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In most American musicals, the hero is a little guy (or girl) who doesn't amount to much right now, but dreams of a brighter future. Usually, they do this with an "I Want" Song, where they sing of how this little town is too small and they know there's a great big world out there for them. This is always so the audience can identify with them. Because the hero, just like you, isn't a movie star or a princess or anybody else officially special, but is really special deep down if they try, and (unlike those conformist drones around you) wants to try. The lyric to the song may well include the actual words "I want" or some variant thereof to hammer the point home. If well written, the "I Want" Song can do an excellent job of establishing the character of the protagonist and their one burning desire that will motivate their actions from here on. (This motivation is particularly important given that they will often be asked to make difficult choices and sacrifices in order to achieve their goal, and their response to those choices will become a mark of their moral development.) Plot-wise, it can fit nicely into The Hero's Journey story archetype just before the Call to Adventure, where the hero is dissatisfied with the ordinary. If written badly, however, the lyrics may convey only the vaguest sense of longing that allows nearly anyone in the audience to associate with the hero by proxy, but doesn't establish enough to motivate the plot. This gets even worse if the hero doesn't actually do anything to achieve their dreams, but happens to stumble into something big later. A lot of writers realize this, because the I Want Song is the single biggest target for a Dark Reprise. If there isn't a song specifically for the most unhappy part of the hero's life (usually halfway through Act II), it will be a Dark Reprise of their earlier song. Alternatively, if / when they achieve their goal, they may sing a triumphant reprise of their I Want song upon doing so at the very end of the story. Some musicals use this song as an opportunity for social commentary, focusing almost as much on what the characters are trying to escape (usually crushing poverty) as on what they're trying to achieve. In many older musicals, however, the song is about nothing more dramatic than the heroine's romantic fantasies. A variant (which can be either vague or specific) is the bittersweet I Want Song, which is not about feeling elated with the hero, but about turning them into The Woobie. If the song is vague, it shows that they've been crushed by life and can't even imagine a better world. If the song is specific, what they want is absurdly small or big, to show how their awful life has made it impossible to have a sense of proportion. This is not to be confused with a straightforward song about their rotten life, like "Hasa Diga Eebowai" from The Book of Mormon. It can easily be argued that any song in a book musical can be interpreted as an "I Want" song. Those who've studied musical theatre performance (or acting at all, for that matter) know that a character never opens their mouth onstage without an objective. In musical theatre, song is the method of communication of the characters' wants in that universe. No matter what… the person singing ALWAYS wants something. May overlap with Job Song if a person is singing about the job they want or about wanting something besides their job. Examples |
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Adventure Time's episode "What Was Missing" features two of these. The first "I'm Just Your Problem" starts with Marceline saying that she'd like to drink Princess Bubblegum's blood, but soon shows that what she really wants is to repair the friendship/romance between her and Peebles. The second, "What Am I To You?" is Finn singing about how what he really wants is his best friends to stay and enjoy each others' company. The song "I Remember You" is two-fold. The first is Simon/ the Ice King wishing that he could retain his sanity and identity, but failing that, that his adoptive daughter Marceline will forgive him for whatever happens after he does. At the same time, its Marceline trying to make him remember what he's lost. |
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark have a rather sinister one, "Atomic Ranch". | |
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Parodied in Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, where the Princess' song "Everything and More" is a string of ridiculous and often mutually exclusive desires to highlight how pampered she is and how vague her want is. | |
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"Freeze Ray" from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. "A Man's Gotta Do" was turning into one as well - before Captain Hammer hijacked it in the middle of the first verse and turns it into an "I Am" Song. "Everything You Ever" is a dark subversion as it as about Billy getting everything he wanted except Penny, and as a result everything else just leads him to a spiral into disaster and a total transformation into Dr. Horrible. |
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Quite a few of the songs in The Wicker Man (1973) are combinations of this and the Villain Song, and all of them are about sex in some way or another. Interestingly, the hero's only song is definitely not an example, because it's a musical version of the 23rd Psalm, and starts with "The Lord is my shepherd \ I shall not want". | |
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"Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and/or "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof, the former being more directly related to the conflict of the show. | |
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"The Movie In My Mind" from Miss Saigon. "The American Dream" could apply, too. | |
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"I Miss The Mountains" from Next to Normal *might* be considered an I Want song—though it's really about one thing that Diana Goodman wants at this one point in the show (to feel again without drugs pulling her into a bland unemotional state) rather than the one thing that she wants more than anything throughout the show. Natalie gets "Everything Else", showing her desire to get away from her family and go to college. |
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"Memory" is an unusual I Want Song from Cats because the singer isn't singing about the future. What Grizabella really wants is a chance to relive her life, which consisted of a misspent youth. Knowing that a wish for the past to change is ungrantable, she'll settle for understanding and acceptance. | |
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"Santa Fe" from RENT (allegedly inspired by the song of the same name from Newsies) also counts, as the disillusioned New Yorkers fantasize about life in sunny Santa Fe. As does, more traditionally, "One Song Glory", which is about Roger wanting to leave a mark on the world in the form of a beautiful, powerful piece of music. |
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"I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner. | |
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Arguably "Evermore" from Beauty and the Beast (2017) counts as Prince Adam/Beast's version of an 'I want song'. | |
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In the The Loud House Movie, Lincoln is overshadowed by his ten sisters, who are all exceptionally talented and accomplished at what they do, from Lori's golf to Lynn Jr.'s various sports to Lisa's genius-level intellect. Lincoln sings "Ordinary Me" about wanting to be special, too, and shine like his sisters. | |
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"Break Away" is one for Anna, Steph, Chris and John in Anna and the Apocalypse as as they seek to leave their current lives behind. It'll soon happen in a way they don't expect. | |
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"Let Me Be Your Star" from Smash is one on two levels. It is the "I Want" Song in the musical Bombshell and also functions as one for aspiring Broadway leading ladies Karen and Ivy. "The 20th Century Fox Mambo" is another one from Bombshell. |
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The Disney Animated Canon, being mostly musicals, has many examples (nearly always sung by the princess of the moment): "I'm Wishing" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. And its Affectionate Parody, "True Love's Kiss", in Enchanted. "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes", from Cinderella. There's also "More Than A Dream" from Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. Inverted with the Tear Jerker reprise, where Cinderella resigns herself to the fact that her dreams might never come true after all. Also, Cinderella's step-sister Anastasia gets her own I Want verse song at the end of "Perfectly Perfect" where she hopes to someday find someone who will love her. "In a World Of My Own", from Alice in Wonderland (becomes a case of Be Careful What You Wish For). "I Wonder", from Sleeping Beauty. "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid. The reprise is arguably the most iconic scene from the entire movie. The Broadway musical added an I Want Song for Prince Eric ("Her Voice") as well. "I Want the Good Times Back" from the Broadway adaptation is both an "I Want" Song and a Villain Song. Ditto its post-Broadway replacement, "Daddy's Little Angel". Both the film and the stage show end with a Triumphant Reprise of "Part of Your World", with the lyrics changed appropriately. "Belle (Reprise)" from Beauty and the Beast. Again, the Broadway musical added an I Want Song for the male lead ("If I Can't Love Her"). Also in the musical version and later added into the special edition DVD is a rare Crowd Want Song, where all the enchanted objects sing about being "Human Again". "Jack's Lament" in The Nightmare Before Christmas is more or less one of these. Jack