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For the first time forever, an [Animated Musicals] thread!
Metzger Meister
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMN0Cfh-aQMusicals! Specifically, cartoon ones! Musicals have been an indelible part of the American cultural landscape for decades, and the animated musical is no different!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0x0KYChq4Wikipedia wrote:Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film's individual sequences.
Disney, I'm sure we can all agree, is the undisputed king of the animated musical feature film. They were the first to pair animation and sound for Pete's sake!
Disney would reliably and regularly produce animated musicals, following Snow White with two more smash hits, Pinocchio and Fantasia, both released in 1940.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pguMUFyJ3_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrm8usaH0sMFantasia is the superior film in my opinion from an artistic standpoint, it's a much braver film than Pinocchio and everything about it is beautifully realized. The concept behind Fantasia was for it to be a different film each time one saw it, with new pieces constantly being produced and sent to theatres, though of course this was basically impossible to realize at the time.
Disney would go on to produce dozens of award winning animated films, often musicals based on public domain fairy tales, and it was arguably these films more than any others that would make Disney the household name it is today, what with owning all the media.
Hooray?
Anyway!
Animated films fell off a bit in the 70's and 80's due in part to a dip in quality, and while this era did produce some notable fan favorites like Aristocats and Robin Hood (ironically emblematic of Disney's cost-cutting (or corner-cutting) measures as both of these films blatantly re-used animations from Snow White, among other films) it wasn't until...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWAThe Little Mermaid. Disney's life raft. Struggling following several embarrassing box office performances from movies like Oliver and Company (a film i have no memory of other than being uncomfortably attracted to a fucking poodle thanks Disney) The Little Mermaid basically kick-started what would come to be called The Disney Renaissance. Within 5 years, you'd see the following films release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTUZswZHsWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqElJnsUvtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-_H2ZMFFKM (this one counts!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLx_JtcQVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLHe9WOI9XQ(yes this is a musical GO BACK AND WATCH IT THE WHOLE THING IS STRUCTURED AROUND SONGS AND REPRISALS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51KD_tft5gcThis is within 5 years of the Little Mermaid's release. 5 years.
Of course, Disney is the top name in the biz, but they aren't the only name in the industry. Don Bluth famously made animated musicals for both Disney and competing studios, sometimes even good ones!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWwKdejZLfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twyxpeA4QRYThen, of course, there's always the odd duck, the seemingly random release that proves to be a classic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2A3LaYDlHM&t=162s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPI9xuUQKMAnimation fits the style of the broadway musical like a glove. Unfettered by the limitations of a stage, the art takes wing, and invokes a sense of wonder that's hard to describe when it's done properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxFD7Tk8Kps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgnHF2CwrPs&t=21sDisney and other animation studios have continued to push the envelope with their ground-breaking animation techniques and story-telling, touching whole generations and leaving a mark on the American, indeed the world's, culture that will never be erased. What are your favorite animated musicals? Also, since there is so much crossover between live-action and animated musicals these days, you can probably go ahead and post some about live musicals too!
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Man, Hercules only has a couple of good songs, but them Muses? Very good.
One of my fondest memories is singing this track as trio with my sister and grandmother. We had it down man.
This is in the OP so you don’t have to listen twice!
Also, remember this one? Yeah you do!
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Everything Stays — Adventure Time
Sweet Victory — Sponge Bob Square Pants
It’s Over, Isn’t It? — Steven Universe
Happy Birthday — Bee and Puppycat
Edit: Wrong link there, this is Happy Birthday, that was “Where Jellyfish Come From”.
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Meanwhile, in the world of sports
I send the sword I send the horde Thus Say the Lord
Is a pretty good line.
Deliver Us is great, it's a fantastic opening number! I like the song All I Ever Wanted too.
I dunno.
Plagues is a "fuck you, get smote" kinda song
Which you don't get often enough in musicals.
The "wrath of god" song is an acquired taste.
I dunno, it's just 2 white 2 colorless mana.
He can do good shit.
Taron Egerton as Quasi, the kid can sing and move and he'll need to, it's a hugely physical role, especially with all the makeup (NO CG QUASI 4 ME) and body prosthesis.
Janelle Monae as Esmerelda. She's amazing and I think she'd nail God Bless the Outcast.
