You know the song that the villain sings when he wins. THIS IS THAT SONG.

His entire special "Inside" is a wonderful exploration into mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and OCD. Its beautiful, hilarious, and heartbreaking.

@reneebush2399

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I didn’t break down in tears until I got to “that funny feeling” at least. I still highly recommend the special to people though. I think I needed that breakdown more than I realized.

@Ghxstrix

2 жыл бұрын

well i wouldnt exactly call my OCD a issue, random stuff will annoy me out of the blue, pretty much the worst part.

@ssrrss321

Жыл бұрын

@@Ghxstrix That's awesome that it's not much of an issue to you and your OCD! I do know it to be a bit of a spectrum, though, as I know people who are far more affected by their OCD than just being mildly annoyed by certain things, and their lives are truly different than yours or mine on a very deep level, which I'm guessing is what M. Edwards was more referring to.

@matiassotomayor8382

Жыл бұрын

In the perfect moment of history. Pandemic Lokcdown

@aethilae

9 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@ssrrss321 what a polite and thoughtful way to form a reply. love that

Definitely worth checking out more from Bo Burnham. The dude is an absolute genius. He actually has a couple Netflix specials, and several other specials on other platforms.

@ebreshea

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think his special "what" was released for free on youtube to say thanks to his fans who have been with him since his youtube days

@xsithspawnx

2 жыл бұрын

@@ebreshea Yep. I remember watching it on YT when it came out.

@omidsarwar931

Жыл бұрын

@@xsithspawnx Thats great and all but i didnt ask. (im a emo 12 year old) Just kidding lmao.

@beeshark222

Жыл бұрын

@@omidsarwar931 that scared me

@omidsarwar931

Жыл бұрын

@@beeshark222 Damn, after playing yakuza 0 and kiwami 1, I was really cringe back then

You made a really valid point when you said ''when people skip through my comentary, they're just trying to get through this super quick, right'' I've watched a lot of reactions on bo's content, and you'd be either amazed or appalled at the amount of content creators COMPLETELY missing the message of this video. they're literally the victims of this supervillain that bo is portraying here; the internet. luckily, there are also a lot of reactors who DO pickup on what bo is doing here, which is playing a machiavellan devil, the internet. that's why his laugh after the slower part hits so hard. ''oh you really believed that huh!?'' Bo Burnham is a modern day Shakespeare, and we're all wiser after watching, listening and experiencing his productions. great reaction!

This song feels like the old saying, "The path to hell is paved with good intentions," in song form. We start out with the description of how things are now. And then he takes it back in time, slows it down, and feeds you all the good intentions: everything working as it should be, the infinite knowledge of the world is in your hands, every little tyke is gifted the possibility of infinite potential. And then, to drive everything home, he brings it back to the present where we see exactly where it's lead us -- the beginning of the song. The parents today are blazing a new frontier. They didn't have infinite knowledge grafted into their fingertips. No offense meant, Dave, I'm sure you're a wonderful parent, but the reality is that nobody has trained you for the challenges you face and we can both only hope you're doing it right. Worse: it will be the same for our children. That frontier will still be there and they will still be blazing it -- with the knowledge your successes and failures have given them, and the same for those of every parent reachable though the 'net. But I think, maybe optimistically, your great grandkids will have it all figured out. I am actually quite excited to see what the future holds. In the meantime, can I interest you in everything all of the time?

