Why Can't Disney be "Cool?"

[surfinmuse]

MousePod mentioned this on an earlier podcast, that the general American market is less daring, at least when it comes to re-arranging songs/music from the Disney canon. "Arrangment" isn't even quite an adequate nor accurate description; stuff like the Disney Bossa Nova are more re-conceptions of the originals, that pay homage but yet effortlessly and sincerely carve out their distinct style. In a word, no cookie-cutter pop.

I've picked up some (read: extravagantly too much) CDs at Disneyland Paris over the past few years, and I am constantly surprised (mostly pleasantly so), delighted, and at times simply blown away by the sheer depth and imagination of some of these arrangements.

The current crop of Disney Pop stuff (I won't name names, but I think you guys know what I'm referring to) pale in comparison, at least for my more eclectic-than-mainstream music tastes.