Idina Menzel asked for major change to 'Let It Go' while recording it

She is a pro - like beyond -- I love everything about her voice - so agile, so intense. OMG Wallace - what a goof ball he is and why doesn't he ask the writers of the show about this LOL. But man Idina clapped him back

Nice song

What’s Not to get… He said he doesn’t understand why she’s in the Ice Castle… Elsa has so much love in her heart that she’s choosing to leave behind her sister and her town because she’s afraid of destroying it more, and hurting her sister- so now she’s in a place where she can let her powers go, be herself, without hurting the people she loves. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand this song! Way to go Indina for explaining this powerful song! Most people do get it!

To be fair, most actors can't always explain the characters they play. How many interviews have you seen when the actor doesn't quite understand the question... for example. Star Wars fans are notorious for this, they ask the actors these deep meaning questions that only die hard fans would know.

Awful interviewer

She had been locked in a room because she was afraid to hurt anyone. She got away from anyone she could hurt and created the dwelling that expressed how she felt and who she was. She had been holding back in fear.
She was still worried about hurting people but if she was going to have to isolate herself she might as well do it in a way she could be comfortable with.

He sounded beyond stupid with the whole, I don't get it. How cringe

I love Adele Dazeem

What an awkward interview. He was not quite professional nor respectful

Virginia Woolf! A room of her own. Elsa needed the ice castle that she built for herself to find her own voice and feel free for the first time.

I saw the song b4 I saw the movie so I Elsas character arc was gonna be 'I don't like the life I've had so far, so I'm gonna become the Evil Ice Queen of this movie', like this movie was gonna explain a sympathetic origin story of a Disney villain.
Something that Wish tried and failed to do btw.

Que pesado él.

Why is he asking her to explain the character??? She didn’t write the play. But he’s so fixated on getting these questions answered by her. He needs to let it go 😂

The animators must have had a field day with this movie

White, priviliged older male, well off. Never had to deal with any of the shit women has to deal with. Or any minority for that matter. Of course he doesn't get it. He just revealed himself and she called him on it. Well done. I am just surprised the producers let him ask that question. I guess he doesn't understand inclutiuon and representation either...

What a rude and stupid interviewer. "I didn't get it." Tell me you're so afraid and controlled by your own fragile toxic masculinity without telling me you're afraid and controlled by your own fragile toxic masculinity. Like so many stories about magic, Elsa's powers need to be trained and channeled or they can explode out of her emotions. Rather than be taught to harness and wield her powers, she was raised to believe she must bottle up any and all feelings or her powers would endanger people. Let It Go is about letting out her emotions and letting go of her fears of losing control. "The fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all. It's time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through"

Wow did he really completely miss the point of that song.

I do have a problem with the line, "No right, no wrong, no rules for me, I'm free!" It is the original temptation by the deceiver "to be like God."

"...I don't get it. I don't get it when I saw the movie. I didn't get it when every one of my grand children were singing the darn song." Cringe.

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"

Indina got to play 2 arch villains redeemed to vulnerable characters, Elphaba (Wicked Witch) and Elsa (Snow Queen)…and sing two powerhouse songs Defying Gravity and Let it Go, songs about embracing your true self despite society trying to control you 😭😭😭😭

The castle represents the amazing things her power can do...when she let herself go...

What a gracious human being! Love our Adele Dazeem!

This interviewer was kind of rude...

Transposing up a half-step is actually a minor change. Literally, if you know music theory.

She looks nothing like ilsa

Is it really so difficult to understand the importance of the fact that she didn't feel like she could be herself without first completely removing herself from every living thing around her. She had to literally wander into the wilderness to be completely isolated before she could be her true self. Elsa's character psychology could be a thesis paper

Let It Go is an empowering song, but it also isn't the end of the story, Elsa eventually realizes love and human connection is more important than her fears, but Let It Go was a big moment in allowing her to not give into fear, and embracing her power, before she was locked away in the castle in her room, but also locking away her power. Let It Go lets her see her true abilities, she's capable of so much. The only problem is she left one isolation for another, hence why she has to also learn from Anna later in the story

Cant take the song in isolation. The song is sung by a flawed character going through a hard time figuring it all out. Cant just listen to this song as an anthem without context

I had to watch this interview several times. This was about the time when Chris Wallace was done!!

