Moana (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

We purchased the movie Moana on it's release day and loved it enough to want the soundtrack! A music lover myself, I really enjoyed the music from the movie and my four-year-old twins love listening to music as well so purchasing this soundtrack was an immediate decision after we finished watching the movie. Moana is the story of a young girl who yearns to know more about herself and her ancestry. Her father is the village chief and she feels drawn to the ocean that surrounds their beautiful, tropical Polynesian island of Motunui. The story tells of her adventures, discoveries, and experiences that teach her about herself and others. There are a total of 40 tracks on this soundtrack, which includes both the songs and the score. The entire soundtrack is about 75 minutes long and the songs range in length, the shortest song being 30 seconds long to the longest at 5 minutes and 46 seconds. 14 of the tracks are songs with lyrics while the remaining 26 tracks make up the score. The main voices in the music are Moana (voiced by Auli'i Cravalho) and Maui (voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson). The score is composed by Mark Mancina. If you purchase the audio CD version, the lyrics are listed inside the booklet, along with the character who sings them. There are even the lyrics for the Polynesian languages sung on the soundtrack. There is also a list to credit all of the orchestra members who played the music for the score. Our whole family loves this soundtrack and we listen to it multiple times a day! I feel the soundtrack greatly reflects the tone of the movie. Because it's set in Polynesia, the music has a tropical feel to it and it's beautiful. Some of the songs are energetic and full of adventure whereas others reflect the darker tone when Moana and Maui are faced with their main task. Auli'i Cravalho has a beautiful voice and does an amazing job with all of the songs, my favorite being "How Far I'll Go," which can be heard multiple times on the soundtrack. We love the songs with lyrics and find they are easy to sing along with. The score is a lot of fun too and we enjoy figuring out which part of the movie the current song is from. Listening to this soundtrack makes us want to watch the movie every time we listen to it! If you've seen the movie and enjoy the music, I highly recommend purchasing this soundtrack. Our whole family loves it and I feel it's a good way to get my kids interested in music. There is a lot of music on this soundtrack and we've listened to it all many times already. I'm glad we bought this because it has been a wonderful purchase for us and well-worth the money we spent on it!

I'm a classic Disney fanatic, and "Moana" is one of the best - better than "Frozen" (which, don't get me wrong, was very good - wonderful sisterly love theme)! As a 30-something who grew up in the age of the Disney Renaissance of the 1990s and had (still has) a collection of all the original Walt Disney classics, I can be hard to convince in this age of CGI...but "Moana" is perfection...and so is the soundtrack. Catchy tunes, great singers, gorgeous music & lyrics - love the traditional Polynesian vibe. I'm not a big "Hamilton" fan, but I can appreciate Miranda's considerable talent - and it shines in this soundtrack. "An Innocent Warrier" is profoundly beautiful and re-used again to great effect in the haunting "Know Who You Are" (that part of the movie gave me shivers). "We Know the Way" is a catchy song while still being respectful to the origin stories of the Polynesian people, and Miranda's vocals are stellar. Of course, "You're Welcome" will probably be the song all of the kids sing over and over - and it IS a fun song. I'm not sure why some people dislike "Shiny" - it's the best! Miranda wrote it as a tribute to David Bowie, and the Tamatoa/crab character is so funny as portrayed by Jemaine Clement. What a great secondary villain - and his song too boot! No, it doesn't "sound" like the rest of the soundtrack - but who says it's supposed to? It's fun...and so SHINY! Love Disney? Love Hawaii? Buy this soundtrack - you won't regret it.

I watched the movie for the first time, and I made it about 30 seconds into the scene with "We Know the Way" and I was on the website ordering this from Amazon. The songs are simply amazing. I love the rhythms, the harmonizing, all of the songs that had vocals were just so incredibly well done, they raise goosebumps when I hear them. And unlike so many other soundtracks out there that have all the rest of the score that is usually boring or annoying, this one is enjoyable through the whole thing. You can almost feel the ocean spray on your face when you crank this up. This has become my favorite Disney soundtrack now.

