by TheLionPrince » August 28th, 2020, 6:13 pm
Continuing on EltonJohn's post, the remake soundtrack is relatively good and I stand by that it's one of the few redeeming qualities of the remake.
"Circle of Life" sounds about the same, although there were changes made.
J.D. McCrary was awesome in his rendition of "I Just Can't Wait to be King".
"Be Prepared (2019)" isn't too bad on its own when you just listen to the audio, but when it used in the movie, it is inferior to the original version because Scar jumping from height from height is not exciting to see. Here, Scar sounds more militaristic like he is giving a Nazi speech.
"Stampede" sounds even more intense than the original version.
"Hakuna Matata" isn't too bad. Billy Eichner was rather good as Timon, but Seth Rogen is not a good singer. I was rather amused that they let Pumbaa finish his line by saying "farted".
The music editors clearly mishandled "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on the soundtrack. Beyoncé flexes her singing voice too much in which she drowns out Donald Glover in a way that it doesn't make the song work as a duet. The opening flute notes were nice, to be honest. It's better constructed in the film when their voices are more balanced.
I don't care much for "Spirit", and it was an egregious decision to have it replace "Busa" when Simba runs back home. I should also mention that Beyonce's voice is already being used in the film as Nala so it doesn't work when you use her voice as an outside character singing over the action unless you directly imply it's her singing as Nala.
Elton's new song "Never Too Late" is okay, but he won the Oscar for the better song that year for "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Rocketman.
The rest of Hans Zimmer's score music is awesome as always, and I do love the new version of "Battle for Pride Rock" especially the fight music between Simba and Scar.