Sunday, March 02, 2014

Let it Go






I love this song, though there's something about it that always makes me want to cry. Last Wednesday GMA held a live sing-along event with thousands across the USA joining in, which I was able to catch before leaving for work. You can see and read about it HERE. Idina Menzel will perform the Oscar-nominated song live during the awards ceremony tonight.






10 comments:

Alice Audrey said...

My dd has been bugging me to go see this for a while now. Now I want to see it too.

Jana said...

Ahhh, I love this song, too. My sister reports that Lyssa sings this loudly and often, even though she doesn't know all the words. haha I gave her the soundtrack after we saw the movie and she mostly just listens to this on repeat. :-D

It's such a powerful song. I hate that missed her performance last night. I skipped the Oscars and then flipped it over just in time to see Pink sing the heck out of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and then went to bed. Apparently I went to bed ten minutes too soon. :-/ Always my luck. lol

Heather said...

Alice: I've been wanting to see it for months now, but never got round to the theater. Now I'll just wait a couple weeks when it is out on DVD (March 18).

Heather said...

Jana: According to my BIL, The Bug and Mom knew every song by heart before the movie even hit theaters.

Pink did an excellent job on Somewhere Over the Rainbow. And yes, "Let It Go" is a powerful song. I'm sorry you and every kid with an 8pm bedtime missed it Sunday night. That is one of my biggest peeve with the night's musical selections.

First, there were four nominations for best original song. Why is it the men (Pharrell and U2) got to perform their songs in their entirety while both songs sung by women were truncated?

Second, whose lame idea was it to schedule "Let It Go" for the last half hour of the show? The song just knocked Beyonce' out of the top spot and millions of kids world-wide (not to mention a large number of adults) are singing it. So why -- WHY?? did they put it dead last, at a time when all the song's young fans were in, or at least should have been in, bed)? That makes zero sense to me.

And seriously? We could have used Pharrell's upbeat "Happy" to wake us up for the remaining big awards in that last half hour. I so would have slated him last and Idina first -- and I wouldn't have cut out the entire middle of her song, either.

The late hour that the show ended (11 central, midnight eastern) brings up another question: do we really need an hour and a half of the "red carpet"? Whatever happened to starting the actual awards at 7pm central?

Alice Audrey said...

It was a "snow day" here yesterday. :) (like you didn't already know). So we drove out to the theater and watched Frozen. There was hardly anyone in the parking lot or the theater.

We loved it.

Heather said...

You obviously received a lot more snow than we did. We've had more overnight--still falling in fact. Looks like at least 3 or 4 inches. We're more than a foot above the season's norm, but we really need the moisture.

Alice Audrey said...

It started raining this morning. The snow is turning into a lake. Well. Slowly. Even rain can't wipe out that much snow in a day.

Heather said...

Ugh! We'll be dealing with the lake problem tomorrow, when we get above freezing. Actually, even though yesterday's high was only 20F, the sun had melted enough snow that the front walk was half-covered by icy slush last night. I ended up entering through the back door instead.

Alice Audrey said...

That snow drift in my backyard turned into a lumpy skating rink with rivers of snowbank. Still, I'm hopeful of Spring.

Heather said...

There's hope -- we got above 40 today! ☺