![]() Toy Story was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song (although it did lose to Pocahontas), and it was an accolade the studio would receive a number of times, even winning on more than one occasion. However, right from the start, they still had songs.īecause we think of the “Disney musical” versus the “Pixar comedy”, I think we tend to overlook just how excellent some of the music in these films was, right from the off. They were modern, they were comedies, they were buddy movies they had wit and verve and contemporary references. Pixar films weren’t musicals, they weren’t fairy tales, they weren’t literary adaptations or allusions. ![]() Disney animation was just about starting the downswing towards the end of its Renaissance era the standard pattern established by the groundbreaking likes of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast was, arguably, starting to wear a bit thin through repetition (although I’ll definitely go to bat for late-Renaissance-era bangers like Tarzan and The Hunchback of Notre Dame). When the company first rose to prominence in the late nineties, they felt in opposition to the standard Disney formula (despite Disney releasing all their films and, eventually, buying them outright). Not all Disney animated films are musicals, and not all the musicals are the same, and if you go back earlier than the Renaissance the style itself hadn’t solidified in any way, but all the same you say “Disney song”, chances are people know what kind of thing you mean. The very concept of a “Disney song” is so ingrained into our cultural perception of the company, that we even have multiple sub-genres within the “villain song”, the “I Want song”, the “comedy song”, etc.
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