‘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

[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. Monae’s 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 don’t please” — have long been considered a cringe-worthy depiction of Asian culture.

[NorthMountain]

It is as I remember: a perfect cartoonization of actual Siamese Cat behavior.

[BuffaloJack]

“I am of Asian extraction and I don’t 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.

[dfwgator]

The media loved John McCain even though he referred to Vietnamese as “Gooks”.

[Red Badger]

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.............

[GreyFriar]

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)

[CrazyIvan]

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!

[SoFloFreeper]

whaaaaatevah.

disney is in the toilet.

[dfwgator]

And who says Italian restaurants have red checkered table cloths and serve spaghetti w/meatballs. I’m surprised the accidental kiss scene isnt interrupted with a mob hit. Very offensive scene.

Well the veal was the best in the city.

[sparklite2]

Cat’s in the kettle at the Peking Moon...

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Tienanmen Square ended much too soon ...

[perfect_rovian_storm]

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.

[sparklite2]

So I suppose we won’t be going
back to calling Siamese twins
Push-me-Pull-you?

[combat_boots]

“We are Siamese if you don’t 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.

[Svartalfiar]

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.

[Farmer Dean]

“There’s be some head for me,and some tail for you.”

Sounds like a good campaign slogan for Pete Buttslog.

[Verginius Rufus]

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!

[mumblypeg]

Oh Gawd.

Now they’re gonna go after Peggy Lee like they went after Kate Smith.

[lepton]

No one but total idiots ever thinks this is a true depiction of the Thai people.

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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.

[bgill]

Geez. Some people are never happy.

[dfwgator]

It might set a record for the number of utterances of the f-word.

More than Glengarry Glen Ross?

[dsc]

“Boycott all Hollywood films.”

A minor sacrifice. They haven’t made one I wanted to see in decades.