trying to fix wish's cringiest song
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just my version of the song: • "I'm a Star" (Jonah's ...
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0:00 a word
2:07 intro
3:13 reacting
17:05 fixing
21:19 final product
The line "watch out world here i are" just hurts my soul in so many ways
USE WEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@itsmeLegendDragonoh my god they could of said that and make it so much BETTER for the song….
@@itsmeLegendDragon it could've been fixed with this one ONE WORD EXCHANGE but they thought it would've been quirky to say "I"
Dam this got a lot of likes
"Watch out world here we are." Definitely sounds alot better.
Why would they say “eloquent dancers” when “elegant dancers” was right there???
bcs they love eloquent for an unknown reason
They (or the AI they used 🤫) probably thought they were synonyms tbh
It sounds like joke : « I bet you won’t be able to put eloquent in your next song ! »
Either the writer was stupid or wanted to portray the animals as stupid, despite being given the ability to speak, they actually are posers. They don't know what big word means, but big word will impress girl.
Just like yes, that was a fart joke. The "I r a star" is again, portraying these animals as dumb. They made a simple grammar mistake, and we should laugh at them. They are trying to be insightful and spread wisdom, but they are base creatures who have suddenly been given the ability speak without truly comprehending what they are saying.
The song is itself a poser. It wanted so desperately to be cute and charming, but instead it came off completely forced and soulless.
Because they tried to be smarter than what they are.
“Trying to fix wishes cringiest song”
DO YOU HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA HOW LITTLE THAT NARROWS IT DOWN?
Here I are
There we is
Here we am.
There we was
God bless everyone in this thread
"Get that through your system" "SOLAR!!!" destroy me, i hate this
“If you just see the mushrooms then you’ll understand” didn’t already kill you?
I was wondering where did the word solar come from what did it have to do with this 😭
@@Tiny_T0mb0ysolar system. It’s supposed to be a pun, I guess? But they forgot to actually make the pun
At first I didn't notice it because in my language the order makes sense, and then I said to myself "wait, this is English!"
It's sad that the errors are so noticeable in grammar that someone who doesn't speak English well can see them.
@@aquinohaynada9986Hmm it's not really a grammar error it's just a pun that has to do with the star I think. But a really bad one
In the movie, when the stupid goat says "That's where all the balls of gas come from" the camera is pointed directly at the goats butt. It's a random fart joke in the middle of the majestical magical wonder song. It's horrible
Sounds as bad as everything else I know about this movie tbh
I like to think it's a balls joke. It's also terrible but at least that way it's ironically funny.
From what I've seen, there was another joke he did that mentioned his butt finding a secret pathway...
Yeah... whatever will make the kids laugh I guess 🙃
I didn't watch the movie and just typed up a comment trying to legitimately dissect what they were trying to say with the "balls of gas" line from the lyrics alone. Then I read this comment.
Goddamnit.
@@T_E_G"My *butt* found it."
I'm kinda shocked that he's in highschool, he comes off as the kinda youtuber who's like 25 with a music degree
When it comes to growing up fast, Gen Z got the hyperbolic time chamber training arc.
he's in high school??? I'M OLDER THAN HIM????????
He's a youth? Dang he's a sharp one at least.
So it's not just me who reacted like this? I really thought he's older
that’s crazy he looks early to mid 20s to me
“If you just see the mushrooms then you’ll understand?”
I didn’t see the mushrooms, they already ate them in the writing room.
I’m dead 💀
LOL 😶
Ahhh, I forgot to take them before watching!
WHY IS NO ON TALKING ABOUT THE MESSAGE AT THE START! LOVE U MAN FOR ADDRESSING THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE!
FR! ❤️🇵🇸
I WAS SCROLLING FOR SO LONG LOOKING FOR ANYONE APPRECIATING THIS TOO
why are we talking in caps?
Cringe
slay free engagement, thanks.@@nickynicks_
The most annoying part of the line “Watch out world here I are” is that they LITERALLY could replace I with We and it would make sense
It gives the sense that they know what they are doing and they think it's really clever and funny, or that they just don't care.
21:01
It’s meant to be like that, he’s never spoken until now, and he’s meant to be a humorous character. I didn’t rlly care about it
They do that later in the song I think, but I feel like the 'joke' would work better if we KNEW what the line was meant to be before the comic relief sang it wrong
@@Prototype-357or third option, Chat GPT
"Shareholders" and "Front yard" are such weirdly pedestrian imagery, for a fantasy story about a mythical kingdom. Like, they shouldn't have... stocks... in this world.
Yes! Those two words made my teeth grind too. Somehow "front yard" breaks all pretense that it's an old-timey kingdom and just makes it so clear we're only talking to modern suburban American 8-year-olds.
I didn't find this song that confusing; they're clearly trying to reference the fairly common knowledge that we're made from material from ancient exploded stars. They just fail.
Shareholder... like Disney shareholders?
Yessss it’s not immersive at all
"I got these genes from outer space."
"That's where all the balls of gas comes from."
Apparently these people in a medieval european kingdom by the mediterranean sea are also knowledgeable about astronomy and genetics. Very immersive. Amazing world building.
@Ellie_Infinity alot of disney films do that, the problem is moreso how they aren't consistent with it.
