History Music / RobertLopez

Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is a rather versatile and witty songwriter, who rose into prominence during the early 21st century. With help from such collaborators as BMI Workshop classmate Jeffrey Marx, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' creators Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, and Bobby's wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he has found success writing for both the stage and the screen, which helped him become the first person to achieve {{UsefulNotes/The EGOT|s}} multiple times.

* LyricalDissonance: Among other examples, ''The Book of Mormon'' has a jubilant-sounding CrowdSong about cursing God ("Hasa Diga Eebowai") and ''Frozen'' has a SelfEmpowermentAnthem about running away from life's problems ("Let it Go"). The latter actually started out as a VillainSong until hearing the demo, performed by Robert and his wife Kristen, inspired a complete restructuring of the film to make Elsa much more sympathetic, a {{Deuteragonist}} rather than a villain.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Finding Nemo: The Musical]]'' (with Kristen Anderson-Lopez)

* CreatorCouple: As you can see above, he collaborates with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez[[note]]whom he married in 2003[[/note]] more than anyone else.

* PlayingAgainstType: Starting out writing songs for raunchy stage musicals before moving onto Disney films.
* PromotedFanboy: Of Creator/{{Disney}} and ''South Park''. This proved mutual in at least the latter case, as Trey and Matt started collaborating with Bobby after enjoying ''Avenue Q''.
* RealitySubtext:
** "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist", from ''Avenue Q'', drew from Robert Lopez's experiences growing up with a Filipino RacistGrandma.
** "Remember Me" struck him and Kristen Anderson-Lopez close to home, since it's sung by a musician whose career interfered with spending time with his daughter (the eponymous Coco). The song's somber renditions gained another layer when Robert lost his mother prior to the premiere; he even sung it at her funeral.
** When Bobby and Kristen were writing the songs for ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'', their infant daughter was having trouble sleeping through the night. So in "The Backson Song", they had Kanga claim the Backson "wakes up babies at two or three" from experience.

* TrollingCreator: For the ''Frozen'' Blu-ray and Digital HD copy, Bobby and Kristen penned "The Making of ''Frozen''", a song in which the cast and crew -- including the Lopez couple -- boast that they'll tell fans how they made the movie, but ultimately admit, "We don't know!"
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Before ''Avenue Q'', Robert and Jeffrey pitched an official [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] movie, ''Kermit: Prince of Denmark'', a loose ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' adaptation they created at BMI. It ended up getting rejected by the Jim Henson Company, then shelved by the Muppets Holding Company.
** After ''Frozen'', Disney tasked Bobby and Kristen with writing songs for a ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' adaptation, ''Gigantic''. This also got shelved before completion, though the Lopezes performed one of its numbers at a D23 Expo.

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Robert "Bobby" Lopez (born February 23, 1975 in Manhattan, New York) is a rather versatile and witty songwriter, who rose into prominence during the early 21st century. With help from such collaborators as BMI Workshop classmate Jeffrey Marx, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' creators Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, and Bobby's wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he has found success writing for both the stage and the screen, which helped him become the first person to achieve {{UsefulNotes/The EGOT|s}} multiple times.

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* AffectionateParody: His first two Broadway hits provided loving pastiches of ''Series/SesameStreet'' (''Avenue Q''), and musicals in general (''The Book of Mormon'').

Robert "Bobby" Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is a rather versatile and witty songwriter, who rose into prominence during the early 21st century. With help from such collaborators as BMI Workshop classmate Jeffrey Marx, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' creators Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, and Bobby's wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he has found success writing for both the stage and the screen, which helped him become the first person to achieve {{UsefulNotes/The EGOT|s}} multiple times.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' (with Kristen Anderson-Lopez)

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' (with Kristen Anderson-Lopez)
** ''Disney/FrozenFever'' (with Kristen Anderson-Lopez)
** ''Disney/FrozenII'' (with Kristen Anderson-Lopez)

* CreatorCameo: He voices the "rumbly in [Pooh's] tumbly" in ''Disney/WinnieThePooh2011'', for which he and Kristen Anderson-Lopez were the songwriters.

** When Bobby and Kristen were writing the songs for ''Disney/WinnieThePooh2011'', their infant daughter was having trouble sleeping through the night. So in "The Backson Song", they had Kanga claim the Backson "wakes up babies at two or three" from experience.

* ''Disney/WinnieThePooh2011'' (with Kristen Anderson-Lopez)

* CreatorCouple: He and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez[[note]]whom he married in 2003[[/note]] form one whenever they write together.