Just to let you know that at least two times I have sat through the excruciating one and a half hours of Frozen, which, somehow, in spite of the plethora of plot holes, has become an example of a movie well loved in spite of itself. And as much as I can’t stand the movie, I hate the music that came from it even more.
I’m not ashamed to admit that there are bad movies that I love, that I don’t know why I love, but they are my dark, little secrets rather than some perfect storm of a movie that has so many tie-ins coming off of it (a section at Disneyland, and also Epcot center where Frozen took over the Norway Pavilion, and also a movie sequel in the works, and so on and so on) that I wonder sometimes how the world got along without it. It certainly seems that it can no longer do without a pile of the dreck that is Frozen, which either points to the world opening up its arms to all art, no matter or how crappy, or merely that it has lost its collective discriminating taste.
But.
There is an artist out there by the name of Alex Boye who does some amazing covers of different songs that really can change my opinion. He first did it with his version of Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off. Now I’ll admit that I’m something of an un-hip cave dweller when it comes to the music scene; a lot of songs and artists just pass me by because I’ve got my nose buried in a book. But I somehow discovered Mr. Boye’s cover of Shake It Off and I prefer it to Ms. Swift’s original version. Nothing against Ms. Swift, she’s got a fine voice, to be sure, but there’s something about Mr. Boye’s pipes that do something to my insides. At any rate, I’ll include both versions here, and you can judge for yourself.
The point here is that Alex Boye has also done a cover of Let It Go from Frozen, and wouldn’t you know it, I finally get the song, what it means, and why it means so much to kids. But only Boye’s version of the song, not the original! In his video he’s got a kid’s choir, and more kids running around in costumes of characters from the movies, just singing their hearts out, and it only took me a few seconds to feel the message, to feel the song itself. Maybe I’m just a sucker for kid’s choirs, but I like this version very much.