A clip of a young girl serenading passengers amid an hours-long flight delay has gone viral, dividing viewers.
In several different clips captured by various people onboard the Delta flight to Orlando, Florida, the girl can be seen standing in the middle of the cabin singing the entirety of “How Far I’ll Go,” from Disney’s animated Moana, into the flight crew’s intercom system.
Some passengers can be heard quietly singing along during the impromptu performance, while others filmed themselves looking aghast.
“Flight got delayed and this little girl won’t stop singing Moana,” read one TikTok caption. “Get me off this plane.”
“This is actually my worst nightmare and personal hell,” one commenter agreed. A second labeled the scene “torture,” while a third quipped that they were “still waiting for the parents’ apology video.”
“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 lol.”
Others, however, were charmed by the rendition, with one passenger commending the girl for her “bravery.”
“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,” a second passenger wrote.
“She’s on key and on tempo. It could be much, much worse,” someone argued in the comments.
It’s unknown 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 apologize to our customers for the delay in their travels.”
According to one TikTok user, named Stephanie, who was on the last leg of her journey home from Atlanta, Georgia, the flight was delayed for two hours due to “rough storms” and “bad weather” in Orlando.
“We were delayed by about almost an hour and a half, two hours to even get on the plane,” she explained. “So tensions are already high. People are pissed, they’ve missed connections, and some people just wanna get home.”
She recalled that once everyone boarded the plane, they had to sit on the tarmac for another hour, waiting for the bad weather in Orlando to pass.
Describing the atmosphere on the stalled plane as “really hot” and “packed,” the TikToker 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.”
“We were confused,” she remembered. “And then she started singing. And I thought she was gonna sing maybe like up until the chorus part, or end at the chorus, and then we were all gonna go along our merry way. But no, she sang the whole song.
“There was some scattered applause,” she added. “But it was also very uncomfortable.”
