Wrapping up my week of ‘Let it Go’ covers is a version performed on four violins and a piano, all by the same person (though obviously not recorded at the same time — that would be a hell of a trick).
Unlike yesterday’s YouTube smash, this cover has received only 5,000 views. I’ll do my part to bump that number a bit.
Meet Me In Montauk 
Cool, but she should have left out the piano as it is not in tune with the strings.
I love how technology has enabled anyone with a creative instinct and the will/time to pursue it to do something like this – and then to be able to share their creation with people they will never meet. I know it’s obvious, but I get newly amazed by it from time to time, and this is one of those times. This young woman gets inspired by Frozen, picks a half dozen different shirts/sweaters out of her closet for “costume changes,” sets up her webcam, and gets to playing and recording. A few hours later, she can put the whole thing together and upload it to YouTube where a mere!!! 5,000 people will see it. 5,000 people?! I mean – come on! And we’ll be talking about it on this blog. It’s just so cool.
As for the song itself, I miss the lyrics and the VOICE that will sing those lyrics. It’s a lovely melody, but it’s the lyrics – and the way that they are delivered – that makes this song so moving for me.
On another note, since it’s the end of your “Let It Go” theme week, what do you think of the whole “hidden gay agenda” argument that is making the rounds regarding the song and the film? I’m convinced Ellen will have to come out on the Oscar stage in full Elsa mode, ready to belt (or lip sync) “Let It Go” at some point – just to have some fun with it.
Regardless, fun week 🙂
Yes, it’s touching that a young woman can go through all of that effort, put herself out there, then have a guy comment on a blog to say her piano is out of tune. 😉
I haven’t heard the “hidden gay agenda” discussion but it makes total sense if you read the lyrics. Total sense that the song would appeal to people in the closet, I mean.
I’ve read a couple of articles arguing that the makeover aspect of the scene is anti-feminist. Why does she have to become hot to complete her transformation? I can sorta see the point, but that moment when she transforms her hair and dress are just too cool, cinematically, for me to get upset.
I feel like it is less about her becoming “hot” and more about someone’s true beauty coming through when they get to be themselves- an unfiltered version that is not bogged down by what others want them to be. Sure Elsa becomes more “sexy” with a dress that complements her form better and a more confident walk and hair style, but that was an effect of her transformation- not essential to it happening.
What she said ^ ^ totally!