I'm pretty sure it's part of the genius to be honest, it's a very obviously false and almost corporate statement, similar to those that large powerful figures make to try and relate to thier audiences
I think it’s indicative of the fact that he feels like he has lost all sense of himself catalyzed by the absurdity of the America, he also is wise enough to know that some if not many have experienced the same feeling(I know I have).
definitely. The futile attempt to at least grasp hold of all that's left- and get a good laugh or cry out of it. To at least still be able to feel something at the end of it all.
I think the term for that is “Gallows Humor”. Named after the gallows where people used to be publicly executed. Basically cracking jokes about the shitty situation you’re in because you feel powerless to do anything else. Although Bo’s form of it still acknowledges how serious and devastating the situation is for all involved.
Coming back to this years later, I wanna point out the genius of the set design. The entire song to me feels like "trying to be human in a society that's not" and pointing out the irony in the way things work today. "Gift shop at the gun range, mass shooting at the mall", "book on getting better hand delivered by a drone". The set PERFECTLY compliments this whole thing. He's sitting in the woods, illuminated by a campfire, singing a campfire song, but the backdrop is projection and the campfire is LED, and in reality he's sitting alone in a shed. The music alone is a work of art, but the thought put behind the set design makes the whole thing come together so beautifully.
The contrast to his other songs rings of authenticity and the place this one has in his heart. It's a subtle invitation to listen up, as he's pushing his chips into the artistic pile.
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" that line really resonates with me. It just feels like the whole world is a speeding train racing towards the end of the tracks and instead of looking for the breaks everyone is just looking out the windows.
in the outtakes theres a line he says (pretending to be a spokesperson presenting to companies) that gives a different context to this fear: "And the other fear, the deeper fear, the unspeakable fear, of never hitting the wall. Of this feeling never ending, never slowing down, but rising forever, like a shepherd's tone, an endless and pointless climb towards a terrible and dense nothing"
And it coexists with "Reading Pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive and obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V" in the same song hahaha
It's like "We Didn't Start the Fire", but instead of being an upbeat acknowledgement that "the world has always been awful and will continue to be awful, but we'll get through it", it's more of a realisation that things aren't getting better and perhaps the best we can hope for is to just shuffle off quietly in the dark so we can finally get some rest at least.
The list of weird nihilistic things that have happened really did remind me of Billy Joel's We Didn't start the fire too. Except that's just the Historical events. (Mostly was or tensions) That have happened
Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) just tweeted this: I get a strangely sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach - I look around and the world is on fire, and all our culture is talking about is a popstar dating a football star. There's a song for that!
I had to hear there's talks of putting NATO troops in Ukraine from a friend. The risk of ending all mankind in a few hours of nuclear fire was less important than football to my own national news. I honestly feel like I've gone crazy sometimes. It's some fucking Kafka shit, surely I'm not the only one noticing I'm turning into a bug here???
I just realized this song is basically the quiet, hopeless version of "We Didn't Start the Fire." Man, that's beautiful and horrible. Billy Joel makes it sound like active chaos, there's this feeling of anger and energy. But this shows the underside. The quiet, creeping apocalypse you watch from your TV, outwardly opposing it but deep down accepting it, knowing there's so little you can do.
Check out Phil Ochs if you dig this. I’d suggest “when I’m gone”, “here’s to the state of Mississippi”, and “draft dodger rag” (two have an emphasis on the era they came out in, but that’s what makes them similar to this). His rendition of “the Highwayman” is also top-notch, even if you don’t like the other ones.
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" is delivered with such lightness and beauty, but it's possibly the most devastating line in the whole song. Incredible.
Not really bro. I’ve been a science guy my whole life. So in the past 50 years, humans have learned a lot more stuff about the universe. However, this doesn’t make the data projections of the future infallible. No I’m not saying “it could all be wrong”. What I’m saying is-in another 50 years, there will be many more keys discovered, which will unlock more discoveries, and then in another 50 years… So we can’t be SO hasty in thinking that are projections of the future are complete and unchanging. In fact, they are the opposite. And anyone who has studied scientific discoveries through history knows that this happens over and over and over. “This is it! We know everything now.” Hahaha, but that’s not what everyone thinks. Isaac Newton said didn’t think he found what gravity really is. However, a million other people thought they knew what gravity really is because of what they learned from Newton. -- Humanity is the best life form we have seen and we haven’t found fossils of a more capable life form in our past here on earth, but in its current condition it isn’t my prime pick for the journey on into the late universe to discover what is possible and what will occur. But things change a lot in 1,000,000 years. Or 10,000,000,000 years.
To me, the most devastating line will always be "Googling derealization and hating what you find". Since I started to derealize far harder since the beginning of the pandemic than I ever had, to the point of noticing.
+1, I think it's moving and comforting because it sounds like he is on the verge of tears. That's obviously moving, bit it's comforting to know that others are in the same boat
‘Total disassociation, fully out your mind. Googling derealisation, hating what you find.’ No lyrics have ever hit me so hard. Thanks Bo, for finding a way to articulate that funny feeling none of us had the right words for.
“Googling derealisation and hating what you find” one of the most underrated lines in this song. The desire to figure out what’s wrong, but once you find something that might fit, is too much to admit.
@@John.0079 So much bitterness! It's almost like you, a grown man, goes on comment sections solely to make angry, sad comments as some weird coping mechanism lol. At least make your comment good, like damn.
If you don't mind me asking, what is it about derealisation? I know the feeling well, it's a common response to stressful or traumatic experiences or situations - where you sort of "zone out", stop caring, don't feel like the situation is real, or like it couldn't possibly be actually happening, but it's pretty mild compared to having full on panic attacks Is it that people who think they're perfectly fine are googling it and realizing that they've been there, and that they're not as okay as they thought they were?
"Full agoriphobic, losing focus, cover blown. A book on getting better hand delivered by a drone..." Is one of the hardest lyrics in modern music lol. Bo is incredible
I will forever be HAUNTED by bo being robbed at the Emmys. Only reason Hamilton even qualified that year was because of the disney+ release. Inside was COMPLETE genius. It showed so many people what we had all been saying about bo for years. I pray his mental health stays up and we get more from him. The man's a genius.
This line makes me think of what it's like to be young with global warming knocking at humanity's door. I wanted to be an artist, a storyteller but a lot of good that'll do me when climate change really kicks it into hard drive 😞
@@beepboop4103 I mean moving forewards into sufficiency without the need of a resource that will eventually deplete should be the goal anyways all it is doing is speeding it up its not like we have endless supplies of oil on our planet
The bah da dahs at the end kill me every time. That’s what makes the whole song for me. Like, here he’s saying we’re at the end times, but like… what else can you do? Keep sobbing? You might as well find some light where you can. And maybe that light is a fun little tune to hum to yourself. It’s a very hopeful ending to a hopeless song.
I like that in the special he doesn't even give you time to sit in peace with the song, it's immediately followed up with Bo having a complete breakdown on camera.
August 2023 and still vibing to this song. I remember when i first saw the special when it came out on Netflix and almost cried listening to it because the song described so well the feelings i was going through during the pandemic. Bo is a genius.
I can't really, uh, play the guitar very well, um, or sing So you know, apologies Stunning 8K-resolution meditation app In honor of the revolution, it's half-off at the Gap Deadpool's self-awareness, loving parents, harmless fun The backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling The surgeon general's pop-up shop, Robert Iger's face Discount Etsy agitprop, Bugles' take on race Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door The live-action Lion King, the Pepsi Halftime Show Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling Reading Pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive And obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown A book on getting better hand-delivered by a drone Total disassociation, fully out your mind Googling "derealization", hating what you find That unapparent summer air in early fall The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, just wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum Hey
Yep, and hope, whatever left is the last to go, keep somr And yes embrace absurdism, and that no one is alone with that, really Listento exgirlfriends," no one is singing my song"
Personally, I believe there's meaning but this is strangely comforting; if the end is coming, laugh instead of cry / find beauty in the madness. Kinda makes me think abt games with moral choices - there's no real consequences so some people say why not be bad (nihilism) and some say why not be good (absurdism)
@@dathaniel9403 is it a mechanical drone though? or just someone transformed from all the routine and pressure of the conformist society - a drone employee?
All eyes on me was about anxiety, while this was about depression and society’s downfall. I feel both hit hard, but all eyes on me had a more engaging video. The eye contact man.
Personally, I prefer That Funny Feeling, but All Eyes On Me is also good. And I didn't know he had won a grammy lol, it should have been because of Welcome To The Internet!!!
