#coco thoughts

Ok so. I think it’s pretty cute that Miguel had never performed before, so Hector gave him some pointers (’shake it out, give ‘em your best grito.’)

So afterward, when Miguel went on stage to sing “Un Poco Loco,”  he did just that.

--BUT!!--

He also did it before “The World is Mi Familia.”

(Spoilers Ahead)So I’ve been watching Coco recently, and this heartbreaking thought just popped into my head. Can you imagine, before Imelda found out Hector had died(if she even ever did), she had to hear Ernesto sing ‘Remember Me’?

Mama Imelda had to hear this popped up version of this heartfelt, personal song. I know she knew that Hector wrote that song for Coco for when he had to leave. It was a personal goodbye for their daughter and now it’s this chart topper basically. Can you imagine how she even felt, what she thought!?

If she simply believed that Hector just left their lives and never returned(and he was still alive, cause surely Ernesto would never tell her he died), she must have felt sick and betrayed that Hector would allow this deeply meaningful song for Coco to be played like this. And don’t tell me she never heard it. Just because she banned music from the house, doesn’t mean you wouldn’t hear everyone singing their brand new favorite song ‘Remember Me’. She went her life thinking that Hector abandoned her and their daughter, and even hearing a line from that song broke her heart a little bit on the inside.

And what about Coco? She obviously remembers the song too. How did she feel growing up, and listening to the song that her papa wrote for her be comercialized and all that. But she can’t say anything, because her mama wants her to forget and who is going to believe that her papa wrote that song and not Ernesto? How does she feel?