"I Want" song

The "I Want" song (also called an "I Wish" song[1]) is a popular type of song featured in musical theatre, and has become a particularly popular term through its use to describe a series of songs featured in Disney Renaissance films that had the main character singing about how they are unsatisfied with their current life, and what they are searching for. The term "'I Want' song" is believed to have been coined by Lehman Engel.[2]

  1. ^ "Transcript | This American Life, Prologue". www.thisamericanlife.org. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  2. ^ de Giere, Carol. "Writing "I Want Songs" for Musicals". MusicalWriters.com. Archived from the original on 2014-06-02. Retrieved May 31, 2014.