This video takes from the older production version, which goes "Who is that perfect bride? It's not me, though I've tried". When Lea Salonga performs live, she takes from the final version and sings, "Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I've tried". Also in this video, it's "from their expectations" just like the older production version, not "and meet their expectations" as Lea likes to sing when she performs live. In other words, the version in this video is one of four that I have heard and this one seems to be stitched together from the final version and the older production version. If you listen carefully, you can hear the split second interruption in the music when it switches to the "Who is that perfect bride?" of the older production version.
Lea Salonga is probably the best female singer we've had in Disney history, and she's ironically the most underrated, maybe because she only provides the voice for the songs. Nevertheless, her voice is incredibly powerful, perhaps more than Jodi Benon's.
Look at me I will never pass for a perfect bride Or a perfect daughter Can it be I'm not meant to play this part Now I see That if I were truly to be myself, I would break my family's heart Who is that girl I see Staring straight, back at me Why is my reflection someone I don't know Who is that perfect bride ? It's not me though I've tried When will my reflection show Who I am inside How I pray, that a time will come, I can free myself, From their expectations On that day, I'll discover someway to be myself, and to make my family proud.... They want a docile lamb, No-one knows who I am. Must there be a secret me, I'm forced to hide? Must I pretend that I am someone else for all time? When will my reflection show Who I am inside?... When will my reflection show Who I am inside?
@@zeldafan1942 This video takes from the older production version, which goes "Who is that perfect bride? It's not me, though I've tried". When Lea Salonga performs live, she takes from the final version and sings, "Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I've tried". Also in this video, it's "from their expectations" just like the older production version, not "and meet their expectations" as Lea likes to sing when she performs live. In other words, the version in this video is one of four that I have heard and this one seems to be stitched together from the final version and the older production version. If you listen carefully, you can hear the split second interruption in the music when it switches to the "Who is that perfect bride?" of the older production version.
(This is a personal take on why I love this song. Please be kind if you do intend to read it.) I can't help but draw parallels to myself from this song. As a trans woman, I was born and raised to be someone who I'd never be. My own reflection was always so foreign to me. It made me feel awful. I always saw a stranger wearing my body. Someone who I was never meant to be. I had no way to be myself and still keep the love and pride of my family. They wanted someone they thought I should be rather than trying to see who I really am underneath it all. Someone who was there the whole time, but hiding and scared. I've asked myself so many times, "When will my own reflection show who I really am inside?". Now, as I slowly bring that girl out of hiding and fear, I've lost almost everything I used to have. All the people I used to know. People who treat me like I'm dead when they never knew the real me at all. All they knew was my shell. The face that wasn't my own. Now I'm desperately trying to rebuild my life with people who accept me, and let me live as the real me while not being judged or disappointed in who I am. It's a long and painful journey, but I know I'll get there, someday. One day my own reflection will show the real me for all the world to see. Then, maybe I'll finally know what it feels like to be free and happy.
You are courageous! As someone who once was a hard terf (all in the past) I apologize for those people who rejected you. I hope someday I can find my cousin (changed name and went offline so I can't find her) and tell her that I love and accept her and am sorry for not doing so sooner!
It's okay love. I am a trans man and I have ALWAYS loved this song. This song perfectly represents trans people in a jist. I understand what you go through hun. You are valid
I always tell my friends how I love how this movie could be an allegory for a trans woman or man, and they usually get the trans man reading but need me to explain the trans woman reading, so I just like to explain it as this - She's either a woman who is forced to pretend to be a man despite knowing who she truly is, or she's a woman who discovers she feels much more comfortable as a man and tries to live that way
This song gives me a memory of my old memory where in the morning it was beautiful it was shining when we was at the front porch that broke me Mom and my sister
Amo esta cancion y bueno , a la mujer se le reprime o reprimia a hacer o ser muchas cosas.. Hay datos reales de mujeres q por necesidad tuvieron q pasarse por varones… algunas personas al saber q eran mujeres.. guardaron el secreto … Pero ciertas actitudes y formas no pueden ser ocultadas por mucho tiempo.. Las mujeres q vivieron asi: wow , mis respetos.. renunciar a lo q eres , no es facil aun en nuestros tiempos.. Y que sean reconocidas connel oaso drl tiempo y quedan como heroinas!! Wow!!
![Christina Aguilera - Reflection (2020) [Audio] /From "Mulan"/(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5A4MObkwA1M/mqdefault.jpg)
This video takes from the older production version, which goes "Who is that perfect bride? It's not me, though I've tried". When Lea Salonga performs live, she takes from the final version and sings, "Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I've tried". Also in this video, it's "from their expectations" just like the older production version, not "and meet their expectations" as Lea likes to sing when she performs live. In other words, the version in this video is one of four that I have heard and this one seems to be stitched together from the final version and the older production version. If you listen carefully, you can hear the split second interruption in the music when it switches to the "Who is that perfect bride?" of the older production version.
Thank you!
This will forever be my favorite version of this song.
