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
Disney Princess animated TV series "House of Mouse" and Belle also made an appearance (along with her husband, Beast) on a short episode from the TV animated series "Mickey Mouse". In early 2007, Disney announced "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales", a new series of direct-to-video features that feature new stories for the Disney Princesses. The first movie in the series entitled "", was released on September 4, 2007. It is a musical film featuring new tales about Princess Jasmine and the first new tale about Princess Aurora since the original "Sleeping Beauty". Originally, "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: A Kingdom of Kindness" was announced