Kiss the Girl I get but I don't think its a big deal since the scene is framed as them both being very into it, but why bother with Poor Unfortunate Souls? Ursula is the fucking villain and deals in shitty contracts. Why the fuck would she care about consent?
Seconded. Poor Unfortunate Souls is a villain song in which Ursula is trying to manipulate Ariel into forgetting that her voice is the only thing that would allow Eric to actually recognize her, something that Ariel immediately caught onto. Ursula, of course, immediately pivots to claiming that Ariel's beauty is enough to draw his attention, and when the song resumes with this verse, it dramatically changes tone and tempo to echo her switch from a calm and subdued "I'm really a good person" soft sell to flat out trying to fast-talk her mark into falling for the con and thinking the exorbitant price is a bargain.
While I can respect the
sentiment behind altering Ursula's verse so as not to say that men prefer quiet women, the lyric is not supposed to be something we get behind. Ursula is not a good person, and she's
bullshitting for nefarious purposes. The movie makes no bones about that, with Ursula both making it clear (at Kiss the Girl no less) that Ariel losing her voice was supposed to be an insurmountable handicap. For goodness sake, Eric spends much of his screentime with Ariel trying to bridge the language barrier. And when Ursula decides she needs to directly sabotage the romance,
she does so by using Ariel's stolen voice to charm Eric. Ariel being rendered mute is not treated as a good thing by the story, it's an obstacle.
We in the audience aren't supposed to buy into Ursula's pitch any more than we're supposed to buy into Frollo's claim (in Hellfire) of being a pillar of virtue.