Idina Menzel Celebrates 10 Years of John Travolta’s ‘Dazeem’ Moment

Adele Dazeem is 10 years previous!

It’s been a decade because the legendary 2014 second on the Oscars the place John Travolta butchered Idina Menzel’s identify earlier than she carried out her Frozen hit “Let It Go,” referring to the stage and display star as “Adele Dazeem.” To have fun, Menzel took to Instagram to poke enjoyable on the mix-up, and need her lady Adele the happiest of birthdays.

“Hey, Adele Dazeem! It’s Idina Menzel,” she says within the now-viral clip posted this week. “I simply wished to say glad birthday. Sending you a lot love and optimistic power.”

“I hope you may have the perfect, greatest day,” Menzel added, earlier than hilariously performing a heartfelt rendition of the “Joyful Birthday music and signing off.

After the second grew to become a meme flooding the Web in 2014, Travolta issued an announcement via is publicist during which he deeply apologized for his mispronunciation. “I’ve been beating myself up all day. Then I assumed … what would Idina Menzel say? She’d say, ‘Let it go, let it go!’ Idina is extremely gifted and I’m so glad ‘Frozen’ took residence two Oscars Sunday night time!,” he mentioned on the time.

In 2022, Menzel poked enjoyable on the scenario as soon as extra, participating in a TikTok problem. The problem, cued to the Ting Tings’ 2008 hit “That’s Not My Title,” finds Menzel biking via video clips from her most well-known film roles. Opening with a shot of Idina’s face and the phrases, “My identify is Idina… however they name me,” the clip then pivots to quick-cuts of her function as Elphaba in Depraved, Maureen in Lease, Shelby Corcoran (“Rachel’s Mother” in Glee), Nancy in Enchanted, Elsa in Frozen, Vivian within the Camila Cabello Cinderella reboot and Dinah from Adam Sandler’s Uncut Gems. To wrap up, a shot of Travolta from that fateful night time with only a collection of query marks filling the display

Watch Mendel’s birthday needs to Adele Dazeem under.