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"Moana 2 available to stream with a Disney+ subscription, fans of all ages can officially put the movie on repeat as they have with the first "Moana" movie in the comfort of their homes. It was a huge success at the box office, earning the biggest global opening of all time for an animated movie, but a popular complaint among critics had to do with Barlow and Bear’s music in the shadow of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s "Moana" original songs. So when I sat down with the composers of "Moana 2," I had to ask the songwriting duo how they’ve handled themselves in the face of criticism.
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00:00I think it's important to like, go touch grass, you know, and like hang out with people who actually know
00:05you and like, know that this was two and a half years of like, such hard work. Like, you know,
00:11like you said, Emily was on the Renaissance tour and barely slept for half of these writing sessions that we
00:16were doing. So it was just it was a labor of love. And I think clinging on to that and
00:21like, just thinking about the positive of being a part of a legacy like Disney. I mean, it lives forever.
00:27And if my nephews love it, that's all
00:29I care about. People are going to be singing it for years. Continue. Yeah, my thing is, is if we
00:36reached, you know, 100 people, if they like 100 people really listen to these songs and they meant something to
00:44them, and they applied these things to their own life, then we've done our job.
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