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Video Spotlight: You'll Be In My Heart by Peter Hollens and Bryan Lanning

Peter Hollens gives me the exact same problem that his wife does: all of his Disney covers are great, so trying to pick one? So difficult for me. Times when a cloning device would come in handy, I tell you what. That way I could just assign a clone that strictly designed to write about each of them so I could gets posts done for each of them. It would speed up the process, that's for sure. But alas, no cloning device here, just me. I'm still on a mission to write about all of their videos, it's just going to take some time is all.I'm pretty sure I must have changed my mind about 8 times about which of Peter's Disney video I was going to write about next. But as you can see, "You'll Be In My Heart" came out on top.

It's from Tarzan, another underrated Disney movie, in my opinion. Lots of great songs in that one. I mean, Phil Collins was involved, of course the music is good. At the end of the video, you'll see Peter talking about how this was one of his most requested songs. That's one of the things that's so fantastic about Peter. He really does listen to his fans and take our opinions into consideration in regards to choosing which songs he covers. I feel like I've said this about Peter before, but he really makes you feel like you're a part of the process and that's special. I'm so happy that he decided to do this one; he did say that it was one he'd wanted to do for a long time. I love that he made it a duet and Bryan Lanning was a wonderful choice of duet partner. I really like the way their voices sound together. "You'll Be In My Heart"is such a beautiful song and they definitely did it justice.

Check it out.




Beautiful. I like the backgrounds too. Appropriate. Making it a duet adds another dimension to the song, I think. Like I said, Bryan was a great choice. Their voices complement each other's nicely and I definitely wouldn't mind hearing them team up for another video at some point. Though I have no idea what song. But it'll be interesting to see if they do anything else together.

I don't always say it when I write about Peter, but this is an a cappella cover.  I know it says that all the sounds in it are made from the human voice in the beginning, but I wanted to highlight that. Sometimes I like to focus more on what he's doing in the background. There's some gorgeous harmonies going on. I get that it's easy to get hung up on the lead vocals, especially when they sound this good, but I'd absolutely recommend watching this a couple of times. Focusing on those harmonies the second time. It's a beautiful arrangement by Tom Anderson.

This is the video that introduced me to Bryan Lanning - I did end up getting his EP that they talk about at the end and I would recommend checking it out. My favorite song on there is easily "Like a Lion", but it's a solid EP. So definitely look it up and see what you think. They made me smile at the end. I always like when you can tell when collaborators genuinely enjoyed working with each other.

Wonderful job, gentlemen.

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