Not since childhood!

PS please append an "I'm just rooting for us" to the closing sentence about PA. What a missed opportunity. (45/??)

In conclusion it's a perfect song and it should maybe be our school's new fight song, or played at graduation, or at least coffee house.

Respectfully,
Dr Biebs (44/44)

[it kind of goes on for a while] (16-43/44)

Which is funny in the pop song, and way funnier that they had the courage to ask the guy to sing it with a straight face in the Ballad reprise! (15/44)

..and just when it's starting to seem like it's too much for the pre-teen audience to handle, they puncture any burgeoning self-importance with the hilarious "Girl, you look delicious - no, I mean gorgeous." (14/44)

So obviously the Someday songs touch on both of these strengths - the need to have a fairer world where they can be "side by side," but also a seriousness of what it would take to fight for such a world... (13/44)

So. (12/44)

The cheerleaders (etc) who resist zombie integration are clearly wrong, but they're more deserving of pity than of anger (probably about a 80%/20% split?), whereas the parents who try to shut down the bridge between Auradon and the Isle of the Lost are pretty irredeemably jerks. (11/44)

Whereas Zombies is treating cultural diversity and school integration as both a moral necessity and a practical difficulty. (10/44)

After a couple of rounds of Descendants songs, I feel hit over the head with the message that "good and evil are not as simple as they might seem, and especially as they might seem in previous cultural properties managed by the Disney corporation." Like. We get it. (9/44)

But when my kid and I started talking about the themes of the two series, it became clear that Zombies is better - not only more nuanced, but also more topical. (8/44)

Heck, even minor characters in Descendants (your dog, your Doug, Cinderella's-mom-but-travelling-back-through-time, etc) are probably more nuanced than Zed, and the less said about Bonzo, the better. (7/44)

I still basically feel this way about the characterization: Mal, Evie, Uma, Red are each drawn with more depth and sophistication than Zed and A...ddie? [the fact that I'm not confident in her name is partially on me, but I think it reflects a superficiality in how she's written too]. (6/44)

The Zombies franchise entered my home shortly after a long (looooooong) Descendants kick. And at first, both my kid and I regarded it as lesser Descendants, knockoff drivel, good for a change of pace on the playlist but obviously not as charming. (5/44)

forgive me in advance if I step on beloved childhood memories by finding parts of the movie series and songs deeply, ridiculously, gloriously stupid. (4/44)