Welcome to new musical enlightenment! The theme was (Forbidden) Forest Adventures, so I searched just to come back to the song I had initially thought of. Lost in the Woods, from Frozen 2. I'm sure most of you have heard of this song at one point or another, and it fits the theme as the character is going through quite an adventure in the woods. The song was released along with the movie in 2019 as a part of the soundtrack album and was written by Kristen Anserson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
Jonathan Groff who plays Kristoff in the Frozen movies got together with the youngest sister Anna in the first movie of Frozen. He now wishes to propose but doesn't quite know how. In the first movie, he doesn't really sing anything, which left many a fan disappointed. In frozen 2 he gets a whole song expressing his emotions, something he's not the greatest at. The song is about Anna leaving on her own adventure, leaving Kristoff behind, and he's waiting for her to come back as featured in the bridge:
For a sign (For a sign)
That I'm your path
'Cause you are mine (You are mine)
'Til then
I'm lost in the woods
The song was inspired by several classic rock bands, mostly by Bryan Adams and Bon Jovi, and falls in the category of soft rock. In preparation for the song, several 1980s balladeers were watched by the team. Jonathan Groff recorded the entirety of the song himself, and offered several different background tracks to go along with his own voice and, in the words of Anderson-Lopez, are "a hybrid between Queen and Chicago".
Jonathan Groff himself was surprised Disney was willing to include this song, as it felt very out-of-character and that's why no songs were sung in the first movie. He even felt it would be cut from the final version, but luckily it wasn't. In the Woods replaced a comedic duet that was meant to be sung between Kristoff and Anna that would've been called "Get This Right", and although we haven't gotten to see that song now, we got a lovely emotional song instead that offered a lot of character development.
Until next time, you lovely SOUP Readers, where we'll discover the meaning and origins of yet another song. This was your favourite Fox - FoxRiver