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How does the cultural music here compare to Lilo & Stitch?

posted 8 years ago by CookieNCreams
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I haven’t seen the movie yet and I was wondering how the music compares to a previous animated film that involves Polynesian (Hawaiian) culture? Apparently I heard mixed opinions around the boards regarding the songs being memorable or not. I don’t quite understand how a Lin-Manuel Miranda score can be considered “forgetful.” In Lilo & Stitch, two songs stuck out like the one for the intro and ‘Hawaiian Roller-coaster Ride’. The rest were just excerpts of Elvis Presley.

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[–] Pangaeus 8 years ago

I love both Lilo & Stitch and Moana for different reasons. I think the cultural music in Lilo is a little better and memorable than that in Moana. However, the Hawaiian "Iz" was an incredible musician. RIP (I think that was his name). I would not say that the soundtrack in Moana is forgettable though- I loved it as well, but more for the musical songs, like Shiny and Moana's theme than for the cultural music.

[–] Pania8407 8 years ago

I may be a bit bias since i've always liked Te Vaka, so i'm going with Moana.
I did a dance to their song Pate Pate in high school

[–] Herengone 8 years ago

Miranda did NOT write the score. That was done by the very talented Mark Mancina. Out of curiousity, why haven't you listed to the soundtrack? It's free on the internets so you can form your own opinion without having to pay or leave your house.

[–] CookieNCreams 8 years ago

I didn't mean to imply that Miranda composed all of the tracks. I'm just aware that some of his songs are featured, and I looked up the full track list for credit.

Out of curiousity, why haven't you listed to the soundtrack?

I don't know if the soundtrack would give away plot points from the movie, in case there's a dialogue taking place and such. Or if the songs can also be listen to on their own.

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[–] nillindeiel 8 years ago

I don't know if the soundtrack would give away plot points from the movie, in case there's a dialogue taking place and such. Or if the songs can also be listen to on their own.

IMO, most of the songs can be listened to on their own... the only one I would maybe avoid would be the one titled 'Know Who You Are' as that's a song from the climax and could potentially be spoilery/let you figure out how the conflict of the movie is resolved.

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[–] Zaphenzo 8 years ago

They're really quite different, honestly. Lilo and Stitch featured rather modern sounding Hawaiian music, whereas Moana's music was more traditional island music. Side by side, they don't sound very much alike at all.

[–] nillindeiel 8 years ago

They're really quite different, honestly. Lilo and Stitch featured rather modern sounding Hawaiian music, whereas Moana's music was more traditional island music. Side by side, they don't sound very much alike at all.

This. I love the music of Lilo & Stitch, but it's soundtrack is very contemporary Hawaiian sounding (which makes sense as it takes place in 'modern day'). Where as Moana, taking place thousands of years ago (if I understand the idea of the timeline... before Hawaii was even populated), has a more traditional feel to a lot of it's songs* and pulls in sounds, songs/chants and inspiration from the other Pacific Islands (like Samoa, Tuvalu, etc...)

*one of the exceptions, of course, being "Shiny" which is clearly an homage to to David Bowie style glam rock

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