One Jump Ahead (Aladdin)

So this might shock and surprise all of you, given my eloquent and objectively perfect takes on all these songs so far, but I have basically no formal music training. I don't know what things like "resting tone" or "minor key" or whatever means, so at times I feel like I don't have the words to describe my take on a song.

This is one of those times.

This song sounds fucking fake.

There's something about the way this was recorded, or animated, or something that doesn't feel like a major motion picture production. I watched the video from the sheet and I legitimately thought it was some low budget, made-for-TV remake that existed. I loaded up two other youtube clips and then the entire movie on Disney+ before concluding that yes, something done this badly existed.

Is it the emotionless rendition of the singer? Is the mouth animation wrong? Is it because they got the whitest kid possible to play the earliest POC main character of a Disney film that I could find until I got bored of looking? I don't know, and I'm tired of watching the clip until I can figure it out.

It sounds like the second understudy of an off-Broadway production, is maybe the best way I can put it. And it hurts to say it, because the song has a lot of good things going for it. The lyrics are fun, the choreography is cool, and it really does so a good job of introducing the character. But there's some major flaw in execution that makes me just not want to listen to it, preferably ever.

There's only so many jumps ahead this song can last before its time.