[disembiggen]

I know Miranda who wrote this is a pretty heavyhanded US liberal, can't help but hear quite a lot of trump in the way Mikkelsen reads "Bye Bye":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWsYJxCK4I

I wonder if this song was intended to be more revealing to a US-pop-culture-brained consumer, but the reference didn't land?

[WorldMaker]

Also, I wonder if the reference doesn't land because Mikkelson doesn't have the musical skill for it? He sounds to me like he's struggling to hit a few of the notes and some of the more complicated timing marks. Which isn't a slight to Mikkelson so much as I think Miranda has a bad habit of writing songs far too complex for the actors that eventually get asked to sing them and we're in the Disney era where they aren't casting separate singers from voice actors or casting singers first over Name actors. (That was one of the tricks to the "Disney Renaissance" era that Disney seems to have forgotten.)

The most obvious/egregious case being in Moana where in the movie The Rock has fun with but kind of struggles against "You're Welcome" and Miranda himself unfairly sings it over the End Credits just so you know how it sounds like as it was intended to be sung without the compromise of passing it off to a fun Name actor. (Less egregiously/obviously, it is also why "Shiny" is kind of unfair as the villain song in the same movie, because Jemaine Clement as we know from Flight of the Conchords has the raw talent to pull it off and does pull it off, even with Miranda trying to throw him curve balls.)

[ben7799]

At least Miranda wrote "Shiny" which is the best of the recent Disney Villain songs..

Some of the reviewers made the great point that Moana 2 falls flat compared to the first one partly because Lin-Manuel Miranda wasn't on the songwriting team. (Your Welcome was excellent too)

I haven't seen this Lion King movie but that's a rare failure for him if "Bye Bye" isn't very good.

[dragontamer]

His new song in Live Action little mermaid was meh. I don't think it's as bad as the internet makes it out to be but 'The Scuttlebutt' definitely feels out of place.

https://youtu.be/N4ovRhX8XIM

Given context, Scuttle is supposed to be an annoying character and Awkwafina does annoying lol. Still though, as one of a couple of new songs it sticks out in a bad way.

[noisy_boy]

Or, there is just a lack of evil in it.