All eyes on me won a Grammy because by the time you hear it, it's a culmination of everything we've heard up to that point. Everything after is the chaser to how powerful that moment was.
I know this is primarily a sad song. But I find comfort in it too. Knowing that other people feel this way. That I'm not the only one who steps back every so often and goes, "this whole thing's kind of messed up"
This song is great. Especially the lines "a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" and "the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" are downright genius. I also love the atmosphere that Bo's created with both the visuals and the tone of the song. I imagine this song being played on a campfire, in a burnt forest, in the middle of an apocalyptic wasteland in a world that's about to end. And also, at the ending of the song, the cheerful singing about the end of the world tops it off perfectly.
the line “a gift shop at a gun range, a mads shooting at a mall” is one of the most emotional lyrics i’ve ever heard, i remember the first time i heard it gasping and just thinking about how messed up that is. the line itself really did give me that funny feeling
I've been working almost every day in the forest that I grew up in that saw 302 square miles burned last year. This song perfectly describes how I feel every minute of every day between our climate disaster and our political disaster.
The first time I heard “20,000 years of this, 7 more to go” I had to pause the special to catch my breath because it’s a perfect, succinct, nihilistic encapsulation of where it feels like society is at.
@@waxenknight8864 recorded humanity has existed for about 20k years or so including caveman era and at the rate of civil war and bitterness we as societies throw at one another, it means in 7 years from a Nihilist perspective our world will be over soon.
I think it's actually a reference to the Climate Clock. The climate clock says we only have 7 more years to get to zero emissions before we are guaranteed to end up with more than 1.5C of global warming, which in the near future would make areas of the tropics completely uninhabitable to human life due to temps above the wet bulb temperature. Making a large chunk of the planet uninhabitable will cause major issues for the whole world, not just affected regions. Expect mass migrations and war within the next 25 years as people in mass try to flee uninhabitable regions.
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" "Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go" "The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" "Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait" Man. Nailed it. Went thru a really rough patch with my own mental health a couple years ago after becoming collapse-aware & trying to come to terms with what's in store for us in my lifetime. Found this song just a couple months ago & I feel like it's the theme of our times.
"That unappearing summer air in early fall." always hits me hard. Especially now, when there are 27°C here at the beginning of October, ten more than the average.
@@lordmarcusrax I think he's saying unapparent summer air in early fall. Which I interpret as the fact that "summer" is slowly getting longer and longer, but a lot of people aren't, or are refusing to, notice it.
I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear tyler
I spent a whole day once staring at my own arm and hand on and off. I couldn’t figure it out, but it just felt off. Like fake. Or not mine. Couldn’t exactly place what or why. That was when I realized my “weird head feelings” about me or the world around me and how it felt to me or how it interacted with it were maybe something more than just feeling off. Where getting into the shower and scared to be alone was the only comforts I had. Thank god for then gf now wife at the time. Even when we split up for a year during a really bad time, she’d still open her door for me late nights to comfort me. Even though I didn’t even deserve to knock on the door. Thank god she gave me a chance. I never got medical or professions help, I just learned to live with it. The world is weird anyway, what’s a little weirder.
Yeah, with all the other lyrics I always feel like Im being made to reckon with the boring dystopia we allowed ourselves to be in at that point in the song.
Bo Burnham is the only person I’ve ever felt truly understood how to express the constant depression and sadness I’ve felt my entire life. This special was a masterpiece.
Bo has always pushed music & comedy to the fullest. He never misses & I hope we're able to get much, much more from him in the years to come. As real as it gets.
It seems like the "funny feeling" is one that's surprisingly familiar to a lot of people, but still ambiguous enough to seem foreign at the same time. That's probably why it's a song that sticks with a lot of people well after hearing it, it's almost like hearing the thoughts that they can't define articulated? Like it's almost uncomfortably relatable, but mainly to the things you push to the back of your mind. That's been my experience at least. It's a masterpiece if you ask me.
I think it encapsulates the quaking mess of the human condition and how on a macro scale how we are perpetuating it in our society that celebrates and worships convenience, pop culture, and our political views that are literally that of pop culture. I mean, when civil war is the easy answer…how fk’d are we?
My take is that probably it's not just one "type" of funny feeling but it depends on the fact he is talking about. It's cool that it's ambiguous enough that multiple people will relate in different ways to the same song, but kind of make sense for everyone at the same time. Most of the analogies from the song point to one thing, but then say another one that kind of makes you doubt or rethink the first thing he said.
bo - if youre out there and you can read this - thank you. my life has been turned upside down and inside out in the last few months since my wife was diagnosed with very late stage cancer. your art has helped me stay focused in one of the most intense and chaotic periods of my life. if only a youtube comment could share the gratitude and empathy I have for you and your art. you have made a colossal impact on me at this point in my life, and i feel strangely un-alone in the disarray that i currently call home. thank you very much for your art - and for taking care of yourself, and for being here with us.
NOTHING could explain this sensation, I thought I was making it up. Just “anxiety disorder” or “depression disorder” didn’t cut it because it was a specific part of it all. And I still can’t explain it, but hearing this makes sense and feels like “hey, this is real, you’re not … I don’t even know what
what’s awesome is that these songs all resonate so deeply with people who have mental health issues. they feel so good because finally, FINALLY someone has expressed exactly what you have felt. what’s sad is that this means bo has felt this to its depths. i’m sorry you’ve been going through this, dude. i’m glad you’ve made something so beautiful from it.
This song describes so many things. The feeling of not knowing anything but needing to in order to feel sane. Watching everything around you as you slowly slip into mental anguish. Only being able to describe it as a funny feeling.
It’ll never get old to me how he so vividly reflects the way our minds distract us with thoughts of entertainment and everyday living, but every now and then, our minds will pepper in the invasive existential thoughts we all have. He captures the unspoken parts of the human experience so beautifully
My friend put it perfectly when he first watched inside, "Did Bo Burnham just write the modern 'We didn't start the fire'?" It feels so much like more contemplative version that fits so well given how the pandemic has changed things
I mean the government reaction to the lockdown has had 1000x more impact than the pandemic itself and we all gave in. Now we are on a never ending road to giving up our individuality. I expect many to disagree with me and that's fine. But the people who see this 5-10 years from now may think differently.
@@CousinBowling If we had done a solid, strict lockdown in the first couple months and then had strict national border controls, we wouldn't have COVID in the US. It's people like you who have made this nightmare drag on because Republican brainwashing makes you feel good.
@@googiegress7459 and that right there is a great example of what Bo was singing about. We’ve kind of doomed ourselves because we have been programmed not to work together
@@CousinBowling I agree. I‘m very scared of the future now that the right to protest even got taken away somewhere. I think it was Australia but so much is happening at the same time I don’t even remember.
“The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door” I don’t know if Bo really meant this, but I interpreted this as having come so far with technology but with the consequence of climate change(ocean at your door=flooding). It’s kind of like “look, a good thing!” But then rebuttals with a consequence. Similar to “20,000 years of this, 7 more to go” as well.
The lyrics and theme are beautiful, but I also gotta appreciate how much Bo has improved as a vocalist. He sounds as good as any proficient professional singer here. Beautiful vocal tone, also good dynamic control on the guitar.
I think Bo Burnham impacts so much because he represents a portion of the humanity that exist and shouts to be heard. The humanity that is financially stable and safe but mentally and emotionally destroyed. Is a mixture of the calm and the chaos. Sometimes I feel sad, and I see everything good I have around me, but I feel empty, despite the abundance (I am not rich btw, just middle class) but anyways, things simply don't fill a person, and apparently, people and kindness also don't fill a person. A constant disconfort with life. I think Bo Burnham represents that. I feel thankful for discovering him and his music.
@@higuysimcharley I would probably think so if it was only about the guitar, which he doesn't play too often. But he built a career on signing. So to say he can't sing near the end of the special and only then feels more like poking fun.
Watching Bo Burnham since high-school and seeing this bright energetic whimsical person mature and age and grow calmer and more introverted gives me a since of melancholy. He hasn't lost his touch but I can feel the world has worn him down a bit. I feel he has aged with me in these times and I'm sad yet excited to see what's next for him.
@drifting static There is something uniquely satisfying about reading the comments of long time fans enjoying the least "liked 👍🏻" song the most. Too dark for the masses, though I can't help but envy the bliss in that crowd.
same i've been watching bo since I was in junior high and seeing the changes in him makes me feel some sort of way (read: "that funny feeling"), because I almost see myself in him, in a way. when we were younger everything just felt more hopeful and exciting, and now as an adult, I realize that there was no reason to be excited about adulthood.
