It was completely ludicrous, my mind told me, yet I was guilty of living in sin for years because of this idea. The idea that, for some reason, one slip up meant that all self control should be thrown out hit me hard on a personal level. However, I was now at attention, waiting to see what could be concluded about the film’s creators’ worldviews. Until this point in the movie, I had been completely sucked in, experiencing, not thinking. Somehow, the fact that the people now know about her power completely changes everything, and instead of trying to regain her composure, she decides to revel in her inner turmoil: Next she sings about what she had previously been telling herself: The wind is howling like this swirling storm insideĬouldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried She follows this by acknowledging her inner turmoil and her failure to control herself: The snow glows white on the mountain tonight The song begins by establishing the setting: Having lost all self control, hurting many people and their livelihoods, she storms into the mountains and begins singing “Let It Go” as she builds a castle of ice. She then loses her composure and her ability to control her powers, resulting in a massive snow storm and eternal winter that freezes the entire kingdom. In the ensuing fight, Elsa’s powers are accidentally exposed. Elsa, however, believes the two are acting too hastily, and won’t allow it. During the course of the festivities, Anna falls in love with and is engaged to the impressive Prince Hans. When Elsa comes of age, it is time for her coronation. Unfortunately, before too long, calamity strikes again and the girls’ parents are lost at sea.
After the event, Elsa is kept away from Anna so that she won’t hurt her again, and in the years of separation that follow, a rift grows between them. Unfortunately, all memory of Elsa’s powers must be swept from Anna’s mind in order for her to be healed, so Anna has no memory of what has occurred. The princess’ parents rush Anna off to be healed by some trolls. However, everything goes wrong when Elsa, the older sister, accidentally freezes her younger sister Anna’s head while using her magical powers to create an indoor winter wonderland. At the very beginning of the film, we learn that there are two sisters, princesses, who share a deep love for each other. As such, we will endeavor to unlock its significance and meaning by examining the song’s setting, content, and context.īefore we can examine the song, we must examine the events within the story which led up to it. Indeed, because it is mostly targeted to young people, children and teens, it is also an important puzzle piece for putting together the puzzle that is our culture’s future. Consequently, it is also important for examining today’s culture. The song’s prevalence has made it an important aspect of today’s cultural landscape.
But Beyond that, nearly everyone that I know has at least most of the song memorized. On YouTube the song has reached almost 160,000,000 views, at the 86th Academy Awards it won the award for Best Original Song, and it is the first song from a Disney animated musical to reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 since 1995. The results were unequivocal: the vast majority of the 15,000 respondents demanded the song's return, the station said.“Let It Go,” the most popular song from Disney’s 2013 animated musical Frozen, has been a smashing success.
"People are unbelievably passionate about their Christmas music, it's the one thing that you can't mess with," Figula said, adding that listeners rely on it "to reminisce to the good old days when life was easy and simple."įinding common ground on "Baby, It's Cold Outside" has been anything but simple.Ī feminist defense of the lyrics points out that when they were written a woman with a good reputation had to protest a man's advances, even if she actually welcomed them, and the song's figurative woman is actually expressing her sexuality in a veiled era-appropriate way.įurthering the ambiguity, KOSI in Denver has done an about-face, first banning the song on Monday, then opening up a poll to put the decision to listeners. He banned it on Monday.īut he told NPR that he had no idea of the "tornado" he would face: hundreds of emails demanding the song be put back in rotation, more than ten times the number of requests he said he fielded asking him to yank it.
Brian Figula, program director of KOIT saw the headlines and determined the song would have no place at his San Francisco station.
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