What the fuck, who likes this song, it's the dumbest shit ever!

>What can I say, except you're welcome
Maui spotted
Stay mad eeni mini demigod

are you partially deaf
it sounds awesome
youtube.com/watch?v=93lrosBEW-Q

>Beginners? What? Like, are other sea creatures older and more experienced than fish? What the fuck, it doesn't make sense.
oof

Who made the whole sea taste like salt
When he splashed into, falling out of a boat?
THIS DOLT

People like it mostly because it's a Bowie homage, regardless how poorly that fits in a movie about Polynesian mythology.

Thanks for the insight, Autism user

>To beat a decapod (look it up)
This line honestly is what pisses me off most about this song because it's so damn condescending. Older Disney songs at least respected your intelligence to understand the sometimes complex vernacular they'd use and what's even better is it would get kids to learn new words. But that line just shits all over the respectable wit the song writers had when writing the classic songs of the past for Disney films.

Because Jemaine Clement is based

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how the hell is that "condescending"
words have meaning, user
goddamn and thanks for making me read that part of the OP post
>But you can't expect a demigod
>To beat a decapod
>Um... I totally can? What the actual fuck? Like, he doesn't say "a giant mythical monster decapod", just decapod.
fucking brainlets

>regardless how poorly that fits in a movie about Polynesian mythology

A lot of the best Disney songs don’t involve the mythology they’re dealing with.

>this is the shit Yea Forums gets pissed off at

Jesus Christ people, it’s a movie

>fucking brainlets
Oh, then care to explain to us brailets what this means? It means exactly what it says, "you can't expect a demigod to beat a decapod". That's a retarded fucking line.

>how the hell is that "condescending"
Because it implies the audience are brain dead retards that need to look up what the scientific class is for crabs.

When did Aladdin ever look towards the camera and say "next time gonna use a nom de plume... look it up redneck"

I don't think decapod is common knowledge for small children

Oh, that was just me washing my balls.

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>singing crab triggers Yea Forumsmrade

that's the point
you'd think a shrimp wouldn't stand a chance against a demigod but not to the arrogant Tamatoa, that's literally the point of the line
>But you can't expect a demigod
>To beat a decapod
>Um... I totally can? What the actual fuck? Like, he doesn't say "a giant mythical monster decapod", just decapod. I can see a kid looking up what decapod means, thinking "wow, these must be some really cool things if they're expected to beat demigods!", and finding out it's just fucking lobsters and shrimps. Yes I will bet on a demi-fucking-god against a shrimp 99 times out of 100.
biggest brainlet part of your entire post

Sure but here it's pretty much the only one that doesn't fit, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

You think the lyrics are bad? The whole song has no energy to it and the voice actor is barely singing. And beyond that, the scene is taking a dump on itself in the most obnoxious way possible. I can't believe people think this movie is anything more than mediocre.

>MOW-WAY MAN
um his name is Maui, not MOW-WAY you retarded Brit

stop samefagging your own thread, it's embarrassing

It's really a terrible song. The visuals and concept are good though.

Nobody's samefagging, retard.

Yeah but he's so FUCKIGN shiny

>Yes I will bet on a demi-fucking-god against a shrimp 99 times out of 100.
>im-fucking-plying

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Fish are not the oldest animals to have developed in water. Mollusks like snails and squid are about 10 million years older than fish. However, crustaceans are over 100 million years younger than fish, so yeah.

I'm with you. Lyrically it's garbage, but visually and musically it's a totally okay sequence.

do you think moana fucks the pig

OP confirmed a shineless beginner.
Songs lyrics don't have to be super deep or clever when they're sung for fun by a giant silly crab who loves bragging. In fact if a song itself is catchy it almost doesn't matter what the words to it are, and Shiny is catchy. If people like it and you don't, that's entirely fine and a plain matter of taste, nothing worth bitching about .

Why didn't you just say jellyfish you fucking retard. Imagine not stating the obvious to talk about stupid fucking crabs

This. Also the evolution of fish started over 500 million years ago during the Cambrian period.

Stop being stupid

autism

You're dumb dumb dumb OP and I bet you don't have any irl friends.

Not OP but there's a pretty big gap between deep and rhyming words with themselves.

Does this look like the face of mercy?

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Based Murray poster

Personally I'm more annoyed by the fact they had like, 4 songs that were
>LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY CULTURE
It honestly detracts from the story when you do that.