is famous and adored in his role as the Pumpkin King, but craves fresh change and meaningful inspiration. The song's less upbeat and more sorrowing than the standard. Most of the songs Jack sings have elements of this. Especially "What's This" which even climaxes with the line "I want it! Oh, I want it! Oh, I want it for my own!" Possibly deconstructed in The Lion King (1994) with "I Just Can't Wait To Be King". It's an "I Want" Song sung by someone who knows he's destined to get what he wants by birthright, and is being an immature egotist about it. Which contrasts with his reluctance in adulthood to come back. "Just Around the River Bend" from Pocahontas, possibly the vaguest I Want lyrics of all — it boils down to "I want something, but I have no idea what that is. But I'm sure I want it.". The song is about just that - she wants that feeling of not knowing what's coming. She doesn't know what she wants, she just knows she wants it to come, and she wants it to be a surprise, unexpected, something to discover. One of Animaniacs' funniest parodies was their Pocahontas parody, with the song "Just The Same Old Heroine" parodying the predictability of this trope. Also from Pocahontas we get "Mine Mine Mine", which gives us an I Want for both the Villain, who desires gold, and the Love Interest, who just wants adventure. "Out There" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The song "God Help the Outcasts" plays with the trope: the character seems to be appealing to God for aid, but turns out to be asking God to pass her by and help out the truly helpless. Hunchback also features the most sinister and tormented I Want Song ever sung in a children's movie; Frollo's Villain Song, "Hellfire", where he prays for God to "Destroy Esmerelda, and let her taste the fires of Hell! Or else let her be mine and mine alone!" "Go the Distance" from Hercules. And also the far peppier "One Last Hope", wherein Herc's trainer expresses a longing for an adequate student. "Reflection" and "A Girl Worth Fighting For" from Mulan. And in the sequel, there's "Like Other Girls". "After Today" from A Goofy Movie. "Strangers Like Me" from Tarzan. "I Wanna Be Like You" from The Jungle Book (1967). "I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)" and from Treasure Planet. It was made by John Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls. "Another Believer" from Meet the Robinsons. Similar to the Treasure Planet example, played by Rufus Wainwright over a montage. "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog could be considered a subversion, in that Tiana is singing not that she wants something, but rather that she's close to getting it because she's worked hard to earn it. The movie also has a straight "I Want" Song in "When We're Human", which Tiana also subverts by spending singing about how she's still going to be working hard once she gets her restaurant ("When I'm a human being/At least I'll act like one...") "When Will My Life Begin?" from Tangled. Rapunzel sings about how she longs to see the world beyond her tower, particularly the annual light show that she spends the second act trying to reach. Also, "I've Got A Dream" is another Crowd Want Song. The thugs at the Snuggly Duckling sing about, despite how violent they seem, they all have adorable dreams deep down. (At which point they also force the romantic interest to sing his own I Want Song.) The song that plays over the end credits, "Something that I Want", also counts Aladdin has the cut song "Proud of Your Boy". The song was later restored in the Broadway musical directly after the reprise of "One Jump Ahead," his "I Want" Song from the film. Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular gives Jasmine an "I Want" Song called "To Be Free." while the Broadway musical has a song for her called "These Palace Walls." Both convey Jasmine's yearning to escape her trapped and confined life. "A Whole New World" actually inverts this. It's an "I'll Give You What You Want Song". Brave has "Touch the Sky", in which Merida wants to have her freedom from her princess lessons, even though it is her offscreen singing voice. Frozen has three separate and distinct I Want Songs: "Do You Want To Build a Snowman", in which Anna wants the close bond she and Elsa previously shared. "For The First Time In Forever", in which Anna is excited at the prospect of meeting new people, and possibly finding true love (also the reprise, in which she wants to help Elsa and bring her back to Arendelle). "In Summer", in which Olaf sings of how wonderful it would be to experience Summer. The fact that he's a snowman notwithstanding. Frozen II also has three. "Some Things Never Change" is a zig-zagged example. Anna and Elsa are happy with what they have now and largely want everything to stay the same; only Kristoff wants to take his relationship with Anna to the next level. "Into the Unknown" has elements of this. Among her many mixed emotions, Elsa longs to go into the unknown and find where she truly belongs. "Show Yourself" talks about Elsa's wish for answer, making it a retrospective "I Want" song; "All my life I've been torn/But I'm here for a reason/Could it be the reason I was born?" Moana features "How Far I'll Go" (which doubles as a Wanderlust Song) in which Moana sings about how she longs to sail on the ocean and go beyond her small home island, but is torn between her desires and her duties as the chief's daughter. The reprise morphs it into her "I Am" Song. Parodied in Ralph Breaks the Internet. Vanellope asks the Disney Princesses how they get that effect where the lights dim around them and music starts playing, and tries to do it herself, singing about her desire for the replacement steering wheel for her Sugar Rush arcade machine. It doesn't work, and the Princesses are more bemused by it than anything. She gets a real one later in the film in the form of "A Place Called Slaughter Race", about how she wants to live in the dangerous world of the online Vehicular Combat game Slaughter Race as an escape from the all-too-familiar Mascot Racer Sugar Rush. Encanto has "Waiting on a Miracle" for Mirabel; the song is about her sadness about everyone in the family being powerful but herself and wanting to be seen and accepted as an equal. |
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The Magic Riddle: Cindy's song, where she sings about being an ugly duckling wanting to become a swan. (Despite being the most attractive person in the movie. This can easily come under criticism.) | |
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The Music Freaks: Jake's song "My Gaming Life" in the middle of “He Can Sing?!�. | |
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"An English Teacher" from Bye Bye Birdie, as well as "Spanish Rose" and "A Lot Of Livin'". | |
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The Simpsons: Apu also gets a short one (in the form of a Dark Reprise) in the episode "Homer and Apu": "Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I doooooooo!!". Parodied in "My Fair Laddy". When Lisa asks Groundskeeper Willie if he wants a better lot in life, Willie sings, "All I want is a place somewhere.". Then everything stops, as that was all he wanted. Bart suggests aiming higher, leading into a longer song, "Wouldn't It Be Adequate?" (a parody of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" from My Fair Lady), where Willie would like such things as his shack repaired, matching shoes, and underwear for when he's wearing a kilt. |
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"More Than Survive" is Jeremy's from Be More Chill. | |
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The sequel Disenchanted (2022) has "Fairytale Life (The Wish)", another Exactly What It Says on the Tin song. In this one, Giselle wishes that life in the sprawling suburb of Monroeville would be more cheerful and magical like her homeland Andalasia. | |
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Wandersong's "I Wanna Be A Hero", sung by a Bard who wants to stop The End of the World as We Know It despite being talented in singing and not much else: | |
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"TASTE OF TERIYAKI" from Um Jammer Lammy and its soundtrack album Make It Sweet! is largely about wanting a man to whom the singer can give her love and be protected from malevolent angels and demons who are harassing her. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? had a Scene To Rap game which had Colin entering last as a robber, who after demanding everyone's stuff (in rhyme, of course) started asking for just about everything else, which was finally topped off with him lampshading the whole deal by breaking rhyme, shouting and announcing "I'm crazy!" | |
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"Maybe This Time" from Cabaret. A rather sad one. | |
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Each act in Into the Woods begins with "I Wish". The one in Act 2 is more of a Dark Reprise. Cinderella sings in "A Very Nice Prince" that "What I want most of all... is to know what I want" and relays a similar sentiment in "On the Steps of the Palace". Indeed, one of her defining character traits is indecisiveness and not knowing if she wants the ball or the prince. |
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My Little Pony: My Little Pony 'n Friends: "Would-Be Dragonslayer" has "All I Want Is to Be a Knight", where Alonzo sings about his dreams of knighthood and the many miserable failures he's encountered in his quest. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Ticket Master": Pinkie Pie has a small one when she tries to convince Twilight to give her the extra ticket she has. "Winter Wrap-Up": Twilight's verses in the titular song focus on her desire to fit in with Ponyville's traditions and contribute to the also titular festival in the traditional, magic-less manner. "The Best Night Ever": "At the Gala" is a variation, having each of the characters singing about what they hope they will get out of their night at the gala. "May the Best Pet Win!" "Find a Pet" establishes Rainbow Dash's qualities she wants in a pet. "Twilight's Kingdom Part 1": Twilight has a more selfless has a variation with "You'll Play Your Part", with her wanting to be able to do more with her role as a Princess to help out others. In "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", Diamond Tiara laments about being forced into a social role she hates during "The Pony I Want To Be". |
