Disney dropped what
should be the two BIG songs of Wish: Asha's big showstopper and Magnifico's villain song.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=USzJvuHQVdAThis song just sucks. It's too poppy, the rhythm is all weird, there are too many words crammed into each line, and half of the lyrics are grammatically incorrect or random gibberish thrown together that sounds kind of good and inspirational- I have genuinely
never heard of the phrase "Throw caution to every warning sign." It sounds like they tried to combine "throw caution to the wind" and "ignore every warning sign" but it falls on its face by sounding weird and clunky. The singer has a lovely voice, but it can't save how genuinely
terribly constructed the song is.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f5TN6KI3BZsThis song also sucks, because it's supposed to be a villain song but it barely sounds like one. It also suffers from the same too-poppy problem (which is likely because Disney hired a mediocre radio composer chick who is most famous for writing Selena Gomez songs to compose the numbers of this movie instead of a tried and tested Broadway alumn) the little "doot doot doot doo" part in the chorus is annoying, and it again fails for a vast majority of the song to paint the king as anything more than a stressed, overworked monarch who's a bit too full of himself. He randomly goes all psycho-evil in two short stints in the song, which while being the most interesting parts of the song, also feel really bipolar because of how different it is from the rest of the song and what the rest of the song is giving for his characterization. The only plus to this is that Chris Pine sounds like he had fun recording it, and that's an incredibly small plus in a sea of negatives.