Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We revisit our magical conversation with Academy Award winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. They're the husband and wife writing team behind 2013's modern classic "Let it Go" from the animated film Frozen and "Remember Me" from 2017's Coco. The Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony-award winning duo joined Bullseye to share the story of how they first met as well as chat about how they draw inspiration for their song lyrics. Plus, they tell us what date night at the Oscars with their kids is like.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.8	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:21.8	My next guests are a dynamite songwriting duo, Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez.
0:27.9	Together they've written some of the catchiest movie songs of the last 10 years.
0:32.4	Like, for example, you have probably seen Frozen, right?
0:35.5	And even if you haven't, you probably know this song.
0:46.5	Or do you remember Me from Coco?
0:55.1	They wrote that too.
0:56.2	They also wrote the music for Frozen 2, which is just out on home video.
1:00.7	Robert has also written music for the Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, Scrubs, and more.
1:05.8	He is one of only 12 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award.
1:12.2	Yes, he is an Egot.
1:14.1	When I talked with them in 2018, it was just after Coco had come out.
1:17.9	If you haven't seen Coco yet, you first of all should.
1:20.9	It's great.
1:22.1	The story revolves around Miguel, a young boy who's living in a small town in Mexico.
1:26.8	He's an aspiring musician even though his family has for quite some time banned music entirely.
1:33.7	And on the day of the dead, when families all over the country remember their lost loved ones,
1:38.7	everything comes to a boiling point.
1:40.7	He runs away from home and by a stroke of magic meets his ancestors in the land of the dead.
1:46.5	It's a fantastic premise told with rich striking colors.
1:51.2	Is it a kid's movie about death?
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