I've always wondered if that "bright energetic whimsical" he started his career with wasn't always a facade, a character. Look at the message he leaves us with in Make Happy, "Are you happy? Cuz it sure is destroying me to give you that" and that evolution was him coming to term with it and finally exposing it to the audience.
I’m glad we had this special during the lockdown. I felt like I was losing my mind, and when I watched Bo’s “Inside” for the first time, it made me think “well, at least I’m not the only one feeling like this.”
Its the "comprehending of the ending of it all" that sticks with me and had me come back for this. You know the world is ending when people are able to defend and stand behind what happened. Tragic.
its ironic listening to the words of this song while seeing every comment complimenting it flooded with scripts and bots. kinda cements the whole song for me...
lyrics: I can't really, uh, play the guitar very well, um, or sing So you know, apologies Stunning 8K-resolution meditation app In honor of the revolution, it's half-off at the Gap Deadpool's self-awareness, loving parents, harmless fun The backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling The surgeon general's pop-up shop, Robert Iger's face Discount Etsy agitprop, Bugles' take on race Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door The live-action Lion King, the Pepsi Halftime Show Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling Reading Pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive And obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown A book on getting better hand-delivered by a drone Total disassociation, fully out your mind Googling "derealization", hating what you find That unapparent summer air in early fall The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again, that funny feeling That funny feeling Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, just wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum
This is "we didn't start the fire" if instead of feeling like fighting back, you just... accepted it and gave up. Just accept that it's happening and we can't do much about it.
Also succumbing to mania at the end. And we assume the cozy setting is supposed to be a campfire in the woods, a retreat, a vacation. But it could just as easily be a post-decline US lacking utility services, acoustic guitar by a burn barrel.
I can say my favourite thing about this song is during the bridge, at 4:09, where he hits an accidental harmonic or something it sounds like. It's a small, accidental thing, but it adds a lot I think, more depth to the chord change there in that one moment.
Sounds like he didn't push down a string far enough and accidentally got a 3rd fret harmonic. Actually, sounds like that happens a few times throughout the song if you pay attention, like little musical easter eggs.
March of '24, and this song remains relevant as ever, and the perfect song for a tear-letting session. It's like an emotional hand-job; get those silly emotions out of me, so I can human around, doing human stuff for the rest of the day. Great song.
As soon as I heard that line I had to pause, rewind, listen again, and reflect. I hope both that he is right and that he is wrong. History will always go on, but in what way?
Every lyric in this somg is crafted to evoke a sense of unreality, and “loving parents” is one of the first things he mentions. Supremely underrated line.
The term “loving parents” gives him a funny feeling because parents should automatically be loving. It infers that there are parents that aren’t loving.
@Larserus i read it as a whole "deadpool's sense awareness, loving parents, harmless fun" like even tho they have loving parents, they still have deadpool's sense of awareness and sarcasm towards the world
@@clarrie93 I read that "loving parents, harmless fun" as "loving parents" seeing their kids doing bad things as just "kids will be kids, it's just harmless fun". Could be totally wrong, though. Just makes me very uncomfy
@@larserus8286 it feels like a dig at the current trend of RUclips parents that cash in on their children by portraying how loving and modern their family is with 'harmless' skits, pranks, vlogs, and whatnot- while putting immense pressure on the kid to make consumable content when they can't even fully comprehend the magnitude of what they're putting on permanent record for the world. at the end of the day, you're left with this funny feeling of watching a scripted 90s quirky family show... except you slowly realize, instead of a 'cut' from the director, this child is still going to be stuck with these 'loving parents' for decades more to come.
I love just how calm and peaceful this song is. A strange accepting of the end, almost glad its almost over, but still sad its coming to an end. I think it really captures where we are with everything as humanity at times.
After a year or two of letting this special cement itself in my brain, I genuinely can't decide whether this song or "All Eyes On Me" is the better one. They're both practically the same thing presented in different tones. This one is more big picture, more descriptive. The other is more overtly personal and emotional. Either way, they are both peak human creation.
the lines that hit the hardest for me: “20,000 years of this, 7 more to go” “that unapparent summer air in early fall, the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all” “a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall” “total disassociation, fully out your mind, googling derealization, hating what you find” “hey, what can you say, we were overdue, but it’ll be over soon, you wait”
@@lodougherty 20,000 years ago is about when the latest ice age peaked in coldness. 7 more years very likely a reference to Al Gore predicting 5-7 years of polar ice left (i.e the ending of the current ice age we are in) in 2009 or something (also a possible interpretation of a line in all eyes on me about having thought the world already ended being a reference to these types of predictions). It's just another part of the song that's adding to the funny feeling that I think is the one mentioned in the "That feeling" part of the inside outtakes, that things are ramping up to this big long coming conclusion or collapse or something but that nothing seems to be happening ('we were overdue, but it’ll be over soon, you wait') and that nothing happening might be even worse.
That funny feeling. Not quite anger, not anxiety, not frustration, overwhelmed by all the crap in the world that seems obvious/backwards/insane/ironic, and just having to accept it. Knowing we are only ever pushing forward and it isnt going to change so accepting that it is what it is.
That "funny feeling" seems to be a feeling that everyone has: a feeling that the world, that humanity, is headed in the wrong direction, and that no matter what you do you can't seem to change anything. So you sit here, in the quiet, comprehending the ending of it all. But hey, what can you say, we were overdue? But it'll be over soon, one way or another....
Bold of you to assume that. Obviously all those who benefit greatly from the status quo think we're doing awesome. Sadly trying to change is akin to trying to alter the course of an oil tanker with a plastic oar. Not even COVID, the most traumatic event in 100 years did anything other than making all the already rich and powerful even more rich and powerful.
For the last few days I've been unwell. No appetite, can't sleep, knots in my stomach...came to this channel to watch Can't Handle This because that's one of the things that helps me and clicked on this for the first time. Literally had it on a loop for 2 days basically. My view of the world isn't as bleak as this song, but I find it strangely comforting. So thank you Bo. :)
Everybody focus on the lyrics, but I love how this song is engineered. It's so subtle it's easy to miss. It might sound like a 'guitar by bonfire', but there is so much of reverb, echo, key manipulation on some phrases or single notes. But it adds so much to the song. And even if you wouldn't know English you would feel a bit uneasy after listening to that because it is mastered that way.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2021 and listened to this song on repeat (along with Phoebe Bridger's version) throughout the process leading up to my double mastectomy. It's hard to find the words to articulate exactly why or how this song resonated so poignantly with me during that time. I guess maybe there was some morbid comfort in the reminder that we're all fucked.
The line "the quite comprehension of the ending of it all" hits hard. For the past 2 years we've been in isolation to ourselves and feeling like the world is over, and with the current world crisis it feels like that 2021 March panic is back.
This song is such a perfect depiction of depression. The whole special is, but especially this song. It perfectly encapsulates mindlessly scrolling through your phone with all of these random headlines popping up, none of them fully registering. Yet real thoughts also seem to creep in.
That funny feeling is his anxiety of the things in the song and yes this special talks a lot about mental help but he even said he got help and got better so I think he is depicting how we all felt during the lockdown mixed with all the other political and media bs
@@ceciltuttle743 Bo is completely sane and describing the world with perfect clarity. Modern life is totally irrational and any sane man should have difficulty accepting it. "We're all mad here."
whenever i come to this song to sing along, i always start crying. i think everyone feels it at "20,000 years of this, 7 more to go". and also at "A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" but once he mentions "civil war", all of the nice, the bad, the confusing, painfully bleak, and heartbreaking start blending together. and by the time the line about "the silent comprehending of the ending of it all" comes, i'm absolutely destroyed. i love how much this song makes me feel. Bo is a true artist.
I feel like this should have won awards over “all eyes on me” but honestly the whole inside special is just unparalleled. In a time of disguise, misleading, and shallow world, bo brings something emotional, raw, genuine, and creative depth to unite people through music and comedy.
Gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall This line is legitimately my favourite from the entire special and its truly inspired. Thank you Boseph Burnham.
''The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" fills me with so much quiet dread. Humanity's greatest achievement, and our greatest failing, all in one line. How the fuck did we get here?
@Premiumboxingtips Predictions You're missing the point of the line. It's supposed to show how guns are so central to America that they now can have the purpose of stores yet are turning actual stores into a shooting range, swapping the roles. It's supposed to highlight the tragedy of how common gun violence is now. There have been over 100 mass shootings this year, yet it's only 85 days into the year. There were 11 school shootings and at least 9 shootings at shopping centres. If that's not terrifying, what is?
