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I have approved some similarly borderline things, but the video game songs I've approved have not had music videos, and the James Bond title track a) is a discrete item with beginning and end separate from the movie and b) seemed to me to belong as least as much to the general tradition of hyper-stylised James Bond title tracks as it did to its particular movie.
But if you ask for a story (or art or podfic) about the characters in the 'music video', you are asking for fic that fits seamlessly into the Moana world - you are asking for fic about the Moana background characters - which seems to me to be at the borders of what I'm trying to achieve with this exchange.
'If you slice off the first few seconds and the last few seconds' - yes, hm, that is also kind of a problem. I very much do not want to put up a link and then say "but you need to ignore these parts of what's in the link". Is there a version that includes only the parts with the ancestors?
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I am fine with whatever you decide. I hope you decide to allow the song, even if the video is out. I can't find a version without the first few seconds, but if it helps, here is a link that starts at the point where the song starts:
https://youtu.be/ubZrAmRxy_M?t=37s
Thank you
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For the record, I don't think you are 'cheating' or trying to get around the rules of the exchange, at all, but we have different opinions on whether the clip is a separable part of the movie and the characters original characters that can easily be turned to multiple interpretations beyond the context established by the movie.
It's fine by me if you want to mention the clip if writing prompts for the song, as an *option* to inspire your writer (or artist or podficcer), though I am hoping that Moana & her generation do not feature in an eventual work.
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