Mixed reactions as young girl serenades delayed Delta flight with Moana song
The girl was singing to a planeload of passengers enduring more than four hours of delay. PHOTOS: JOECHRISTIANGUY, DRUZIROAMING/TIKTOK
A young girl serenaded passengers on a Delta flight that had been delayed for over four hours with a song from the movie Moana – and not everyone got that warm, fuzzy Disney feeling.
Clips of the girl singing the 2.5-minute long How Far I'll Go from Moana have gone viral. One video posted by TikTok user druziroaming has garnered over 31 million views as at June 1.
In the caption, the user said the Delta flight bound for Orlando, Florida, was delayed for two hours and had to circle for two more hours due to bad weather before it could finally land.
'When your flight gets delayed by 2 hours and you circle Orlando for another 2… But then a little girl sings Moana on the crew mic and suddenly everything feels okay,' the user wrote.
The girl's performance was meant to ease the tension and tedium on the flight, akin to that spontaneous outburst of joyful singing in 2014 by the cast of The Lion King on a flight home from Brisbane, Australia.
But it instead left the internet debating over good intentions, passenger rights and flight mismanagement.
'We were delayed by about… an hour and a half, two hours to even get on the plane,' another TikTok user, named Stephanie, recounted. 'So tensions are already high. People are pissed, they've missed connections, and some people just wanna get home.'
Describing the atmosphere on the stalled plane as 'really hot' and 'packed', Stephanie said she was anxiously awaiting an update from the crew, 'when all of a sudden (a flight attendant) shares with us that they have a sweet little girl that would love to share, or sing, a song with us'.
The girl was handed the flight crew's intercom system, and she started singing.
Some passengers went along with it, quietly singing along during the impromptu performance.
One passenger commended the girl for her 'bravery'.
'She's on key and on tempo. It could be much, much worse,' someone said in the comments to one video.
But others were not as game.
'Flight got delayed and this little girl won't stop singing Moana,' read one TikTok caption. 'Get me off this plane.'
Another said: 'This is actually my worst nightmare and personal hell.'
A third labelled the scene 'torture', while a fourth quipped that they were 'still waiting for the parents' apology video'.
'No hate to the girl, but the parents should know how to read a room. not everything should be centred around your child. she isn't Moana, life isn't a Disney movie,' one social media use r said.
'The worst part is, if you're watching a movie on the plane, the movie pauses when someone makes an announcement,' another noted. 'So everyone was forced to stop what they were doing to listen to her.'
It was not known what prompted the young girl to get up and sing for the flight, but a Delta Air Lines spokesperson told Newsweek: 'We appreciate the customer sharing her talents and apologise to our customers for the delay in their travels.'
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