ISABELA'S VILLAIN SONG | Animatic | What Else Can I Do | by Lydia the Bard

I’d hide all your plants when watching this one if I were you Stream the song here! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/lydiathebard/isabellas-v…

"Tend to a plant with poison and expect a flower are you crazy?" THAT LINE WENT SO HARD.

Mirabel and now Isabela? I hope we get a Luisa villain song next. They've treated her as just free labour since she was just a little girl. Let her be selfserving for once!!

This and the Mirabel song highlight something I’ve always felt was true: that ENTIRE family demonstrated restraint of unprecedented levels to not lash out at Alma for EVERYTHING she’s done.

I would kill to see a Dolores villain song, like how she's just so sick of holding everyone's secrets, the family's verbal burdens. And maybe her envy for Isabela.

I loved how you made Abuela look indifferent and “are you done?” Until she saw Isabella cry in front of her. The Abuela was like, oh no.

This kind of makes you wonder; if Mirabel hadn't of found Bruno and tried to stop the prophecy, just about all the grandchildren in the Madrigal family could have ended up as villains. Mirabel was always treated like an outcast. Isabela was always expected to be perfect and marry a man she didn't love. Luisa was always expected to be the strong one and bury her own "weakness". Dolores not only had to keep dark secrets she overheard, but watched as her cousin was going to marry the man she loved just so she could have a "perfect" life. So, while she heard everyone else's troubles, no one ever heard her's. Camilo is always having to be someone else and might not even know who he is deep down inside since people always see him as helpful when he's anyone else. And Bruno was seen as a harbinger of doom just by trying to warn people of events in an attempt to help them, but always blamed him for his vision's outcomes despite being powerless to stop it all by himself.

"Strangling figs, hanging vines" sounds WAY darker in this context, oh my god!?

And Julieta didn't do anything to even talk to her daughters? She fusses over mirabel but leaves her other two to deal.

the really extra sad part is she's also mad at Mariano when we all know he would have happily called off the wedding and engagement if he knew how much it was hurting her and how she didn't want it to happen

The most eerie part of these Encanto covers is how little the story needs to change to make them the villain. Isabela and Mirabel both get treated the same, the only difference being they finally snapped

I love the fact that Isabella doesn’t trap Mirabel in the vines, and it’s an amazing details because Mirabel never went with the family and praised her for perfection. Yes, she was jealous and argued with Isabella, but Mirabel knew that Isabella was also a person, not an item or something to use. Isabella becoming the villain also means she would most likely recognize the two sisters being treated the same, abused and both opinions left unheard. Amazing detail, purely an awesome song and story.

0:34 That scene instantly reminded me of tangled whenever Mother Gothel was removing the flowers from Rapunzel's hair so she would have no reminder of being outside the tower. I loved it.

I’ve always found it odd how the movie always says that Isabela’s gift is being perfect, obviously her gift is making plants. There’s lines in the movie saying “she’s never had a bad hair day” as if that’s part of her gift of being perfect, that’s unlikely sure but it can happen without supernatural intervention, the clearly magical thing about her is conjuring plant life from thin air! It makes me wonder how her door ceremony thing went; Isabela making some flowers and the people being amazed, I imagine Abuela saying something like “she’s perfect” as a little girl conjuring pretty flowers is so right, makes it so easy to make her the idealized little girl who’s pretty and feminine and made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. Somewhere along the line the actual gift itself got lost in translation and she was no longer just the girl who made flowers and instead was the girl who was perfect, and that became the standard she was held to because it was her gift, wasn’t it? No, no it clearly isn’t, but somehow everyone decided to overlook that.

I think my favorite of all this is Alma's expression the whole time. She doesn't give anything away until the very end, and even then, just a slight crack to show her true emotions in that stone-faced appearance. The ambiguity of Alma's feelings is brilliant here too: Is she sad because she messed up, or is she sad because her perfect flower wasn't perfect after all? Great work!

2:43 I love that little detail that through all boasting and expressing her anger the grandma passed all that off as Isabella having some tantrum but it took a single tear for it to finally get it through her head all of that was coming from a place of legitimate pain, not just a spoiled brat being told No. And as she tries to get her attention we see it’s too late and she’s turned her back on her.

Isabela went from hopeless, asking "What else can I do?" to rising up and instead saying, "Now the one who's trapped isn't me, it's you." 10/10 Lydia, thank you for blessing us with another stunning song.

I like the detail of the vines not imprisoning Mirabel, Camilo or Antonio. Even though she is upset with the rest of her family for the pressure and not doing anything to stick up for her, she doesn’t want to hurt the children because they hadn’t contributed to her perfectionist attitude. Luisa and Dolores both are shown early in the video to play with the old Isabela but do nothing about Abuela’s pressure and ways even when they became adults. So the three youngest (and Bruno I suppose though he never shows up in the video at all) are free because they are innocent in this issue.

Then Mirabel walks up to Isabel, arms up to be as non-threatening as possible. Hugs her, reaches to wipe her tears, and says: “I’m with you, big sister. She totally deserved that.”

I deeply appreciate that she does not hurt her sister or littlest cousin in this video. The actual innocent people.