Have you ever noticed that the bad guys in Disney movies always get the coolest songs? While the hero or heroine is singing some high pitched soliloquy about dreaming and wishing for their lives to be different, the bad guys are singing about getting the job done for themselves. The bad guys get the horns, the groovy beats, and the low basso profundos. The good guys get the flute solos, girly tenor voices, and chimes. It's simply awful.
What message does this send to the children?
Be good: You get the lamest songs, but at least it's the first one of the movie, and, hey, that piccolo jam halfway through is kind of swell, right?
Be evil: You get to jam out to awesome beats and dance around singing in a deliosiously sexy voice. Your song always ends in a powerful crescendo and is almost always in a minor key. (Also, there is an 80% chance you will be found laying down some sweet Bach piece on your massive pipe organ later in the movie).
It seems to me that the true moral of all Disney stories is this: Be evil...you'll never have to sing a lame song in a boring minor key about birds and cherubs and wishing ever again.
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