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movies, and they promote rock music and
classical and all in between. They encourage
young girls to dress immodestly in the films –
sleazy clothes, lip gloss, makeup, fancy hairdos,
tight jeans, bedroom attire. Now, there is this
mixture here between rock music and classical
music, and there's a reason that this is
done. One writer made this statement: "Disney
knew the similarities between romantic classic
music and the romanticism of the more popular
music forms such as songs of Bing Crosby or
Frank Sinatra, and he inserted classical music,
romantic things into his works because he
understood that they were a more powerful
vehicle for carrying emotional messages. One
of his first popular cartoon series was called
‘Silly Symphonies’ with skeletons dancing to
classical music. His most famous experiment in
the classical romantic form was Fantasia. Each
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