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She isnt very interested in enunciating, and the lyrics themselves are deeply confusing.
Theres a brief flash of self-awareness.
Suddenly, the song becomes instead about … girl power?
And the Queen reacting to people who want her to be nice, because shes a woman?
Well, nice will only get you nowhere, she sings, Nice wont get the doing done.
Ambitious girls must be vicious girls.
And boy we have fun!
Its a nice rhyme scheme, but what does it mean …What does it mean???
Did she make some deal with a devil for her looks?
Why can she magically generate both roses and crystal daggers?
Whence the magic mirror?
In a good villain song, the audience gets to be tempted over to the villains side.
Scar is right that the Circle of Life is bullshit.
Ursula is right that shes helping people and its their fault theyre not reading the fine print.
Listen to me because Im beautiful!
The ends justify the means when you have cheekbones like these!
For a song from a character written as irresistibly gorgeous, its awfully unalluring.
Compounding all this is the fact that Gadot herself simply cannot sell the song.
People overpraise a lot of things that are trying too hard to be campy.
Thats the truer definition of the thing.
The sequence feels endless its a full three minutes and 33 seconds long!
and you just have to sit back in awe as it keeps happening.
Gadot struts around throwing her hands at odd angles.
The guards do a bit of choreography.
Its worth noting that the costumes are also hideous and cheap looking.
Corners have been cut, yet this woman is supposed to be singing about the joy of ultimate luxury.
All of which is to say that, unfortunately, Im obsessed.
I cant get All Is Fair out of my head.
Its a performance of glamour without any glamour.
Did you know theres a reprise?