“This is when it became clear that Lin-Manuel Miranda was too busy” unfortunately yep 😭
Lin Manuel Miranda would have SAVED this movies music 😭✋
Everybody yelling about the redundancy in "living for free & not charging rent" but not pointing out the "nebulae in a nursery" BRO NEBULAE BY DEFINITION ARE NURSERIES FOR STARS.
nurseryception
Disney trying to gaslight us that this movies good 😭🙏
ong, I keep getting ads for it while watching disney+ 💀
THERE ARE ADS ON DISNEY+??
Disney+ added a new subscription tier where you pay less but you’ll have to see ads before watching something… they’ve been shilling tf out of Wish with the ads and I’m so tired of hearing “So I make this wish” 💀
@@RmationYTye i get ads for wish during disney+
@@avo.avocadoand also on Disney Channel. They really wanna compensate for the fact this movie, as the 100 YEAR film, was an absolute laughable flop
"What was passed down generationally?"
...Trauma?
A star 😀
IM A STAR 🌟 😃
clothes ???
…
depression ???
Dramas?
@@xxpinkeexx2038Look in planet, there we am
11:25 For those wondering what the hell "that's where gas balls come from" is, this was a reference to Lion King, when Pumba says he thought stars were gas balls, which they actually are.
So, yes, it is a fart joke, but it made sense in The Lion King, because there is the contrast of Pulba saying something intelligent that is discredited as a fart joke.
Pumba.
@@kingagrabowska9366 opps, haha. Thanks
That's cool....but why are they shoehorning it into one of the "important" songs of the movie instead of making the goat say it randomly later in the movie as an easter egg or something?
Ohhh that does make slightly more sense, thank you
@@lechocolat3783 because the entire movie premise itself is references practically
Honestly, just the use of the word “shareholders” in this song makes it feel corporate and soulless. Like it lets you KNOW that Disney’s just making this movie for money and they don’t care
"if you see the mushrooms then you'll understand" oh..
So that's what the writers were on..
lol
Are we sure the writers were supplied with such things? I was under the impression they were locked in the writing room, being paid one singular ham sandwich a day, offered to the writer who pumped out the most words per minute or the most references per paragraph within the set parameters from the higher-ups, whilst the other writers watched on in envy.
I'm pretty sure a few writers on mushrooms could've done a better job than "Here I are".
@@CheddarCheys damn 💀
Jokes aside, it's another lyric that makes no sense in context. They keep asking questions like "do you wonder this?" or they say "Let me explain this to you" and they just... don't. The answer, apparently, is simply "you're a star!"
"Hey, I've been wondering why I just can't figure out what to do-"
"You're a star!"
"Well my grandfather, he really wants this wish... Why can't he get it?"
"He's a star!"
"But Magnifico, he's -"
"He's a star!!!!"
It's all just... so asinine.
I see why English teachers get so mad now even I get dealt psychic damage from "here I are"
I also think that even an English teacher will struggle to come up with a meaning for this song.
“when it comes to the universe, we’re all shareholders” feels like such corporate drivel that it made me physically recoil
"generationally" definitely could've been "through the family tree"
Even better cause they are trees I’m pretty sure
OH MY GOD THAT’S FUCKING PERFECT 🫶
This song is the worst offender of the movie because nearly all the lines have an easy, obvious fix. ELEGANT dancers. GROWS a pine. Here WE are.
I’m pretty sure they wanted “elegant”, but just screwed up because they don’t understand English lol. Eloquent means you’re good with words. “Eloquent dancers” is not something you would ever say.
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703 these writers sure aren't "eloquent"!
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703 I think Julia Michaels really just thought she was doing quirky charming wordplay. This stuff was deliberate.
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703eloquen't
Even if you fix the lyrics, it doesn't change that they mean nothing. The song is rotten to the core.
The animals aren't characters we met earlier that she has a friendship with. They aren't friends trying to cheer her up, they aren't frenemies pushing against something she's doing - they're plot devices, and terrible ones.
This song does nothing to advance the plot, show character, it's not even very fun. Who wouldn't much rather watch Trashing the Camp, Phony King of England, and countless other Disney songs that are just meant to be fun?
No, this is not fixed by changing out a few floorboards, we need to tear the whole floor out. Better yet, raze the house and build a new one instead.
"so your dust is my dust?"
"...what"
"i don't fuckin know just go along with it" 😂
It cracked me up
"Clearly he sees the mushrooms because he understands" lmaooo
@@SkwiddBallthat made me laugh so hard lol
It’s really a stupid line, but I think their trying to hint to that the universe is formed from stardust made from a supernova
and then the last line from the song 😂
“so YOUR dust, is MY dust?”
“…what?”
“i dont fuckin know, just go along with it”
PLEASE 😭😭😭 this video is already pretty funny and had me snorting, but i really love the asides with asha and valentino being confused 😭
I lost it at this line, the comedy is too good
I'm looking at the mushrooms and from what I can gather, the song is trying to say that all of the atoms in the universe came from supernovas so therefore we are all made up of stardust. That's what "so your dust is my dust" means or whatever. But they explain that in the stupidest way possible
Bros staring real hard at those mushrooms
You rn: 🍄👀
@@karathewolfsfanficchannel933😭😭😭
Me when I'm a character in a Disney movie and have to sing a song about the big bang for some reason
YES! I was trying to find a comment that actually understood the song. It's saying
1. We're made of stars
2. We wish on stars, so our wish is what makes us who we are
But they could've explained it so much better.
