{"id":491322,"date":"2019-10-16T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=899882"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:58:17","slug":"elton-john-ethers-the-lion-king-remake-beyhive-not-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/elton-john-ethers-the-lion-king-remake-beyhive-not-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Ethers \u2018The Lion King\u2019 Remake (Beyhive Not Happy)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elton John<\/a> did not mince words. In fact, he decided to throw down the hammer regarding the 2019 remake of The Lion King<\/a><\/em><\/a> and its subsequent soundtrack, which featured modern pop stars like (Beyonc\u00e9, Donald Glover) and actors with varying degrees of vocal talent (Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner) seeking to recapture the magic of the 1994 original.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new version of The Lion King<\/em> was a huge disappointment to me, because I believe they messed the music up,\u201d Elton told British GQ<\/em><\/a>. \u201cMusic was so much a part of the original and the music in the current film didn\u2019t have the same impact. The magic and joy were lost. The soundtrack hasn\u2019t had nearly the same impact in the charts that it had 25 years ago, when it was the bestselling album of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Lion King<\/em> soundtrack and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s The Lion King: The Gift<\/em><\/a>, both struggled commercially in comparison to the movie and previous music that inspired both projects. During the first week of release Bey\u2019s album debuted at Number Three on The Rolling Stone<\/em> Top 200 Albums Chart<\/a>, while the Lion King<\/em> album lodged at 19. By the next week<\/a>, The Gift<\/em> fell to 21, while the soundtrack decreased to 42.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe new soundtrack fell out of the charts so quickly, despite the massive box-office success,\u201d Elton continued. \u201cI wish I\u2019d been invited to the party more, but the creative vision for the film and its music was different this time around and I wasn\u2019t really welcomed or treated with the same level of respect. That makes me extremely sad. I\u2019m so happy that the right spirit for the music lives on with the Lion King stage musical.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an August interview with Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Edie Lehmann Boddicker, a studio singer from the 1994 Lion King and a close collaborator with Hans Zimmer, described what inspired the composer to embark on the challenge of redoing the original. \u201cI think Coachella is what prompted Hans to go \u2018I really need to do the remake of The Lion King<\/em> with Jon Favreau,’\u201d Edie said. \u201cBecause at Coachella, the Millenials were openly weeping when he started The Lion King<\/em>\u2026 I don\u2019t think they realized how iconic, how much a part of our culture that song and that movie has become.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of press time, it was not entirely clear how much of the Beyhive\u2019s wrath John will face. Rolling Stone<\/em> will update this article when a decision is made by the Hive.<\/p>\n

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Elton John did not mince words. In fact, he decided to throw down the hammer regarding the 2019 remake of The Lion King and its subsequent soundtrack, which featured modern pop stars like (Beyonc\u00e9, Donald Glover) and actors with varying degrees of vocal talent (Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner) seeking to recapture the magic of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 01:37:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}