@Jirodyne

Жыл бұрын

I disgree. I believe the song is show the Dangers of what has ALREADY happened, not blazing a new Frontier. The Internet was new back in '99, where it was just chat rooms, blogs, and travel planning stuff. The people were simpler, saner, safer. But that generation, 'when you were barely 2', grew up, grew up with the internet, and expanded it far beyond what it was meant for. It was meant for Communication, and Knowledge Sharing. Think Wikipedia, but actually worked on by the Government and Scientists world wide, have all books, knowledge, lesson plans, school information, everything good at your finger tips, where you could learn anything and everything, free, at any time, just a few clicks and you would know every information about a War in History, you would know full Calculous, you would know how to Identify every plant, bug, and rock around you, while knowing how to single handedly sew a shirt and wood carve a chair and furnature. But what is the internet today? We don't have any of that. Knowledge is scrubbed from the internet. Wikipedia is heavily Censored with most critical information removed and deleted. Anything related to Education you have to go to Collage to Access still, most books, especially encyclepedias and books for schools and learning banned from being uploaded online, and forced to pay. And the new stuff? People being beheaded, scat porn, ways to build bombs from house hold items, meaningless personality flavor texts, people telling you to kill your mom. The Internet has went to hell, and all cause if the Generation born in '99 who now are driving the train and can't live without the internet, driving social media, driving Tic Tok, and other horrible stuff. The internet has destroyed the younger generations. They literally can not function without the internet. Literally EVERYTHING is connected to the internet. How you pay for food and get said food is now over the internet through deliveries mainly. People can not live without the internet. If the internet was destroyed, right now, everyone 25 and younger would die within a year. They would not be able to function in Society. They would just be stuck, inside, unable to think of new ideas, no way to entertain themselves, and most would eventually either kill themselves, work themselves to death, or accidentally kill themselves by seeking new highs, most likely through drugs, to replace the highs and experienced they gained using the internet. And us older Generation, those who didn't grew up with the internet, can see this happening. Do you remember when 'YOLO' was a major phase of the internet? You Only Live Once. A popular phrase, that got dumb kids in the early 20s do to dumb shit for Internet clout that ulimately killed every single one of them. Yolo isn't a thing anymore, cause EVERYONE who followed it DIED. There are many videos of people climbing up mountains, taking a selfie, and a note at the bottom of the pic, saying "This is the last time X person was alive. They died minutes later". The internet, a tool of learning, and communication, has fallen far, very far, from what it was designed and meant to do and be. The next generation corrupted and destroyed it beyond repair. It will never be able to go back to how it was meant to be.

@divinekof

10 ай бұрын

​@@Jirodynewords are cool 😎

@--CHARLIE--

8 ай бұрын

​@@Jirodyne personally I'm glad it turned out this way. I was born in 2005, but was raised without the internet until 2013. The time before that, I was bored out of my mind, despite having plenty to do. But when I discovered the internet, it gave me something that could finally keep up with me and my needs. I personally think it's funny how far into it others have fallen, despite them not having required something like it at the start like I did. Now they're all just as depressed and reliant on the internet to function as I was. Heck, even more reliant on it than me! My life has revolved around the consumption of media since the day I was first introduced to books and television. Real life was secondary. And now everyone else is hooked on it too, and anyone can produce more content for me to consume. Plus, its not like teens doing stupid stuff and dying is a new thing the internet brought. People have always been like this. The internet just made it public. At least in terms of all the things you brought up. Oh, and before you bring it up, I'm aware that this is horrible of me. But I wanted to share my honest feelings because you were being overly pessimistic.

@jeffreyhendrix5153

4 ай бұрын

I like to say "the road to Hell is paved with cool inventions. "

5:29 "This is a bad thing guys" The delivery is so great, i love it. The tone says "Come on now yall, we know this bad for us, this simple stuff"

This song is from his Netflix special "inside", that he made completely by himself (wrote, performed, filmed, edited etc) in a single room during lock down. Every second of it is gold. And he just dropped an hour of outtakes from it last week on KZread which is essentially a second fantastic special with some songs that didn't make it, and some alternate versions of songs that did make it. He's been around since early KZread, and that's where he blew up and became a professional comedian with a Netflix special at 18. Inside deals a lot with how that's affected him, and he has always talked a lot about mental health and does a lot of social commentary in general. I do recommend the whole inside special as a whole. It's better seen all in one sitting rather than piecemeal. But I also recommend watching the ending of his previous special, Kanye rant, because that song sets up some backstory for one of the best songs in inside.

You caught that he was showing how fast information came at us with the speed of the first parts of the song and when he slowed it down. People don't catch that the lightning is genius too. So many layers to Bo's thought process At first on back wall: Stars like in space, vast like the internet since it never ends expanding forever. Early Internet days: Nothing when the internet is in its infancy stage. Talking about the kid at 2 before the internet: all those greens, blues, reds on the back wall ..... Then the kid gets the ipad At the end the internet has won and the kid is now absorbed in it with the stars and the kid's colors integrated together ... **mind blown**

@ginorvdw

4 ай бұрын

the subtle zooming in and out is incredible too, Bo is just on another level, I know he said ''while carlin rolls in his grave, his grave, his grave'' in '' I am an artist'' but I think Carlin is smiling down on him from wherever he might be now, knowing that guys like Bo are still challenging and provoking their audience. educated, intellectual and thought provoking -the very essence of comedy

