The Lion King's Children Slideshow

This took me a couple of days to complete. Its mainly LK animated gifs which are all Africa's "children" no matter what age they are.
"Children" is a single by trance composer Robert Miles from his album Dreamland. "Children" is Miles' most successful single, being certified Gold and Platinum in several countries and it reaching #1 in more than 12 countries. Miles created several remixes himself with an additional remix by Tilt. Miles has stated two motives for the writing of "Children". One was as a response to photographs of child war victims his father had brought home from a humanitarian mission in the former Yugoslavia; the other, inspired by his career as a DJ, was to create a track to end DJ sets, intended to calm rave attendants prior to them driving home as a means to reduce car accident deaths. Billboard magazine attributes the song's widespread success to its melodic nature, characterized by an "instantly recognizable" piano riff (which, ironically, was not found in the track's original version). They identify this factor as making the song accessible to a broader audience beyond clubbers and fans of electronic dance music alone by means of radio airplay. Synthmania.com, which identifies the song as being written on a Kurzweil K2000, calls this the "dream house piano" sound, consisting of "standard piano, syn bass and string/pad sounds bathed in delay and reverb". "Children" is one of the pioneering tracks of dream house, a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fewer beats per minute than other house music styles, and melodies written to evoke emotion. The creation of dream house was a response to social pressures in Italy during the early 1990s: the growth of rave culture among young adults, and the ensuing popularity of nightclub attendance, had created a weekly trend of deaths due to car accidents as clubbers drove across the country overnight, falling asleep at the wheel from strenuous dancing as well as alcohol and drug use. In mid-1996, deaths due to this phenomenon, called strage del sabato sera (Saturday night slaughter) in Italy, were been estimated at around 2000 since the start of the decade. The move by DJs such as Miles to play slower, calming music to conclude a night's set, as a means to counteract the fast-paced, repetitive tracks that preceded, was met with approval by authorities and parents of car crash victims. Billboard ascribes the final stage of the song's promotion to the airing of its music video on music television networks such as MTV Europe and Germany's VIVA. Two videos were produced, the first being the one Billboard discusses: black and white footage of a small girl riding in a car through a diverse range of landscape. The second video, filmed in colour, alternates images of Miles DJing at a nightclub rave and images of children at play, thereby touching upon both of the themes of the song. On August 20, 1997, New Age musician Patrick O'Hearn filed a federal court action in a New York court against Miles, claiming that "Children" was plagiarized from his 1985 composition "At First Light". The suit named Miles as well as many of the record labels that released "Children" as defendants, and sought over $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
Trivia:The main melody of Children was used in Rock Howard's stage in the 1999 SNK game Garou: Mark of the Wolves. And a sample of the song was used as the basis for Angel City's song Do You Know (I Go Crazy), a number eight hit on the UK Top 40 in October 2004.

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[TheBlueRose2008]

This was really sweet! I'll send the link to my little niece!:-}

[RhodesianRLover]

Glad you enjoyed it! :-)

[garifou]

title of this song plz?

[RhodesianRLover]

"Children" is a single by trance composer Robert Miles from his album Dreamland. Check out the video description on the right. :-)

[Eradan83]

By the way it's dream trance and not dream house as the description says.

[RhodesianRLover]

hum, I actually copy and pasted most of this info from wikipedia...must be a typo on the site then, thanks for the info. :-)

[Mjsimba21]

Um...?

[DolphinSuperStar]

fP3 Bring in the dollars as a nightclubPromoter sunsetnightclub[d0t}com

[RockyGemsCarly]

AAAAH! NOT ANOTHER DANCING MEERKAT!

[bibleanddisneyfan]

Not bad! I love some of those clips!

[gah378]

HAHA!

[carolraq]

I just lovet it!! *-*

Perfect!