This Shouldn't Exist

Disney just invented pop punk.
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[@requiem4ameme2]

Guys, it was me. I promised Fantano that I’d help him defend pop-punk, but I became disillusioned with my mission and betrayed him. It was like the Horus Heresy from 40k, except he was the bald one. Also, I didn’t really become disillusioned, I was kinda planning to betray him from the start tbh

[@salveteinfernum]

30k 👀

[@SoaArchives]

Thank you for the honesty, reqiuem4ameme2

[@Picccles_hates-dbl]

Bros a villian💀

[@BraxtonKovary]

The start of a villian arc

[@Mercenary0712]

"It's over, Horus Heresy, you truly have become Warhammer 40,000."

[@YourFriendToodles]

Pop punk Disney musicians 🤝 Targeting children

[@leaffinite2001]

Ah now i see the vision

[@wgo523]

Oh no

[@ricardoediza2690]

Drake: Room for one more? 👉🏼👈🏼

[@aegisfate117]

​@@ricardoediza2690 not only did Drake's numbers not go down more than even 10% of his listeners on Spotify after the Kendrick beef. At this point, nearly all of Kendrick's gain has been lost in almost all of Drake's loss has been regained. There is nearly no cultural shift or change in the listening numbers or Spotify users based on the Kendrick and Drake beef. So basically it was all for nothing just to get them a little bit more money

[@samguine_art]

Nail meet hammer🤝

[@Monroah]

"Elton John is spinning in his grave AND HE'S STILL ALIVE" got me way too good

[@quinncillian]

emotional rollercoaster hearing that 🎢 😅

[@unfortunatelyiamsane]

saaaame 😭

[@GasparGa]

Elton John is spinning in his bed - I was gonna say grave but the f*cker ain't dead.

[@GoldenPickaxe]

He would probably laugh himself into a grave don’t let him see this

[@film79]

his candle blew long before his legend ever did

[@diegomo1413]

Is this why Black Midi broke up?

[@MinecraftMix-rz9jn]

LMAOOOOO 😭

[@mav2544]

they would've killed it on Heaven's Light / Hellfire

[@hachikos]

beat me to it

[@heyheygoaway]

Nostalgia is getting so deep that Disney brough back "Pop Goes Genre" compilations

[@estebanrodriguez1456]

Esto si me hizo pensar

[@Commentarianist]

Now we need the Death Metal Disney Album. Beauty and the Beast by Sanguisugabogg

[@latiasite]

This Is The Thanks I Get?! by Wormrot

[@grogu1986]

At the Gates - Son of Man Asphyx - Do You Want to Build a Snowman Cryptopsy - You’re Welcome Obituary - I’ll Make a Man Out of You

[@musicsucks6969]

“Married life” from the movie UP Covered by Dying Fetus

[@spergalicious27]

I feel like a metal cover of make a man out of you would slap so hard ​@@grogu1986

[@UponThisAltar]

​@@latiasite That would actually be a blast.

[@Tahmorrow]

Hayley Williams won a grammy and her cheating ex is doing disney covers. What a wonderful world.

[@capybearuh]

KARMAS GONNA COME FOR ALL OF USSSS AND I HOPE I HOPE I JUST HOPPEEE SHEEE COMESSS COMES FOR YOU FIRST OH

[@sundaydriver15]

Who is her ex?

[@thejoashgrahamshow]

​@@sundaydriver15Chad Gilbert, he plays guitar in New Found Glory

[@GlennJimenez]

I mean he’s not flipping burgers at McDonald’s Disney is a huge corporation

[@PatrickGilchrist]

He also has horrible cancer right now

[@DKdrop]

Bowling for Soup's "Friend Like Me" being one of the best doesn't surprise me. They can get pretty weird and fun with it. I don't know much of their music, but I was a 2010s kid, so the Phineas and Ferb theme song lives rent free in my head.

[@Fash0da]

Bowling for Soup is excellent and you should give their discography a spin if you haven’t heard much of their stuff!

[@DKdrop]

@@Fash0da Yeah, I'll definitely get around to it. I was super into pop-punk for a while, and I still kind of am, so it's kind of weird that I missed the boat on them.

[@sarahshaw-sehgal1146]

Their song was actually so good!!!

[@Ganbarizer]

I had no idea that their singer Jaret Reddick did some music for several cartoons and is actually the most recent voice actor for Chuck E. Cheese.

