HI there, HO there,
I wonder wether anybody out here had similar experiences already to the one I had yesterday - we driving downtown in a friends car during the lunchbreak when they planed "Two Worlds, One Family" on the radio and I couldn't resist to say "Hey, tehy play a song from a Disney animated feature" (well not with those words but...) and all the other guys in the car looked at me like "What does he mean?" and one said "Disney? That's not Disney, that's Phil Collins!". For sure I did explain them that the song was from Disney's animated version of Tarzan, and two of them actually remembered that after I had "helped" them a bit.
The question that came to my mind after this experience is: how often is that happening? In the past if a Disny song played on the radio people would more or less instantely connect it to a Disney movie. Alan Menken's hit are great examples for that, e.g. "A Whole New World" and especially "Beauty and the Beast", but since Disney has decided to let pop-stars write and perform themselfes the songs for the animated features they not only stirred up hot debates among us Disney music fans but it seems they have succeeded in separating the movie and the music in the heads of the "normal" customer. Sure the sale of the soundtrack CD with all those great songs of Phil Collins performed by the star does bring in a lot of money, but on long term aren't you loosing image and money if people can't connect those songs anymore with Disney???
Just my two cents.
Yours
Dirk
I wonder wether anybody out here had similar experiences already to the one I had yesterday - we driving downtown in a friends car during the lunchbreak when they planed "Two Worlds, One Family" on the radio and I couldn't resist to say "Hey, tehy play a song from a Disney animated feature" (well not with those words but...) and all the other guys in the car looked at me like "What does he mean?" and one said "Disney? That's not Disney, that's Phil Collins!". For sure I did explain them that the song was from Disney's animated version of Tarzan, and two of them actually remembered that after I had "helped" them a bit.
The question that came to my mind after this experience is: how often is that happening? In the past if a Disny song played on the radio people would more or less instantely connect it to a Disney movie. Alan Menken's hit are great examples for that, e.g. "A Whole New World" and especially "Beauty and the Beast", but since Disney has decided to let pop-stars write and perform themselfes the songs for the animated features they not only stirred up hot debates among us Disney music fans but it seems they have succeeded in separating the movie and the music in the heads of the "normal" customer. Sure the sale of the soundtrack CD with all those great songs of Phil Collins performed by the star does bring in a lot of money, but on long term aren't you loosing image and money if people can't connect those songs anymore with Disney???
Just my two cents.
Yours
Dirk