Colors of the Wind (Pocahontas)
I feel in the next 20 years Pocahontas is going to go the way of Song of the South and "Colors of the Wind" is going to be its "Song of the South." A really excellent song that Disney would like everybody to forget where it came from. Because devoid of any context this is a genuinely beautiful song. Of course it is, it comes from the minds of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. But when it comes down to it all, this is a white lady singing a song written and composed by two white men about teaching a white man about how racism is bad through the face of a Native American character. In a story where they decided to make it a romance between a colonizer and the people he colonized. It's patronizing because it doesn't actually really borrow or reference any actual Native American traditions from the Powhatan people and instead just apes how white people view the like "Magic Native American" stereotype. It's a great song, I don't mind that it's lasted this long, but I'm going to save everybody from doing write-ups on it in the top 20.