Vocal coach reacts to ENCANTO

"We don't talk about Bruno..BUT we do sing about him." -The Madrigals, except for Abuela

Fun Fact: Stephanie Beatriz (The voice actor who portrays Mirabel) was 9 months pregnant when she recorded waiting on a miracle, she gave birth about 48 hours after her final recording of the song!

no matter how many times i watch this my eyes release buckets at "we see how bright you burn, we see how brave you've been" every freaking time!!!

i really don't see many people mention it, but in the very beginning when Abeula is talking about what she went through losing her husband, it's glossed over, and the animation reflects that. Later on, when mirabel see's what she went through, you get the full animation, the pain and agony as she watches her love be taken from her, brings her to her knees. So heart wrenching.

Mirabel didn't get a gift because she's a gift herself. She's the magic. She didn't get her own room but Casita is hers.

Fun fact: Lin-Manuel Miranda wanted Mirabel's "Waiting on a miracle" to feel out of sync with the family thus making it more true to Mirabel's reality. He wrote this track in a 3/4 measurement, while the rest of the family solo and group songs were written in 2/4 and 4/4. I think that's a very cool detail.

8:04 Fun fact no one asked for: The lady saying "Luisa, can you reroute the river?" is voiced by Sarah Nicole-Robles, who has done background/scratch voicework for Disney for yeeears, and now she's best known as the voice of Luz Noceda on the beloved Disney show, "The Owl House!"

I love that while everyone else reacts to the "Was Hercules ever like, 'yo, I don't wanna fight Cerberus?'" line, you instead reacted to the next line which always caught me as the more impactful line, "I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be of service." Also, Bruno's room. I always saw it as being kind of weird and broken because his connection with the rest of the family is severed.

hannah: "we should be talking about Bruno" me: "don't worry the entire fanbase has that covered"

random detail that stuck out to me about this movie: The family photo that Mirabel gets excluded from in the beginning looks very rehearsed and everyone with a very visual gift is demonstrating their powers in the photo (Luisa lifting a big rock, Isabela's flower petals, etc), but the final family portrait in the end is just them all standing together as a family, without any of that polish or fanfare. Goes to show that even in something as simple as a family photo there was pressure on everyone to be a certain way and make the family look good.

19:25 when Camilo shifts into that half baby person and shouts "Mirabel" is like the funniest thing ever to my omg

My favorite part about Isabella's song difference between We Don't Talk About Bruno and What Else Can I Do is the pitch. She's so much higher and princess perfect, then she actually gets to sing more like "herself" and get some low notes and belts. It's such a subtle character change but I love it so much.

During Luisa's song ("Surface Pressure"), you caught what a LOT of people seem to miss - the line "I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be of service". That line BANG! Changes the entire mood.

I truly love how, in the beginning, Abuela looks sad when Abuelo dies, but when there is actual footage of what happens, she has the worst grief and pain a person can experience. She shielded the family for so long, she forgot to be part of it :(

21:42 This movie touched the hearts of SO MANY Colombianos who saw it because it sheds light on Colombia's very tragic, bloodshed-filled history and the sacrifices many people made to keep their families alive and hopefully let them have a future, like Abuelo Pedro did. It helps un-erase something from a lesser-known country's history that many people haven't wanted to talk about because honestly, ... it's very painful and so, so hard.

It's been over a year now, but I still can't get over how brilliantly 'We Don't Talk About Bruno' is composed and performed It's like the perfect storm of musical talent coming together to crush all resistance.

I AGREE ABOUT THE CHARACTER IN MIRABEL’S VOICE. I see a lot of people talking about the quality of singers in Disney “decreasing” and it’s like first of all, no, they still have immensely talented actors/singers. But in this movie they emphasize the CHARACTER over the singing so while maybe vocally it’s not like the best technique ever it has a lot of life to it and it feels like these people are conversing through song rather than just singing randomly.

Something I like about Dolores' part in we don't talk about Bruno is the fact that not only does she sing in like a whisper-ish tone but you can also hear all of their movements clearer. Example: their shoes hitting the floor, her grabbing mirabel and pulling her the other way. It's just like we had her powers in that moment and hearing everything amplified

Dude I just noticed that whenever a gifted family member is singing, their song sequences are imaginative and Mirabel struggles to keep up, for example getting knocked around during we don’t talk about Bruno and falling off the donkey in surface pressure. But when mirabel has her own songs they happen in freezeframe sometimes, but always in real life

My favorite part is 12:15 when Luisa is clearly struggling so hard and Mirabel finally sees the pain and anguish in her older sister and it breaks her heart.