[@Gothstana]

​@Ganbarizer oh my god, no wonder the Chuck E. Cha Cha slaps so hard

[@shachna]

Bowling for Soup did a bunch of music for Phineas and Ferb. They know how to go zany

[@CB-zr4et]

Can’t wait for disneys hyperpop album in 2035

[@BongOfDestiny]

This isn't that wild of a combination when you consider that Disney adults and Pop-Punk fans are both in a state of chronic arrested development

[@snoopy4749]

Says Bong

[@jordanromesburg6819]

​@@snoopy4749says Snoopy

[@theorigination]

Children of Nova pfp! 🙌

[@KendegohLucavi]

Magnolia Park's cover of Eye to Eye actually goes insanely hard

[@ethanpayero]

@@KendegohLucavi I agree and I been obsessed with that track ever since I first heard it

[@Ganbarizer]

Bowling For Soup is perfect for Friend Like Me. They've never taken themselves super seriously and just seem to like making fun pop punk music and I respect that. Also, shout out to their singer Jaret. I recently saw an article about them and noticed that he put on some weight since the last time I saw him. Apparently, he has depression and has started being open about it and how he's trying to get healthy again. Glad he's still performing and the band is still playing shows. Takes some real stones to be back in the public eye and knowing that there will be some jerks who make mean comments about it. And it's just punk asf to not give a fuck about that!

[@fernandoibarra8492]

BFS and jaret reddick deserves all my respect, good musicians

[@craigjanssen371]

Formal request for Fantano to review the 1994 classic Disney hip-hop album “Mickey Unrapped”

[@KathyClysm]

I distrinctly remember Mickey wearing baggie pants over his normal pants... It was a cursed time

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

I second that motion

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

It's funny when you know that thing existed and Melon's over here pretending there's no precedent for this to happen.

[@Edud62Alugetha]

"I don't know how to do a Donald Duck I'm sorry" after doing a pretty damn good Donald Duck

[@athousandsuns3222]

It was a sound

[@IgorF-]

​@@athousandsuns3222a whole new sound.

[@Advent3546]

The sentence "Simple Plan covering Can You Feel the Love Tonight" hurts almost as bad as "G-Eazy's cover of David Bowie's Lazarus"

[@nestwr]

oh dear god why did G eazy do that to us

[@grogu1986]

Simple Plan are good tho. G-Eazy is not.

[@euchrideucr0w]

​@@grogu1986"simple plan are good though" is a sentence that would be normal in 2006 because the person saying it would be twelve years old. Saying it in 2024 is wild because twelve year olds wouldn't know who simple plan is which means you're probably around 36 years old and still listening to simple plan which is sad. No one makes parodies of emo and pop punk because simple plan albums exist and there would be no point because you can't make a joke that's funnier than their music

[@grogu1986]

@@euchrideucr0w I’m 25 mate relax, your assumptions are hilarious 😂 I always liked simple plan, they’re catchy as hell and great live. And this is coming from a diehard metalhead.

[@TheUltimateShade667]

@@euchrideucr0w "Someone likes a band I don't? How Outrageous!"

[@xhildhood]

An album meant for busy parents to play for their toddler meanwhile I’m watching a 18 min analysis about it

[@TimothyFitch]

Nah this is very clearly made for millennial age Disney adults to “enjoy” themselves.

[@xhildhood]

@@TimothyFitch millennial age Disney adults… can’t say there are any of those in my friend group

[@Amber-Zx]

*......,ONLY real Fantano fans can LIKE this ❤💛💜*

[@itsybitsycherry]

This reminds me that Disney had a series of eurobeat remix albums in the early 2000s. With Dave Rodgers’ involvement, too!

[@tweer64]

There was also a disco album in the late 70s.

[@jade_harley413]

i own one of their cds just for the hilarious eiffel 65 blue cover

[@DanielThureskog]

In Sweden we had this: The Flintstones had 10 compilations, where of Volume 1-7 was part of the main series Yabba-Dabba-Dance. The other titles: Yabba-Dabba-Dance Best of 1995, Mix Volume 1-2, Fred is Back and Yabba-Dabba-Hits. The Smurf/Smurfarna had 10 Smurfhits, which was followed by 3 Smurfparty. Actual songs were re-written and sung with a Smurf-like voice.

[@lord_vortekan]

I find it funny that Remember Me being covered has a lot of parallels to the plot of the movie

[@jamessheafer3027]

Not even the first time Disney has done this, remember the Nightmare Before Xmas cover album?

[@thehousecat93]

That one made sense though, as Nightmare Before Christmas is one of the top 5 Hot Topic-core things of all time. (Great movie regardless)

[@joshuacriddle-eg4fgkok]

Pop punk is getting the kingdom hearts treatment

[@Yan_8]

This is sending me to the tears factory to have more so I can cry

[@aledandrian]

The biggest L in this compilation is the lack of a ska version of Under the Sea

[@MysterBlu]

Suburban Legends - Under the Sea...that's really all you need. I still jam to their cover of A Dream is a Wish too, really fun cover.

