"Let It Go" from Frozen

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you put a straight-up power ballad in the middle of a Disney movie? "Let it Go" happens, that's what. STRONG SONGS ON PATREON Strong Songs has a Patreon! If you liked this episode (or, you know, any of them), we hope you'll consider supporting the show. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs LET IT GO On this episode, Kirk climbs to the top of a snowy peak and summons all his magical powers to figure out why Elsa of Arendelle's self-coronation song rocks as hard as it does, and what it says about the evolution of Disney musical numbers over the past 30 years. Band/Artist: Idina Menzel Album: Frozen Original Soundtrack, 2013 Composed by: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ------ ALSO FEATURED: "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey from Escape, 1981 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Part of Your World" by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman from The Little Mermaid, 1989 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "A Whole New World" by Alan Menken and Tim Rice from Aladdin, 1992 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "When Will My Life Begin?" by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater from Tangled, 2010 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Defying Gravity" by Stephen Schwartz from Wicked, 2003 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "How Far I'll Go" by Lin-Manuel Miranda from Moana, 2016 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ------ NEWSLETTER/MAILING LIST Sign up for Kirk's mailing list to start getting monthly-ish newsletters with music recommendations, links, news, and extra thoughts on new Strong Songs episodes: https://kirkhamilton.substack.com/subscribe STRONG MERCH! Visit the Strong Songs merch store for some very cool t-shirts, mugs, totes, and more: store.strongsongspodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Strong Songs a Podcast About Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as
0:09.2	always I'm so glad that you join me to talk about that strange mixture of math and physics that we call music.
0:16.3	Thanks as always to everyone who's been listening, sending in kind words, sharing the show,
0:20.5	telling people that they know about it. We've got more people listening than ever. The show is really been spreading around. It seems like people are enjoying
0:27.1	it, which is nice because I'm really enjoying making it. So hey everybody wins.
0:31.6	I have a newsletter that you could sign up for. Quite a few people have already signed up for it because I mentioned it on the last episode.
0:37.5	I will be sending out my first newsletter probably this week so you still have time to sign up and get the first one
0:43.5	link to sign up for that is down in the show notes I am going to be doing another
0:47.6	listener Q&A episode the next episode after this one will be a big Q&A if you listen
0:52.3	to that first one it was pretty fun so I want to do it again.
0:55.3	You are welcome to write me with any questions that you may have.
0:58.4	What I'm kind of looking for are specific questions, you know, not why does electric guitar sound so good and more what is the Electric
1:05.2	guitar doing on this specific song in this specific section.
1:08.9	So if you have any specific questions like that, things you've been wondering about, things you'd like to hear me take a crack at, please send them to me. You can email me at Strong Songs Podcast at gmail.com, or you can tweet at me at Kirkhamilton, that's K I R K Hamilton, email is probably easier for me to keep track of.
1:25.6	So again, that's Strong Songs Podcast at gmail.com. Send me your questions for the
1:30.0	Q&A episode, which will be after this week.
1:33.3	Okay, on to this episode's strong song, which is a real anthem, kind of one of the great
1:38.0	anthems of the last 10 years.
1:40.1	It's a song that does not have a question, as many of our songs have. In fact, it is a song about a command. It's a command sort of to yourself.
1:47.0	It's a command to the listener. It's a command to everyone to just finally grow into yourself, own who you are, and well you know what, I'll let
1:57.5	Elsa take it away. Let it go can't hold it back anymore
2:05.0	Let it go let it go
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