I’ve never seen someone describe a vocal as a “yeah I’m cool” vocal, yet I still completely understand what he means 😂

I'm Hispanic born and raised and I've discussed with my Asian friends how similar our cultures are. We put a lot of value into family. Our families are large and always involved in our lives. My non Hispanic non Asian friends couldn't understand why Mirabel was so attached to her family despite everything; why she didn't just walk out. Leaving our family is like ripping out a vital part of who we are. Edit: I only mentioned Hispanics and Asians because that's what Joel mentioned. There's plenty of other cultures were family is very important.

Fun fact: for Encanto, most of the voice actors are not professional voice actors that can sing but professional singer who just voice acted for the first time.

The line “I’m pretty sure I’m worthless if I can’t be of service.” Hits me hard

Petition to have Joel review classic Disney songs through the years.

As a Hispanic person, to answer if we get pressure from parents to do well, I think it’s more so an immigrant parent thing. I’m the oldest child and grandchild on both sides of my family, and I’m a first generation child, so I was pretty much made to be like Isabella and Luisa, to be perfect and shoulder all the family bs while growing up. I love my younger siblings but they will never understand how much my parents hurt me emotionally growing up. Things with my parents are better now, but that pressure from not just my parents, but basically my entire family really got to me, which is why Encanto really got to me when I first watched it.

3:26 honestly as a Southeast Asian, this song, and the whole movie itself hits close to home. I felt more represented in this film than Raya and I'm not even Colombian. Heck, even in some way, We Don't Talk About Bruno is kind of relatable because I actually have an uncle that is ostracized by most of his family (his siblings).

This song is stuck in my head, Just like We Don't Talk about bruno... i keep coming back to watch them.

Honestly Joel is so musically talented, I really hope he doesn’t stop doing all this. Thank u Joel for teaching me so much!

Lyrics: ”light wind blows” The movie: *shows a tornado* Also aren’t we all just dancing through our anxiety at some point-

Surface Pressure legit had me bawling my eyes out, and I see many other KZfaqrs get emotional when they hear it. It's relateable, it's sad, it's hopeless and at the same time it's such a catchy tune

I'm of African descent and a first born and, having met and discussed generational trauma/pressure put on us by family members with people from Hispanic and Asian descent, our childhoods were scarily similar. It was like we shared the subsection of a Venn diagram

She says the lyrics “Can I somehow preserve this” when she fixes Mirabel’s glasses! It’s showing how she wants to protect her I love this song so much

Honestly, I didn’t expect to vibe with any Disney songs, but the songs in this are groovy af!

In many places, including Latin America, the pressure on older siblings in particular is quite complicated. In the movie, Luisa is not the oldest, but she has the same pressure (The dynamics change when you are the first grandchild)

“Watch as she buckles and bends but never breaks” is a line that always chokes me up. I find it so relatable not just because I’ve never been allowed to break down and cry no matter what was happening but also because my sister was always so patient with me and felt she couldn’t express her pain because of mine. (Just to clarify our parents are very great and supportive but we both suffered through abusive teachers and authority figures)

As a Korean, I can 100% confirm that Joel’s thoughts about the surface pressure being a strong Asian quality is true.

He has to watch all Encanto Songs they are incredible!

pressure from your parents in colombia?? yep way too real, actually, pressure from your parents for all latinos in latam I even dare to say is pretty common in hispanic households Like, walking out of the house just because you are over 18 and wanna have a life of your own? hell no

As a daughter from an Asian household with a lot of Spanish influence, pressure, especially when it's from your family, is on a very different level. This song made me cry the first time that I heard it because it's just sooooo real. PS. In case you're wondering what Asian country has a lot of Spanish influence, it's the Philippines.

This song was so underrated compared to We Don't Talk About Bruno.

I'm not Colombian, but I am from Honduras. In Latam, parents encourage and maybe even pressure their children to be better and more successful than themselves. Three generations back, it wasn't uncommon for people to only have primary level education. Two generations back, most people stuck to high school ed. With our parents, college level education was a must. Now, a lot of us feel pressured to keep the self-improvement cycle going. It's pretty common for parents to say, "I worked hard so you could have a better life than myself", to their children. That sticks with us, and the second we feel like we're not making the most out of what our parents gave us through their own hard work and effort, a lot of use might end up feeling worthless or lost. That's why Encanto, a movie celebrating latino culture is about generational trauma. Our grandparents and parents mean well, but that doesn't mean that we don't feel the pressure that Luisa, Mirabel, or even Isabela feel. We all tend to have a natural instilled fear of not living up to expectations or being enough

This is hands down my favorite song from the movie. I can't stop listening to it, seriously! My favorite lyrics are: Give it to your sister and never wonder If the same pressure would've pulled you under That cut deep

The actress that sings this song made a jazz version on her KZfaq and it is very nice sounding

I've been waiting for this since you reacted to "We Don't Talk About Bruno" BTW this movie is mostly about generation trauma :). It doesn't necessarily have to be in Asian, and Japanese house holds, but it is more common from what I've seen/heard.

Camilo and Luisa are honestly the most accurate middle child characters. I’m a middle child, and I relate so much.

