Released during Walt Disney Pictures' centennial year, the animated musical offers references -- visual, musical, and otherwise -- to several Disney classics of the past, but especially to the Oscar-winning song and Disney logo theme "When You Wish Upon Star," which helped inspire the plot. The movie concerns 17-year-old Asha (voiced by ), whose wish on behalf of her kingdom results in a magic fallen star helping her go up against their egomaniacal king, Magnifico ( ). At the time of its release, movie goers already knew about 's singing chops from her Academy Award-winning turn as Anita in 's (2021); 's Broadway-ready skills were revealed in the 2014 film adaptation of . Here, the leads set aside and to make way for seven original songs by the newly formed songwriting team of . While won a Grammy for producing the soundtrack to (2018), and had written songs for the likes of , they are both singers and songwriters in their own right, and delivers the end-credits song "A Wish Worth Making." Before that, though, along with three other originals, sets the scene with the Latin-flavored "Welcome to Rosas," proves a suitable foil with the playful (and ominous) villain song "This Is the Thanks I Get ?!," and the empowering ballad "This Wish" is key for launching the film's supernatural story. Happily, the ensuing revolution ("Knowing What I Know Now") makes good on Asha's wish. ~ Marcy Donelson