the fact that half the comments are analyzing the meaning of the song and praising the artistry put into the video and the other half are Lord of the Rings quotes really shows how well Bo walks the line between comedy and serious introspective messages
"A [redacted] is never late." - Rosa Parks "They're taking the [redacted] to jail" - Malcolm in the Middle "One does not simply sit at the front of the bus" - Nelson Mandela
The way the lyrics are set up gives me the feeling that the POV character isn’t her, but rather some random person that found her Insta and decided to scroll through it. They’re skimming through, seeing all those images and rolling their eyes at them until they get to the mom photo. That’s the post they decide to select and read the caption of. It’s only when they bothered to take a closer look that they get a perspective shift, and when they go back to scrolling with that new context they see it all differently and they understand a little better.
I agree. First time hearing I thought oh she is like most seeking attention for no reason than just that attention. I've come to feel empathy for her. I assume from the visuals she lost both of her parents at 17. Either that or grew up without her dad as he died earlier in life. At 17 just when she thought her life was starting then also losing her mom. Imagine an orphan at 17 being asked are you ok over and over thru that time trying to show she was. That she was just like all the other girls her age. I hope she married had kids and realized she was in heaven with her family. She didn't need to prove it anymore.
I do think its about how all people are all materialist and tries to build the intersectionality of privilege. The theme is, this is a person who is also trapped inside.
I took it a different way. The heartfelt message to her mum is the first part of the Instagram feed that's genuine - hence the aspect ratio widening. She's allowing herself to be vulnerable. But then as soon as the character starts listing off her achievements again the aspect ratio closes in, it's no longer genuine. But maybe this just says more about me and my relationship with social media 🤷🏻♂️
The fact that the frame widens the moment she mentions her mom is dead, and starts to close back in when her monologue starts to become superficial again. Feels like she's putting the mask back on.
i think saying it's a mask it's reductive i guess, more than that it's just showing the person behind the phone. She's being genuine about what she likes to post but Instagram isn't a blog is more of a supercut of people's lifes
@@josierosie21 I agree with this interpretation. It's taking intimate aspects of a person's life and personality and putting them in the context of a perfect lens to see through. Bo did really well with that one moment, showing how despite "thousands of the same thing" online behind each one of those personas is a real person with real values and issues like everyone else. The special is a really terrifying double-take on the current age of online social culture.
You crack me up! I’m imagining the clips of him leading the march onto Birmingham and shouting to the demonstrators when the cops start to get rough. I mean, I know that’s making light of one of the most horrific episodes in the history of race relations… …but… …I’ve got a sincerely fucked up sense of humor.
One of the first lines is "a couple holding hands" and then in some of the lyrics and pictures from the middle of the song are describing and showing her decorating a house. "A coffee table made out of driftwood", the video of him covered in paint while painting a wall, him holding various decorations that she would potentially be putting in her house. I think that this song also describes her relationship developing from just casual dating to them moving in together to eventually a proposal with "and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves" Also I just cried a little at the realisation that she turned 27 during this song meaning she was only 17 when her mom died.
If this is from the perspective of somebody scrolling through someone's instagram, the first post would be the most recent, and it would go backwards in time from there. So the proposal was the earliest chronologically.
Yeah that’s what I always thought. This song is brilliant. It starts with what a stereotypical white woman would post, throwing shade at that while being funny before moving to this serious and somber reveal of character. Then you have the sprinklings of her relationship growing to marriage. Just a beautiful piece all together. As someone who lost their mom and that age it means a lot. I never watched the video until more recently to see the balloons but that makes it even sadder having lost both parents.
He is a film maker, after all. I think he understood that a while ago. His vision is exceptional, so I’m not surprised he can achieve spectacle in this way.
