Ah, good old fashioned nightmare fuel. Now for kids! Walt Disney had a passion for entertaining children. He also enjoyed scaring the fuck out of them with dark forests filled with evil trees, islands where vices turn kids into donkeys for salt mines and nightmarish hallucinations and dreams.
Also, beloved cartoon character Donald Duck swinging an axe around.
In the animated classic Dumbo, an elephant learns to accept himself for what he looks like and is able to put his deformities to good use, thanks to a friendly mouse, his caring mother, and a bunch of racist-ass crows.
This was progressive at the time. PROGRESSIVE
The same movie involves the adorable elephant drinking a load of alcohol and getting ridiculously shit-faced to the point of seeing a bunch of monstrous pink elephants. The elephants proceed to scare the shit out of any child ever watching. Most kids first experience with psychedelic imagery comes from Pink Elephants.
The song is pretty weird, as well. Voices alternate, trumpets blare, drums pound, chaos erupts in the end, before finally fading into peace as the little elephant wakes up from a hangover he'll never forget (do you realize elephants).
Second in freaky Disney songs in kids films is fucking Heffalumps and Woozles. Man, they couldn't have drawn that first Woozle any more menacing. And the instrumental part with the warped instruments playing? What the fuck, man.
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