Just when you thought you couldn’t listen to ONE MORE rendition of Frozen‘s break-out song ‘Let It Go‘ without losing your fucking nut, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games releases their official theme song and whaddya know, the intro sounds remarkably similar.
At a stretch, you could call ‘The Snow and Ice Dance’ ‘inspired by’. At not a stretch, you could call it a complete and utter ripoff. In a YouTube comments section, you could argue both. People did. Just don’t go there, okay?
The similarities between the two are so remarkable, in fact, that a Chinese business magazine analysed both songs and found they had similar prelude chords, a similar eight-beat introduction, and an almost 100% identical tempo.
This is the Beijing 2022 theme song:
And this is Frozen:
And this is the two mashed together. THANKS, INTERNET:
Look, it MIGHT not be a coincidence. It MIGHT be a calculated attempt to appeal to the Nordic god of winter, Höðr, to get some damn snow into the very snow-less Winter Olympics host country.
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via NY Times
