14 DAY TRIAL // The Internet rallied behind Idina Menzel when John Travolta renamed her Adele Dazeem at the Oscars 2014, and the Internet is now tearing Idina Menzel down for what it perceives as the worst live performance ever of the hit song “Let It Go” from Disney’s “Frozen” animated film.
Idina performed it live in New York, during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. The first video embedded below is of the live performance; the second is the studio version that was included in “Frozen” and that went on to become one of the biggest musical hits of the year that ended.
The difference is startling, and that’s mostly because Idina sang it live on an open stage, in severe weather conditions. It’s true, that final note was something you would expect to come out of a cat being strangled than a famous Broadway performer, but it happened.
It was not what should have mattered, Idina tells her critics in a note on Twitter. After being accused of sending on stage her evil twin Adele Dazeem (which is actually the less harsh insult made at her expense after the performance), the singer addressed the controversy with a simple note on Twitter.
To it, she attached an excerpt from an older interview, in which she defined success not as the ability to hit the right notes (or at least, not 100 percent of them) but the ability to connect to the audience, to find a common ground and experience an emotion together.
In the end, Idina defined success as the capacity to do that, whilst knowing that she had done her best. So for the big night that saw the 2015 ball drop, she did her best – and that is that.
This is something I said in an interview a few months ago. pic.twitter.com/J63wLZJHnp
— Idina Menzel (@idinamenzel) January 2, 2015
