Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Songs from the Motion Picture, not to be confused with composer
John Powell's original score release, features 13 offbeat songs written by
Powell and Lorax screenplay writer
Cinco Paul. Quirky, slight, harmless, and fun, it says a lot that the album needed to be buffered by no less than six demos. The main songs, "Let It Grow," "Everybody Needs a Thneed," and "Thneedville," like the film itself, are subversive and silly, incorporating dance, pop, and rock elements while maintaining the general weirdness of a tree-hugging, mustachioed monster helping a 12-year-old boy land the girl of his dreams, but they could have easily been integrated into the orchestral version of the soundtrack. ~ James Christopher Monger