I may be one of the last ten people in America who has never heard that song. I’ve heard of it and about it, but I’ve never been curious enough to youtube it up. Someday i will, when I have too much time on my hands, and need to just ‘Let It Go!” One good thing is there is some relatively new family entertainment out there. I suppose there is enough in Frozen to interest both boys and girls, although girls seems to be Disneys’ primary market these days. Yeah, I’m sure the songwriter is ‘apologizing’ all the way to the bank and then some.
Was that before or after going to the bank. lol.
I was hoping it was a message to the Treyvon-Michael Brown-Mr. Loosey’s crowd.
my 6 year old niece made me and her grandma watch Frozen. Got her the Elsa doll for her birthday. Now she wants an American Girl doll. Those are over $50...at least the Frozen dolls are cheaper.
It’ll pass. Why is she apologizing... young girls love it. Why take this away from them? Would we rather have them sing Miley Cyrus songs and twerk?
The song is also well known for when on the Academy Awards, (a drugged-out?) John Travolta butchered the name of the singer, Idina Menzel, somehow managing to call her “Adele Dazeem”.
Disney's Frozen "Let It Go" Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel
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Critics are often accused of overthinking mainstream hits, but the songs that outstrip all expectations (Disney didn’t anticipate that Menzel’s original would eclipse Demi Lovato’s tamer pop version) always demand a closer look. One test of a truly great song is an ability to listen to it dozens of times without screaming. I’m not a musicologist (although this guy is), but anyone can understand why Let It Go is a bravura piece of musical storytelling: the nervous minor chords of the first verse, jumping to an emphatic major key with the line “Well now they know!”; the frantic, pulse-quickening syncopation of the bridge; the explosive leap of the chorus, mirrored in the animation’s rapid ascent; and the final imperious shrug of “The cold never bothered me anyway.” It’s uncommonly fast for a power ballad, too – 137 beats per minute – which is why it’s been recommended as a workout song and remixed, badly, into a club banger.
Let It Go is so undeniable that it changes the direction of the movie. When Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez were commissioned to write "Elsa’s Badass Song", the Snow Queen was a more conventional villain, but the song’s emotional power forced a rethink. “The minute we heard the song the first time, I knew that I had to rewrite the whole movie,” said director Jennifer Lee. That’s pretty potent songwriting.
Is it really the highest earning film of all time?
Did they adjust the dollars back to have an honest comparison of prior films’ earnings?
SOMEone must care.
I have never heard the original but I have heard a couple parodies. Does that count? ;)
My 6 year old autistic grandson was singing the song endlessly, so I watched the video with him and his sister last weekend. At the end, little sister crooned the song. I thought he would sing, but he sat there in wonder and said, “We watched Frozen!”. Sis, for the record, adores plainer Anna, a very resourceful girl. She wants nothing to do with Princess Elsa.
It was a great disney Princess movie and the songs are top quality. I heard “Let it Go” that dsy in the theater, got goosebumps, and knew it was going to be Huge.
We also love the snowman Olaf singing about summer. So cute.
Sorry, but this song is no match for Disney’s, It’s a Small World.
Is that why it is so popular?
I estimate 9 out of 10 little girls ("Princesses") there were wearing "Elsa" costumes - at least $70 apiece.
Can't fault the marketing.
We had a good time, saw and heard all the Disney Christmas stuff (Candlelight Procession at Epcot, Osborne Lights at DHS, Gingerbread House at Grand Floridian plus masses of decorations all around the parks).
It's a real joy to know that Disney hasn't been caught in the anti-Christmas movement. Hope it stays that way.
I have heard it over and over again. My children are not the culprits either. I had to listen to it on several long bus ride field trips. The screaming nasally voice yelling the lyrics really grates on my nerves. I don’t know what it is that makes the people in my house all hate the voice of Idina Menzel, but it is unanimous. We all think she has a terrible voice. She can carry a tune. But I bet I could scratch out a tune on a chalkboard with my fingernails. Lol
There is a clip of Idina Menzel singing ‘Let It Go’ on the Tonight Show. My teen sons love to taunt me and my husband by playing that song when we least expect it. I do like a few other songs in the movie.
The song is very well written and powerful (as noted technically upthread). The other thing it has going for it is its placement in the film. Up until that point, you’re pretty much wrapped up in following an “Anna” storyline, but this moment shifts all of that and you realize the narrative is equally about Elsa.
I’ve tried to apply the “turning points” timeline to the movie (almost every movie follows an extremely specific pattern of five turning points at precise run times: 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 90-99% the defines the narrative - missing those points makes the audience subconsciously feel things are rushed or dragging). What I worked out was that if you use a 90 minute run-time, the turning points are about Anna; at 95 minutes, they’re about Elsa. This duality of storyline is why Frozen might be more popular (and with staying power) with audiences than a movie like Tangled, which I thought was in many ways a better movie.
Yeah, but how does the songs “stickiness” compare to the Lego Movie’s “Everything is Awesome”?