“Into the Unknown” is Frozen 2‘s equivalent of the first film’s “Let It Go,” where Elsa’s inner monologue - this time about her struggle to suppress her restless spirit and lead Arendelle as queen - is transformed into a power-ballad showcase for Menzel’s formidable voice. Then, the following year at the Oscars, she and Travolta presented the award for best original song together, and she introduced him as “Glom Gazingo.”
She used it as a promo for her Broadway show at the time, If/Then. Instead of being upset, Menzel had fun with it. Then I thought … what would Idina Menzel say? She’d say, ‘Let it go, let it go!’ Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy Frozen took home two Oscars Sunday night!” In 2014, Menzel performed the Frozen anthem “Let It Go” at the Oscars, right before it won for best original song, but the performance was overshadowed by presenter John Travolta, who butchered her name into something that sounded like “ Adele Dazeem.”Ī few days after the Oscars, Travolta broke his silence on the mispronunciation via his publicist: “I’ve been beating myself up all day. Watch the full conversation in the video above.In the introduction, Josh Gad, who voices Olaf in the Frozen films, made sure to pronounce Menzel’s name properly, joking that it sounds the same way it’s spelled. “It’s the same high note in ‘Let It Go.’ It just sounds higher because it is a higher interval jump.” “We were going to do it lower and she was the one who said, ‘No, let’s take it up to my money note,’ which is an E flat,” Anderson-Lopez said. The highest note is actually the same note Menzel sang in “Let It Go.” Anderson-Lopez explained how the new song makes it sound more drastic. That is basically Elsa has left the building. Then ‘Into the unknooooown,’ that’s an 11th. ‘Into the unknown,’ you step a toe out but you come back to your boundary. “‘Into the unknown,’ da dun, that’s an octave,” Anderson-Lopez said. In the song, when Elsa responds “Into the Unknown,” her vocal range escalates each time. It means death or danger.” Anderson-Lopez said you can hear “Dies Irae” in The Shining too. “Composers from Sondheim to Berlioz to John Williams, it’s in Home Alone, it’s in Star Wars, it’s in everything.
“We made the voice sing the ‘Dies Irae,’ which is a Gregorian chant from the 11th century,” Robert Lopez told Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro during their DGA Theater panel before a crowd of Academy and guild voters.
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