number called "The Magic of Friendship Grows", celebrating all the good times throughout the years. | |
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The Musical of The Secret Garden has "How Could I Ever Know", an eleventh hour duet between Archie and Lily's ghost. | |
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The Nasuverse is rife with this: Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau, sung from Irisviel's perspective and Manten from Fate/Zero. The Unlimited Blade Works anime has Brave Shine from Aimer on the opening, which actually won a Best Anime Theme Song award in Japan. The first anime movie adaptation of Heaven's Feel, Presage Flower has Hana no Uta, or Song of Flowers also by Aimer, which, in full of Heaven's Feel Tear Jerker glory, captures perfectly Sakura's feelings of his past treatment from the Matous, as well as to Shirou, being her only hope to get out of the mess. |
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The Broadway musical of Fun Home has "Ring of Keys", which was the producers' showcase number at the 2015 Tony Awards where the show won Best Musical. "Changing My Major" also qualifies. | |
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Aladdin: "A Whole New World" was the 1992 Oscar winner. "Proud of Your Boy" was a Cut Song reinstated to the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation. "A Million Miles Away" was a new addition to the stage musical. |
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Parodied in Ylvis's "Someone Like Me", which alternates between a Disney-style romance ballad and a dubstep breakdown. | |
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron arguably has several of these, but there are two that fit best — "Here I Am", the opening song that also plays over the end credits, and "I Will Always Return", the finale. And to top it off, BOTH are sung by Bryan Adams. Meanwhile, its pseudo-sequel Spirit Untamed has "Fearless" by Isabela Merced. There's also a Spanish duet version featuring Eiza González that plays during the credits too. |
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South Park: The episode "Pee" has a parody with "Minorities in my Waterpark", sung by Cartman. The lyrics are about Cartman's displeasure with too many minorities showing up at the waterpark. | |
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Great Pretender has three examples, each fitting different Award Bait criteria: First is "Someday," the theme of the third arc. It begins with sparkly synth, it starts slow and builds to a big finish, it's played over a Falling-in-Love Montage, and it's a soulful ballad about overcoming one's past. It's treated as the Signature Song of the series, being heavily promoted by the show's social media and being one of the songs available on its official Spotify. However, it's more somber than other Award Bait, and it is directly about events that happen in the show. Second is "Our Love," the song used as a Friendship Song for Makoto and the other members of Team Confidence. It's a heartwarming, uplifting, and uptempo Silly Love Song about The Power of Love which isn't directly about the events of the series, it builds to a big finish, and it ends on a delicate piano trill. It's used in multiple places in the series and is one of its other signature songs. Finally, there's "Through the Night," the show's actual final song, used during its "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue. It's a big, sweeping ballad about persevering in the face of adversity, and it's actually used during the show's conclusion, as is traditional for Award Bait Songs. It's also not directly about the events of the series, though it does tie into them. |
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Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger has "Healing You" by Salia. | |
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Blixemi's Warrior Cats fan song Sink Away fits this, with the tear-jerking lyrics that build up to a triumphant conclusion, as well as lyrics that talk about love and hope without any mention of cats living in clans or other direct indication it is about Warrior Cats. | |
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"There's Always Tomorrow" from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). Fellow Rankin/Bass Christmas special, the relatively obscure 1967 production Cricket On The Hearth, has the unnamed song that plays from the point of view of the leading human character; comparing his and his blind daughter's current Christmas with that of the First Christmas and realizing that it can still be Christmas without the usual decorations and trimmings associated with the holiday as long as he and his daughter still have each other. The song is actually reprised over the end credits, making it somewhat of an Ur-Example to the songs that played over the end credits of many a movie from the 80s onward. |
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Porco Rosso has a cover version of "Le Temps de Cerises" and the original song "Once In a While, Talk of the Old Days" both by Tokiko Kato, Gina's voice actress. The film also has instrumental examples with "Bygone Days" and "Porco e Bella" | |
