The film was great. The songs were good for what they were trying to accomplish (I don't get the hate). Not quite the level of The Lion King, obviously.
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@iswimfast He never said anything like that. In a way, he's saying that this soundtrack is just like the typical Disney fluff that we're used to and that a lot of the song just didn't seem to fit as well in an audio format than it did in the film.
I'm pretty sure he knows what a soundtrack and I think you just didn't fully understand what he's saying here.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
he calls the soundtrack itself a "cash grab" on two separate occasions. this means it's there only to make extra money based off the movies' success. im pretty sure taking music from movies and compiling them into audio format has been done for ages. i can't see, at all, how the style of the music itself makes this record any more or any less of a cash grab than every single soundtrack for every single movie that's come before it.
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To be fairly honest, soundtracks have been a cash grab recently. Do you have any idea how much money movies like Frozen make by just simply releasing this soundtrack (which is no doubt extremely popular already), yet Frozen was the highest grossing animated film of 2013.
It's pretty unnecessary.
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im pretty sure every movie with a musical theatre element since the beginning of forever has released their songs in physical format. to take issue with that is to take issue with the idea of a soundtrack itself (which could be an entirely different argument). in this case, i can name 3 children who love the ability to sing along to this in the car. im pretty certain they're not isolated examples based off the movies popularity.
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Album Rating: 2.1
im pretty sure taking music from movies and compiling them into audio format has been done for ages. i can't see, at all, how the style of the music itself makes this record any more or any less of a cash grab than every single soundtrack for every single movie that's come before it.
Because other soundtracks are actually good. Granted, I don't have the same kind of nostalgia for musical soundtracks, but there are a few I really like - anything by Sondheim or Cole Porter especially is really really good. This is just blatant cheese designed to sell to high school theatre geeks, but it's not even good cheese - like, compare this to the Rent soundtrack and there's no competition whatsoever, and I don't even like the Rent soundtrack particularly. There are some really good songs here, make no mistake, but by and large this is painful to listen to and basically is only good for a single listen, accompanied by visuals - and it's not even particularly good then.
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Album Rating: 2.1
Also:
i can name 3 children who love the ability to sing along to this in the car.
I can name at least three children I know who love to sing along with Demi Lovato's abhorrent new album, but that doesn't make it good.
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"but it feels far too much like yet another “Defying Gravity” rip-off to stand on its own as worthwhile."
Of course it's a "Defying Gravity" rip-off. Idina Menzel was the original Elphaba in "Wicked," and they wrote the song for her specifically to sing it. At the very least, this "Let It Go" was sung by the person who sang the original in the first place.
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Album Rating: 2.1
Is musical theater really so stagnant at this point that any singer's memorable songs all have to sound the same? That's kind of sad.
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Musical theatre isn't. But Oscar-bait Disney songs have sounded the same since forever. Quite a few of the songs on Frozen's soundtrack are unique in the realm of Disney (I love "The Frozen Heart"), but The Big One is always, always going to sound familiar.
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brostep stickin it to the industry with hard truths
nice review
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Will Robinson makin me proud itt
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
well, lewis handled where i was going next so ill shut up for a bit.
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Album Rating: 2.1
tbh I mostly reviewed this because the other review for this had a bunch of grammatical mistakes and poorly-written sentences and I figured I could do a better job
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Album Rating: 2.1
also lewis you know I love you but I don't think those quotes are an argument against the review's quality (especially given that one of them is in the comments). I was really disappointed by 2013 in movies (come on, American Hustle) and even given classic Disney stuck-in-the-mud shit I still enjoyed it. plus, in my (admittedly limited) experience with Broadway-esque music what I've heard (with, again, the exception of Porter and Sondheim) is really cheesy. and yeah comparing this to Rent is like comparing Burial to Distance in that a. there are some, though very limited, comparison points, and b. I didn't bring that up in the review because it doesn't have a place in the space I used
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Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off
Finally a review for this overhyped piece of shit. Sick of people going about how 'magical' and
'fantastic' it is.
Ruining the dreams of children, one comment at a time.
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You should get more agitated about petty things
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Album Rating: 2.0
Everyone is covering that one song
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if i have to listen to another cover of "let it go" i will scream.
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Album Rating: 2.0
If they added dub to this it might actually improve it
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