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Release history Release dates and formats for 'Starting Now' Track listings Digital single Ĭredits and personnel Song On May 26, 2021, Norwood released a behind the scenes video. The lyric music video for 'Starting Now' premiered on YouTube on May 21, 2021. The lyrics of 'Starting Now' reference past Disney songs, such as ' Reflection' ( Mulan), ' Just Around the Riverbend' ( Pocahontas), ' A Whole New World' ( Aladdin) and ' Beauty and the Beast' ( Beauty and the Beast): 'There's a girl I find in my reflection / She is smart and kind, don't need protection / She's a warrior, and she is waiting for you / Just around the bend, / Where every day you're a hero that lights up the dark / Where you lead with your courage and dream with your heart / Where there's a whole new world Her story is a tale as old as time.' Promotion Paul Duong for Rap Radar praised Norwood's 'angelic vocals'. Critical reception Īntwane Folk (for Rated R&B) called the single 'uplifting.Brandy triumphantly over a tribal EDM beat about rising up like a phoenix with a renewed vision and purpose about her destiny she rightfully deserves.' Referring to Norwood as the 'ultimate Disney Princess' in a review for Soul Bounce, Ken Hamm praised her vocals, stating she 'handles like light work', and called the song 'an empowering anthem'. Norwood likened being hand-selected for Cinderella by a performer she idolizes to a real-life fairy tale, accepting the role because she already had successful singing and acting careers, in addition to relating to the main character in several ways.

The two-hour Wonderful World of Disney special garnered an estimated 60 million viewers, giving the network its highest ratings in the time period in 16 years, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program the following year. In 1997, Norwood was hand-picked by producer Whitney Houston to play the title character in Rodgers and Hammerstein's television version of Cinderella featuring a multiracial cast that also included Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Houston.

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