Its always that "Unstoppable, *watchable*" comment with the little glance to the camera that gets me, and I'm noticing that a lot of people are just in with the flow of the music to pay it much attention- which just makes it so much better. Watching it over a second time after hearing that laugh and picking up on the dark implications of that just :)

This is a Disney song for a villain that already won

This special is just required viewing, it's a feat of incredible talent

7:12 the reaction and commentary to this line, right here, is so so important. the unfathomable conflict of trying to keep the bad away from the good when we barely have a clue where the line is drawn, if it even exists at all.

great job with the analysis, more thoughtful than a lot of others who just see this as a weird funny song. bo's really saying something here about how our attention spans work these days, and how it's by design on behalf of the people making money

Watching the various reactions to this song is brilliant love how everyone starts moving to the beat even if they are trying to hide it

Bo has an interesting history with the internet. He’s been creating KZread content since 2006-ish. We’re basically the same age and I remember discovering his early songs in high school. He’s definitely done a lot of maturing as both a person and artist since then.

You NAILED the commentary about how people skip commentary haha. I've made a conscious effort to slow down and stop skipping around videos like that. I have to tell myself; If you rush through something to get to the next one, you never get the full experience of any individual one. This applies to many things in life.

When you were talking about cramming video is reminded me of this Carl Sagan quote “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” I’m in my early 30’s and I avoid TikTok at all costs for that reason.

I'd love to see more Bo. Love watching reactors going down the Bo Burnham rabbit hole.

I think someone described the genre of this music as 'dark carnival'. I think that's pretty accurate.

I madly adore the extremes of the Internet, it's our whole essence as a species and what we can get to Upd: Especially the opportunity to spend hours of life on a video essay on a topic that you are not even interested in

@KwisatzHaderach77

2 жыл бұрын

Don't get it twisted though, it's also the bane of our existence on top of all that. It - like many things in life - is both a blessing and a curse. Just like both of Bo's portrayals in this song of protagonist and villain, or Tatiana Shmayluk's and her band Jinjer's performance portraying both sides of herself in the Live Session "Pisces" release. Or anything with Floor Jansen...

@mcfarofinha134

Жыл бұрын

Thats kind of why i love the internet, despite it's shit. It is like a vivisection of the human condition

Bo Burnham is my favorite artist pretty much period, so it's wonderful seeing more people appreciating him. He always has a perfect blend of dark comedy and presenting ideas that'll rethink your life choices. Some of his older songs have probably all of my top 10 favorite lyrics in all of music. Couldn't recommend literally anything by him enough.

I'm old enough to remember when the internet was pretty much exclusive to universities and academia, and was pretty much strictly DOS chat rooms and research sharing sites. Academic researchers would use it to share data and papers, or just exchange ideas. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world when I was able to go to my uncle's lab and play around with it. If only we knew what all of the funding to expand it to the general public would do. We really should have known. lol

@Broomer52

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 95 I’m old enough to have lived with AOL and watch it evolve into this. The technology advanced so quickly and people who have lived in the digital age In it’s entirety have almost no comprehension of what it was like in the before times where Internet was to new and slow to completely catch on.

You've been sleepin on Bo? Welcome to the internet, indeed.

You know the song has a powerful hook when What It Do Dave starts singing along.

I was born in 2000 and I think I was part of probably the last generation that played outside sometimes before being fully sucked into the modern internet.

@Bass68195

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 2007 and I remember climbing trees with my cousins and playing with sticks pretending they were guns and riding bicycles around playing every day was at my grandmas house playing outside all up until abt 2017 (but than again I grew up in Arkansas in a rural town that’s abt 10 yrs behind the rest of the world lol)

@Tanklorde

Жыл бұрын

@@Bass68195 same

@luisgalizien

Жыл бұрын

@@Bass68195 yeah that's probably it cuz my brother was also born in 2007 and yeah he has no life outside of the internet (and well school but even that is very important to him). Being born in 2003 those 4 years made a huge difference. I play football, volleyball and badminton, I write stories, I sing etc. Like I wonder how my life would have been up until now if I was like 3 years younger.

