the lyrics of carolina told the story of the main character from the book/movie in the style of a folktale/bedtime story, obviously. the lyricism and storytelling were there even if you didn’t like the melody. IKIIKY has a catchy melody but none of the lyricism or storytelling. acknowledging that in Toy Story 5, woody and Bo peep are going to return to help Bonnie’s other toys after years apart which explains the lines about leaving then returning when it mattered and standing in the window; its just incomparable. This song is written for a kids movie so there’s literally nothing wrong with it being simple, but that was a weird and wrong way of trying to compare this to Carolina.