Unlike Ledger or Nicholson, nothing in Ben's history suggests he even capable of above average acting.

[The music] kinda bummed me out, to be honest. I really hope that as they move away from Menken, they *do* bring in folks who write musical numbers instead of pop songs. Seriously. I challenge an uninformed third party to distinguish between their big show-stopper and a Katy Perry song.

I have to say, though, I don't find myself having songs from Tangled stuck in my head as much as I do "Let It Go."

Yeah, but - and this becomes the snobbery - "Let It Go" is a pop song. And pop songs have exactly one job to do. (That.)

I get a huge pre-bummer seeing pop songs come in and start edging out the Broadway-style numbers, because - god damn it - pop songs have had the whole goddamn radio to themselves for forty years. Let the art kids have SUMthin,' man. Don't take our one reliable source of semi-pop-culture away! All we had left was the odd breakout musical hit and these Disney flicks!

Feh. "Let It Go" is fine, and I don't have any stake in whether or not it's a well-received pop song; I don't think it's *bad* pop song particularly, none of that. It's simply that a pop song is a wholly different (and musically superficial) beast... it's a genre designed to facilitate the most easily remembered-then-hummed-then-purchased music possible, so any creativity is massively stunted.

And if we start getting... man, god help me for being THIS guy... but if we start getting the Disney executives all hooked on the kind of radio-play a song like "Let It Go" can get (and for every movie they make! hooray!), when do you think they're gonna start letting the "Be Our Guest"s back in? Because that's a song you'll never, ever hear on Top 40. They'd have no incentive to ever go back to that genre.

And after all of it, do you know what the difference would be between "Let It Go" and the fiftieth song made in the "Let It Go" paradigm? Not a goddamned thing.

So I worry.