2 Seed: Beauty and the Beast – Beauty and the Beast
vs
18 Seed: I Won’t Say I’m in Love - Hercules
- #2 Beauty and the Beast – Beauty and the Beast
- #18 I Won’t Say I’m in Love - Hercules
2 Seed: Beauty and the Beast – Beauty and the Beast
vs
18 Seed: I Won’t Say I’m in Love - Hercules
7 Seed: Part of Your World - The Little Mermaid
vs
23 Seed: Be Prepared - Lion King
3 Seed: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah – Song of the South
vs
19 Seed: Try Everything - Zootopia
I’m fine with this. Perfectly fine.
The rest of the results are also good! Especially the Hawaiian juggernaut taking down dum dum skeleton head.
Under the Sea vs Touch the Sky
I’m gonna need a week to decide this one
And the final, and dare I say marquee matchup for this block:
6 Seed: Friend Like Me – Aladdin
vs
11 Seed: Hakuna Matata - Lion King
I hadn’t seen Brave, but Touch the Sky certainly grew on me through this competition. It done walked into a juggernaut, though.
I predict a blowout
I struggled because my initial instinct was, ldo, Hakuna Matata. And then I relistened and thought Friend Like Me was the better song. But after realizing I can still pretty much sing the entirety of Hakuna Matata 25 years later, I had to stick with Hakuna Matata.
Our other upsets are How Far I’ll Go taking down This Is Halloween by a single vote
Aladdin songs over performing imo has been my biggest surprise of this tournament so far.
This is the one song Man or Muppet beat out for the Oscar:
I don’t really care for the last 20 or so seconds of the song, but I dig the overall samba feel. I don’t think the right song won.
Seeding the Oscar winners first was intended to squash quibbling over seeding songs from the same movie, mainly. I didn’t realize it was such a low bar some years.
Last call for votes!
The Little Mermaid came into the battle with 4 songs. Somehow, all those songs ended up in this region of the bracket. They have yet to pair off against each other (that is soon to change), and they went 4/4 this round. Meanwhile, The Lion King didn’t fare as well. It had the most songs in this round of the bracket with 5, but with Hakuna Matata and Be Prepared suffering losses, we know it will be no higher than second with 3 behind The Little Mermaid’s 4.
The other four songs to advance on top of the Little Mermaid Quartet are Beauty and the Beast and I Just Can’t Wait to be King, both in dominating fashion, and Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah and Friend Like Me in narrower victories. Man or Muppet is our second Oscar winner to go down, but it was hardly a surprise. No unanimous decisions this block, either.
Hakuna Matata going down this round was criminal.