GARCIA-NAVARRO: Other TikTok users started to contribute songs of their own, of course.įETTUCINE FETTUQUEEN: (Singing) Don't waste your whiskers on dreaming. MERTZLUFFT: It's like a big reprise of one of the songs earlier, but done in a big choral fashion, a huge orchestra. Menken wrote the music for "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty And The Beast" and "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame." GARCIA-NAVARRO: He was inspired by the Alan Menken musicals he grew up with. So we have the big bells, the glockenspiel, the timpani. You always hear the French horn in those types of songs.
So how did Mertzlufft musicalify (ph) that tune?ĭANIEL MERTZLUFFT: I put in tremolo strings, a bunch of brass - like, the French horn specifically. GARCIA-NAVARRO: And the captions to the song read like stage directions in a script - Act 2 finale and confetti everywhere, lights going crazy, Remy on a lift, flying over the audience. UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Singing) Remy the ratatouille, the rat of all my dreams. He works in musical theater and transformed that acapella melody into. GARCIA-NAVARRO: That caught the attention of another TikTok user, Daniel Mertzlufft. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Then a user, em_jaccs, uploaded an original song she wrote praising the main character, Remy the rat.ĮM_JACCS: (Singing) Remy the ratatouille, the rat of all my dreams.
First, a song from the movie became popular on the social media app. Remember "Ratatouille," the charming 2007 Pixar movie about a French rat who loves to cook? Well, if you have forgotten, the creators on TikTok have not.