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Most characters in Finale get one. Alex has "Perpetually Almost" about how he wants to date Tyler "Today is the Day" is one for the whole cast, as they all sing about their goals "More Than This" is one for both Alex and Tyler about how Tyler wants to leave her abusive relationship and Alex wants to finally ask Tyler out Dani has "Break Free" about how she wants her father to stop being overprotective of her "Leaving You/Me" is a Counterpoint Duet version of this for both Krista and Noah about how Krista doesn't want Noah do leave for college and how Noah wants to go to college. |
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"Purpose" from Avenue Q, which is a bit of a parody of this, as it references "Something's Coming". | |
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The title character in Muriel's Wedding borrows some of the greatest hits of ABBA for this. | |
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"Something Better" from Muppet Treasure Island. | |
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"Waiting for Life" from Once on This Island. Arguably, "Some Girls" for Daniel. |
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In Grease (more so the play than the movie), literally every song serves the purpose of giving the audience insight into a character's (or group of character's) personality. Very few of the songs actually move the plot along in any way. | |
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The opening of Community's third season, about Jeff's desire to have a totally normal new year...which ironically is conveyed by song. | |
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"Somebody to Love" from A Day at the Races. | |
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"I Want a Guy," the first single by The Supremes under that | |
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Falsettos "Tight Knit-Family" iS Marvin explaining his motivations to the audience, and what he wishes he could have. He wants to be with his lover, Whizzer, but he also wants to live a heterosexual life to keep up appearances with Trina and Jason. "I'm Breaking Down" A comedic but bittersweet song sung by Trina while she reflects on her divorce. She says that she would like to be with a man who loves her (throughout the song, she lowers her expectations to a man who can be attracted to her, then to a man who can help her.)She wishes for a relationship in which her needs and wants are fulfilled rather than ignored. In "Trina's Song" and "Trina's Song- Reprise", Trina expresses being exhausted and fatigued with the men in her life and their immaturity, as well as how they treat her poorly and neglect to fulfill her need, and how she has lost so many years of her life to that. The song begins to lighten in tone, with Trina saying that she will marry Mendel and turn her life around, bringing a positive male figure into her son and her life. |
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"Octopus's Garden" from Abbey Road. | |
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We Will Rock You has several that qualify, including "I Want to Break Free" (Galileo/Scaramouche), "I Want It All" (Meat and Britney) and even "Seven Seas of Rhye", to some extent, for Kashoggi. | |
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Hoodwinked!: Red Puckett starts her story with the song "Great Big World". | |
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Discussed Trope on Riverdale when the characters put on a musical about their lives. While rehearsing with Archie and his understudy, Kevin explains that the "I Want Song" helps establish what Archie-the-character wants. Archie expresses frustration with the song because it doesn't seem like the character wants anything, and is further frustrated with how he doesn't know what he wants. Kevin also gets annoyed by this. | |
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Several from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The opening number: "How To..." is exposition as well as Finch's "I Want" Song. Reprised in Act 2 near the end for the secretaries. "Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm" for Rosemary: she wants a successful husband even if he neglects her emotionally "Rosemary" becomes one for the two of them - Finch has finally figured out that he loves Rosemary, and his proposal causes her to reciprocate. "Paris Original" appears to be one of these at first, as Rosemary's crooning about her dress that'll knock Finch for a loop and make him swoon over her, but Hilarity Ensues with an example of Dresses the Same - a beautiful subversion beginning halfway through the song. Finally, "Love From A Heart Of Gold" turns itself into one for Biggley and Hedy. |
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If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate is a parody of the traditional Disney "I want" song — stuffed to the brim with unpleasant details of the period in which some Disney films take place. | |
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"With One Look" and "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard. | |
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King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride opens with Rosella singing "I want to go to a land beyond dreams". And it would be a very short game if that didn't happen. | |
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"Not For the Life of Me" from Thoroughly Modern Millie. Later, "Gimme, Gimme" and "Muquin". |
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In the Animaniacs short "West Side Pigeons", the sparrows get a parody of "America" in West Side Story: Rita has had a few of these, mostly about wanting a home. Parodied and lampshaded in the episode "Jokahontas", where they sing about how they've seen it frequently. |
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A more materialistic version: Disney's High School Musical has Sharpay Evans first singing in High School Musical 2 that she wants "Fabulous" (I want more!/I want fabulous...) then talking her brother Ryan into wanting everything ("I Want It All": ''I want it, I want it, want it: The fame and fortune and more...'). One could argue that in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Sharpay (and Whatshisname)'s I Want It All could qualify. Later in the film, the song is reprised by Whatshisname himself, Ryan, who seems to be well on his way to getting it all. |
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"Much More" from The Fantasticks for Luisa. Less on the nose, and later in the show than most songs of this variety are, but "I Can See It" is Matt's. |
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Annie: "Tomorrow". As well as the opening number, "Maybe". |
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"I Want to Break Free" from The Works. | |
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Evita: Eva Perón always wants something and isn't shy about going after it. Eva's portions of "Eva and Magaldi," "Buenos Aires," and "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You" are all examples. | |
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"Some People" for Rose and "If Momma Was Married" for June and Luise, both from Gypsy. Rose's Turn is an inversion: it's more of an I Wanted song. |
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"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin has the protagonist promises not to settle for the ordinary and to search for a higher state of fulfillment. His big dreams are a wild goose chase, keeping him from the important things in life. The deranged attempt at a Bright Reprise in the final scene leads to spectacular failure. "Extraordinary" from the same show is nominally an "I Am" Song, but Pippin's trying to convince himself he's as great as he aspires to be is obviously delusional. |
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The Fairly Oddparents got one sung by Norm called "Gimmie the Wand" talking about how he wants to be a fairy instead of a Genie. Note that this also doubles as a Villain Song, since Norm is the bad guy. The second half is a duet with Cosmo, playing this a bit straighter. |
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Holy Musical B@man! has "Dark, Sad, Lonely Knight," which eventually morphs into this trope as Batman sings about how he just wants to be "somebody's buddy." Superman and Green Lantern join in as well, foreshadowing the fact that they also join the Super Friends at the end of the musical. | |
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Sesame Street: The original series has the song "Somebody Come and Play", in which the singer yearns for someone to come over and play with him before the day is through. In the special When You Wish Upon a Pickle, a mysterious (and sentient) Wish Pickle, which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. At the beginning of the special, the song "Imagine Me" has Elmo, Chris, Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby imagining the ways they'd like to live their lives. |
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The third season of Total Drama has the song "Before We Die". Some of the characters sing about what they want to do if they don't die at the end of the song, which they were led to believe they were going to. "I Wanna Be Famous" is another song that speaks of...a desire to be well-known. | |
