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Disney Moana New Song “Along The Way” | Chat with Dwayne Johnson, Auli’i & Catherine Laga’aia · Brighter Path: Data, Marketing, Entertainment, and Storytelling

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  One of the most exciting things about Moana is the music.
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  For Live Action Moana, we all agreed that Lin Manuel Miranda
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  should write one more song. We really wanted to do something
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  that could be distinct to this film.
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  We thought, what if both Moana's silence on your.
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  Way. On the ocean.
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  Along the Way is the perfect symbolism for this movie.
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  Dwayne and Al Lii sing about finding me along the way and our
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  journey is colliding. What's really wonderful is Al
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  Lii is a producer on this film, so we thought, what if there's a
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  musical conversation between Al Lii's moana and Katie's moana
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  that became the idea for the song along the way.
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  Getting to sing a new song that Lin Manuel Miranda has written
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  is the most insane experience. To plant my flag on something
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  original is an incredible honour.
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  Being able to pass the baton to Catherine is really important
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  for me, so to see if her take on the life of this character is
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  such a joy. This song is very special for me
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  because it's our OG Moana and our live action Moana together.
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  Then it's your boy Ma Weed coming in.
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  Together we have been on this journey of honoring our culture,
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  of going far beyond the reef. This really is a celebration of
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  just how far we can go.