If you picked up a distinct Disney vibe while watching Sausage Party, it probably wasn't just because of the animation. Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, whose credits include such Mouse House classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, was hired to compose the score—and the show-stopping opening number—in an effort to, as Vernon told The Hollywood Reporter, "make the ridiculous actually ground itself."
Kind of a surprising gig for the guy who gave us "A Whole New World" and "Colors of the Wind," to say the least, but as Menken explained, it wouldn't seem like such an odd fit if you knew him offscreen. "When I first started the project," he recalled, "I remember telling my daughters that I was doing a project, Sausage Party, and they looked at me and went 'Dad? Sausage party?' In real life, I'm actually a very R-rated person."