[@highrum2604]

Im sorry but i cant get over anthony pronouncing "encanto" as "enCAN'To"

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

... Isn't that how you're meant to say it? Maybe it's my aussie accent making it sound funky

[@nomukun1138]

@@SuperNuclearUnicorn The English vowel in CAN'T is the farthest you can get from a Spanish vowel, at least the American CAN'T Fantano said around 9:16. Compare the way Fantano says his own name with the way an Italian speaker would say it. Fæntæno Fɑntɑno

[@SM-yz4hi]

@SuperNuclearUnicorn the other answer made no sense to me so here’s a simpler version: the a makes an “ah” sound, like when the dentist tells you to open wide. encAHnto. It’s a Spanish word

[@suites.74]

he's an east coast eyetaliano

[@reggiecell3615]

IN KANTO

[@deee71194]

Feels extremely 2005

[@Cdr2002]

The good ones are Phineas and Ferb episode music

[@kosimitz]

I2I by Magnolia Park is a GOOD SONG!!! I will die on that hill!! I respect Fantano for not hating on it

[@dankmemerzz9162]

It actually slaps

[@azalago]

Hearing Anthony compare Bowling for Soup to The Dead Kennedys was not on my BINGO card.

[@superbug3461]

That wah gwaan Delilah jumpscare got me gasping

[@RustleXer]

To be fair Magnolia Park’s cover of I2I slaps hard.

[@Urmumlel7025]

Disney did this a whole back with the Muppets Movie Classic, and that went hard. Just be glad it isn't Warner Bros.

[@Koopakid917543]

We didn't defend popular punk hard enough

[@havoren]

It’s the “How do you do fellow kids?” album from Disney!!!! :D

[@thehousecat93]

Nah, this is aimed squarely at millennial Disney Adults, ex-theater kids who listened to Punk Goes Pop on repeat in the 2000s.

[@jvsebastian2884]

Jeff Rosenstock is on the floor with tears in his eyes right now We fail him

[@lowercasebard9599]

Meet Me @ the Altar really is such a good band, so I'm glad to hear they did well here! Something I think the singer Edith does differently than some of the others here is that it sounds like she sings with the back of her mouth and throat open rather than closed. I'm not a vocal coach, just a recovering choir kid, so Idk if that makes sense. Try saying the short a sound vs the short o sound and you'll probably feel the difference in your throat. Point is, even though the tone's recognizeable for pop punk, singing in this way gives her voice more stability and strength to handle those upper/belty notes and makes it sound less whiny and thin like a lot of the other entries. Still...why does this compilation exist 😭

[@latiasite]

why does it remind me of that one Insane Clown Posse album that was released under Hollywood records 😭

[@faeriegraver]

THAT'S A THING?!

[@TheTheoTherone]

Punk's not dead. It's just in severe debt and really fucking needs some money for groceries right now 😒

[@sunkiimustdie]

Very on brand

[@raysami7]

SUMMARY: GOOD: --Bowling For Soup "Friend Like Me" --Meet Me The Altar "You've Got a Friend in Me" --Magnolia Park "I2I" MID: --Boys Like Girls "You'll be in My Heart" BAD: Everything else (New Found Glory, Mayday Parade, Yellow Card, Simple Plan, We the Kings, Plain White T's, Tokio Hotel, LØLØ, )

[@not_cicero]

Meet Me @ the Altar is definitely one of my favorite newer acts. Saw them open for Knuckle Puck, slipped and busted my knee in the pit because people love throwing their drinks around down at Observatory SD. Totally worth it though. Didn't doubt they'd slay it

[@ethanpayero]

@@not_cicero I like meet me @ the altar I heard one song from them called say it to me face but now I think I wanna check out their debut album

[@MelMelodyWerner]

​@@ethanpayero it's fun!

[@Tatman2TheResQ]

Simon and Milo - Get A Clue If you know, I love you.

[@NVTdrums]

that's what im sayin!

[@kurtofan]

I hear Tokio Hotel is still very popular in Germany

[@salmiakki5638]

Disney should have just called Billy Cobb to do the whole thing

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Pop Punk sounds to me like it's cold fire, dry wetness, invisible clothes... I cant make sense of it

[@grogu1986]

Check out Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?

