Apple Magazine - Issue 396 (2019-05-31)

Genre: Soundtrack
Released: May 22, 2019
37 Songs
Price: 11.99

336 Ratings

Aladdin (Original

Motion Picture

Soundtrack)

Various Artists

This is the official soundtrack of Disney’s

new live-action remake of Aladdin, the

classic animated film from 1992. That film’s

composer Alan Menken is responsible for

many of the tracks here, but songs performed

by the new adaptation’s stars Will Smith,

Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott also feature.

FIVE FACTS:

1. Menken has called his new score “much
   more live-action in its textures and its tone”
   than the score of the original film.


2. The original film’s song “Arabian Nights”
   appears here, but with new lyrics written by
   Menken and the American songwriting duo
   Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.


3. The three songwriters have reworked
   another song, “Prince Ali”, from the original
   film to allow new Genie actor Will Smith to
   bring more of a hip-hop vibe to the song.


4. The new songs include “Speechless”,
   penned by Pasek and Paul as a solo vehicle
   for Scott in her on-screen role as Jasmine.


5. The film’s director Guy Ritchie has
   admitted that compared to the original
   film’s soundtrack, “essentially the [new]
   soundtrack’s the same, just somewhat
   embellished with a couple of new tunes in it.”