Literally just changing the pronoun from "I" to "we" would have been so easy to make the "are" work 😭
The worst part is that they could've made "Here I Are" work if they just made it a joke about the deer being bad at grammar cause he's a wild animal.
Hell, have a rabbit quickly whisper "it's "WE"" and the deer just gives a clueless grin right before the cut to the next singing scene. Just a goofy little nod to the fact that, despite singing about these questions about the universe, some of these lil fellas are clueless about other stuff too.
So not just did Disney fail to simply make the sentence correct, but they failed to have a funny reason for it being wrong. It just looks like they genuinely suck at english. 😭
I know! It’s maddening how easy some of these changes are!
@@katherinesmallbean3594dont let disney get their hands on you, youre too smart for them
In any other movie, “Watch out world here I are” would just be written off as a deliberate joke on the songwriter’s part.
The problem is… Wish has SO MANY sloppy lyrics that I have no idea if this was meant to be taken seriously or not.
@@katherinesmallbean3594 that would’ve been so funny
"When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders"
lmao who wants to sing corporate jargon in a Disney song.
That line specifically tortures me in my nightmares.
there is a kernel of a good idea in that line, but what do ANY of the characters in the scene have to do with financial menagment
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"when it comes to the universe we're all shareholders"
When communism meets capitalism.
Wait is your pfp that one frye concept art from the splatoon 3 artbook?
thank you so much for supporting my country! ❤️ 🇵🇸
this movie’s entire soundtrack literally sounds like something you’d be forced to listen to, leather-strapped to a chair as a form of torture in guantanamo bay
As an English major, this song is melting my brain. From them mixing up "eloquent" and "elegant," using "excitatory" incorrectly, the "here I are," and every sentence having the most incorrect word order, I'm starting to understand the AI accusations. I understand that songwriters sometimes break grammar rules to make the lyrics work better, but in this song, every choice they made hurt them. I cannot comprehend how it is this bad, your version is way better
Me too. I’m just an amateur writer even I’m shock. There is no way this is written AI. No way. Thank god I’m rewriting the whole movie. I might use Jonah’s versions as one of my rewrites. But I’m taking out This the thanks I get out of the picture and the talking animals as well.
I was willing to give a little leeway on excitatory because I can see how it sounds fun, but if I saw someone use eloquent and "here I are" purposefully in a work email, that's who they'd be to me forever after.
Everyone who made fun of songwriters with english as a second language making weird rhymes and "no meaning, just vibes", apologize immediately because holy shit Wish is Way worse.
Or is it on purpose because it's a thing in pop and they're being pop-y, which means grammatical errors?? Gick I hope not.
AI has much better grammar than this
@@guggelguggel7491 there are no vibes nor meaning here lol
why is this whole song structured like:
“basic elementary school knowledge about how the world works”
followed by
“that’s why (thing that is not remotely explained by the previous line) happens!”
please whoever wrote this song do yourselves a favour and read a book
goddamn
The person who wrote it is Julia Michaels I think
"There are 8 planets in the solar system."
"That's why caterpillars turn into butterflies!"
"BOOM! DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?"
no.
It very much has a "made for toddlers" vibe to it, but I wouldn't let any toddler of mine listen to it for fear of making them dumb.
This song reminds me of DHMIS songs lmao
This song feels like a poorly done powerpoint presentation but if it was sung
POV: the movie was about Asha being high on shrooms
While Valentino is high on white dust
@@tessygrondin1271💀
Thanks so much for speaking up for Palestinians. Major respect.
English teacher here, "turns a pine from a seed" does NOT make sense. Your videos analyzing these songs are amazing, btw!
Ayyy I see Speedwagon! Excellent taste, my friend. It's cool so see a Jojo fan in the wild.
Such a weird phrase. They're trying to do a twist on a Seed turns into a pine but reversing it doesn't quite work...at all
I would have put "grows a pine from a seed" instead... and english isn't even my first language. How is it possible to suck that much to their own native language when a foreigner can make better lyrics.
@@aryaeliadel3094 It's even worse when the line is fixed and you realize the line doesn't even make sense in the song. Like Jonah said, it has a scientific explanation. By putting the line into the song, it makes "being a star" less flashy than if it was just taken out ;-;
@@Im_ARock you're right but i'm just still impressed "how can a songwritter from Disney not speak english correctly." This seems to be quite important in the qualification for the job I believe.
This entire song is just pointless gibberish. You can see the rough outline of what they _might_ have wanted to do, but in the end, it just flops almost as hard as the movie's box office performance
I do genuinely think it was written in a single sitting and was never revised or edited.
@@TheHaunCoolGamer it's because they gave the composer a week to write all the songs in the movie. It's no wonder how awful they turned out
Most of the lyrics make it feel like it's a filler song. But at the same time it gives lore importance, because it tell us that everything is basically a star. Which connects to how they defeat Magnifico in the end.
It's both confusing and contradicting.
@@TheHaunCoolGamer it HAD to have been. there is no way in HELL it was edited with how many easily fixable mistakes were in here. this whole damn thing, top to bottom, reads like a first draft.
"So your dust... Is my dust?"
