Originally Posted By danyoung >What could be possibly wrong with that? Idiot teenagers are going to be turned off by THAT?< I'm gonna say yes, they would be turned off by that. You and I look at it as a valued element of Disney history. But really, the arrangement, the instrumentation, the vocal style, all are really really old fashioned. I'd love it if kids would be turned on by the music, but I'm betting that they wouldn't. So in this case, with the examples you gave, I think Iger did exactly the right thing.
Originally Posted By yamabuki <<<The new version isn't so bad, have a listen... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG33goaBh-o>>>" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...>></a> that's a demo that was used for the "making-of" World of Color presentations. The final version was was redone with the London Symphony Orchestra, and it will be more akin to what you hear in this video - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG33goaBh-o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...3goaBh-o</a>
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Wow, I wasn't far off with my remix. Maybe it would grow on me if I saw the show a few times, but my initial reaction is 'yuck'.<<< I know what you mean. I hate how she draws all her notes out. At least THIS sounds better: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG33goaBh-o&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo And I wonder if the kids of today are also turned off by the 60's sound of the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. I know mine aren't. Walt Disney once said "If you aim at kids, you are dead"
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo And I wonder if the kids of today are also turned off by the 60's sound of the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. I know mine aren't. Walt Disney once said "If you aim at kids, you are dead"
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Sorry, tech glitch. Though I mean it. Sorry Dan, I respect you and all, but I wonder what planet you have been on recently.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<And I wonder if the kids of today are also turned off by the 60's sound of the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. I know mine aren't. Walt Disney once said "If you aim at kids, you are dead">> Yep, but TWDC is actively working to take Walt out of the company ... unless using his talk of why he created DL to shill timeshares counts. Do you see what they are doing with the redo of The Disney Store (the 432nd reinvention)? They want the visit to be the most important and magical part of an 8-year-old's day. ... Forget about anyone older ... so, I'll say right here that they're doomed to fail whether they bring in foamheads, have LCI type entertainment and CMs walking around with iPads. But the point here is WoC, so I don't wanna digress too much (even if we both know how much that happens ... BTW, I haven't had a donut since Oxford!) Oh yeah, WoC ... if Iger (or anyone thinks) that playing 30-40 seconds of the old TV theme will make young people walk away from the amazing show that WoC should be, he has lost all sanity whatsoever. It's not like the show will be 30 minutes of 60's era Disney themes. And count me not overly impressed by the new agey version, which sounds more like something from 1999-2004 than today anyway. It's just lame ... it's The Weatherman thinking he is hipper than the room and knows what the dirty masses want. It's the same thinking that has him and WDI on this tech geek plan to transform the Disney Parks into a more interactive thing ... because as decades have shown, people (especially kids) are bored out of their minds on Mansion and Pirates and Pan and Small World and Space Mountain and etc ... what they really need is some app so they can never look up at anything in the park as they play games on their iPhones. I REALLY am tired of this mentality. Maybe I should Tweet it to my 643 followers. Nah, I'll have Pierce do it for me.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>And count me not overly impressed by the new agey version, which sounds more like something from 1999-2004 than today anyway.<<< We established that that's a old version, and Yamabuki and I posted the new version, which sounds much, much better. >> I REALLY am tired of this mentality. Maybe I should Tweet it to my 643 followers. Nah, I'll have Pierce do it for me.<< That's my job. ;-)
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 ">>>>Wow - you're throwing around that I word pretty freely. As I understand it, he objected to the original track, which would mean absolutely nothing to probably 70% of today's viewers of the show. I've heard that they still have the theme in, but rearranged to be a bit more contemporary, so that it will both serve as the them for the show AND tweak those of us old enough to remember the original. Sounds pretty sharp to me . . .<<< I can't agree there, sorry. The sound clip is what inspires the whole show, is a excellent throwback to the original generation to Disney fans, and acknowledges the company's long and celebrated History. It won't date a thing or alienate anyone. In fact, it will bring them in...nostalgia is exactly what Disney markets and ignoring this, and their subsiquent history, is a stupid mistake." Uuummmm, you mean you HAVEN'T seen this yet? I think it's WONDERFUL and, in fact, it makes me tear up every time. While I really like the old version and am old enough(40 in a few weeks - Holy CRAP I am getting old!!!)to remember seeing it on the telly, I know enough to know it would NOT play well to audiences of today. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG33goaBh-o&playnext_from=TL&videos=sH0R5Qf1o6I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...R5Qf1o6I</a>
Originally Posted By danyoung >Sorry Dan, I respect you and all, but I wonder what planet you have been on recently.< Same one as you, dave, although insults like that will greatly diminish our communications.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>>I think it's WONDERFUL and, in fact, it makes me tear up every time. While I really like the old version and am old enough(40 in a few weeks - Holy CRAP I am getting old!!!)to remember seeing it on the telly, I know enough to know it would NOT play well to audiences of today.<<< Use both. Hit the audience that knows how old it is, then blast the new version. Seeing how far the concept has come would be emotionally universal, then. Hearing the "retro" music and then the new version would have an impact...The same way they use "When you wish upon a star" and the NEW "wishes theme" in wishes.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/special/woc/index?name=DisneyWorldOfColor&CMP=VAN-FY10Q3USEN_WorldofColor_DisneysWorldofColor" target="_blank">http://disneyland.disney.go.co...dofColor</a> WOW. Disney just made a good website... ...and the intro sounds 60's ish.
Originally Posted By danyoung Go to miceage and look at Al's comments at the top of the intro page. It looks like the original version survived after all, which is just fine with me!
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Little Squirt was cut, though. :-/ I had been looking forward to that. Probably the closest we got to a "original" character made for a show in a looooooong time,
