One Fine Mermaid
Posted: April 7th, 2010 | Author: ERIC | Filed under: Love | Tags: One Fine Day, The Chiffons, The Little Mermaid | 2 Comments »When I was a little kid I loved The Little Mermaid, and I’m not ashamed to admit it was because of Prince Eric. This is probably where my nudging preference for redheads started, though that isn’t as nearly as big a deal as me understanding myself as Disney Royalty. Because, well, fuck yeah!
I heard this particular song at Cabela’s over the weekend during my immensely overplayed descent into sorrow. I was going to do this slideshow of photos of me and her to this song as a sort of sendoff to her, but after writing that letter and not being able to get video-editing stuff working on my now-Linux machine… this will have do.
It actually fits way better.
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Joe loved The Little Mermaid as well. He attributed his many years of vegetarianism to it (he ended up having to give up on that when he got serious about building muscle—hard enough as a diabetic, never mind as a vegetarian working in musical theater in Fort Atkinson). Everyone singing “Under the Sea” was the moving conclusion to his memorial.
There’s just that romantic innocence and tenacity that drew me in. She overcame a lot of her own anxiety in doing things she had never truly understood, trusting him so much to care for her without a really solid reason to have expected he would.
Ursula was easily one of my favorite villains, not because I really liked her, but because I didn’t. I reacted to her negatively and intensely. Eric was a great fighter when he knew what was what, when he had his goal and he knew who loved him and who needed to be protected.
But he was pretty easily manipulated. He let his curiosity get the best of him. A beautiful voice turned siren song nearly snagged him, for good.
And I really hate that I can relate to that.