Kristen Anderson-Lopez: We gave you 18 Groffs. Robert Lopez: Oh my gosh. Looking for more? at the Disco. How can we get Kristoff singing?" And here's the thing, I grew up totally loving those songs and living those songs. It's a mystery. I mean come on. Let's just say that. ", Kristen Anderson-Lopez: But Tom has unbelievable musical taste and he knows everybody too. Speaking with Vanity Fair’s Little Gold Men podcast, award-winning songwriting power couple Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez explained how an ancient piece of music favored by horror movie composers worked it’s way into this family film. Why horror fans might recognize the film’s most haunting refrain. It's the villain song. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. I just think the popularity of something like your own stuff, and then Hamilton and then La-La Land and movie music, I feel like we're just in an upward swing of broader popularity of musical, more receptivity to musicals. And so what we thought of at first is maybe this is act two of a larger arc to musical. So (singing) is an octave Do-do, (singing), stepping your toe outside the boundary that you know, (singing) you've just flown an 11th, which you're told not to do when you're writing music, but you've gone so far afield and that's what's going to happen with Elsa. MORE: What to know about Ryan Murphy's upcoming star-studded movie, 'The Prom'. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. ‘Frozen 2’: Songwriters … Lauren Huff. I'm really into the golden hour album right now, but the spell that she cast with her writing partner, it's very like Simon and Garfunkel meets mystical. When the nominees … The Grammy-nominated "Into the Unknown," Kristen added, sums up what many were feeling at the start of the pandemic. Idina Menzel’s platinum blonde Queen Elsa is called off to adventure when a … Another thing was that she said, "May I take a break to do a cartwheel?" I was just talking to Jonathan Groff and he was saying, I didn't know how they would get a mountain man like Kristoff to sing in this film. You think you're watching in the first one, you're watching a love song. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: We're involved, but it's really our partner and our invisible partner in all of this is this incredible guy named Tom McDougal. These songs are very tailored for story beats. Yeah, it was giving me very like Alison Krauss sort of vibes-. "Frozen 2" songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez were Inspired to write Olaf's "I Am With You" while in quarantine. I mean it's-. Joined by songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, this episode talks about how the songs from the film have taken on new meaning in 2020. It was such a fun summer getting to produce with Panic! ", Kristen Anderson-Lopez: So that that allowed us to go to that stacked Queen meets Chicago kind of place, which was so much fun. Bill Desowitz Nov 25, 2019 6:19 pm It was middle school, but we really wanted to honor the amazing thing that all of those musicians did, which was empower men to feel big feelings and express them. “Frozen 2” won’t include a love storyline for Elsa, according to the film’s songwriters. Ad Choices. When "Frozen 2" premiered in theaters last year, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez had no idea of the impact the movie would have on audiences in 2020. ‘Frozen 2’ songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez break down their songwriting process when creating an animated musical. It's incredible the way that that came through. Yeah, and a lot has changed even in just the short time between Frozen and Frozen II both in stage musical theater and in movie musicals. Robert Lopez: "Into the Unknown" is the "I want" song of the show. We had originally written a song for Kristoff called “Get This Right,” which was about him putting this huge amount of pressure on himself and it was totally a comedy song, but it kind of fell on the ground for many reasons. "Frozen 2" made an impact on pop culture as well, scoring Grammy nods for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for Visual Media. The Walt Disney Co. is the parent company of ABC News. I mean, I love her. So I wanted to start by asking you about my favorite most surprising song of the movie, which is the Kristoff 80s power ballad. And Bobby laid down like 18 different tracks and then Jonathan Groff did them 18 times. Elsa is the central character this time and we had written a plain vanilla, "I want" song where she was just singing about I seek the truth, that was called "Seek the Truth," and it was a little on the nose and it was a little limp. Sign up for our daily Hollywood newsletter and never miss a story. The inevitable question — whether “Frozen 2” would try to follow up “Let It Go” directly — dangled over the lead-up to the movie’s release. Yeah, and similarly Panic! Kristen Anderson-Lopez: One of the things we had to do was give permission to go to this stylized place, which is where the ["Reindeers Are Better Than People”] reprise