Talk:Once Upon a Dream/@comment-10556152-20140525043004/@comment-4950212-20150609172136

I think that's why Angelina Jolie handpicked Lana Del Rey to sing the song as the title track for the movie. It's a prequel to the lighter and happier tone of Sleepinging Beauty's Once Upon a Dream that is song by to whimisical and flightly characters falling in love once upon a chance meeting - the original conjures up emotional of two characters that feel that their love has always been there ie. once upon a dream. Lana's is more somber and sinister, drawn from Maleficent's point of view and is more of a haunting lullaby then ode to a new lover. It even possibly is more a reflection of both Maleficent's relationship with Stefan and Aurora. She has these relationships that touch her heart only to have herself broken because of them. Her relationship with Aurora was so familiar that she it gleams on the past love that felt with Stefan. Anyways, this version is not meant to be song about a happily ever after but a song about illusionary and reverie of the past - almost a daydream more than a acutal dream.