[@Buckwheat_Spaghetti]

Oxymoronic that’s what it is

[@valeriae6053]

Bowling for Soup always goes hard and it never makes sense

[@ethanpayero]

Here's Anthony's 3 favorite tracks from Disney a whole new sound 5:44 magnolia park I 2 I 10:47 meet me @ the alter you got a friend in me 15:50 bowling for soup friend like me

[@jmckenzie962]

All my Todd in the Shadows fans know this isn't the first time the mouse has got its grubby hands on a genre - there's the "Mickey UnRAPped" album from the early 90's, and during the disco era they made a disco one too (presumably to capitalize off of the novelty song "Disco Duck")

[@sathrielsatanson666]

Stop, the Disney disco album reminds me of Disco Duck and no one should suffer through that 😂

[@Jojo-u6c]

Todd!!

[@theduckyduck27]

ok but the disney disco album actually slaps

[@mowkikowski]

Mickey Unrapped was the first CD I ever owned lol

[@Alrightthatsit]

I can’t believe Abercrombie Champtango said women shouldn’t be allowed to drive ☹️

[@AustinEEEE]

Fantano the type of guy who wears a suit and tries to shut down the neighborhood rec center

[@GreenGretel]

One corporate pop-punk rendition of a Disney classic I've always enjoyed is Fall Out Boy's tacky but fun "I Wan'na Be Like You" from that _We Love Disney_ compilation that came out in 2015 (which also included artists like Jhene Aiko, Ariana Grande, Jessie Ware, and Kacey Musgraves).

[@giovanni8902]

Your imitation of brazilian Donald Duck is just perfect

[@theplatypusparty]

This released like 2 weeks ago. it ain't a whole new sound anymore, Fantano

[@ItsAK9]

99% of this is garbage that people just got paid to barely try on, but the eye to eye cover genuinely feels like they tried and they have some sense of talent

[@commaJim]

Poop

[@kylitoshow]

I like magnolia park’s cover of |2| from the goofy movie though, that’s the best one and it works with the pop punk sound

[@jtforrest8582]

I can't help but feel someone at Disney heard the cover band Punk Rock Factory and just went "that's ours now" 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@SinclairPoppins]

It was more of a covenant than a pact

[@RelaxRelapse720]

Disney did a whole 90s Rap album too. It was about what you'd expect.

[@SuperInfinitezero00]

Thank you for the confirmation bias lol. I listened to this album as pretty much the exact target audience. I like BFS' "Goes to the Movies" and NFG's "From the Screen to your Stereo" Series. I'm a Millennial Disney kid that was into emo/pop/punk when I was a teen. I found this album to be pretty tepid, at best. I really am interested in who selected and approved the tracks because not only were the selections both obvious ("Let it Go") and confusing ("Colors of the Wind") at the same time, the quality both in layout and production was just all over the place. Some tracks sound so overproduced it really takes away from the aesthetic, where others sound like they've been sitting on a shelf since the late 90s and no one did a compression pass on them before this release. However, that being said, I do think there are some standouts and I enjoyed them. "I2I" is an easy one and I think its very clear that everyone knew it, as its the one they released to hype the album. "You'll Be in My Heart" was honestly shocking to me how good it was, as I anticipated it being terrible. It sounds almost like if Genesis had recorded the song and not just Phil Collins, in a weird way. I'll give an honorable mention to "Remember Me". ONLY because I hadn't ever watched "Coco" and was like, "Huh, this song is ok. Maybe I should watch Coco." And then did and really enjoyed it. So not only was it my first exposure to the song, but it led to me finding a really good movie. My review is a Generous 4/10, but I totally see why its less for most people.

[@thomasgiles2876]

Bowling For Soup going so hard isnt that surprising because they bring that "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes" energy this thing needed.

[@misteraskman3668]

I know it's Disney, I know I shouldn't expect the suits to understand the art, but making a pop-punk cover of "Remember me" misses the entire point of the song being so simple and goes back to the spectacle that De la Cruz made of it (you know, the villain who stole the song)

[@thrashmetaldad]

Dude the Magnolia Park track was fantastic tho

[@drhall343]

My mom says the title to me on a regular basis.

[@OhDearAudrey]

As an old pop punker with kids who love disney movies i never felt more targeted than when i saw this on spotify

[@wakko1337]

It doesn't matter who covers Go The Distance, you're never matching Michael Bolton.

[@danielpierce9343]

Always happy to see Bowling to Soup get more work and appreciation, definitely a band of my childhood :3

[@LunaWitcherArt]

HEY! The Frozen soundtrack has TWO good songs and they are Vuelie and Frozen Heart and I resent the movie to this day for not using that sound throughout the movie.

