"Let It Go" is a song sung by Elsa (Idina Menzel) in Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen. During this scene and song, Elsa flees to the North Mountain to hide from her problems in Arendelle, accidentally exposing her powers. She begins to sing about letting go of her past and escaping the problems she faced since childhood. She creates her own ice palace and takes on a new persona as the "Snow Queen."
Lyrics
Elsa: The snow glows white
On the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the Queen
The wind is howling
Like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in
Heaven knows I tried...
Don't let them in
Don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal
Don't feel
Don't let them know...
Well, now they know!
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door!
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
It's funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me
Can’t get to me at all!
It's time to see
What I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong
No rules for me
I'm free!
Let it go! Let it go!
I am one with the wind and sky!
Let it go! Let it go!
You'll never see me cry!
Here I stand and here I'll stay
Let the storm rage on...
My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I'm never going back
The past is in the past!
Let it go! Let it go!
And I'll rise like the break of dawn!
Let it go! Let it go!
That perfect girl is gone!
Here I stand in the light of day...
Let the storm rage on!!!
The cold never bothered me anyway
Other Versions
"Let It Go" is also translated into other languages. Here a list of other languages along with its translation:
| Performer(s) | Title | Translation | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| نسمة محجوب (Nesma Mahgoub) | "أطلقي سركِ" | "Release Your Secret" | Arabic |
| Taryn Szpilman | "Livre Estou" | "I'm Free" | Brazilian Portuguese |
| Надежда Панайотова (Nadezhda Panayotova) |
"Слагам край" | "I'm Putting an End" | Bulgarian |
| 白珍寶 (Jobelle Ubalde) | "冰心鎖" | "Ice Heart Lock" | Cantonese |
| Gisela Lladó (movie) Martina Stoessel (credits) |
"¡Suéltalo!" (movie) "¡Libre Soy!" (credits) |
"Drop it!" "Free I Am" |
Castilian Spanish |
| Nataša Mirković | "Puštam sve" | "I'm Letting Everything Go" | Croatian |
| Monika Absolonová | "Najednou" | "Suddenly" | Czech |
| Maria Lucia Heiberg Rosenberg | "Lad Det Ske" | "Let It Happen" | Danish |
| Willemijn Verkaik | "Laat het gaan" | "Let It Go" | Dutch |
| Hanna-Liina Võsa | "Olgu nii" | "Let It Be" | Estonian |
| آرزو آفری (Arezou Afari) | "سرما ی خفته" | "Slept Coldness" | Farsi |
| Katja Sirkiä | "Taakse jää" | "It's Left Behind" | Finnish |
| Elke Buyle | "Laat Het Los" | "Let Go" | Flemish |
| Anaïs Delva (movie and credits) |
"Libérée, délivrée" "Let It Go" (Credits) |
"Freed, Released" "Let It Go" (Credits) |
French |
| Willemijn Verkaik | "Lass jetzt los" | "Let Go Now" | German |
| Σία Κοσκινά (Sía Koskiná) | "Και ξεχνώ" | "And I Forget" | Greek |
| מונה מור (Mona Moore) | "לעזוב" | "To Let Go" | Hebrew |
| Nikolett Füredi | "Legyen hó" | "Let There Be Snow" | Hungarian |
| Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir | "Þetta er nóg" | "This Is Enough" | Icelandic |
| Serena Autieri (movie) Martina Stoessel (credits) |
"All'alba sorgerò" | "I Will Rise at the Dawn" | Italian |
| 松 たか子 (Takako Matsu) (movie) May J. (credits) |
TBA (movie) "ありのままで" (credits) |
TBA (movie) "As It Is" (credits) |
Japanese |
| 박혜나 (Hye-Na Park) (movie) 효린 (Hyolyn) (credits) |
"다 잊어" (movie) "Let It Go" (credits) |
"Forget Everything" (movie) "Let It Go" (credits) |
Korean |
| Carmen Sarahi (movie) Martina Stoessel (credits) |
"Libre Soy" | "I'm Free" | Latin American Spanish |
| Jolanta Strikaite | Latvian | ||
