Disney declared that they are changing the “Siamese Cat Song” for their live-action Lady and the Tramp movie, likely another decision backed solely by personal politics as the usual left-leaning snowflakes have labeled the song as racist over the years.
Originally recorded by Peggy Lee, Janelle Monae and Wondaland are performing the song for the live action film and have stated they are “working on a different take” – Disney’s Vice President of Creative Music and Soundtracks stated that they are working with Wondaland whilst at the MUSEXPO Creative Summit:
“We’re dealing with Wondaland, her team of incredibly creative writers and producers that she works with. So our director has engaged with her in terms of what the storytelling [of] the song needs to be.”
The Siamese Cat Song is used to introduce two Siamese cat characters who start causing chaos for one of the main characters in an attempt to frame her:
Disney is not stopping there to “protect” the sensitive children as they are also purportedly changing the Siamese cats in the song (Si and Am) by turning them into something other than Siamese cats.
The film’s main song “He’s a Tramp” is apparently also being completely “reinvented”, though humorously enough, the film will still be set in 1910 – though it will be a wonder if fans who saw the 2D movie will even recognize the live action film after all the censorship.
The politically-inclined Disney have altered their beloved films on previous occasions when turning them into live-action pieces, for example, they removed the crows from the live action Dumbo film – Producer Derek Frey discussing the subject:
“It’s funny, you hear people like, ‘Oh, I hope the crows are in it!’ But the screenplay that we received didn’t have it in there, and while I’ve never heard anything officially from Disney on it, probably any which way you’d try to represent that it wouldn’t work. It may have been something that Disney felt wasn’t necessary to include.”
The company will also be censoring the animated movies coming to its Disney+ streaming service, such as denying 1946 film “Song of the South” entirely and editing the Jim Crow character from the Dumbo movie.
Keep ruining your masterpieces disney. You have gone to s♥♥t.
s♥♥t? They’re laughing all the way to the bank. Disney hasn’t been this healthy in their history.
Funny the person whining about snowflakes and censorship has their name automatically filtered from the comments.
@00:54
the article doesn’t give the impression of someone whining.
better look up videos of sjws triggered to see what real whining is like.
of course their name will be filtered, otherwise the comments would be full of ad hominem. we get it that you lefties don’t like him, but we don’t have to read about it endlessly.
I actually don’t get it?
Apparently the cats, named Si and Amm are a reference to Siam the name of Thailand until the 40’s and it’s somehow associated to the nationalist politics from the era.
The music in the background which has some clear Thai influences, the cat’s breed, the exaggerated eyes and their destructive behavior are seen as asian stereotypes from the ww2/post-war era (where Thailand was a Japan ally).
I mean, holy s♥♥t, I had to look up all this garbage to even understand what’s so “racist” about it, and if anything I think it’s an interesting history bit.
well considering the time the story was taken place (1909), Yellow Peril was in full effect…
Take away the art style and depth and you have generic trash, as the Lion King remake proves.
and Dumbo
and the Jungle Book
and Beauty and the Beast
and no doubt Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and whatever else they’re remaking in live action
Lyrics wise, there isn’t anything wrong with the song. Most people really only have problems with the design of the cats. And If you have the cats look photorealistic like they are going to be, then there really shouldn’t be a problem. But if that isn’t enough, they could just tweak the instrumental so its more American, because screw other cultures being in a Disney Film!
–Most people really only have problems with
Sadly, big corps like Disney no longer give a s♥♥t about most people because all they care about now are the 0.000001% of people who WOULD have a problem with *whatever*, and simply because these people have social media accounts where they might accuse the company of racism or other such “…ism”, which could end up going viral, which might slightly hurt the company image for a day or two. Which company PR won’t take the risk of, no matter the cost, so will force whatever ruinous changes to the material as necessary to avoid the risk. And if that means Cinderella has to become a black, obese, transgender dwarf who dreams of going to the ball not to find a prince, but so she can use it as a platform to protest for better rights for LGBT’s, then so be it. The 0.000001% must be obeyed.
Which makes you wonder has the world ever been more fucked up than it is today? Where the opinions of just a few people, whose opinions are so much in the minority that, statistically, their weighting is so irrelevant as to be entirely discounted. But because of social media their weighting becomes the only thing that matters, and so their opinions are the ones that get listened to, and the opinions of the other 99.999999% are ignored.
The world truly is fucked up right now, and it’s only getting worse.