i find it fascinating the way people talk about that unused demo song from The Lorax (2012), Biggering. often people say things like “this song never made it into the movie because it criticizes corporations exactly like Illumination, so they killed it”. but if you actually listen to How Bad Can I Be?, most of the messaging of Biggering is retained! often nearly verbatim! the biggest thematic diffurence is that the new song is a little more ambiguous about the Onceler’s own moral culpability in his corruption (though it does still quite obviously paint him as corrupted by the end anyway)

capitalism is infamously more than capable enough of subsuming its own critiques and making commodities out of them. why would The Lorax have been any diffurent?