| Girmantė Vaitkutė | "Tebūnie" | "Let It Be" | Lithuanian |
| Marsha Milan Londoh (movie and credits) |
"Bebaskan" | "Set It Free" | Malay |
| 胡维纳 (Weina Hu) (movie) 姚贝娜 (Yao Beina) (credits) |
"随它吧" | "Let It Be" | Mandarin |
| Lisa Stokke | "La Den Gå" | "Let It Go" | Norwegian |
| Katarzyna Łaska | "Mam tę moc" | "I Have This Power" | Polish |
| Ana Margarida Encarnação | "Já Passou" | "It Has Passed" | Portuguese |
| Dalma Kovacs | "S-a întâmplat" | "It Happened" | Romanian |
| Анна Бутурлина (Anna Buturlina) (movie) Юлия Довганишина (Yuliya Dovganishina) (credits) |
"Отпусти и забудь" | "Let Go and Forget the Past" | Russian |
| Јелена Гавриловић (Jelena Gavrilović) |
"Сад је крај" | "Now It's the End" | Serbian |
| Andrea Somorovská | "Von to dám" | Slovak | |
| Nuška Drašček Rojko | "Zaživim" | "I Come to Life" | Slovene |
| Annika Herlitz | "Slå Dig Fri" | "Free Yourself" | Swedish |
| 林芯儀 (Xīn Yí Lín; Shennio Lin) | "放開手，讓她走" | "Release Your Hands, Let It Go" | Taiwanese Mandarin |
| วิชญาณี เปียกลิ่น (Wichayanee Piaklin; Gam) |
"ปล่อยมันไป" | "Let It Go" | Thai |
| Begüm Günceler | "Aldırma" | "Don't Mind It" | Turkish |
| Шаніс (Shanis) | "Все одно" | "Don't Matter" | Ukrainian |
| Dương Hoàng Yến | "Hãy bước đi" | "Step Ahead" | Vietnamese |
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Trivia
- The line, "Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know" in the song, was something Elsa's father said to her when she was given the gloves to protect her powers and for safety.
- The shot where Elsa lets her hair postition her braid to her left shoulder was nearly impossible to do. The animators had to phase Elsa's braid through her arm to keep the animation model from breaking. You can hardly see it because the camera angle hides the "trick" in the half-a-second moment it happens and your attention is drawn to other places.
- When Elsa sings "a kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the queen", she pronounces "isolation" in a way so that the first syllable sounds like "ice".
- "Let It Go" is the first solo song sung by a Disney Princess who is the deuteragonist of the film.
- The song "Let It Go" was sung in 25 different languages and also full versions were made with different languages too, which is on YouTube (This redirects you to the Multi-Language Video).
- "Let It Go" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
- "Let It Go" won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, being the second from a Walt Disney Animation Studios-produced film in 14 years to win it. The previous song was "You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan.
- When singing this song, Elsa created herself an ice palace.
- "Let it Go" won for the 2013 Critics' Choice for Best Original Song.
- The sing-along version of this song was released in theatres in January 31, 2014. The sing-along can be found here. (This redirects you to the sing-along, which is available on YouTube.)
- This was the first song that Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote that was not cut from the movie.
- This song was a major driving force behind changing Elsa into a more complex and vulnerable character.
- Idina Menzel performed this song live at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2014.
- The version of "Let It Go" by Demi Lovato was available for free download for all Australian and New Zealand Citizens on the official Australian Frozen website.
- When Elsa sings the line "let the storm rage on," it was supposed to refer to a storm Elsa intentionally unleashed upon Arendelle; this was from an early story concept in which Elsa would have been a villain.
- The version by Idina Menzel sold for $0.69 on iTunes.