The Song Speechless

We both got married last year and wrote a song about the moment we first saw our beautiful brides walking down the aisle they share on instagram.

The song speechless. Menken handled its musical composition. In the song she hopes he ll be convinced to seek the medical treatment he needs for his heart condition. Speechless is a 1970s rock inspired number. The song s composer alan menken explained if it came too early it wasn t earned and if we placed the whole song late it was too late for it.

I ve known about my father s condition for about 15 years. The situation itself of singing a song that had been written by the well known duo was surreal enough for her. Here comes a wave meant to wash me away a tide that is taking me under swallowing sand left with nothing to say my voice drowned out in the thunder but i won t. Naomi with the help of composer alan menken shared how the song speechless had been written by benj pasek and justin paul the team behind the songs featured in movies like la la land the greatest showman and dear evan hansen.

It was released by walt disney records on 22 may 2019 prior to the movie itself. Princess jasmine sings speechless twice in the film. It describes the scene of a wedding and the groom s delight at the beauty of the bride. Speechless was inspired by dan smyers marriage to his wife abby law in may 2017 and shay mooney s marriage to hannah billingsley in october 2017.

As a voice teacher i ve gotten constant requests to teach the song and since it requires a vocal technique tour de force to pull off it s a fun one for me. Speechless is country duo dan shay s first song to hit number 1 on the billboard country chart. If you ve been around kids teens or even adults who grew up in the 90 s there s a 96 4 chance that you ve run across the song speechless from aladdin sung by the lovely naomi scott. This track is featured on aladdin original motion picture soundtrack.

Alan menken benj pasek and justin paul. According to the speechless songfacts it was written by gaga for her father joseph.