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‘Lady and the Tramp’ Will Revamp Problematic Siamese Cat Song, Feature New Music From Janelle Monae
Variety ^
| May 6, 2019
| MATT DONNELLY and CHRIS WILLMAN
Posted on 05/06/2019 10:02:02 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Grammy winner Janelle Monae will contribute new music to the Disney Plus streaming title Lady and the Tramp, in addition to her voice role in the live-action reboot.
Monae will perform two original songs for the film, led by Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux. Monaes artist collective Wondaland is also reinventing a track from the original 1955 animated movie, individuals close to the project said.
That would be The Siamese Cat Song, originally recorded by Peggy Lee for the feline duo Si and Am in the animated version. Those characters and their famous refrain We are Siamese if you please / We are Siamese if you dont please have long been considered a cringe-worthy depiction of Asian culture.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: disney; janellemonae; ladyandthetramp; monae; siamesecat; siamesecats
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To: SMGFan
It is as I remember: a perfect cartoonization of actual Siamese Cat behavior.
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posted on
05/06/2019 12:03:58 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
“I am of Asian extraction and I dont mind it at all.
The PC Idiots strike again...................”
You’re Asian?
My Vietnamese wife would smack me upside of the head if I ever called her Asian. She is Oriental.
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posted on
05/06/2019 12:16:30 PM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
To: BuffaloJack
The media loved John McCain even though he referred to Vietnamese as “Gooks”.
63
posted on
05/06/2019 12:18:19 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BuffaloJack
Asian, Oriental it’s all the same to me.............I don’t worry about labels.
I was called so many things in the Marines, I am immune.............
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posted on
05/06/2019 12:18:46 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: EdnaMode
How about declaring it an early pro-homosexual song as it ‘hid in the open’ that the two Siamese cats were either male or female homosexuals? And thus keeping it because it would be anti-homo to remove it. (98% sarcasm rating)
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posted on
05/06/2019 12:28:14 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: petro45acp
One of our neighbors had one. I was in their yard playing with their son. The younger sister had tied a string to a dead locust and was playing with the cat. All of a sudden it went for her face. It clawed and bit her pretty badly. The boy and I grabbed it and threw it. Mom took her to the doctor. Dad showed me and the brother how an M1 Garand worked!
66
posted on
05/06/2019 12:54:18 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
To: EdnaMode
whaaaaatevah.
disney is in the toilet.
To: fruser1
And who says Italian restaurants have red checkered table cloths and serve spaghetti w/meatballs. Im surprised the accidental kiss scene isnt interrupted with a mob hit. Very offensive scene. Well the veal was the best in the city.
68
posted on
05/06/2019 1:06:25 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: VietVet876
Cats in the kettle at the Peking Moon...
Tienanmen Square ended much too soon ...
69
posted on
05/06/2019 1:10:57 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
My question still stands. Maybe you should stop trying to win the internet with your phony know it all routine and read the effing post you’re trying to use to make yourself feel superior.
To: dfwgator
So I suppose we won’t be going
back to calling Siamese twins
Push-me-Pull-you?
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posted on
05/06/2019 1:21:44 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: EdnaMode
“We are Siamese if you dont please”
Ba dum dum dum
My fav from “Lady and the Tramp”
Listened to it so much as a kid that my mom hid the record player.
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posted on
05/06/2019 1:28:54 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
To: antidemoncrat
Since the Star Wars sagas and the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sagas it seems Hollywood cannot find enough creativity and just keeps remaking existing stories and make sure they are politically correct.
You realize Star Wars hasn't been truly creative since 1977. Since then it's just story continuation. Lord of the Rings / Hobbit is book adaptation. Nothing creative from Hollywood there. They have a couple original stories, but a lot of the last decade or two is just remaking old animated movies into cgi, or book/comic adaptations.
To: dangus
“There’s be some head for me,and some tail for you.”
Sounds like a good campaign slogan for Pete Buttslog.
74
posted on
05/06/2019 1:44:05 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: Phlap
President Polk was a slaveowner and he made Mexico cede half of its territory in the peace treaty ending the Mexican War.
Polk-a-dots must be banned!
To: EdnaMode
Oh Gawd.
Now they’re gonna go after Peggy Lee like they went after Kate Smith.
76
posted on
05/06/2019 1:55:00 PM PDT
by
mumblypeg
(I've seen the future, brother. It is murder. --L. Cohen)
To: Jemian
No one but total idiots ever thinks this is a true depiction of the Thai people.
No one but total idiots thinks this is a depiction of Thai people at all. It’s about devious, mean-spirited cats. And while beautiful cats, Siamese cats have a well-earned reputation that has nothing at all to do with Thailand.
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posted on
05/06/2019 2:20:07 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: EdnaMode
Geez. Some people are never happy.
78
posted on
05/06/2019 2:21:48 PM PDT
by
bgill
(when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
To: cymbeline
It might set a record for the number of utterances of the f-word.More than Glengarry Glen Ross?
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posted on
05/06/2019 2:22:20 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: WashingtonFire
“Boycott all Hollywood films.”
A minor sacrifice. They haven’t made one I wanted to see in decades.
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posted on
05/06/2019 2:23:14 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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