Listen to Encanto’s We Don’t Talk About Bruno in 21 languages

As Walt Disney Animation Studios enjoys reminding us, the corporate’s movies play all world wide. That presents a selected downside for a musical — the studio has to not solely discover vocalists world wide that credibly sound like the unique English-speaking performers, they should translate all of the songs’ lyrics in ways in which not solely preserve the that means intact, however keep the unique model’s rhythms and rhymes.

Since 2013’s Frozen, Disney has been releasing movies of a few of its greater breakout tune hits that present what these songs sound like of their completely different incarnations world wide. The short edits between the completely different language soundtracks on songs like Frozen’s “Let It Go,” Moana’s “How Far I’ll Go,” Frozen 2’s “Into the Unknown” and “Misplaced within the Woods,” and the 2019 CGI Lion King’s “Hakuna Matata” all showcase simply how intently the worldwide variations sound just like the American model, from the singers’ intonations to the cadence of the lyrics.

The most recent tune to get Disney’s official multi-language video therapy is “We Don’t Speak About Bruno,” the Spotify-topping breakout hit from Encanto’s Billboard 100-topping soundtrack. The tune is a rundown of the unusual and scary experiences folks have had with Bruno Madrigal, the black sheep of a household the place almost everybody has magical powers. Bruno’s energy is seeing the long run, however because the tune implies, figuring out about future tragedies (even small, private ones like male sample baldness) doesn’t make them any simpler to climate, and the Madrigals’ neighborhood wound up dreading Bruno’s dire predictions. When he disappeared, speaking about him turned taboo — besides, apparently, in dramatic tune type, which sounds much more dramatic in 21 languages from variations of Encanto world wide.

Followers of this therapy who need to hear greater than a snippet of the tune in several languages — or Encanto’s different musical numbers, for that matter — ought to take a look at Disney Plus’ language menu. American viewers, as an example, have the choice to look at the whole film in 19 different languages. So if you wish to know what “Floor Strain” feels like in Italian, Dutch, or Norwegian, that’s an choice too.