Talk:Hoedown Throwdown/Archive 1

Fix this page
Someone fix this page. It's completely messed up. -- 71.182.229.224 (talk) 03:00, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You need to explain what is wrong with it. and cite your refs Keithf2008 (talk) 00:13, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ I revamped the article. -- Ipodnano05 (talk)

Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus
MTV UK says this song is sung by "Hannah Montana" and not Miley Cyrus. I know that they are the same person and all, but I think it should be noted. -- Keithf2008 (talk) 00:15, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * No it is Miley who sings it, in the movie she is Miley when she sings it, watch the music video of it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.153.234 (talk) 05:23, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Miley Stewart, not Cyrus. -- Sweetie candykim (talk) 10:17, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The first line is incorrect: 'song performed by American singer, actress and author, Miley Cyrus (sometimes incorrectly credited to her character, Hannah Montana)'


 * Miley did not sing this, her character did! All other films and tv programmes that have credited the song to the character and said performed by such and such, for example:


 * Time Warp (song)
 * 'The song, fourth in the film (after "Science Fiction/Double Feature", "Dammit, Janet!", and "Over at the Frankenstein Place"), but fifth in the original stage show and 2006-2007 UK tour (Sweet Transvestite precedes it), consists of verses sung by alternating characters, serving as the introduction to two of them, and choruses sung by the chorus of "Transylvanians" (Movie) or "Phantoms" (Musical), and the Criminologist/Narrator (played by Charles Gray in the movie). The characters that sing the verses are, in order, Riff-Raff (Richard O'Brien in the movie), Magenta (Patricia Quinn in the movie), and Columbia (Little Nell Campbell in the movie). After the second full chorus, Columbia often launches into her tap dance, however recent versions have replaced it with such diverse substitutes as a Dance Dance Revolution pattern, an air guitar solo, and a rally-like chant.'


 * If I Only Had a Brain
 * '"If I Only Had a Brain" (also "If I Only Had a Heart" and "If I Only Had the Nerve") is a song in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz by Harold Arlen (music) and E.Y. Harburg (lyrics). The song is sung by the characters that meet Dorothy talking about what each character wants from the Wizard'


 * Get Me to the Church on Time
 * '"Get Me to the Church on Time" is a song composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, where it was introduced by Stanley Holloway.


 * It is sung by the cockney character Alfred P. Doolittle, a dustman, the father of the show's main character Eliza Doolittle. He has received a surprise bequest of four thousand pounds a year from an American millionaire, raising him to middle-class respectability. Consequently he feels he must marry Eliza's "stepmother", the woman he has been "living in sin" with for many years. Doolittle and his friends have one last spree before the wedding and the song is a plea to his friends not to let his drunken merriment forget his good intentions and make sure he gets to his wedding'


 * Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
 * '"Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" is the opening song from the musical Oklahoma! written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is sung by Curly McLain at the beginning of the first scene and was the first a cappella opening to a musical'


 * None of these songs say they are BY the singer that performed them. They give credit to the character, which should be Miley Stewart or Hannah Montanna, but it is not Miley Cyrus' song! Sweetie candykim (talk) 10:16, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And Billboard has said that "Party in the U.S.A." is a Hannah Montana song, but it's not. I don't think this is worth of including here. With the mention that Miley Cyrus performs it is enough. Plus, none of the images have Cyrus as Hannah Montana. As for saying its Miley Stewart, that is wrong because in any sales sites or the booklet credits her as Miley Stewart. The difference between that and Hannah Montana songs is that in the actual CD booklet it says, "performed by Hannah Montana". -- Ipodnano05 (talk) 01:06, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes you are right, it isn't Hannah on the cover, it is Miley. I just think it is unfair that she is taking the credit for the song, when it was just her characters song. Equally though, I think it is also unfair and ignorant of Billboard to credit 'Party in the USA' as Hannah Montana though. She is not the first person in the world to be a singing character but everyone seems to get confused. I think it is unfair and stupid of the charts to not say it is by Miley, especially as it is their job to make the official charts. Sweetie candykim (talk) 16:44, 20 October 2009 (UTC)


 * But it's not her character, look at the digital booklet for the soundtracka nd it says "performed by Miley Cyrus". And it is Miley Cyrus who performs it, Miley Stewart is only a fictional character that has never sang in real world; unlike Hannah who is the base of the franchise and Cyrus has dressed as Hannah for several life performances... including the Best of Both Worlds Tour. -- Ipodnano05 (talk) 19:58, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Production notes
Here's some information from the movie's production notes:

Another song sure to inspire dancing is the “Hoedown Throwdown,” nicknamed “Miley’s Macarena” by the filmmakers, a hiphop country fusion number in which Miley Stewart gets up on stage and teaches the dance steps to the audience with the song’s lyrics. “We called it ‘The Project’ for the longest time,” says Chelsom. “I wanted a song that taught a dance in the lyrics of the song like the ‘Macarena’ or the ‘Funky Chicken.’ I wanted to maximize Miley’s real silliness physically. She’s physically funny and has great abandon, and I wanted to capture all of that.” Because the dance steps are the song and the song is the dance steps, creating the musical number became an ongoing collaboration among the songwriters, the choreographer (Jamal Sims), Miley and the filmmakers. Chelsom’s determination to combine Miley Stewart’s L.A. hip-hop/pop style with her country roots in a seemingly improvised dance number eventually produced the show-stopping “Hoedown Throwdown.”

I'll come back and copy-edit in a few hours. Liquidluck (talk) 01:53, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Ogg sample
If anyone is planning on creating an ogg sample of this song, it would be useful to sample the part where Cyrus sings "Boom boom clap, boom di-clap di-clap" and the chorus directly following it. Just a suggestion =]. Liquidluck (talk) 05:25, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

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