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Elementary schoolgirl’s Frozen “Let It Go” lip-synch performance is like nothing you’ve ever seen

Oona McGee
Nov 23, 2017
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This girl and her friends put on an unforgettable performance that’s making people smile around the world.

Internet
(children • cool • cute • Disney • Elsa • frozen • kids • Let It Go • lip-sync • music • schoolgirls • songs • video)

High school swimming club makes a splash with their synchronized performances【Video】

KK Miller
Mar 11, 2017

The pool might be shallow, but their show has a lot of depth!

Internet, Japan
(Elsa • frozen • funny • high school • Let It Go • swimming • synchronized • video)

Filipina singing sensation Charice is back with a short clip of ‘Let it Go,’ karaoke style!

Krista Rogers
Jan 28, 2015

This one goes out to all our readers in the Philippines–Charice is back, and she’s telling everyone to “Let it Go!”

We haven’t heard much about Charice for about a year, so it was a pleasant surprise to see the talented singer belting out the iconic song from Disney’s Frozen in a short YouTube karaoke clip. Also, we love that short new-ish ‘do she’s sporting!

Internet, SE Asia
(Charice • frozen • karaoke • Let It Go • Philippines)

Frozen’s Anna is pregnant and needs a C-section…but don’t worry, there’s an app for that

Audrey Akcasu
Jan 21, 2015

Have you ever wondered what happened to Anna after the Disney movie Frozen ended? Well, according to one iPhone app maker, Anna married her new beau Kristoff and immediately got pregnant. She’s nine months in and in need of a C-section. But who will perform the surgery?! You will, with this silly new app available on the Apple app store.

Internet
(app • C-section • frozen • iPhone • Let It Go • pregnancy)

Baseball players like Frozen too: “Let It Go” chosen for Spring Koshien baseball tournament

Audrey Akcasu
Jan 21, 2015

That’s it, we’ve seen it all now! The lead song, “Let It Go!” from Disney’s Frozen has really taken over Japan now (in case you weren’t already 100 percent positive that it had)! We already knew that it was the only song to breach the top 20 karaoke list for all age groups in 2014, it was translated into regional Japanese dialects, and even an NPO used it to advertise a serious cause. But the latest news about Japan’s beloved “Let It Go~ Arino mamade” might surprise you; the song was chosen for the opening ceremony of the 87th annual “Spring Koshien” high school baseball tournament.

Japan
(baseball • frozen • high school • Koshien • Let It Go)

Famikoto celebrates Nintendo with medley of game music played on traditional instruments【J-Tunes】

Preston Phro
Jan 5, 2015

It should be no secret that we at RocketNews24 love traditional Japanese music. Whether its Ki&Ki with their tsugaru-jamisen songs or the Wagakki Band with their fusion of vocaloid-inspired rock and traditional instruments, we simply adore the sound. Of course, we’re also fans of Nintendo’s old video games–which is what makes Famikoto one of our favorite discoveries this season!

Check out this group’s music and get ready to take a walk down memory lane with some of Nintendo’s best theme songs!

Internet, Japan
(Famikoto • J-Tunes • koto • Let It Go • music • nintendo • shakuhachi • shamisen)

Japanese NPO creates Let It Go parody for serious cause, doesn’t stop it from being completely silly

Cara Clegg
Jul 21, 2014

We have more Japanese “Let It Go” parody shenanigans for you, this time courtesy of a serious organization, the Alliance for Raising Children. Watch their governors throw themselves into recreating Elsa’s soul-searching ballad while prancing around in suits in various random locations, having way more fun than the bemused-looking kids singing in the background.

Japan
(child-rearing • children • Disney • frozen • Let It Go • Parenting • Parody)

Visit Elsa’s Frozen world at the Snow Crystal Museum in Hokkaido

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Jul 20, 2014

Frozen has taken Japan and the world by storm, smashing through sales records and bringing a flurry of promotional items. One of the most iconic scenes in the film is Elsa singing Let it Go while giving rise to a beautiful ice castle. It’s too bad we can’t visit her frigid fortress in real life, but we can go to the next best thing: Hokkaido’s Snow Crystal Museum.

Japan
(Disney • frozen • Hokkaido • Let It Go • Snow Crystal Museum • travel • Yuki Bijyutsukan)

Watch Hatsune Miku sing Frozen’s “Let It Go”

Anime News Network
Jul 15, 2014

While some people are arguably Frozen‘d out, the movie’s popularity doesn’t look like it will go anywhere anytime soon, what with limited edition PS4s and karaoke rankings.

Niconico user おかっち took it one step further by using the Miku Miku Dance animation program to recreate the “Let It Go” video with Hatsune Miku in place of Elsa. From start the finish, the process took 43 days.

Internet, Japan
(Anime News Network • Anna and the Snow Queen • frozen • Hatsune Miku • Let It Go • movie • Vocaloid)

Frozen’s songs in regional Japanese dialects somehow work amazingly well【Videos】

Cara Clegg
Jun 25, 2014

It all started with the Japanese version of “Let it Go”, the hit song from Disney’s latest animated movie Frozen. But that wasn’t the only song to be localized, and now amateur singers are getting even more local with creative versions of Frozen’s songs in their own regional dialects. Join us after the jump for two of the best.

Japan
(Disney • frozen • Let It Go • song • YouTube)

Korean “Let it Go” parody is hilariously perfect

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Mar 25, 2014

“Let it go,” the most popular song from the smash-hit Frozen, is loved not only in the movie’s country of origin, but all over the world. We’ve already seen how beautiful the song is in Japanese, now let’s take a look at the song as performed on a Korean variety show. This version is impressive, not for the vocal performance, but for how they recreated the scenes from the movie in a television studio, including Elsa conjuring snow out of thin air and her icy quick change. Watch and prepare to laugh at how perfect yet completely ridiculous this new take on a soon-to-be classic is.

Korea
(frozen • Let It Go • LOL • Parody • wtf)

Frozen’s “Let It Go” sounds just as impressive sung in Japanese 【Video】

Philip Kendall
Mar 17, 2014

I’ve honestly never been much of a Disney fan (anyone else just want to punch Mickey in the face? Just me, eh?), but after having passively listened to Frozen‘s “Let It Go” as my wife played it a good 30 or 40 times over the last few months, I have to admit, it’s a superb song.

The movie finally released here last Friday as Ana and the Snow Queen (didn’t I tell you Japan was always late with movie releases!?) in 2-D and 3-D, with both dubbed Japanese and subtitled versions available. Something of a purist, I insisted on watching the film in its original English if I was to see it at all, but having just caught the Japanese version of “Let It Go”, it almost makes me want to watch the film in its translated version too.

Check out the Japanese version of arguably one of Disney’s best tracks ever after the jump.