Justin McElroy of the McElroy family media empire has a unified classification of all 18 songs. Mcelroy’s twitter-threaded efforts have led to a compressive breakdown.

In the history of Disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs. I’m going to tell you about each of them.

There are 18 possible types of songs, but some elements are core to the entire Canon. The’- this is the movie” song,”””$ the gospel truth,””_ out there,”””””””””””””””.

”I’m the villain,”’we should bone,” and’cheer up, kid’ songs are also said to be core elements of great Disney movies.

I want (26 entries): it is sung by the main character. It’s sung alone – or to animals! – expressing their greatest desires.

Mcelroy gives defining elements, like which character tends to sing each type of song, where it appears in the film. He even offers a video montage of all the songs that fall into the grouping.

These five songs are part of the more memorable scenes and memories people have of the film but are less key to the conceit than the core five songs. These tend to feature songs that are still extremely common in Disney films.

Mcelroy also includes the’- problematic’ group, which is filled with songs that have not aged well. Mcelroy is oddly harsh on the group.

The Disney Songbook table of elements provides a simple, at-a-glance reference chart for quickly looking up a song.