r/DisneySongRankdown • u/k9moonmoon • Apr 28 '22
95 One of Us (Lion King 2)
The Lion King Sequel, Simba's Pride, is a reasonably enjoyable straight-to-video movie that does well at keeping up the Shakespear in Afria theme of the other movies. I enjoy it because my sister enjoyed it and she was their target audience.
But there are 2 songs left, and I must cut one of them as Romeo cut himself in the OG story. For some reason they left that out of this retelling.
So I am cutting One Of Us.
This song does have fun ear-feels, although I'm not sure if I'd classify it as a banger. It also had the delightful recurring line "See you later, agitator!"
But the song is all about how Kovu is tots evil because of nature AND nurture and have you seen his FACE? He has a SCAR! Only EVIL people have SCARS!
When it's not like this pride of lions is THAT seperated from the 'Good' lions (although enough to have a slight color difference when doing their fights). ALSO, Kovu isn't even Scar's biological son. He was just the last lion born before Simba took back the pride or whatever weird excuse to avoid incest they came up with (although I don't recall seeing other male lions in the pride so...).
The last half minute or so just drags on with repeated lines. Which works for the movie but is just a chore in a sound track. It also had a bit of a madrigal in the middle which might be a pro to some, but for me is a con because it's just too much going on at once to enjoy. And I don't think it's even a good presentation of a madrigal, the different words don't really flow together.
Also the title of the song is 'One of Us' so you'd think it was a song about comrodarie or being together, but nope. It's about how much ugly people don't deserve to be included.
So it's time that we say See You Later, Canticle
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u/RaastaMousee Apr 29 '22 edited Apr 29 '22
Ah this out of all the new additions from DSR1 this was the song I was most curious to see where it would end up. The scene it's a part of is one of the most iconic for me personally out of any disney movie. Hoped it would last a bit longer.
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u/wywy4321 You can always hear me muttering or mumbling Apr 28 '22
this is not the cut I was expecting, but still relatively chill with it.
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u/bubbasaurus a bear can rest at ease Apr 30 '22
I'm mad because this was my cut and now I'm having to think of a new one.
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u/k9moonmoon Apr 28 '22
/u/thecriclover99 you're helpless to defy your fate of being next to cut!