Viral Video Of Young Girl Singing 'Moana' On Delayed Delta Flight Sparks Heated Debate

There are few things more frustrating than learning your flight is delayed.

Perhaps the only thing more frustrating is being caught in a holding pattern, preventing you from landing at your final destination.

Thankfully, most flights at least have in-flight entertainment to keep passengers happy.

Passengers on a recent Delta Airlines flight to Orlando, Florida, were saddled with both a delayed departure as well as a holding pattern prior to landing.

Thankfully, there was in-flight entertainment to keep them distracted—though not the sort everyone was hoping for.

At one point, an unidentified young girl serenaded her fellow passengers with her rendition of the Academy Award-nominated song "How Far I'll Go" from Disney's Moana through the aircraft's intercom system.

Her performance was recorded and subsequently posted to the TikTok page of @druziroaming:

The almost two-minute video captured the young chanteuse singing the Lin-Manuel Miranda tune into the aircraft's intercom as an unidentified woman sang along, and another unidentified woman stood behind the girl with her arms crossed.

The video cut off just after the girl finished singing, not indicating the sort of reception she received for her performance.

For his part, @druziroaming enjoyed the young singer's interpretation of the Disney ditty, and wrote in the video's caption:

"When your Delta flight is delayed 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."

Other viewers, however, felt the impromptu performance turned a frustrating situation into an utterly unbearable one:

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Indeed, some other passengers on the flight posted videos to their own TikTok accounts, with reviews far less enthusiastic than @druziroaming.

One TikToker who goes by the handle @chloreallychloreally posted a video of her and the passenger in the seat next to her listening to the young Disney cover artist with confused expressions on their faces, with a text overlay reading "our flight got delayed bruh what is thissss."

Haleigh Marlow, another passenger who uses the TikTok handle haleighmarlow3, also posted a video with a less than glowing review of the young girl's performance:

Marlow could be seen looking into the camera nodding, her head back and forth with a somewhat disgruntled expression on her face, under a text overlay which read: "We've been stuck on this plane for hours and now this little girl is singing for us."

Marlow was a bit more specific in the video's caption:

"pov:"

"I was stuck on the flight with the little girl singing and I’m in the video that’s going viral about it."

"@delta run me my compensation check."

As Marlow noted in her video's caption, this unexpected and unconventional in-flight entertainment quickly began to make the rounds on social media, eventually catching the attention of X (formerly Twitter) user The Notorious J.O.V., who goes by the handle @whotfisjovana.

Like Marlow, @chloreally, and many others, @whotfisjovana was not a fan of this particular interpretation or the circumstances surrounding it, even going so far as to say this was her "worst nightmare."

Many viewers of @whotfisjovana's post ended up coming to the young girl's defense.

Many wondered how the aspiring vocalist was able to use the intercom to showcase her talents, since doing so when you're not on the flight staff is generally discouraged.

But since the plane was headed to Orlando, no one could claim she didn't know her audience—nor could they deny the possibility of a child getting on their nerves during this flight was always going to be a possibility.