This guy not understanding Let It Go is honestly just the definition of male priveledge. 😂

He's right. Only this intensely expressive-individualist (read: self-centered) generation would view 'Let it Go' unironically as an anthem.

She didn't know, deeply, what she was singing and not even years later she knows even after the authors had been asked. And it is that she and those who carry her had in mind a socio-political agenda that I swear they had to shoehorn in as a message in the film. Fortunately, the final result was more balanced because each one, the public, gave it their own meaning, not that of an agenda.

"I love that you're telling me the plot in this interview."
Chris Wallace blames Idina Menzel for his grandkids getting the song stuck in his head, I see.

I agree with you Wallace. It is not Empowerment to run away to her Ice Castle Out of FEAR and shun the help and love offered to her from her sister.

Her Parents were told to teach her how to use her powers, but they shut her away and told her suppress her gift. After they died, She kept Herself locked away, still afraid.

She runs away from her people in fear and builds literal walls of ice to lock herself away. This is not freedom... To be empowered, she would need to accept and embrace her gifts, face her people, work with her sister to Be Herself, and be with her people.

It is Anna that shows her that Love is stronger than fear... and Elsa didn't need to lock her self away all those years... ❤❤❤

So Wallace just doesn't understand rather basic storytelling

(actors are the worst literary critics—how do they portray character when they have no grasp of the themes and characterization they actually embody?)

‘The WICKEDly talented indelmazy’

These are the Closed Captions for "Let It Go":

How many cars
ready to
set it down to
know
what
to say
at the start rate John?

Cold never bothered me
anyway.

They reject her, so she build a world she can live in. They were the ones who were bothered by it.

She locks herself up because she is afraid. She's so filled with the fear of hurting people that she feels that the only solution is to live alone. She realizes that her curse can actually be beautiful when she creates her amazing ice palace. In the end, she learns that the opposite of fear is love and she can do wonderful things without hurting anyone when she expresses her love instead of her fear.

This guy.... Did he watch the movie? The song was about freeing herself, not just from her own insecurities, but of the fear of what other people would think of her. She does give into the power, but she also accepts the idea that to have her freedom, she's going to have to be alone. There is power and courage in that. Of knowing what you need from yourself and others. She needed to let go of her fears/insecurities, and she needed to be alone.

I love that even Kingdom Hearts III was like: "We can't do Frozen without including the song."

Travolta looked like he was having a stroke when saying her name So funny

Both of their interpretations are correct. She ran away so she is free to be herself without endangering or being judged by others, which is important sometimes. But eventually, she has to come back and take responsibility in society in order to be a truly “good” character, essentially to grow up and deal with reality. If she just stayed a hermit in her castle who fights people away and never compromises with others, she could have easily become the villain character. The story could have gone either direction from that scene, and we see her veer into villain-like territory when Anna first shows up.

She hides herself in a castle so to not hurt anyone

They're both not quite right at the end! The empowerment angle of Let it Go is, in a moment of emotion when you've spent years doing what you're told to avoid being ostracized and then you mess up ONCE and everyone turns against you, simply deciding to embrace what makes you who you are and not hide it or be ashamed of it anymore - within yourself. The Ice Castle and isolation angle is representative of that fact that she still doesn't know how to control her powers, because she grew up being taught that whatever it is is wrong and bad, and feels that the only way she can exist as herself is in isolation so she doesn't hurt anyone she cares about, which is what she's been taught is all her power does.. It is only when her sister, friends, and family are able to show her that the thing she's thought is terrible about herself her whole life is really actually a beautiful thing that she learns the key to controlling her gift.

The subtitles for the Let It Go part are hilarious. 😊