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Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song has the titular Fluorite Eye's Song Vivy's ultimate triumphant song, sung by Kairi Yagi, the singning voice for Vivy. The opening theme song, Sing My Pleasure'' also by Yagi. Another version also is sung by the AI character, Grace, provided by Hikari Kodama. Ensemble for Ploaris first sung by the AI character, Estella (singning voice of Rikka) and then later joined in a duet by her sister, Elizabeth (singining voice of Noa) as the Polaris colony plunges to earth. |
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Anastasia has two: "Journey to the Past" and "At the Beginning". "Once Upon a December" is either this or a bonus "I Want" Song. "Journey to the Past" got the Oscar nomination (and a cover by Aaliyah, performed at the ceremony), but lost to "My Heart Will Go On". | |
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Kubo and the Two Strings has Regina Spektor's reworking of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer parodied this in "Once More, with Feeling", when Anya complained that her song with Xander would "never be a Breakaway Pop Hit". That would be reserved for Tara's "Under Your Spell". | |
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Even Horrid Henry gets into this trope with ''Rockstar'' from the fictional band The Killer Boy Rats. | |
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Even Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt gets in on this trope with "Chocolat" by Stocking's Japanese voice actress Mariya Ise. It especially works in the context of its episode, "Ghost; The Phantom of Daten City". | |
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Kiki's Delivery Service has two '70s pop songs from Yumi Matsutoya "Message in Rouge" and "If I Were Covered in Tenderness" as the opening and ending themes, respectively. There are also two Image Songs by Azumi Inoue that are definitely Award-Bait Songs, "Turning Seasons" and "The Warmth of Magic", which would be included as instrumental versions in the film. Earlier releases of the American Disney dub additionally add in "Soaring" and "I'm Gonna Fly" from Sydney Forest, replacing the two Yumi Matsutoya songs, though these songs have since been removed in favour of the original Japanese songs. | |
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Encanto has the traditional "I Want" Song "Waiting on a Miracle" as well as "Dos Oruguitas", which appears over a montage of Abuela Alma and her husband. Neither has a pop version, but the latter has an English version that appears during the credits. And while both songs charted on the Hot 100, and "Oruguitas" was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe, they were overshadowed in popularity by the more upbeat "Surface Pressure" and especially "We Don't Talk About Bruno", both of which had Top 10 peaks, with the latter reaching the top position. | |
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The Looking for Group movie, which lapsed into Development Hell before being retooled into a Kickstarter-funded series, seems to be an Affectionate Parody of the Disney animated musical. So far we've seen "Part Of Your World" and "A Whole New World". | |
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Whisper of the Heart has a Translated Cover Version of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads", as sang by Yoko Honna, Shizuku's voice actress. Another example would be "The Baron's Song", also performed by Yoko Honna. | |
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Although it was co-produced in South Korea, Iron Kid is a good example of this with the ending theme from the original Korean version ''Come Back'' performed by May. Another song on the show's soundtrack, also from the original Korean version, but not in the series are also slow and dreamy ballads like ''Forever.'' The ending theme from the Japanese dub is even more baity. | |
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The Boy and the Heron has "Spinning Globe" by Kenshi Yonezu. | |
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Dragon Ball Z had "Hikari no Tabi" for its "Bardock: the Father of Goku" special. Bonus points for being a duet. | |
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Spirited Away has Yumi Kimura's "Always With Me" (played during the end credits) and "The Name of Life" (which only plays in the film as an instrumental version). Other examples would be the Image Song "White Dragon" performed by Rikki (of "Suteki da ne" fame), and the instrumental song "Reprise", during the climax of the film. | |
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UglyDolls has "Unbreakable", which bears a suspiciously similar melody to Golden Globe winner "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman. Chances of the song being nominated for any major awards is slim, considering the film's overall negative reviews and commercial disappointment. | |
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Continuing with the trend, Friendship Games gives us "What More Is Out There?" Although not an end credits song, it stylistically fits this trope. | |