To answer your question at 13:20, This lyric is meant to be about how everything is made of stardust, so everything has a little bit of "star" in them, which means that "I'm a Star!" is a semi-literal line rather than a metaphor. That's also how the movie ends, with everyone using the stardust they came from and have in them to wish Magnifico away. Not a bad idea for a third act climax and resolution, honestly, but they were really bad at explaining what they meant, and the execution was... Mediocre *at best*.
exactly. like i do see the message they were going for, they just didnt explain what they meant at all😭
Damn you actually improved it a lot without changing too much, the final product actually made me feel inspired and a little confused while the original made me feel confused and a little overwhelmed
I like how he's not being paid for this but doing a better job than what they ever could.
the thing is they COULD HAVE done better, it’s disney, they have the resources. they CHOSE not to.
mfw when a high schooler does a better job then disney did for their anniversary (turned cashgrab) movie 😭
Seriously, his version actually had a message, and surprisingly gave me goosebumps!
I genuinely listen the shit out of his versions of the songs
youtube is paying him
I think "watch out world here I are" is possibly the worst lyric i have ever read in my life
It’s a crime against humanity
I don’t understand why they didn’t just rework the song to have it be “here we are” or just say “here you are” twice (because they clearly aren’t beneath repeating lyrics)
Like legit the fix was right there, why didn't you just- make the song make sense
“I let you live here for free and i don’t even charge you rent”
I made me remember the show "I am Weasel" which makes no sense because most of the animals can speak normally.
Is it just me but it sounds like, “we can start and finish wars where what killed the dinosaurs” in Heathers
IT DOES OMG😭😭😭
“Here I are” would’ve been saved if a child sang that line instead of an adult.
Every time “Here I are” is uttered a child is killed
One of the most annoying parts about this song to me is just how condescending it is, “did we just blow your mind?” “Let that one sink in till the morning” while saying absolutely nothing.
It’s amazing that you were able to give some actual direction to this nothing burger of a song.
Go girl!!! give us nothing!!
Nothing burger is a perfect description of this song.. and frankly, the entire movie.
nooo there's a purpose for those! how else will they convince you the lyrics are clever and good?????
"Did we just blow your mind??" with what, homies, you straight up didn't say anything. It's like reading Facebook comments made by grannies who are off their meds.
"TRump... ilumiati...Target...all conected... JerUSAlem. I mean, wow" okay, granny, let's get you to bed, you need your medication.
14:34
It _is_ a grammar rule actually, it's called "order of adjectives". Your adjectives all go in a specific order and if it's messed up at all then it sounds wrong. The order is: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose.
"Here's a little fun allegory" is wrong because opinion (fun) is before size (little)
Common example:
"So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac."
I actually never knew that, or forgot when learning in school. No wonder “here’s a little fun allegory” sounded strange.
@@ApoIIo_ we don't actually teach it in school, it's so complicated and long that by the time students are at a high enough grade level to handle memorizing the order of it, they already have learned it subconsciously through watching adults speak. Schools just don't bother, unless English isn't your first language.
You'd be surprised how many rules aren't taught because of this. Like the rule that makes 'tick tock' and 'ding dong' right, but 'dong ding' and 'tock tick' wrong.
oh yeah NO SASsy COMPuters I remember that
@foryx_ I assume the N in your mnemonic is for Number? Or is it something else
@@foryx_damn that's clever!
I like how the Title says "Trying to" like this song is beyond saving
It is💀
This song is just so incredibly vapid. It's hard to place what this song is analogous to in other Disney musicals. Is it really meant to be the showstopper "let's have fun!" number?
In that case, the visuals alone make it fall flat. In other Disney songs about having fun, we're getting creative turns of phrase, sometimes the main character trying to escape the singers making for a fun conflict, and then the singers are trying to persuade the MC.
Like - Sebastian is trying to convince Ariel how much better it is under the sea. Coda in Brother Bear is pestering Kenai throughout, but we slowly see Kenai warm up - ie, the song has a purpose, showing passage of time and character progression.
It gets even worse if you compare the song's message to the "I want songs". Characters sing about very specific desires. They want more out of life, to explore the surface, the great white somewhere, a life outside a cathedral. They want to find their place as a woman, or meet someone who values them for who they are on the inside.
But "I'm a star" is like I said, vapid. Basic in the worst sense. It's useless affirmation with no substance. It is very hard not to immediately think of the Incredibles - "they keep coming up with new ways to celebrate mediocrity..."
Maybe in an alternate version of the story, something very terrible happens, and Asha just feels super beaten down at this point - what could characters say to her? "You had courage. You care about your family even when others are dismissive." _Specificity._
But no, simply "you're awesome, I'm awesome, everyone is just intrinsically awesome." That barely means anything. It has the usefulness of a friend saying "that's too bad" when something sad happens in your life - or when you create something, and someone says "it's good" with no further comment.
I desperately hope this film will get buried in obscurity, that future generations will instead find motivation in much better Disney songs.
They wanted a mic drop moment at the end of every other line but it just 1) didn’t work and 2) is irritating
"See thats where all the balls of gass come from"
In the animation the goat drops his bum into frame implying a fart joke
So in lyrics he's referencing the sun, but he actually means
"haha i fart"
This comment was funnier than the entirety of Wish
Just like Disney did during this movie’s production!
I feel like it's a lion king reference since the background was safari themed and during the scene where they're looking at the night sky and Simba is talking about how he was told that the stars are all the past kings and Puumba was like "I thought they were big balls of gas burning millions of miles away" and Timon was like "everything is gas to you"
when i first watched the movie i genuinely thought it was a joke about his balls
@@headlinershigh SAME LMFAOOOOO
You know a song is bad when the ENTIRE song needs to be re-written.
