We’ve all heard them, and they get stuck in all our heads. But why? Why is it that Disney can seemingly create earworms? Though there’s no such thing as a Disney formula, today we’re going to get close to one. And best of all, this theory is not one that I’ve hacked together to try to show something new and inventive. Not at all. I stumbled upon everything you’re about to read. About two months ago, I was asked to do a medley of several popular Disney songs. I ran into a problem. One of the keys of a good medley is variety. The more I tried to put songs together, the more I realized that these songs are similar! Though every song seemed fresh and new when I first heard it, I began to find out that they borrowed many elements! And for the past month, I’ve then been exploring these elements to see how present they are in Disney songs. Let me tell you, many of these tropes are everywhere. So today, we’re going to look at just a few of these elements that Disney songs have that make them so…
It's
the year 2021. Why are people still racist? We have occasion, over and over, to keep wondering. The
Washington Post pondered the question during the Trump administration, when the 2017 Charlottesville uprising showed us that America's ugly KKK roots are still alive and well. Of course, the WaPo arrive at no answer, only a bald examination of the puzzle. Racism, and all forms of bigotry, make no sense, and yet they seem to be hard-wired into our brains. In fact, recent years show that we divide ourselves along an increasing spectrum of arbitrary differences. Ageism has reared its head with the perpetual generation war. We just got through talking about how
politically divided the "United" States is. We sit around in our idle time and make up more ways to divide us: rich vs. poor, dog people vs. cat people, whether or not we put pineapple
on pizza. People:
Sort us into two groups, and we will find a reason to hate each
other. Since we will find endless reasons to hate each other,…
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