I think an elegant solution to those who like the song, while also satisfying those who don't like it as a Minecraft feature, would be to keep the Music Disc available via commands but seperate it from regular gameplay.
I'm sure the composer put much heart into the song, but as a feature it clashes a lot with the game.
Why it doesn't fit Minecraft:
- The song doesn't match in style, it conflicts with all other music in Minecraft. The Villager noises make it especially uncanny.
- Because Lava Chicken is so inherently tied to A Minecraft Movie, it takes you out of the game when you come across it. It breaks suspension of disbelief and only serves to remind you of "Minecraft, the franchise" instead of "Minecraft, the world you're engaging in right now".
- Minecraft as a game is about making your own stories, in your own worlds. Adding things overtly tied to a movie then, such as Steve's Lava Chicken, is thematically inconsistent with Minecraft as a whole. In Minecraft, it's YOUR world, not Steve's world.
- Chicken Jockeys are regular Minecraft mobs, it doesn't make sense for them to drop a Music Disc simply from killing them.
- After A Minecraft Movie stops being relevant, the reason this Music Disc exists stops being relevant. It may be a good sounding song in a vaccuum, but otherwise it will just end up being a questionable feature.
- This feels like it was solely added for marketability, not as a natural evolution of Minecraft's mechanics, aesthetics, or world.
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