At least the lyrics were the only things that needed change. This is the thanks I get got an entire rewrite. Musically and lyrically
@@gatewoodanimations9753 yeah and I still don't agree with the decision to cut the chorus entirely just because the original one was just the same line repeatedly
@@wildstarfish3786yeah I wish he just made a new one and I’m not a fan of the instrumental either.
The entire song is trying to be a "circle of life" message about everything and everyone being made of stardust (this is important because stars grant wishes/have magic?) and it is also written like a "deep" 14 year old poem.
For the "turns a pine from a seed" line, (i'm an english student) I'm 87% sure that you need a subject for the verb "to turn". Such as "turning a page with thin fingers" works because the subject is the "thin fingers". While the subject *can* come after, this never happens in real speech. And "from a seed" makes no sense becuae you can't "turn a pine from a seed". That's like "turn the diamond to a heart" as if talking about magic card tricks. You can't **TURN** a tree because a **TREE** is **STATIONARY.** (i'm so frustrated with this song too)
I think it's supposed to be "turn a seed into a tree" or "turn into a pine tree from a seed" but it sounds sooo awkward and wrong.
I hate all the little comments like "did we just blow your mind" "it'll sink in the morning" "just look at the mushrooms and you'll understand" or like calling it an "allegory" when literally there is no hidden meaning or clever, eye-opening statement to be made. It's just a bunch of words thrown at the wall but they act like they're so clever and so much wiser than you just because you don't understand what they mean. If your message gets more cryptic the more your audience thinks about it, then you failed at delivering a message. It makes me just as mad as "watch out world here I are"
Edit: also your cover slaps. I like your lyrics so much better
Omg Splat Tim are you doing it?
I listened to some older Disney songs after this one, and it's just night and day, even the "fun" "pointless" songs have much more of a point, and are actually fun compared to this.
Like, "trash in the camp" isn't an amazing one, but it's got some fun creative joining of the sfx and the animation. Under the Sea is a lot of just a bunch of dancing and all, but there's really creative wordplay with the ocean life, and it's got this conflict in that Sebastian is trying to convince Ariel to give up on the human stuff.
You can look even to the 2000s, where people tend to agree Disney had some slump movies - and it's like, "Tell Everybody I'm on my way" is a much better fun song than this. Kenai slowly warms up, showing character growth. It's a montage to at least serve the plot purpose of passing time. Even dadgum Home on the Range, a movie so often maligned as bottom tier of the Disney catalogue, is leaps and bounds ahead of this.
Slim's Song is just so much more genuinely silly and fun to watch, just for how absurd the premise is. We see Slim's character in it, of how vain he is in boasting about his ability and showing off.
We learn absolute nothing from "I'm a star" - in fact I feel like it has done the opposite and made me more confused about what this movie is.
@@WasatchWind Exactly!! I really get the vibe that they're talking to the three year olds in the audience and not at all talking to any actual characters on screen, which is so detrimental to the story, especially when what they're telling the three year olds is all nonsense! No value at all! Might as well be gibberish, it'd have the same effect!!
And that idea makes it so, so obvious that the prompt was not to write a musical but a pop album based around a one-dimensional concept of "stars and wishing." Why?! Why would ANYONE want that?! Why would Disney think abandoning the story element of the music completely was the way to go??? At least other Disney songs that were written primarily for pop success like Let It Go were still known for being crucial moments in their movies, that's part of why they were so wildly successful. A complete detour for some terribly written, messageless pop song was never gonna be their next big hit. It confuses and frustrates me to no end
@@chip8167 And it's pretty insulting to three year olds. Three year olds can pick up a shocking amount of info when you think they aren't paying attention. Moreover, even when they don't fully understand, they _want_ to be watching "big kid" stuff, that's asking them to stretch their mind - it's how they learn, and over repeated viewings, they understand more and more of what makes a movie interesting.
Children's entertainment today is in dire straits. In the 90s and 2000s, dozens of great shows, movies, and specialized video games, both for education and just entertainment, were coming out for children. Now it's all been replaced by the confounded iPad and horrendous shovelware. This environment has led companies like Disney to feeling like they can get away with anything.
I feel like Disney's desire to chart with their songs though has had the biggest cankering on their musical quality. In the 90s, they would release an alternate remix of the big songs, with less movie specific lyrics, and pop instrumentation. Now Disney just does that with the base song.
One great view on this I heard was from the fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, where he recently hypothesized that maybe movies are struggling, for one reason, because they now have to do what books have had to do forever - find some way to market to someone who isn't paying attention to the space.
While we used to consistently go to the movies, and could reliably be expected to watch the trailers, and could there get introduced and hence get excited for a new release, now in the age of streaming, companies like Disney can't count on that.
So maybe trying to make pop hits is the best they've got - if you get a hit like We don't talk about Bruno, then of course people will go see the movie in theaters... right?
The best I can figure is they're trying to do a Carl Sagan "you are stardust"... but it fails sooo hard. All the ideas are disjointed, and I'm not even sure if my interpretation could be correct! And I'm at college level concerning media and literature literacy.
