Awesome Music / Frozen (2013)

That Frozen has music hailed as Broadway-worthy is no surprise, considering Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez helped write these songs after helping write Tony winners Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, and also took Frozen to Broadway in 2018. Not to mention Broadway legend Idina Menzel being a central cast member as Elsa.

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• Academy Award winner "Let it Go" is generally considered a bonafide showstopper that deserves to take its place alongside numbers like "Circle of Life" and "Beauty and the Beast". Not only are the melody and vocals gorgeous, but the visuals are simply breathtaking. It's so good and iconic, in fact, that the entire thing made it into Kingdom Hearts III. Demi Lovato's cover in the end credits isn't a slouch in the awesomeness department, either.
  • It's also, at least for now, the most popular video on one of Disney's official channels on Youtube.
  • It was the #1 trending video on YouTube two weeks after the movie's theatrical release.
  • The sing-along version on Disney's UK YouTube channel hit 2 billion views six years after release, on top of the hundreds of millions on the different official videos of the song (the textless version on the US channel, the multilanguage one, and more) and the countless covers.
• Anything sung by Kristen Bell, as at the time of her casting, she was most well known for Veronica Mars, and there were a great many people who didn't know of her musical theater background.
• "Vuelie (feat. Cantus)" is one of the most beautiful sounding openings to a Disney animated film (based on a traditional Norwegian song), while "Frozen Heart" sets the adventurous mood and the locale. Together these two blend the spiritual and physical mood of the film; the atmosphere is set in such an elegant but epic way. "Vuelie" is something of a throwback to both "Circle of Life" and "The Bells of Notre Dame" - the opening song is a big choral piece in a language other than English.
• "For The First Time In Forever" possibly sounds like Disney's most epic "I Want" Song in years. The public first heard Anna's and Elsa's counterpoint in this trailer, and it effectively enforced a return to form for music in the Disney Animated Canon.
  • The reprise manages to be both a Triumphant Reprise and a Dark Reprise. However, it also combines two beautiful melodies together and it perfectly displays the emotions of both Elsa and Anna.
  • Frozen went on to become Disney's most acclaimed animated movie in years, and one of their biggest blockbusters of all time, making the title of the song seem rather fitting to the movie's reception.
• "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" provides a rather emotional example of an Age-Progression Song, deftly balancing the cute factor of Anna asking the title question to Elsa, with the tragedy of them growing emotionally distant. When the song reaches the point when the girls lose their parents, Kristen Bell (as teenage Anna) gets to demonstrate her singing talents for the first time in the picture, and successfully brings on the feels.
• "Love is an Open Door" sounds like a nice addition to Disney's ever-growing library of pretty Love Themes. Then such lines as Hans singing, "With you, I found my place" amazingly take on new meaning after The Reveal that he loved the thought of taking over Arendelle more strongly than he loved Anna. Word of God says it was meant to be a Stealth Villain Song.
• The opening number, "Frozen Heart", might be the catchiest song in the film, as many Musical Chores songs tend to be. As a bonus, the lyrics themselves also provide ample foreshadowing.
• The Cut Songs are quite good as well. "More Than Just the Spare" (click here for Kristen Bell's version) or "Life's Too Short". The opening of "Life's Too Short" was later re-purposed (with different lyrics) for the opening to the Frozen Fever song "Making Today a Perfect Day".
• And what would a Disney Movie be without epic orchestras?. The score by Christophe Beck has some amazing moments. Some of the highlights:
  • "Elsa and Anna" emphasizes the playfulness and loving relationship between Elsa and Anna as kids, signals the pain felt when Elsa accidentally hits Anna, highlights the rush to find the trolls, and ends on a sad note where Elsa and Anna's relationship remains frozen in time as the sisters are separated from each other.
  • "Coronation Day" symbolizes the hope and joy that the kingdom has in finally having their Queen come of age and officially coronated.
  • "Sorcery" represents the fear that Elsa feels as her powers are revealed to the kingdom, along with her panicked state as she flees.
  • "The Great Thaw (Vuelie Reprise)" begins on a sad note as Elsa mourns Anna's Heroic Sacrifice, rejoices as Anna thaws and returns to life, and finally overcomes her fear of her power and brings back summer.
  • "Epilogue", the joyous end to the film, featuring glorious orchestral reprises of "For the First Time in Forever" and "Do You Want to Build a Snowman".