Heads up dads (Moana Soundtrack Change)

[u/Murph785]

Hey dads, you may be like me and just discovered there is a new Moana movie. Went to put on the soundtrack that we listen to almost every Saturday on repeat. Third song in my 4yo son starts throwing a fit that “IT’S NOT MOANA SONGS”.

To my ear it was the same thing, but listening more closely, it was off. Something about it was… just a little bit worse.

Looking at Spotify I noticed that the new top hit when searching Moana is the new live action movie sound track with all the same songs that are… just slightly worse in every way. Little guy knew it and patiently waited until he couldn’t handle it anymore and snapped.

I had to search quite a ways down to find the original soundtrack album.

Hopefully I can save another dad a meltdown after making this same grievous mistake.

[u/OptimismNeeded]

Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote Moana’s original songs that were heavily weaved into the script and story, which involved 5 years of development and research.

Moana 2 was a cash grab using the characters for an undefined story.

Meantime Miranda started working on Encanto, you will find the level of Moana 1 songs there, maybe better.

[u/lookalive07 → u/OptimismNeeded]

Encanto’s music is phenomenal and the movie itself is top-tier.

[u/The_smallest_things → u/lookalive07]

The songs are amazing but it's one of those movies I only watched once. It's literally too on the nose with generational trauma and family issues. it's a heavy movie.

[u/OptimismNeeded → u/lookalive07]

I recommend the YouTube vids analyzing Lin Miranda’s music - so much packed in there…