Encanto.Photo: Disney
Disney’sEncantodidn’t have its breakout hit nominated for an Oscar despite its chart-topping performance.
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” has skyrocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, the second song from a Disney animated film to do so afterAladdin’s “A Whole New World.”
“No one could have predicted the success of the soundtrack, much less that it was going to be the one that popped off,” the song’s creatorLin-Manuel Mirandarecently said ontheElvis Duran Show.“When you submit a song for consideration, I always think the song you submit is not about whether you win or not. It’s about the one that best exemplifies the spirit of the movie itself.”
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He continued, “That’s always the guiding principle. And for us, ‘Dos Oruguitas’ is the foundational story.”
Thenominated song “Dos Oruguitas,“which is Spanish for the word “caterpillar,” begins playing in the Disney film during a flashback sequence in which the tragic backstory of the Madrigal matriarch, Abuela Alma, and her late husband, Pedro, is told.
Lin-Manuel Miranda.Astrid Stawiarz/Getty/Disney
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While the whole world may be singing it, there’s at least one child who might be sick of it: Miranda’s own 7-year-old son, Sebastian.
“My son came home from school today and he was like, ‘Daddy,everyone’ssinging it,'” Miranda previously joked of his eldest child, to PEOPLE. “He’s both proud and like, ‘All right, already.’ Because remember, he heard that song last May. He’s way over it.”
Encantois now streaming on Disney+.
source: people.com
