Thread:Hey1234/@comment-1672596-20160212003505/@comment-1635429-20160212012535

You bring up Ursula and her powers. The difference between Ursula's magic during Poor Unfortunate Souls and Ariel's wave during Part of Your World is that, Ursula exhibits having magical abilities outside of a song.

Sometimes you read a bit too much into things. Sometimes things happen soley for the use of dramatic filmaking and spectacle. You may not think so, but yes, the use of a wave crashing during the climax of a song is definitely spectacle and dramatic filmmaking. Flounder and the fishes emerging from the lagoon to sprout water from their mouths around Ariel and Eric's boat during Kiss the Girl was meant to add spectacle. Some of these choices are done just for the sake of the spectacle of a song. The song sequences are meant to be visually enticing; the Renaissance songs, in particular, are meant to echo Broadway spectaculars. Because of that, you get flashy bits of animation that don't occure during a casual scene of the movie. That's why the wave crashed at the end of Part of Your World. Not because Ariel has control over water.