But Tamatoa is likely considerably older than the individual fish swimming around

>Wow, great rhyme there, glitters-glitters. Rhymes perfectly!
Don't forget that other song that rhymes Island with Island.

You are actually right, it's a dumb song in a boring movie

You clealry have autism, but I dig it

>In fact if a song itself is catchy it almost doesn't matter what the words to it are
Which is why I also pointed out that it's not catchy, and I agree with the user who said that it has no energy to it.

4? I only remember 2, but maybe I just forgot the others.

Okay I'll give this guy a chance, but that's an exception.

Oh fuck, right, that really bugged me too.

Who is he even talking to ? The audience ? Why is he suddenly sentient ? And why is he referencing the internet ? It didn't exist
And I knew what a decapod was as a kid

There was really one song like that, We Know The Way, the rest are about the characters

That's called breaking the fourth wall, Maui does it one time too.

you are the brainlet
he's referring to the fact that they urged the audience to "look it up" as if the audience was too dumb to do it on their own

autism speaks

Two can play this game of autism.
>hellfire, dark fire
WHAT THE FUCK??? These lyrics are retarded! How can fire be dark? Everybody knows that fire is the state of burning that produces flames that send out heat and light! So how can LIGHT be DARK??? This song is dumbass!

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>OP is surprised that an old arrogant crab sings a song with douchey lyrics
Ok OP

Thanks for providing an example of a Disney song that's actually quite good, and showing that applying similar criticism to it is absurd.

What? It's not about the lyrics being douchey, it's about them being stupid, using shitty rhymes, and misusing idioms. Nobody ITT brought up the diamond in the rough part, but it's important. Kids will form a wrong understanding of the phrase.

It's why I also mentioned clever. It's a singing crab kids aren't gonna care and they're the main audience. It's not really a big damper on quality.

It sound good.

>"but it's just for kids" defense
I honestly thought Yea Forums was better than this.

Based.

some men of culture here

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Why is why I pointed out it's a matter of taste and nothing worth complaint. You're allowed to dislike the song, and others are allowed to like it.

user, it is just for kids. Things for kids are allowed to be shallow and dumb and silly etc. They don't have to be but it's not a dip in quality just because the dancing glow crab wasn't a lyrical genius.

>Just because the quality dipped doesn't make it a dip in quality

I think I had a brain hemorrhage trying to imagine how fucking stone cold stupid a person would have to be to type this shit out.

People said "look it up" before the internet. They were referring to books, which admittedly also weren't a thing in Polynesia.

Fucking hell just don't rhyme at all if you can't put more effort into it than modern rappers for a song you got paid to write. Rhyming words with different words is basic, it's not anything near clever, it's minimal effort.

>if I twist words I'm the smart one
Wow it really works! Maybe try making a solid point though.

Rhyming words is not lyrical genius. Kids do it, and as a kid I sure as fuck was bothered by lazy rhyming because I liked poetry and rap and I wasn't a retard.

>Don't you know, fish are dumb, dumb, dumb
>They chase anything that glitters
Here it sounds like he's calling the fish dumb because they mindlessly swim toward shiny things.
>beginners
Then it turns out he's not criticizing their obviously stupid actions. He's just calling them stupid because they're worse at it than he is.

I won't deny repeating a word for a rhyme is lazy, but it's certainly not uncommon and it's ultimately harmless unless it's happening a shitload of times.

Did you often let it ruin songs for you and would you consider such a thing a common and reasonable thing to mind rather than nitpicking or a pet peeve?

It wasn't common until recently, zoomer-kun.

I consider it a reasonable critic about quality of lyrics that rhyme. Don't put it on me for liking good lyrics enough to let shitty lyrics ruin mediocre songs for me.
I'm not OP, my main peeve with this song is that it feels terribly misplaced in the setting compared to the other songs. But you making it sound like it's a problem with the audience rather than the song is honestly baffling to me.
Don't excuse laziness so callously.

Yeah, I didn't have a fucking clue what nabob and coterie meant when I first saw Aladdin but they were fun to say and made for some really great lyrics. But I don't think anyone is disputing Lin Manuel Miranda is no Howard Ashman, plenty of people have critiqued him for weak lyrics.

I'm curious, what are some good critiques of his work? I haven't paid close attention to him so all that I know about him is that everyone and their mother thinks he's the modern-day Shakespeare.