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In A Very Potter Sequel, Hermione has "The Coolest Girl". She's tired of being the object of derision and scorn. She wants people to treat her like a person, and realize that she's a lot cooler than they think she is. | |
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Also from Pocahontas we get "Mine Mine Mine", which gives us an I Want for both the Villain, who desires gold, and the Love Interest, who just wants adventure. | |
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13 has the song Get me what I need where one of the characters is not only singing about what they want, but also trying to convince another character into helping him get it. The song Opportunity also could count, as it is about Lucy's desire to take her best friend's boyfriend when because her friend messed up, leaving her with, well, an opportunity. |
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Parodied in Ralph Breaks the Internet. Vanellope asks the Disney Princesses how they get that effect where the lights dim around them and music starts playing, and tries to do it herself, singing about her desire for the replacement steering wheel for her Sugar Rush arcade machine. It doesn't work, and the Princesses are more bemused by it than anything. She gets a real one later in the film in the form of "A Place Called Slaughter Race", about how she wants to live in the dangerous world of the online Vehicular Combat game Slaughter Race as an escape from the all-too-familiar Mascot Racer Sugar Rush. | |
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Bubble Guppies often has this type of song be the first one of an episode. Just one example is the song "I Want a Pet Today" from the episode "Bubble Puppy". | |
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The Wiz has two: Dorothy expresses her wishes to leave Oz in "Soon As I Get Home". The Tin Man longs for the capability for human emotion in "What Would I Do If I Could Feel?" |
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Parodied in Monty Python and the Holy Grail — Prince Herbert repeatedly attempts to sing one of these, but his father always puts a stop to it. It's only when Herbert turns it into a Crowd Song he manages to get one started. Which is made Hilarious in Hindsight due to the existence of Spamalot. |
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"My Grand Plan" and "Good Kid" in The Lightning Thief, the adaptation of the first book in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. | |
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"The Wizard and I" from Wicked - Elphaba wants to be accepted and praised in spite of her strange appearance (i.e. green skin). Additionally, when the writers cut the song "Making Good" from the musical, they specifically wrote "The Wizard and I" as "I Want" Song, realizing that what Elphaba wanted was the same desire as others in Oz: to meet the Wizard, be liked and respected by him, and have him solve her problems. The song also contains the first appearance of the "Unlimited" interlude, which forms one of the musical's several Dark Reprises at the end. "Popular" is a subversion, as Galinda tries to convince Elphaba of what she should want rather than what she does want. And "Defying Gravity" could be considered an inversion, as it is basically Elphaba declaring that she no longer wants those things that she wanted before. |
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Both leads in The Music Man get their own: "The Sadder But Wiser Girl for Me" for Professor Hill and its Distaff Counterpart "My White Knight" for Marian the Librarian. Ironically, they both end up falling in love with someone exactly opposite from the sort of person they each claim to want. Also there's the songs "Goodnight My Someone", "Marian the Librarian", and "The Wells Fargo Wagon." | |
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Three words. Joxer The Mighty. It's very much his "I Want" Song, even though as the series progresses it gradually becomes somewhat nearer (albeit in a very overstated way) to an "I Am" Song. One episode reveals that he REWROTE this song from one his mean brother would sing when they were kids about all of Joxer's flaws (cowardly, weak, etc...). I'm not sure what the original version of the song would fall under in that case (an inverted Villain Sucks Song maybe?) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show has "Touch-a Touch-A Touch-a Touch Me", "Rose Tint My World", and "I Can Make You A Man". Not surprising in a musical about lust and desires. | |
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A Fleischer Popeye cartoon features a song of its title, "I Want To Be A Lifeguard," which has Popeye and Bluto vying for the job of a swimming pool lifeguard. | |
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"In My Dreams" and "Journey to the Past" are about Anya's desire to go to Paris and reconnect with her long-lost family in the stage musical Anastasia. | |
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"I Want To Hold Your Hand", released as single in the U.K. and on the album Meet the Beatles! in the U.S. and later on the compilation album Past Masters. | |
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Steven Universe: The Movie has an Inverted I Want Song in "Happily Ever After," in which Steven and the Crystal Gems detail how they have had quite enough adventure, thank you, and would very much like to settle down on Earth and enjoy their well-deserved Happily Ever After. | |
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My Little Pony: A New Generation: Sunny's "Gonna Be My Day", where she vows to reunite all ponykind and have them live in harmony once again. | |
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And its Affectionate Parody, "True Love's Kiss", in Enchanted. | |
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Another variation from Sondheim: in Company, the "I Want" song comes at the very end, since it takes the entire musical for Bobby to figure out just what, exactly, he does want from a relationship. The first-act closer "Marry Me A Little" might look like the "I Want" song, but the context makes it clear that the kind of no-strings relationship that song pleads for ("We'll build a coccoon/Of love and respect/You promise whatever you like/I'll never collect") isn't sustainable. The final song, "Being Alive", begins as a denunciation of marriage ("Someone to hold you too close/Someone to hurt you too deep") and ends as a plea for it ("Somebody, hold me too close!/Somebody, hurt me too deep!"). As the curtain closes, Bobby's finally ready to blow out the candles on his birthday cake and make a wish... | |
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While only in the background, "Hyper Fangirl" from The Nostalgia Critic's review of Phantom Of The Opera. It's twofold, as the execs want her to stay because they need the demographic, and she wants Critic still despite being happy with Devil Boner. | |
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In the opening of Rocket Saves the Day, Rocket sings about how he enjoys the many smells of his town, but that he wants more, that he wants an adventure and then more after that. "And I know I won't miss it / So long as I sniff it. I gotta find my adventure! Here I go, here I go, here I go!" | |
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One of the few text-only examples: Octopus Pie's resident stoner Hanna, obsessing over social media updates and a constant flow of information, realizes that the one thing she wants most is nothing. So she sings a Disney-style song in the middle of a farmer's market. | |
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The third song in the West End musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, "A Letter from Charlie Bucket", has Charlie writing to Mr. Willy Wonka the day before he and his family learn about the Golden Ticket contest. Charlie is in awe of Mr. Wonka's achievements and has been inspired by his example to brainstorm ideas for wonderful sweets of his own, but the poor boy has no hope of actually realizing them, so he sends Mr. Wonka the letter (via paper airplane) in hopes that he can. As it turns out, all of the inventions are specifically intended to improve the lives of Charlie's loved ones, because he doesn't need anything for himself — well, aside from two things: | |
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The Noddy Shop: "Someone To Be My Friend", Angelina's song, is about how she wants somebody to play with her after years being spent all alone. "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" is this for Disrupto. "I want what I want when I want it, and I want it now!" |
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The Swan Princess: "Far Longer Than Forever". Odette gets another more subdued one in the first sequel. "Magic of Love" is her wishing Derek wasn't so busy and that they had time to do things as a couple. |
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The common theme in several songs in Chrono Trigger: The Musical is Crono wanting to make sure history remembers his name. | |
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"For Forever" in Dear Evan Hansen is the bittersweet, "crushed by life" variation. Evan's great fantasy is to have one friend, someone who might have noticed when he broke his arm. More straightforwardly, "Waving Through A Window", about Evan's desire to connect with and matter to someone. |
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Legally Blonde's I Want Song is actually titled "What You Want". | |
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Going Back Home from Bran Nue Dae, sung by Annie and Uncle Tadpole while on the road to Broome. | |
