The Lorax

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Songs from the Motion Picture and Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Motion Picture Score are the albums released for the 2012 computer-animated musical fantasy comedy film The Lorax (2012), based on Dr. Seuss's children's book of the same name, following the 1972 animated television special. The first album consisted of several original songs written for the film, released on February 21, 2012 by Interscope Records. The second album consisted of original score composed by John Powell and released on February 28 by Back Lot Music. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Songs from the Motion Picture Background Besides composing the film score, John Powell composed and wrote the original tracks with Cinco Paul, one of the film's screenwriters. Tricky Stewart served as the executive producer for the soundtrack. The producer Chris Meledandri, revealed that the inspiration of using songs, came directly from Dr. Seuss, as the animated version of The Grinch – embraced the use of songs in an unconventional way. He further revealed this in an interview to Collider:"The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love. When you listen to the music in this film, it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do. Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time". The lead single from the film, titled "Let It Grow" was sung by Ester Dean. Stewart wanted Dean to rope her for the song, as "from a subject matter standpoint, the song would be something that she would want to be involved with. Because of the message in The Lorax and the type of person that Ester is, those are the type of things that really mean something to her". He further stated about the song: "The song was a light-hearted version of what the film is about. But at the same time there is a seriousness to the message of the record. We take all those things into consideration: getting that message out there of what is going on in the environment, and not only what's going on in the environment, but what's going on with us as people.