Emperor’s New Groove

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Author: Various Artists

Format: Compilation

Release Date: 28-11-2000

Details: Amazon.caDisney’s score-heavy soundtrack to the animated « Emperor’s New Groove » blends a scoop of splashy and sentimental contemporary tunes with a shovelful of evocative, masterfully crafted compositions. Big-name artists such as Shawn Colvin, Eartha Kitt, and Tom Jones each signed on to sing one of five Sting-penned songs, and Sting himself lends vocals to two tracks (one a duet with Colvin), so the stars are flying high. But fans of these folks may feel they’re forever flipping through the wordless orchestral numbers in search of the record’s radio-friendly fare. But buyers with more eclectic listening habits are in for a fully engaging if sometimes jumpy sonic ride: Composer John Debney sends pulses racing then mellows them out on tracks teeming with tension (« Beware the Groove »), trepidation (« The Jungle Rescue »), or tenderness (« A New Hope »), and Sting as songwriter doses up splashes of spice by way of the salsified « Perfect World, » for which Jones’s considerable vocal energies couldn’t be better suited, and the prickly « Snuff Out the Lights, » which is put across with practiced insouciance by a pucker-faced, still-out-of-this-world-after-all-these-years Kitt, who also plays the movie’s devious diva Yzma. « My Funny Friend and Me, » Emperor’s end-title song and the record’s first single, presents a more familiar Sting, and not only because he’s its singer. Soundwise, it hardly strays from the artist’s huge-selling adult-skewed ballads–his bread and butter in recent years–and as such, it, along with the tender duet « One Day She’ll Love Me, » grips the potential to send this record racing up the charts. –Tammy La GorceProduct DescriptionJohn Debney

UPC: 050086068975

EAN: 0063628737208

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood