"Something There" is a romantic love song featured in the 1991 Disney animated feature film, Beauty and the Beast. It is sung, in voiceover, by Belle (Paige O'Hara) and the Beast (Robby Benson), accompanied by, onscreen, Lumiere (Jerry Orbach), Cogsworth (David Ogden Stiers), and Mrs. Potts (Angela Lansbury).
Summary[]
The song is performed soon after the Beast saves Belle from the wolf attack, and their initially shady relationship begins to blossom into a friendship. Small hints of romance are beginning to be seen as well.
The lyrical content of the song strongly emphasizes upon the fact that Belle and the Beast are beginning to fall in love. The main characters are beginning to think maybe something was absent within the first few hours Belle and the Beast met, causing them to clash. But now that the "something" is here, the love is flowing in a more stable pattern. The other servants are touched by the romance before them, and Mrs. Potts doesn't allow Chip to find out until he is older.
Lyrics[]
Belle: There's something sweet
And almost kind
But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined
And now he's dear, and so unsure
I wonder why I didn't see it there before
Beast: She glanced this way
I thought I saw
And when we touched she didn't shudder at my paw
No it can't be, I'll just ignore
But then she's never looked at me that way before
Belle: New and a bit alarming
Who'd have ever thought that this could be
True that he's no Prince Charming?
But there's something in him that I simply didn't see
Lumiere: Well, who'd have thought?
Mrs. Potts: Well, bless my soul
Cogsworth: Well, who'd have known?
Mrs. Potts: Well, who indeed?
Lumiere: And who'd have guessed they'd come together on their own?
Mrs. Potts: It's so peculiar.
Lumiere/Mrs. Potts/Cogsworth: We'll wait and see, a few days more
There may be something there that wasn't there before
Cogsworth: You know, perhaps there's something there
That wasn't there before
Chip: (Spoken) What?
Mrs. Potts: There may be something there that wasn't there before
Chip: (Spoken) What's there, mama?
Mrs. Potts: (Spoken) Shh! I'll tell you when you're older.
Belle: There's something sweet
And almost kind
But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined
And now he's dear, and so unsure
I wonder why I didn't see it there before
Beast: She glanced this way
I thought I saw
And when we touched she didn't shudder at my paw
No it can't be, I'll just ignore
But then she's never looked at me that way before
Belle: New and a bit alarming
Who'd have ever thought that this could be
True that he's no Prince Charming?
But there's something in him that I simply didn't see
Lumiere: Well, who'd have thought?
Mrs. Potts: Well, bless my soul
Cogsworth: Well, who'd have known?
Mrs. Potts: Well, who indeed?
Lumiere: And who'd have guessed they'd come together on their own?
Mrs. Potts: It's so peculiar.
Lumiere/Mrs. Potts/Cogsworth: We'll wait and see, a few days more
There may be something there that wasn't there before
Cogsworth: You know, perhaps there's something there
That wasn't there before
Mrs. Potts: There may be something there that wasn't there before
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Trivia[]
- Seemingly, Paige O'Hara, the voice of Belle, had trouble singing the "New and a bit alarming" part of the song because it was rather high for her vocal range. So Alan Menken and Howard Ashman told her to sing it like Grammy-winner Barbra Streisand, and it obviously helped.
- The first song "Belle" has said character express her fantasies with the lyrics, "Oh, isn't this amazing. It's my favorite part because, you'll see. Here is where she meets Prince Charming, but she won't discover that it's him till chapter three". Later, the tune is reprised during this song when she sings, "New and a bit alarming, who'd have ever thought that this could be? True, that he's no Prince Charming, but there's something in him that I simply didn't see." It is basically a retelling of the story Belle had read, with herself, unknowingly, as a character in it.
- Scenes from the song (particularly the snowball fight and their being in front of the fireplace) were used for the endings of Issues 3 and 13 of the Beauty and the Beast comic line by Marvel Comics.
- In the 1991 film, Belle and the Beast's lyrics are sung offscreen, but in the remake, they are sung onscreen.
- A documentary on the DVD states that the song was written to replace "Human Again", after it was dropped.