Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
'Waiting On A Wish' from Disney's new live-action Snow White feels wrong... but why? We are going to talk about EVERYTHING wrong with this song, including a HUGE, IRONIC mistake the songwriters made that actually takes away all the empowerment they were trying to give her. This Video Essay will break down the instrumentation, rhythm, rhyme, structure, word choice, characterization, and provide an in-depth analysis of the lyrics to reveal WHY this song, though pretty, FAILS at capturing what makes Disney Magical!
0:00 - 'Waiting On A Wish' Fails At Something SO Basic
2:14 - 3 HUGE Musical Problems (Composition & Instrumentation)
8:05 - How I'd Fix This To Create DEPTH (Composition Rewrite)
14:35 - Did anyone revise these lyrics? (Technical Lyric Issues)
18:55 - How I'd Fix This To Sound BETTER (Lyric Rewrite)
24:02 - This One Fix Could Have Changed EVERYTHING (Storytelling Rewrite)
28:19 - The Story Arc Here Makes No Sense (Storytelling Issues)
36:28 - KEY LESSON: This Song's BIGGEST Mistake
44:01 - How Could The Songwriters Have Missed This?
Videos Referenced:
The REAL Problem With Snow White No One's Talking About: youtu.be/F7V8dR619zE
10 Iconic Disney Songs That Were Almost TOTALLY Different!: youtu.be/ixDV3pAm3YA
The Real Reason Disney Movie Musicals Suck Now: youtu.be/XR_ApIa1w2g
What Went Wrong With Beyond's Songwriting? [Moana 2]: youtu.be/FkUPfWvmbpI
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Calxiyn Cares Too Much is a professional musical theatre performer and songwriter who makes video essays about Live Action and Animated movie musicals from the Walt Disney Company. This video essay dives into the problems with the new 2025 Snow White live action remake, and why Snow White's 'I Want' song, 'Waiting On A Wish', does not work from a songwriting perspective.
#Disney #SnowWhite
'Waiting On A Wish' from Disney's new live-action Snow White feels wrong... but why? We are going to talk about EVERYTHING wrong with this song, including a HUGE, IRONIC mistake the songwriters made that actually takes away all the empowerment they were trying to give her. This Video Essay will break down the instrumentation, rhythm, rhyme, structure, word choice, characterization, and provide an in-depth analysis of the lyrics to reveal WHY this song, though pretty, FAILS at capturing what makes Disney Magical!
0:00 - 'Waiting On A Wish' Fails At Something SO Basic
2:14 - 3 HUGE Musical Problems (Composition & Instrumentation)
8:05 - How I'd Fix This To Create DEPTH (Composition Rewrite)
14:35 - Did anyone revise these lyrics? (Technical Lyric Issues)
18:55 - How I'd Fix This To Sound BETTER (Lyric Rewrite)
24:02 - This One Fix Could Have Changed EVERYTHING (Storytelling Rewrite)
28:19 - The Story Arc Here Makes No Sense (Storytelling Issues)
36:28 - KEY LESSON: This Song's BIGGEST Mistake
44:01 - How Could The Songwriters Have Missed This?
Videos Referenced:
The REAL Problem With Snow White No One's Talking About: youtu.be/F7V8dR619zE
10 Iconic Disney Songs That Were Almost TOTALLY Different!: youtu.be/ixDV3pAm3YA
The Real Reason Disney Movie Musicals Suck Now: youtu.be/XR_ApIa1w2g
What Went Wrong With Beyond's Songwriting? [Moana 2]: youtu.be/FkUPfWvmbpI
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Calxiyn Cares Too Much is a professional musical theatre performer and songwriter who makes video essays about Live Action and Animated movie musicals from the Walt Disney Company. This video essay dives into the problems with the new 2025 Snow White live action remake, and why Snow White's 'I Want' song, 'Waiting On A Wish', does not work from a songwriting perspective.
#Disney #SnowWhite
![Poison FAILED Angels Character. Heres Why. [Hazbin Hotel]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ngAjmpnbZAs/mqdefault.jpg "Poison FAILED Angels Character. Heres Why. [Hazbin Hotel]
Poison is one of the most controversial and divisive songs in Hazbin Hotel - but Calxiyn has found ONE FATAL FLAW that NO ONE ELSE has talked about. Join Calxiyn as she dives into what works well about Poison, what does not, and ultimately the one mistake they made that tips the scales. This Video Essay will break down the instrumentation, lyrics, rhythm and characterization, as well as dive into how the STORYTELLING could have been improved.
00:00 - What we will discuss in this ultimate Poison Song Analysis!
1:18 - The songs instrumentation could have been better...
4:20 - Everything wrong (and right) with Verses 1 & 2
16:04 - Whats missing from this Pre-Chorus and Chorus?
26:20 - Everything wrong (and right) with Verse 3
28:28 - Did this Pre-Chorus and Chorus evolve?
30:52 - Did the ending of the song DELIVER?
34:29 - IMPORTANT KEY LESSON STARTS: Why This Song Just Doesnt Work
42:40 - KEY LESSON CONTINUED: You NEED to earn THIS as a Writer...
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Calxiyn Cares Too Much is a professional musical theatre performer and songwriter who makes video essays about Animated Movie Musicals. This video essay breaks down Poison from Season 1 of Hazbin Hotel, and why it fails as a musical theatre song from a songwriting perspective. This video also provides a comparison between Hazbin Hotel, Wish, which is often brought up as better than Hazbin Hotel, or that Hazbin Hotel is doing the animated movie musical better than Disney - and other animated movie musicals such as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame from the Disney Renaissance.
#hazbinhotel")