@Bass68195

Жыл бұрын

@@luisgalizien yeah I do a lot of that stuff too I play basketball I’m a center since I’m kinda tall and stalky I sing aswell I sing bass bc I got a deep voice and when I was a kid I was obsessed with writing my own little stories😭😭😭 and also when I said my town was like 10 yrs behind the rest of the world I MEANT IT like my grandmas house still had a landline😭😭😭 and they had one of those old box the till they finally upgraded😭

@dubstepwarning8183

Ай бұрын

Same, but mostly chilling with a gameboy

internet might genuinely be the 8th deadly sin. just like the others it was designed to addict you to chasing infinity

i love seeing peoples reaction to this song its always pure GOLD!! hope you enjoyed my dude! Nice job!

Inside is such an interesting project if you do more of it keep in mind every song in fact the entire project was filmed alone in one room.

7:35 It almost seems inevitable...like you said, it's everywhere, so you want them to be prepared...you just need to keep an eye on what they are doing if you can, and if they see something crazy, you'll have to have that conversation...though with a toddler, it's a bit easier to just give them an old device and limit what is loaded onto it, so they get the tech, but don't risk the really extreme stuff...but that only works until they can start thinking analytically and figuring complex stuff out (somewhere between 6 and 10), we really need to pay more attention to tech as older people, but as it changes, and as we have other issues, it's really hard...good luck and best wishes to you and your son, dude...

Thank you for reacting to Bo, and for talking. Your voice is so pleasant!!

@whatitdodave

2 ай бұрын

Thank you too!

I don't skip through your commentary. It's excellent. So there.

When they say "Bo Burn-ham" you know they're knew and they're gonna get mindfucked 🤣

@RapidVidsProductions

Жыл бұрын

you can let bo burnham burn em

So glad to see you do this song. Love Bo!

This is one of my all-time favs from Bo now. Any time I hear it, I can't help but imagine some Disney styled villain being the physical representation of the Internet (sort of like Loki the God of Mischief) singing this as the big number in a movie, perhaps on some stage or circus tent.

After the Harry Potter line he looked like he was flashbanged

Wow you actually opened my mind with this video. The skipping through the video was what I was doing before you started about that topic. I can't say I won't do it again but I will try to do it less and think about it more. Great vid keep up the good work :)

you've become my favorite reaction channel. SO MUCH BO content, have fun.

This was one of the songs put on both Bucky and Steve's Playlist to listen to in order to get then up to speed with the times, change my mind

Thanks for your resction. 😍 This song and From Gods Perspective are both from his "what" special and are my current bo favorites.

the original brought me here, ur words "slow".. i dig it, didnt skip a sec, even tho i kinda wanted to when it was "just" the song i heard b4, but ur "slow xD" commentary for me is heartfelt and makes me wanna see more reactions from u vs all the others! :)

I’m almost 16, When i was younger all i did was play with toys always, even when i got my first iPad in 2016, I still preferred toys, I lost my ipad like 8 years ago and played with toys until I was 12-13(when i got my first phone) and after that, everything’s gone down hill for me.. im way less creative than I used to be & i blame my overuse of electronics for that.

Watching you lose your mind while also absolutely vibing with this song gives me life! XD

The good news is, all the good quality studies indicate that "screen time" isn't as important as face-time - if you're there with your kid while they are using electronic entertainment, talking to them, sharing it with them, explaining it to them, encouraging them to talk to you about it, it's every bit as enriching as any other game or activity you can do with your kids. It's using the ipad as a babysitter and leaving your kid alone without context and interaction that shows up in behavior and attention problems. Contrary to what a lot of older folks may think, kids today are actually better at regulating attention and behavior than kids 20 or 40 years ago (on average). If you know The Marshmallow test - toddlers today will wait patiently an average of 2 minutes longer for that second marshmallow than the kids in the original study. Teaching your kids to filter and evaluate information from the internet is a life skill that is going to serve them well all their life.

I’m so early! But yeah, Inside, I would go so far as to say, is an absolute masterpiece. Definitely recommend the watch! Will make you think about a lot of stuff. Either way, great reaction, great breakdown! Love you man!

Bo is a legend. You'll love his content.

4:55 I hear ya dude, as much as I tell myself I watch reaction video's for interesting commentary, I too find myself skipping it if the speaker doesn't talk fast enough (and I LOVE your Havana accent, it's so smooth)...thank you for calling that out, no one ever does...

That laugh always makes me think of the boat scene in the old willy Wonka movie, just the touch of madness.

Bro you caught me! Looked like you were gathering your thoughts hit you with a double tap and i got called out for skipping! Too funny.

