"Fixer Upper" is a song from the 2013
Disney
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animated film ''
Frozen''.
Production
Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Kristen Anderson-Lopez (born March 21, 1972) is an American songwriter and lyricist known for co-writing the songs for the 2013 computer-animated musical film ''Frozen'' and its 2019 sequel ''Frozen II'' with her husband Robert Lopez. The couple ...
talked about the song's inspiration:
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Robert Lopez further elaborated on the song's context within the musical:
Synopsis
The song is sung when Kristoff brings Anna
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to his "family" - the trolls who treated Anna after Elsa
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's earlier accident. Kristoff seeks to have Pabbie treat Anna since he fears Elsa has injured her, but the trolls think Anna is his steady girlfriend and hence try to marry the two together. The song starts with the trolls asking Anna what is turning her off from dating Kristoff, like "his unmanly blondness" or his tendency to "tinkle in the woods". Despite Kristoff protesting that Anna is already engaged, the trolls go ahead and try to wed them. They manage to get partway through the vows before Anna collapses and falls into Kristoff's arms due to her frozen heart.
Critical reception
IndieWire
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described the song as an "arbitrary upbeat ode to love's ability to triumph over imperfection so incongruous it's displaced to the middle of Frozen's soundtrack CD". DecentFilms stated, "There’s a double entendre about another type of relationship that is said to be “outside of nature’s laws”: The trolls, singing about Kristoff in the “Fixer-Upper” song, suggest that he has an unnatural relationship with his reindeer Sven
Sven (in Danish and Norwegian, also Svend and also in Norwegian most commonly Svein) is a Scandinavian first name which is also used in the Low Countries and German-speaking countries. The name itself is Old Norse for "young man" or "young ...
. Yes: a bestiality joke in a Disney cartoon". Dawn described it as "the opening from ''Fraggle Rock
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''".
Other languages
The Korean language version sung by Jung Young-joo and other members of the cast appeared on the Gaon Music Chart
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's download sub-chart at 200 after being downloaded 6,000 times; however, it did not appear on the main Gaon Singles Chart
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.
Charts
Certifications
References
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2013 songs
Songs from Frozen (franchise)
Songs written by Robert Lopez
Songs written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez