![]() ![]() “ Gaston” (which was included, and was sung by the actors from the live-action remake, but which is vastly inferior to the original).What should have been in the Disney Family Singalong I came up with a few specific songs and some general categories. Feel free to make your own suggestions in the comments–anything Disney is fair game, including TV show themes (yes, “Ducktales” counts). Should it be songs that influenced us growing up? Our favorites overall? Songs that we think are important, regardless of whether we like them? (I’ve never been nuts about ‘heigh-ho,’ but it’s certainly an important song in Disney history.) Or, since theoretically it’s a singalong, should they be songs that can be sung along with? That would exclude solid songs like “ I wanna be like you“, since most of us can’t scat and none of us can scat in sync with someone on a TV screen. Picking songs depends in part on the criteria we’re using. (You can read what was actually included here.) Another is that the wife and I spent a good forty minutes afterward talking about what Disney songs should have been included. That’s one reason this might have been compelling. Instead, we will go to reward or judgment based solely on whether we have faith in the atoning blood of Christ. In that day, we will not be forgiven because we were poor or exempted because we were rich. Whatever the distance between two human beings now, we will all someday stand before the throne of Judgment. For the Christian that fact is not a call to revolution to complete the equalization: it is a call to repentance. In the Disney Family Singalong we see through their own phones that the elites are just as concerned as we are. Now, we have a reminder in our face regularly. We Christians know this, even if we forget it some times. The threat of sickness and death faces every human being all the time. And I think it’s also important that those distances have been diminished not by Bernie Sanders using the weapon of the state to go after the 1% or Donald Trump pulling the plug on the swamp, but rather by a literal act of God. (I guess to be fair, I’m not baking or singing along to songs I love–but more time with the kids and cheap recording devices hit the mark at least.) Maybe they’re not as worried about money as the rest of us, but in some small way the distances between the powerful and the regular have been diminished. Sure, their homes are nicer and their recording devices are more expensive, but they’re also spending time with their kids, singing along to songs they love, baking, and doing all the other things that the rest of us are doing to keep soldiering on through the quarantine. I think one reason might be that it was a reminder that even the wealthy and famous are stuck at home and in the same position the rest of us are in. Why was this mish-mash of songs I didn’t know sung by people I didn’t recognize (yes, I’m old) so worthwhile? I don’t know for sure. Much better were Michael Buble and, of all people, Donny Osmond and John Stamos (“ A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes“, “I’ll make a man out of you”, and “It’s A Small World”, respectively). For example, I’m only vaguely aware of who Little Big Town is, but it was charming to watch them in the kitchen with their kids trying to belt out “ A Spoonful of Sugar.” (Disclaimer: The Country music sound and Disney, by and large, don’t go well together.) Which didn’t make it a bad performance–again, it was very charming to watch. Probably 40-some minutes streaming without commercials. Not that I can throw shade there–if I wore makeup, I’d be doing my own too.Īnd yet… and yet it was still a compelling… however long it was. Some of the ones I have heard of I didn’t recognize, because everyone is doing their own makeup these days. For that matter, I’ve not heard a lot of the music in the show, nor had I heard of most of the people featured. In fact, in terms of production quality they really hit you with the big guns up front with a dance number by two people whom I had never heard of, but whom Ryan Seacrest tells me are on Dancing with the Stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not because it’s spectacular–it’s really, really not. If you’ve not seen it, it’s worth finding on an a ppropriate streaming service. ![]()
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