ELSA FROZEN SONG LET IT GO MOVIE

IвЂ™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 вЂњWell now they know!вЂќ the frantic, pulse-quickening syncopation of the bridge the explosive leap of the chorus, mirrored in the animationвЂ™s rapid ascent and the final imperious shrug of вЂњThe cold never bothered me anyway.вЂќ ItвЂ™s uncommonly fast for a power ballad, too вЂ“ 137 beats per minute вЂ“ which is why itвЂ™s been recommended as a workout song and remixed, badly, into a club banger. One test of a truly great song is an ability to listen to it dozens of times without screaming.

Reading on mobile? Click here to view Let It Go videoД¬ritics are often accused of overthinking mainstream hits, but the songs that outstrip all expectations (Disney didnвЂ™t anticipate that MenzelвЂ™s original would eclipse Demi LovatoвЂ™s tamer pop version) always demand a closer look. ItвЂ™s a glimpse of the future, a vessel for secret knowledge. To her, an older sister at an age where boys are beginning to become a source of intrigue rather than irritation, and conventional Disney princesses are a prissy drag, itвЂ™s more than a song. Still, these mind-boggling statistics strike me less forcefully than my daughterвЂ™s unprecedented obsession. On YouTube, where it sits alongside countless amateur cover versions, spoofs, supercuts and fan-made videos, the Let It Go sequence uploaded by Disney last December has attracted almost 180m views.

ELSA FROZEN SONG LET IT GO MOVIE

ItвЂ™s the main reason why the Frozen soundtrack has been the No 1 album in the US for nine weeks and counting вЂ“ BeyoncГ© only managed three вЂ“ and a significant reason why the film became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time. Like the snow in Frozen, Let It Go is everywhere, and itвЂ™s not disappearing without a fight.

Technically, the song from Frozen is sung by Broadway star Idina Menzel in the role of Elsa the Snow Queen, but as far as my seven-year-old daughter вЂ“ who has been singing it several times a day for weeks вЂ“ is concerned, itвЂ™s hers. I donвЂ™t yet know what my song of the year is, but I can tell you without hesitation what the song IвЂ™ve heard the most is, albeit not always in its recorded version: the Oscar-winning Let It Go.

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