Picture this: You voiced a beloved character in one of the most successful Disney animated musicals of all time. So, you know the words to all the big songs, right? Not if you're Josh Gad.
During an appearance on Good Morning America, the actor — who, as you probably know, is the voice of everyone's favorite snowman, Olaf — admitted that he doesn't know the lyrics to the movie's BIG song, "Let It Go."
Yes, that "Let It Go." The song that sold more than 10 million copies when it was released as a single in 2014, won an Oscar for Best Original Song, and has been recorded in 25 languages.
People all over the world know "Let It Go" — but Josh doesn't.
OK, so here's where things get messy: Last month, he appeared on stage with Frozen costars Kristen Bell and Santino Fontana at a Carnegie Hall event honoring songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez — who, you guessed it, wrote "Let It Go."
"There was a little monitor, but everybody was like, 'Yeah, Josh, just move over, you know it already, we don't even need this,'" he said.
"I've got the mic, and I'm doing, 'The stars are bright, and the mountains are light, and you know that things are nice,' just making up lyrics," he continued.
"Not a single word was correct. It was a disaster. And of course — this is a true story — I had the only working mic on the stage." Yikes.
"People assume that because I'm in Frozen that I know the lyrics to 'Let It Go,'" he also correctly asserted, before clarifying that he, indeed, does not.
Maybe we're being too hard on Josh. I mean, if Idina Menzel — who, among other things, is famous for singing "Let It Go" — didn't know the words...now that would be bad.
