All Of You

Album: Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2021)
Charted: 71
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Songfacts®:

  • The final song of Encanto, "All Of You" collects together melodies and musical sections from all of its preceding numbers. It finds the entire Encanto cast singing about Mirabel and the Madrigals rebuilding their home and seeing themselves and each other in a new light.
  • This is one of eight songs that Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda penned for the soundtrack. He came up with the idea for "All Of You" during the production process. "We were all so excited by the notion of telling a story with a lot of characters within a family and holding all the complexity of that," he told Associated Press. "Then I said, 'At the end, if we've established enough themes with the different characters, I can kind of smash them together at the ending in interesting and surprising ways.' They were like, 'Alright, Lin. Here you go."

    Having talked a big game, Miranda then had to back it up. "Then I actually had to do it, which is a much taller order," he said. "You hear a bit of Luisa's song, a bit of Isabela's song, you hear a bit of 'We Don't Talk About Bruno,' It contains all the songs in it while still propelling the story forward. The original draft of that was like seven minutes long. They were like: 'We're just out of time. You have to cut this.'"
  • In "We Don't Talk About Bruno," Pepa tells the story of Bruno forecasting rain on her wedding day, causing a storm to ruin the festivities. When Bruno sings his apology to Pepa during "All of You" about ruining her nuptials, he sings "let it go" in reference to the famous Frozen song. The opening piano riff from "Let It Go" is then heard in the background. Because of the interpolation, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, who wrote "Let It Go," get listed in the Encanto end credits.

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