So Ratatouille has long been ingrained in the musical landscapes, both comedic and sincere, of TikTok. A parody version of the song soon became viral as well called “CEO of Speaking French,” it featured a female vocalist singing fake French-sounding nonsense to the tune of “Le Festin.” Usually, this track was used to accompany self-consciously gross or bad cooking, or really any sort of weird lifestyle-hack fails.
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Clearly, to a generation of zoomers, nothing says “sophistication” and “haute cuisine” quite like this Disney movie about creativity and ambition, set in the world of Parisian restaurant criticism. The origins of the Ratatousical go back to early 2020, when the song “ Le Festin” from the Ratatouille soundtrack became a commonly used accompaniment for cooking videos on TikTok. So Vulture sought to sniff out ( rat joke!) the history of how a bunch of TikTokers with a lot of time on their hands made arguably the Best Musical of 2020. You could almost call it punk, if it wasn’t a web of show tunes about a cartoon rat. There’s a playful irony to the way that a decentralized, collaborative, unsanctioned DIY musical could use the Disney adaptation musical format for something so uncommercial and grassroots, because it’s the exact opposite of what we’ve been led to believe a “Disney musical” is.
The Michael Eisner–era “Disneyfication” of Times Square saw the company collaborating with the city to make the Theater District appeal to tourists and corporate interests above all, with Disney’s high-sheen, mega-production-value musicals dominating the theater landscape. But the TikTok Ratatouille Musical - or Ratatousical - manages to subvert the accepted narrative about Disney on Broadway. The theater TikTok trend of making musicals out of strange subject matter began earlier in the pandemic, with viral works like Grocery Store the Musical, but the specific appeal of the Ratatouille musical is the alternate reality of it all: It is not inconceivable that there is a timeline where Ratatouille: The Musical was announced as a big-budget, family-friendly production alongside the likes of Aladdin, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid. Composers, singers, actors, musicians, dancers, and set designers have come together to write and perform original songs for a Ratatouille musical that does not exist on any stage, but is alive and ever-growing on TikTok. While Broadway is shut down and schools have gone virtual, theater kids and professionals alike are collaborating on the app to create a fully socially distanced musical about one particular muse: Remy the rat from Pixar’s 13-year-old Francophilia flick Ratatouille. Photo: remarkable is happening on TikTok.
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