News Country Bear Jamboree is getting new songs and acts

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willtravel

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Disnutz311 said:
Well said and I agree with your points. It is not the kids that have a problem with lyrics it is the parents and that is what I was speaking to. Unfortunately, this is the only place in all four parks that have those possible troublesome lyrics, correct? Any other attractions or shows? Not sure it's about being "canceled" but more so about being respectful, no? A few songs in this show are not respectful towards women and I think we can agree on that. Hence maybe not the best place to have it in a family theme park.
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I know I am in the minority, but I am female , and I don't find anything in CBJ as disrespectful to a woman. I personally find it funny, love as is, and don't take it to heart. JMO

I can't imagine what the feelings are now with movies and tv series that are disrespectful towards women. Game of Thrones comes to mind.
 
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Musical Mermaid

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celluloid said:
That would suck and show how stuck and dry they are.
That would make the second place in the park you could hear you've got a friend in me and the fourth theme park attraction at the resort you could. Maybe a female vocality for when somebody loves you for the sad song bit.

The issue too is all this does is make people think of the scenes from the films they are from. They are directly connected. The songs the Bears perform now are true to their characters.
Now they are a Disney cover band.
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They've written original songs for the bears in the past though, at least 3? Many of the iconic attractions have had an original song and most have been fine. They've been working on a replacement for this for years and the best they could come up with is "let's have the bears sing popular Disney songs with a country twist"? I guess it's too expensive to hire talent to write the songs or something, but if they were planning on keeping the bears and changing the music, I think that would've been the best option, give them their own unique concert. Middle ground is finding existing songs that are thematically appropriate, whether they're from their catalog or not. Lastly, there's take what's popular from the Disney library and make it fit. That's my take though. Maybe their research has shown that most of the guests want to hear the same songs they know and love wherever they go on property.
 
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celluloid

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willtravel said:
I know I am in the minority, but I am female , and I don't find anything in CBJ as disrespectful to a woman. I personally find it funny, love as is, and don't take it to heart. JMO

I can't imagine what the feelings are now with movies and tv series that are disrespectful towards women. Game of Thrones comes to mind.
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I don't think you are in the minority. Most people have seen the show are fine with it. I have never found a single article or posting online that called for it to be addressed or anyone complaining of it. And that is hard to do these days with how.loud the minority are.
.it was.my mom's favorite.
 
SirLink

SirLink

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flynnibus said:
There is nothing to hype there if all they do is change the name and some story. That’s blog level news release.

It would only br newsworthy if they were changing the menu and trying to tie it to the ride.

They can still do the first.. tiana news could also be held back for having some news for later
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Remember for the MK 40th they did a live stream about a cupcake as the biggest news item so it wouldn't stop them.
 
Brer Panther

Brer Panther

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lazyboy97o said:
This idea that the attraction needs to be a bigger draw is just ridiculous rationalization of lousy choices to poorly spend money and try to create crowding problems that can be “solved”. The Country Bear Jamboree is a single theater with a single small waiting space. Its run time was already cut down to increase its hourly capacity and maintained decent visitation. It logistically cannot support packed shows. The effort required to perfectly fill the theater and then keep people in the waiting room will increase the cycle time actually reducing capacity. Anything more than a single show’s worth of wait is going to spilling out into the already crowded walkways. The Magic Kingdom still other areas that are far less utilized. Stitch Sings Disney’s Greatest Hits would have made far more sense if you’re actually concerned with capacity utilization.
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Will having the Bears sing "Let It Go" and "You've Got a Friend in Me" really make the show a bigger draw? I honestly can't picture the average parkgoer doing the attraction simply because the Five Bear Rugs are performing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" now.
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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Brer Panther said:
Will having the Bears sing "Let It Go" and "You've Got a Friend in Me" really make the show a bigger draw? I honestly can't picture the average parkgoer doing the attraction simply because the Five Bear Rugs are performing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" now.
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They'd have to research the song list in advance to even know what's being performed.
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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The Empress Lilly said:
The MK had a really rather great 'AAs singing Disney songs' attraction already. The Mickey Mouse Revue.
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Go figure, the most overtly "Disney", character heavy, IP filled E-ticket in Magic Kingdom was also the first to go after less than 10 years.

Maybe there's more to theme park attractions than just having characters and movie music?
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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WondersOfLife said:
I've also never understood the defense for Tiki Room and not CBJ. Of the two, I think CBJ is more entertaining. But I guess that's just an opinion.
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Country Bears, by design, was intended to top everything about the Tiki Room. It was a newer, more sophisticated show from a technical standpoint with larger, more detailed figures that offered a greater ranger of emotion and motion.

Marc was always looking for ways to push his animatronic rides and shows, which is why America Sings was even more elaborate and I'm sure he would have continued to do so had he stayed on with WDI and they kept making those kinds of shows.
 
Rhinocerous

Rhinocerous

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PiratesMansion said:
But modern Disney is apparently deathly afraid that if you aren't constantly being bombarded with IP at all times, you couldn't possibly enjoy the experience.
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I’m going to respectfully disagree. Modern Disney (AKA Bob Iger) cannot understand why anyone would want to come to their parks. Their best guess is that the rubes want to be surrounded by Disney’s amazing IP. Therefore, more IP = more $$.
 
Rhinocerous

Rhinocerous

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PiratesMansion said:
Reportedly the name Liverlips (and the name only-not anything the AA was singing or doing) might mean/refer to something racially insensitive, but that's easy to fix with a name change IMO.
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Five years ago, I directed a show at my (college) alma mater. During the rehearsal process, I was informed that incoming students were required to take a class which taught them anything that could potentially be viewed as racist, insensitive, or inappropriate must be treated as if it objectively is. I believe this is the lens through which many of these decisions are now viewed.
 
CampbellzSoup

CampbellzSoup

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LittleBuford said:
I definitely think the lyrics are a product of their time. None of them bother me, but as I noted earlier, the reference to “all the guys that turn me on” now seems really surprising and even out of place in a Disney park. If a new attraction debuted with those lyrics, I think most of us would be taken aback.
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I suppose. It just seems so innocent that if you don’t wash yourself the guys won’t want you.
 

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