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* The English dub of ''Anime/{{Ponyo}}'' ends with a pop version of the theme song after an English version of the original song plays, sung by {{Music/Noah Cyrus} and Frankie Jonas, the English voice actors of Ponyo and Sousuke. There's also a full version of it that was used to promote the film. While the original version is about Ponyo exploring her world, the pop version gives off the vibe of "let's dance and be happy with Ponyo".

* The English dub of ''Anime/{{Ponyo}}'' ends with a pop version of the theme song after an English version of the original song plays, sung by Noah Cyrus and Frankie Jonas, the English voice actors of Ponyo and Sousuke. There's also a full version of it that was used to promote the film. While the original version is about Ponyo exploring her world, the pop version gives off the vibe of "let's dance and be happy with Ponyo".

* Kerry Ellis recorded a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P-cMh4QjYA rock version]] of "Defying Gravity" from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', which was reworked to remove the references to Oz. Produced by Brian May of Music/{{Queen}}.

** The version of "The Music of the Night" that Music/MichaelCrawford performs on the ''Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera'' album, which was released as a single, isn't taken from the Original London Cast Recording, unlike the rest of the tracks on ''Highlights''. It's a slightly lighter, piano-driven arrangement, and the lyrics prior to verse four are often different, most obviously in the first bridge ("Close your eyes, for your eyes will only tell the truth/And the truth isn't what you want to see"). Crawford rerecorded this version with orchestrations closer to the standard version for his 1989 studio album ''With Love'', and the duet versions he performed with Music/BarbraStreisand (in 1993) and Music/SusanBoyle (2012) use these lyrics as well.

* Early in its development/workshopping, the title song from ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' was released as a single (complete with video) with dramatically different lyrics from those in the final theatrical production. If you compare them, both sets of lyrics are totally innocuous, just different. The Phantom's singer on the single, Steve Harvey, ''was'' in the running for the role, but in the end Creator/AndrewLloydWebber and company decided his rock-trained voice wasn't quite what they needed for the final show.

** In ''Theatre/{{Amaluna}}'', all of the show songs are in "[[SingingSimlish Cirquish]]" as usual, but on the soundtrack album, many of the songs have been rewritten in English ("Elma Om Mi Lize", "Ena Fee Alyne", and "O Ma Ley" remain Cirquish). Similarly, ''Theatre/{{Quidam}}'''s soundtrack includes English versions of "Let Me Fall" and others.

* "Underneath The Same Sky" from ''[[WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh Tigger And Pooh And A Musical Too]]'' got a pop cover by Kenny Loggins.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' is well-known for the pop version of one of the songs from the film, "Somewhere Out There", which was preformed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram, that played during the credits of the film. It became so popular that it [[BreakawayPopHit would later break free of its' origins and become one of the 80's defining songs]].

* The theme of ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', "Run with Us", was initially sung by Steve Lunt, then re-recorded by Lisa Lougheed, who also voiced Lisa Raccoon and produced several other songs for the show. Her version was featured on her ''Evergreen Nights'' album along with the other songs sung or co-produced by her.

* The SpecialEdition soundtrack to ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' includes pop covers of "Part of Your World" by Creator/JessicaSimpson, "Under the Sea" by Creator/RavenSymone, "Poor Unfortunate Souls" by Music/TheJonasBrothers, and "Kiss the Girl" by Creator/AshleyTisdale, although only "Poor Unfortunate Souls" has its lyrics altered.

* A variation: The Peter Allen JukeboxMusical ''The Boy from Oz'' turns "Film/{{Arthur}}'s Theme (Best That You Can Do)" into a falling-in-love duet between Allen and Liza Minnelli, "Best That You Can Do", by dropping the second verse (which is specifically about Arthur) and slightly tweaking the lyrics of the first. Never mind that the original song was released in 1981 and the scene in the musical is set in the mid-1960s; the connection between the love interest and the song -- Minnelli was the female lead in ''Arthur'' -- must be exploited!

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