You're a high-schooler??? I legit thought you were at least a college student. I'm even more amazed by your skills now
Yeah that just caught me off guard!! huh! I thought he was mid 20s😳
Same
And then you start to wonder where you went wrong🥲
I think the line “here I are “ that infuriates everyone is actually a reference to the song by Prince (baby I’m a star)
And he says “baby but I are , I’m a star”
Do not give this monstrosity an out by saying it was a Prince reference
@@matthewbartlett3442 We share the same brain cell of this
Only Disney would write an upbeat, positive song about how we’re all one and all connected by calling us shareholders.
other people are saying "that's where all the balls of gas come from" is just a fart joke but its more than that. you have to remember with this movie that they were trying to squeeze in as many references to other Disney movies as they could. so while it was indeed a fart joke, it was also a reference to the fart joke in Lion King. Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there? [...] Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away. Timon: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas. That's why it's disconnected from the other lyrics and sounds so unnatural
Ohhh!! That makes sense
That's painful. Trying to get all disney references? So that's why wish sucks so much, it's not an original movie but just lazily grabbed every "funny" things in every movie and stuck it together in shit
That context makes the joke a little more forgivable but at the same time, Valentino lacks what Timon and Pumba have in terms of comedy: wit.
Considering the only shred of meaning they seem to have been trying to put in this song is the old idea that because stars created the chemical elements we find on Earth, everyone and everything consists of stardust, I... think these references combine into "we all consist of farts"? Truly, everything is gas.
I dont believe for a second that that was on purpose
"Turns a pine from a seed" could so easily be changed to "GROWS a pine from a seed" and it makes grammatical sense. This song is so infuriating in how little it understands basic English.
Then again English on it’s own is stupid.
English isn't even my first anguage and it doesn't deter me from noticing all the annoying little misteps this song makes. It really feels like they were trying to troll us on purpose.
They could’ve also said “SPROUTS a pine from a seed”
Like lmao
@@lucasmatthiessen1570 Can you still understand what I'm saying better than the lyrics on this song?
@@lucasmatthiessen1570 Then that's what matters.
Thank you for speaking up about Palestine. UA-cam has been a hellscape for anyone having morally correct opinions for as long as I can remember so I really appreciate it 👍
This song is about taking too many mushrooms, sniffing too many dusts
, and being a corporate goon.
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my jaw literally dropped when i heard "watch out world here i are" 😭😭😭😭 i still cant believe disney made this trash heap of a song ngl
I can't believe a well known pop artist even got hired to make this. Mediocrity or just bad songs aside, how the hell do you blow up in the music industry and work for the largest animation company known to man, just to forget how a language works💀 being rushed isnt an excuse for "here i are"
A part of me thinks Disney made this film to see how low they could go and still make money. Luckily they made no money, so they'll make better films now. But even that theory probably assumes too much intelligence and business smarts on modern Disney's part. :'(
It’s crazy bc even saying “we is” is correct in some varieties of English, wtf is “I are”, I’m not getting any genuine examples of that past the 16th century
disney fell off so bad with wish
As a creative writer, my soul died XD
I usually get uppity with companies for dumbing things too much for kids. But using the word "shareholders" in a movie for kids, especially right next to a fart joke, is a wild decision.
And compare the wonderful verbiage of the Disney Renaissance films with the lyrics penned by Howard Ashman!
I'm not even 100% what a coterie is, but the way Genie uses it sounds like it's a synonym for "entourage"
Yeah the whole song is that you literally are made of stardust. It’s the whole “oh you don’t need to wish on a star, make your own stuff come true.” It actually sucks though because I only figured that out on the second watch
Yup it’s not clear at alll, haha.
Oh, my god. With that in mind so much of the song actually... Makes sense. There are even a few lyrics with concepts I might dare say are clever. Concepts of course, not execution. Man.
I mean, not only are the lyrics better…You actually managed to turn this into a heartwarming song about writing your own story, and holding out hope when “the skies are stormy”. Loved this one
My favorite part of the movie is when Magnifico is chasing Asha and as he rides his horse offscreen, his cape stays in the top left corner. Like it just fucking freezes there. There’s genuine giant animation errors in this movie and it’s insane that nobody noticed and/or cared enough to do anything about it
No dude, the Maginfico was fake, so the cape is fake too. That error has a DEEPER meaning, you're just not seeing it because Disney is such an AWESOME company.
@@Im_ARock also Disney failing on a bunch of movies and cancelling all the good shows AND just constantly making sequels because they can't make an original good movie
@@Im_ARockYEAH bro I love CONSUMING products made by DISNEY 😃
i hope your joking @@Im_ARock
@@SweetnovelleUA-cam commenters when they see an extremely obvious joke:
The worst parts are the ones that pretty much INSIST that the song is super deep.
ie: “Did we just blow your mind?” And
“Get that through your system.”
all literaly based off the notion "we r made of star dust" and nothing else. zero creativity lmaoo
Also "it will all make sense in the morning". It sounds like "I know this is a lot of information" but it's not. It's a lot of nonsense and therefore will not make sense in the morning.
Oh my...
They have like a whole studio, millions of dollars, many great writers and singers and they make this...