was really helpful cause it gave us this ramp that allowed us to go into fantasy for a second. And as a result of that, realized that we would invent a voice that was reaching out to Elsa and only she would hear it and it was calling her away from everything that she knew and loved into this dangerous journey. Published on Dec 3, 2019. You're like, "Can this be the end of that now?" And he's the one who says like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like it. “Frozen 2,” starring Menzel, Wood, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown, hits theaters Friday. I think we just lived for a moment. It was unbelievable. And so they did with this and we had told them, "Let us know if you want us to add some harmonies to this song." With the clock ticking and less than a year until the world premiere of Frozen 2, the filmmakers, artists, songwriters and cast open their doors to cameras for a six-part documentary series to reveal the hard work, heart, and collaboration it takes to create one of the most highly-anticipated films in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ near-century of moviemaking. To circle back to sort of the beginning of approaching this project, what are some of the particular challenges of writing a sequel musical, a musical that is a SQL to a project you've already done? You guys wrote it, you guys wrote a Weezer song. Frozen 2 songwriters explain why they changed the opening song "We didn’t have to do any extra exposition that slowed down the beginning." It recaptured the original's magic thanks its excellent songs and the return of main characters Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf. Bobby played the keyboard for the Weezer. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Video Live Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Right, that's how ex-boyfriend's work. They take us through where they draw inspiration, collaborating with ‘Frozen’ animators, fielding feedback from their own kids, and recording vocals with Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad. — Our cover story: RuPaul on drag’s future and why true drag will never be mainstream— Learn about Queen Elizabeth’s real-life betrayal inside Buckingham Palace— Doctor Sleep works best when it stops worrying and forgets Stanley Kubrick— The Crown reveals the truth about Charles, Camilla, Anne, and Andrew’s love quadrangle— Why Frozen 2 fails to recapture the magic of the original— Emilia Clarke reveals how she’s had to fight over nude scenes after Game of Thrones— From the Archive: The man to call for fighting studio battles, suppressing scandals, and keeping the tabloids at bay. Ropert Lopez: Yeah. Three months from now we'll at least have gotten to the screening. If you get a chance to interview her, you need to. Robert Lopez: The culture has gotten a lot less sincere in 30 years. We had never done this before, but where the distorted guitars kick in. I think people are less resistant to characters breaking out into song, but you still have to do the work of making it not awkward and horrible because there's nothing worse than when a character breaks into song for no good reason. Read full article. Music by songwriting duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and composer Christophe Beck help drive the story in Disney's "Frozen 2." So we figured that that voice would be musical and that the new I want song would be a duet with it. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: And luckily we also had amazing collaborators and Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and they instantly said, "We're not going to redo Frozen. at the Disco, Kacey Musgraves and Weezer. I'm going to trust my collaborators. Sometimes they say, "Great, we're going to run with this for a little while and then we'll get back to you." There's still the DNA, it's still a musical, but these girls are seeking truth in a place of chaos and change, and it's a much more grown up musical. Or even like three months from now this won't be driving me so insane. So it was a... We were forging new territory and it was a little bit tricky because you would think, when you do a sequel, often you bring back musical themes, but we didn't want to retell old story beats. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: I was going to say that there's, in this world where we're getting more and more digital and less connected, there's still something so human about singing and I think I have to believe that's what this resurgence of loving musicals is about, that when we're singing something that someone else is singing, it's a way we can connect in an authentic way, especially if we're all in the same place at the same time, like a movie musical or a Broadway musical where you're all experiencing it together. This is 18 months from now, this will be a finished movie and it'll be great," and I trust in that. And so inspired by that, I kind of got this idea for this will all make sense when I'm older lyric for Olaf, but it was really sort of-. