The song now ranks historically with anthems like “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King” and “A Whole New World” from “Aladdin.” But “Bruno” is a song you can dance to. “That’s what people seem to be responding to: ‘I’m bopping my head to this but it’s kind of deep and there’s layers to it.'”īut Miranda never saw the massive popularity of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” coming. “The thing we were chasing was: Can we get the complexity of family, a multi-generational Latin family, into a Disney film?” says Miranda. In one of the most popular “Encanto” TikToks, a young woman named Maribel Martinez says she not only looks like the muscular sister Luisa, but that “Surface Pressure” “tells my story.” Miranda wrote it with his older sister, Luz Miranda-Crespo, in mind. For example: “Surface Pressure,” sung by Jessica Darrow, taps into the weight of responsibility felt by an older sibling. To Miranda, what’s most rewarding is how people are connecting to the songs and its characters as expressions of their own family roles and dynamics. “I just got a text 10 minutes ago of someone tweeting ‘If you don’t speak Spanish and you put on the closed captioning for ‘Dos Oruguitas,’ you’re really going to cry,” says Miranda, chuckling. (The #Encanto hashtag has been viewed more than 11.5 billion times on TikTok.) They share things like clips of choreography or TikTok videos of people singing along. (“Very on brand for me,” he said from the back of a car.) He’s mostly been experiencing “Encanto” mania through a text thread with directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush, co-director Charise Castro Smith and Tom MacDougall, head of music at Disney. Miranda took in the phenomenon of the “Encanto” soundtrack for the first time in an interview, speaking by phone on his way to a night of theater. On YouTube, you can not talk about Bruno in Hungarian and Bahasa Malaysia. There, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” has been streamed more than 100 million times. Six songs from the film have charted on the Billboard 100, including “Surface Pressure,” “The Family Madrigal,” “What Else Can I Do?” “Waiting on a Miracle” and “Dos Oruguitas.” All also rank among the most streamed songs on Spotify. “Encanto” didn’t displace just anybody from the top spot. But the soundtrack explosion - prompted by its Christmas debut on Disney+ - has propelled a rare kind of pop-culture sensation. “Encanto,” a warm celebration of family centered on the Madrigals, a Colombian clan with magical powers, has been the most successful animated film at the box office during the pandemic, with $223 million in ticket sales worldwide. 24, is almost unheard of - particularly during a pandemic that has muted the ability of movies to make a lasting impression. But what the soundtrack to “Encanto” is doing, long after it arrived in theaters on Nov. It’s not unusual for songs by Miranda, the composer of “Hamilton” and “In the Heights,” to capture the zeitgeist. Two months out, people are talking about Bruno, and his whole family.” “It helps you have the perspective of: The opening weekend is not the life of the movie. “By the time I got back, ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ had kind of taken over the world along with the rest of the ‘Encanto’ soundtrack,'” Miranda says, laughing. The music of “Encanto” was suddenly everywhere. READ MORE: In ‘Don’t Look Up,’ director Adam McKay makes allegorical plea to follow climate science The film’s most popular song, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” became the highest-charting song from a Disney animated film in more than 26 years, ranking higher than even “Let It Go.” 1 on the Billboard charts earlier this month. “Encanto” became the first movie soundtrack since 2019 to reach No. By the time he returned, something almost as extraordinary as the enchanted home of the movie had transpired. NEW YORK (AP) - A month after “Encanto” debuted in theaters, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the movie’s Colombia-inflected songs, took a long vacation.
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