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"All That's Known" from Spring Awakening. Melchior's closing refrain here — "You watch me, just watch me, and one day all will know" — is echoed in both "Bitch of Living" and, most notably, as the closing lines of "Those You've Known" as a Dark Reprise. It could be argued that a good majority of the play's songs are "I Want" Songs- "Mama Who Bore Me" is "I want to be treated like an adult", "Touch Me" is "I want sex/physical intimacy", and "I Don't Do Sadness" is "I want to be free from my neuroses." |
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One could argue that in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Sharpay (and Whatshisname)'s I Want It All could qualify. Later in the film, the song is reprised by Whatshisname himself, Ryan, who seems to be well on his way to getting it all. | |
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"I Want To Tell You" from Revolver. | |
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The Brak Show episode "The War Next Door" featured Zorak getting a better voice and becoming a successful musician. All his songs are about his intense hatred for the audience, including "I Want To Kick Your Ass". | |
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From Steven Universe: "Strong in the Real Way". Steven wants to help him and his friends work out and get physically strong. Pearl, who has anxieties about being weak compared to other Gems, wants him to realise there are other kinds of strength. Steven Universe: The Movie has an Inverted I Want Song in "Happily Ever After," in which Steven and the Crystal Gems detail how they have had quite enough adventure, thank you, and would very much like to settle down on Earth and enjoy their well-deserved Happily Ever After. |
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Cabaret: "Maybe This Time" is this for Sally. Also, in the versions that use it, "Money" is a more lighthearted example. |
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"Santa Fe" from Newsies, where Christian Bale dreams of life in the country out West. Bit of a Tear Jerker when he gets to the line "I ain't getting any younger"; he's 17 at this point, and already incredibly world-weary. | |
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The musical Camelot has an exceedingly ironic example of this trope in the song "The Simple Joys Of Maidenhood". Especially given the rest of the plot. | |
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In one episode of Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch, Pompous Ness sings "I Wanna be Rich". | |
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In "Beautiful" from Heathers Veronica wishes her classmates could be kind to each other like they were in primary school and to be "untouchable" like the Heathers. | |
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Since Phineas and Ferb has songs about Once per Episode, there are naturally other examples. For example, the same special also gives us "I Want To Be Cool". | |
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Parodied in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, where it's combined with a Villain Song performed by Satan. It's an oddly poignant yet silly lament about how happy he would be if he could live on Earth. | |
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"When I Grow Up" by Pussycat Dolls. | |
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Frozen has three separate and distinct I Want Songs: "Do You Want To Build a Snowman", in which Anna wants the close bond she and Elsa previously shared. "For The First Time In Forever", in which Anna is excited at the prospect of meeting new people, and possibly finding true love (also the reprise, in which she wants to help Elsa and bring her back to Arendelle). "In Summer", in which Olaf sings of how wonderful it would be to experience Summer. The fact that he's a snowman notwithstanding. |
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"That's A Very Interesting Question/I'd Like To Be A Rose" from the rock musical Two Gentlemen of Verona. | |
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The Barbie movies have several well-written I Want Songs. "Free" from Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is an I Want Duet between the titular characters, showing that though they're living completely different lives they share the same dream - to be free of the responsibilities thrust upon them. "I Need to Know" from Barbie as the Island Princess doubles as an I Want Song and a way to show the protagonist and the love interest are secretly falling for each other. In Barbie and the Secret Door, Malucia's song, "I Want It All," is about how she wants all of the magic in Zinnia and plans to catch the unicorns to get what she wants. |
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The title song of The Sound of Music. | |
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"I Wanna Be Your Man" from With the Beatles. | |
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Kaeloo: In Episode 105, Stumpy sings about how he wants a better life with friends who don't make fun of him and actually care about him. | |
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"Roxie" from Chicago. Sung by the character of the same name about her desire to be famous. | |
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"Wouldn't it Be Loverly" from My Fair Lady. | |
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Pacific Overtures has an "I Want" Song, "Please Hello", for all the countries trying to "open" Japan. The take turns with their demands (each in their own national style: the American in pseudo-Sousa, the Brit as a patter-song "modern major general" riff, etc). Then they start singing over each other as the demands escalate and it is dazzling "Don't touch the Coat!". | |
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"I wanna be a Billionaire so fuckin' bad," by Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars. | |
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Kimbra's "Settle Down". | |
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Starlight Express has several, including portions of "Call Me Rusty", and of course "Starlight Express". | |
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"Go Beyond" from Lexx describes Kai's yearning to escape the cloistered, stultifying immortality of his elders, ending with "I want more!" | |
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In Noob, the character song for Omega Zell ''Roxor'' is basically one. It was recorded and got a couple of clips at the time of Season 2 and was used in the actual webseries during the credits of Season 4 finale by which he's in the guild he dreams of joining in the song. | |
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Possibly deconstructed in The Lion King (1994) with "I Just Can't Wait To Be King". It's an "I Want" Song sung by someone who knows he's destined to get what he wants by birthright, and is being an immature egotist about it. Which contrasts with his reluctance in adulthood to come back. | |
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"Dangerous to Dream" from Frozen (2018), allows Elsa to express her desire to reconnect to her sister Anna, while being afraid of exposing her powers during the coronation. | |
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Most of Franks Wild Years, especially "Innocent When You Dream", except that whenever Frank tries to sing it, someone interrupts him. He doesn't get to sing the whole song until the end, at which point he is just as unfulfilled as he was at the beginning. | |
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In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Mrs. Lovett sings "By The Sea" about how she wants to move to the seaside and marry Sweeney Todd. This example is a slight subversion, since the story isn't about Lovett's quest for a seaside retirement, and she never gets anywhere close to achieving this goal. More pertinent (if less traditional) is Sweeney's "My Friends" in which he lovingly addresses his razors and delights in being able to exact his revenge, which is joined in by Mrs. Lovett with her longing for Sweeney halfway through. The movie takes "By The Sea" further into subversion with the visualization of her fantasy, by far the most happy and colorful scenes of the film...undercut by Sweeney being an unwilling participant, showing just how ridiculous her fantasy is. Johanna gets the "crushed by life" version in "Green Finch and Linnet Bird": having lived most of her life as the ward and effectively the prisoner of Judge Turpin, all she dares hope for is the ability to adjust to captivity: "If I cannot fly, let me sing!" |
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The Whitest Kids U' Know have probably one of the weirdest examples: Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK singing a duet about wanting be find a place "where I can do - what I want to - and all at my own pace" and "a place where I - can just unwind - and work on my own mind." | |
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"Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz is perhaps the most famous example of this kind of song. From the same film, "If I Only Had a Brain/a Heart/the Noive". |
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"Dust and Ashes" from the Broadway run of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 is about Pierre wanting to rise out of his depression and find true meaning in life. This is foreshadowed briefly in "Pierre", where Pierre states that he "still want[s] to do something". |
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Playmobil: The Movie has "So Much World", in which Marla sings about wanting to travel. | |
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In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Dream Academy's cover of The Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" functions as an "I Want" Song for Cameron. | |
