![]() And so the interesting puzzle was writing two different songs at the same time: one that really came as a personal, emotional thing, and another that was like, “Look at me.” ![]() But we also needed to constantly make sure, in every line, in every word, that it could also be interpreted as the Ernesto de la Cruz version of like, ‘Goodnight ladies! Goodbye! Remember me when I am gone!’ Right? We needed this showboating, ‘To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before’ kind of version. ![]() Kristen Anderson-Lopez elaborated on the song while talking to Yahoo, “It was sort of like figuring out a puzzle, to tell the really emotional personal thing I had to say - which is, how you leave a song behind for your kids when you have to travel. ![]() We wanted to write a song that could be interpreted both ways.” In an interview with Variety, Robert Lopez summed up the challenge: “‘Can you write a song that means one thing in one context and another thing in another?’ To us, it was the difference between performing a song to call attention to yourself, to show off and a song as a gift to someone you love. Finally, a contemporary pop version of “Remember Me” by R&B singer Miguel and Latin Grammy®-winning Mexican artist Natalia Lafourcade is played over the movie’s end credits.įor “Remember Me” to work in so many different styles and settings, it had to have a strong melody and an authentically Mexican feel. And Miguel later plays the song to his great-grandmother Mamá Coco himself when they are finally reunited. We see Héctor (voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal) playing the song to Coco as a child – here it’s not a bawdy showstopper but a tender lullaby. Along the way, we discover that “Remember Me” was actually a song written by Héctor for his daughter, Coco, and stolen by Ernesto. Miguel can see his skeletal dead relatives and decides to seek a blessing from Ernesto. Not only that, but he is now cursed and needs a family blessing to return to the Land of the Living. The problem is that, once he plays the guitar, Miguel becomes invisible to all living people. The boy’s grandmother destroys his guitar, and Miguel breaks into de la Cruz’s mausoleum to steal the famous instrument. Listen to the Coco soundtrack on Spotify or Apple Music now.Īfter discovering a photograph of his great-great-grandfather Héctor holding de la Cruz’s guitar, Miguel is convinced that he and his idol are related and tells his family he is going to become a musician. The problem is that Miguel’s family is fundamentally opposed to the idea, largely because Miguel’s great-great-grandmother Imelda’s husband left her to pursue a career in music. Miguel is smitten with the performance and has his heart set on following in de la Cruz’s footsteps and becoming a musician. Ironically, given the title of the song, it’s the performance that kills the singer, as a giant bell falls on him at the song’s ending. We first come across “Remember Me” as performed by de la Cruz in a showbizzy, mariachi style. “Remember Me” is the emotional core of Coco, performed a total of four times throughout the film and linking generations of family together.Ĭoco tells the story of Miguel, a Mexican boy who idolizes the late singer, Ernesto de la Cruz. Four years after Frozen and “Let It Go,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez worked their songwriting magic again with “Remember Me,” the song that runs throughout Pixar’s 2017 classic, Coco.
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