True to Your Heart - Raven (3:44) (Originally from "Mulan") Truth be told, it's an improvement, and the perfect choice to kick-start the CD.Ģ. It's addictively up-beat, but not annoyingly so, and its rocky edge makes it even more exciting than Phil Collin's catchy original. Welcome - Jump5 (3:15) (Originally from "Brother Bear")Ĭontemporary Christian/Pop teenaged cross-over sensation Jump5 returns to Disneymania for the second time with a bang in this fresh, charged update. While its pop renditions fall just short of those found on the first Disneymania, broadened variety and mostly-pleasing song selection nearly make it a match.Ī star () denotes my five favorite tracks from the CD (and I should add that picking five wasn't especially easy).ġ. In short, Disneymania 2 is a worthy successor to the original release. In fact, many of the tracks exhibit high production values and make for a lot of fun. Fortunately, aside from a few exessively twee tracks, that's achieved without constantly pandering to the very young. After all, if pop music is what Disneymania is all about, then what place do big band jazz, blues, and techno have? That's precisely what is found among the disc's fourteen tracks, though, and there's no denying that this album's more eclectic make-up is it to its benefit.īut tweens, fear not! True, variety comes by way of the aforementioned styles, but mainstream remains in the majority here. Unlike many of the follow-ups in Disney's home video branch, this reprisal nearly matches the quality of the original and offers something new and note-worthy as well.ĭie-hard fans of today's chart-topping sound might take issue with the fact that this album branches out from that convention. It stands to reason, then, that the Walt Disney Records might want to follow it with a sequel. That's exactly what the first volume achieved, making the album a success. The concept behind the Disneymania line is that today's biggest pop stars join stars-in-the-making to give a very "pop" edge to some of Disney's most classic pieces of music.
Executive Producers: Jay Landers, Andre ReckeĪrtists: Jump5, Raven, Baha Men, The Beu Sisters, Stevie Brock, Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, LMNT, No Secrets, Jesse McCartney, Ashley Gearing, Daniel Bedingfield, They Might Be Giants, the Disney Channel Circle of Stars (Orlando Brown, Hilary Duff, Taj Mowry, Kyla Pratt, Raven, Christy Carlson Romano, AJ Trauth, Anneliese van der Pol)
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