Seeing that Ariel and Eric need a little nudge to make true love’s kiss happen, Sebastian decides he’ll take matters into his own hands (or claws). He sings and leads the lagoon creatures in a calypso ballad. The song’s lyrics encourage Prince Eric not to hesitate and kiss Ariel before it is too late. If Ariel cannot get Eric, her true love, to kiss her in three days, she will turn back into a mermaid and belong to Ursula forever.
Kiss The Girl Lyrics
[SEBASTIAN, spoken]
Percussion.
Strings.
Winds.
Words.
(sung)
There, you see her
Sitting there, across the way
She don’t got a lot to say, but there’s something about her
And you don’t know why, but you’re dyin’ to try
You wanna kiss the girl
[SEBASTIAN & ENSEMBLE]
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
Possible she want you too, there is one way to ask her
It don’t take a word, not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl
Sing with me now.
[SEBASTIAN & FROGS]
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, my, oh, my
Look like the boy too shy
He ain’t gonna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, ain’t that sad?
Ain’t it a shame? Too bad
[SEBASTIAN]
He gonna miss the girl
[Instrumental]
[SEBASTIAN]
Now’s your moment
[FISH]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[SEBASTIAN]
Floating in a blue lagoon
[FISH]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Boy, you better do it soon, no time will be better
[FISH]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[SEBASTIAN]
She don’t say a word and she won’t say a wordUntil you kiss the girl
Until you kiss the girl
[SEBASTIAN & LAGOON CREATURES]
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, don’t be scared
You got the mood prepared
[FISH]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[SEBASTIAN & LAGOON CREATURES]
Go on and kiss the girl
[LAGOON CREATURES]
Whoa, whoa
[SEBASTIAN]
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, don’t stop now
Don’t try to hide it how
You wanna kiss the girl
Whoa, whoa
[SEBASTIAN & LAGOON CREATURES]
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, float along
And listen to the song
The song say, “Kiss the girl”
[LAGOON CREATURES]
Whoa, whoa
[SEBASTIAN & LAGOON CREATURES]
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, music play
Do what the music say
You gotta kiss the girl
[LAGOON CREATURE]
You’ve got to
[SEBASTIAN & LAGOON CREATURES]
Kiss the girl
You wanna kiss the girl
[SEBASTIAN]
You’ve gotta
[SEBASTIAN & LAGOON CREATURES]
Kiss the girl
[SEBASTIAN]
Go on and
[SEBASTIAN & LAGOON CREATURES]
Kiss the girl
Kiss The Girl Trivia
- This song was originally sung by Sebastian (Samuel E. Wright) in the 1989 movie, The Little Mermaid.
- The song takes place during Ariel’s second day as a human. Ariel and Eric are in a boat and Sebastian tries to set a romantic mood in order to inspire Eric to kiss Ariel.
- Samuel E. Wright (born November 20, 1946) is an American actor and singer. He is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the main vocals to “Under the Sea”, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Wright also played the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway and voiced Kron the Iguanodon in Disney’s 2000 CGI film Dinosaur.
- The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song, along with the song “Under the Sea” from the same film in 1990.
- The song makes a cameo in Descendants 2 as Uma waltzes with a mesmerized Ben.
- A fragment of this song was featured, at the end of the credits, of the film, Descendants 2
- Ashley Tisdale’s version of “Kiss the Girl” managed to debut on the Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles at #16 (which is equivalent to #116). One week later, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #81.
- During the Kingdom Keepers book Disney at Dawn, Jessica, trapped in the sewers of the Tiger exhibit, manages to use her iPod to play Kiss the Girl and Under the Sea over Animal Kingdom’s music speakers.
- In an episode of Phineas and Ferb, this scene of the movie is parodied with Candace and Jeremy.
- A parody was also performed on the ABC show Galavant.
- At the 1990 Academy Awards, Geoffrey Holder performed this song.
About Kiss The Girl
“Kiss the Girl” is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken Walt Disney Pictures’ 28th animated feature film The Little Mermaid.
“Kiss the Girl” is a romantic calypso love song; the song’s lyrics encourage Prince Eric to kiss Ariel before it’s too late. Originally recorded by American actor Samuel Wright in his film role as Sebastian,
“Kiss the Girl” had a mostly positive reception. The song was nominated for both an Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song but lost both to “Under the Sea”, another song from The Little Mermaid soundtrack.
Midway through the movie, the song takes place during Ariel’s second day as a human. She has already been transformed by Ursula into a human, but she cannot speak anymore, as she exchanged her voice to become human. If Ariel can’t get Prince Eric her true love to kiss her before three days have passed, she will turn back into a mermaid and belong forever to Ursula.
Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle try to encourage Eric to kiss Ariel so that she can remain human permanently, while the two sit in a rowboat in a lagoon. Sebastian suggests that Eric wants to kiss Ariel, but he is just too shy, and he should go ahead and “kiss the girl” to see if she likes him, too. So Sebastian and the lagoon residents sing this song to get Eric in the mood to kiss Ariel.
The Little Mermaid was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements and produced by Musker and Howard Ashman, who also wrote The Little Mermaid’s songs with Alan Menken.
Menken also composed the film’s score. The film stars the voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, and Buddy Hackett.
Released in 1989, the film is loosely based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film tells the story of a teenage mermaid princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince named Eric, which leads her to make a magic deal with the sea witch, Ursula, to become human and be with him.
Kiss The Girl Song Facts
| Movie: | The Little Mermaid |
| Composer(s): | Alan Menken |
| Lyricist(s): | Howard Ashman |
| Producer(s): | Ashman Menken, Howard Ashman, Robert Kraft |
| Performed by: | Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian |
| Label: | Walt Disney Records |
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