Mexico & France: New BGM

[UNCgolf]

Disney is really trying hard to completely ruin EPCOT, but adding some instrumental snippets from movie songs to the background music is innocuous. If we didn't already know what they were doing to the park it could be a foreboding harbinger, but as is, I don't mind it at all.

I wonder what other pavilions will see BGM changes. They could easily put Winnie the Pooh and/or Mary Poppins into the UK, and obviously the aforementioned Frozen into Norway -- maybe Snow White (or Tangled) to Germany? Pinocchio to Italy? Aladdin to Morocco?

 

[ChrisFL]

any chance this is a sign that Coco will really be added to the Mexico pavilion?

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I fear the worst for American Adventure. They could slap any Disney (or Muppet) tunes together and claim they're "American".

 

[MisterPenguin]

I fear the worst for American Adventure. They could slap any Disney (or Muppet) tunes together and claim they're "American".

 

[Timothy_Q]

This feels like a preparation for HarmoniUS, which will feature Disney music representing each country and (supposedly) played in each country’s style and language

 

[dreamfinder]

How about the track based on Sami music?

Personally I'd love the BGM to be traditional/"world" music for each country. I'm thinking like old history, chant, throat singing type stuff. Pretty much the type of things you wouldn't hear in a doctors office or on the radio (unless your local college radio has an anthropology professor who does a radio show at like 2AM).

 

[SeaCastle]

I fear the worst for American Adventure. They could slap any Disney (or Muppet) tunes together and claim they're "American".

I worry as well. American Adventure is my favorite of the bunch - it is just understated and lowkey enough to set the mood for the show inside and is chock full of old folk songs.

I'm not militantly anti IP in the parks but this seems pretty egregious. When I was kid, hearing the different background music was what got me into listening to folk, bluegrass, and world music. The IP intrusions into WS conditions people to relate to things through Disney IP alone. It's not necessarily sinister (or even new), but it represents a pretty cynical view by Disney of what the parks were for. If you strip everything from the parks that does not directly reflect back to Disney IP, you deflect from the parks themselves.

 

[Prototype82]

How about the track based on Sami music?

I would be more than okay with this.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I posted this in the meme post..But, same vibe..

 

[Horizons1]

Hey let’s take our most unique and challenging park and make into our most bland park. What will the theme of our renovation be? Disney!

 

[Texas84]

Honestly, I never noticed the music in World Showcase.

 

[ChrisFL]

I fear the worst for American Adventure. They could slap any Disney (or Muppet) tunes together and claim they're "American".

As long as they don't TOUCH the American Adventure show itself....IMO they can do whatever

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

You have to wonder how much of IG's loop will change or will stay the same..

 

[Figments Friend]

Just don't mess with the original background music still playing outside of The Land Pavilion.
When you walk by, you would swear there is a 8-track tape player in the bushes.
Love it.

Some things at Epcot need to remain.
Not all change is needed or 'good'.

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[peter11435]

Just don't mess with the original background music still playing outside of The Land Pavilion.
When you walk by, you would swear there is a 8-track tape player in the bushes.
Love it.

Some things at Epcot need to remain.
Not all change is needed or 'good'.

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The BGM outside the land is not original. In fact I believe it is the third version

 

[Disneysea05]

Surprisingly, I don’t seem to mind this. The Beauty and the Beast music is too Fantasyland sounding, but I like the Coco and Mulan arrangements.

I remember feeling the same way when Tokyo DisneySea added “Bella Notte” and some Pinocchio music to Mediterranean Harbor. Wouldn’t be surprised if those are inserted in Italy in WS.

 

[Horizons1]

The BGM outside the land is not original. In fact I believe it is the third version

For real? What are the other two versions then?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

any chance this is a sign that Coco will really be added to the Mexico pavilion?

 

[SeaCastle]

The BGM outside the land is not original. In fact I believe it is the third version

For real? What are the other two versions then?

Isn't the exterior loop the 26 minute loop that's been there since 1982 still playing, but the interior loops are the ones that have changed? There was an hour-long loop in the interior that played from 1994 til Soarin was added and the pavilion was refurbbed (excluding the Garden Grill music).

 

[aladdin2007]

Surprisingly, I don’t seem to mind this. The Beauty and the Beast music is too Fantasyland sounding, but I like the Coco and Mulan arrangements.

I remember feeling the same way when Tokyo DisneySea added “Bella Notte” and some Pinocchio music to Mediterranean Harbor. Wouldn’t be surprised if those are inserted in Italy in WS.

is there a sound clip of the new China arrangement?