In contrast, Variety's Justin Chang opined that the songs 'are genial and loopy enough to give the film something of a Seussical sensibility'. The Hollywood Reporter critics felt that the songs 'did not quite hit the desired chord'. Scott of The New York Times said that the film's silliness is 'loud and slightly hysterical, as if young viewers could be entertained only by a ceaseless barrage of sensory stimulus and pop-culture attitude, or instructed by songs that make the collected works of Up With People sound like Metallica'. Kyle Smith of New York Post, panned the film's music, referring to the songs as 'musical rants'. Reception Ĭritical reception to the soundtrack was mixed. Just to do something good for the environment and good for your fellow person'.

And I think that she was able to lyrically nail that soft spot in people, to tug on their heart strings a little bit, to make people walk out and maybe think about doing something nice, or think about doing something different than what they do on a daily basis. We take all those things into consideration: getting that message out there of what is going on in the environment, and not only what's going on in the environment, but what's going on with us as people. But at the same time there is a seriousness to the message of the record. He further stated about the song: 'The song was a light-hearted version of what the film is about. Because of the message in The Lorax and the type of person that Ester is, those are the type of things that really mean something to her'. Stewart wanted Dean to rope her for the song, as 'from a subject matter standpoint, the song would be something that she would want to be involved with. The lead single from the film, titled 'Let It Grow' was sung by Ester Dean. Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time'.

There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do. When you listen to the music in this film, it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. 'The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love. He further revealed this in an interview to Collider:

Seuss, as the animated version of The Grinch – embraced the use of songs in an unconventional way. The producer Chris Meledandri, revealed that the inspiration of using songs, came directly from Dr. Tricky Stewart served as the executive producer for the soundtrack. Besides composing the film score, John Powell composed and wrote the original tracks with Cinco Paul, one of the film's screenwriters.

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