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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Life is good, ain't it? Makes you just want to sing about it. And if life isn't good... well, then sing about being happy, and some happiness is sure to come to you. And if you've got a friend whose life isn't as happy, well then maybe a song will perk up their day. Some other guys can take their dark brooding, their angst, their cynicism, and their responsibilities and sit in their corner somewhere. But this song is about living the good life, the free life, the happy life. Not tied down by any restrictions, you just sing to be happy, and that's all there is to it. Basically, this song is about having a fun-loving, optimistic outlook on the world, and, above all else, no worries. Expect this sequence to be a lot lighter in tone than the rest of the plot. Usually, this type of song is sung by a carefree individual to educate someone who doesn't know the joy of the good life, but, since the hero's journey is ultimately all about responsibility, this tends to be a Sidekick Song, especially if the sidekick's life is a Foil to the hero's destiny, or a song sung by the hero before The Call screws around with his life. It may even represent an initial Refusal of the Call, or a "Leave Your Quest" Test later in the story. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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RENT has: "Out Tonight", about Mimi enjoying what time she has left. "Santa Fe", about Collins' dream of opening a restaurant out west. |
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Brother Bear has a Cut Song called, well... "The Fishing Song", which is replaced in the final version of the film by "Welcome". "The Fishing Song" is basically about how the bears at the Salmon Run live a happy life just being bears, including eating, swimming, fishing, and sleeping. They also live a motto that can be described (as said in the lyrics) as "every day is one long party" and "life don't get no better than this". | |
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"All For The Best" from Godspell points out that even though life might suck, there's more to life than material wealth and that it will all even out in the end. | |
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"Live, Laugh, Love" from Follies starts out as one of these. | |
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Fun and Fancy Free had Jiminy Cricket's song "I'm a Happy-go-Lucky Fellow," all about his happy and carefree approach to life. | |
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"Dancing Through Life" from Wicked, though it is heavily shown that this manner of life is shallow, flippant and actually unfulfilling. The singer learns his lesson by the end of the play. | |
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Labyrinth: Cross this over with a Villain Song, hand it to a Wacky Wayside Tribe that's keeping the heroine from reaching her goal, and you get "Chilly Down," all about life without worrying about a thing. | |
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Cabaret: "Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome" is of the darker life-sucks-but-let's-pretend-for-a-moment-it-doesn't variety. The title song "Cabaret" is another: |
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Frozen has "Let it Go" sung by Elsa, where she believes that she can finally use her ice powers without harming anyone, and live with no worries or responsibilities by going on a self-induced isolation in her Ice Palace. Unfortunately, what she doesn't realize is that she accidentally plunged her own kingdom into an Endless Winter and upon being informed, she goes right back to square one and panics, accidentally striking her sister in the heart. Her Character Development involves learning to face her problems instead of simply avoiding them, in the end controlling and using her powers around others instead of repressing them or hiding. | |
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The Lion King: The song "Hakuna Matata" popularized the phrase, where Timon and Pumbaa tell Simba, who has just run away from his responsibilities and his life, that he doesn't need to worry about the past, because a carefree existence is much less trouble. However, this mentality ends up becoming an obstacle that Simba must throw off before he can start serving the kingdom and rescue it from Scar, who never outgrows this attitude and tries to take the benefits of being king without taking any of the responsibility that goes along with the job. When both Simba and Scar shun this responsibility, the kingdom suffers greatly from Scar's neglectful approach. It's only when Simba grows and learns to take responsibility that prosperity returns. In fact, the song shows Simba being apathetically cynical ("Sometimes, bad things happen and there's nothing you can do about it. So why worry?"). | |
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The 2019 remake of The Lion King takes a rather nihilistic spin on "Hakuna Matata." There is no "circle of life" or anything beyond the here and now, only a "line of meaningless indifference". Nothing really matters beyond living comfortably and choosing your own happiness over a meaningful purpose. | |
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It doesn't go back there, either! The Jungle Book has "The Bare Necessities" (of which an excerpt of the lyrics provides the page quote). Baloo tells Mowgli all about life in the jungle, where your only concern should be what's for dinner (and whether or not it's you), and no one needs any lasting anxiety. | |
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Subverted and directly referenced in The Book of Mormon with "Hasa Diga Eebowai," in which the Ugandan villagers sing a happy-sounding song about how much their lives suck and how they try to make the best of it by cursing God in the most profane manner possible, and again in "Turn It Off," in which the Mormon missionaries sing a toe-tapping tune about forgetting their problems by suppressing their emotions. | |
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In Hadestown, "Living It Up on Top" is about Persephone heralding her return and everyone enjoying the summertime and life she brings. The forgetting-your-troubles aspect is particularly resonant in the Broadway version, where Persephone puts complaints about the weather and hard times out of her mind as she tells Eurydice to take what she can get and make the most of it. | |
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"Living Dead" from Jasper In Deadland is about all the spirits in Deadland partying and having fun, due to the fact that they've already lost everything except for their souls. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The children's song the Tachikomas sing when they crash the satellite hosting their A.I. into an American nuclear missile launched at the refugee camp/island of Dejima. Fits this trope to a "t": the Tachikomas are robotic sidekicks, and the song is about the simple optimism of life. | |
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998) had Slyly the Fox sing "It Could Be Worse" to Rudolph after he ran away from home. The song is about how there are worse situations in the world and how Rudolph should forget his troubles at the time. | |
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The show finally hooks up Josh and Rebecca after a season and a half of trying, and they celebrate with a '70s soul pastiche called "We'll Never Have Problems Again," and forcibly reject any thoughts about how delusional with infatuation they are. Heather calls them out on it. Josh also tries this earlier, with the Jason Mraz-style "Thought Bubbles", but he keeps being distracted from his insistence that he's totally happy and chill with disturbing thoughts like how weird it was that he randomly stopped liking guacamole one day because what if he suddenly stopped liking his mom the same way? Ultimately concluding with him realizing that his generally carefree personality can only be kept up as long as he's in a relationship and has someone to distract him from his thoughts. |
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The Lion Guard has a call back to the song from The Lion King. Bunga and Simba end up trying to navigate tunnels when they’re trapped in a sinkhole. They argue and go off in different directions. Bunga starts singing “Hakuna Matata” and Simba hears him and joins in. They realize they’re kinda like brothers since Timon and Pumbaa raised them both, and are able to start getting along better. Simba, along with the rest of his family,later sings it at the Elephants’ concert. | |
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