The duo took inspiration from the songs of the Disney Renaissance such as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast and various artists including Adele, Aimee Mann, Avril Lavigne (whose 2002 debut album incidentally is titled Let Go), Lady Gaga, and Carole King. The story outline they were given had a place reserved for 'Elsa's Badass Song', which was what they were trying to write. 'Let It Go' was the first song written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for the film that made it in, since songs composed earlier were eventually cut. It's not a perfect thing, but it's powerful.' And this concept of letting out who she is that she's kept to herself for so long and she's alone and free, but then the sadness of the fact that the last moment is she's alone. The Daily Telegraph explained that instead of the villain originally envisioned by the producers, the songwriters saw Elsa as 'a scared girl struggling to control and come to terms with her gift.' When interviewed in January 2014 by John August and Aline Brosh McKenna, Frozen director Jennifer Lee gave her recollection of the song's conception: 'Bobby and Kristen said they were walking in Prospect Park, and they just started talking about what would it feel like. History and use in Frozen Background and composition

Armin van Buuren produced another remix of the song for the remix album, Dconstructed. The EP features four remixes by Dave Audé, Papercha$er, DJ Escape & Tony Coluccio and Corbin Hayes. Ī remix EP was released digitally by Walt Disney Records on May 19, 2014. Īccording to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, 'Let It Go' sold 10.9 million copies in 2014, becoming the year's fifth best-selling song. The song gained international recognition, becoming one of the most globally recorded Disney songs, with versions sung in 25 languages for the film's international releases. 'Let It Go' reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2014 and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media in 2015. She sheds her royal accessories, creates a living snowman, and builds an Up in the mountains and away from the townspeople, Elsa realizes that she no longer needs to hide her ability and rejoices in not only being able to use her power freely but also the freedom from others' expectations of her as a royal. The song presents Queen Elsa, who flees her kingdom when she publicly loses control of her ability to generate ice. It was the biggest-selling foreign song from any original soundtrack in South Korea as of March 12, 2014.

As of December 2014, the song had sold 3.5 million copies in the US. The song was the ninth-best-selling song of 2014 in the United States, with 3.37 million copies sold in that year. The song is also Menzel's first single to reach the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the first Tony Award winner for acting to ever reach the top 10. Williams's ' Colors of the Wind' from Pocahontas peaked at number four on the chart. The song was a commercial success, becoming the first song from a Disney animated musical to reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 since 1995, when Vanessa L. A music video was released separately for Lovato's version. Disney's music division planned to release Lovato's version of the song before Menzel's, as they did not consider Menzel's version a traditional pop song.

Anderson-Lopez and Lopez also composed a simplified pop version (with shorter lyrics and background chorus) which was performed by actress and singer Demi Lovato over the start of the film's closing credits. It was later released as a single, being promoted to adult contemporary radio by Walt Disney Records in January 2014. The song was performed in its original show-tune version in the film by American actress and singer Idina Menzel in her vocal role as Queen Elsa. ' Let It Go' is a song from Disney's 2013 computer-animated feature film Frozen, whose music and lyrics were composed by husband-and-wife songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. From the album Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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