I agree that the current Paint The Night music sounds great, but needs some editing and reworking for the Disneyland USA audience. Especially since some of the Hong Kong track is borrowed from Soundsational, which will apparently continue running in the afternoon in 2015.
But then I also have to think that the Paint The Night soundtrack sounds very of its time. It's obviously influenced by current pop music, and it sounds like the mid 2010's. Night parades at Disney's American parks typically run for at least two decades (SpectroMagic), sometimes for three decades or more (MSEP).
It might be better if the Disneyland version of this parade had a more timeless sound to the soundtrack. If Paint The Night runs as long as SpectroMagic it would last into the 2030's. If Paint The Night becomes a fan favorite and runs as long as the MSEP did, it will run until the summer of 2055. But then 2055 would be Disneyland's 100th Anniversary, and I bet they'll get a new night parade for the 100th. So Paint The Night might be retired in the fall of 2054 in anticipation of a new night parade in spring, 2055.
With Paint The Night running that long, we wouldn't want it saddled with a soundtrack that sounds very much like most pop songs of the mid 2010's, with a 2014 dance club beat and painfully Auto-Tuned lyrics. The current Paint The Night soundtrack will sound dated and dumb in the 2020's, might get a pop of nostalgia in the mid 2040's, but then be downright hokey and embarassing by the 2050's.
I'm going to bookmark this thread and dig it up in the fall of 2054 to see if I'm right.
