New York finishes Let It Go and moves on to A Whole New World. Rebecca wants a virgin Pina colada and Julia tries the spell eight times before she gets anything vaguely coconutty.

"We could sing The Lion King with them!"

"No, that would be GIVING IN. They'd think they were WINNING."

"What bad thing happens," says Silas, "if Shanghai mistakenly thinks -"

"SHUT UP, MOM," Julia and Chloe and Magnus chorus in unison.

Masozi knows none of these songs and it’s kind of hard to follow either of them when they’re both happening at once. He will halfheartedly ooh along once he’s half picked up the notes. Some Malawi-folk-music-style harmonies make it in after a while.

Masozi….does not speak Swahili. It's related enough to Zulu that he can soooort of recognize it and figure out why they said 'for Masozi', but it's also pretty mangled and he cannot actually understand any of it.

He can do enthusiastic harmony as soon as he figures out where the song is going, though! It is somewhat more enthusiastic than on-key. 

........you know, of all the Disney songs to be inexplicably yelled outside his room when Leander is trying to study, these are definitely not the worst. It could be...

He's not sure what it could be. He doesn't actually have strong opinions about Disney songs. Small World, maybe?

But regardless the Lion King singing seems rude. If he wasn't allowed to watch Moana because nobody trusted him not to pick up Tokelauan by accident people should not be yelling in whichever African language the Lion King is in across the hall from him. This is his extremely hot take which is not actually that hot now that he thinks about it, even if he is sort of aware that there is a zero percent chance that he's going to pick up any of this language from a group of yelling kids who probably don't even speak it.

"See. This is why they should have let us bring our guqin. Can you imagine Lan Zhan's guqin rendition of Circle of Life. We would absolutely win. I am pretty sure New York has never even heard of the guqin."

"She'll still be our neighbor next year."

"Right! Next year we will absolutely win at Disney."

Hakuna Matata!

Awww this one is happy and bouncy! Masozi will sway and bounce along to it with his arm still around Wen Ning. 

The noise is sufficient to wake up even Drunk Lan Wangji. 

...What is going on.

People are singing? People are singing Disney?

Someone is cuddling Wei Ying! That person is not him! They should not be doing thatz

The singing is briefly interrupted while Wei Ying goes "--ooh, aggressive much, you know I like a dominant man but this is kind of ridiculous! Right! Okay! Cuddling! Cuddling now! That sounds fine!"

There. Now Wei Ying is in his lap. The order of the world is correct.

"So the thing we're doing is challenging New York for dominance via our greater knowledge of Disney. Right now we're working through the Lion King because of Masozi."

"I need my guqin."

Wei Wuxian pats him sympathetically. "Next year."

Now there are four people enthusiastically singing Hakuna Matata and one person sort of mumbling along in the background!

Oh wow, Lan Wangji when he gets drunk is cuddly? Huh! 

Masozi continues to not know any of The Lion King but Hakuna Matata is pretty repetitive and also pretty amenable to ooh-ing along. 

Julian was trying to alternate metallurgy homework and Horrible Wall Sits, but how's anyone supposed to focus with all that racket downstairs. Is someone having a party? What kind of an absolute loon would be having a party in the Scholomance? 

....doesn't Buddhist Spaceship Girl live downstairs and just up the hall? 

Okay. Mystery solved. Second question: what's with the call-and-response section and why do they sound Chinese? He knows Wen Ning lives down there but he always seemed so sweet, and neither musically inclined nor, uh, confusingly racist. Whatever is going on there, the melody suggest Disney but the snatches of lyrics he's getting suggest not focused grouped. And now they're doing the Lion King, okay. He hopes Wen Ning isn't being bullied into lending his room to out for choir practice; if his enclave-mates want to wake everyone up they could at least have the good grace to offend their own neighbors. Some people would love to host singing parties if they didn't have to worry about what everyone in a 10-room radius would think of them for the next four years. 

Whatever. Julian and his table of specific heats can make their own fun. 

      "Now what -"

"Reflection? Mulan pissed them off last time...."

"That's an argument against it," says poor ignored Silas. 

"It's also not a great singalong song."

"I really think we should do Part of your world. It's a great singalong song and - does anyone not know it - see - and it's not that depressing cause she does get to be human -"

      "Fine," says Julia. 

"And I want a virgin Pina colada like Rebecca's."

Julia hands her one.

"Look at this stuff - isn't it neat - wouldn't you think my collection's complete - wouldn't you think I'm the girl, the girl who has....everything?"

"Oooh, I like Little Mermaid."

"This is a war."

"But a-Cheng! I like The Little Mermaid!"

Wei Ying is sad. This should not be allowed.

Lan Wangji has not fully followed why he is sad but it seems to be because he wants to sing Part Of Your World? This is an easy problem to solve. Lan Wangji can definitely sing Part Of Your World. He knows all the words.

He does so with great enthusiasm.

Does no one take their war against New York seriously????

He is going to join in but UNDER PROTEST.

Up where they stay all day in the sun

Wanderin' free, wish I could be

Part of that world

What would I give if I could live out of these waters?

What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?

Now they are singing Part Of Your World and Wei Ying is happy. This is good. Wei Ying should be happy. Lan Zhan wonders if he can obtain a copy of The Little Mermaid at the Scholomance. Maybe someone is taking a class on Dutch literature. Is The Little Mermaid Dutch? Maybe it's Norwegian. He would ask but his mouth is busy with singing. He should have two mouths to solve this problem.

"They're singing along!"

      "That means we won."

"They have conceded to the power of American cultural hegemony."

      "If only there were a Disney song about why you shouldn't malefice."

"I think we should stop while we're ahead," says Silas.

      "Oh, Silas is right, we should sing Mother Knows Best."

Silas tries to swat Julia with her pillow; she dodges.

"If Little Mermaid is the winner we stick with it. What else is there - Under the Sea, there's -"