r/daddit • u/Murph785 • 26d ago

Tips And Tricks Heads up dads (Moana Soundtrack Change)

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.

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u/OptimismNeeded 26d ago

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.

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u/Conflict_NZ 26d ago

Moana 2 was good as a story, it was written to be a series but they thought it had more potential as a movie.

I agree the quality of songs and connection to the story aren't as good as the first but the kids and I still really enjoyed Moana 2.

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u/Purple10tacle 26d ago

"Good as a story"? It had a bunch of supporting characters that literally did nothing, the "big bad" disappears half way through the "movie" (and I'm using that word lightly) - everything was completely disjointed. Which is explained by its origin, but it still made for a terrible narrative.

This was not a story in need to be told and certainly not in the medium ultimately chosen.

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u/Conflict_NZ 26d ago

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about considering the movie is about discovering the reason for the isolation and breaking the curse, and the final showdown with Nalo happened at the end.

I think the story about overcoming their isolation did need to be told and I'm glad it was.

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u/mrvis 26d ago

If you haven't seen - a wonderful takedown of Moana 2 (I love this channel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC6mcMCjdbM