Circle of Life (Christmas Version) - Disney Channel Circle of Stars
A Christmas version of Circle of Life? I'm a Disney fan and I think a lot of their ideas are great ones. This is not one of them. THE DISNEY CHANNEL CIRCLE OF STARS first recorded Circle of Life as a music video for the Platinum Edition DVD and the track appeared on the special edition soundtrack in 2003.

The following year, Disney took the same vocal track and remixed the music to sound more Christmasy. This basically meant sticking a snippet of O Come All Ye Faithful at the beginning and adding really bad electronic sounding jingle bells throughout the song. Then it was stuck on an album of other Christmas songs by Radio Disney artists, RADIO DISNEY JINGLE JAMS.

Making a song sound like Christmas doesn't make it a Christmas song! The lyrics don't make any sense! Circle of Life doesn't have anything to do with any part of Christmas! Why would Disney do this? They have lots of other songs, even Christmas songs, that they could have given a Christmas treatment.

If you haven't heard the original Circle of Stars version, don't expect much. It's your standard Disney pop remix, but this time it features eight lead singers! That's a nightmare waiting to happen! Disney decided to highlight all their Disney Channel stars at the same time so they all take turns singing a line. Some are much better singers than the others making listening to the different voices very disjointed. It's quite a sloppy thing for Disney to do, but they did it again a few years later with A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes which features TWELVE lead singers! And yes, there's a Christmas version of that one too!

Here are the singers featured in this incarnation of the Circle of Stars:

Raven-Symoné (That's So Raven)
Anneliese van der Pol (That's So Raven)
Orlando Brown (That's So Raven)
Hilary Duff (Lizzie McGuire)
Tahj Mowry (Kim Possible)
Kyla Pratt (Proud Family)
A.J. Trauth (Even Stevens)
Christy Carlson Romano (Even Stevens)

Circle of Life (Christmas Version) Disney Channel Circle of Stars 2004

Labels: circle of life, circle of stars, jingle jams, lion king, pop

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