Glory to you bud
You're amazing in writing, singing and speaking english
You made the song way better
"So your dust is my dust?" "What" "i dont fucking know js go along with it"
it's so indicative of Disney's current mindset that the idea that we're all part of this shared system is compared to being "shareholders". it's soooooo business-brained before any sort of artistry
i just know the corporate execs behind Wish chortled at that line
Ohh this comment made me stop scrolling. Like damn. You're so right. It sums up the whole thing in one trashy lyric.
you can really tell there were no true artists in the room or at least being listened to
i challenged my family to watch wish, they couldn't do it
impossible
I watched it 20 times and I might go insane :3
Me and my mom tried a few days ago, got 30 minutes in and had to stop and watch princess and the frog
You monster
@@a.bit.chaoticA fate worse than death
The only "I'm a star" line I'll ever take is that one cutscene from Luigi's Mansion 3 where Luigi melts everybody's heart
8F is literally the best floor in the game!! Director Morty my beloved
There’s a lot of bad lines but how is no one talking about “When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders”?
It’s so hackneyed and like, how a corporate ghoul would describe life rather than a whimsical Disney character.
Screaming crying. The concept they're trying to talk about is so infantalized and circled around that you literally can't make out the point of the song. Like it'd be so easy to write about stardust and us being made of star stuff and how all of our atoms came through the cosmos and several supernovas to make us. There's a way to write it where you dumb it down for the kids, and there's also a dumb way to write it. They did the other one.
Even then I feel like telling kids "The stardust from space helped to make all of us, so in a way we are stars too" isn't that complex of an idea for them to understand. Hell it could even be an interesting conversation for the parents to explain atoms and shit if they had more questions lmao
Carl Sagan is rolling in his grave
Normalize NOT dumbing things down for kids in media that is supposed to be family-friendly, kids can also understand more complicated things than we think they can, and it creates movies and shows that are painfully dull and meaningless to watch after like, age 5..
@@marymystery4427 Even for those who don't want to explain atoms to their kids, establishing a setting where the world's creation story includes all things deriving from stardust is perfectly reasonable in a fantasy setting where literal magic exists
If you want a palette cleanser, I recommend Symphony of Science by Melodysheep.
I actually was OK with the “nursery from supernovas “ line. Since supernovas are what happens when stars explode and die but also what creates new stars. So a nursery of supernovas would be like a kindergarten full of growing stars, which fits the whole we’re all stars motive!
I kinda liked it this phrase, but because it was in the middle of this trash can of song, it doesn't made sense :(
I would love to see a song about galaxy and the life of stars, super novas and nebulosas ❤
i still hate it
@@Loloany fr instead of a song *pretending* to be about all of that by just using big words to sound smart lmao
@@LoloanyRed dwarf caretakers and elders… all the large stars die in kindergarten- okay, noooooo
😢
It still relies on the audience having a bunch of background knowledge and actually managing to connect that knowledge to the line though.
The visible pain after “Watch out world here i are” is sending me ⚰️
The opening: questions
Answer for them: I'm a star
4:49
I think it would be “GROWS a pine from a seed”
Cause… the Seed turns into a pine cause it grows and develops
turns a pine from a seed is an akward way to put that change
Tbh, this, "eloquent," and the "here I are" issues of the song literally makes me think no one tried to edit or double-check the draft and just deciding to go to the sing portion.
Like... seriously? These are the most simplest changes they could've done that'd make this song marginally better yet they couldn't?
but in the original lyrics defense, it isn't incorrect, it just sounds odd because that's not how people speak, at least not commonly, so while "grows" sounds better "turns" isn't incorrect
@@Drknsl0 true
Who says “turns a pine from a seed”?
You normally use progression one way
Like… a Caterpillar turns into a butterfly
Not “a butterfly comes from a caterpillar”
Or "turns into a pine from a seed"
@@arielalejandrodelfabro1740 I was just saying it was technically correct but other words would make more sense, even with the caterpillar/butterfly example both are correct, it's just that one sounds better
11:54 It's a fart joke.
It's sad knowing the recent Disney and Dreamworks films have fart jokes, but the recent Illumination film doesn't.
illumination took both of their life forces
God, that’s sad.
Holy shit really?
@@octosquid48 really really
What about Minion movie?
Thank you for speaking up. I'm so happy to see so many creators I support stand by Palestine
This so sad how a high schooler wrote it better than “professionals”
I’m pretty sure they were referencing the fact that everything is made from stardust but it’s such a convoluted song the message is made incomprehensible.
And “We eat the leaves and they eat the sun, so that’s where all the balls of gas come from” is definitely what they’d thought a clever fart joke. The sun is a star, it’s made up of hydrogen and helium, so gas, the sun activates photosynthesis in plants, we eat plants, we fart… 💀 at least that’s what I think it’s meant to say lmao. Again, very confusing lyrics, they truly are just saying random things.
I had the exact same idea, good job.
YOU TAKE THE MOON AND YOU TAKE THE SUN
@@tiamystic 🎵YOU TAKE EVERYTHING THAT SEEMS LIKE FUN🎵
YOU STIR IT ALL UP AND WHEN YOUR DONE,🎵🎵 @@octavianjoseph8633
@octavianjoseph8633 YOU STIR IT ALL UP AND WHEN YOU’RE DONE
“Trying to fix wish’s cringiest song”
step one:
Delete song from movie
Step 2: Delete movie
Step 3: forget Disney and make your own movie
*cough cough* check out Pinkiemachine's "Alicia and the Kingdom of Starlight" animatics
@@WasatchWind I actually just subscribed to her a day ago lmao
@@SnobbyBird_ lol they're making great stuff over there
Word salad: the musical number
10:41 “now we’re taking in all of the star exposure!”
