Siamese Cat Song Offensive
The new movie does not include the siamese cat song which is sung by a pair of siamese cats in the 1955 animated version.
Siamese cat song offensive. Monae will voice peg in the film and cover peggy lee s he s a. Most notably is the exclusion of the racially offensive siamese cat song from. The sequence with a tune originally recorded by peggy lee has. When lady and the tramp first premiered it was common to.
The new live action version of lady and the tramp on disney has a few changes from the 1955 animated original. The siamese cat as canonical as it is controversial has developed a legacy in american cinema for embodying undeniably racist stereotypes about asians and asian americans most notably. Why the siamese cat song was appropriately removed from lady and the tramp in short the siamese cat song is racist.