Looking for more? 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. I mean it's-. 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. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: I think we just went down the 80s power ballad, rabbit hole. Anderson-Lopez recalls: “They instantly said, ‘We’re not going to redo Frozen. Robert Lopez: Oh my gosh. ‘Frozen 2’ songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez break down their songwriting process when creating an animated musical. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: I think we did it. “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. 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. Robert Lopez: We wrote our first Weezer song. at the Disco, Kacey Musgraves and Weezer. You guys wrote it, you guys wrote a Weezer song. 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. 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. “It’s a way that shepherdesses used to call their cattle,” Anderson-Lopez explains. Golden Globe-nominated 'Frozen 2' songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez reflect on competing against Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Elton … Frozen 2 songwriters explain why they changed the opening song "We didn’t have to do any extra exposition that slowed down the beginning." Disney's "Frozen 2" filmmakers and songwriters break down how its songs, including Idina Menzel's "Into the Unknown," are its story. "I think that does resonate with the current situation of everybody kind of being lost in the woods, having to find their way forward.". We write them and they have to go through him first before we even give them to the directors. Ropert Lopez: Yeah. So we figured that that voice would be musical and that the new I want song would be a duet with it. ‘Frozen 2’ songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez break down their songwriting process when creating an animated musical. He knows all the rock stars and he was the one who created this amazing thing. We're going to go more mature, darker. It just sort of sat there and we had more collaboration with, with Jen and Chris. There were no harmonies yet. Published on Dec 3, 2019. 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"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.". Yeah, and similarly Panic! 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. MORE: What to know about Ryan Murphy's upcoming star-studded movie, 'The Prom'. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. I mean come on. 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. 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. 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. "It … We were lucky to be there that day when he was in the studio about to sing it. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Everybody, it was a protest and it was what everyone working on the film was feeling at the moment. (MORE: New 'Frozen 2' trailer: Anna and Elsa embark on journey into the enchanted forest) 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. Are there any kind of subversions or or unexpected musical surprises that people should be on the lookout for in Frozen II? 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. I know there's a deadline and I know we have a release and 18 months from now this will all make sense. 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. I dumped him. But Aurora is the quirkiest most amazing human being. At the Disco, Kacey Musgraves, Weezer concert sitting in their seats, just like, "What am I going to hear next?" When the nominees for the 2020 Golden Globes were announced Monday morning, one category in particular was rather star-studded: Best 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. How do you make those choices? 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. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the songwriters of Frozen 2, recently weighed in on the movie's relevancy during the pandemic. Since the original movie hit theaters in 2013, Frozen has remained at the top of pop culture. Four new Frozen 2 songs have already been penned by songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen-Anderson Lopez for the highly anticipated Disney animated sequel. This is 18 months from now, this will be a finished movie and it'll be great," and I trust in that. 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. You can hear more from Kristen and Robert in a special bonus episode of ABC Audio's Inside Frozen 2 podcast, available for streaming now. And here's the thing, I grew up totally loving those songs and living those songs. 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. __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! They take us … So Frozen is act one Frozen II is act two. 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. 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. ‘Frozen 2’ songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez break down their songwriting process when creating an animated musical. 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 the villain 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. So now I just tell people, "This is my husband, he's in Weezer.". Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Yeah, I think we might do an album and I'm not kidding. "In my 15-year old’s case, the strength to do all this virtual learning and find a way to keep her friendships.". 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. 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. '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. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Oh that was the most fun. 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-. 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 so what we thought of at first is maybe this is act two of a larger arc to musical. I'm from North Carolina, so I have a love of the mountain music too. We're going to maybe even go into a bit of a different genre," which they did. Bobby played the keyboard for the Weezer. 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. By Amy West. And I'm very excited for the world to hear that one too. Does that change at all your approach in how you do things or you just same as it ever was? You think you're watching in the first one, you're watching a love song. 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. The Walt Disney Co. is the parent company of ABC News. What's so great is when we give a song to Disney, it's not necessarily in its finished form. And so the voice wakes her up at 3:00 AM. Kristen Anderson-Lopez: It's been used by composers through the centuries. 'Frozen 2' is now in theaters! 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