@Premiumboxingtips Predictions Oh, what a surprise, a bit of actual research dismantles your narrative that you formed by twisting the stats to fit it. Exhibit A of why people from the UK don't deserve to be taken seriously when they want to comment on American culture. Or in general, really. lol
@@damkylan3 You do understand that your last line is very racist? Yeah that person is wrong, but why continue their negativity further? Just let it be.
Everyday we see and hear about things that are so sad, funny, hopeful, terrifying, ironic, depressing… I love that someone was able to take these feelings and put them into song.
3:33 Is such an underrated line it literally sums up the whole song in one line and does it so perfectly that most people don't notice and when they do it soothes them
100%, he sounds SO GOOD. Though some of his old songs were also really good vocally, like the country parody that I can't remember the name of right now.
Приколы
![Bo Burnham - Can't Handle This (Kanye Rant) - MAKE HAPPY Netflix [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rYy0o-J0x20/mqdefault.jpg)
"I don't really play guitar... Or sing"
Drops an absolute masterpiece.
Fr
Fr, fr
I'm pretty sure it's part of the genius to be honest, it's a very obviously false and almost corporate statement, similar to those that large powerful figures make to try and relate to thier audiences
I think it's the cliché thing someone says before playing the guitar at a campfire
I think it’s indicative of the fact that he feels like he has lost all sense of himself catalyzed by the absurdity of the America, he also is wise enough to know that some if not many have experienced the same feeling(I know I have).
I'd describe Bo's style of comedy as "that moment when you feel so powerless to change anything or stop catastrophe that all you can do is laugh."
definitely. The futile attempt to at least grasp hold of all that's left- and get a good laugh or cry out of it. To at least still be able to feel something at the end of it all.
Art is dead
I think the term for that is “Gallows Humor”. Named after the gallows where people used to be publicly executed. Basically cracking jokes about the shitty situation you’re in because you feel powerless to do anything else. Although Bo’s form of it still acknowledges how serious and devastating the situation is for all involved.
Could you not have described my default mental state?
Welcome to the absurd. Pick up some camus!
Coming back to this years later, I wanna point out the genius of the set design. The entire song to me feels like "trying to be human in a society that's not" and pointing out the irony in the way things work today. "Gift shop at the gun range, mass shooting at the mall", "book on getting better hand delivered by a drone". The set PERFECTLY compliments this whole thing. He's sitting in the woods, illuminated by a campfire, singing a campfire song, but the backdrop is projection and the campfire is LED, and in reality he's sitting alone in a shed. The music alone is a work of art, but the thought put behind the set design makes the whole thing come together so beautifully.
*tips hat* nice brother, 100% big fact
That's an amazing insight. Damn
The contrast to his other songs rings of authenticity and the place this one has in his heart. It's a subtle invitation to listen up, as he's pushing his chips into the artistic pile.
awesome observation. thanks for pointing this out.
Wow yes ❤
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" that line really resonates with me. It just feels like the whole world is a speeding train racing towards the end of the tracks and instead of looking for the breaks everyone is just looking out the windows.
completely agree
Beautifully said friend
Listen to "we didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel
in the outtakes theres a line he says (pretending to be a spokesperson presenting to companies) that gives a different context to this fear: "And the other fear, the deeper fear, the unspeakable fear, of never hitting the wall. Of this feeling never ending, never slowing down, but rising forever, like a shepherd's tone, an endless and pointless climb towards a terrible and dense nothing"
And the ones that know where it is aren't doing anything about it
“That unapparent summer air in early fall, the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all”
Fuck, man…
Everyday I'm reminded of climate change because I clearly remember when we had seasons.
Memento Mori
@@samuelvoorhees3982 Memento Mori
@@Weaklytune Memento Mori, and I wish you well, Uunus, Annus.
Joined XR for a liveable future, awesome people. They know these lyrics, but still go for it
"That unapparent summer air in early fall, the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" is one of the best lines of poetry ever. So, so beautiful.
And it coexists with "Reading Pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive and obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V" in the same song hahaha
@@jaxelt1 Equally relevant socially and poetically. One more general and one more specific, both speaking to the times.
Having a very mild January at the moment. My Alder trees are beginning to bud. It's unsettling.
In California that is the exact time when there’s so much smoke in the air from wildfires
@@TheBob877 Yeah, it shouldn't be this warm in January/February.
It's like "We Didn't Start the Fire", but instead of being an upbeat acknowledgement that "the world has always been awful and will continue to be awful, but we'll get through it", it's more of a realisation that things aren't getting better and perhaps the best we can hope for is to just shuffle off quietly in the dark so we can finally get some rest at least.
Thats a pretty apt summary
The list of weird nihilistic things that have happened really did remind me of Billy Joel's We Didn't start the fire too. Except that's just the Historical events. (Mostly was or tensions) That have happened
This is 1000x better than FOB's updated "we didn't start the fire".
🫥
Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) just tweeted this:
I get a strangely sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach - I look around and the world is on fire, and all our culture is talking about is a popstar dating a football star.
There's a song for that!
Ironically I'd still take some pleasure in watching Dwight reacting to the apocalypse, if we were already doomed.
Yea its really sad
I had to hear there's talks of putting NATO troops in Ukraine from a friend. The risk of ending all mankind in a few hours of nuclear fire was less important than football to my own national news. I honestly feel like I've gone crazy sometimes. It's some fucking Kafka shit, surely I'm not the only one noticing I'm turning into a bug here???
This song is so unexpectedly emotional. "The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" gets me every time.
That’s the line.
Something about that line makes me feel the most calming sense of relief, "the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all."
same, same...
For me it’s “The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door”
"20 thousand years of this. 7 more to go." Global warming.
I just realized this song is basically the quiet, hopeless version of "We Didn't Start the Fire." Man, that's beautiful and horrible. Billy Joel makes it sound like active chaos, there's this feeling of anger and energy. But this shows the underside. The quiet, creeping apocalypse you watch from your TV, outwardly opposing it but deep down accepting it, knowing there's so little you can do.
Oh what an insightful parallel
@ indeed
Damn bro this analogy slaps so hard. Hit me like a truck
That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking. Our generation’s We Didn’t Start the Fire.
@@moanadaniels1684 it's acceptance, the 6th stage of grief.
“Gift shop at the gun rage, a mass shooting at the mall” that is a MASTERFUL bar.
The audacity of this man to say he can't play or sing then proceeds to release one of the most raw societal reflections of our time
IT MAKES ME SO GOD DAMNED MAD
Check out Phil Ochs if you dig this. I’d suggest “when I’m gone”, “here’s to the state of Mississippi”, and “draft dodger rag” (two have an emphasis on the era they came out in, but that’s what makes them similar to this). His rendition of “the Highwayman” is also top-notch, even if you don’t like the other ones.
zero cap.
It's a joke referring to some old viral videos of people playing acoustic folk music and starting the video like this
that’s on purpose
Turning on this special expecting “haha” time and instead having whatever this show was is unforgettable. I’ve never been so happy to be disappointed.
It actually was funny at moments (the kids show and reaction video sketch), but it was still amazing, despite the overall lack of humor.
wtf I just turned off your WoT review to watch this. man's everywhere.
I'm starting to think daniel is just stalking everything we all like so we dont forget him
Hey Daniel is a Bo fan yay!
🎵When worlds collide
You can run
But you can’t hide
When worlds collide🎵
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" is delivered with such lightness and beauty, but it's possibly the most devastating line in the whole song. Incredible.
Well, that's because it is the truth and we know it. Unfortunatly.
Don't worry, it's just human bullshit.
Not really bro. I’ve been a science guy my whole life.
So in the past 50 years, humans have learned a lot more stuff about the universe.
However, this doesn’t make the data projections of the future infallible.
No I’m not saying “it could all be wrong”.
What I’m saying is-in another 50 years, there will be many more keys discovered, which will unlock more discoveries, and then in another 50 years…
So we can’t be SO hasty in thinking that are projections of the future are complete and unchanging.
In fact, they are the opposite.
And anyone who has studied scientific discoveries through history knows that this happens over and over and over.
“This is it! We know everything now.”
Hahaha, but that’s not what everyone thinks. Isaac Newton said didn’t think he found what gravity really is.
However, a million other people thought they knew what gravity really is because of what they learned from Newton.