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Tangled: The Series has three of them. Rapunzel has a new one called "Wind in My Hair," all about her desire to explore the world and its wonders, just as she's wanted her whole life. It serves as the opening theme. Varian gets a pretty epic one in "Let Me Make You Proud," which is about his desire to have his dad see him for the intelligent, capable person he is, rather than the immature, accident-prone troublemaker he believes his dad sees. Cassandra has "Waiting in the Wings", as she expresses being always sidelined and overshadowed and hopes to one day prove her worthiness and come out on top. She later gets an even more tear jerking song in the reprise, sung from the perspective of both Cassandra and her younger self, waiting for her mother to show love to her. |
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A Very Potter Musical possibly has one as its opening song "Goin' Back to Hogwarts" has Harry and several other characters excitedly singing about returning to school. Malfoy's verse of the song is definitely this trope as he sings about all the things he wants. Later in the show Malfoy attempts to sing an "I Want" Song about his dream school Pigfarts but Snape interrupts him. | |
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The Princess and the Pea has "Wide Open World" which is probably the most basic I Want Song ever written. | |
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The short film Once Upon A Honeymoon, featured in episode 701 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, featured a housewife singing such a song, but while it started out wishing for "a castle in the sky" and similar ethereal language, it quickly degenerated into wishing for a less drippy faucet, a living room set, a bedroom motif that Servo identified as "sort of a westerny-ginghamy-oriental-modernesque-prairie-school-type thing" ... and lots of telephones. (The short was, in fact, an ad from Bell Telephone, made at a time when all phones had to be rented from the phone company and colors other than black cost extra.) | |
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Robert's "Temporarily Lost" in The Bridges of Madison County describes his search for meaning in the world, despite all he's seen. | |
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And in the sequel, there's "Like Other Girls". | |
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Brave has "Touch the Sky", in which Merida wants to have her freedom from her princess lessons, even though it is her offscreen singing voice. | |
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Moana features "How Far I'll Go" (which doubles as a Wanderlust Song) in which Moana sings about how she longs to sail on the ocean and go beyond her small home island, but is torn between her desires and her duties as the chief's daughter. The reprise morphs it into her "I Am" Song. | |
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Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire features an idiosyncratic one; the song "Done With Monsters" consists of the gang hoping there aren't any monsters on their vacation. | |
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Les Misérables "Valjean's Soliloquy": after being saved by the bishop, Valjean is able to admit that he wants the dignity denied to him in prison. To some extent, "In My Life", at least Cosette's part, is a bit of an I Want song, as it comes in the beginning of her story arc, the younger generation's b-story. If you view Marius as the protagonist of that subplot, then Red and Black can be an I Want song — and that rarest of things a dueling I Want song between Marius (who wants love) and the other students (who want revolution). "Stars" gives a peek inside Javert's mind, in which he expresses desires both general (a neat and orderly world) and specific (catching Valjean). |
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"Sal Tlay Ka Siti" and "You and me (But mostly me)". from The Book of Mormon. | |
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Several characters in Shrek: The Musical have them: Fiona's "I Know It's Today", where she longs for a prince to come rescue her, just like the princesses depicted in her storybooks. Dragon's part of "Forever", where she laments being Fiona's "glorified babysitter", constantly disturbed by would-be-heroes who see her only as an obstacle instead of another lady who'd like to be rescued. Shrek's "Who I'd Be", where he reveals his desire to be a "semi-dashing" hero, or a daring viking, or a poet. |
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"I Want A Dog" by Hobo Johnson is about Hobo wrangling with his desires and aspirations. It starts off with the simple wish for a dog, then gradually the desires become more and more grandiose and impossible ("I want nothing but the best, better than anyone has ever had yet"), then reigns himself back in and tries to convince himself to aim lower ("No, Frank, you just want a dog, all you want is a dog"). | |
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"Maybe" is one for all the orphan girls in Annie. | |
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Stephen Sondheim fans might be more familiar with his version, "Truly Content". | |
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Portal 2's "Want You Gone": | |
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In the musical version of The Producers, when Bloom realizes that he's going to take up Bialystock's offer of entering the showbiz, his song lists all sorts of things he could have, and how he wants to be a producer - "Because it's everything [he's] not." In fact, the song is called "I Wanna Be A Producer". Roger DeBris' "I Am" Song "Keep it Gay" is also in part of his desire to create lighthearted and comedic shows. |
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"Till I Hear You Sing" from Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, is this for the Phantom. | |
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In Titanic there is "Lady's Maid" a song about what the 3rd class when to do when they get America,"I Must Get on That Ship" a song about, well, wanting to get on that ship and "I Have Danced" a song about Alice, one of the second class passengers, talking to her husband about how she wants the grandeur of the first class. | |
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"My Year" from Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018). | |
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"Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors, which gets a truly Dark Reprise. Despite being discounted in the opening description, Seymour's solo section in "Skid Row" definitely counts ("I constantly pray I'll get outta here ... I'd do I don't know what to get out of Skid Row!") Then Audrey II comes along... Really, "Feed Me (Git It)" also counts. "Mushnik and Son" is a somewhat villainous version. ("Seymour, I want to be your dad...") "The Meek Shall Inherit" also qualifies on several levels, though Seymour's part in it is a bit of a subversion—he doesn't really want what he's signing up for, and he's only doing it so Audrey (whom he does want) will love him. |
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"Heaven on their Minds" from Jesus Christ Superstar: Judas wants safety, which Jesus' growing public profile threatens. | |
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Joe Jackson's "Down to London" is about a young man's desire for rock stardom, and it does sound a bit like it could be in a musical. | |
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Enchanted has "True Love's Kiss" for Giselle and Prince Edward, which is about longing for, well, true love's kiss. The sequel Disenchanted (2022) has "Fairytale Life (The Wish)", another Exactly What It Says on the Tin song. In this one, Giselle wishes that life in the sprawling suburb of Monroeville would be more cheerful and magical like her homeland Andalasia. |
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Less can be More from The Return of the King can be described as an "I Don't Want" song. It's about how Samwise is happy with what he has, after he is tempted by the Ring with visions of power and authority. | |
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Pippi Longstocking: The Nelvana animated movie has a villainous example, as Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain duo Bloom and Thunder-Karlsson sing "I Want A Bowler/I Want A Tooth", which doubles as a Disney Acid Sequence. | |
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Barney & Friends has "What I Want To Be", which the kids sing about what they want to be when they grow up. A variation of the song in the direct to video special Barney's Halloween Party has them sing about what they want to dress up as for Halloween instead. | |
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Fame - the Musical (the stage play that followed the hit movie and the TV series) has some: "Hard Work" for the students ("when I hit the heights, put my name in lights, show the world that I can make it...") "I Want to Make Magic" for Nick. "There She Goes/Fame" for Carmen. |
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The stage adaptation of Gigi has "I Never Want to Go Home Again," which, surprisingly, shows up halfway through the show. | |
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"Someday" from Rags. | |
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Cake's Short Skirt/Long Jacket. "I want a girl with a mind like a diamond / I want a girl who knows what's best..." | |
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Ratt's "I Want a Woman," "I Want to Love You Tonight," "I Want It All" | |
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Savage Garden's "The Animal Song" expresses the singer's desire to live a more natural, stress-free way of life | |
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In the special When You Wish Upon a Pickle, a mysterious (and sentient) Wish Pickle, which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. At the beginning of the special, the song "Imagine Me" has Elmo, Chris, Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby imagining the ways they'd like to live their lives. | |
