Ariel was quite deliberately made a redhead in order to distinguish her from Daryl Hannah’s character in Splash (1984).This opened the door to calypso-style numbers like Under the Sea, which won the Academy Award. It was lyricist/producer Howard Ashman who suggested he be Jamaican. Originally, Sebastian was to have an English accent.“We got no troubles, life is the bubbles, under the sea!” What they conjured was one of the most delightful and identifying elements not just of the film, but of the new direction for Disney, which was then hit a stride into a new golden age for the animation studio. Menken has said that he and then writing partner Howard Ashman was interested in something between reggae and calypso, but a riff that would roll back onto itself. Alan Menken is the all-time Oscar-winning champ alive with eight trophies to his name, and the first two came for his work on 1989’s “The Little Mermaid,” including the Harry Belafonte-inspired original song Under the Sea.
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