“Trump causes nausea – and humour is the medicine Alec Baldwin on scandal, sex and satire Friday 19/07/19 Bare Burn, baby, necessities burn The best Disney The night bigots songs – ranked! destroyed disco page 2 pgpage 6 • The Guardian 2 Friday 19 July 2019 1 When You Wish Upon a Star 2 Playlist Pinocchio, 1940 Ranked! Disney’s theme tune is the Circle of Life studio’s equivalent of Over The Lion the Rainbow: a song from King, 1994 a children’s fi lm that went No Disney fi lm beyond its intended audience has a more Disney and ended up part of the great spectacular American songbook. You opening than The 3 couldn’t accuse the lyrics – Lion King, which songs by Ned Washington, also Elton John and I Wanna Be responsible for The Nearness Tim Rice’s song Like You Kano of You and Wild Is the Wind – matches: the The Jungle 1 Trouble By Alexis Petridis of talking down to their hint of melodic Book, 1967 The east London MC’s audience: “Fate is kind – she and lyrical Perhaps Robert fi rst track since 2016’s brings to those that love the melancholy and Richard career-best Made In sweet fulfi lment of your secret that undercuts Sherman should the Manor is great: 10 longing.” A song about yearning its epic soar – be mentioned in he ponders postcode and hope, When You Wish Upon “There’s more the same breath wars to inspired The Bare a Star set the gold standard for to do than can as Lennon and Chance/Kanye-style Necessities Disney songs . ever be done” – McCartney . I gospel-rap production. The Jungle Book, gives it a real Wanna Be Like 1967 emotional pull. You is prime Charli XCX & Christine Originally 9 evidence: 2 and the Queens soundtracked a beautiful burst Gone by a set of folky The Age of Not of age-defying A muscular track full country songs – Believing joy, it was also of the malevolently and a parody of Bedknobs and subversive in mechanical funk that the Beatles – The Broomsticks, 1971 its depiction Janet Jackson channelled Jungle Book A moving song of evolution at her peak, as the pop ended up with about the fading at a time when power couple interrogate what may be the of childhood teaching it was love in a world of hate. greatest Disney and the loss still illegal in soundtrack of of innocence, some US states. Sam Smith all. The Bare The Age of How Do You Sleep? Necessities pulls Not Believing 3 The nocturnal off the task of is almost psychodrama that is promoting a unbearably sad. 4 Sam Smith’s musical don’t-worry-be- It sounds less like love life moves to its happy approach something aimed Let It Go latest chapter: the tale to life without at kids than an Frozen, 2013 of a – what else? – toxic making you want existential crisis There’s a reason Let It Go relationship full of to punch whoever set to music: became so huge. It is, by some cheating and jealousy, set wrote it. “Your dreams distance, the best-written power to throbbing electropop. are lost up on ballad in years . The lyrics twist a shelf / And the usual self-help platitudes NCT 127 worst of all, you into something darker, a perfect 4 Highway to Heaven doubt yourself”. fi xing of adolescent angst, with This English-language all its accompanying screw-you track from the BTS- impetuousness intact: “No right, rivalling K-pop 8 no wrong, no rules for me.” phenomenon has a big chance of crossing over: Remember Me all 1975-style soft-rock Coco, 2017 5 guitars, cheesy raps and Coco is a fi lm a glorious chorus. that tackles Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat tough themes, The Aristocats, 1970 Miya Folick including death Still not yet hip to pop music , 5 Malibu Barbie and dementia. Disney was on a fi rmer footing The Californian indie- Its central song with jazz. Punning on the slang slacker cosplays life as could be about use of the word “cat”, Scatman a pretty blonde, and the either. 