Mother Knows Best (song) songs. While the majority of "Tangled"'s music was inspired by the work of Canadian musician Joni Mitchell, Menken envisioned Gothel's song as "classic" Broadway. Before writing "Mother Knows Best", Menken and Slater researched appropriate moments in the film during which its main characters could potentially perform, ultimately determining that "Mother Knows Best" "flows directly out of the conflict between" Mother Gothel and Rapunzel. Menken observed similarities between Gothel and Claude Frollo, another Disney villain for whom he had written songs while working as a composer on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996). Menken described Gothel as "a scary piece of
Mother Gothel debut appearance in the "Kingdom Hearts" series in the upcoming "Kingdom Hearts III", with Murphy reprising her role in the English version. Mother Gothel has garnered mostly positive reviews from film critics. Nigel Andrews of the "Financial Times "felt that the character was given the film's "best lines and tunes". Film4 described Gothel as a "fun" character "to the extent that she risks making the good guys seem a bit dull." Hailing Gothel as the film's ""pièce de résistance"", Georgie Hobbs of "Little White Lies" wrote that Gothel "performs ... 'Mother Knows Best' ... with a schizophrenic frenzy worthy of