It has been a long time since I have purchased a CD, but since I knew that this would be something that my son would want to listen to in the car (after watching the movie), I decided to purchase it as a CD vice download it. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that the CD comes with a digital track that you can access right away after purchasing the CD from Amazon. The insert in the CD case has all the words of the songs, if you wanted to use it to sing along with and great artwork as well. I like that all the songs are in the beginning of the CD and all the music only portions of the score are after that. It makes it easy for parents to play (or skip) to the songs that their kids want to listen to over and over again in the car. CD was just as expected and I am happy with my purchase.

Excellent!! Great road trip CD or just for playing in the background to give you some pep in your step while cleaning. Mr. Miranda is a genius. I was particularly enthralled by track 8 "Shiny" which is the character Tomatoah the Crab's big number. Voiced and sung by Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords, this song is classic FotC, but it was written by Mr. Miranda!! I loved it and I pretended to purchase it so that my granddaughter would be happy when she visits. But the reality is, I bought it for myself and still sing along to it all the time.

It's a CD it works

Love the content. We've only listened to the songs, oh, at least 50 times. My two girls are in love with this album. The downside was the CD case arrived cracked in 3 places but the disc itself was in good shape and thanks to Amazon's policy, they provided a refund. Contains 40 titles- though only 12 or so were songs, and the rest was soundtrack from the show itself. Perhaps the one thing that took away a star (aside from the cracked cover) was I was surprised the CD did not contain title data in the disc itself. When I load CDs into our car, the car's harddrive downloads the songs and the title automatically- but I was surprised that for this CD, it apparently did not contain title information- so our car displays titles only as song 1, 2, etc. Doesn't affect the music itself, obviously, but if you're wanting to organize your playlist, having the titles displayed automatically would have been nice.

I have been listening to songs 3-11 over and over in my car. These are the songs that you think of from the movie. The CD is great, and you just can't shake those songs from your mind. I find myself be-bopping quietly at work to the song "Shiny" playing through my mind. After the main songs from the movie there are two terrible artist versions of the songs that I skip passed. Then you get into the actual sound track (the instrumental background music). This means you actually get a ton of music on this CD, and they were nice enough to break it up so that if you just want a singalong you don't have to skip through half of the CD to just get to those songs.

Este CD es la versión de un único disco. Esta muy bien y tiene los temas del título original Moana (oceano) (en europa Vaiana (cascada) , incluso hay una versión en inglés que la han grabado todo el elenco original diciendo vaiana) . El problema viene cuando deseas subir este CD a Amazon music, Google music, Spotify etc porque si estás en España por problemas de derechos el título es vaiana. Y eso que importa? Pues eso digo yo. Lo que sucede es que solo en iTunes se sube el CD completo. En los demás sistemas que he puesto arriba te sustituye la canción de tu CD por el que está en los discos de España. Lamentable porque debería reconocer el cd. Un gran error de Amazon y Google entre otros que deberían solucionar.

Bisher hab ich den Soundtrack nur über Spotify gehört, und dort gibt es in Europa nur die Versionen zu hören, in denen die Hauptdarstellerin „Vaiana“ heißt. Hier auf der CD heißt sie jedoch endlich „Moana“, wie sich das gehört! (An dieser Stelle bitte noch die üblichen Lobpreisungen zu „You’re Welcome“, „Shiny“ und „How Far I’ll Go“ einfügen.)

Love this soundtrack. All the songs are catchy and some of them are haunting. Was a beautiful movie and the music really helped make it what it was. I love how the link to each other and push the story along. Sadly, I never received the actual cd! I have only been able to listen to the songs thanks to amazon music. I resent it saying "handed to resident" on the details seeing as I was at work that day! I don't know where they've posted the cd but it wasn't here. If they'd decided to drop it off at a neighbours' (but why when it should be able to fit through the letter box????) they've not left a card or anything and after weeks none of the neighbours has turned up to give it. Not to mention the fact that I have specifically said in my details that if I am not home drop it off at number whatever across the road but they've not had it either. So what have you done with it???

This order is a bargain. You get 40 tracks, which comprise of 14 Songs/tracks including a couple remixes, and 26 pieces of music from film scenes (Scores). The Polynesian influenced tracks are beautiful. Definitely recommend this cd, only complaint is a small crack inside of the packaging, but it is very minor and doesn’t affect anything. All new cds usually have this type of small crack inside of the packaging.

It's truly the best album.