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My Little Pony 'n Friends: "Would-Be Dragonslayer" has "All I Want Is to Be a Knight", where Alonzo sings about his dreams of knighthood and the many miserable failures he's encountered in his quest. | |
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Hamilton: "My Shot", in which Hamilton, Lafayette, Mulligan, and Laurens all explain how they hope the rebellion will change their lives: Hamilton wants a cause to fight for, Lafayette wants to inspire his countrymen to organize rather than riot in the streets, Mulligan wants to advance in society, and Laurens wants the new nation to abolish slavery. Aaron Burr, the antagonist, also gets an example in the form of "The Room Where It Happens", where he finally reveals his desire for a high political position. Unusually for an "I Want" Song - but appropriately enough for the indecisive, secretive Burr - the number comes late in the show, about halfway through the second act, with Burr's motives having been obscured before that. Even more than that, the song itself isn't revealed to be an "I Want" Song until more than halfway through! |
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Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run features "Smell in My Mind", about perfume seller Lola Bunny's desire to "make a real difference" by creating the ultimate fragrance. | |
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"Koi wa Nandarou?" in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is an "I Want" song that's also Magic Music. It's slightly more upbeat and energetic, though. Actually, a lot more. | |
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"I Wish I Were a Fish" from The Incredible Mr. Limpet | |
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"Picture Show," the opening duet from the short-lived Wildhorn musical Bonnie and Clyde is this for both protagonists (Bonnie wanting to be a movie star; Clyde wanting to be a wealthy gangster). The characters start the song as children and "age" to their adult selves by the end, showing that both of these dreams were going nowhere fast. | |
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Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two has "I'm Falling Apart". | |
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Invoked in an episode of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again called The Raymond Nostril Story, a parody of musicals. The protagonist desperately wants to be an entertainer, and finally gets to an audition where he has the chance to wow everyone with his talent. His girlfriend tells him to get out there and amaze everyone, and he says that he will, "but first I'm gonna sing an "I'm Gonna Make It Big" song". He does so...and is then told that the auditions are over. | |
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Bump in the Night had two "I Want" Songs in the Karaoke Cafe segments. "Gotta Have It", where Mr. Bumpy sings about his avaricious tendencies. "Comfort Schmumfort", where Molly Coddle initially sings about how she tires of being expected to tend to everyone's injuries and wishes to have some time for herself. |
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"Let Me Walk Among You" from Bat Boy: The Musical, in which Bat Boy pleads the townspeople of Hope Falls to accept him and help him be human. | |
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Mamma Mia!: The show begins with the prologue, "I Have a Dream", where Sophie wants to find her father and holds three invitations to the most likely candidates as she sings. The song is reprised at the end of the show, with Sophie now wanting a bright future, whether she knows her dad or not. The coda of "Honey, Honey" also counts. Most of the song is Sophie reading straight from Donna's diary, but the coda changes the lyrics to be from Sophie's own perspective ("I've heard about you [potential father] before. I wanted to know some more...") Donna has "Money, Money, Money", where she hopes to court a rich man so she doesn't have to work as hard running a hotel on her own ("In my dreams, I have a plan. If I've got me a wealthy man, I wouldn't have to work at all. I'd fool around and have a ball..."). |
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The Prince of Egypt: Inverted and subverted with "All I Ever Wanted", where Moses tries to reassure himself about his place as Egyptian royalty after his long-lost sister, Miriam, reveals his true heritage. It has two short reprisals. The first by his adoptive mother, The Queen, trying to convince him that being adopted has never stopped his family from loving him unconditionally. The second during "The Plagues" as Moses admits it kills him to watch his old home fall to ruin and know he's lost his brother forever (we then get a contrasting verse from Ramses, in which he can't understand why his brother would put Egypt through such pain. "Is this what you wanted!?"). "Deliver Us" is one of these as well, for the Jewish slaves. Initially a crowd song, then cuts away to the River Lullaby, in which Yocheved expresses what she wants for her son before placing him in the Nile. The very last part spotlights Miriam and her hope that Moses will come back someday to liberate the rest of them. |
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"Good Morning Baltimore" and "I Can Hear The Bells" from Hairspray. | |
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"Another Day of Sun" from La La Land is a Crowd Want Song about the myriad of actors wishing for stardom in Los Angeles. "Someone in the Crowd" also counts, especially Mia's solo. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Ticket Master": Pinkie Pie has a small one when she tries to convince Twilight to give her the extra ticket she has. "Winter Wrap-Up": Twilight's verses in the titular song focus on her desire to fit in with Ponyville's traditions and contribute to the also titular festival in the traditional, magic-less manner. "The Best Night Ever": "At the Gala" is a variation, having each of the characters singing about what they hope they will get out of their night at the gala. "May the Best Pet Win!" "Find a Pet" establishes Rainbow Dash's qualities she wants in a pet. "Twilight's Kingdom Part 1": Twilight has a more selfless has a variation with "You'll Play Your Part", with her wanting to be able to do more with her role as a Princess to help out others. In "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", Diamond Tiara laments about being forced into a social role she hates during "The Pony I Want To Be". |
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Andrew Lippa's take on The Wild Party has "Out of the Blue" expressing Queenie's desire for change. Later in the musical is "Tell me Something" which reveals what Black wants. | |
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"The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha. | |
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Central Park has: "Own It", which basically sets up the motivations for most of the main characters - Owen to stop second-guessing his dedication as a dad and park manager, Paige to be a serious journalist, Molly to open up to her crush, Cole to keep Shampagne, Bitsy to get Shampagne back, and Helen to inherit Bitsy's billions. Despite all having different, sometimes opposing, goals, they agree on one thing: "I will be the one in control so my dreams come true." "Weirdos Make Great Superheroes" for Molly (and sort of Cole), expressing her desire to be more bold and have her weirdness be seen as extraordinary, like the characters in her comics. It builds on her solo in "Own It," because while that only highlighted her Stalker with a Crush desires towards Brendan, this one is more about wanting to be confident in other areas of her life. "Central to my Plot" and "Make 'Em Pay" for Bitsy, which double as Villain Songs, expressing her desire to take down Central Park and use the land for the biggest real estate deal in history so people will stop looking down on her. "If There's a Will" for Helen, which further cements her desire to be Bitsy's sole inheritor as repayment for years of thankless service, by any means necessary. Its episode, "Dog Spray Afternoon," acts as her A Day in the Limelight episode. |
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In Guys and Dolls, Sky and Sarah actually sing "I'll Know" as a duet, though not really to each other. Their duet ends in an embrace (what they want is each other) - followed by a slap (they don't know it yet). | |
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In Monty Python's Flying Circus this is parodied when a barber (or pet store employee if it comes after the "Dead Parrot" sketch) breaks into song about his dream of becoming a lumberjack. | |
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"A Million Dreams" for young Barnum, and later for an older Barnum and his wife Charity in The Greatest Showman. | |
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Once Upon a Mattress has "Happily Ever After" and "Opening for a Princess"; the first is about Winifred's desire for a fairytale ending and the second is about how the rest of the castle people want Dauntless to marry. | |
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"I Want You to Want Me" by Cheap Trick. | |
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"Far and Distant Places" from Atlantis, in which Adelena wanted to see the outside world while running away from the palace in disguise. | |
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Ira Glass included a Want Song into the beginning of This American Life, after talking about the phenomenon for a little bit. It was about how he hoped his listeners would stay interested in the stories. | |
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"I Want to Live Out Loud" for Sara Crewe in The Musical adaptation of A Little Princess. | |
