Barbie - 'Free' (Official Audio)

Music and Vocal Arrangements by Megan Cavallari
Lyrics by Amy Powers
Produced, conducted, and orchestrated by Arnie Roth
Mattel Rhapsodies (ASCAP)

[bestie-Im-tired]

"I'm realizing that every present comes with strings~"

I love this line, it's absolutely brilliant.

[oliviaperalta]

I had this cd and I would play it all the time on my pink Hello Kitty Boombox. Gosh I miss those days 😭

[titleAzure]

Please bring these old Barbie songs on music streaming platforms 🙏🏻

[dzanegulles]

the "now i fear i'll never be free" of Annalise in contrast to Erika's "soon i will forever be free" 😭💔 i understand now how sad and less hopeful of freedom Annalise's life is than Erika's. i'm 22 now

[marcaniusaugustus]

this sounds like it came straight out of Broadway

[unixornprince]

ok can we talk about how Erikas part line in her hair isn't in the middle?

[WarCramz]

Man Barbie movies back then were just OUT there... We got a gay icon who originally plans to marry the princess, then when that backfires he kidnaps her, THEN TRIES TO MARRY THE MOM WHEN THAT PLAN DOESNT WORK- AND we also have Madame literally saying 'Your parents should have let you starve if they didn't want a debt.' But god this movie is still a personal favorite.

[jellianebuendia]

Now that I'm listening to this at 19 I understand everything

[beccamann]

I love the advisors ramble at the beginning, is so fun to me

[ograinlover]

ROYAL SCHEDULER, spoken]
Oh, we're late, late, late. We have twenty, maximum twenty-two minutes for your royal fitting. And then it's move, move, move to your speech at the Historical Society. After that, we have to rush, and I mean rush, to the Horticultural Society Tea. And then there's your math lessons, your geography lessons, your science lessons...

[ANNELIESE]
All my life, I've always wanted
To have one day just for me
Nothing to do and for once nowhere I need to be
With no lessons, lords or lunches
Or to-do list in the way
No one to say when to eat or read or leave or stay
That would be the day

[ERIKA]
All my life, I've always wanted
To have one day for myself
Not waking up with a pile of work on every shelf
With no hems in need of pressing
And no sleeves in disarray
No wedding gown with a thousand stitches to crochet
And no debt to pay

[BERTIE, spoken]
Madame Carp!

[MADAME CARP, spoken]
What do you think I'm running here? A cabaret?

[ERIKA, spoken]
I would've said a debtor's prison.

[MADAME CARP, spoken]
Keep laughing, you'll be working for me for another thirty-seven years.

[ERIKA, spoken]
But I've already paid off more than half!

[MADAME CARP, spoken]
But there's an interest, isn't there? Your parents should have thought of that before they borrowed so much.

[ERIKA, spoken]
They did it to feed me!

[MADAME CARP, spoken]
Their mistake.

[ERIKA]
What would it be like to be

[ANNELIESE]
What would it be like to be free

[ERIKA]
Free

[ANNELIESE]
Free to try crazy things

[ERIKA]
Free from endless IOUs

[ANNELIESE]
Free to fly

[ERIKA]
Free to sing

[ANNELIESE]
And marry whom I choose

[QUEEN GENEVIEVE, spoken]
I'm so sorry, my darling. But as you know, it is vital you marry King Dominick. It is the only way to take care of our people.

[ANNELIESE, spoken]
I know. It's my duty.

[QUEEN GENEVIEVE, spoken]
Oh! And look! Another engagement gift!

[ANNELIESE]
You would think that I'm so lucky
That I have so many things
I'm realizing that every present comes with strings

[ERIKA]
Though I know I have so little
My determination's strong
People will gather around the world to hear my song

[BERTIE]
Can I come along?

[ANNELIESE]
Now I fear I'll never be

[ERIKA]
Soon I will forever be

[ANNELIESE & ERIKA]
Free
I close my eyes and feel myself fly
A thousand miles away
I could take flight, but would it be right?
My conscience tells me "Stay"

[ANNELIESE]
I'll remain forever royal

[ERIKA]
I'll repay my parents' debt

[ANNELIESE & ERIKA]
Duty means doing the
Things your heart may well regret

[ANNELIESE]
But I'll never stop believing

[ERIKA]
She can never stop my schemes

[ANNELIESE & ERIKA]
There's more to living than
Gloves and gowns and threads and seams
In my dreams
I'll be free

[OnnaBlade]

I miss this movie so much 😞
I sing with my friends ands

[Icediamondsx]

I remember owning the dvd… I would go to the song option, and replay this song. I’d stand on a stool singing with my friend dancing in the background. The stuff he did for me 😂

[Yellowberry]

The fact that this isn’t on Apple Music is a crime.

[haleypowell]

I like Annelise and Erika because their voices are both very

[anamicanovic]

Perfect song for Mickey as a pauper and Mickey alike Prince.

[connormeilman]

"Free" is a duet sung by Anneliese and Erika in Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper. Bertie also has a line. Anneliese sings about wanting to have more freedom, and marry someone she is truly in love with, whilst Erika sings about repaying her parents' debt to Madame Carp and pursuing a singing career.
The song is featured in the Barbie Sings! The Princess Movie Song Collection soundtrack album. It has similarities to I Wish I Had Her Life from Barbie: The Princess & The Popstar in that Princess Tori and popstar singer Keira wish to be free from their duties and have another life.

[kennedy_mashay]

Every tome i go on my porch since i was little i would recreate the terris scene on this song

[anamicanovic]

When I watched some of Barbie movies I thought of Katherine Heigl as my experience and as well as Will Arnett and even the nut job before and after.

[eleanorhogan]

There is a pink and blue butterfly appearing in this film but later on they dissappear and I was curious about what happened to them.

[anamicanovic]

I even thought of The Lion King 11/2, Catscratch and Over The Hedge before and after as my experience.