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Pokémon 3 has "To Know The Unown" performed by the girl group Innocence. And of course, The Power of One by the late great Donna Summer from Pokémon 2000 (the Japanese version uses a rather dissonant rap bit by Namie Amuro). This one was famous enough for Herman Cain to quote the lyrics for his exit speech from the 2012 USA Election Republican leadership race, with him referring to Donna Summer as "a poet." Pokémon: The First Movie features "We're A Miracle", which fits the trope fairly well, except being a little less epic and sung by a big pop star, Christina Aguilera. Curiously, the Japanese version of the film featured "Kaze to Issho ni", which certainly sounds like one of these. Honestly, every Pokémon movie makes an attempt at this. It Was You by Ashley Ballard. Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker's "Make a Wish". By that extension, the Japanese version's "Chiisaki Mono" (A Small Thing). The Rise of Darkrai uses, of all things, "I Will Be With You (Where the Lost Ones Go)" for its award bait song—even in the Japanese version! Can lead to a bit of Soundtrack Dissonance over the ending credits, which has the beautiful, soulful ballad played over scenes of adorable frolicking Pokémon. Open My Eyes, the ending theme of Pokémon: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction. The song has the theme of letting go of one's fears and opening up to the world, with the second half being a beautiful melody. |
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An example from China, Big Fish & Begonia has many songs that fit this trope perfectly, especially "Big Fish" by Zhou Shen and "Rendevous in This World" by Eason Chan. | |
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) has "Rainbow" by Sia, starring as the pegasus popstar Songbird Serenade. | |
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There's also "I Will Get There", performed by Boyz II Men. There's the acapella version that closes out the end credits and is on the offical soundtrack album, and the R&B/pop version featured in the "Inspirational" soundtrack. | |
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Even Chicken Little has one. "All I Know". | |
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"Somewhere" from West Side Story. | |
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The successor to that song was another Milton and Anne DeLugg composition, "Giving Thanks". It was first performed by Mary Jo Catlett (yes, that Mary Jo Catlett) in 1983, and was reprised the next year by John Ratzenberger (yes, that John Ratzengerger). It was also the parade's closing theme for a few years. | |
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Frozen II has three, all of which have pop versions in the credits and on the soundtrack. "Into the Unknown", "All is Found" and "Lost in the Woods" have their credits versions sung by Panic! at the Disco, Kacey Musgraves and Weezer respectively. The first of the three got its Oscar nomination, but lost to "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Rocketman (2019). | |
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The Phantom of the Opera has two: "Music of the Night", and "All I Ask of You". "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" comes in as a close runner-up, but it stands alone without reprise, whereas the former two are not only called back several times, but run together in the finale. | |
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Love Live! Sunshine!! has "Kiseki Hikaru", which isn't an end credits theme and was instead used as an insert song in The Movie, but nonetheless sounds like one and thematically fits the series' conclusion. It starts off as a soft, innocent tune reminiscing about a long journey's end, but the orchestral accompaniment steadily becomes more grand and sweeping as the lyrics become increasingly bittersweet and reveal it's actually about Aqours trying to stay hopeful after failing to accomplish their goals. (which is relevant to the ending of the anime, where they failed to save their school.) Nonetheless, it ends on an optimistic note, that the sun will rise again. | |
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In Britain, Ice Age: The Meltdown has "Real Love" by Lee Ryan. | |
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Full Metal Panic! featured no less than two of these songs as openings for its anime adaptation. The first, "tomorrow", was used for the original series, the second "Sore ga Ai deshou?"("I guess that's love?") strangely enough was used as the opening for Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. | |
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"I Believe" (2008), by Kermit the Frog and Camp Broadway is one of the more popular examples to come out of the parade. The next parade featured both a Triumphant Reprise of the song and a duet version featuring Kermit and actress Tiffany Thornton. The latter version was also released to iTunes and Radio Disney during the 2009 holiday season. | |
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