--
Humanity is the best life form we have seen and we haven’t found fossils of a more capable life form in our past here on earth, but in its current condition it isn’t my prime pick for the journey on into the late universe to discover what is possible and what will occur. But things change a lot in 1,000,000 years. Or 10,000,000,000 years.
Sorry that’s to sideshow bob, thought it would automatically tag him or whatever
To me, the most devastating line will always be "Googling derealization and hating what you find". Since I started to derealize far harder since the beginning of the pandemic than I ever had, to the point of noticing.
The vibrato on "it'll be over soon" is so moving and comforting... but in, like, an apocalyptic way. it's a gut punch every time.
So perfectly said friend! It’s such a beautiful and captivating line. Magically sung 🌼
His voice in the whole song really. The guitar sounds rich and the production is so well done. 🥲
Underated take. Does Bo know sommin
+1, I think it's moving and comforting because it sounds like he is on the verge of tears. That's obviously moving, bit it's comforting to know that others are in the same boat
"Comforting in an apocalyptic way." Thank you for putting this into words.
My high school theatre teacher told us once that good art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable. This does that perfectly
‘Total disassociation, fully out your mind. Googling derealisation, hating what you find.’
No lyrics have ever hit me so hard. Thanks Bo, for finding a way to articulate that funny feeling none of us had the right words for.
That moment when you read this comment as he sings those words O.O
Hits me hard too. The whole special does, but that line... oof.
Agreed ...
yeah i had dpdr for a year i wish this came out then lol
I agree.
“Googling derealisation and hating what you find” one of the most underrated lines in this song. The desire to figure out what’s wrong, but once you find something that might fit, is too much to admit.
Derealisation is Gen Zs new cope that we are all going to have to unfortunately deal with till the next hot word emerges.
@@John.0079 So much bitterness! It's almost like you, a grown man, goes on comment sections solely to make angry, sad comments as some weird coping mechanism lol. At least make your comment good, like damn.
Can confirm: I googled Derealization right after hearing this song and did, in fact, hate what I found.
@@John.0079 derealisation is a serious mental disorder triggered as a trauma response.
If you don't mind me asking, what is it about derealisation?
I know the feeling well, it's a common response to stressful or traumatic experiences or situations - where you sort of "zone out", stop caring, don't feel like the situation is real, or like it couldn't possibly be actually happening, but it's pretty mild compared to having full on panic attacks
Is it that people who think they're perfectly fine are googling it and realizing that they've been there, and that they're not as okay as they thought they were?
"Full agoriphobic, losing focus, cover blown.
A book on getting better hand delivered by a drone..." Is one of the hardest lyrics in modern music lol. Bo is incredible
This.
I will forever be HAUNTED by bo being robbed at the Emmys. Only reason Hamilton even qualified that year was because of the disney+ release. Inside was COMPLETE genius. It showed so many people what we had all been saying about bo for years. I pray his mental health stays up and we get more from him. The man's a genius.
Just another example of why those awards shows mean nothing to most people
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" is an unbelievable line. God what genius writing.
Ikr! It's so underrated
At first I understood it as "you spend all your time on the internet when nature is right outside", then I realised it was about climate change.
I read this comment at the perfectly same time when Bo was singing this line. What are the odds of that
@@merlordmodding Thanks for the explanation. I had misinterpreted it as well.
This line makes me think of what it's like to be young with global warming knocking at humanity's door. I wanted to be an artist, a storyteller but a lot of good that'll do me when climate change really kicks it into hard drive 😞
I really just love the line "Twenty-Thousand years of this, Seven more to go."
Something about it just hits different.
If humans don’t change their gas emitting habits by 2028, we’re literally doomed
@@jcinfan YEAH STOP FARTING BECKY
Six now
@@jcinfan They have said stuff like that for 60 years
@@beepboop4103 I mean moving forewards into sufficiency without the need of a resource that will eventually deplete should be the goal anyways all it is doing is speeding it up its not like we have endless supplies of oil on our planet
the fact that almost every lyric is quoted in the comments somewhere shows how deeply thought-out and beautiful this song is
The bah da dahs at the end kill me every time. That’s what makes the whole song for me. Like, here he’s saying we’re at the end times, but like… what else can you do? Keep sobbing? You might as well find some light where you can. And maybe that light is a fun little tune to hum to yourself.
It’s a very hopeful ending to a hopeless song.
I like that in the special he doesn't even give you time to sit in peace with the song, it's immediately followed up with Bo having a complete breakdown on camera.
This feeling has never sounded so good.
This feeling's bussin'
:D
Love your channel
BEN
You’re my favorite motion graphics artist on here
My favorite in the whole special.
is this conar???!?!?
if you like bo burnham, you'll love connoreatpants live
conar
bottom text
I see Connor has good taste
EAT PANT CONAR 😱😂😅🤣🥵😹
August 2023 and still vibing to this song. I remember when i first saw the special when it came out on Netflix and almost cried listening to it because the song described so well the feelings i was going through during the pandemic. Bo is a genius.
November 2023 now. 4 years to go now.
March 2024. Getting even closer
Whats supposed to happen?@@Jhook15
I can't really, uh, play the guitar very well, um, or sing
So you know, apologies
Stunning 8K-resolution meditation app
In honor of the revolution, it's half-off at the Gap
Deadpool's self-awareness, loving parents, harmless fun
The backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
The surgeon general's pop-up shop, Robert Iger's face
Discount Etsy agitprop, Bugles' take on race
Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war
The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door
The live-action Lion King, the Pepsi Halftime Show
Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go
Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul
A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
Reading Pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive
And obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V
Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown
A book on getting better hand-delivered by a drone
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
Googling "derealization", hating what you find
That unapparent summer air in early fall
The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, just wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum
Hey
When existentialism comes, choose absurdism rather than nihilism. It’s over, just laugh while you can.
Yep, and hope, whatever left is the last to go, keep somr
And yes embrace absurdism, and that no one is alone with that, really
Listento exgirlfriends," no one is singing my song"
Are you sure? True Nihilism is YOLO. Albert Camus and Nihilistic beliefs go hand in hand.
Personally, I believe there's meaning but this is strangely comforting; if the end is coming, laugh instead of cry / find beauty in the madness. Kinda makes me think abt games with moral choices - there's no real consequences so some people say why not be bad (nihilism) and some say why not be good (absurdism)
I don’t remember saying this but it made me a little sad 😅
“A book on getting better, hand delivered by a drone.”
I felt that one.
Especially since the book is for getting better from agoraphobia. Can’t even stand human contact to get the book about getting more human contact.
@@dathaniel9403 is it a mechanical drone though? or just someone transformed from all the routine and pressure of the conformist society - a drone employee?
I read this right as that line played. *Creepy.*
I felt as if that line was ironic though.
If he's suffering from agoraphobia, it's actually nice that he can access help without having to leave his home
He should've won a grammy for this, not for All Eyes On Me. Though they're both pretty good. Scratch that, he should win another grammy.
All eyes on me was about anxiety, while this was about depression and society’s downfall. I feel both hit hard, but all eyes on me had a more engaging video. The eye contact man.
Personally, I prefer That Funny Feeling, but All Eyes On Me is also good. And I didn't know he had won a grammy lol, it should have been because of Welcome To The Internet!!!
@@brookemcglasson9725 *PROLONGED* eye contact lol
If you didnt notice the clear reference to police violence in all eyez on me, go see it again with this in mind.
All eyes on me won a Grammy because by the time you hear it, it's a culmination of everything we've heard up to that point. Everything after is the chaser to how powerful that moment was.
Our generation's "We didn't start the fire". Brilliant Bo
I know this is primarily a sad song. But I find comfort in it too. Knowing that other people feel this way. That I'm not the only one who steps back every so often and goes, "this whole thing's kind of messed up"
This song is great. Especially the lines "a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" and "the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" are downright genius. I also love the atmosphere that Bo's created with both the visuals and the tone of the song. I imagine this song being played on a campfire, in a burnt forest, in the middle of an apocalyptic wasteland in a world that's about to end. And also, at the ending of the song, the cheerful singing about the end of the world tops it off perfectly.
the line “a gift shop at a gun range, a mads shooting at a mall” is one of the most emotional lyrics i’ve ever heard, i remember the first time i heard it gasping and just thinking about how messed up that is. the line itself really did give me that funny feeling
I've been working almost every day in the forest that I grew up in that saw 302 square miles burned last year. This song perfectly describes how I feel every minute of every day between our climate disaster and our political disaster.
dont forget the before that "Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war" great comedic line inserted seamlessly
Completely agree. It really gives me the vibe of people huddled around a campfire during an apocpalypse, just accepting their fate.
