Let It Go (Disney song) 'let go' of fear and shame". On the other hand, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot of the radio show Sound Opinions criticized the song; DeRogatis labeled it "schlock", and Kot described it as a "clichéd piece of fluff that you would have heard on a Broadway soundtrack from maybe the fifties or the sixties". By spring 2014, many journalists had observed that after watching "Frozen", numerous young children in the United States were becoming unusually obsessed with the film's music, and with "Let It Go" in particular. Columnist Yvonne Abraham of "The Boston Globe" called the song "musical crack" which
Let It Go (Disney song) to "Defying Gravity" (also performed by Idina Menzel) from the Broadway musical "Wicked". "The Rochester City Newspaper" called it the best song of the film's soundtrack, writing; "Performed with belty gusto by Idina Menzel, it's got every element needed to be a lasting favorite. (...) Menzel should be credited for providing as much power and passion to this performance as she did in her most famous role." "Entertainment Weekly"'s Marc Snetiker described the song as "an incredible anthem of liberation" while Joe Dziemianowicz of "New York Daily News" called it "a stirring tribute to girl power and the need to