Let It Go (Disney song) International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, "Let It Go" sold 10.9 million copies in 2014, becoming the year's fifth best-selling song. "The Daily Telegraph" explained that instead of the villain originally envisioned by the producers, the songwriters saw Elsa as "a scared girl struggling to control and come to terms with her gift." When interviewed in January 2014 by John August and Aline Brosh McKenna, "Frozen" director Jennifer Lee gave her recollection of the song's conception: "Bobby and Kristen said they were walking in Prospect Park and they just started talking about what would it feel like [to be Elsa].
Let It Go (Disney song) "sends kids into altered states." A similar phenomenon was described in the United Kingdom, where Lorraine Candy, editor-in-chief of "Elle UK", wrote of a "musical epidemic sweeping the nation, relentlessly gathering up every child ... in its cult-like grip". Passenger, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame with the 2012 hit single "Let Her Go", admitted in an August 2016 interview on "The Project" that his single is frequently confused with "Let It Go." As a result, he "always" receives song requests for the latter, even though it is not his song. In November 2017, Chilean pop singer Jaime Ciero sued