@@hidefdad6318 , quit trying to act like what you said made sense, it's embarrassing. Replying "that's how cinematography works" to the original comment is just dumb. If you just wanted to make the case that the specific shots here are simple, then you should have just started with that, not some odd conflation between cinematography, in general, and specifically solo projects. Whether you want you want to belittle it or condescend to people who are impressed by it, it was still a _very_ effective job of using "incredibly simple" shots to convey a message. "lol"
@@hidefdad6318 , thing is, your initial reply makes _you_ the one that felt somehow triggered by benign subjective praise. Why? Why was it that when you read the comment you felt compelled to take their image down a peg by inserting your own awkwardly presented subjectivity? And, yeah, it's still laughable to hear you try to make sense of your own thoughtless words, because you're still not comprehending that it's the compilation and execution being praised by most commenters here, not high technical skill, nor are you understanding how broad the term "cinematography" actually is, and how unfit your use of it was. I call dumb as I see it, my guy.
@@hidefdad6318 Hey, at least you were right about one thing. It is funny watching someone get offended. In this case, you. Irony can be so bittersweet~
This Comment is stolen from his Kanye rant and What does that to do with this video? This video is comedy not the heartbreaking stuff like the other songs
@@chuck4332 it does get kinda deep in the middle when he talks about the white lady posting about her mom. im not very good at explaining but other people in the replies to some comments worded it really well
@@babycakelings That what is on the surface. But he's actually pointing out how generic and shallow people have become because of the internet, by just copying the same stuff, styles, looks, and pictures they see online (usually just for attention), instead of doing and believing in things that are genuine, and expressing and discovering who they truly and uniquely are. (And that's why the screen opens up when he's doing the scene about talking about missing the mom, because that part is genuine. And then it narrows back to the instagram square when he goes back to talking about 'a goat cheese salad', because that's the same boring stuff that everyone posts). It's a commentary on the banality of society today, and a pretty harsh one.
This song really humbles you. You start off rolling your eyes if about all of the cliches, and then realize this is just a person who is going through life, just like you are. That they've experienced pain, and hardships and are just doing what they can to get by. You're not always privvy to what is going on behind closed doors in another persons life.
But there is also a feeling of dread after that where you wonder if this is genuine or just the second level of surface level you found. Kinda like how American idol squeezes artificial sympathy from you to keep you engaged. This of course is not an issue with the woman but rather shows how superficial the viewer is as we superficially stereotype her with negative thoughts based on info that shouldn't really affect how we think about her. And then when we are presented that sad fact we immediately sympathize with her despite not knowing in such a fake way. I think the song is to make people assess how much they should judge someone based of their persona which is interesting for the special as it is called inside and is primarily about understanding what Bo goes though in his mind.
Only if you're a hypocrite than can only bully people if they don't have anything bad happen to them in life. Life sucks for all of us get over it and make fun of people for doing stereotypical things, who cares if she lost her mom at 17 she isn't the only one to have had that happen that doesn't make her exempt from laughter and ridicule
@@tosutaaL take honestly “make fun of people for doing stereotypes” ironically you’re being a pretty stereotypical edgy kid here so we should make fun of you for that?
@@walnutyuh6456 my roommate explained it to me in the sense that its because he went as far to recreate all of the shots himself and put himself in the frame of the "generic white woman". If he hadn't, and just sang the song it would have had a different effect. Idk that's how they explained it to me.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” ― Frodo Baggins
I love that Bo tricks viewers into ONLY having sympathy for this hypothetical person _after_ the middle part of the song. While she's posting harmlessly happy pictures, she's a target for ridicule, but after she's an orphan, the tone of the viewers change. Almost like an episode of America's Got Talent lol. She's only relatable and worthy of people's understanding after we realize she's had to go through something terrible. I think it's clever that he makes fun of how superficial 'white women on Instagram' are, but also subtly exposes his entire RUclips audience for being pretentious and unsympathetic.
It's a good reminder that while yes, a LOT of stuff on social media is a bunch of random whatever, it's also populated by PEOPLE, living their lives and experiences and sharing them. And sometimes, those moments and genuinely and sincerely worthy of saving and documenting. Because human life has sole moments worth showing the world, like a mirror held up to our own humanity
You know it's called a reframing device right? It's used everywhere in storytelling, even in real world geopolitics as such when they wanted to reframe Ukraine with corrupt leaders to one with a heroic one.
