51�Թ�

Matata finished third, while the Willie Mullins-trained El Fabiolo fell on the second circuit.

This ‘Lion King’ prequel from ‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins doesn’t have a ‘Hakuna Matata’ ear worm, but Lin-Manuel Miranda’s songs are pretty terrific.

They aren’t built for bombast, and none are as in-the-moment ear-wormy as “Hakuna Matata,” although there’s a slithery villain’s ditty by Mads Mikkelson that became my favorite once I came around to the lyrics: “Cause I’m gonna be / the last thing you see / before you go / bye-bye.”

The “Moana 2” song adopts this Pacific Islander greeting as a life ethos, similar to how “Hakuna Matata” frames a Swahili translation as a personal motto in “The Lion King.”

Then we asked a few other questions and at the end of the conversation the man turned to me and said, "I'll get back to you about that Hakuna Matata thing."