Hinscher's got a point, though. While I personally liked most of the songs, they're more like vehicles for the narrative rather than "singable" songs you could take out of context of the film and whistle on your way down Main Street USA.
Most of the Renaissance songs were not culturally specific toward the film in general, save maybe two, Hunchback and to a lesser extent Mulan. They made up for this by having the same overall structure, song specific metre, and a recognizable melody. In PATF, even my two favourite songs "Friends on the Other Side" and "If I were a human being" lacked most of those three features, and didn't even have a chorus.
Technically though, all of the "classic" Disney shows had jazz music by default. Jazz was the popular music of the 1940's - 1960's, so if you heard something in them it was usually jazz music because rock hadn't risen to prominence yet. There were some folk-song exceptions and elevator music for some Disney shorts but those still incorporated jazz elements.
PATF's jazz is more like…stereotypical big band swing jazz and some dixie, two smaller subsets of a larger broad genre.
see you get me. i'm not saying princess and frog was bad movie or bad music, or that i don't like many of the classics like snow white, sleeping beauty, jungle book, pinnochio, dumbo, bambi, cinderella, peter pan, alice in wonderland, ect.
and they may all have great soundtracks and be great classics, such as fantasia. and i like watching many of them. But if i'm partying and with friedns, we aren't going to pop on their music and drunkingly sing along to their songs. The movies i listed before like lion king, aladdin, hercules, mulan, ect of the 90's early 2000's are the type of songs that are best to sing to. most my firends have memorized all lines and you guys probably do to if you were young and gorwing up when those movies came out.
Just the chorus stands out on its own pretty well.
 
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