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Post by Yoyti on Jun 13, 2016 13:30:20 GMT -5
From what I've seen and heard, this sounds promising. Sounds like Lin-Manuel Miranda is doing vocals as well. I wonder how the songs are being split up among the three writers listed. Will it be something like one on lyrics, one on music, one on orchestrations? Or will they all just write separate songs on their own? Or something else? Hoping it'll all play out well.
I like that the marketing seems to be more subdued and less dependent pushing big stars and on cheap comic relief than some previous Disney films (*cough* Frozen *cough*). Or maybe it only seems like it's more subdued right now because the internet hasn't made memes out of it yet. We'll see.
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Moana
Jun 15, 2016 7:42:30 GMT -5
Post by Moni on Jun 15, 2016 7:42:30 GMT -5
DWAYNE JOHNSON IS IN THIS MOVIE. YES. (He's been playing demigods lately, what with that crappy Hercules movie and such.)
The music in the trailer at least sounds very . . . different from a lot of other Disney-ish songs. Disney usually just sort of sticks into its own genre of orchestral vaguely-romantic soundtracks in their movies as a whole. (The most recent movie that sticks in my mind as trying to break away from that is Princess and the Frog, which went heavily into jazz; that didn't seem to stick with audiences well.)
I like the sort of syncretic polynesian music of Te Vaka (which uses traditional instruments for the most part with the occasional use of Western ones) and Miranda's work on his musicals, but Mancina, well . . . eh, he's not my favorite composer ever. I honestly hope they don't just write separate songs without a lot of communication and mash them all together because their styles are extremely different.
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Moana
Jun 15, 2016 11:03:50 GMT -5
Post by Yoyti on Jun 15, 2016 11:03:50 GMT -5
DWAYNE JOHNSON IS IN THIS MOVIE. YES. (He's been playing demigods lately, what with that crappy Hercules movie and such.) The music in the trailer at least sounds very . . . different from a lot of other Disney-ish songs. Disney usually just sort of sticks into its own genre of orchestral vaguely-romantic soundtracks in their movies as a whole. (The most recent movie that sticks in my mind as trying to break away from that is Princess and the Frog, which went heavily into jazz; that didn't seem to stick with audiences well.) I like the sort of syncretic polynesian music of Te Vaka (which uses traditional instruments for the most part with the occasional use of Western ones) and Miranda's work on his musicals, but Mancina, well . . . eh, he's not my favorite composer ever. I honestly hope they don't just write separate songs without a lot of communication and mash them all together because their styles are extremely different. Frozen broke away from the standard hard. The reason many of the Disney scores sound similar probably has to do with the fact that it's Alan Menken who wrote pretty much all of them. Little Mermaid Aladdin, Beauty And The Beast, Pocahontas, Hunchback, Hercules, Enchanted, and Tangled. Of his, Hercules breaks from the norm (although it does resemble his other famous musical, Little Shop Of Horrors), but really the most notably different Disney scores (Mulan, Lion King, Princess And The Frog, Frozen) are the ones not by Alan Menken. Of them, Princess And The Frog is my favorite. I think the music really matches the setting very well. Randy Newman was the right choice for that score. We'll see how it turns out, but I'm trying to be optimistic. At the very least, Miranda knows theater, so hopefully the songs will cohere with the script and each other better than the ones in Frozen. I don't expect this score to be Alan Menken level, but we'll see. The real question we have to ask ourselves is, since Lin-Manuel Miranda is involved in this, will demigod Dwayne Johnson rap?
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