He is 100% correct, thats the best (or worst) part

Love your commentary man. Always spitting straight facts

I have so many feelings with this song lol I love him 😂

If you like this I'm sure you'll appreciate Tim Minchin - Rock n Roll Nerd live on TV

YES ive been waiting for this

Great reaction! Really thoughtful! Would love to see you react to more Bo. If you want to see some of his older stuff first for some context, I'd maybe start with Left Brain Right Brain (there's a Toy Story 3 reference 😄) The comedy special that one is from called "what." is available for free on KZread. Maybe some of his simpler more comedic ones like Straight White Male or Lower Your Expectations. DEFINITELY watch his Kanye Rant at some point before you watch all of Inside. I'd suggest watching Inside as a whole if possible and the just breaking it up into smaller videos for KZread. If you have a Patreon, I'd totally pay to watch you react to the whole thing. It's genius!

I only just found this song about 30 minutes ago, and it really reminds me of the Stupendium's Deltarune song about Spamton, but much wider scope

Ive been complaining about what I call short attention span theatre for 20 some years. You nailed it.

I’d never skip through that slow, Havana accent 😆

Well I just found your channel today an I can say yes I speed up videos I watch. Only because I feel like a time traveler. Show up late to a live start from the start in 1.25x time travel lol❤️

Dope vid bro, jsyk Bo is really popular and has 4-5 albums (Selftitled, Bo Fo Sho, "Words, Words, Words" what. , Make Happy, and Inside) if you wanted to keep reacting (or just listen cause hes got great shit)

I watch quite a few reaction channels but few articulate their relation and understanding of the content like you do. I can tell from just 3 videos, and the way you understand Bo's work, that you're highly intellectual, props for that man there are few of us left lmao

@whatitdodave

2 жыл бұрын

It’s probably out of fear of low view retention. Most people skip commentary in reaction videos and that hurts the videos performance. I try to be aware of this and talk less but some videos, I just can’t help it haha. Thanks for watching!

@rjjackson2044

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatitdodave some of us like it when people give their perspective in a reaction, deff keeps me watching, thanks from giving me somethin to watch bro bro

@KagatoAsuka

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatitdodave If you focus on yourself and less on view retention you'll build the audience that gives you that retention. You are fantastic at commentary don't let the algorithm get you down.

@whatitdodave

2 жыл бұрын

@@KagatoAsuka I haven’t changed how I react regardless of the view retention. I try to be aware but in the end it’s not in my nature. I was just addressing the original comment on why some people don’t pause often to fully express what they think like I do. It’s cause of the view retention.

Could you imagine if this was the add for WORLD WIDE WEB back in the 80’ies?? They would’ve china’d, north koreaned it straight away! “Straight to jail, no trial, just straight to jail!”

Excellent point that if you showed this to a human who had never otherwise seen the internet, they might avoid it.

I take the position that it’s not the amount of information that we take in that is harmful to us, its the quality of information. People feel better when they get off there phones, but that’s usually due to the news (which focuses on negative non stop news) or social media (which is a hotbed for toxic negativity). No one has ever had to put their phone down to decompress after watching cat videos

I love this song, and it's true the internet is like life, it's like heaven, and hell all at the same time. It can help you or it can make your life nuts and crazy and a hellscape if you allow it to. The internet is a tool..and we often abuse that tool.

The genuine acknowledgement of how there is a contradiction between the greatest information-sharing directive ever imagined against the absolute worst of the worst content and [somehow] even worse misinformation is... honestly depressing.

"Art is Dead" is another one of my favourites.

Even thought he is shocked from the song he still bops to the beat

Yeah, check out Inside! Nominated for 6 Emmys and won 3! You might want to watch it and react to songs as you go through it, that way you can edit individual songs out later for uploads on an initial reaction. It's more powerful watching it in order because it is a start to finish journey of him creating the special over a year + period during the pandemic.... He has monologues and stuff mixed throughout as well.

You’re still the man, Davo!!

