Proud Corazón

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I love Coco. It's one of the premium category movies in the shelf of my mind. I would actually be more surprised if I did not adore it.
•It has a great and soul-satisfying tale.
•It has an awesome animation (which means lots of colours, Yay!)
•The characters connect to my being, somewhere within the folds of my heart.

And to top this treat, we have great songs. There isn't a single song which is ill-placed or something. I'm grateful to everyone who worked on Coco's soundtrack and made it my favourite musical. And trust me, I'm not a huge fan of musicals (though they're definitely neat).

Coco is a based on Mexican culture and showcases the tradition of Dia de Muertos (The Day of the Dead).
I won't give any spoilers (and, that's not the purpose of this write-up anyway), but I highly recommend watching this delicious Disney production. If it's your ideal type, you'll love every second of it!

Coming back to the point, I decided to write about particularly this because the songs in this masterpiece always make me homesick and at the same time, connected. I relish every single one, but Proud Corazón hits my chords in varied degrees.

The song is a hearty conclusion to the story unfolded in the movie. Miguel Rivera, the protagonist of the story is voiced by Anthony Gonzalez who has the most angelic voice I've heard. After a bittersweet ending to Miguel's story, this infering song proves to be equally bittersweet.

It starts on low and slow tunes and progresses gracefully to its high and happy climax. For catching this beauty of transition, the 124 second music video is all it takes...

The Mexican music is nice to my ears and I love the way it makes me experience a thousand different emotions in a single moment.
The spanish lyrics are some concrete, musical elements and decorate the already-so-musical catchy tune even more. For example, Corazón. I'm no Spanish learner; but seriously, who knew there could be such a luscious word for Heart?

The song opens with my favourite lines...

Say that I'm crazy or call me a fool
But last night it seemed that I dreamed about you

And it doesn't stop just there...

Our love for each other will live on forever
In every beat of my proud corazón

Ahh...we all swooned a bit at all this cuteness, didn't we?

The song speaks a million different languages of love. Family. Togetherness.

P.S.- Isn't it kind of impressive though?
A musical to narrate the story of a family prohibiting music in their house.
That's ironic art.