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the-plot-blog-thing · 5 months
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For Fun: Here's My Favorite Disney Songs That Were Deleted/Changed In The Final Film (Part 4)
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"Someday" was meant to be Esmeralda's song in Hunchback of Notre Dame, but was replaced by "God Help the Outcasts" in the final version. It was sung over the credits, however, and both would be sung in the stage adaptation.
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"Shooting Star" was the original "I Want" song from Hercules, but was cut for being "too soft". I could take either or, but "Go the Distance" is still a classic.
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"I Can't Believe My Heart" was Meg's original song. It was cut for similar reasons as "Shooting Star". I definitely prefer the version we got.
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Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the lyrics for Pocahontas and Hunchback with Alan Menken as well as all the music for Wicked, was originally tapped to write the music for Mulan. He left early in production to work on the music for "The Prince of Egypt" at DreamWorks. "Written In Stone" is the only song of his version available to listen to. It would've been in the spot where "Reflection" exists in the final film.
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Speaking of "Reflection", when composers Matthew Wilder and David Zippel joined the film after Schwartz left, they wrote a much longer version of the song. The fact that this version is not in the film is a crime.
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"Keep 'Em Guessin'" would've been Mushu's song as he introduces himself to Mulan, but Eddie Murphy's dialogue worked much better, and made things much more succinct. The song is enjoyable imo, tho.
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Famously, Disney was working on a film set to release in late 2000 called Kingdom of the Sun. It was a sort of an Incan retelling of The Prince and the Pauper, with some magic and gods thrown in for good measure. It was supposed to be another grand musical on the scale of The Lion King, even sharing its co-director, Roger Allers. To match that scale, they brought in musician Sting to write the songs, thinking he'd bring the same energy that Elton John brought to Lion King's songs. Sting and co-composer David Hartley wrote three songs for this version. The first, "Walk the Llama Llama", would've been the opening song. It was to be sung by the main character, Pacha (here played by Owen Wilson), a teenage llama herder who coincidentally looks exactly like the spoiled teenaged Emperor Manco (played by David Spade). The song is Pacha expressing his love for the llama as he herded them. Pacha's singing voice would've been Sting himself in the final film. There also would've been a reprise halfway through the film and at the end, though nothing from these reprises has appeared online. Unfortunately, the only clean version of the song is this country-fied version by Rascal Flats on the Emperor's New Groove soundtrack.
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The second song, "Snuff Out the Light", would have been sung by the villain of the film, Yzma (as played by Eartha Kitt). In this version, Yzma would have been an aging sorceress who hated the sun for causing her wrinkles. She would've discovered that Manco and Pacha swapped, and turned the real Pacha into a non-speaking llama. She would've manipulated Pacha into doing what she wanted. She planned to summon the Dark God, Supai to block out the sun so she wouldn't grow old. This song was fully recorded, and the sequence had quite a bit of animation finished on it before the story changed.
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The third song, "One Day She'll Love Me" would have been the love song of the film, and been sung by Pacha and the emperor's betrothed, Nina. Pacha has fallen in love with Nina, but feels guilty for living a lie. Nina is starting to fall in love with him, but still believes he's Manco, and doesn't know why he's changing.
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Continued in Part 5!
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undercoveralienx3 · 2 months
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-Matthew wilder-break my stride
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-Bees Gees-You should be dancing
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-i know its a small playlist, but i thought maybe people might enjoy it anyways!- X3
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yen-sids-tournament · 9 months
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Who Has the Best Music of all the Disney Animated Movies?? MULAN!
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We want to first thank everyone who nominated movies and everyone who voted for their favorites for all 32 of our polls!
Now, we were looking at these results and we think it is important to note of the final eight movies, five were from the 1990s, two from the early 2000s and then one from 2015. Of those, the semi finals were all from the 90s!
Other fun information from this tournament, we only saw one of our top four make it to the semis, and neither of them were Mulan or Aladdin. Plus, the number one seed was The Princess and The Frog (2009). Happily that one did make it past the first round!
And as a final note: We are very excited no ones cows were dishonored but this tournament, (we were just waiting for that opportunity to shame some of you).
Congratulations to the third place winner: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)! There is just something about those religious undertones, like that organ and the chanting.
Congratulations to our second place winner: Aladdin (1992)! With so many different songs to choose from, we know there is one for every occasion.
Once again: Congrats to Mulan (1998), You have Saved All of China, defied gender norms, and returned home to your father with one Amazing Soundtrack!
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bunny-stereo · 2 years
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camyfilms · 1 year
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MULAN 1998
The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
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aci25 · 1 year
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80s were something else, the MOST UNSERIOUS decade in history. I’ve never once imagined that was what he looked like.
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duranduratulsa · 10 months
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Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride (Audio)
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80's Fest Song of the day: Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder (1983) from I Don't Speak The Language #matthewwilder #breakmystride #idontspeakthelanguage #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest
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retromusicart · 1 year
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Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride
Nobody's gonna slow me down
Oh, no
I got to keep on movin'
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Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride (CBS-Private I, Single, 1983) - Design by Tommy Steele in association with Art Hotel, photograph by William Warner
As heard on I Don't Speak the Language.
An interesting story, this song has. A depressed and poor Wilder co-wrote and recorded this song with his own money, as his then-label Arista was unhappy with the material he had given them. Although the team was enthusiastic, Arista head Clive Davis still wasn't satisfied and dropped Wilder. Wilder then shopped the record around and ran into promoter Joe Isgro, who put it out on his Private I label and used an old fashioned payola scheme to get stations to play it. It peaked at No. 5 on the Hot 100.
Wilder's recording career never took off, sadly. He decided that being a behind-the-scenes producer and writer was a safer bet. Not a bad choice, since Wilder would go on to co-write the songs in Disney's Mulan.
Image courtesy of Discogs.
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when i listen to this and think about how both songs start with the singer recounting a dream they had i start to wonder if this wasnt intentional
Songs:
Land of Confusion - Genesis
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder
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someawesomeamvs · 1 year
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Title: Break My Stride
Editor: MoonDreamofA (Duchess)
Song: Break My Stride
Artist: Matthew Wilder
Anime: K-On!, Tamako Market, Kyoukai no Kanata, Hyouka
Category: For fun
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myimaginaryradio · 2 months
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Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder - 1983
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enchanted-teaforest · 3 months
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fkinlaaance · 4 months
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