Who’s ready for the live-action version of Aladdin? I know I am! And one thing that’s pumping everyone up is the film’s soundtrack, which features an empowering new song for Princess Jasmine performed ...

Princess Jasmine sang only one song in Disney’s 1992 animated version of “Aladdin.” And it was a duet. Sure, it was “A Whole New World,” arguably the film’s most famous song. But it wasn’t her own.

Performed powerfully by Naomi Scott and written by Alan Menken, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul; it’s an empowerment power-ballad about Jasmine’s fight to be taken seriously as a leader. In the film, it’s ...