I just got that 'ocean at your door' line and boy, lemme tell you, that funny feeling is not going away any time soon.
The first time I heard “20,000 years of this, 7 more to go” I had to pause the special to catch my breath because it’s a perfect, succinct, nihilistic encapsulation of where it feels like society is at.
This.
I'm kinda dumb so can you elaborate?
@@mondemamon929 same here
@@waxenknight8864 recorded humanity has existed for about 20k years or so including caveman era and at the rate of civil war and bitterness we as societies throw at one another, it means in 7 years from a Nihilist perspective our world will be over soon.
I think it's actually a reference to the Climate Clock. The climate clock says we only have 7 more years to get to zero emissions before we are guaranteed to end up with more than 1.5C of global warming, which in the near future would make areas of the tropics completely uninhabitable to human life due to temps above the wet bulb temperature. Making a large chunk of the planet uninhabitable will cause major issues for the whole world, not just affected regions. Expect mass migrations and war within the next 25 years as people in mass try to flee uninhabitable regions.
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door"
"Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go"
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all"
"Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait"
Man. Nailed it. Went thru a really rough patch with my own mental health a couple years ago after becoming collapse-aware & trying to come to terms with what's in store for us in my lifetime. Found this song just a couple months ago & I feel like it's the theme of our times.
its so wild to see more and more people become collapse-aware, and seeing it in media and from important people..
"That unappearing summer air in early fall." always hits me hard.
Especially now, when there are 27°C here at the beginning of October, ten more than the average.
How to cope? Im not doing well thinking about colapse
@@lordmarcusrax I think he's saying unapparent summer air in early fall. Which I interpret as the fact that "summer" is slowly getting longer and longer, but a lot of people aren't, or are refusing to, notice it.
Bo is Humanity's version of the Quartet Band deciding to play as the Titanic sank.
Enjoy the music and hold your breath.
Our man deserved so much more than a Grammy, but he should have got one.
at least he got an Emmy
I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear tyler
Idk Grammys never mattered to me
I think he desrves a noble prize ngl
He's nominated for 2 Grammys. Best Music Film and then All Eyes On Me is nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
"Total disassociation, fully out your mind.
Googling de-realization, hating what you find."
That hit hard
I'm scared I'm losing my mind
@@collinhelstien8942 Too late fella
no it didnt, you are not derealizied.
I spent a whole day once staring at my own arm and hand on and off. I couldn’t figure it out, but it just felt off. Like fake. Or not mine. Couldn’t exactly place what or why. That was when I realized my “weird head feelings” about me or the world around me and how it felt to me or how it interacted with it were maybe something more than just feeling off. Where getting into the shower and scared to be alone was the only comforts I had. Thank god for then gf now wife at the time. Even when we split up for a year during a really bad time, she’d still open her door for me late nights to comfort me. Even though I didn’t even deserve to knock on the door. Thank god she gave me a chance. I never got medical or professions help, I just learned to live with it. The world is weird anyway, what’s a little weirder.
Yeah, with all the other lyrics I always feel like Im being made to reckon with the boring dystopia we allowed ourselves to be in at that point in the song.
“That unapparent summer air in early fall, the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all” my goodness. oh my goodness this lyric
Only 4 and a half years left, thank goodness.
it certainly feels like his words about "7 more to go" are prophetic
Considering how things in the world have been recently, might only be 1 or 2 years left.
Bo Burnham is the only person I’ve ever felt truly understood how to express the constant depression and sadness I’ve felt my entire life. This special was a masterpiece.
Never listened to The Cure?
You're not alone with this man.
Hey, if you ever see this: I, a random stranger, hope the best for you.
It really f*cking is. The ups, the downs, wow. Every song was a slap in the face.
But I don’t mind being slapped by this.
@@trendybistro I heard they inspired that Robbie Hart single.
...BUT IT ALL WAS BUUUULLLSHIT
Bo has always pushed music & comedy to the fullest. He never misses & I hope we're able to get much, much more from him in the years to come. As real as it gets.
Ratio
@@super6070 nah
W
It'll be over soon... just wait.
@@super6070 damn no likes that’s sad lol
This may be the greatest folk song ever made.
Nope, it's ultimately stifling.
The best folk songs are meant to stir revolutionary furver.
This does the exact opposite.
It tells you to give in.
@@kevinwillems8720
It's the ultimate be-sad-to song
@gangrenousgandalf2102 it is that indeed, and I'd be lying if I said I've not felt many a night lying on the floor listening to Inside
It seems like the "funny feeling" is one that's surprisingly familiar to a lot of people, but still ambiguous enough to seem foreign at the same time. That's probably why it's a song that sticks with a lot of people well after hearing it, it's almost like hearing the thoughts that they can't define articulated? Like it's almost uncomfortably relatable, but mainly to the things you push to the back of your mind. That's been my experience at least. It's a masterpiece if you ask me.
To me it's about modernity, all out of balance. Female colonel Sanders, it's whacky.
“I cannot define it, but I know it when I see it.”
That's so true! Totally agree
I think it encapsulates the quaking mess of the human condition and how on a macro scale how we are perpetuating it in our society that celebrates and worships convenience, pop culture, and our political views that are literally that of pop culture. I mean, when civil war is the easy answer…how fk’d are we?
My take is that probably it's not just one "type" of funny feeling but it depends on the fact he is talking about. It's cool that it's ambiguous enough that multiple people will relate in different ways to the same song, but kind of make sense for everyone at the same time. Most of the analogies from the song point to one thing, but then say another one that kind of makes you doubt or rethink the first thing he said.
bo - if youre out there and you can read this - thank you. my life has been turned upside down and inside out in the last few months since my wife was diagnosed with very late stage cancer. your art has helped me stay focused in one of the most intense and chaotic periods of my life. if only a youtube comment could share the gratitude and empathy I have for you and your art. you have made a colossal impact on me at this point in my life, and i feel strangely un-alone in the disarray that i currently call home.
thank you very much for your art - and for taking care of yourself, and for being here with us.
How is it now?
i am a stranger to you but i hope you and your wife are alright, sending you so much love
hope everything will be okay friend :)
Hope it works out for you both, my friend. Love from Atlanta.
♥️
NOTHING could explain this sensation, I thought I was making it up. Just “anxiety disorder” or “depression disorder” didn’t cut it because it was a specific part of it all. And I still can’t explain it, but hearing this makes sense and feels like “hey, this is real, you’re not … I don’t even know what
what’s awesome is that these songs all resonate so deeply with people who have mental health issues. they feel so good because finally, FINALLY someone has expressed exactly what you have felt. what’s sad is that this means bo has felt this to its depths. i’m sorry you’ve been going through this, dude. i’m glad you’ve made something so beautiful from it.
This song describes so many things. The feeling of not knowing anything but needing to in order to feel sane. Watching everything around you as you slowly slip into mental anguish. Only being able to describe it as a funny feeling.
@EliForce yes! Exactly
still can't quite describe how this song makes me feel
It’s a
funny feeling
Just triggers that funny feeling
It gives you that funny feeling
you really get that funny feeling
the feeling really is funny
This is what kids will be reading in English class 100 years from now. This is a profound piece of poetry.
we only got 4 more years
It’ll never get old to me how he so vividly reflects the way our minds distract us with thoughts of entertainment and everyday living, but every now and then, our minds will pepper in the invasive existential thoughts we all have. He captures the unspoken parts of the human experience so beautifully
My friend put it perfectly when he first watched inside, "Did Bo Burnham just write the modern 'We didn't start the fire'?" It feels so much like more contemplative version that fits so well given how the pandemic has changed things
Love this comparison!
I mean the government reaction to the lockdown has had 1000x more impact than the pandemic itself and we all gave in. Now we are on a never ending road to giving up our individuality. I expect many to disagree with me and that's fine. But the people who see this 5-10 years from now may think differently.
@@CousinBowling If we had done a solid, strict lockdown in the first couple months and then had strict national border controls, we wouldn't have COVID in the US. It's people like you who have made this nightmare drag on because Republican brainwashing makes you feel good.
@@googiegress7459 and that right there is a great example of what Bo was singing about. We’ve kind of doomed ourselves because we have been programmed not to work together
@@CousinBowling I agree. I‘m very scared of the future now that the right to protest even got taken away somewhere. I think it was Australia but so much is happening at the same time I don’t even remember.
“A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall” hit me like a train
“The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door” I don’t know if Bo really meant this, but I interpreted this as having come so far with technology but with the consequence of climate change(ocean at your door=flooding). It’s kind of like “look, a good thing!” But then rebuttals with a consequence. Similar to “20,000 years of this, 7 more to go” as well.
