EXTRA CREDIT #2

For my second Switched on Pop extra credit assignment I decided to listen to the episode called We *do* talk about Bruno because I love this song and it intrigued me. In this episode they talk about how it is really rare that a Disney song will even make it on the top 100 let alone it gets to be number one, even over the iconic Adele. They go over what the movie is about and tell Bruno’s story and what the song is about. Basically why he is the exiled uncle in the movie. They start out by talking about the piano in the beginning and how it uses syncopated notes and it just makes you want to dance. It is at a slower tempo which makes it seem more mysterious. Lin Manuel who wrote Hamilton, also wrote the music for this movie and he wrote this song in one sitting right after hearing about Bruno. Another reason why they said it could have blown up is because it has lots of different characters singing. Each character has very different styles and kind of mixes it up with their personality. Then they talk about how in the last verse everyone sings their own parts all together. Then they talked about how it related to other pop songs and they were talking about how other songs from Encanto seem more likely to be on the top 100 than We Don’t Talk About Bruno. They talked about Lin Manuel and how he has been doing this sound of music for a while, starting with In The Heights. If you have heard his music before you are more likely to like Bruno. This song reminded his wife of one of his songs from Hamilton. There are a lot of similarities from We Don’t Talk About Bruno and Hamilton songs. This podcast was actually SUPER interesting because I love Encanto and I love Hamilton. I didn’t know that they would be talking about my two favorite musicals so it was awesome! 

Works Cited:

Sloan, Nate, host. "We *do* talk about Bruno" Spotify Feb. 1. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7y9uJdFdp1aqm15mZAFkd1