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Spirituality & Practice explains "For her entire life, Rapunzel has been dreaming about venturing out of the tower to see up-close-and-personal the floating lights in the sky that appear every year on her birthday. The film's "opening tune" is about how Rapunzel accomplishes many things throughout her day, but what she really wants is adventure and to be outside her tower. Bennets Reviews wrote "Interestingly, the first reprise of "When Will My Life Begin" does not appear in the film, though the second reprise does". The main version originally had a prologue in which Rapunzel sings about how she had spent 6000 hours of her life locked up in a monotonous life, and how her 18th birthday is 24 hours away. The film's Blu-ray disc features "extended versions of the songs 'When Will My Life Begin?' and 'Mother Knows Best', with animatic renderings of the unfinished animation". I just go, "What can I use? what can I use? Oh, I'll use that!" That really was not the major part of any song, because I couldn't use. In the case of Tangled, it was a B-section of When Will My Life Begin, the theme that I use. When asked by DenofGeek about the "over-arching theme of the film", Menken responded: Menken noted that in the context of the musical film's structure and to move the plot forward "In Tangled, we had to have to have Rapunzel start with ‘everything’s great here ’ and end with: ‘when will my life begin?’". Alan Menken explained how he devised the song within the constraints of the chosen genre (guitar-themed score): "When I thought about Rapunzel in the tower and her long hair, on a gut level, and I thought of the folk music of the 1960s-Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell-and, it wasn’t an immediate yes, but I wrote six different versions of that opening number and it worked". "When Will My Life Begin?" was the first song that was written for the movie.
