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"Happy Working Song" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz for Walt Disney Pictures' musical film ''Enchanted'' (2007). Recorded by American actress Amy Adams in her starring role as Giselle, the uptempo pop song both parodies and pays homage to a variety of songs from several Disney animated feature films, particularly "Whistle While You Work" from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937). Produced by Menken, Schwartz and Danny Troob, the song appears on the film's soundtrack ''Enchanted: Original Soundtrack.'' "Happy Working Song" takes place in Robert's untidy apartment in Manhattan, New York, in which Giselle spends her first night in the city after having been magically transported there from the fictional Andalasia. The next morning, Giselle awakens to find the apartment in a state of neglect and decides to clean it, summoning several animals to her aid. Additionally, the musical number references similar scenes from Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ''and ''Cinderella ''(1950). Based on 1950s music, "Happy Working Song"'s bridge deliberately references the song "Belle" from Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast ''(1991). Musically, "Happy Working Song" shares similarities with the songs "Heigh-Ho" from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', "The Work Song" from ''Cinderella'' and "Something There" from ''Beauty and the Beast''. The song has garnered vastly positive reviews, with both film and music critics praising its humorous, witty lyrics, allusions and references to previous Disney films and songs, as well as Adams' performance. "Happy Working Song" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008 alongside ''Enchanted''s own "That's How You Know" and "So Close", making the film'' ''one of only four to achieve this feat. Ultimately, the song lost to "Falling Slowly" from ''Once ''(2007), while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences subsequently decided to limit the total number of Best Original Song nominations to only two per film. ==Background, writing and references== Veteran Disney composer Alan Menken became actively creatively involved with ''Enchanted'' in 2006, subsequently inviting his longtime collaborator, lyricist Stephen Schwartz, with whom Menken had previously worked on Disney's ''Pocahontas'' (1995) and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame ''(1996), to co-write the songs and musical numbers for ''Enchanted'' alongside him. Menken said of the general songwriting process, "the first challenge for us was finding that musical palette and lyrical palette and performance palette that really spoke to everybody and said that we are in the world of early Walt and to have that place to start."〔 When it came to writing "Happy Working Song", Menken and Schwartz were directly influenced by the song "Whistle While You Work" from Disney's first full-length animated feature film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ''(1937), with Schwartz describing "Happy Working Song" as a "spoof"〔 and "one of the funniest sequences of the film".〔 According to Schwartz, "Happy Working Song" was written rather quickly, having come "(the songwriters ) really fast".〔 Schwartz elaborated, "'Happy Working Song' is ... pretty much out of ''Snow White'' and 'Whistle While You Work' and that little thing where they do the dishes and Dopey with the soap bubbles and everything."〔 In addition to this, "Happy Working Song" features references to both the musical number "The Work Song" and "the busy little mice" from Disney's ''Cinderella'' (1950), but to a significantly lesser extent. Lyrically, Schwartz decided to approach the song comically as demonstrated by its phrase "Even though you are vermin."〔 Conceptually, Menken explained that "As the characters become sort of three dimensional, songs become more contemporary."〔 Ultimately, Menken believes that, melodically, "Happy Working Song" is very much similar to the songs "Belle" and "Something There" from ''Beauty and the Beast''. Additionally, orchestrator and arranger Danny Troob revealed the bridge of "Happy Working Song" is directly based on the bridge of "Belle", particularly serving as "a deliberate reference on (songwriters' ) part." Addressing the musical similarities between "Happy Working Song" and "Something There", Troob explained that the former occupies a different "drive"〔 and "attitude",〔 additionally sounding "a little bit more brisk ... because (is ) working."〔 Troob elaborated, "''Beauty and the Beast'' was, for its time, very forward-looking, and 'Happy Working Song' is deliberately retro."〔 Troob decided to alter and deliberately steer the song away from Menken and Schwartz's original 1970s-inspired musical arrangement in an attempt to "make it feel like the 1950s"〔 by "manipulating instruments (HREF="http://www.kotoba.ne.jp/word/11/sic" TITLE="sic">sic'' ) textures."〔 American actress Amy Adams, who portrays Giselle, had previously "worked in musical theater before () moved to Los Angeles"〔 in order to pursue a career as a film actress, and was therefore "very comfortable with the idea of singing". Citing both actress and singer Julie Andrews〔 and several Disney Princesses as musical inspiration, Adams decided to perform the film's first song, "True Love's Kiss", in the style of an operetta before eventually replacing this with a more Broadway musical-style voice for "Happy Working Song". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Happy Working Song」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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