Last week “Frozen” sold 259,000 copies according to Billboard, that’s 94% more than the week before and while sure it has a lot to do with Easter, still, it has as much to do with, as Jimmy Fallon quipped, “Frozen” is all anybody is buying. That’s not funny because it is true.
I didn’t hate, though I didn’t particularly like, the movie, even if I can get my ten year old girl hat on I didn’t really dig it so much. The animation is a swirling dervish of frosted flakes -they’re greaaaaat, and the Ice palace is gorgeous, the twist at the end is interesting. I was wondering how they were gonna work out the two guys one girl quandary and the way they made the sister the hero instad of the victim was good enough. But the voices were nothing great, amd Josh Gad is damn annoying.
But the music? I realize I am not the target audience for this stuff but there is no excuse for the tuneless “Let It Go” -a huge lumbering behemoth of belch. As for “Do you Want to Build A Snowman”, “For the First time In Forever”, there are reasons why kids love em, they don’t have to be able to sing in tune to sing em because THEY HAVE NO TUNE.
Wel, the numbers are staggerring. You wanna a stat to make your hair stand on end? “Since the Billboard 200 started publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956, “Frozen” is one of only 15 soundtracks to spend at least 11 weeks at No. 1.” What? This piece of crap. And the album was released November 2013, in APRIL 2014 it has sold over quarter of a million copies in one week.
The moral of this story is… watch out for Frozen Part II and as long as we are taking inspired guesses as to the next one, there sure were a lot of enemies at the end of the first one… plus a Queen without a king.
