References to ‘Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’ have been cut from Magic Happens, King Arthur Carrousel and Downtown Disney, but not yet from Splash Mountain — which becomes Tiana’s Bayou Adventure i…
Disneyland has removed a controversial lyric from a new parade in the latest symbolic step to distance the Anaheim theme park from the 1940s Disney film “Song of the South” that has been criticized for perpetuating racist stereotypes.
The “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” line near the finale of the parade was replaced with “Think of the happiest things” from the song “You Can Fly” in the 1953 Disney animated film “Peter Pan.” Disneyland teamed up on the music for the Magic Happens parade with “American Idol” singer-songwriter Todrick Hall.Magic Happens remains largely unchanged from the parade’s February 2020 debut aside from the removal of the “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” reference and a few minor costume and choreography adjustments.
Disneyland has been slowly and quietly stripping away any references to the controversial “Song of the South” animated/live action film that has been disowned by Disney.played in Downtown Disney in 2020 and from the soundtrack of King Arthur Carrousel in 2021. “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” still plays in the Splash Mountain log ride at Disneyland that will be transformed into
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