 Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| Weirdly enough, as much as I usually like your lyrics, I have to say that doesn't actually work out too well. o_0
I finally finished my alternate lyrics. Hold to your hopes and dreams, someday they may realize A beautiful fate awaits; you'll know it when your heart finds Reach out your hand and hold to mine Close your eyes; we'll touch the sky Oh, this magic dream Is coming true someday If you can dream The wish you're making on a star just may come true The softly-blowing winds will guide my heart right back to you 'Cause if you can dream Someday all our hopes will come shining on through Romance will always be so new And love will light the way If you can dream Someday true love will come Of this we can be certain One day our eyes will meet Never alone again When your hand is finally mine There's mountain we can't climb Hold to this dream It will come true someday If you can dream The wish you're making in your heart will soon come true The stars will light a crystal path directly right back to you 'Cause if you can dream Someday all our hopes will come shining on through Romance will always be so new And love will find a way If you can dream If you can dream It doesn't matter how far we're apart; we'll be together soon Just as the needle points to North, I'll know the way to you 'Cause if you can dream Someday all our hopes will come shining on through Romance will always be so new And love will have its way If you can dream This I dream will be The sweetest destiny There's a thrilling world Waiting there for us Waiting just for us If you can dream |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, it's still a little trite-sounding, but I'd like to think I've managed to strip most of the "Disney Ick!" factor. I'm still not sure about that "just a kiss away" line, but I haven't come up with anything to replace it so far. There was "just a word away" and "just a smile away", but they still seemed too ooie-gooie.
...I think I'll stick with original songs, though. Something where I can tout "Your Prince May Be The Dope You Just Dissed!" http://www.websamba.com/CheeseSalad/IfYouCanDream-RW.txt |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Argh. I hate the character rape that goes hand-in-hand with marketing.
And yes, ripping pieces from the other song is also a travesty. Not to mention a blatent sign of People Without Creativity At Work. Here's a challenge for anyone in the mood - write your own version of this song. Use the same tune, but change the lyrics. See what you can come up with. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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What I think is the tragedy is that they took lyrics that were wonderful in the songs they were written for, mishmashed them all together, and created a song overly saturated with 'pretty sounding' phrases and it comes across as trite. And the fact that the song does nothing for me but still gets me going when you add a pretty video that shows "Look, Disney, just for today, will show us images of what the Princesses REALLY look like and remember they were real characters before they started drawing them terribly off model and slapping them on any pink product they could find." And how sad it is that seeing any of the characters actually resembling themselves is a big deal... |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| What's really tragic about these lyrics is that I'm pretty sure most of us here are capable of writing much better lyrics any day. | |
| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe the song is like jewelry you'd buy at Claire's. See, Claire's jewelry is pretty, but since it's cheap, it's not going to be as nice as "real" jewelry.
Ok, anyway... another one of my strange analogies... ~Hikaru |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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...that sounds about right. I get misty, then laugh at myself thinking "OK, it's not like this is as good as any of these characters' actual songs from movies or anything..."
Yeah...thanks. ~*DP*~ |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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It almost makes me sentimental... then I listen to how silly the lyrics are, and I get a case of the jibblies. 
Pity about your brother's bearded dragon.  |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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*bows to Mary Costa*  |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think anyone can replace the original voice for Aurora. It seems they got the best of the best for her; hiring an actual opera singer to do her voice. Disney's usually pretty good about picking out voices, but everyone knows that the original voices are the best.
~Hikaru |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| Oh gosh...OK, so now knowing for certain that Aurora is the first "Romance will always be so new..." and that the "Someday my prince will come..." part is Cinderella, may I rant that Aurora's voice in this song sounds NOTHING like Mary Costa (she had a huge classical-style voice and this girl sings in the same Broadway style as Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, etc...and who's brilliant idea was it to give Aurora-the-soprano the lowest parts of the song?) and the Cinderella stand-in sounds more like a bad Snow White impersonation in the beginning of her part and than just sounds nice, but nothing like Ilene Woods? The video is cute, though...and on some of the newer 'original Princess songs' (like on the Christmas album), they have much better Aurora and Cinderella (as well as Snow White) stand-ins. Still confused as to why they have Susan Egan doing all the new Belle stuff, though...
Thanks for sharing the video! I still think it's pretty well done overall. EDIT: Yeah, my computer wouldn't load the whole thing last night, so I only got to see the first half...um, now that I got to see it all, I'll go better than "pretty well done"...as much as there's a lot of cheesiness and stuff...it's packed enough sentimental value to make me tear up when they start to show the visual montages. I'm feeling a little sappy today...my brother's pet bearded dragon died, and I feel really bad for him so I think my emotions are rocky... |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:39 am Post subject: |
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Thanks!  Added it to my favourites. I thought about putting the video in my myspace profile, but I'd feel funny about doing that, since it isn't mine.
~Hikaru |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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oh yeah! thats awesome I love that song I actually stupid me memorized it  . "Disney Princess Rockn'Rule"..thats the song name. I actually have that MV recorded too on my tapes.yeah its that song that about the princess kickin ass.
" Jasmine is the jewl of Agrabah..OH YEAH!" oh and heres the video for -"If you can dream" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFp-ORMcpw ~DB92 |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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The only line mentioning a rose is "never die the rose," which is sung by Belle. But Aurora is in the choral stuff, with Cinderella, but neither is featured as much as the princesses whose original voices are there. As far as DD's remark...I agree. It's kind of pretty and sweet and has the nice 'follow your heart' message, but...yeah, they strung as many past Princess song lyrics together as they could..."our song as old as rhyme"...Jasmine saying "we're gonna fly"...wishing on stars (When You Wish...)...the colors of the wind..."Reflections in a diamond sky" is Lea overdrive...someday (my) prince will come...certain as the sun(rise)...the slipper fits...a tale as old as time...never die the rose (an obvious reference to Beast's rose, but wow, I think that line's awkward)...'there's a whole new world'....it sounds like it's simultaneously a love song and a "dream on, little girls, you can be a princess, too!" song...but it doesn't really work very well as either because it goes back and forth and has gratuitous phrases thrown in for kicks. x.x |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| i like that song, but sometimes it sounds like they are jsut putting nice sounding lyrics together with no real meaning, in a sense, pretty and poetic stuff but a little strange in the song, or maybe i'm just a little nuts! | |