User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-1758900-20140722012623



Well, that was........ something.

The older ones worked much better, because as someone was saying on Twitter yesterday, those songs (Circle of Life, A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes) weren't character-driven. They could easily be taken out of the context of the film and still stand as a decent song.

This, on the other hand, just feels awkward. The fact that the song is character-driven and relatively simple kind of kills it. But even that could be excused if they seemed like they were having fun with it. But they're not. They're not recreating the sequence in the film, they're not playing around in the snow or something. They're just standing there, occasionally looking at each other, singing note for note the original song, with occasional flourishes