History Main / GainingConfidenceSong

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[[caption-width-right:289:From "terrified and alone" to "confident and in-control", all in the course of a 3-minute song!]]

* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel'': Hermione's solo "The Coolest Girl" is about her statuCoolLosers as a "cool loser", starting with her softly singing about her isolation from her peers and ending with her belting that she doesn't care; ''she'' knows she's awesome.

* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel'': Hermione's solo "The Coolest Girl" is about her status as a CoolLoser, starting with her softly singing about her isolation from her peers and ending with her belting that she doesn't care; ''she'' knows she's awesome.

* ''Film/ChuckECheeseInTheGalaxy5000'': During the climatic final race of the Galaxy 5000 when Chuck E. realizes he has to put the Songbird in Vega-3 to beat the X-Pilots despite never practicing with such, this cues the song "I Know I Can", where Chuck E. voices his doubts while his teammates give him encouragement, this in turn causes him to gradually become more self-assertive and confident as he activates the speed and successfully catches up, passing through Dead Man's Canyon without any trouble; by the final chorus, Chuck E. has finally let go of all his worries and fully believes he can win, and in turn, he manages to get ahead of the X-Racer and comes in first place.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together", the brothers find Swampy, the former drummer of Love Händle who stopped making music after an accident left him without a sense of rhythm. However, everything he does is done rhythmically. Phineas tells him he does have rhythm, but Swampy insists, "I Ain't Got Rhythm". By the end of the song, the brothers have shown him that yes, he does have rhythm and the old Swampy is back at his drum set.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa sings "Let It Go" where she first laments how her power has led her becoming basically an outcast, but then she embraces her powers and basically declares "This is me? Deal with it." Played with, however, as she still isolates even after her big confidence boost and still has no idea how to undo her magic.
* It's Anna's turn in ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. "The Next Right Thing" starts off with her despondent and alone after hitting her DarkestHour [[spoiler: with the deaths of Elsa and Olaf]], not sure if she can go on at all, but she steels herself to finish the job that they started.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Hercules is ostracized by his peers because he is unable to control his own strength, so he somberly sings "Go The Distance" to express his desire to be accepted. Halfway through the song, his adoptive parents advise him to visit the Temple of Zeus in order to learn about his past, which fuels him with optimism and causes him to happily sing that he will not give up until he finds the place where he belongs. Once he learns the truth about himself, the third verse is about how he definitely ''will'' prove himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': "Out There" begins as a soft, melancholy song about how safe but miserable Quasimodo is in the bell tower. By the end, he is singing about how much he is willing to give up or risk for one day "out there."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': During the film's DarkestHour, Tala's spirit appears to the protagonist and starts singing the "Song of the Ancestors". The first few verses are soothing whispers, as Tala tells Moana to reflect on her journey and who she really is. However, the protagonist then sings about the hardships she has overcome, growing progressively more confident as she realizes how much she has accomplished through sheer determination until she proudly proclaims "I am Moana!" and decides to resume her journey.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', when Isabela ends up creating a cactus in a moment of anger, she begins to realize the scope of her abilities, and sings "What Else Can I Do?" as she realizes that she doesn't need to be the "perfect daughter" and begins to experiment with growing more than just flowers.

Sometimes overlaps with IAmBecomingSong and IAmGreatSong, and can occur during a KaraokeBondingScene. Compare and Contrast PepTalkSong, in which other characters sing to make the sad character feel better, and SmallStartBigFinish, which has a similar build-up but without the emotional metaphor.

* It's Anna's turn in ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2''. "The Next Right Thing" starts off with her despondent and alone after hitting her DarkestHour [[spoiler: with the deaths of Elsa and Olaf]], not sure if she can go on at all, but she steels herself to finish the job that they started.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Hercules is ostracized by his peers because he is unable to control his own strength, so he somberly sings "Go The Distance" to express his desire to be accepted. Halfway through the song, his adoptive parents advise him to visit the Temple of Zeus in order to learn about his past, which fuels him with optimism and causes him to happily sing that he will not give up until he finds the place where he belongs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': "Out There" begins as a soft, melancholy song about how safe but miserable Quasimodo is in the bell tower. By the end, he is singing about how much he is willing to give up or risk for one day "out there."

I'm gonna send the flood, gonna drown'em out\\

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[[caption-width-right:290:From "terrified and alone" to "confident and in-control", all in the course of a 3-minute song!]]

[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/letitg.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:From "terrified and alone" to "confident and in-control", all in the course of a 3-minute song!]]

I’m gonna send the flood, gonna drown’em out\\

I am who I’m meant to be\\