Janelle Monae Is ‘Reinventing’ Racist Song For ‘Lady And The

From the second Disney introduced {that a} live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp could be coming to its streaming service, folks (me) puzzled: what about “The Siamese Cat Song”? There’s no approach that tune, the one which goes “we are Siamese if you please / We are Siamese if you don’t please” (as sung by Peggy Lee, who seems like this), might presumably be within the movie, proper? Well…

Janelle Monae’s artist collective Wondaland is “reinventing” the Siamese cat’s music to (presumably) be much less problematic. “Wondaland contributors Nate ‘Rocket’ Wonder and Roman GianArthur are working on a different take for the pair, who in the new film are not Siamese cats,” in accordance with Variety. Not depicting the cats as Asian caricatures with slanted eyes is an efficient begin. The movie, which is about in 1910, has a “blues-ragtime vibe,” however the “personal sound” of Monae, who will even carry out two authentic songs, can be represented. Hopefully Tessa Thompson, who’s voicing Lady to Justin Theroux’s Tramp, will get to reprise her because the lower-half of vagina pants from the “Pynk” music video:

A retooling of the cat music wouldn’t be the primary improve Disney has given to an animated basic seeing live-action translation. [There’s] the “exclusively gay” second director Bill Condon added to Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast — in service of Josh Gad’s character Le Fou, who in that authentic animation pined for the beefy alpha male Gaston with no clear motivation. Upcoming live-action takes like Aladdin and Mulan will even precisely characterize the racial make-up of their respective characters. (Via)

Disney+ will even lack Song of the South, the “When I See an Elephant Fly” quantity from Dumbo, and, though it hasn’t been confirmed, almost certainly the “What Made the Red Man Red?” music from Peter Pan.

Lady and the Tramp (with actual canines!) can be launched on November 12.

(Via Variety)