It seems like something that would be big in his bubble but a complete disaster outside of it.
He's a good song writer half the time. The other half of his discography is garbage. Tell me a single good track from the Little Mermaid remake and I'll slap the taste out of your mouth for lying.
Never seen the Little Mermaid remake and never will because I refuse to watch any more Disney remakes. Also, I've never heard it's soundtrack anywhere. Now that I think about it I've never heard anyone sing any of the new songs either, not even little kids.
Except he fucked it up by making everyone a sexless female girlboss, so now the only one who's gay is Swan and the rest of them have no character traits.
It makes the mistake of every bad adaptation of the past several years to an almost absurd degree. A genderflipped cast, a politically correct plot for modern audiences, and making everything lighter, softer and more marketable? This is all shit that went out of style in 2018.
i don't think so, LMM sort of has been on the disney payroll as the go-to guy for musicals but overall even his fanbase sort of realized he sucked half a decade ago, like he got credit for not being a white dude but having a wigger level appreciation for rap, but everyone's sort of over his "last part of a bill nye episode" style ability to mimic good songs and combine them with kid stuff like history or kid cartoons or learning english.
That's very cool! Some of the greatest derivative inspired works hold roots in the impressions of childhood wonder and holding onto simple concepts/stories in an almost obsessive fashion until able to express as homeage or self-standing output later in life. What a great foundation.
Aaaaaah, ya fucked it.
From listening to the album (a painful experience) and reading Miranda's reviews, you really get the impression that he never grew up past that age four impression of the movie. He really, really doesn't seem to get the point. He talks about how he began to see gangs "as a way to gain control and protect a neighborhood" citing examples like the Black Panthers and BLM. The gangs in the album almost feel like Marvel superheroes and villains. The grim, painful reality of gang culture and the suffering around it is totally lost in translation. It definitely comes off like a sheltered theater kid trying to replicate something he thinks is cool without actually getting it.
Man that fucking Cat book series keeps coming up everywhere. So damn confusing when one series is about gangs fighting and the other is about cats fighting.
There are tons of girl gang movies, though. Why couldn't Lin made a musical based on a Russ Meyer flick?