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In Choice of Robots, you can go on a date to see Pippin. Your date will talk about "Corner of the Sky" (noted above under Theater) and say that it's practically a rule that every musical have an "I Want" Song. | |
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Aladdin has the cut song "Proud of Your Boy". The song was later restored in the Broadway musical directly after the reprise of "One Jump Ahead," his "I Want" Song from the film. Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular gives Jasmine an "I Want" Song called "To Be Free." while the Broadway musical has a song for her called "These Palace Walls." Both convey Jasmine's yearning to escape her trapped and confined life. "A Whole New World" actually inverts this. It's an "I'll Give You What You Want Song". |
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Pokémon: The Series: The first opening theme for both the Japanese and Western releases (which are completely different songs) fall in this category, reflecting on Ash's desire to become a Pokémon master. Every subsequent English language theme song is also about this. | |
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The title song in Alice is a very creepy version of this, as it's sung by Lewis Carroll, who knows exactly what he wants. | |
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"(Gotta Get Outta) Kansas" from The Muppets' Wizard of Oz — their equivalent to "Over The Rainbow". | |
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"I Want It All" from The Miracle. | |
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"One Day I'll Fly Away" from Moulin Rouge!. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory crosses this trope with Villain Song in Veruca's number "I Want It Now". ("It" = everything she can think of.) | |
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In Barbie and the Secret Door, Malucia's song, "I Want It All," is about how she wants all of the magic in Zinnia and plans to catch the unicorns to get what she wants. | |
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"96,000" from In the Heights is an interesting variation; the characters know that someone in the neighborhood has won the title amount in the lottery and will have the chance to improve their lives, even "get out of the barrio." They just don't know who. Also "It Won't Be Long Now", sung by one of the Heroines, and "When You're Home", a duet. |
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Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot has "Care Hugs" and "Can't Wait To Be The One", both of which are about Wonderheart Bear wanting her belly badge to work and learn what power it has. | |
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Strawberry Shortcake has a few of these. In the 2003 episodes alone: "If I Glittered'' from the Cinderella Whole-Plot Reference episode. "Scaredy Little Me". "Why Can't I". "Jammin'". "I'm Not Too Little". "Man Oh Man Oh Manners". |
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"Interlude: Shadow" from the BTS album MAP OF THE SOUL : 7. | |
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"I Hope I Get It" for the entire cast of A Chorus Line. "Music and the Mirror" is a more specific character example from the show. After years of spotty, unfulfilling work in L.A. Cassie just wants to get back to her roots as a Broadway dancer, even if that means she has to take a part in the chorus. Also doubles as an "I Am" Song. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer's "Once More With Feeling" has "Going Through The Motions". Joss even mentions it being the "I Want" Song in the commentary. Buffy actually gets TWO I wants: this one and "Something to Sing About". Spike's "Rest in Peace" is a subversion. What he wants is Buffy, but he goes through the entire song trying (badly) to convince us he has no interest in her. Also spoofed with Dawn, a character who seems tailor-made for this type of song since she's always really needy anyway. She gets through the first two lines of her song before it's interrupted by mooks who promptly kidnap her. |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: When Hero offers to free Pseudolus the slave in exchange for hooking him up with Philia, Pseudolus bursts into "Free", a song about how much he's wanted his freedom and the rights that come with it. | |
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Quest for Camelot has Kayley's "On My Father's Wings," in which she expresses her desire to become a knight. | |
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Encanto has "Waiting on a Miracle" for Mirabel; the song is about her sadness about everyone in the family being powerful but herself and wanting to be seen and accepted as an equal. | |
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Inversions: "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party", from Beatles for Sale and "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" from Please Please Me. | |
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In Dead End: Paranormal Park, Courtney sings about her desire to return home in episode 9, "Phantom of the Theme Park"—the catch is that Courtney is a demon (at least, to the extent of her knowledge so far) and she's singing about returning to Hell. Or going there for the first time. | |
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In Cannibal! The Musical the heroes sing a song about what they want in life called "That's All I'm Asking For". | |
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"But He's Not Wilhelm" from The Black Rider, sung by Agathe about how she wants to marry Wilhelm. Unfortunately, the plotline kicks in. | |
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"The Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. "Something Better" from Muppet Treasure Island. "(Gotta Get Outta) Kansas" from The Muppets' Wizard of Oz — their equivalent to "Over The Rainbow". |
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Lampshaded, inverted, and parodied in The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals where Mr. Davidson is trying to get Paul to sing the "I Want" song, as the Hive Mind has already become medium aware that Paul is the protagonist. Then Mr. Davidson goes on to sing about what he himself wants in life - for his wife to choke him whist he jerks off. Paul is clearly very distressed by this. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games has "What More is Out There?" for the human Twilight Sparkle, where she sings about her longing for an opportunity outside the gilded cage of Crystal Prep. Was originally recorded as a Distant Duet between Twilight and Sunset Shimmer (which would've made it a musical Acting for Two instance for Rebecca Shoichet), where the latter wonders whether there'd be more to life if she returned to Equestria; this section was cut after a relevant subplot was deleted. | |
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The Elton John musical Aida has "Enchantment Passing Through" for Aida and Radames, which gets a Dark Reprise in the second act. | |
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Young Frankenstein has an instance where the person singing is neither the Villain nor the protagonist: the song "Please Send Me Someone" is sung by the blind hermit about how good it would be to talk to another person again. | |
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Sweet Charity has several — "There's Got To Be Something Better Than This" is a straightforward I Want Song, "Baby Dream Your Dream" is a bittersweet example, and "If My Friends Could See Me Now" can be considered an I Want as well. | |
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"Infected" from Repo! The Genetic Opera could qualify, as Shilo sings about yearning to venture outside of her room as she damns her genetics. Or, "Mark It Up" for the villainous equivalent. | |
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Assassins features a Deconstruction of this; the opening theme, "Everybody's Got the Right" is a song about how the characters in the play have the right to follow their dreams. Of course, said characters include the likes of John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, and John Hinckley, so it's not quite as inspiring as it might seem at first glance. | |
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West Side Story: Something's Coming. Somewhere (There's a Place For Us). It gets a classic Dark Reprise, even though it does indeed turn out to be (in a bittersweet way) all worth it. America. |
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Frozen II also has three. "Some Things Never Change" is a zig-zagged example. Anna and Elsa are happy with what they have now and largely want everything to stay the same; only Kristoff wants to take his relationship with Anna to the next level. "Into the Unknown" has elements of this. Among her many mixed emotions, Elsa longs to go into the unknown and find where she truly belongs. "Show Yourself" talks about Elsa's wish for answer, making it a retrospective "I Want" song; "All my life I've been torn/But I'm here for a reason/Could it be the reason I was born?" |
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"Ich Will" by Rammstein. Its title actually translates as "I want". Notable in that the song is a dark deconstruction of the typical "I Want" song, focussing on the cult of personality that surrounds many celebrities and rock stars. |
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Two songs from Thomas & Friends: The Great Race: The opening song "Will You Won't You" features the engines pleading to Sir Topham Hatt upon wanting to be in the Great Railway Show. Thomas' song "Streamlining" (which has a strong feel to "Greased Lightning"), where Thomas decides to get himself streamlined, and draws the attention of everyone. It was all in his imagination, however. |
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