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Ooh, I guess one thing they can be inspired by is Olaf song was really something we kind of wrote because when you're in the middle of writing these original musicals, it does feel like you're trapped in a spooky enchanted forest that you can't get out of because some of the things are working, but many things are not and you kind of have to just say, "Okay, I'm going to trust the process. How do you make those choices? There were no harmonies yet. Sure, it's beautiful. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Yeah, I think we might do an album and I'm not kidding. Robert Lopez: At the beginning of The Shining. ", Robert Lopez: They felt quite free. So not only is this a solo for Jonathan Groff, but it's actually 18 Jonathan Groffs to try and make up for the fact that we are ashamed and will be for the rest of our lives, that he didn't sing in Frozen One-. And the song is such a party in that version. I wanted to ask you quickly about, there's a credit for Aurora as the voice and so what was the choice around that? ‘Frozen 2’ songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez break down their songwriting process when creating an animated musical. I remember. When "Frozen 2" premiered last year, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez had no idea of the impact the movie would have on the audience in 2020. From the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter. With Frozen 2 taking the world by storm, its songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez tell Arwa Haider how they are bringing singalongs into a … 'Frozen 2' Songwriters on Creating New Music Magic for Anna and Elsa. And what we decided that it would sing is this motif called Dies Irae, it's from a Gregorian chant and it's all associated with death and danger. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the songwriters of Frozen 2, recently weighed in on the movie's relevancy during the pandemic. I love her stuff. And they said, "We're thinking maybe lots of reindeer singing harmonies. The artists dish to Ginger Zee how they brought Elsa to life. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: I think we did it. Robert Lopez: We wrote our first Weezer song. 1:30 PM PST 11/27/2019 by Rebecca Ford ... LOPEZ The success of Frozen opened my eyes to the world of women, basically. And we were like, "I don't think that's a great, do we have a backup plan?" "In my 15-year old’s case, the strength to do all this virtual learning and find a way to keep her friendships.". When the first Frozen took audiences by storm in 2013 it seemed like you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing someone, anyone belt out a few bars of the soon-to-be Oscar-winning earworm “Let It Go.” But walking out of the film’s sequel this winter, there’s likely to be something a little eerier stuck in your head. Disney's "Frozen 2" filmmakers and songwriters break down how its songs, including Idina Menzel's "Into the Unknown," are its story. That is the quintessential moment of, of the eighties and it just seemed to be perfect for Kristoff. Husband-and-wife "Frozen 2" songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez plunged "Into the Unknown" with 7 original songs. Since the original movie hit theaters in 2013, Frozen has remained at the top of pop culture. Idina Menzel’s platinum blonde Queen Elsa is called off to adventure when a haunting musical refrain from an mysterious unknown voice starts waking her up in the middle of the night. "We do show ourselves in these times of adversity, the strength that we didn’t think we had," Anderson-Lopez noted. He's the first one that ever hears any of these songs. So what was putting that song together like for you? Plus, a conversation with Frozen 2 songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. __Something that I loved that occurred to me watching, I went to a screening last night, and the credits roll and everyone just sits there and gets to have basically a concert, a like Panic! Oscar-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez returned to try their hand at penning another “Let It Go”-sized megahit, and the results are solid. Right? 'Frozen 2' Songwriters on Creating New Music Magic for Anna and Elsa "We wanted to reconnect with the characters we love in the present day," Robert Lopez added. November 20, 2019 ‘Frozen 2’: Acclaimed songwriting duo share musical inspirations in new podcast Award-winning songwriters Kristen and Bobby Lopez talk about their songwriting process in the film sequel in a new ABC Audio podcast, “Inside Frozen 2.” I love it. You're in Weezer! But Aurora is the quirkiest most amazing human being. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By Amy West. And something has been lost in the 30 years since then where I don't feel in a lot of male driven rock songs that empowerment to just go full on emotional. With Frozen 2, the long-anticipated sequel to a 2013 smash from Walt Disney Animation Studios, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez knew they … And I'm very excited for the world to hear that one too. Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel share details on highly anticipated 'Frozen 2', What to know about Ryan Murphy's upcoming star-studded movie, 'The Prom', Inside the making of 'Frozen 2' with film’s animators. At the Disco, Kacey Musgraves, Weezer concert sitting in their seats, just like, "What am I going to hear next?" So Frozen is act one Frozen II is act two. at the Disco, I was like, how is this not written for Panic! Four new Frozen 2 songs have already been penned by songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen-Anderson Lopez for the highly anticipated Disney animated sequel. We write them and they have to go through him first before we even give them to the directors. We had the best time writing it and everything really comes out of story and we’re so inspired by the stories that Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck bring to us and say, "Hey, let's flesh this out. Robert Lopez: When we were starting out, musicals were sort of lower on the totem pole of culture and one of the great things in our life is I feel like we've seen that turn around and people have embraced musicals in a new way. Check out this special look with Frozen 2 songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez as they take you behind the music of the film. __Robert Lopez:__We got to meet Weezer at the premiere a few nights ago and they said it was okay that I say that, so I am in Weezer. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Oh that was the most fun. A quote from our, when we recorded her, one of the things she said is like, "I think I have two too many tutus on, I'm going to take two of them off." Yeah, absolutely. So now I just tell people, "This is my husband, he's in Weezer.". We were lucky to be there that day when he was in the studio about to sing it. © 2020 Condé Nast. Yeah, they got this idea that Sven would actually move his mouth and say those words, and I think that's the moment where we started to realize like, "Oh this is going to go off the rails in kind of a great way." “It’s a way that shepherdesses used to call their cattle,” Anderson-Lopez explains. This snatch of melody performed by Norwegian singer Aurora which makes up one half of Frozen II’s showstopper “Into the Unknown” is actually a well-known musical motif called “Dies Irae,” from an ancient Gregorian chant and according to Robert Lopez, it's usually associated with “death and danger.” Not exactly what you would expect to hear a bonafide Disney princess sing. And he had told us, or someone had told us that he was going to sing the song in Idina's key and sing those high same high notes that Idina hits. That allowed the animators who basically—there was like one little note at the top of our lyric that said, "Feel free to take this to an eighties video kind of place. Robert Lopez: It's funny, we didn't even realize this until press time, but this is the first musical sequel Disney animation ever did. All rights reserved. Of only sixteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, nicknamed by Philip Michael Thomas in 1984 as the "EGOT", he is the youngest (at 39 years … Also on this week’s episode: some conversation about the Gotham Awards, the Netflix-powered surge of The Irishman, and Richard Lawson’s insights on the process of making his top 10 list. Songwriters Behind 'Frozen' Let Go Of The Princess Mythology Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez tell Terry Gross about the inspiration for "Let It … Kristen said the songs "Into the Unknown" and "Show Yourself," which are about Elsa finding her destiny, now speak to the world's collective resilience during these uncertain times. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Golden Globe-nominated 'Frozen 2' songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez reflect on competing against Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Elton … Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. The sequel, which released late last year, expanded the story set up in 2013's Frozen. "It … Kristen Anderson-Lopez: It's been used by composers through the centuries. Does that change at all your approach in how you do things or you just same as it ever was? “Frozen 2” songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez told IGN that Eliza won’t have a romantic interest in the new film because she isn’t defined by having a romance. The other thing to say about "Into the Unknown" is that it mirrors the whole movie. Thinking this … 'Frozen 2' is now in theaters! What's so great is when we give a song to Disney, it's not necessarily in its finished form. "I think that the themes that they touch are applicable to a society that is going through maybe the most change that society has gone through in a hundred years.". The Weezer version blew my mind because it just sounds like a Weezer song. It just sort of sat there and we had more collaboration with, with Jen and Chris. "The stakes of the song are sort of this call that is dangerous and ... forces Elsa to take action," she said. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Everybody, it was a protest and it was what everyone working on the film was feeling at the moment. Frozen II is a 2019 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.The 58th animated film produced by the studio, and the sequel to the 2013 film Frozen, it features the return of directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, producer Peter Del Vecho, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and composer Christophe Beck. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The tune—which will be instantly familiar to fans of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining—is a reflection of the tonal mandate of this sequel which came down from director’s Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. You can hear it in tons of movie scores over the years-, Kristen Anderson-Lopez: [singing] You’ve heard it. And so we didn't have to worry about trying to do what we did before all we had to do is trust our collaborators and get inspired by them. I know there's a deadline and I know we have a release and 18 months from now this will all make sense. __Robert Lopez:__That's another way of saying I have no idea what's going on. And then Kacey Musgraves is one of my secret favorite things. And so the voice wakes her up at 3:00 AM. When the nominees for the 2020 Golden Globes were announced Monday morning, one category in particular was rather star-studded: Best He dumped me. And when my 13 year old boyfriend, Sergio, broke up with me, I was listening to Bryan Adams and I'm in Chicago and all of those people, and we really wanted to honor—. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Yeah. Please try again later. Like a karaoke bar when you see those guys [sing Journey], and we thought maybe that would be this way to have fun, but also really feel the depth of his love for Anna. They take us … He knows all the rock stars and he was the one who created this amazing thing. How ‘Frozen II’ Songwriters Stopped Thinking About ‘Let It Go’ to Write Songs for the Sequel. The "Frozen 2" soundtrack dropped last week and fans are already humming along to the sequel’s tunes.. And with 46 new songs on the soundtrack, including seven new original songs for each character in the film, it’s hard not to have the songs on repeat and sing along, too. And then also knowing that a musical riff you're going to write was going to be such an integral plot point of this film. They take us … I dumped him. "To me, the main strength of 'Frozen 2' is that it is about change," Robert explained. ‘Frozen 2’ songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez break down their songwriting process when creating an animated musical. One of my favorite things that you guys talked about in the first movie is the way that you snuck the villain song into a classic love song, right? So then we found this other moment where he's been trying and trying and trying and he's just been left in the woods and we thought this was this great moment for him to feel his feelings in a real way and that there's nothing better than a man feeling his feelings in a real way at a bar. Subscribe to Little Gold Men on Apple podcasts or anywhere else you get your podcasts, and below find a transcript of the interview with the Lopezes. Musicals shall save us. We're going to go more mature, darker.’ These girls are seeking truth in a place of chaos and change, and it's a much more grown up musical.”, The Frozen team tapped Norwegian singer Aurora to give life to this unnamed mystery voice because they wanted to invoke another surprisingly ancient musical inspiration: the art of kulning. I think it's something that existed before humans even spoke is song and I think it might be the thing that saves us all from becoming robots. ‘Frozen 2’ songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez break down their songwriting process when creating an animated musical. Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975), also known as Bobby Lopez, is an American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney computer-animated films Frozen, its sequel, Frozen II, and Coco, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. [Groff] said that before he started recording, you guys showed him some inspiration videos on YouTube. Anderson-Lopez recalls: “They instantly said, ‘We’re not going to redo Frozen. "I think that does resonate with the current situation of everybody kind of being lost in the woods, having to find their way forward.". So it's calling Elsa like cattle. It's been used in opera-. And so it is that [singing], and then we really needed to use a real Norwegian who understood kulning, which is a shepherdess, and it's a way that shepherdesses used to call their cattle, each herd had its own song that it would come to. Frozen 2 songwriters want a Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Elton John musical. Do you remember what those were? “Each herd had its own song that it would come to. We couldn't believe it. 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