The Secret Meaning of Encanto's Dos Oruguitas & Why It's Amazing

I reveal the secret metaphor hidden in Encanto's Dos Oruguitas!

0:00 Intro
0:36 Chess Not Checkers
1:12 Foreshadowing in Family Madrigal
2:11 Waiting on a Miracle
3:55 Triplet Flow
5:37 Stephanie Beatriz's Voice
6:18 Sponsorship
7:33 Colombian Tiple
8:40 Butterfly Metaphor
9:39 Three Revealed
11:45 "Future" Chord
13:56 Generational Trauma
14:52 Ending of Dos Oruguitas Explained

Dos Oruguitas is a profoundly beautiful song in Encanto, but did you know it also has a secret meaning? Let me reveal how musically Lin-Manuel Miranda composed a new instant classic.

Produced by Monica M. Lee
Additional Research by Annika Hoseth
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[dvqjacks]

The power of 3 is seen through the family.
Triplets:
Julieta, Pepa, and Bruno- Past, Present, and Future

Julieta's daughters:
Isabela, Luisa, and Mirabel- Beauty, Brawn, and Brains

Pepa's children:
Dolores, Camilo, and Antonio- Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil

[hakkesho]

Holy crap…you guys.

1 Abuela
+ 3 Triplets
+ 2 Husbands
+ 6 Grandkids
= a Family of 12

A Colombian Tiple has 12 strings…

*The Madrigal Family is literally a Madrigal AND a Colombian Tiple 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯!*

Lin Manuel…who gave you permission to be this clever 😩??

[gilangsetyawibawa]

If Dos Oruguitas were on Broadway, I could imagine a young Abuela and Abuelo doing an interpretive dance in the background retelling their backstory, while the older Abuela sings it to Mirabel in the dark. As the song reaches its climax, a swarm of projected butterflies form a rainbow in the background before disappearing into the mountain gap. This is going to be the emotional, eleven-o-clock centerpiece of the show that might hopefully win Abuela's actress her well-deserved Tony Award...

[evridicee]

actually, i noticed something.
this song talks about two caterpillars, facing three different hardships: hunger, the weather, and the future.
what are the triplets’ powers?
julieta cooks food that heals.
pepa controls the weather.
bruno sees the future.

[rich_musicman]

The lyrics of Dos Origuitas also reference the powers that the triplets all have: “their hunger burning, ” “against the weather, ” and “the way for tomorrow”.

[flusel]

I also love how Mirabel, a child of the triplet who’s representing the past, is the one to heal the family by unpacking the past trauma that has been affecting the family ever since. First she helped Luisa and Isabella - two other children of the “past” - expressing their feelings and struggles, then she gets to the root of the problem, helping abuela with her trauma as well. It really shows how you have to deal with the things that have gone wrong in the past first to heal the present and make way for a better future.
As always great analysis!

[marilucs]

The three theme is all over Encanto. And stays in the family's newst generation, as both Pepa and Julieta also had three children each!

[SaiScribbles]

Lin Manuel saying he wrote Dos Oruguitas to sound like a folk song that’s always existed makes sense cause when I first heard it I thought it was to the tune of some familiar folk song or lullaby. So damn man good job.

[madiisaccount]

My god Lin is unbelievably talented at musical story telling

[mA-ndxr]

Props to you for reaching out to a spanish language interpretator and pronouncing the stuff dang well. I love these deep analisys and this is no exception

[BlueCanary]

What a beautiful analysis!
I know the common thought is that "We Don't Talk about Bruno" should have gotten the Oscar nomination for best song, but you've done a fantastic job of showing why "Dos Oruguitas" is every bit as worthy of the honor 👏

[darthserenity]

i realized that abuela alma was singing in the melody of "dos orugitas" in la familia madrigal, but i never understood why that choice was made.
your channel is amazing!!

[AllTheArtsy]

Encanto references Gabriel Garcia Marquez's extraordinary work, 100 Years of Solitude so well. An intergenerational family, living in a big house, wrecked with problems due to not acknowledging their history and due to their insularity. It's not 1 for 1, of course, but the homage is clear. In 100 Years, mariposa are always present during the scenes of unusual, magical realism. While gold symbolizes financial growth, yellow is seen as decay and ruin. I like how Encanto flips that. The butterfly, and the magic candle, is both golden and yellow and symbolize the walls coming down so they can be rebuilt anew.

[aleksandra]

I feel like whenever Lin writes a song and everybody loves it, he's like "I'm glad they like it, but shame they don't get this, that, that and that reference"
And Howard is the guy who restores Lin's faith in the humanity
Cause he gets EVERYTHING

[YrBoiNana]

I think that it’s important to mention that Mirabel didn’t dismiss Abuela’s recognition that she was wrong, but she redirects the conversation to Abuela’s strengths so that she isn’t focusing on the bad.

[Pluveus]

After watching this movie and listening to interviews that Lin has done about it, I'm convinced that we're about to see a second Disney Renaissance. Every choice he made in the movie musically was very much(and intentionally so) in line with Howard Ashman's philosophy that made the animated movies from the late 80s to early 00s so amazing.

[aQuayQuay]

Obviously, triplets are visually seen through Julieta, Bruno and Pepa; Isabella, Luisa and Mirabel; and can't forget, Dolores, Camilo and Antonio (3 sets of 3s (hey we almost have a full measure)). I first got a feeling of the threeness in Encanto in the song *Surface Pressure* actually. Luisa recalls her triggers in threes ("pressure like a grip, grip, grip"). She feels like a "tightrope walker in a three-ring circus". She even references Cerberus, a three-headed beast. I want to say this is because Luisa is finally able to share her stress with the threeist of them all, Mirabel, who has felt the pressure of being giftless her entire life and this is the moment Luisa feels her powers slipping. I'm not really here to write an essay--I just needed to get this idea out somewhere.

[marcialynnukulele]

Does anybody else just stop and think how lucky we are to (be alive right now) have a masterpiece of film and music such as this? I can’t be the only one.

[thespeedyyoshi]

Oh my gosh, I never even noticed that “past present future” theme in the triplets. That’s insane.

[LittleMan]

The three theme also extends to there being three generations.
1) Abuela & Abuelo.
2) The triplets: Pepa, Bruno & Julieta. Plus Julieta’s husband Agustín & Pepa’s husband Félix.
3) Mirabel, Camilo, Luisa, Dolores, Antonio & Isabella. Notice how Julieta has 3 kids (Mirabel, Luisa & Isabella), and Pepa has 3 kids (Dolores, Camilo & Antonio)?