@@goodday2884 "7 more to go" lines up with a timeline Bo previously set for his own death.
"a mass shooting at the mall," man I'm in Boise that did hit hard, because it happened.
That line actually made me gasp when I heard it for the first time, just fucking brilliant
Hii k80!
The lyrics and theme are beautiful, but I also gotta appreciate how much Bo has improved as a vocalist. He sounds as good as any proficient professional singer here. Beautiful vocal tone, also good dynamic control on the guitar.
Agreed. His earlier stuff was somewhat rough and often flat, but this entire song is spot on. Maturity does wonders for some vocalists.
Time for my yearly Bo Burnham-fueled existential crisis
Welcome to February.
This is a song where you just close your eyes throughout it's entirety and feel every word.
And every single time I cry
@@rj3892 I feel ya
Yea everytime I hear him sing "deadpool" I tear up
Logan Paul 🤔
Cry hearing every word, except Pornhub when you laugh for a moment
listened to this hundreds of times
wait you're here?
Same :D
Yo its oompa let's go
OOMPAAA
Daddy Oompa has arrived
Coming back to the "seven more to go" lyric in 2024 is feeling pretty prophetic at this pace
I think Bo Burnham impacts so much because he represents a portion of the humanity that exist and shouts to be heard. The humanity that is financially stable and safe but mentally and emotionally destroyed. Is a mixture of the calm and the chaos. Sometimes I feel sad, and I see everything good I have around me, but I feel empty, despite the abundance (I am not rich btw, just middle class) but anyways, things simply don't fill a person, and apparently, people and kindness also don't fill a person. A constant disconfort with life. I think Bo Burnham represents that. I feel thankful for discovering him and his music.
Bo, simply the only musician that says sorry before playing one of the most beutiful songs ever played
I feel like that might have actually been a joke about the usual unsincere humble bragging tbh.
@@Irithind Let me guess, you hate people with more fame than you
@@MissFazzington what? No, I don't. It just sounds like making fun of the people trying to be more relatable by being fake humble.
@@Irithind it seems genuine to me, he isn’t happy with himself and him being alone with himself for a year may have made him think low of himself
@@higuysimcharley I would probably think so if it was only about the guitar, which he doesn't play too often. But he built a career on signing. So to say he can't sing near the end of the special and only then feels more like poking fun.
Watching Bo Burnham since high-school and seeing this bright energetic whimsical person mature and age and grow calmer and more introverted gives me a since of melancholy. He hasn't lost his touch but I can feel the world has worn him down a bit. I feel he has aged with me in these times and I'm sad yet excited to see what's next for him.
Yes growing with him is wild.
@drifting static There is something uniquely satisfying about reading the comments of long time fans enjoying the least "liked 👍🏻" song the most. Too dark for the masses, though I can't help but envy the bliss in that crowd.
same i've been watching bo since I was in junior high and seeing the changes in him makes me feel some sort of way (read: "that funny feeling"), because I almost see myself in him, in a way. when we were younger everything just felt more hopeful and exciting, and now as an adult, I realize that there was no reason to be excited about adulthood.
It’s sad how true this is because he’s always had a cynical edge to him. Guess comedy and horror can be two sides of the same coin sometimes
I've always wondered if that "bright energetic whimsical" he started his career with wasn't always a facade, a character. Look at the message he leaves us with in Make Happy, "Are you happy? Cuz it sure is destroying me to give you that" and that evolution was him coming to term with it and finally exposing it to the audience.
I’m glad we had this special during the lockdown. I felt like I was losing my mind, and when I watched Bo’s “Inside” for the first time, it made me think “well, at least I’m not the only one feeling like this.”
March 27th, 2023. Came here to listen once again. If you know, you know. I'm sorry Nashville
Its the "comprehending of the ending of it all" that sticks with me and had me come back for this. You know the world is ending when people are able to defend and stand behind what happened. Tragic.
Can't get through this song without crying. Tragic, horrifying and absolutely fucking gorgeous.
Ok its finally Here
ruclips.net/video/HlF0gkKINl0/видео.html
.
.a
.a
its ironic listening to the words of this song while seeing every comment complimenting it flooded with scripts and bots. kinda cements the whole song for me...
lyrics:
I can't really, uh, play the guitar very well, um, or sing
So you know, apologies
Stunning 8K-resolution meditation app
In honor of the revolution, it's half-off at the Gap
Deadpool's self-awareness, loving parents, harmless fun
The backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
The surgeon general's pop-up shop, Robert Iger's face
Discount Etsy agitprop, Bugles' take on race
Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war
The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door
The live-action Lion King, the Pepsi Halftime Show
Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go
Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul
A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
Reading Pornhub's terms of service, going for a drive
And obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V
Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown
A book on getting better hand-delivered by a drone
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
Googling "derealization", hating what you find
That unapparent summer air in early fall
The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
There it is again, that funny feeling
That funny feeling
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, just wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue
But it'll be over soon, you wait
Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-dum
thanks
👍 Thanks.
Thanks.
Ah, nothing like having Bo Burnham sing you to sleep.
this perfectly captures how it feels to live in the 21st century.
(did anyone else get we didn't start the fire vibes from this?)
This is "we didn't start the fire" if instead of feeling like fighting back, you just... accepted it and gave up. Just accept that it's happening and we can't do much about it.
I love the way this song fills me with existential dread and comforts me about it at the same time.
This
The music is comforting and the lyrics are terrifying
I love how this is one of the only songs in the entire special that doesn't end abruptly or is cut off. it just silently fades to black
Holy fuck just realized..
Also succumbing to mania at the end.
And we assume the cozy setting is supposed to be a campfire in the woods, a retreat, a vacation. But it could just as easily be a post-decline US lacking utility services, acoustic guitar by a burn barrel.
Isn’t it the only one? I was under the impression it was
@@couldntcareless7884 I think its the only one, but just in case it isn't I said one of the only to be safe
Just like humanity will 😔
I can say my favourite thing about this song is during the bridge, at 4:09, where he hits an accidental harmonic or something it sounds like. It's a small, accidental thing, but it adds a lot I think, more depth to the chord change there in that one moment.
Sounds like he didn't push down a string far enough and accidentally got a 3rd fret harmonic. Actually, sounds like that happens a few times throughout the song if you pay attention, like little musical easter eggs.
March of '24, and this song remains relevant as ever, and the perfect song for a tear-letting session. It's like an emotional hand-job; get those silly emotions out of me, so I can human around, doing human stuff for the rest of the day. Great song.
This song is probably one of my favorites. The tune of the song is so beautiful. His voice goes well with it as well!
Yesss
honestly yea, it’s one of my absolute favorites hes made too
It's also my favorite song, along with all eyes on me.
His singing, the lyrics, the existential undertones, everything, just amazing all around.
"20 thousand years of this, 7 more to go" still hits way too deep
As soon as I heard that line I had to pause, rewind, listen again, and reflect. I hope both that he is right and that he is wrong. History will always go on, but in what way?
I didn’t believe him when I first heard this but recently I honestly really believe it. Technology will be the death of humanity
I thought it was a reference to global warming, especially with the line beforehand "The ocean at your door"
@@thecrabmaestro564 it is. The climate clock has 7 years left in its countdown.
I'm not ready for the death of everything I've ever known. But that doesn't matter. It's happening anyway.
I wish we could have reached the stars.
Everyone talks about "All Eyes On Me" and, while that's an incredible song as well, I find myself coming back to this one more and more
Waking up to smoke filled skies once again. This song was the only thing in my head.
Every lyric in this somg is crafted to evoke a sense of unreality, and “loving parents” is one of the first things he mentions. Supremely underrated line.
The term “loving parents” gives him a funny feeling because parents should automatically be loving. It infers that there are parents that aren’t loving.
@Larserus i read it as a whole "deadpool's sense awareness, loving parents, harmless fun" like even tho they have loving parents, they still have deadpool's sense of awareness and sarcasm towards the world
@@clarrie93 I read that "loving parents, harmless fun" as "loving parents" seeing their kids doing bad things as just "kids will be kids, it's just harmless fun". Could be totally wrong, though. Just makes me very uncomfy
@@larserus8286 it feels like a dig at the current trend of RUclips parents that cash in on their children by portraying how loving and modern their family is with 'harmless' skits, pranks, vlogs, and whatnot- while putting immense pressure on the kid to make consumable content when they can't even fully comprehend the magnitude of what they're putting on permanent record for the world.
at the end of the day, you're left with this funny feeling of watching a scripted 90s quirky family show... except you slowly realize, instead of a 'cut' from the director, this child is still going to be stuck with these 'loving parents' for decades more to come.
