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{{Infobox Song
|image = Reflection 5.jpg
|films = ''[[Mulan]]''<br>[[Mulan (2020 film)|''Mulan'' (2020)]]
|shows = ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]''
|attractions = [[Mickey and the Magical Map]]<br>Disney's Wishes
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|composer = [[Matthew Wilder]]
|lyrics_by = [[David Zippel]]
|singer = [[Fa Mulan]] ([[Lea Salonga]])
|other_singer = {{Scroll|[[Christina Aguilera]]<br>[[The Disney Album|Michael Crawford]]<br>[[Miranda Sanchez]] ([[Lalaine]])<br>[[Everlife]]<br>[[Keke Palmer]]<br>[[I Love Disney|Glasperlenspiel]]<br>[[We Love Disney (Sweden)|Janice]]<br>[[DCappella]]<br>'''2020 film:'''<br>[[Christina Aguilera]]<br>[[Mulan (2020 film)|Liu Yifei]]}}
|preceded_by = "[[Honor to Us All]]"
|followed_by = "[[I'll Make a Man Out of You]]"<br>"[[Loyal Brave True]]" (2020 version)
|video = 
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"'''Reflection'''" is a song from the [[1998]] [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]] animated feature film, ''[[Mulan]] ''and the [[2020]] [[Mulan (2020 film)|live action remake]]. The song was performed within the movie's narrative by [[Fa Mulan]] sung by [[Lea Salonga]], in order to show how much Mulan wanted to honor her family.

==Plot==
The song is performed after [[Fa Mulan|Mulan]] returns home following a failed attempt to impress her [[The Matchmaker|matchmaker]]. The lyrical content expresses the way Mulan feels about wanting to show the world who she really is instead of pretending to be who she is not, but is afraid to disappoint her family by doing so. This scene takes place at Mulan's home in its surrounding gardens and ends in her family temple, where she removes her makeup to reveal her true appearance in sadness.

==Lyrics==
<tabber>
Movie Version=
<poem>
Look at me
I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be
I'm not meant to play this part?
Now I see
That if I were truly to be myself
I would break my family's heart

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight
Back at me?
Why is my reflection someone I don't know?

Somehow I cannot hide
Who I am
Though I've tried
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
</poem>

|-|Original Version=
<poem>
Look at me
I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be
I'm not meant to play this part?
Now I see
That if I were truly to be myself
I would break my family's heart

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight
Back at me?
Why is my reflection someone I don't know?

Who is that perfect bride?
It's not me
Though I've tried.
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

How I pray
That a time will come
I can free myself
From their expectations
On that day
I'll discover someway to be myself
And to make my family proud

They want a docile lamb
No-one knows
Who I am
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?

Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
</poem>

|-|Christina Aguilera Version=
<poem>
Look at me
You may think you see who I really am,
But you'll never know me
Everyday
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight
Back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

I am now
In a world where I have to hide my heart,
And what I believe in
But somehow
I will show the world what's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight
Back at me?
Why is my reflection someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

There's a heart that must be free to fly,
That burns with a need to know the reason why

Why must we all conceal
What we think
How we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?

I won't pretend that I'm someone else
For all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
</poem>
</tabber>

==Trivia==
*This song was meant to be much longer, but the filmmakers wanted to save time in the movie. In the deleted version, Mulan not only takes off her bun, makeup, and jewelery, she also takes off her sashes. Also, the deleted version shows Mulan riding Khan through mountains and a swamp.
*When Mulan sings "Reflection" in her father's shrine, the writing on the temple stones is the names of the Disney animators who worked on the film, written in ancient Chinese.
*Tony/Olivier Award-Winning actress [[Lea Salonga]] originally auditioned for Mulan's voice, but it was deemed "not deep enough" for when Mulan is impersonating a male soldier. Although [[Ming-Na Wen]] plays Mulan, Salonga was retained for Mulan's singing voice.
*[[Lea Salonga]] sang "Reflection" on the Disney Expo right after she received the Disney Legend Award for being the singing voice of [[Jasmine]] and Mulan.
*In the ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'' episode "[[Random Acts of Miranda]]", where [[Miranda Sanchez|Miranda]] has a failed stunt as an actress in the school talent show, she decides to become a singer instead, and sings "Reflection."
*The movie credits' version of the song is the first to stay the same on any ''Disneymania'' volume.
*The film is credited with launching the career of [[Christina Aguilera]], whose first song to be released in the US was the film's song "Reflection". The song was so well received that it landed her a recording contract with RCA Records.
*Christina Aguilera sung the song at the 2019 [[Disney Legends]] ceremony. Aguilera later returned for a new performance of the song for the film's [[Mulan (2020 film)|live-action remake]], making her the first performer to reprise an end credits song from the original Disney animated film in a Disney live-action remake.

==Gallery==
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ImagesCAKT1U9X.jpg|I'm not meant to play this part?
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Reflection 3.jpg
Reflection - Christina Aguilera.jpg
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Christina Aguilera - Reflection (2020) (From "Mulan" Official Video)
Coming Sept. 4 Mulan "Reflection" Featurette Disney
LEE SUHYUN - Reflection (From "Mulan" Official Video)
Coco Lee - Reflection (2020) (From "Mulan")
Christina Aguilera - Reflection (2020) Loyal Brave True Medley (From "Mulan")
DCappella - Reflection (Live from the Teragram Ballroom)
</gallery>

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