Part of Your World

For someone who watches the Simpsons regularly and enjoys seeing Disney get skewered in nearly every episode, I probably shouldn’t care about a lip dub cover of Part of Your World. The corporation gets mocked constantly, and there’s something satisfying about that.

But then I found this video where someone does an incredibly charming Arielle, and I couldn’t look away. The song is what carries it—there’s something about hearing that melody performed with genuine affection that caught me off guard. It’s not ironic, not self-conscious. Just earnest.

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole after that, looking for more, and at some point I realized I’d gotten way too into it. But by then it didn’t matter. Sometimes the most sincere things are the ones that get to you, even when you’ve spent years being cynical about where they come from.