Disney's Live Action The Little Mermaid

[LittleBuford]

I feel like there's a disconnect from the singing and music to a very bored and uninspired performance there.

I do admit, I also felt the vocal performance / acting in the song did not match what was happening on Melissa's face, which is a symptom of recording the song in advance and lip syncing on set. She sounds GREAT, but it isn't lining up in that clip (for me).

Les Miserables really go it right by doing live singing while they shot the movie, to ensure the acting choices made were in the moment, and not based on trying to mimic choices you made in a sound booth months earlier.

She's giving it a lounge-singer vibe, something that the instrumentalisation also contributes to. It totally works for me.

 

[Disney Analyst]

She's giving it a lounge-singer vibe, something that the instrumentalisation also contributes to. It totally works for me.

I get the vibe, but the face doesn't match the vocal performance, at least for me. Again, a symptom of having to make choices in the sound booth months before.

All movie musicals should be sung live on set, for best results.

 

[LittleBuford]

I get the vibe, but the face doesn't match the vocal performance, at least for me. Again, a symptom of having to make choices in the sound booth months before.

You and I are on different wavelengths today, it seems!

All movie musicals should be sung live on set, for best results.

I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure how this would have even been possible in the case of a film so heavily dependent on post-filming special effects.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Les Miserables really go it right by doing live singing while they shot the movie, to ensure the acting choices made were in the moment

Les Miz was widely panned for doing that because the vocals weren't the best. Esp Russell Crowe.

 

[Disney Analyst]

You and I are on different wavelengths today, it seems!

That's okay, we agree often enough I think it's mostly the "yes indeed" at the end of the clip that really throws me. She goes into this deep voice, and I can picture exactly what her face and mouth would naturally do in that moment, from a performing perspective, and it doesn't happen.

I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure how this would have even been possible in the case of a film so heavily dependent on post-filming special effects.

I believe in the dream

 

[Disney Analyst]

Lee Miz was widely panned for doing that because the vocals weren't the best. Esp Russell Crowe.

I don't think a studio would have helped Russell.

I personally love the vocals on the film for the most part, and I'd rather real and raw, over studio perfection. I'm a theatre person after all.

 

[wtyy21]

Here's the audio only reprises of Part of Your World, there are two versions however.



The interesting part is the finale, which so far only instrumental version is shown. I expected full choir for this part in the actual movie.

 

[DCBaker]

The soundtrack for the Live-Action The Little Mermaid has been released.

Spotify



Apple Music

 

[DCBaker]

New featurette on the music in The Little Mermaid.

 

[Phroobar]

 

[brb1006]

Aww they removed Chef Louis' song "Les Poissons".

That musical number was funny in a messed up way.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I haven’t listened to the entire album yet, but “Wild Uncharted Waters” is fantastic and Jonah Hauer-King’s vocals are strong. I didn’t know he could sing that well. Additionally, the emotions he conveys in the song are very convincing.

Halle’s performance in the original “Part of Your World Reprise,” particularly the last note she hits… WOW. I gasped when I first listened to it. And the new reprise is beautiful and sad. Halle and Jonah are easily the best live-action Disney princess and prince duo vocalists Disney’s cast so far.

 

[Screamface]

The Scuttlebutt

 

[MagicHappens1971]

The Scuttlebutt

I haven’t seen the film yet but I already know this is going to be my least favorite part.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

Why does it sound like Mario music maker???

 

[Phroobar]

Aww they removed Chef Louis' song "Les Poissons".

That musical number was funny in a messed up way.

Let's not offend the French.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

Replaced by The Scuttlebutt... which offends all.

 

[Phroobar]

Yet no significant marketing still for Elemental.

 

[wtyy21]

AIR Studios actually was responsible for recording Happily Ever After, Celebrate Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Forever, and other Disney shows. So, no weird to see Part of Your World and other film soundtrack recorded by London-based studio.

 

[Tha Realest]