POLL: APRIL MAYHEM TIME! The Round of 32 continues! #3 Let It Go vs #6 When You Wish Upon A Star
Today's matchups:
3 Let It Go vs 6 When You Wish Upon A Star
4 Feed the Birds vs 5 Be Our Guest
Let It Go - Composed by husband-and-wife songwriting team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. The song was performed by American actress and singer Idina Menzel. The song's composition was pivotal in the film's characterization of Elsa. Although Elsa was originally written as a villain, co-directors Chris Buck and Lee gradually rewrote Elsa into one of the film's protagonists after "Let It Go" was composed. About that, Lee later explained, "the minute we heard the song the first time, I knew that I had to rewrite the whole movie."
When You Wish Upon a Star - Written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for the 1940 film Pinocchio, based on the children's fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi. The original version was sung by Cliff Edwards in the character of Jiminy Cricket, and is heard over the opening credits and in the final scene of the film.
The Library of Congress deemed Edwards's recording of the song "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and inducted it into the National Recording Registry in 2009. The American Film Institute ranked "When You Wish Upon a Star" seventh in their 100 Greatest Songs in Film History, the highest ranked of only four Disney animated film songs to appear on the list, the others being "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ranked at No. 19, "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast ranked at No. 62, and "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King, ranked at No. 99.