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The Mob Song

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637: 177:"The Mob Song" sees Gaston instill fear into the villagers about the Beast, claiming he will supposedly kill them. Gaston then proceeds to lead the angry mob up to the Beast's castle so that he can kill the Beast while the rest of the villagers rob the castle of its treasures. CommonSenseMedia explains that "misguided townspeople say scary and violent things about the Beast, proposing they kill him and mount his head on a wall." 1634: 208: 198:, who had AIDS by the time he wrote the song and viewed the Beast's curse as an allegory for AIDS, was inspired by public sentiment at the time against AIDS and the gay community when writing the song's lyrics. 249:
described it as a "less time-consuming number". CommonSenseMedia said the song is one of the few things in the film that parents should be concerned about. WCPO said it was "dramatic" with "dark energy".
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adjusted the lyrics to reflect LeFou starting to turn against Gaston. Menken said that he changed the lyrics because director
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further said that the song was written as "almost a metaphor for" the stigmatization against people with AIDS.
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At one point, Gaston says, "Screw your courage to the sticking place", which is a line from
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claims the song "taps into this demonization of persons with AIDS".
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describes the song as a "parody" of the earlier number.
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast: A Board Game Adventure
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Index

Song
Angela Lansbury
David Ogden Stiers
Jerry Orbach
Kimmy Robertson
Paige O'Hara
Rex Everhart
Richard White
Robby Benson
Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label
Walt Disney
Songwriter(s)
Howard Ashman
Alan Menken
Producer(s)
Beauty and the Beast
Macbeth
Howard Ashman
Don Hahn
Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out
Nelson Eddy
musical film
New Moon
The Cambridge Companion of Singing
2017 live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast
Alan Menken
Bill Condon

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