Using Contemporary Pop Music in Animated Features

>>93978269
It depends on the music used honestly and if the movie itsself is relying on the music or not (Look at Trolls for instance).

>>93978367
I like to compare Home to Trolls.
Both had noted singers in their voice cast but Home just used a bunch of their songs as background music as a matter of fact while Trolls was actually about singing.

>>93978269
Dreamworks is a music licensing company, so it makes sense. They have the capabilities to do their own music (prince of egypt, Htyd) but they go for the easier, time saving, profitable approach to music.

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For the longest time as a kid, I thought 1960s style scatman jazz and hippie fashion were actually popular things in turn of the 19th century France, because of the movie The Aristocats using contemporary music of its time.

I mean I don't like shitty modern pop music in my animated features either, because I just don't much care for that sort of music, but I still can't help but wonder how many people watching the movies decades from now will even really notice or care.

>>93978269
Sing did it right. It was a genuine celebration of music and performance, not an afterthought.

>>93978654
t. middle-class housewife

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>>93978269
If we're going to be talking about Dreamworks' soundtracks, I kinda liked Megamind's use of dad rock.

>>93978998

That was excellent use of pop music.