Elite Eight Matchups:
5 Beauty and the Beast vs 2 I'll Make a Man Out of You
1 Circle of Life vs 2 Part of Your World
1 I See the Light vs 2 A Whole New World
1 Under the Sea vs 2 You'll Be in My Heart

Beauty and the Beast - "Beauty and the Beast" was written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken in 1990. Intending for the song to be "the height of simplicity", the songwriters drew much of its influence from Broadway music. Due to Ashman's failing health, some of Beauty and the Beast's pre-production was relocated to a hotel in Fishkill, New York, near Ashman's residence. Of the songs he wrote for Beauty and the Beast, Menken devoted the most time to the title song. The track was first recorded by British-American actress Angela Lansbury, who voices the character Mrs. Potts, an enchanted teapot.

The songwriters first introduced "Beauty and the Beast" to Lansbury as a demo recording, which was accompanied by a note asking her if she might possibly be interested in singing it. Although she liked the song, Lansbury also worried that her aging singing voice was no longer strong enough to record "Beauty and the Beast", and was especially concerned about having to sustain its longer notes. Lansbury suggested that the songwriters ask someone else to sing "Beauty and the Beast", but they insisted that she simply "sing the song the way [she] envisioned it".

The song won both a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as Grammy Awards for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

I'll Make a Man Out of You - Written by composer Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel for Mulan (1998). The song is performed by American singer Donny Osmond as the singing voice of Captain Li Shang. The song has received mostly positive reviews from film and music critics, some of whom dubbed it the film's best song, while praising Osmond's performance.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=90b2R6yzIzE&feature=shared

Wilder described himself as using "an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach" to composing its music, explaining, "I knew I wanted it to sound large and I knew what the tempo and the cadence of the piece was." Combining Eastern and Western styles, Wilder borrowed "drum cadences from traditional Chinese drums and then marrying that with military snares", upon which he continued building until "it became this cacophonous effect of a Chinese marching American band" to demonstrate a sense of masculinity and musculature, identifying the song as very odd in structure but appropriate for its lyrics.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=elBKil5zE2g&feature=shared