" We thought of it like the best first date ever," Robert said. This pop number was actually a "real challenge" for the Lopezes, who had to use it to make it believable that the lonely Anna would agree to marry the dashing Hans (Santino Fontana) after only a couple of hours spent together. In writing for Bell, Kristen said: "We knew we were going to harness her incredible dichotomy of this classic, pure, ingenue voice and her modern, funny girl sensibility." Hence, "For the First Time in Forever" has lyrics like: "Don't know if I'm elated or gassy/ But I'm somewhere in that zone!/ 'Cause for the first time in forever/ I won't be alone." Love Is an Open Door
It wasn't until arranger David Metzger came along and made it sound "orchestral" that they realized just how traditional it was. "We looked at The Sound of Music, we looked at ' Part of Your World' and ' Belle.'" Initially, the Lopezes thought they had written a "keyboard driven song," Robert explained. To write Anna's big number, Robert and Kristen looked at "traditional 'I Want' songs," Robert said. Princess Anna's big, early song is For the First Time in Forever, a declaration of hopes and dreams as her castle opens its doors for the first time for her sister Elsa's coronation. It’s got a lot of action and fun and entertainment and stuff like that, and 'Frozen Heart' kind of tells you there’s going to be some violence in this story. It’s telling the boys this is going to be a story with songs, but there’s going to be something in it for everyone," he said. "I think that’s why 'Fathoms Below' is in The Little Mermaid. Robert also noted that the "masculine energy" of the song establishes the expansiveness of the story. "I guess we were in a meeting, and I kept saying: ‘if we could just have a song which basically said the ice is beautiful and dangerous and set up a little mystery,'" Kristen said. As the Lopezes pointed out, it has origins in a type of song used in past Disney films, like the "Song of the Roustabouts" from Dumbo and "Fathoms Below" from The Little Mermaid. The film opens with "Frozen Heart," a mood-establishing tune sung by workers cutting through ice. "You’ve got to kind of know what’s been written before in order to write something different." Here, Robert and Kristen walk us through some of the antecedents for five songs.
"There’s no such thing as a new song without antecedents, and if you don’t listen to them you’re dooming yourself," said Robert, who co-wrote The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q. We had a little thing we would say ‘What would Ashman do?'" Kristen told the Wire. And the Lopezes, of course, know their history, tapping into the legacy of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast lyricist Howard Ashman, who helped revive Disney animation in the eighties and 90s. If that sounds like standard Disney fare, you'd be right.
To learn more, we had the husband and wife songwriting team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez walk us through the creation of some of the movie's songs.įrozen, which opens tomorrow, tells the story (loosely based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale) of two sisters, Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel), the latter of which has complicated magical powers that allow her to create snow and ice. The songs in the film are heart-swelling and evocative of the type of stuff you might remember from childhood. ĭisney's latest animated film Frozen has been compared to classics like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King-and with good reason.
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