How was he able to stay so calm through the “drip drip drip” part 🤯 he’s not human!!!

I was sold on drip drip drip in the song.

It always shocks me how Joel always notices the tiniest details and just makes me appreciate and love these songs even more

Joel’s just slowly gonna react to the whole movie… not mad about it

3:00 under the SURF-ace. God the amount of details they put into it, every 2 seconds something different

This is literally my favorite song in the whole movie and I loved seeing you analyze and enjoy it! 🥰🥰🥰

The way she (as in the singer) makes her voice match with the lyric is so cool! ( it's hard to explain)

This is my favourite song from the movie and Im so happy that its finally getting the recognition it deserves… Also… WATCH ENCANTO ALREADY JOEL

i'd love to see joel reviewing encanto as a whole and ranking the songs, because it's a def a movie that has a lot of divided opinion even if people generally really liked it or loved it. it would be a slight change in content but i always enjoy watching reviews, unless it's overtly negative. it's just fun seeing others opinions on movies etc.

Yup, as a Mexican American, my household is very Hispanic. I think majority of Latin family’s can relate to this movie. Generational Trauma is unfortunately a common thing in Latin families. I also relate to Luisa, being an older sister to a lot of siblings and cousins, you tend to look after majority of the kids and work as a third parent. 🇲🇽❤️

If you liked the “hurt and” “burden” rhyme, you should check out Hamilton songs! Written by the same artist, LMM, and packed FULL of fun rhymes and wordplay.

Joel is the only guy on KZfaq who pitches in his intro almost 2½ minutes after his video has begun 😆

I really love that you went through the chord progression of the song. Definitely a fun and enjoyable added feature to your video Joel! 😊

1:04 Joel saying how reggaetón is his Hispanic Everyone from the Caribbean: *Angry Intensifies*

She is most definitely a contralto "this growing pressure" is back in the chest and opens up in the back of the throat. You can actually hear it happening, I love it!

I'm so glad you did a breakdown of this song! I finally watched 'Encanto' last night, and teared up during this song. It hits so hard, especially with me as the eldest sibling (aka, the more mature, and emotionally "strong" one). Such a good analysis, Joel!

Joel’s reactions are always so satisfying to watch. I’d watch the vid twice just so I can also focus on Joel’s facial expressions only… love it!! 🥰

Bless you for editing your videos. I've been scrolling through other reactions and it's so painful. They keep restarting and it's going back to the same thing over and over again, thank you

This is definitely my favorite song from Encanto! Jessica Darrow who voiced Luisa did a jazz cover of Surface Pressure which is phenomenal!

Watching this with my family hit differently, my mom and I were just watching this and glancing at each other.

Is no one gonna mention that Louisa at 5:17 was doing a tik tok dance lol

I love how right after the crescendo... she gets soft, weak, vulnerable, before putting the mask back on.

It's always interesting seeing Joel finding the chords on the piano just by listening to a song!! He's such a music genius!! ❤️👏🏻

The songs in this movie are just on another level, very catchy!

Being the eldest of the family, this song really hits hard through my soul.

Also to add on to that comment with Luisa taking care of Mirabel, you notice the only time she's not is during that bridge where she's talking about shaking her burdens and just relaxing, which includes letting Mirable float around, adjust her glasses, pick up on the horse - just letting her sort herself out. Mirabel is always behind her. Honestly, this movie is a masterpiece of symbolism particularly with the clothing.

Lyrics: "I'm pretty sure I'm worthless if I can't be at service" Roomie: 🤟🤟

A big part of this movie that is not talked about enough is how it's applicable to the immigrant experience in general, which is why I think that it is so similar to the Asian American experience.

i rlly like u showed how the chord goes with the chorus and verse at the last bit of the video. ive always wanted to somehow learn how to play it so thank you for that roomie~

I adore these videos so much! Hope you do more of the songs! Its so cool to see your reaction and then hearing how it works musically with the letters and learning about the technical side

This is my favorite Encanto song! The very first time I ever heard it it just really caught me in the feels

I am half Colombian and I can definitely say yes, Colombian parents have high expectations for what their childs are doing. I see it with my dad and my aunt quite a lot.

Yesss! So glad you reviewed this song!! And glad you watched it! The songs are great 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I've seen a lot of reactions to these Encanto songs but I love how you change it up. You're expressing the types of beats and styles and then even go into the chords. It's really great to hear your take on it all rather than all those other channels that just go "ooh ahhh" haha

Lin Manuel Miranda did incredible work and he deserve Oscar for "Dos Oruguitas" and finelly EGOT status ♥️ Please make reaction for In the Heights movie 🔥

DUDE THIS IS MY FAVOURITE ENCANTO SONG- ITS EITHER CAUSE I LIKE THE BEAT OR BC IM JUST REALLY STRESSED AND I HAVE FAMILY/SIBLING ISSUES😩

I saw someone pointed this out somewhere so credit all to that person. So basically what they said is that the reason why she suddenly dance with the donkey is because she saw how terrified her sister, Mirabel is. So she did the dance with the donkey to add more funny-ness I guess? Like to ease her sister. I just think it's a cute little details people missed because they got distracted to the dance and that's the point, to distract people (specially kids). So yea that's all I wanted to share!

