i like the Jemaine song a lot tooSHIIINAAAY
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
that'd be a cool ballot poll! maybe open out to songs from animated films or kids' films generally, just to dodge disney exceptionalism and otherwise yknow "somewhere out there" and "pure imagination" are never gonna get polled. otoh i'd need a long-ass ballot for a poll where wizard of oz is dueling with moana so maybe just animated. i guess the one upshot to all-disney is space to throw a vote to eccentric personal faves like "ichabod crane" or some b.s. song no one remembers from the sword in the stone...
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
I thought about it but all animated seems very wide, all kids impossible to do so, all movies then it's just the tonight quintet
Including live with disney-style animated just for the sake of 'somewhere' and you can't keep a god dog down (bow wow wow wow) but can't see that not causing a scrap tbh
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
We have threads barring Disney so I'd be all for some exceptionalism just for the sake of a clean poll, essentially
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
Would nearly consider it a good candidate for one of the write-up ballots
i mean having done all the disney movie polls i can't really try to bash the exceptionalist tendency now. but i did try to (sometimes) mention the other non-disney movies from the same period, just to try and get them back situated in the general history. iiiiii dunno....
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
Let's see what it looks like in the morning
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
^ rejected hunchback opener fyi
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
You’re my best friend, my best friendAnd we are family
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 7 January 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
The greatest Disney song is the first few seconds of the Mulan song that goes "let's get down to business/to defeat the Huns" no need to go thru the motions of polling
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Sunday, 7 January 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link
I just rewatched Lilo and Stitch. Ugh, so good too. DIsney should just make hawaiian girl movies forever.
― Yerac, Sunday, 7 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
The conclusion to the poll is v. deservedly going to be something from Jungle Book, methinks.
― rb (soda), Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
Oodelally song from Robin Hood
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
Shit the jungle book yeah that's gonna be up there
Don't really know songs from robin hood!
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
is disney’s robin hood the ground zero of the furry movement y/n
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
Poll
This thread is fecund
Aladdin btw has fantastic songs
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
this movie really passes the "kid has watched it 15X times and I still like it" test
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
Can't unhear
"See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me"
as
"It's a tragedy for me to see the dream is over..." from Milli Vanilli's "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
A thread for Disney's MOANA staring Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson, songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda
best songs are by Opetaia Foa'i/Te Vaka imho:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BQFGoMWd4
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 9 July 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
Love every second of this gorgeous movie and I cry like a drip every single time and just thinking about it or actually hearing the music now that I'm playing Albert's link /sob/
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 9 July 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
co-sign <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 July 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
I was looking for other performances from TeVaka/the Foa'i's and this was the only one I could find of this other great (also non-LMM) song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKm-aYjMgc
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 9 July 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
... but with a little more research I learned that the above song (known on the Moana OST as "An Innocent Warrior" that plays during the scene when toddler Moana protects the baby sea turtle to the ocean and the ocean goddess plays with her and offers her the heart of Te Fiti) was written recorded by Te Vaka in 2000 as "Loimata E Maligi" (falling tears) about a tragic fire that killed 19 teenage girls in a dormitory in Tuvalu, and if you look that song up there is quite a bit of live footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkBsaVMQ9m8
My point for my latest revives stems from a discussion with my wife (who is LMM superfan #1, ie saw In The Heights like a dozen times) on our last road trip and we were listening to the Moana OST and she's all LMM this and LMM that, and I'm like look, I'm not trying to paint LMM as a Paul Simon or anything, but there were quite a bit of other folks who played and sang on this soundtrack and they have been largely ignored for their contributions which I'd rate equal to much higher than LMM's.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 9 July 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
Agree to some general extent, but I mean, LMM did "How Far You'll Go," "You're Welcome" and "Shiny," which are all pretty memorable and either the linchpin, or, in the case of the latter two, the showstoppers of the movie. I say this as the parent of two (growing) girls who sing these songs all the time. Regardless, I like that this movie has legs and is seemingly just shy of "Frozen" in terms of current Disney (musical) impact.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
this movie really passes the "kid has watched it 15X times and I still like it" test― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, February 5, 2018 10:30 AM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, February 5, 2018 10:30 AM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My kid watched it twice in a row last night.
