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- Included on the film's soundtrack album, it was recorded by American actress and singer Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel, the film's main villain, and details the character's efforts to frighten Rapunzel into remaining within the confines of their secluded tower so she can continue exploiting her hair's regenerative properties.
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Jun 3, 2014 · How does Mother Gothel know the lyrics and melody to the magical songs that makes the flower (and later Rapunzel's hair) do the rejuvenation and healing magic that we see in Disney's Tangled?
Aug 4, 2017 · The official 'Tangled Junior Novel' (issued by Disney Press) specifically recounts how Mother Gothel learned the "Healing Incantation": One day, an old woman named Mother Gothel was singing softly to herself during one of her walks along a craggy hillside.
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"Healing Incantation" is a song sung by Rapunzel throughout the film to activate her powers of reversing damages, including complete regeneration of damaged tissues and organs as well as an aging reversal to a certain degree. Mother Gothel learned the incantation from Zhan Tiri and later taught it to Rapunzel.
The song is first heard at the beginning of the movie when Mother Gothel witnesses the magical sundrop blossom into a unique, golden flower. She sings the song, which causes the flower to glow majestically, releasing millions of magical specks, soon transforming the old, wretched Mother Gothel into a beautiful, young lady. This process lasts for centuries before it ends abruptly. Hearing the palace guards approaching, she attempts to conceal her personal secret, but knocks the hiding prop with her lantern, allowing the guards to dig up the flower from its roots and use it for the queen, who was ill from having a baby. When the queen ingested the flower, she passed its powers onto her baby: Rapunzel. The power made its way into Rapunzel's hair, each strand resembling a petal. Later that night, Mother Gothel kidnapped Rapunzel, using the power for herself, and concealing the innocent child from the "dangerous" outside world. Since Gothel began feeling "run-down", she taught Rapunzel the incantation.
Almost eighteen years later, Rapunzel and Eugene are confined after the dam collapses, releasing tons of water into a canyon. When trapped in an unfinished mine—which was rapidly filling with water—Eugene injures his hand from scrabbling on a rock in an attempt to find a way out. After the two confess to each other (Eugene revealing his real name and Rapunzel revealing her powers), Rapunzel realizes she can use her hair to illuminate the deep, dark depths of the cave. Rapunzel briefly sang the first two lines of the incantation—just enough to let her power shine, revealing loose rocks. When they reach the banks of a river, Eugene questions Pascal about the hair hysterically, to which Rapunzel responds "It doesn't just glow." That night, Rapunzel performs her incantation on Eugene's injured hand, healing it, and making Eugene babble maniacally. The incantation makes its final appearance when Rapunzel tries to convince Eugene to let her heal his stabbing injury from Mother Gothel but is astonished when Eugene cuts off nearly all of Rapunzel's 70ft long hair. This turns her hair brown, revealing Mother Gothel's true form, before Pascal trips Gothel out of the window, turning her to dust. Eugene dies from his injuries, while Rapunzel sings the song softly, unknowingly releasing the power in her tears. A tear drips down onto Eugene's cheek, blossoming an astounding healing scene before Eugene is revived and kisses Rapunzel passionately.
•Rapunzel's healing ability is a reference to how in the original fairy tale, Rapunzel healed her love interest's damaged and blind eyes by crying and her tears splashing on him.
•The line "restore our fading sight" from the Hope Incantation is most likely a reference to the same part of the original.
•The song is briefly heard in the Tangled: The Series episodes "What the Hair?!" and "Pascal's Story".
•The melody of the song is featured in "The Alchemist Returns".
•The song is sung with the alternative lyrics in "Rapunzel and the Great Tree", namely "Reverse Incantation" (also known as "Decay Incantation").
•Rapunzel sang the Decay Incantation again in "Rapunzel's Return", so she can free Quirin from the amber.
Jan 1, 2010 · The song is taught to Rapunzel when she is older so she can sing it to heal Mother Gothel. It is later used by Rapunzel on Eugene after he cut his hand in a cave that he and Rapunzel were...
List of Songs. First song as the Mother Gothel sings to the golden flower. Gothel steals Rapunzel as a child. Rapunzel sings in the morning as she cleans her tower with Pascal her chameleon. Rapunzel's mother sings her this song after Rapunzel asks to leave her tower to see the stars.
May 6, 2016 · Mother Gothel insists that Rapunzel is being naïve and the only reason why Flynn is with her is to get the crown back, which she thrusts into Rapunzel's hands and orders her to give it to him as a test of his loyalty to her before vanishing.
Musically, "Mother Knows Best" contrasts with the singer-songwriter style of Rapunzel's songs performed by pop singer Mandy Moore. A Tony Award-winning Broadway performer, Murphy recorded "Mother Knows Best" by envisioning Gothel as a person who revels in the spotlight and enjoys being the center of attention.
