Originally Posted By Mr X Courtesy of FGM... Jinsei wa bouken da Chizu wa nai keredo Takaramono sagasou Shinjite "compass of your heart" Life is an adventure Though there is no map Let's look for treasure Believe in the "compass of your heart"
Originally Posted By TDLFAN It's nice to see that Alan Menken has not improved on his tacky lyrics in the past decade.
Originally Posted By Roger55 I must post in invisible ink because I already translated and posted this along with the ride dialogue a week ago. Must be because I don't have "elite" status here on the boards, my posts don't get read. Oh well...
Originally Posted By SuperDry Roger, I read your translation and appreciated the time it took to post it. Thanks!
Originally Posted By leemac <<It's nice to see that Alan Menken has not improved on his tacky lyrics in the past decade.>> Just to be clear Glen Slater is the lyricist and Alan has never written a line of lyrics for the Walt Disney Company in his life.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN If that is the case, then I read wrong information...since I remember clearly reading that Alan Menken was the composer of this song. Which reminds me... the new 15th anniversary song at LP is horrible. Just like listening to a generic Radio Disney tune.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I remember clearly reading that Alan Menken was the composer of this song. >>> Menken *IS* the composer of the song, but he didn't write the lyrics. Writing the music and the words are two independent tasks.
Originally Posted By Mr X Roger, sorry! I did actually read your excellent translations, after I created this topic! Sorry that I didn't notice earlier (AND, thanks for the translations of dialogue as well...VERY cool, and I wish I'd read it BEFORE going to the park yesterday!). >>>Writing the music and the words are two independent tasks.<<< In general, anyway.
Originally Posted By maniac_disney "Just to be clear Glen Slater is the lyricist and Alan has never written a line of lyrics for the Walt Disney Company in his life." Okay.... but that Jasmine´s song "To Be Free" from DCA´s Aladdin show has not lyrics written by Menken? At least I remember reading "music and lyrics by Alan Menken".
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Yes, but that was written as a "one off" just for that show. Normally he doesn't write his own lyrics. In the past he's worked with Howard Ashman, Stephen Schwartz, and Glen Slater, among others, I'm sure.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I guess the point that he did write some lyrics for a Disney show..invalidates someone else's opinion that he *never ever* wrote lyrics for Disney. More shocking is that statement came from someone who claims to be knowledgeable all around and a HUGE fan of this silly DCA Aladdin show.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Okay.... but that Jasmine´s song "To Be Free" from DCA´s Aladdin show has not lyrics written by Menken? At least I remember reading "music and lyrics by Alan Menken".>> That one is rather complicated. A lot of the lines were actually already written for a song that didn't make it into the movie. Alan then reworked it with the librettist for the show. Due to copyright issues it was simpler to have Alan credited as both. He would be the first to tell you (as he has told me on numerous occasions) that he simply fitted the words to the music. He has never seen himself as a lyricist and doesn't want to do it. Even on pet projects like Newsies he worked with another writer (even though Disney originally asked him to do both the music and lyrics). Alan has always been careful to keep within his comfort zone and considering the critical and commercial success he seems to have made the right choice.
Originally Posted By maniac_disney I think Jack Feldman wrote the Newsies lyrics. But I know Alan is much more a music composer than lyricist.
Originally Posted By mstaft "Gee, next time, I should try raising the death!!!!" Never heard that phrase before- what does it mean?
