Apparently, her spirit is still alive and kicking, and in the Frozen 2 soundtrack’s opening number, “All Is Found,” she gets a beautiful refrain - “where the north wind meets the sea / there’s a river full of memory” - that recurs throughout other songs and the film’s score. Wood plays Queen Iduna, Elsa and Anna’s late mother. (Fun fact for Broadway buffs: Wood is in a band with guitarist Zane Carney, brother of Hadestown’s Reeve Carney.) (There’s also a teensy reprise of the Groffsauce classic “Reindeer(s) are Better Than People.”) The soundtrack also comes with a few surprises - most pleasantly, the revelation that Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood, a new addition to Frozen cast, has a great singing voice. Both Kristen Bell, who voices Princess Anna, and Jonathan Groff, who plays her boyfriend Kristoff, get songs of their own.
The Frozen 2 soundtrack boasts the soundtrack versions of its seven totally new songs as well as covers of those songs by artists Kacey Musgraves, Panic! At the Disco, and Weezer. The Frozen 2 soundtrack has just seven new songs - plus a reprise, several covers, and a few “outtakes.” But there’s a lot to explore.
So does the new Frozen 2 soundtrack hold up to all that hype? Yeah, pretty much. Not only that, but five years after the film’s release, the soundtrack was still on the CD sales charts. In 2014, Frozen was everywhere: The film itself grossed a staggering $1.27 billion worldwide, and the film’s fandom was so eager for more that it drove over $5 billion in retail sales of related Frozen merchandise - just in 2014 alone. Oh, and if you had younger kids, your kids were probably obsessed with it. (The pair is credited with writing the entire Frozen 2 soundtrack as well.) At the 2014 Oscars, “Let It Go” won Best Original Song the next year, at the 2015 Grammys, the album won Best Compilation Soundtrack, garnering Robert Lopez - who wrote all of Frozen’s songs with his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez - the rare EGOT distinction. Sales of the original Frozen soundtrack blew away all other competitors when it was released in late November 2013 (just a few days before the film itself) it then went on to reign as the No. Not since the heyday of Disney’s ’90s animated musicals has a film soundtrack had such high expectations to live up to. It’s not an exaggeration to say the release of the Frozen 2 soundtrack this past weekend - just ahead of Frozen 2’s November 22 release date - counts as an event.
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