ONE TWO THREE FOUR HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM ALL OF US TO YOU WE WISH IT WAS OUR BIRTHDAY SO WE COULD PARTY TOO Happy bday @kalonite <3
Spoiler Expectations: vs Reality: I'm sad to see God Help the Outcasts go so early - there are definitely things still in that should have been booted before it. Bye Hunchback. Hercules should still be intact too.
A Star Is Born 7.08 Highest Score: 10 x1 (@kalonite), 9.5 x4 (@Mikl C, @Conan, @Raichu, @Animalia) Lowest Score: 0 x1 (@DJHazey), 2 x1 (@Sideout) My Score: 9.5 Oh wow. It’s kalonite’s birthday and you’re all forcing me to eliminate this before the Top 40 with his being the only 10. You’ve ruined everything with your terrible, terrible taste. I hope you’re all happy. Anyway, can we just take a second to appreciate the incredible, the immaculate, the iconic choir of muses? Y’all wish you had even an ounce of the charisma, uniqueness, nerve and TALENT that Calliope, Clio, Thalia, Terpsichore and Melpomene serve throughout the entire damn film. Tasha Cobbs who?? The Spice Girls were originally lined up to play the muses, y’know – I thank god every day of my life that touring schedules got in the way because that would have been a fucking disaster. The mere thought of it makes me slightly nauseous, honestly. Hercules’ soundtrack is chock full of overdramatic gospel greatness, and what A Star Is Born may lack in glitz and glamour compared to Zero To Hero, it more than makes up for in heart. It’s the perfect victory lap for the incredible journey, bursting with celebratory energy and soul at every overachieving note and wail. Speaking of which, I will never not laugh at that one muse dialling it up to 1000 for the line “his rising star is Capricorn” out of absolutely nowhere. Iconic. I just love this song, it’s like a rollercoaster of uplifting energy and elation except it’s not really a rollercoaster ‘cause there’s not really any respite or downside so it’s more like… a motorway? It’s the sonic equivalent of speeding down the motorway, top down, sipping Herculade and blasting your favourite Jesus bops at an unnecessary volume to celebrate having bested yet another vicious mythical hellbeast in hand to hand combat or something I dunno I got a bit lost halfway through that. As if we needed any more evidence of DJHazey’s almost comical lack of taste, he hates the muses. Yep. Of course he does. “Take everything I said about Zero To Hero and use Copy+Paste. Thank You. The shrieking vocals, make it fucking stop. Oh good this was apparently when the movie ended.” I'll end you, cyst. Thankfully the rest of you are well-adjusted, reasonable human beings. MollieSwift21 calls it “A jam. Great way to end the film.”, while Sprockrooster proclaims that he’s “So here for these gospel anthems!” Raichu’s putting a praise on it, too: “Why do these Hercules song sound more Elton John-like than The Lion King’s? Anyway, I don’t know what else to say other than this is another gospel pop bop that hits it out of the park. I love the celebratory feel.” Preach! Was Hermes’ design based on Elton John though? I always assumed it was nn. LKane’s opinion is… controversial, but their heart’s in the right place: “For some reason this is the most catchy song of the women singing. Great track to close!” Nawt with I Won’t Say (I’m In Love) standing right there though. constantino has a theory: “Rumour has it that this song was inspired by the events of St Thomas’ hospital in London on the 2nd of June 1998. Allegedly.” C’mon delusions of grandeur! Nah kidding on, you’re a star bb. Of course, the best birthday gift I could give kalonite would be to award him the last word, so here’s the man of the hour! “A perfect, breakneck way to tie things up, and extra points for running out of words to rhyme with 'born' and actually going with 'forlorn'.”
Well, not the best, not the worst. Outlasted more classics than it should have, but this feels like a decent position for it. (PS. Hermes was based on David Letterman's sidekick Paul Shaffer, who also voices him. And it's pretty distracting, not gonna lie.)
When You Wish Upon A Star Once Upon A Dream Cruella De Vil The Bare Necessities Part of Your World Under The Sea Poor Unfortunate Souls Kiss The Girl Belle Gaston Be Our Guest Beauty & The Beast Once Jump Ahead Friend Like Me Prince Ali A Whole New World Circle of Life I Just Can't Wait To Be King Be Prepared Hakuna Matata Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Just Around The Riverbend Colours of the Wind The Gospel Truth Go The Distance Zero To Hero I Won't Say (I'm In Love) Honour To Us All Reflection I'll Make A Man Out Of You You'll Be In My Heart Almost There When Will My Life Begin? Mother Knows Best I See The Light Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? For The First Time In Forever Let It Go How Far I'll Go / I Am Moana You're Welcome
The only downside to this song for me is I played the soundtrack for months before the movie came out, so about 1 minute before the ending of the movie I was still all 'this is far from over yet, we still have a full song to go!!'. Cue about 30 seconds of said song and the movie was done with.
Aladdin could lose all its songs (bar the obvious one) - I just don't get that Hercules is losing tracks already.
Imagine having 5 Spice Girl muses there too.. It would be as bad as 2 of the 7 dwarfs being voiced by our Bert & Ernie over here.