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
LMM did "How Far You'll Go," "You're Welcome" and "Shiny," which are all pretty memorable
Aye, the latter two memorable for their sheer nails-on-chalkboard annoyance lol!
I say this as the parent of two (growing) girls who sing these songs all the time.
Yeah, I didn't mention the kids, my only hope is that when their journey with Moana is over, that their takeaway is the beautiful Pacific Islander culture/music and not LMM's shlocky cornball showtunes...
(haha I'm truly glad I can vent these normally unsaid opinions to you guys and not the family).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
you seem to be implying that shlocky cornball showtunes are a bad thing
― devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
and I'm not done! I will admit "How Far I Go" is not awful, and that I actually enjoy most of "Where You Are" which I think Te Vaka do the music & the non-lead vox on.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
I don't like cornball showtimes, particularly, but for those who do - which include most kids and pretty much anyone that likes showtimes, period - these cornball showtimes are quality. It definitely beats the schlocky bullshit neo-Christian rock stylings of Greatest Showman or Dear Evan Hanson or whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Gone from Netflix, fuck!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 24 December 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 December 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
For those who like Te Vaka / Opetaia Foa'i / Olivia Foa'i as much as I do, I found this rare gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mu5XnpdCgY
It's an extended version of the opening prayer/song which Opetaia extended for another part (reprise?) of the movie but was not included in the final cut. The first minute should sound fairly familiar to those of us who've watched a million times, but around the minute mark is where it turns into something amazing.
John Lassetter asked for me to write a piece to go with the Disney castle logo at the beginning of the movie, and that’s when I wrote “Tulou Tagaloa”. Later on, the directors were playing around with an idea which involved Moana finding the ‘heart of te fiti’, and as they liked ‘Tulou Tagaloa’, they asked me to write an extended piece for it. This piece is the ocean telling Moana, in a nurturing sympathetic tone, of the task that awaits her. And once again, my daughter Olivia adds her magic touch to it.-Opetaia Foa'i
-Opetaia Foa'i
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link
I guess this is my Te Vaka thread now (sorry, not sorry):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszd49
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 06:02 (three years ago) link
rewatching this movie under the influence of pregnancy hormones is...a lot
― horseshoe, Friday, 19 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
My daughter's award-winning theater program at her middle school performed a preview of a semi-secret pilot version of a live musical version of this at the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta last year, which was pretty much the last thing she did before lockdown.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
man this movie rules. there are just a couple jokes/moves i could do without but overall one hell of a story, several amazing songs, and that water is gorgeous.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 March 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
love it so much! baby moana is such a cutie
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
Because I have to do it, here's my daughter's theatre program (public school!) at work doing bits of Moana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uee08PkdX5E
They killed it, but their Maui in particular was great.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 March 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
That's awesome.
You should send this to Opetaia Foa'i. The language for most of the PI songs is sung in Tokelauan which wiki says there are only 4,260 speakers globally, he would get a kick that people are celebrating his language/culture.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 20 March 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
i've been looking for a place to post this animated short... this must be the place
it's "based on the long-hidden history of four healing stones on Waikiki Beach placed there as a tribute to four legendary mahu who first brought the healing arts to Hawaii." insightful into Hawaiian concepts of gender and healing, beautifully rendered.
https://www.kapaemahu.com/
― davey, Saturday, 20 March 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
Wow... I'm an ignorant tourist who has passed by those stones many times without paying my respects. Will rectify that on my next visit. Thank you for posting davey.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 20 March 2021 04:42 (three years ago) link
you bet!
― davey, Saturday, 20 March 2021 08:45 (three years ago) link
i'm a longtime resident and i didn't know the story either
I think it's currently on Criterion Channel, too, which is cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 March 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
Man, Moana is great and still looks amazing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 January 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
Apparently they just surprised announced a sequel, supposedly out November, reportedly repurposed from a TV project? Sounds like a hail Mary/Moana move.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 February 2024 13:58 (three months ago) link