Channing Tatum as Phoebus
Jim Cummings is probably too old to play Claupin, huh? He's basically just Hunchback's version of Cabaret's MC, so we need someone who can carry that sort of energy, especially into the sinister segments where our heroes explore the Court of Miracles.
Logan Paul as Frolo, but only for the part where he falls into the molten lead and gets also killed by an angry gargoyle face (the only remnant of the living gargoyle characters besides maybe some fun nods, ie, seeing them in the background with the old lady one covered in pigeons)
Frolo is honestly the biggest sticking point for casting for me... what about John Rhys Davies? He's got a big booming voice and he could probably pull it off.
edit: Alan Cummings not Jim Cummings i always do that
Defying Gravity — Wicked
When You’re Good to Mama — Chicago
Memory — Cats
If I Were a Rich Man — Fiddler on the Roof
WE'RE JUST LLOYDIN' IT UP
also i watched Cats for the first time like a year ago with my husband, who loves it from childhood, and he just kept looking over at me like "i'm so sorry oh god" and i was like "no... no. it's bad, but... i love it."
She’s been working years on her musical Hadestown. I’ve heard her sing every song with just a guitar, and now she’s got it to where she wants it. Give it a listen. It is a retelling a few myths, particularly that of Orpheus, but also Persephone and the like. Hades rules Hadestown.
Hey Little Songbird
Listen to this one. Listen to this one. Don’t scroll down or click away, you’re already here so listen to this one. “Why We Build the Wall” was written years back, same as most of ‘em, but it still hits home right now. It’s a very American song.
Oh this? Oh, this...
those are always fun for sure, the "ALRIGHT MOTHERFUCKER THAT'S HOW YOU WANT IT" moment.
edit: also i guess i gotta try and see hadestown now. man i miss being on stage... ugh. i need to go back to school or somethin.
It has some trippy visuals, some musicians selling their soul to a rock and roll wizard and the voice talents of members of Blondie, Cheap Trick, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and Earth Wind & Fire.
I don't know if it's good, but it's a cool experience.
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But it is not animated!
You know what is an animated musical?
I believe they’ve already announced that it’s in development.
Josh Gad is a producer...and maybe the star?
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I believe the same person did a ton of music for similar dubs around the same time. I have a couple of other movies with similar boxes the either say 'Bullets' or sound just like him. More than are on that list, at least.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Also Why We Build The Wall is goddamn eerie for something that came out almost a decade ago
TIME TO CRY THO
Genuinely I want to see the new Lion King movie specifically on the hope that they include at least some of the songs from the Broadway show, which are AMAZING, especially They Live In You, aka "hi it's me i'm just bawling in the theatre over a show I've seen five million times why do you ask"
ONE MILLION TEARS (also I hope that clip works in the U.S., let me know if it doesn't). Oh and also MAJOR spoilers for Coco so like... yeah. Don't watch if you don't want the ending spoiled.
Not much for original songs but this moment always gets me and I love this damn movie
Genuinely why are they making a live action version of this, the most depressing and at least one of the most racist Disney movies
Ugh I'm angry I even made MYSELF watch that
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Too Late
One time I was about to finish up at the climbing gym and this came on the sound system and I just sighed and went back for a few more problems.
"Man, Frollo and a bunch of people really hate the Gypsies. That's horrendous. Obviously now, people know better to treat people better!"
Fast forward two decades, and the internet
Random European on social media: Look, you Americans have no idea how horrible the Roma people are, always stealing, trashing places and being horrible people. My government is taking steps to remove them, and I truly agree with them.
....Oh... okay Disney wasn't too far off the mark
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Dear Satan.....
As far as stuff that hasn't been mentioned, I kind of adore The Fairly Oddparents: School's Out! The Musical
Looks like the whole thing is up on YouTube officially?
Some favorites:
Kids Just Being Kids starts at about 4:30
The very best song, Where Is the Fun, starts at about 26:10
Floating With You starts at 30:00
The musical episode!
A couple of posts mention various musical episodes of various shows, and whether the show manages to pull it off or not, they've become something of a tradition!
Psych, Scrubs, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, many live action shows have had musical episodes, and animated shows are no different.
Bob's Burgers has had a couple with the music being genuinely a high point of that series for me consistently, but especially so in their dedicated musical episodes.
What's your favorite musical episode? What's your favorite number from it? Is Adventure Time just one really long musical?