I agree with the idea to react to Bo's Kanye rant (it's up on KZread on Bo's channel) before watching/commenting on INSIDE - it will help you understand that special better (it still works perfectly fine without it course!) and it's also just in general AMAZING Would love to see a reaction video from you about it 😊

The Thing you Said about always wanting Entertainment is absolutly right and I have the Problem too. For me IT was KZread that Made me this way. And now i sometimes have Problems konzentrating in boring tasks. I need Something to keep my mind busy or I Fall asleep.

i usually use internet to read fanfictions or play videos in background otherwise not much since i am using social media once a month to check if and when is event i am interested in

The Only way this Welcome to the Internet song can be a crash course is if they say "you have 3 minutes explain everything you can do/see on the internet" then this is perfect

No joke, that Havana accent would be good for podcasts or lectures. Slow and low, say more with less. I skip a lot of the commentary because most content creators are just talking to fill the air. But you got the "I'm humble, but I know you know I'm in charge" cadence. So I listened lol.

i remember the old Dial up Modem sound. the switching to highspeed internet.

Im listening to that slow havana wisdom :)

I love going somewhere where I can't have my phone with me for a few hours it's the most freeing feeling

"Tim-brey" I've never heard Timbre ("Tam-ber") pronounced that way 😂 Great video!

You should check out his song is “Art is Dead”, he is phenomenal. 👍

This song needs to go up on the next capsule for the aliens to find with parts of our civilization.

Bo Burnham made his new Netflix special, Inside, for an audience, of course. It wouldn't be on Netflix otherwise. But as he suggests, he perhaps made it for another reason, too: This was the only way he could think of to survive more than a year of isolation. Burnham has done a lot of stand-up, but he's also spoken about the way it used to give him panic attacks. For the last several years, he's become more prominent for other things. His first feature as a writer and director, Eighth Grade, came out of nowhere for people who only knew him from stand-up, earning a haul of awards and nominations. His performance in Promising Young Woman was skilled and surprising. He's set to play Larry Bird in an upcoming HBO series. (That he's 6'5" is something I never noticed until Promising Young Woman.) Inside is chaos, at first glance: Burnham is in one room, working alone to make the special, performing a series of silly songs about Instagram and the internet and "problematic" men, using a disco ball and colored lights to dress up the plain space. He slam-cuts between footage of himself sitting at a keyboard singing (he's both a good singer and a terrific writer of catchy pop hooks!) and footage of himself in a near-catatonic state, as his hair and beard get longer and scragglier. He says it took over a year to film, and you can see that year in his face and in his outright exhaustion. Almost none of it is stand-up, although he occasionally begins to do traditional comedy and finds that it turns sour or uninspired, and that it makes no sense without an audience to laugh at it. How to receive this special is complicated by the fact that Burnham is a writer, of course, and this is not a documentary but an exceptionally well-written piece of theater. (The term "tour de force" has been cheapened by overly broad application, but here, I'd allow it.) Lines between truth and fiction are blurry. He talks about his panic attacks and how they pulled him out of stand-up, which is something he's disclosed in interviews, including a very good New Yorker profile. But there are also sequences shot as if they're spontaneous even though they aren't, so it's not a vérité video diary. What it does so successfully is capture the unquiet isolated mind. As I watched it - having spent more than a year almost completely alone with my dog - I kept feeling it buzz uncomfortably close, as if it were telling secrets about how isolation feels that were supposed to remain secrets. The Burnham you see alone in his house was not a literal translation of my own experience, by any means. I did not wind up unable to get out of bed, or stuck in one room, or feeling myself go to pieces in quite the way this represents. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized: This is a picture of what the inside of my head felt like for a year. What feels eerily familiar is the way the version of Bo Burnham we see here is struggling with a completely unfamiliar and unexpected happening by trying to balance two impulses. One is to stay in bed, stay in the dark, stay alone. The other is to create, create, create, stay busy, and make jokes. How many jokes do you make about having had no human contact and losing (in his case) access to audiences and work, and how much do you candidly acknowledge that you have no idea how long you can go on like this? That's familiar to me. It might be familiar to anyone who decided to garden or make sourdough bread or learn a language or do anything else that represents a mind at work and at play and not in freefall. Burnham has made the first piece of pandemic culture that I would show to someone in 20 years and say, "I'm not a comedian and I can't write songs, but the inside of my head was like this guy sitting at a keyboard in his underpants trying desperately not to lose it." None of this resonance, though, would carry you through an hour and a half running time if the actual segments weren't any good. Quite a few of them are explorations of well-covered territory, like the mockery of white women's Instagram setups, But you can't help but hand it to him: He does it with a lot of panache. He has studied a lot of white women's Instagram setups. Similarly, a lot of people have done comedy about the wildness of the online experience, but Burnham's big number that makes him both a gentle pop evangelist for its potential and a creepy patter-song hustler is one of the best executions of it I can remember. There are songs here that sound like Hozier to me, and like Harvey Danger, and there are videos that look spookily similar to videos that really exist. The pastiche is hugely skillful, particularly for something that sprung from one brain as it paced and climbed the walls. Theater that stubbornly walks a line between irony and sincerity, between intimacy and distance, is a complicated form. Sometimes, the very push-pull of "Am I kidding or not?" is expected to be so satisfying and complicating that the content itself forgets to make a point. Undercutting yourself with knowing self-deprecation, as Burnham often does, is wearying - even exhausting - unless the work that you're doing is precisely on point and the thinking behind it has stark clarity. If someone described this special and explained that Bo Burnham does both a song about being a white guy who won't shut up and a song sending up the idea of the "problematic" figure, it would be quite reasonable to suspect that he's disappeared up his own comedic innards, trying to substitute irony and metacommentary about comedy and celebrity for having anything to say. That's not the case. There's something profound and unnerving about this piece that speaks to the careening and difficult thoughts that I think haunted a particular kind of person for well over a year. It's fortunate that he thought to start working when a special probably seemed more like a side project to keep busy. By the end, it's quite a bit more than that.

