A Perfect Storm
Fair warning: I am absolutely obsessed with the Disney movie Frozen.
I've seen in twice in the past week, and I've been listening to the soundtrack non-stop since about Friday. It's starting to drive My Sweetie nuts.
There's lots to love about this movie. There's the fact that it is the second Disney movie in very recent years where the key relationship of the story is not a romantic one, but rather an intense familial relationship between two women (and the related fact that Frozen does for sisters what Brave did for mothers and daughters). There's the adorable anthropomorphised reindeer, who is definitely my favourite character, although the equally adorable animate snowman Olaf, voiced by the incomparable Josh Gad is a close second. There's the fact that the voice actors are all singers and all did their own singing (including Kristen Bell, who made her broadway debut in 2001!)
But really, who am I kidding? The reason is "Let It Go."
In my opinion, this is the best Disney song ever. I feel like they've been trying to make something this epic since at least "Go the Distance" (Hercules, 1997) but haven't quite managed it. Well, between songwriting team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and the huge voice of Idina Menzel, they've finally nailed it.
A little broadway history for you. In 2004 two of the musicals up for the Tony Awards were two of my favourites, Wicked and Avenue Q. Avenue Q won most of the awards, including Best Musical, but the truly notable one that it didn't win was Best Actress in a Musical, which went to Idina Menzel for her role in Wicked. Then, more recently, in 2011, the award for Best Musical went to Book of Mormon. Book of Mormon and Avenue Q have one major thing in common: both songwriting teams included Robert Lopez.
See where I'm going with this?
I really have my heart set on this song winning the Oscar this year, but as I see it, there's only one problem. And it's a doozy. The problem is that "Let It Go" is also the song that was redone by a pop singer for the closing credits of the movie. I feel pretty strongly that when Disney does that (and let's face it, Disney always does that!) the version in the movie is almost always better than the credits version. So the thing that worries me is that the song is going to get the nomination, but the live performance at the Oscars is not going to be the good version!
I've seen in twice in the past week, and I've been listening to the soundtrack non-stop since about Friday. It's starting to drive My Sweetie nuts.
There's lots to love about this movie. There's the fact that it is the second Disney movie in very recent years where the key relationship of the story is not a romantic one, but rather an intense familial relationship between two women (and the related fact that Frozen does for sisters what Brave did for mothers and daughters). There's the adorable anthropomorphised reindeer, who is definitely my favourite character, although the equally adorable animate snowman Olaf, voiced by the incomparable Josh Gad is a close second. There's the fact that the voice actors are all singers and all did their own singing (including Kristen Bell, who made her broadway debut in 2001!)
But really, who am I kidding? The reason is "Let It Go."
Click to viewIn my opinion, this is the best Disney song ever. I feel like they've been trying to make something this epic since at least "Go the Distance" (Hercules, 1997) but haven't quite managed it. Well, between songwriting team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and the huge voice of Idina Menzel, they've finally nailed it.
A little broadway history for you. In 2004 two of the musicals up for the Tony Awards were two of my favourites, Wicked and Avenue Q. Avenue Q won most of the awards, including Best Musical, but the truly notable one that it didn't win was Best Actress in a Musical, which went to Idina Menzel for her role in Wicked. Then, more recently, in 2011, the award for Best Musical went to Book of Mormon. Book of Mormon and Avenue Q have one major thing in common: both songwriting teams included Robert Lopez.
See where I'm going with this?
I really have my heart set on this song winning the Oscar this year, but as I see it, there's only one problem. And it's a doozy. The problem is that "Let It Go" is also the song that was redone by a pop singer for the closing credits of the movie. I feel pretty strongly that when Disney does that (and let's face it, Disney always does that!) the version in the movie is almost always better than the credits version. So the thing that worries me is that the song is going to get the nomination, but the live performance at the Oscars is not going to be the good version!