Disco hits Walmart: Shrek 2 DVD Tunes include Disco Inferno

**judydoggie** · November 9th, 2004, 12:30 PM

My jaw hit the floor this morning when viewing a commercial for the "Shrek 2" video 'with extras' being distributed exclusively by Wal-Mart. It includes a "party CD", and the tune featured in Wal-Mart's commercial is the entire "Shrek 2" voice-over cast (Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Antonio Banderas) doing a cover of the Trammps' "Disco Inferno."

It warmed my heart to think that someone in marketing at Wal-Mart and at Universal deemed our humble genre worthy of a mass-marketing to middle-America. Perhaps this is a harbinger of disco's re-birth? Could this mean that the folks my age who turned against disco immediately once it became out-of-favor are "coming out of the [musical] closet" now that they have kids and don't give a crap what other people think?

It's gonna be worth the price of the entire DVD set for me, just to have these stars, on record, completely discarding their artistic integrity (esp. Murphy) in the name of fun. But I'm gonna order it on-line. As a small business owner, I've sworn that I'd never shop in a Wal-Mart and I'm stickin' to it.

Paul - a.k.a. JudyDoggie

**QUINNY** · November 10th, 2004, 02:20 AM

JudyD: Although not quite to do with this post, I was surprised by the amount of Disco tunes in the film. Didn't quite get the relevance of Funky Town and the others I forget now, except with your observation above, maybe it was all part of some master marketing plan.

I know the film isn't aimed at just kids per se, so maybe in 5 - 10 years time there'll suddenly be an upsurge of young adults looking for "neat tunes I heard in Shrek 2".

Only once have I witnessed a whole cinema audience start to sing and wiggle, almost uncontrollably and that was when 'I Wanna Be Like You' came on in Jungle Book when it was re-released some years back. The parents out did the kids by a huge factor.

**judydoggie** · November 10th, 2004, 01:07 PM

Dear Quinny:

I saw neither "Shreck" nor "Shreck 2." Childless and both type-A, my wife and I can't sit still for movies, much less children's movies. I'm delighted that they're using disco in soundtracks nonetheless.

In this country, we had an enormous fifties revival that lasted for a long, long time. Now, the fifties fad's over and I'm hoping that Disco'll take its place on the airwaves and at places of public assembly.

Paul - a.k.a. Judydoggie