@@larserus8286 I like this interpretation the best.
“Hey what can I say we were overdue but it’ll be over soon just wait”
Is quite possibly the most depressing way to hit us all right in the feels
Makes me cry so much
I love just how calm and peaceful this song is. A strange accepting of the end, almost glad its almost over, but still sad its coming to an end. I think it really captures where we are with everything as humanity at times.
After a year or two of letting this special cement itself in my brain, I genuinely can't decide whether this song or "All Eyes On Me" is the better one. They're both practically the same thing presented in different tones. This one is more big picture, more descriptive. The other is more overtly personal and emotional.
Either way, they are both peak human creation.
the lines that hit the hardest for me:
“20,000 years of this, 7 more to go”
“that unapparent summer air in early fall, the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all”
“a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall”
“total disassociation, fully out your mind, googling derealization, hating what you find”
“hey, what can you say, we were overdue, but it’ll be over soon, you wait”
@@lodougherty 20,000 years of human civilization, 7 more to go.
@@lodougherty climate clock. 27 club. take your pick.
the 27 club reference hit me too...the world's sad as fuck
@@ZzGeWizZ I didn't connect the 27 club reference at all, nice catch
@@lodougherty 20,000 years ago is about when the latest ice age peaked in coldness. 7 more years very likely a reference to Al Gore predicting 5-7 years of polar ice left (i.e the ending of the current ice age we are in) in 2009 or something (also a possible interpretation of a line in all eyes on me about having thought the world already ended being a reference to these types of predictions).
It's just another part of the song that's adding to the funny feeling that I think is the one mentioned in the "That feeling" part of the inside outtakes, that things are ramping up to this big long coming conclusion or collapse or something but that nothing seems to be happening ('we were overdue, but it’ll be over soon, you wait') and that nothing happening might be even worse.
That funny feeling. Not quite anger, not anxiety, not frustration, overwhelmed by all the crap in the world that seems obvious/backwards/insane/ironic, and just having to accept it. Knowing we are only ever pushing forward and it isnt going to change so accepting that it is what it is.
yes exactly the words i was looking for
Eventually we are going to “progress” ourselves right over a cliff
The fragile sheen of apathy that covers it all up 😣
We really are out here all feeling the same way
@@Book_Dragon2562 with climate change because nobody in charge wants to deal with it we have 7 years left
We just had the Hottest Day in World History.
Three Days in a Row.
checking in just after xmas 23, same shit
We really all have gotten that funny feeling huh? A beautifully melancholic and peaceful way to connect with each other this way 🖤 Bo gets it so well
this song is incredible. easily one of my favorite bo songs ever
Ok its finally Here
ruclips.net/video/HlF0gkKINl0/видео.html
.
.
...
and they shit on the bible
That "funny feeling" seems to be a feeling that everyone has: a feeling that the world, that humanity, is headed in the wrong direction, and that no matter what you do you can't seem to change anything. So you sit here, in the quiet, comprehending the ending of it all. But hey, what can you say, we were overdue? But it'll be over soon, one way or another....
Yes.
Love that comment
I constantly ask myself if I’m just being a nihilist but… what else can you be?
Bold of you to assume that. Obviously all those who benefit greatly from the status quo think we're doing awesome. Sadly trying to change is akin to trying to alter the course of an oil tanker with a plastic oar. Not even COVID, the most traumatic event in 100 years did anything other than making all the already rich and powerful even more rich and powerful.
You wait, ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-da-da-da
For the last few days I've been unwell. No appetite, can't sleep, knots in my stomach...came to this channel to watch Can't Handle This because that's one of the things that helps me and clicked on this for the first time. Literally had it on a loop for 2 days basically. My view of the world isn't as bleak as this song, but I find it strangely comforting. So thank you Bo. :)
And again...that funny feeling.
Everybody focus on the lyrics, but I love how this song is engineered. It's so subtle it's easy to miss. It might sound like a 'guitar by bonfire', but there is so much of reverb, echo, key manipulation on some phrases or single notes. But it adds so much to the song. And even if you wouldn't know English you would feel a bit uneasy after listening to that because it is mastered that way.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2021 and listened to this song on repeat (along with Phoebe Bridger's version) throughout the process leading up to my double mastectomy. It's hard to find the words to articulate exactly why or how this song resonated so poignantly with me during that time. I guess maybe there was some morbid comfort in the reminder that we're all fucked.
♥️
Hope you're doing well
The line "the quite comprehension of the ending of it all" hits hard. For the past 2 years we've been in isolation to ourselves and feeling like the world is over, and with the current world crisis it feels like that 2021 March panic is back.
It’ll be over soon
From one Internet stranger to another, i hope you're ok.
This song is such a perfect depiction of depression. The whole special is, but especially this song. It perfectly encapsulates mindlessly scrolling through your phone with all of these random headlines popping up, none of them fully registering. Yet real thoughts also seem to creep in.
so maybe "that funny feeling" is the feeling of emptiness we feel when we leave our phones and are left alone with our thoughts.
That funny feeling is his anxiety of the things in the song and yes this special talks a lot about mental help but he even said he got help and got better so I think he is depicting how we all felt during the lockdown mixed with all the other political and media bs
@@ceciltuttle743 Bo is completely sane and describing the world with perfect clarity. Modern life is totally irrational and any sane man should have difficulty accepting it.
"We're all mad here."
"our great depression is our lives"
You think this is depression? It's so much worse than that...
whenever i come to this song to sing along, i always start crying. i think everyone feels it at "20,000 years of this, 7 more to go".
and also at "A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall"
but once he mentions "civil war", all of the nice, the bad, the confusing, painfully bleak, and heartbreaking start blending together.
and by the time the line about "the silent comprehending of the ending of it all" comes, i'm absolutely destroyed.
i love how much this song makes me feel. Bo is a true artist.
I feel like this should have won awards over “all eyes on me” but honestly the whole inside special is just unparalleled. In a time of disguise, misleading, and shallow world, bo brings something emotional, raw, genuine, and creative depth to unite people through music and comedy.
i can’t even explain how much joy his music gives me. Bo you’re amazing.
Ok its finally Here
ruclips.net/video/HlF0gkKINl0/видео.html
.a
.a.
Gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall
This line is legitimately my favourite from the entire special and its truly inspired.
Thank you Boseph Burnham.
Boseph 😭😂
im honestly bewildered that so few people are mentioning those lines in the comments when quoting the best from this song
There are so many lines from this special that give me chills every time
It's also my favorite line. That's what scares me the most when I go to school
@@__m-a-x__ sounds like something Saul Goodman would say
2 years later and this song just becomes more and more relevant…
''The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" fills me with so much quiet dread. Humanity's greatest achievement, and our greatest failing, all in one line. How the fuck did we get here?
I was rewatching inside today it's such a powerful piece of art
Same, it’s such an inspiration to me as I struggle with depression but it serves as a reminder to me that I’m not alone in my struggles.
"A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" is one of the most terrifying yet poetic lines ever written
Fr that one just hits hard
@Premiumboxingtips Predictions You're missing the point of the line. It's supposed to show how guns are so central to America that they now can have the purpose of stores yet are turning actual stores into a shooting range, swapping the roles. It's supposed to highlight the tragedy of how common gun violence is now.
There have been over 100 mass shootings this year, yet it's only 85 days into the year. There were 11 school shootings and at least 9 shootings at shopping centres. If that's not terrifying, what is?
@Premiumboxingtips Predictions Oh, what a surprise, a bit of actual research dismantles your narrative that you formed by twisting the stats to fit it. Exhibit A of why people from the UK don't deserve to be taken seriously when they want to comment on American culture. Or in general, really. lol
@@damkylan3 You do understand that your last line is very racist? Yeah that person is wrong, but why continue their negativity further? Just let it be.
@@amadax780 ah yes “British” my favourite race
Everyday we see and hear about things that are so sad, funny, hopeful, terrifying, ironic, depressing… I love that someone was able to take these feelings and put them into song.
3:33 Is such an underrated line it literally sums up the whole song in one line and does it so perfectly that most people don't notice and when they do it soothes them
This is the song that really showed how far Bo’s voice has come
100%, he sounds SO GOOD. Though some of his old songs were also really good vocally, like the country parody that I can't remember the name of right now.
Oh it's just "country song" lmao