Well then I guess we’re all being bathed in cosmic radiation and slowly being burnt to a crisp.
best answer
Eloquent refers to speaking, so poetic license doesn't even work
Elegant would be correct
There's absolutely no reason somebody couldn't have caught that mistake
Eloquent is ‘clearly expressing or indicating something’ too. It’s a rarer and more obscure meaning I suppose.
9:02 the comment about Disney trying to copy Lin Manuel Miranda's style is so accurate 😭 they use long, fancy words and try to fit them in a fast pacing rhythm but it just doesn't have that Lin charm to it
right like they were struggling BIG TIME 💀 lin prolly was like "i dont wanna work on this shit..." and disney had to fend for themselves
the life just drained out of you at the "here i are" line
I have so much respect for the beginning message seeing a lot of higher sub UA-camrs never bringing it up
How is a high schooler writing better lyrics than Disney?
especially after writing the lyrics in less time than Disney gave the songwriters 😭😭🙏🙏
@@troublehallto be fair he's edit an existing song. The songwriters had to make a song from scratch with little to no reference.
This proves more so that Disney did not give them a chance to edit their work.
i see u, i click
Same
Real
@@callmethecommentcountess9329 ???
You just made it worse
@@callmethecommentcountess9329very observant of you..
Thank you for speaking about Palestine. I'm so glad people are soeaking out, it makes you feel so much less alone and hopeful.
I'm pretty sure the line "see that's where all the balls of gas come from"
Was a bad reference to pumbaa from lion king when he said that stars are giant balls of gas, which is why it also feels like a fart joke
The use of Shareholders in general is just such a strange, corporate line that it haunts me in my nightmares
I would’ve probably used “creators” or “designers”… Something more mystical and ethereal and whimsical instead of… whatever this is
the removal of "watch out world here i are" already makes it 50% better
My physics teacher once told us that we are all literally made of stardust and I still remember it years later. Apart from the bad lyrics, this song annoyed me because it had no relevance to the story at all. I think if they leaned into this, the whole film could have been better. Alternative plot I came up with in under 1 min: Asha finds out that Magnifico only grants small, harmless wishes so that the people love him and keep giving him their wishes, but he destroys the wishes he doesn't grant to absorb their magic and make himself more powerful. Asha feels betrayed and decides to wish on a star so Magnifico won't get her magic and the star comes down and teaches her that she herself is made from stardust, so instead of wishing on a star, she should believe in herself and those around her to make her dreams come true. She spreads this message to her friends and all the people start to believe in themselves, which causes them to regain their magic and Magnifico shrivels up or something.
thank you so much for speaking up for Palestine❤
Im pretty sure this song is trying to use the fact that "we are all made of stardust" (which is true like actually). So like we are all stars, part of the whole in this universe, and magic is already around us in a sense.
I would've taken a 3 min explaination of that by Neil DeGrasse Tyson over this song.
So....pantheism? Lol
@@darrienjones8917Imagine an edit of this movie where they just cut out this song and replace it with a Neil DeGrasse Tyson explanation of stardust
I think that's what they're TRYING to say too but it's like they forgot to tell the audience that
your casual internet comment touched me a hundred times beyond the entire song T_T
I'm Palestinian American and I LEGIT STARTED CRYING I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO HEAR U SPREADING AWARENESS ON A SONG FIXING VIDEO TYSM 😭😭❤
YESS PALESTINE 🇵🇸
ALL EYES ON RAFAH 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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I'm so sorry, I hope things get better ❤❤ our world needs to focus on these things
"Shareholders", "Your dust is my dust", and *"Here I are"* were probably the lines that pained me the most to hear.
16:24 “watch out world here I are” HIS REACTION 😭 HE WAS SO DONE💀
FR 😭 JUST SAY “here you are” IT’S THAT SIMPLE
I think they’re trying to say “watch out, world here *WE* are”. If that’s not a grammatical error idk what is. 🤦♀️
Literally my exact reaction to that line.
@@Muna-Jlore0997 Yeah I found that out later on in the video 🥲 But it just shows how easy it would have been to just replace ONE WORD
"so your dust is my dust"
"What?"
"I don't fucking know just go with it"
Hey, at least it’s better than him saying , “so your dust is my dust? Fantastic!”
@@Muna-Jlore0997 not only is it better, it's the best thing I could ever ask for
he make it funny at least!
THANK YOU so much for spreading awareness about 🍉!!!Every voice counts!
This song sounds like what Disney's adaptation of Pocahontas would write if Smith gave her Opium.
This comment brings to mind that CollegeHumor stoner parody of Colors of The Wind. lol
I wish i was there for the part where disney hired multi language translators because i guarantee the song writers were asked "what does this line mean without metaphors?" but they couldnt answer
Lollll
Honey, in Brazil our chorus was "Seu lugar é brilhar" which literally means "your place is shine".
I swear, how can "shine" be a "place"???
Disney, you only had ONE job!!!!
@@cosplaysbygusOh gosh, they messed up the translations, too?
@@cosplaysbygus oh my god the laziness in this movie is impressive
@@cosplaysbygus
So it's like they wanted to say "it's YOUR place TO shine" ( like saying "hey you're free to be your authentic self here"), but they messed it up!?
Did they use Google Translate??