Siamese Cat Song Offensive
In what makes the aristocats a case of déjà vu siamese cats were first portrayed offensively in 1955 s lady and the tramp and this time they had a whole song to themselves.
Siamese cat song offensive. Monáe and her musical collective wondaland are reported to be reinventing the offensive song for the film s soundtrack. The siamese cat song sometimes known as we are siamese is the fourth song of the film lady and the tramp sung by si and am aunt sarah s two siamese cats. Aside from their heavily minstrelized rendering both have buck teeth thick accents and narrow eyes their song we are siamese if you please features choreography in which the two wreak sly. For those unfamiliar with it the siamese cat song also known as we are siamese if you please is a song sung by two siamese cats named si and am in the original lady and the tramp.
The song written by an outside team hired by disney and thus not part of disney s own personnel. Another case of political correctness taken to an extreme and perhaps an excuse as well to create a new composition allowing in turn for all the benefits financial and otherwise that such a creation has the potential to generate. Aside from the live action aspect the siamese cat song has been appropriately removed from the story as such a song would be regressive culturally insensitive and still racist. The pair of characters will not even be siamese cats at all.
Si and am yup are. In addition to trading out the animated pooches for realistic doggos the remake will reportedly cut a controversial number from the original.