menken wrote the music for when will my life begin from tangled.
menken wrote the music for when will my life begin from tangled.
who wrote the music for when will my life begin from tangled?
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"when will my life begin?" is a song from disney's 2010 animated feature film, "tangled". it is sung by rapunzel (mandy moore), and serves as the "i want" song of the film. it is reprised later on once she is allowed out of the tower for the first time. a short reprise with rapunzel reiterating her situation, and reasoning that "i've got my mother's love...i have everything" etc., was cut from the final film, though was included in the soundtrack. lyrics are by glenn slater, and music is by alan menken.









































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when will my life begin?
"when will my life begin?" was the first song that was written for the movie. alan menken explained how he devised the song within the constraints of the chosen genre (guitar-themed score): "when i thought about rapunzel in the tower and her long hair, on a gut level, and i thought of the folk music of the 1960s—jackson browne, joni mitchell—and, it wasn’t an immediate yes, but i wrote six different versions of that opening number [“when will my life begin” performed by mandy moore as rapunzel] and it worked". menken noted that in the context of the musical film's structure and to move the plot forward "in tangled, we had to have to have rapunzel start with [the premise that] ‘everything’s great here [in the tower]’ and end with: ‘when will my life begin?’".
when will my life begin?