That one genuine moment where she expresses real feelings and then it opens up, but quickly shifts back to just random shit again was so absolutely well done. The fact that he made this all himself is just incredible.
If you look closely, you’ll see the aspect ratio widen when that verse starts and then immediately shift back to the square frame when the random shit starts again.
I love how the character in the song is like a real person who has turned 27, lost her parents at 17, and got married and like shit... I hope she lives her best life
Yes! I also kind of morbidly love how he says “is this heaven” as he’s pointing at the 27 balloons, which is a famous age to die at. Anyways yes I love how he starts by just mocking the “white woman” and her Instagram, and the listener laughs about the superficiality of the fictitious subject, and then Bo completely humanizes her as someone who is real beyond her IG and has gone through pain and lost both of her parents when she was young. She feels like a real person, probably because there are many real people like that out there. It’s a really powerful moment in an otherwise comedic song, and I love how the aspect ratio changes from IG aspect ratio when he gets real about talking to her deceased mom. It’s like it’s saying that these people we see and roll our eyes at and might think are self-obsessed are also real people with pain and heartache too. I also hope she lives her best life!
@@Monique.Marceline That’s the beauty of this song. It criticizes how basic white girl Instagram pages are cliche, fake, and entirely doctored to try and show a perfect life. There’s very little truth behind those kinds of pages. That said, there is a person there, so the people who do nothing but spew hate about basic bitches on Instagram and actively attack the people who do it need to realize that the ones they are attacking are real people with real lives, real issues, and real pain. I personally have been guilty of this. I’ve criticized basic white girls on Instagram, and been fairly hostile at points because I saw the people AS the accounts. This song helped me realize that my actions may have seriously hurt some people. Bo showed me a different point of view with this song, and I hope to become a better person because of it. I still think those accounts are fake, unoriginal, and awful, but I am trying to no longer think of the people behind them as such.
Bro I’m so Anti social media. I didn’t even get those humanizing messages I thought she was just bragging about her success to her parents she’s to ‘busy’ to visit anymore but now I feel like the asshole 😔
"It's amazing how the song can spend 35 lines just listing fairly silly instagram aesthetic picture subjects and then in 10 lines give us a suddenly intimate glimpse of a woman who lost both her parents, implicitly recontextualizing the rest of the video as her trying to focus on things that make her happy. That's just an amazing amount of talent at lyrical narrative." just putting a comment I like here so I don't have to scroll forever to find it again
The thing that I like to keep in mind though, is that only maybe 2-3 of those things listed have even the slightest judgement applied to them by the song itself. Everything else listed being seen as puerile, trivial and worth being mocked is just our societies (almost all societies around the world) biases and tendency to default to mocking anything young women are into in that way. Bo and the song itself is largely non-judgemental regarding most of the things listed, the mockery comes from inside us.
I don’t know, I perceive it as seeking others approval by following the most generic trends you find on IG. The one moment of actual realism is talking about missing her mom, but then after a moment of self-reflection it goes back to seeking the approval of others. It’s quite literally the problem of social media today.
I thought this was a clever and funny take on stereotypical girl insta accounts, but then you realize that even the most mundane appearing people struggle and things like these is what makes them happy made me learn to let people have their fun with seemingly trivial things, if it makes them happy then its good and right
That’s the whole point. The song is a commentary on how social media distracts us from what’s important. An Instagram page is filled with silly, meaningless pictures but sprinkled in between is the occasional heartfelt post that is actually a piece of reality. Everything else is fake, but you get a small taste of the real world and the real person in the photos. But the entire experience is heavily altered to make everything see better. It’s all fake. Hence “is this heaven? Or is it a white womens instagram?” Everything has been altered to make it seem like heaven.
I miss my mom so bad. It has literally been two decades since my mom has passed away. I was 13. I am getting married next month and this honestly hit me in the gut.
