Disenchanted

Disenchanted (Original Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2022 film of the same name directed by Adam Shankman. The sequel to Enchanted (2007), the film's original music included songs written and produced by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, both of whom wrote the music for the previous installment. Menken also composed the incidental underscore for the film. Menken's longtime collaborator Michael Kosarin conducted the songs and score. Unlike the first film's soundtrack, the sequel was intended to have more songs, and all those tracks were performed by the film's cast members, including Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Gabriella Baldacchino, Maya Rudolph, Griffin Newman, James Monroe Iglehart, Ann Harada, and Michael McCorry Rose. The album features 14-tracks, with the end credits version of "Love Power", sung by Menzel, released as a single on November 17, 2022. The soundtrack album was released by Walt Disney Records a day later on November 18, 2022, alongside the film's release on Disney+ and received praise for the musical numbers. Background In January 2018, director Adam Shankman revealed that the film would feature more songs than that of the first film. By that March, Shankman revealed that Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, who scored music for Enchanted (2007) would return for the sequel, while in April 2020, Menken said that he and Schwartz are writing the film's songs. On the film's music, Menken had said "we start in the world of early Walt [Disney] animation, and this animated princess has a spell put on her and is thrown into Times Square, where she’s totally unequipped to deal with what happens. The score grows up with her, as she begins to adapt to this world. And in the new version, she longs for that world. There’s no happily ever after in our world, unlike in an animated ending, and she longs for that, so she makes this wish that throws us into this amazing storyline, which has all this fun in it because of what happens from that wish." Menken added that instead of writing for the music for the individual actors, he and Schwartz wrote for the characters and storyline, hence the songs and themes fit well with the actors. In an interview with Variety magazine in late April 2021, Patrick Dempsey revealed that he will be singing. In May 2021, Schwartz said that the film will have seven songs and reprises, including two songs for Nancy (played by Idina Menzel).