Steven Universe The Movie: Aimee Mann’s Return

Steven Universe the Movie: Aimee Mann’s return

All right y’all, now that I’ve had some time to come down from a cloud at the announcement about the contributors to the movie, I’m a little nervous we’re jumping to conclusions about Opal.

Here’s how the musical contributors/collaborators list looks:  

Rebecca Sugar

Chance The Rapper

Estelle

Gallant

Aimee Mann

aivi & surasshu

Jeff Liu

James Fauntleroy

Macie Stewart

Mike Krol

Jeff Ball

Grant Henry

Julian “Zorsy” Sanchez

And here’s how the “performances by” list looks with credits:  

Estelle (as Garnet)

Patti LuPone (as Yellow Diamond)

Uzo Aduba (as Bismuth)

Christine Ebersole (as White Diamond)

Lisa Hannigan (as Blue Diamond)

Zach Callison (as title character Steven Universe)

Deedee Magno Hall (as Pearl)

Michaela Dietz (as Amethyst)

Tom Scharpling (as Greg Universe)

Shelby Rabara (as Peridot)

Erica Luttrell (as Sapphire)

Charlyne Yi (as Ruby)

Grace Rolek (as Connie Maheswaran)

Jennifer Paz (as Lapis Lazuli)

Kate Micucci (as Sadie)

Matthew Moy (as Lars)

Toks Olagundoye (as Nanefua Pizza)

So the first list is for songs/music, and the second list is for voice cast. I would still be thrilled to hear an Aimee Mann song in the soundtrack! But since Aimee is mentioned in the music list but not in the character list, I’m worried this is us jumping to conclusions, though I hope that’s not true because I want Opal.

Aimee is one of Rebecca’s biggest musical influences and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if she was willing to contribute a song for the album. I’m just thinking about this discrepancy between the music list and the “performances” list (which is evidently a partial list of which characters are appearing and who they’re playing). If they’re willing to show their hand and reveal that Aimee is in the musical collaborators list, why not also tell us she’s doing Opal if she is? But that’s not listed here.

I hope we get Opal and I’m not trying to be a naysayer but I worry that people will go in assuming Opal as a character appearance and singing a song is a given, and no matter how great the movie ends up being, I could see people being hugely disappointed in not receiving this since people are so invested in Opal and might go in expecting it. So please, until we get more info that proves me wrong, keep this in mind about the information they’ve given us and what it means! I would be really disappointed if people acted like we were lied to when this is actually the format they gave us the info in and no one is assuming any of the other musicians (except Estelle) will be giving us an in-character song.