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A new Disney Princess is more exciting here in my house than the impending coming of the world’s most famous jolly old elf. And what better way to await the arrival of Princess Tiana? Listen to the soundtrack of course! It’s filled with music from Disney’s newest animated feature, and is a great way to get to know Princess Tiana and her friends before meeting them in the movie. A nice feature of this CD is that it not only includes the vocal tracks from the movie, but also the instrumental score. With everything from strings to brass, the score seems to carry you along with Princess Tiana and her friends on their New Orleans adventures. Not having seen the movie yet, I can’t wait to place the tracks with the scenes and see if I’m close in my imagination as to the goings on! The opening track, “Never Knew I Needed” by Ne-Yo, is sweet and catchy and sure to be a radio hit. While its musical flavor is much more pop/R&B than the rest of the more New Orleans/gospel/blues tracks, it’s still a nice addition to the entire collection. And it follows in the Disney tradition to include a theme song by a current popular artist. Even without knowing that Randy Newman composed this soundtrack, Disney fans will be able to peg his musical style throughout each tune. The tracks are a fusion of jazz, blues, zydeco, gospel, and are just plain awesome. Dr. John’s “Down in New Orleans” (with a prologue by Princess Tiana actress, Anika Noni Rose) has a distinctly Newman sound, reminiscent of his work on Toy Story. “Almost There” is Princess Tiana’s “I’m a strong independent woman and nothing can get me down” theme. This is not the usual “someday my prince will come” princess tune, no, Princess Tiana is determined to follow her dreams and knows she will achieve them. This is my personal favorite track from the movie so far.
its princess is cut from a very different cloth than those of previous films. Tiana (voiced by Anika Noni Rose) comes from the poor side of the tracks, with a mother who works as a seamstress for the white folks and a father with a world-class gumbo recipe and nowhere to go with it. He dies in the Great War, leaving Tiana to work two jobs in order to save up for that restaurant he always wanted. Hardly the makings of fairy tale nobility. And yet she possesses the same beauty and strength as her predecessors, and while she’s a lot less willing to wish upon a star, the same sort of magic eventually finds its way to her. Specifically, a talking frog (voiced by Bruno Campos) hops into her window, claiming to be the enchanted Prince Naveen and requiring a kiss from a princess to be human again.
Another thing that sets Tiana apart is that, unlike past Disney ladies whose main mission is to be rescued by prince charming, she values hard work above all else. After her mom criticizes her lack of a love life, she busts into a wonderful song called “Almost There,” about her more-pressing dreams of opening a restaurant in the French Quarter. She even references an old Disney movie (”Pinocchio”) and backslaps its core idea: Perhaps I should spend less time wishing on a star and more time making things happen, she realizes.
The time has come for Disney to evolve in such a way, and the end result succeeds on a number of levels. There are still a colorful cast of characters, beautiful animation, endearing songs and everything we’ve come to expect from the House of Mouse, just with more diversity and better values. The basic, silly premise is that Prince Naveen (Bruno Campos) gets wrapped up with a nutty voodoo peddler (Keith David) after his parents cut him off financially. What happens is that he becomes a frog — not exactly what he had in mind — sees Tiana in a princess costume (she’s really a waitress), remembers the story of “The Frog Prince” and thinks a kiss from her will make him human again. Instead, she turns into a frog as well.
The pair of webbed-feet amphibians then hop through the Louisiana swamps in search of answers, and along the way they meet a jazz-loving gator (Michael-Leon Wooley); an old, blind voodoo doctor (Jenifer Lewis, singing one of the standout songs, “Dig a Little Deeper”); and the film’s best character, a firefly named Ray (Jim Cummings), who is madly in love with the brightest star in the sky. He thinks she’s a firefly he simply can’t catch, and nobody has the heart to tell him that he’s actually fawning over a celestial body. Semantics.
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