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"The tradition of music in Disney animated films is pretty spectacular. But I tried not to think about it, because I might be overwhelmed if I did," said actress and singer-songwriter Zooey Deschanel, who couldn't exactly ignore that history when she was drafted to contribute to this year's Disney version of the A.A. Milne stories. Her initial task, after all, was to record a new version of the Sherman brothers' theme song. When that went well, she was asked to write and record an end-credits song, which turned out to be "So Long," one of the film's two Oscar entries. And after that, she was asked to contribute vocals to other songs in the film ... all while finishing a tour with her band, She and Him, and getting ready to begin filming her new TV series, "The New Girl." "It kind of happened in little bits and pieces over the course of the year," Deschanel told TheWrap. "That's the thing with music for me. Songwriting was always something that I did in my private time as a release, very much on my own. It didn't come out into the world until later in my life. But now, as my schedule has gotten so weird and so busy, I feel like I need to keep going back to it." Deschanel first got involved with "Winnie the Pooh" when music supervisor Tom McDougall showed her a 10-minute segment that had been cut to a She and Him song, and asked if she'd record the title song. She enlisted bandmate Matt Ward (who goes by M. Ward) to produce, and settled on an approach to a song whose original version was recorded by a large chorus of anonymous singers. "I think there was something that Matt and I saw in that song that we could pull out, that wasn't really focused on in the original recording," she said. "That was the warmth and the intimacy of the song. We wanted it to feel very warm and sweet. I felt like it should welcome people into the story." Her Oscar entry "So Long," though, ushers viewers out of the story through its placement in the final credits. "They showed me a rough cut of the movie, so I knew what was leading up to that song," she said. "I knew that I wanted to write a love song, but about friendship love." Her models, she said, came from albums she loved both as a kid and as an adult: Harry Nilsson's "The Point," Carole King's "Really Rosie" and the compilation "Free to Be ... You and Me." "I listened to all of those again," she said. "They all had classic chord progressions and catchy melodies with good lyrical hooks and very strong choruses. I wanted a song that was upbeat and made you feel happy walking out of the theater, and also one that kids would enjoy." The discipline, she added, was dramatically different from writing for her own band, in which she's free to tackle any subject and take any approach. 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