Let It Go

[poliphilo]

"Is this a programme for children?" my mother asked.

"It's Christmas Day," I said, "Everything is for children."

We watched Frozen together. Well, I watched it and she dozed. You've got to love it. If my grand daughters are going to grow up surrounded by corporate product then this is the sort of product I'd like the corporations to be turning out. Mostly it's mainstream Disney, but with a couple of twists that subvert the time-honoured narrative- and, of course, the heart of it is the song. That's what will last. That's what we take away with us.

Comments

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

The only telly i watched was Doctor Who.

[matrixmann]

Nice unintentional metaphor to nail it.
Sometimes one thinks these days the only thing TV can do is sounding like being intended for children. It talks to you like children, it's kitschy, bright and loud and nothing really seems to matter. All tries to sell itself to you as entertainment, even the news work by quotas and also you can't even believe them too much anymore because they worked by some fucked-up principle. They're rather a factory for breeding and spreading hysteria, fear and artificial needs that are going to be satisfied by products of big enterprises and law changes. In the end? An insult to every conscious and thinking mind.
And when you look only for entertainment, you find a lot of childish stuff on TV, even in that stuff they want to sell you as "aimed for a more mature audience". Yeah, hell what - all like Two And A Half Men! (*sarcasm*)

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

There is a Disney Store in the local AWful Evil Mall and I was there one day looking around. Constant sound track is, of course, old Disney songs. One little girl was watching and listening as I sang my way through about 10 minutes before she said to her mother - Mommy, That old lady knows ALL the words to all the songs.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

"Frozen" is quite good - and one of the Disney franchises that I feel most comfortable letting young girls buy into. Also, I rather like how it has made blue a "girly" colour so it's not all pink!

And the song is good - or was... I'm of the generation where many of my friends are completely disgusted with the song because it's been a hit with their kids for YEARS now! Played in kindergartens, play groups and homes. Again and again... Personally I hear it once or twice a year and gladly belt along in English or Danish, but if I heard it daily I guess I'd love it rather less...