My word is frozen on you

Co-writer Robert Lopez:

We’re not really pop songwriters. All of our songs are really about the story, and ‘Let It Go’ was inspired by the story of Elsa. We always look for these moments where characters make a decision in the story, where they change, and if you took out that song, you wouldn’t be able to understand how. It’s still a revolutionary thing, to this day, to say, ‘That perfect girl is gone’. So much of culture still tries to sort of rein us in, and want us to be quiet and nice and small and pretty. And I do think that ‘Let It Go’ is this moment of like, ‘Screw that!’”

– Via Billboard (2019)

In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #182 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:

Most girls under the age of 12 (not to mention the obliging adults in their lives) could easily recite every word of ‘Let It Go,’ the immensely popular theme from Disney’s Frozen. But those words have a potent power of fearless self-acceptance, thanks to co-writer Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Idina Menzel’s sublime, acrobatic vocal. ‘That perfect girl is gone,’ she sings, but a stronger one now stands in her place.

Elsa is singing this song because she’s frustrated with the way she’s been taught to reject and hide her powers. Throughout the course of this song she decides that she will accept her powers instead of living in fear of them.

Let It Go Videos by The Nostalgia Critic (Ft. Tamara Chambers), 2000-2019 mashup | 200 songs from the last 20 years by YamiNoBahamut, Once Upon a Snowman (From «Once Upon a Snowman») by Christophe Beck & Jeff Morrow, TECH it NO it LO it GIC it by Duuzu, Won’t Say I’m in Love (Mashup) by Thomas Sanders (Ft. Foti, Jamahl Rawls & Terrance Williams Jr.), Reloaded (Let It Go 2) by A$AP Ferg (Ft. Crystal Caines & M.I.A.), DO NOT HOLD ONTO IT by Edukayfun, United State of Pop 2014 (Do What You Wanna Do) by DJ Earworm, Выходной (Weekend) by ​nafig, YouTube Rewind: Turn Down For 2014 by YouTube & Libre Soy by Carmen Sarahi

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