The Four-Chord Formula - Let It Go. REALLY. LET IT GO.

A while back we referenced the Axis Of Awesome. If you STILL haven't checked these guys out, go do so. It's your five minute primer on the last thirty years of rock n roll, using Don't Stop Believin' as the four-chord Rosetta Stone by which every song since has been composed. It's also the secret recipe that allows us piano bar guys to effortlessly mash-up any song with really any other song...

And, as if those same four chords (I-V-vi-IV for the music nerds out there...) needed any more songs tapping the pattern, along comes LET IT GO, from the smash movie Frozen, composed by the extremely talented Bobby & Kristen Lopez. For those who don't know, Bobby is the composer for both Ave. Q and Book Of Mormon, and a genuinely nice guy for someone who happens to be the youngest EGOT out there (Emmy-Grammy-Oscar-Tony for the aforementioned nerds...)

All kinds of cover versions, satires, mash-ups and tributes have been popping up over the past few months, and every parent of a school-age child has posted the obligatory clips of their brood shrieking along to this ditty from the backseat of the mini-van.

And now, count the boys in Pearl Jam among the converted.

Over the weekend in Italy, during a concert, they were deep in a performance of DAUGHTER, when suddenly they sprang into 30 seconds of Disney music before returning to more familiar and grungier territory.

This beckons the question - is there ANY song that can't be whack-a-moled into the four-chord mega-mix? And as a follow up - who will be next to pile onto the LET IT GO lovefest?

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