Disney often makes use of pop culture icons while creating their animated characters, a trend that included 2016's "Moana" via Tamatoa, a giant flamboyant crab that craves shiny, valuable objects. Tamatoa's appearance was quite distinctive, featuring differing pupil sizes and differing eye colors in his bioluminescent form.
For older viewers, this look might evoke memories of iconic glam-rock singer-songwriter David Bowie, and that is no accident. The look of Tamatoa was based on Bowie, and the character's big musical number "Shiny" was written with Bowie in mind, as the film's songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda told People in 2016. "I'd been listening to Bowie on a loop," he explained. "I was like, well I'm writing a glam rock tune for this crab, this jewel-encrusted crab."
To channel the spirit of Bowie further, Tamatoa was voiced by New Zealand's Jemaine Clement, who has been known to bust out a credible impression of Bowie in projects like "Flight of the Conchords." As Clement told The AU Review that same year: "When I tried to record [Shiny] in the character's voice, [Miranda] just kept pushing the Bowie thing, do it more Bowie, he wanted glam, like a T-Rex Bowie."
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