She's in Love
This is a new song written for the Broadway show, a fun do-wop number with an unexpected pop hook that also finally allows Flounder to sing. (They've never let him sing before! No, beatboxing in "Ariel's Beginning" doesn't count.) In this song, Flounder and Ariel's six sisters look suspiciously at the youngest princess, wondering why oh why she's been acting weird.
Although in the original Broadway production Flounder is portrayed as a child by child actors, in many of the later productions (especially after the 2012 revamp of the show) Flounder becomes a young adult and peer of Ariel. More than that, Flounder is a peer who has a crush on Ariel, which gives this song another layer of meaning.
Alana:
I'm talking about Ariel, that's who.
Adella:
What about her?
Alana:
She sure is acting fishy lately.
Aquata:
I'll say! Swimming in circles? Chasing her tail?
Alana:
That girl is up to her gills in something.
She's dizzy and she's dreamy
Aquata:
Her head's up in the foam
Attina:
Her eyes have gone all gleamy
It's like there's no one home
Aquata, Attina, Alana:
She floats away the days
Mopin' on the coastal shelf
Andrina:
You ask her where she's goin'
She giggles like a fool
Adella:
She barely sticks a toe in
Down at the tidal pool
Arista:
It's more than just a phase
Face it, she's just not herself
Aquata:
Is she ill?
Attina:
Or insane?
Alana:
Is it water on the brain?
Aquata, Attina, Alana:
What has got her bothered so?
Andrina:
It's the bends
Adella:
It's the flu
Arista:
Gosh, I wish we had a clue
Mersisters:
Oh, wait
Oh, dear
Good grief
It's clear
She's in love
She's in love
Pounding heart
Ringing bells
Alana:
Look, I think she's even wearing brand new shells
Andrina, Arista, Adella:
She's in love
| Aquata, Attina, Alana:
In love and it's divine |
Andrina, Arista, Adella:
She's in love
| Aquata, Attina, Alana:
That girl's on sandbar nine |
Andrina, Arista, Adella:
Glory be
Mersisters:
Lord above
Got to be she's in love
Arista:
Hey, Flounder. Do you notice anything weird about you-know-who?
Flounder:
You mean Ariel? I'll say!
She acts like she don't see me
She doesn't even speak
She treats me like sashimi
Left over from last week
You see her late at night
Tossing in her ocean bed
| Mersisters:
Shoop, shoop Shoop, shoop |
Flounder:
She's moody as a snapper
Oblivious as rocks
You swim right up and tap her
All:
She lays there like a lox
As sure as dogfish bite
Somethin's made her lose her head
Mersisters:
She has lost her head
Flounder:
And she sighs and she swoons
And she's hummin' little tunes
Mersisters:
Even has a sorta glow
Flounder:
What on earth could it be?
Mersisters:
Any hammerhead can see
Aquata, Adella:
That sigh
Arista, Alana:
That glow
Andrina, Attina:
That swoon
Flounder:
Oh, no
She's in love
| Mersisters:
She's flipped, it never fails |
Flounder:
She's in love
| Mersisters:
All hot beneath her scales |
Flounder:
See her hips
How they swish
Mersisters:
Well, well, well
Don't you wonder
Who's the lucky seafood dish?
Flounder:
She's in love
| Mersisters:
She found a deep-sea hunk |
Flounder:
She's in love
| Mersisters:
And now she's as good as sunk |
Flounder:
See her blush
All:
See her grin
Gotta be love she's in
Flounder:
Ariel-and-someone swimmin' in the sea
K-i-s-s-i-n-g
Mersisters:
Her cheeks could not flush pinker
Flounder:
It's clear as H2O
Mersisters:
She's caught hook, line and sinker
Crushed out
Switched on
Worked up
Far gone
Flounder:
Knocked down
Mersisters:
Hard hit
Flounder:
In deep
Mersisters:
That's it
She's in love
She's in love
Flounder:
She's in love
All:
She's in love
She's in love
Flounder:
Plain to see
Mersisters:
Plain to see
Flounder:
No mistake
Mersisters:
No mistake
Flounder:
Look at those moonbeams in her wake
Mersisters:
Look at those moonbeams
All:
Obvious what they must be symptoms of
She's in love
She's in love
She's in love
(Shoop, shoop)
She's in love
Yeah, yeah
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