His juxtaposition is on point.

great fuckin review man, hell yeah

Very magnetic voice! I like it!

it's about the journey not the destination, things are typically not fun or seem tedious but being subjected to the experience can leave you with an appreciation that you wouldn't have had if you never attempted in the first place. I pity the ones who had missed out on your commentary. I take this Bo Burnham video a bit like a warning, and I believe the video will age well even in 10 years. The humor and the way he speaks is almost sinister, he wears shades even in a dark room, and the vagueness of his words can be seen differently depending on how you perceive it. They say if you look into someone's eyes you can tell what they feel but the internet is a soulless place it has no eyes and you never really know what you will find there, or your kids, so be careful out there folks.

4:40 never before have i felt so called out and offended by something i agree with this much...

Who here remembers dialup? And telling people to get off the house phone so you can use the computer 🤣

I feel like the part everyone is sleeping in is when he says ' unstoppable, WATCHABLE, you.' Like how we all know our devices watch us but we don't care because how do we live without the devices now. Maybe it's too conspiratorial to think thats also what the line ' they did everything we designed them to do ' I referring to...

2:33 shows 4 people. doesn’t matter if most are the same person

ive clicked on tiktok all of maybe 2 times, i literally mispelled it twice in this comment, and it was to assist accounts of channels i already watch. but ill tell you that culture of getting through as much as you can. or staying awake at your own detriment to cram more has always existed. it definitely is worse in that form though id never argue that, but as bo points out, and ill now say rhetorically "welcome to the internet"

Damn, you should look into working as a voice-actor or with narration. You def have the voice for it.

"How the world works" by Bo Burnham please!!!:)) one of my favorite!

This song should be played whenever someone opens up an internet browser for the first time in their life

Amazing song by Bo. It makes me think about how much time I spend on anything internet related and thats pretty much 90% of my time which is insane compared to having ZERO internet when i was younger. I struggle with anxiety and being social with others in general and before the internet existed I never had these issues. Life was just so pure. You had to go out to create your own fun and space but now with the internet you dont need to do anything. You can socialize with others, buy anything via amazon, etc all from home. Its just too much and IMO we can all use a break for it for the sake of our mental health and well being

The internet in two words. "Mental flashbang"

boburnham villian arc

Personally, the worst thing about the internet is how originality slowly and painfully dies as the world wide web becomes even wider and beyond. Like when you sit down, you come up with something that YOU think "original" for once, there's this one part within your subconsciousness that urges you to look up if said idea is already existed. Then bam, it is and you fall back into that pit of despair once more. Well, if I am being a bit more optimistic, you can take that idea to make your own variations or even improve the base.

FIRE

First off, when you started in with your "slow Havana accent" it sorta sounded like a Shaq impression low key. Hey but you ain't boring all the time, sometimes you got some accurate insights; You're right for sure, we take in way too much it's... cortex overload. I quit watching interesting content in the middle all the time just to search for a mysterious "something amazing" that might be out there that's "a little better" lol. It's like gambling, sometimes you hit the jackpot, like when everybody first listens to the Napalm Records live session performance of "Pisces" by Jinjer, or the 2013 Wacken Open Air live performance of "Ghost Love Score" or "Storytime" by Nightwish...

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