Singing in the deep

doi:10.3828/sfftv.2025.27

Singing in the deep

2025-11-01

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DOI：10.3828/sfftv.2025.27

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Halle Bailey's portrayal of Ariel in Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid (2023) reimagines the beloved character within a racialized context, illuminating implications of race, identity, and belonging in fantasy narratives. Using Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's Dark Fantastic framework and Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Black feminist rumination that allegorizes sea creatures to grasp social movement strategy in Undrowned, this article examines how Bailey's vocal renditions of Part of Your World and For the First Time transforms these songs into profound meditations on Black liberation, memory, and ecological interdependence. This sonic phrasing analysis highlights how the subtext of race reshapes the songs' meanings, addressing themes of belonging, exclusion, survival, and emancipation.

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Disney

The Little Mermaid

Black girlhood

mermaids

sound studies

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