A half remembered "comedians" video about white womens instagram photos has you remembering your mothers death?? Fuck me, sounds like some introspective thought would do you well.
@@destinybarron8946 chill out. Nobody was asking for your life story. Sorry about your parents but I lost mine too and if you think guilting people in the RUclips comments section is gonna do squat you are prolly the person this video was made about.
@@mariahpohl8040 no one is guilting anyone lol. At least I don't have a shitty attitude or outlook like yourself. I was just informing because people take things for granted, I know when it's my time I'll be back with them. So I'm not sure what your comment was for, what do you gain? I bet your parents would be proud honey 🤣
@@destinybarron8946 I'm sorry, but Mariah isn't the one with the shitty attitude... Get off your high horse and stop virtue signaling. If you want to share your experience, fine. You don't have to do it in such a nasty and self righteous way though.
The balloons @ 1:47 also give an indication that the white woman who operates the Instagram in question is not much older than 27. We can infer that her mom died when she was 17-ish, on the cusp of adulthood and the new challenges and triumphs that come with it. The second half of the song could be interpreted as an indictment of people (like me) who scoff and jeer at the stereotypical "white woman's Instagram" as being created by someone who is vapid and soulless. The content certainly gives the indication of those things but it's a leap to assume that the person behind the account is entirely captured by this representation. Social media allows us to expand the facade of how we present ourselves to others to include idealized moments and constructed situations, leading observers to assume that our entire life is charmed and easy. However, it's important to remember that this facade is a lie we tell to other people, not only for our own benefit, but for the comfort of others. How often do we not disclose our thoughts to avoid people getting "weirded out", feeling depressed, misinterpreting our words, or shading their view of us with their own meaning? This cliche of a "white woman's Instagram" might be a reflection of our own expectations for what a "white woman" should be. Attractive but not beautiful ("fake"/"plastic"). Well-read but not smart ("bossy"/"a bitch"). Aware but not too "woke" ("bleeding heart"/"SJW"). Happy but sad enough to be relatable ("a mess"/"falling a part"). Quirky but not esoteric ("weirdo"). It's less about avoiding the criticism of others and more about avoiding criticism from the internalized "other", the super ego. But Bo says all that in four minutes six seconds so he definitely wins.
haha hes taking the piss about a girl posting a message to her dead mother on instagram. shes putting it on instagram to look for attention and is actually just bragging about her life to her followers if you listen to the words.like why would she write a message to her on instagram!? haha Bo is a genius. he captures all the Instagram vullshit perfectly in that song.
there are so many parts of this that are beyond awesome. obviously the incredible songwriting, the relentlessly perfect frames. but there are also so many little details. i love the bridge and then the epic harmonies coming out of it into "goat cheese salad, back lit hammock". THEN the topper is the perfectly in-key church bells when he says "three little words, a couple of doves, a ring on her finger from the person that she loves". this song is a masterclass of don't judge a book by its cover.
@@louisrios5546 I think the joke was that her parents aren't dead, the sentence 'give a hug and kiss to dad' implied to me that she just moved out and she probably still gets financial help from her parents or something, that was my interpretation at least
The tonal shift of "let's point out how basic people are and make fun of them" to "oh shit these are real people with complex histories and they maybe posting all this for validation they can no longer get from their parents" is phenomenal
But because you don’t have a checkmark next to your name your opinion doesn’t matter and won’t be publicized. Good work on being one of the few who understand it though.
@@Gormfork except that’s not it at all. He shows how it’s bullshit by shifting the aspect ration to “oh this is real” to “oops so close but no keep fishing for likes”
I read it more as how folks hide behind images of happiness and perfection on their social media while dealing with real feelings of loss or sadness that aren't allowed because they would break that facade. This is why I think these songs have so much depth, a lot to unpack there.
@@jerrytruckn I don’t think it’s bullshit. You are viewing this as someone scrolling through the girl’s feed. You get a glimpse into this persons struggles and then keep scrolling back to the basic posts. She’s not just posting the message for likes, it’s supposed to be taken as sincere, but as someone scrolling through an Instagram feed you are only getting snippets of this persons life not the whole picture.
