I’d like to see Disney try this with GWAR.
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I agree - it’s a sell-out and a complete travesty - like if John Lydon suddenly decided to endorse The Sex Pistols Greatest Hits - on Hammond Organ, or something.
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What do you have against the Hammond? It would have been right up his alley in PIL. And anyway, the Sex Pistols were essentially a manufactured band along the lines of Dev2.0/Devo 2.0.
This kind of thing normally doesn’t bother me if they are going for an ironic subversion, or even sometimes if they are cashing in. I really dislike changing the lyrics to be more kid-friendly, especially when the original songs were about masturbation and such. Like when Fortunate Son was turned into a patriotic(!) anthem by Wrangler jeans. Imagine if that other 80’s musician-cum-composer Danny Elfman decided to start a band of kids covering Little Girls and Nasty Habits.