You should totally do Waiting On A Miracle next! It has some awesome vocals and is a great song! Great vid btw Joel!

How musically talented is Joel and how cool and fascinating is to watch him doing what he knows best and loves?!

Encanto's songs are really good! I watched it recently and expected to not like it, but I enjoyed it a lot.

I think the most relatable and “hard hitting” moment is the part where she goes from dreams of being able to relax and peacefully dance around in it clouds but the boulders come down and she catches them and sings that the pressure “never stops” and is looking at Mirabel with this defeated look. I’m sure most people have been in that moment. You struggle so long and fight so hard and look around to see so little progress that you think that your the struggle that has completely taken over your life and is crushing you underneath it is endless. You’ll never make it through, it will “never stop”.

5:57 why did this make me question “what”

I am Colombian and I feel so happy to see you reacting to Surface Pressure! :D :D :D It's probably my favorite song out of all of them (the entire soundtrack is awesome). Regarding the pressure we feel from our parents, that definitely applies to us Colombians and I might dare to say most families in Latinamerica have the same type of dynamic. In this song she is also talking about the pressure we feel from "carrying" our family's problems like we are responsible from our family's wellbeing. That's why she says "And see if she can handle every family burden". I do agree that it is definitely something everyone can relate to, no matter where they come from. Much love from Colombia!

By far my favorite song in this movie!!!! So glad you decided to review this one too

5:22 you mentioned how it's funny to dance to a number about anxiety. As an older sister myself, this is how I interpret it: no matter how bad I feel about a bad situation, I always try to make sure the people around me (particularly my sister) feel reassured. I try to be strong and I try to make her laugh so that she can smile when times are tough. But inside, I'm hurting too

Joel makes me want to learn the keyboard. What I love about his videos is we're enjoying the awesome reaction and the funny editing while also learning something new. And come on son, you gotta react to Hamilton soon.

Surface pressure was probably my favorite song in the movie! I agree that it's because of the song's content, but it's also so catchy! I might need to go watch this movie...again.

I always love Joel's singing.

Yessss I've been so excited to see your take on this masterpiece of songwriting!

ROomie you rock, few reactors show as many understanding of the music as you. Subscribed and will see all your reactions now

It's my favourite song from encanto, to be honest bruno is a bit better for having multiple people in it but still it's amazing

Disney just goes full on with it's music most of the times. It's amazing. Thanks for reacting to this Joel.

The attention to detail of Roomie is very good, I learned new things to the song that I didn’t even noticed in the first place

I watched this movie for the first time the other day and as soon as it was over I went right back and watched this song again! I’ve can’t remember ever doing that for any other movie. It’s so so so catchy!

I’m really enjoying these little music breakdowns at the end of these song reacts to teach us how to play the songs! Not that I have a clue how, but it makes me want to try! Thank you for this little extra touch!

I loved all the songs from Encanto, but Surface Pressure and We don't talk about Bruno are my all time fav's! Good job picking up all the little production details! Next can you react to Enemy by Imagine dragons and J.I.D from Arcane? That show's soundtrack was incredible! They even got Sting to do a song! There was also an epic Rap song in one of the episodes (it was called Dynasties and Dystopia)!!!

Thank you so much for the piano tutorial!! So cool 😎

Yyeessss I'm so glad you did this one! I love it!

Yooo, it's epic to see you react to Encanto, Roomie! Looking forward to to you reacting to the rest of Encanto, especially _Waiting on a Miracle_ 🥰💖

Listen to the jazz rendition of this song posted on the KZfaq channel of the voice actress of Luisa.

I'm usually not big fan of musical type movies, but the songs in this one absolutely kill

I'm not a musician, but it's so amazing how you can hear a song only once and then replay it perfectly!

Am the only one that loves it when Joel does commentary on music videos like the drivers license one and this hope he does more!

WOOOOOOOHHHOOOO!!!!!! FINALLYYYYY!!!!!!! LOVE YA VIDEOS JOEL!!! You introduced me to so many other genres and taught me a lot of music

The quality of the videos got INSANELY BETTER! And much more dyanim content. Congrats

Joel you're so good with the piano!

Loved the little ‘tutorial’ in the end. Actually I’d like to see more of that, ‘cause it’s sort of really enjoyable :)

Well I hope Joel sees this as the Oldest singer in the world and the Guinness World Record holder has sadly passed away today. Rest in Peace to Lata Mangeshkar she was the Nightingale of India and the biggest voice in the country on behalf of this i hope Joel should make a video based on her songs 🙏

I knew he would love it😆 i was one of those who commented on the last Encanto reaction to do this too. And no regrets!

YESSSSS JOEL I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ENCANTO VIDEOSS

You should make a series where you react to disney songs :) also this was my favorite song in Encanto thanks for reacting

After the "We Don't Talk about Bruno" video, people recommended listening to "Surface Pressure" in that video's comments so I did. I do like that song better, probably because of the theme.

I love the editing on this vidd!!

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