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But she comes back and Kristen interlude from Eva Gabor – to Earth: “Oh no, I’m still Anderson-Lopez , remains irresistible. a human being.” the team behind Let It Go, it is Lil Baby & DaBaby 7 far more subtle: 6 Baby its melody is Over a steady, inexorable Someday My Prince Will Come strong enough to beat reminiscent of Snow White, 1937 withstand being 6ix9ine’s Fefe, the One of the fi rst Disney songs heard umpteen most similarly named to cross over into “adult” times in the fi lm. 6 MCs in the US rap game music, this gorgeous, join forces for a pair swooning melody became A Dream Is a Wish Your of typically focused, a jazz standard, apparently Heart Makes disparaging verses. fi rst performed as such by Cinderella, 1950 the Ghetto Swingers, the jazz Less schlocky than you Julien Chang band formed in Theresienstadt might have imagined a song 7 Of the Past ghetto/concentration camp, and sung to a crowd of helpful, Debut single from subsequently by Miles Davis and anthropomorphic birds and this 19-year-old from Dave Brubeck . mice to be, A Dream Is a Wish Baltimore, who lays his Your Heart Makes may be When Toro y Moi-ish voiceover You Wish Upon a Star’s closest cosmic Balearic boogie, competitor for the title of See the full list at cruising smoothly early Disney’s greatest ballad, theguardian.com/music into a long-form jazz covered by everyone from Brian PHOTOGRAPH: ALAMY piano solo. Wilson to Jessie Ware . • The Guardian Friday 19 July 2019 3 reception in early January, intended to bring warring Tory MPs together. For reasons that may for ever remain opaque, Mr Rosindell seems to have Lost in Showbiz bought along Ms Pollard. We will let the Mail on Sunday report take over for a bit: “The 69-year-old comedy actress left No 10 aides speechless after putting two fi ngers in her mouth for her signature comedy Marina Hyde whistle to get the prime minister’s attention at a reception held for Tory MPs and their spouses on Wednesday evening.” Go on. “Ms Hi-de-Hi! Pollard, who shot to fame as holiday camp cleaner Peggy Ollerenshaw in the BBC series Hi-de-Hi!, was a repeats: the guest of maverick Essex MP Andrew Rosindell.” Ah yes. There it is. bad boys of Anyway, how did the prime minister react to this, one of the many indignities visited upon her Brexit get per week in 2019, only 90% of which were of her own making? “Breaking off a conversation with energy the star minister Claire Perry,” we learn, “Mrs May said: ‘Hello there, Su.’ The backer they actress and singer shouted back: ‘Hi-de-hi!, Theresa!’” Yup, well, that’s why you’re on deserve the guestlist, Su. And at one level, fair play to her. There is a nice line in the fi rst Bridget Jones movie where Bridget is describing her friend Tom. “Tom, 80s pop icon who only wrote one hit record then retired because he found that one record was quite enough to get him laid for the whole of the 90s.” And so with Su, who played Peggy in Hi-de-Hi! in the 80s, and found that was quite enough to get her invited to several envelope would make a popular skit for Arron and Uzbekistan. Andrew, of course, concluded: “Great evening with openings a week for the 90s, the 00s, to get up for his sort-of friend Donald insisted he could justify every trip, people from all of the world.” the 2010s, and will doubtless see her Trump’s next birthday party at the and, anyway, part of that £25,000 Regarding the evening’s major right for most of the 2020s, too. president’s Floridian resort, Mar-a- was a fi ve-grand Virgin Atlantic star – Su, obviously – this episode is As for how the May-Pollard Lago. Or Racist Xanadu, as I prefer to upgrade. These days, he believes chiefl y welcomed for drawing my bilateral proceeded from there, a think of it. maroon EU passports have been “a attention to a frankly majestic Mail fellow guest tells the paper: “The Where were we? Ah yes. To national humiliation”. So don’t ruin on Sunday report, which I somehow prime minister is not great at the B further clarify, the gentleman on what’s coming next with any spoilers seem to have missed back in January small talk at the best of times, so ehold, a Banks’s left is not Ted’s comedy for him. of this year. The headline alone it looked pretty painful. Su just wonderful and warming snap from sidekick Spike Dixon, described Mr Rosindell’s other credits is an indication of the veritable kept saying: ‘We want Brexit’ and, this week’s 31-year Hi-de-Hi! cast by Holiday Rock as “an incredibly include always being described as treasure trove therein. So here we go: ‘What’s happening with Brexit, reunion. As someone who has honest and law-abiding man, a “maverick” entirely by people “Hi-de-Hi!, Theresa! Sitcom star Su why is it taking so long?’ and, ‘We watched every episode of the seminal and the only member of the who have never met one.