Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The singer: Pampered princess turned forest fugitive Snow White (Adriana Caselotti).
The song: After a harrowing night sleeping rough in a woodland glade, a surprisingly perky Snow White stumbles across a seemingly abandoned cottage. Outraged by the mess within, our clean-freak heroine enlists the help of numerous cutesy critters to spruce the place up, all the while singing a jolly, falsetto-pitched ditty about the pleasures of gainful employment (something this erstwhile aristocrat presumably knows sod-all about). Amazingly, none of her furry companions craps on the kitchen floor.
Why it's annoying: It's a recognised fact that any song featuring whistling is unbearable, with the exception of ‘Dock of the Bay’. Add a crude up-by-the-bootstraps message about perking up and putting your back into it – not to mention a deeply unsubtle ‘woman’s place is in the home’ subtext – and the result is basically a Tory manifesto with added squirrels.
Worst line: ‘Don’t let it bother you, forget your troubles, try to be just like a cheerful chickadee!’
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