Beijing’s bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, announced last week, has encountered its first public setback: An official song that was part of the bid—and potentially intended for the Olympics themselves—has been called out being too close an imitation of “Let It Go,” the hit ballad sung by American actress and singer Idina Menzel from the Disney animated movie “Frozen.”
The International Olympic Committee voted to let Beijing host the games on July 31.
Caijing, a well-known Chinese financial magazine, conducted an analysis of both “Let it Go” and “Snow and Ice Dance,” the Chinese song, and found that they had similar prelude chords, an eight-beat introduction, played at an almost identical tempo, and had the same instrumentation. Caijing has since removed the post, but the news is still on Chinese news portal Sina and elsewhere.
