“It’s not as lush or as complicated as a musical theatre piece might otherwise be. “‘Let It Go’ is basically a hit single that we get in the middle of a Disney film,” says Dr Vasco Hexel, who teaches composition for screen at the Royal College of Music. One theory for the incredible catchiness of ‘Let It Go’ is that it’s a musical number that owes more to pop music than to Broadway. But what made ‘Let It Go’ work where so many others have not? What is the secret to its sorcery? We asked two music experts for their thoughts.Īn effective pop song has to feel familiar the first time you hear it.
After all, if it was that easy to make a catchy song, then everyone would be doing it. It was the kind of magic about which pop song producers could only dream. Adults loved it, but it was a track that bewitched children – causing them to drive their parents to the brink of insanity by obsessively playing it over and over again. It reached the top five in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, sold 10.9 million copies in a year and won the Academy® Award for Best Original Song.
We are talking, of course, about ‘Let It Go’, the song which, when FROZEN was released in the winter of 2013, became a sensation among anyone with ears. The truly remarkable thing about FROZEN is that in a musical that features a song as poignant as ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman?’, as uplifting as ‘For the First Time in Forever’, or as funny as ‘In Summer’, there is one song that towers above them all, glittering like a freshly made ice palace.
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