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May 11, 2005

We're Sorry, but It's a Small World After All

Speaking of how small the world has gotten with fast flights, up-to-the-second news feeds and various forms of media available... I found this little tidbit on CNN rather amusing. While I can applaud the fact that monster media company Disney acknowledges some of the cultures of the world, the continually repeated song are more than a little bit trite and it kind of sickens me to think of how many people's only exposure to foreign cultures is that of 300 Audio-Animatronic(r) dolls fashioned for the New York World's Fair in 1964. Thank God the ride is only 5 minutes long - although the lines without fastpasses force queues and ride operators to listen to the song for considerably longer. It has interesting health repercussions - if any song could cause mental distress - it's this one.

It reminds me of the time when, at the tender age of 12, a good friend and I drove her older brother crazy singing The Little Drummer Boy and Mary Poppins' A Spoonful of Sugar over and over again...

Richard and Robert Sherman are the authors of the most-played song on Earth, and for that they would like to apologize to some of you.

The song is "It's a Small World (After All)," the tune that plays on a continual, multilingual loop every few minutes at Disney theme parks across the world -- a fact that Disney employees are only too well aware.

"They must go out of their minds," says Richard Sherman.

"We've driven teenagers crazy in every language," says Robert Sherman.

More at: CNN.com - They wrote the songs that made you sing

Posted by sorsha at May 11, 2005 3:32 PM