User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/LTDI Update: Character Theme Songs and a Major Milestone/@comment-3350823-20160314031400/@comment-1874924-20160316031034

Yes, I think it was you. (Indeed, you were my prime suspect all along.) I could have sworn that someone also recommended "Be Prepared" to me for Heather, but now I'm not so sure. You did suggest "a Disney villain song" for Heather, but not "Be Prepared" or The Lion King specifically. Yet I didn't know the song well enough for it to suggest itself spontaneously, and until recently I didn't even know the song's title. My best guess now is that YouTube listed it as a "recommended" video (i.e. related to things I've recently watched) because Wifey and I have lately watched numerous videos from Malinda Kathleen Reese's "Google Translate Sings" series, and she's done a lot of Disney songs in that series. (Our favorite so far is "Poor Unfortunate Souls" from The Little Mermaid.)

I was originally considering "The Olive Tree" for Heather, but "Be Prepared" is clearly a better fit because the hyenas' lines and some of Scar's direct addresses to the hyenas ("It's clear ... the lights are not all on upstairs", "You won't get a sniff without me", etc.) sure sound like Heather and her allies, both in LTDI and canonically.

So, I assigned "The Olive Tree" to Courtney instead. Both songs are about ambition, but "The Olive Tree" lacks the implied ruthlessness of "Be Prepared".

You may recall that I had originally assigned Courtney another song--"When I Was a Lad" by Allan Sherman (to the tune of the Gilbert & Sullivan song of that name) but the video was taken down and I couldn't find a replacement. The video is back, but don't trust it to remain. "Once burned, twice shy", as they say. I think "The Olive Tree" is a better fit, anyway.

Speaking of Kismet, one possibility for D.J. is "Stranger in Paradise", but since it fits mainly for a single incident coming up in the next chapter or two (you'll know it when you read it) I'm looking for something better.

By the by, the reason I know Kismet as well as I do is because my high school performed it as their annual musical in my junior year (1976-77). It was memorable in part for its enormous cast--68 plus the pit orchestra.