Sometimes music gets stuck in my head for no obvious reasons. Mark and I finally watched Disney’s “Frozen” yesterday, and while we may have been the wrong target audience for a story about princesses, a song from the film stuck in my head.
Strong songs can, of course, often be found in Disney films. It is their mark. Think about Hakuna Matata from The Lion King or Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid. There’s A Whole New World from Aladdin, and going back to The Lion King there’s Circle of Life.
Disney has some strong songs that make kids and adults all over the world perk up and burst into dance when hearing one of them. Quite a few will know the lyrics by heart as well. And now we can add the song “Let it go”, which is a sort of new Defying Gravity for modern kids.
And “Let it go” has occupied me today, which has caused Mark to circle around the office to see what on Earth I was doing. He should be used to my crashing into song by now. I have recorded the loops and the chord sequence, and tomorrow or on Tuesday I’m going to record the vocals for it.
This is a song that’s deceptively simple to sing, but which need proper belting. Holding back would make it a bit boring; no you need to sing all the way from your toes to project the emotion in this song. Either that, or you’d end up with Demi Lovato’s anaemic version which sees a technically more competent singer, but which has little of the sheer emotional force of the song of the film.
And any good song can be expropriated, particularly if it has a message that says something, and which gay boy or girl can not say that we haven’t wanted to let go, screw the consequences, so that we could be true to ourselves? Now amp that up in a song that needs to be heard clear through a packed hall to the very last row of seats. Powerful stuff; cathartic stuff.
Colinology 
I agree with your thoughts on “Let It Go” – it’s such a powerful song that not just anyone can sing. Idina Menzel’s emotion really strikes a chord and I feel like it’s a piece many can relate to.
Yeah, the film was okay, I think. Pretty good. Not Lion King though. xD But the music was consistently high quality.
I love this side of you. I get what you mean by how the song should be sung. Your describing the ability of a performer in a East End/Broadway musical to belt it out to be heard by someone at the very top of the balcony. I am a fan of that type of singing. I now have to catch this film.
I do know how to belt. I was trained as a stage singer, so that’s what I’m most familiar with. Only I don’t do much of that these days 🙂 I’ll DM you a link on Twitter so you can hear for yourself. 😛
I really enjoyed it. I hope you can embrace that part of your music repertoire whilst adding other forms of musical expression. When it comes to music being eclectic in what I listen to brings me the most joy.
After a couple of weeks of having this stuck in my head I had finally got it out. After reading your post it is back on loop again. Such a catchy song, can’t wait to hear your version 🙂
Haha, actually it will take a while because I have to book a studio. They have such down at the uni. When I do normal songs I can do them at home, but I need to amp up for this one. I can’t do it in the house because I keep holding back. That way the neighbours don’t come running (or ring the police). Which they would do if I ‘let it go’ for the two or three hours it would take to record the vocals for this one.
On that same topic, this version of this song has always frustrated me. It’s a song about losing control, yet it’s so very controlled that I wonder if the singer has any experience in falling, or if it just scares him shitless.