So This Is Love Lyrics - Ilene Woods

"So This Is Love" from Disney's Cinderella, the song of the magical moment in which someone falls in love, as evidenced by the spectacle of Cinderella and the Prince's enchanted dance. The lyrics are by Al Hoffman, Mack David, and Jerry Livingston; the voices are Ilene Woods and Mike Douglas. The beauty of the song is captured in its representation of the effect of love on one's self and the enchantment and wonder of that very concept. Cinderella dances into a different world from her troubles, realizing a dream. The prince, on his part, is so taken with Cinderella that his encounter with her is as though his dream has come true, both consequently realizing this miraculous mutual enchantment will henceforth forge a profound connection between them.

To be sure, it is the very lyrical content and delivery in the acclaimed ballroom scene that constitutes, in essence, an ethereal air of love and imbibes the soul-stirring, instant connection of a love brought to life. Matched together, the melody and the lyrical content evoke a whirlwind of emotions, using joy and hope and a quite miraculous feeling that catching love actually brings. Coupled with universal themes, the song "So This Is Love" simply reverberates across the globe, across all ages of audiences, reminding many of love that goes farther than every barrier and is sheer happiness.

Written as the song for the 1950 animated adaptation, "So This Is Love" was replaced in the live-action Cinderella film by 19th-century-styled waltzes and polkas composed by Patrick Doyle, offering audiences another musical context for the same fairy tale, with its spirit of romance.