As much as we love anything where the ladies take centre stage and kick the majority of the butts, we have some reservations about the Disney Channel’s upcoming live-action movie reboot of the classic series Kim Possible.
The casting is fine! They’re actual teenagers! They’re supposed to be dweebs! It’s fine!
The pants, on the other hand, give us pause. (We’ve gone into more detail about that before. We do not have issues. YOU have issues.)
And now Disney has released a new version of the show’s iconic theme song, ‘Call Me, Beep Me’.
First, a refresher of how hard the original, as performed by Christina Milian, absolutely slaps:
Banger, right?
The new version is sung by the reboot’s star, Sadie Stanley. And she does a fine job!
“We kept the integrity of the original song but make it sound like it was written today,” a Disney Channel music guy told Billboard.
The longer version allows for a fun breakdown near the end – but ultimately, it’s not an improvement.
They even ruined the Kim Possible theme song ? pic.twitter.com/psSDqiZHKr
— Moonblast? ?️? (@AshAPBx) January 12, 2019
Why ditch the perfectly slick millennium-dance-pop-RnB production of the original for something that doesn’t even sound that modern?
They could have at least thrown some money at a name-brand remix from one of the dozens of pop producers storming the charts right now – were Zedd, Kygo, Jonas Blue, The Chainsmokers, benny blanco, and whoever Diplo’s glommed onto at the moment all too busy?
Look, nothing’s ever as good when you were around for the original version, and let’s try not to be too cynical when a new generation of kids get to fall in love with Kim and her lovably useless offsider Ron Stoppable when the movie premieres on February 15.
Grown ass adults on their way to trash the new Kim Possible movie because they can’t let go of nostalgia thinking the movie was made for them https://t.co/vuXpjZ9wLx
— Dani? sophie day (@pinkzukos) January 14, 2019
But it’s either a banger or not, and this ain’t it.
Here’s hoping they don’t mess with the Naked Mole Rap.