[@morningowl43]

Meet Me @ The Alter rips for real for real so happy they didn’t phone it in like the rest of this album, don’t miss their latest record one of my favorites of last year

[@jmckenzie962]

Disney - A Whole New Sound ❌ Geordie Greep - The New Sound ✅

[@spaceshipnayib]

This album is fun. I get to play pop-punk sounds for kids and they get excited that they know the songs. Not every cover is a banger, but some of them are genuinely great.

[@norahgetz3243]

When are we getting the Disney hyperpop/breakcore album

[@matthewlynn6108]

Can’t believe Leftöver Crack was snubbed by Disney on this one.

[@Wicked_Fox]

The only explanation that this exists is this time traveled from early 2000. There can't be any other reason to do this in late 2024.

[@soaribb32]

The Disknees are twisting with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@MrThomyorkey]

Remember the Stooges and Velvet Underground were where Punk started originally?

[@FlynnVLRBR]

"Elton John is spinning in his grave, and he's still alive!"

[@86cnrs]

Bowling For Soup has done a phineas and ferb theme song

[@Jahydin]

Disney's Mosh Pit on Disney is def worth checking out though, especially Can't Help Falling In Love by Oi-Skall Mates!

[@aarc]

Dive into Disney is great too.

[@camillagilmore1547]

Why would you not just get Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies do the whole album?

[@TamarinGuy]

Melon you have a Tecca album and Future mixtape to review get to it

[@RakoonCD]

If they really wanted punk, they would've covered "Song of the South".

[@hair.goblinnn]

Meet Me at The Altar goes so hard. They have a cover of the song from Freaky Friday, they could easily revive pop goes punk and not phone it in. LOVE THEM

[@celestiag.thomas-johnson7067]

Remember me starts off (as the audience sees it) as a pop song it is completely reasonable that a pop punk band would get it having said thst they could've don't way better with it

[@ryan7032]

Disney had some of these bands play live at their big expo in August and the Disney millennials were eating that shit up. I don't think the marketing really worked though because even the Disney vlogger that used to be in a pop punk band would still just rather see the bands live than listen to a cover of a song he grew up with. Maybe 8f they released it on vinyl, some collectors might put it between their Mousercise and Mickey Mouse Disco albums.

[@itsaUSBline]

I used to love Bowling For Soup when I was in highschool. Glad they pulled through at least.

[@alasdairgodewife8534]

They should've made an Album with the villain songs.

[@TheTheoTherone]

"Disney just invaded pop punk" Nah, some pop punk acts just accepted a Disney paycheck. Whatever that might have been. Or some agency/rep had a deal that the acts LITERALLY could not refuse. Like contractually

[@Joe90h]

"No one to tell us no, or where to go" There's the problem right there. Somebody should have told them no, and EXACTLY where to go.

[@Nichterion]

“Elton John is spinning in his grave and he’s still alive” 😂😂😂 4:45

[@BoinkadelicJones]

Bowling for Soup is a great band. They've worked with Disney before, namely doing the Phineas and Ferb theme song

[@daniellavaladez7820]

I had my fingers crossed, Fantano, sorry.

[@mikehunt5926]

me too

[@Schwalbe1728]

> Tokyo Hotel You what mate? Now... now that's the name I haven't heard in a decade... AND I WAS THANKFUL FOR THAT. - ___-

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Would have been a lot cooler with hardcore punk and skacore covers. Or call up Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and hand them $100000000 in MouseBucks instead

[@faeriegraver]

✨ Yes ✨

[@stephe1506]

They would have nailed this

[@thisissuparare]

Meet Me @ The Altar don’t miss

[@suites.74]

Saying that something non-tangible and abstract will "feel like a bowling ball on my foot" is such a great saying, I'm using that forever.

[@DjHacker012]

This isn't the first time Disney does something like this. They released 7 Disneymania albums, with a similar theme, covers of their classic songs by pop artists. I still love Ashley Tisdale's version of "Kiss The Girl" and Smash Mouth's "I Wanna Be Like You"

[@MusicOrLoseItTV]

H3H3 went to court for fair use only for YT to entirely disregard fair use in music commentary vids

[@Dan_Tasty]

RIP Thomas Washington, creator of the Goofy Movie. We know it could and should have been much more but your vision lives on with aspiring animatiors

[@nikk.598]

On the topic of disney covers I want to shout out Suburban Legends for some pretty great Ska Covers of "Under the sea", "I just can't wait to be king" and "Duck Tales" They really went for it and deserve more recognition!

[@finge3786]

If Disney asked Billy Cobb to do all the covers he would've smashed it

[@michaelwhalen9084]

another top tier fantano intro 🙌🙌

[@iliketowatchutoob]

The I2I cover is really good though!

[@myekal147]

Elton's spinning past personas actually only serve to charge his current electric soul - He cannot be stopped.