We Don't Talk About Bruno

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” written for Disney’s *Encanto* (2021), is an ensemble song built around rumor, prophecy, and the way families edit their own histories. It broke into public life less like a film tie-in than like a piece of street-level folklore, moving fast through schools, social feeds, and singalongs in a city fluent in Miranda’s uptown-to-Broadway arc. At Cutting Room, The Sharpe Family Singers and Samantha Sharpe reframe it as rock/pop, emphasizing rhythm and overlapping voices. One clear takeaway is how its layered storytelling rewards live performance.