It's been common for a while. It's not everywhere but it's certainly not unheard of. It's a reasonable criticism sure but there's little need to criticize it in the first place since it's hardly meant to be a record-breaking song. It's just a fun little tune that some people enjoyed, most people as far as I'd been aware. I'm not blaming the audience because I don't assume the audience has a problem with this, just some folk on Yea Forums weirdly bothered more than needed. I'm not excusing laziness so much as saying this isn't really an matter that requires a load of effort. The idea was to make a song for a crab about being shiny, and it worked out.

This. Part of the reason I like the song is because it's sung by the voice actor of pic related.

Also visual effects.

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I mean the song is more a character portrait of the crab and gives some insight into his vanity and attitude towards the other characters. I can see the criticisms but there are plenty of “simple” songs and songs that are sonically different from other songs in a movie that still work and can still be enjoyed. And some people in the audience are nitpicking douchebags, you can’t please everyone

I've always just chalked the awkward rhymes down to the crab being stupid. He's obviously dumb as fuck, but thinks he's intelligent.

I'd take any of those bullshit excuses if we were talking about a small production or a debuting artist. We aren't, there's no reason for this laziness other than laziness.

You're a fucking retard.

I flat out don't believe that the same people who made You're Welcome made Shiny. They got the B team of interns to do it.

Wanting a song to not be embarrassing in an otherwise good movie isn't a nitpick, loser. Don't you have better things to do than fellate rich and famous people's turds on the internet?

Who’s the loser being a little bitch about a Disney song?
> Don't you have better things to do than fellate rich and famous people's turds on the internet?
I do, but now I’m gonna waste my time calling you a stupid cunt

>What the fuck, who likes this song, it's the dumbest shit ever!
>
>>Don't you know, fish are dumb, dumb, dumb
>>They chase anything that glitters
>>beginners
>Beginners? What? Like, are other sea creatures older and more experienced than fish? What the fuck, it doesn't make sense.
>
>>Oh, and here they come, come, come
>>To the brightest thing that glitters
>Wow, great rhyme there, glitters-glitters. Rhymes perfectly!
>
>>I just love free food
>>And you look like seafood
>No she doesn't lol. I mean, she might look like food to a monster, but not like seafood. Like, before the song he literally points out that she looks strange, and realizes she's a human. Oh, and great rhyme again, how do they keep finding these perfect rhymes?
>
>>Watch me dazzle like a diamond in the rough
>Do the writers not know what "diamond in the rough" means? They could consult the writers for Aladdin, they seem to know.
>
>>But you can't expect a demigod
>>To beat a decapod
>Um... I totally can? What the actual fuck? Like, he doesn't say "a giant mythical monster decapod", just decapod. I can see a kid looking up what decapod means, thinking "wow, these must be some really cool things if they're expected to beat demigods!", and finding out it's just fucking lobsters and shrimps. Yes I will bet on a demi-fucking-god against a shrimp 99 times out of 100.
>
>It's not even catchy, or cool, it's rather bland actually, compared to other songs in the movie. I liked "You're Welcome" and those two that Moana sings, which sound similar to each other so I don't remember which is which, and that one that's about sailing, We Know the Way or something. Shiny on the other hand is meh, and has possibly the dumbest lyrics in a Disney song, at leat as far as I can remember.

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Oh fuck off, disney songs are usually incredible. Reductionist shithead.

>Yes I will bet on a demi-fucking-god against a shrimp 99 times out of 100
Ehhhh... Lobster are psychic, sooooo...

Just let this thread die you sad little taint skin

man fuck you i liked it, dude gave off Ursula vibes

The entire soundtrack was written by Lin Manuel Miranda, except Shiny which was by Jermaine Clement who also sang it and voiced the crab. Yeah there's a reason it stands out as fucking terrible.

Thanks for the bump

He eats the fish. He is shiny, he collects the shiny shit to make him more attractive to fish.

IIRC Jemaine Clement said that he didn't write the song when he was asked about it.

He's in the credits, just because he's rightfully embarrassed of that trash doesn't mean he didn't do it.

Jemaine didn't write the song. Lin Manuel Miranda did.

Source: people.com/movies/how-lin-manuel-miranda-pays-tribute-to-david-bowie-with-moana-song-shiny/

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