Lea Salonga is probably the best female singer we've had in Disney history, and she's ironically the most underrated, maybe because she only provides the voice for the songs. Nevertheless, her voice is incredibly powerful, perhaps more than Jodi Benon's.
Yep. Her voice and pronunciation are clearer than Po when Shifu asked him "Are we clear?" in kung fu panda 1
Look at me
I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be I'm not meant
to play this part
Now I see
That if I were truly to be myself,
I would break my family's heart
Who is that girl I see
Staring straight, back at me
Why is my reflection
someone I don't know
Who is that perfect bride ?
It's not me though I've tried
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside
How I pray, that a time will come,
I can free myself,
From their expectations
On that day, I'll discover
someway to be myself,
and to make my family proud....
They want a docile lamb,
No-one knows who I am.
Must there be a secret me,
I'm forced to hide?
Must I pretend that I am
someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?...
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
Thank you
Even I do like the final cut version of this song, I also like this original cut of this song!
I believe they used some of the lines that got cut from this version in the Christina Aguilera version that plays during the credit
That's right. "Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide? I won't pretend that I'm someone else for all time."
@@zeldafan1942 This video takes from the older production version, which goes "Who is that perfect bride? It's not me, though I've tried". When Lea Salonga performs live, she takes from the final version and sings, "Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I've tried". Also in this video, it's "from their expectations" just like the older production version, not "and meet their expectations" as Lea likes to sing when she performs live. In other words, the version in this video is one of four that I have heard and this one seems to be stitched together from the final version and the older production version. If you listen carefully, you can hear the split second interruption in the music when it switches to the "Who is that perfect bride?" of the older production version.
Actually that is the original lyrics in the movie Mulan. However, the producers cut the song short for the pacing of the movie
“Reflection” (Extended Version)
Music by Matthew Wilder
Lyrics by David Zippel
Performed by Lea Salonga
©️1998 Walt Disney Records
I wish this was used.
2:35
Love how delicate she sounds.
(This is a personal take on why I love this song. Please be kind if you do intend to read it.)
I can't help but draw parallels to myself from this song. As a trans woman, I was born and raised to be someone who I'd never be. My own reflection was always so foreign to me. It made me feel awful. I always saw a stranger wearing my body. Someone who I was never meant to be. I had no way to be myself and still keep the love and pride of my family. They wanted someone they thought I should be rather than trying to see who I really am underneath it all. Someone who was there the whole time, but hiding and scared. I've asked myself so many times, "When will my own reflection show who I really am inside?". Now, as I slowly bring that girl out of hiding and fear, I've lost almost everything I used to have. All the people I used to know. People who treat me like I'm dead when they never knew the real me at all. All they knew was my shell. The face that wasn't my own. Now I'm desperately trying to rebuild my life with people who accept me, and let me live as the real me while not being judged or disappointed in who I am. It's a long and painful journey, but I know I'll get there, someday. One day my own reflection will show the real me for all the world to see. Then, maybe I'll finally know what it feels like to be free and happy.
You are courageous! As someone who once was a hard terf (all in the past) I apologize for those people who rejected you. I hope someday I can find my cousin (changed name and went offline so I can't find her) and tell her that I love and accept her and am sorry for not doing so sooner!
It's okay love. I am a trans man and I have ALWAYS loved this song. This song perfectly represents trans people in a jist. I understand what you go through hun. You are valid
I hope your happiness comes soon, you deserve it :D sparkle on!!
Don’t know ya, but I love ya! I’m Non-binary, so I understand your struggle. We’re all hanging in there!
I always tell my friends how I love how this movie could be an allegory for a trans woman or man, and they usually get the trans man reading but need me to explain the trans woman reading, so I just like to explain it as this - She's either a woman who is forced to pretend to be a man despite knowing who she truly is, or she's a woman who discovers she feels much more comfortable as a man and tries to live that way
i wish that the. rest of this song. was used besides the. final cut
I wish this were actually in the film!
I wish this Song was Part of the Movie but it was Cut to the Final Version so Yeah.
This song gives me a memory of my old memory where in the morning it was beautiful it was shining when we was at the front porch that broke me Mom and my sister
Most relatable Disney song
Best version.
Cool.
Mulan.
Amo esta cancion y bueno , a la mujer se le reprime o reprimia a hacer o ser muchas cosas..
Hay datos reales de mujeres q por necesidad tuvieron q pasarse por varones… algunas personas al saber q eran mujeres.. guardaron el secreto …
Pero ciertas actitudes y formas no pueden ser ocultadas por mucho tiempo..
Las mujeres q vivieron asi: wow , mis respetos.. renunciar a lo q eres , no es facil aun en nuestros tiempos..
Y que sean reconocidas connel oaso drl tiempo y quedan como heroinas!! Wow!!
This song made 4 year old me absolutely love Lea Salonga
1:40 & 2:02
Pueden poner la letra por favor.. gracias
Is this one on iTunes?
1:39
Hunter
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