Every few months I'll watch this for a chuckle, and every single time I forget about the bridge and need to sob for a while after it hits like a train. It maps onto me just about perfectly - I lost my mom at 21 (and my stepdad at 13), she was such a huge part of my life it took years to start to comprehend how to live without, and now I have an apartment, a fun job, and an incredible relationship, none of which she ever got to see. I don't personally believe either of them is still out there anywhere, but I miss them constantly, and I hope they're proud if they can be.
The thing I love the most about this (aside from the insanely talented photography) is the aspect ratio change at 2:30 - 2:43. It goes from the Instagram phone screen when the messaging is solely performative for the world, then suddenly widens as the woman opens up about something that is truly honest and painful, before narrowing back in as the message becomes more for the public gaze. It really shows how unhealthy our relationship with social media can be in expressing ourselves.
As someone who has now lost both my parents by 35... this song hits way too fucking hard in the middle. We're all just trying so hard to find the joy and share it with others.
Maybe don't try to find the joy in a c list celebrities song? Maybe have some inward thoughts that are your own? No? Ok, can't expect the world over to understand simple concepts.
@antoniasinfield1762 yeah, I wasn't bothered it's clearly not about me. They didn't understand my comment anyway. I was saying how the character in the song is exemplifying how we're all trying to find the joy. She's grieving, but maybe the latte or the fall scene or whatever other small pleasure is just enough to get her through the day 🤗 Hope you found some joy today ❤️
Okay, okay, I'm down in the comments to see how people are talking about the emotional part of the song, tearing up a bit and peoples stories, then this. Take my like
I think it's really beautiful that although this woman has a lot of sadness inside of her, she still finds joy in her instagram posts. It teaches us that our criticisms aren't always justified, and sometimes things that seem stupid to others can be really important to someone else.
One thing that really stuck with me when watching this as part of ‘Inside’ is that before this skit he was talking about what comedy is and he had a whiteboard where it was written that making fun of someone in a negative way wasn’t comedy. After this skit, there is a shot from afar where he is watching this video, sitting in the dark, and in the foreground the whiteboard is once again present with the message. I interpreted this as him disliking what comedy has become, yet inevitably doing it because it is what he will benefit from. It really reminded me of ‘Art is Dead’, and how he feels trapped in this corporate version of comedy yet has to continue or else he will be worthless. Very powerful message
Wow, I've watched Inside a few times now and I didn't fully understand that scene until now. I read that scene as him being generally unsatisfied with his comedy, but I missed that broader context. I'm glad you pointed that out, I'll definitely be looking for that next time
Obviously a lot of this special is about our relationship with technology in the modern world. He takes a balanced approach though, in my opinion, as while the majority of this song is tongue-in-cheek, the poignancy of posting about missing one's dead mom captures that small bit of connection we have online that is genuine. It's really interesting how he zooms in and out during that section of the song, in a way showing a broader and more complete view of the self before zooming back in and going back to singing about trite posts.
wait thats a really good take on this!! because of how intricate and well done the sets are where u can truly see how much time was put into it i took it as bo calling out how men will make fun of women and mock them in these ways as they its the only chance they have lots of the time to express femininity.
Absolutely love that as our perspective of the person changes, the camera widens to signify the importance of it, as it literally broadens our perspective on who they are.
It's amazing how the song can spend 35 lines just listing fairly silly instagram aesthetic picture subjects and then in 10 lines give us a suddenly intimate glimpse of a woman who lost both her parents, implicitly recontextualizing the rest of the video as her trying to focus on things that make her happy. That's just an amazing amount of talent at lyrical narrative.
For me this song is at surface-level making fun of Instagram and "basic bitches" but then 1cm underneath is a really powerful story of self care, little rituals of self love and finding joy in little things that all make a really sympathetic and wholesome character out of our "white woman" and her Instagram, with everything she's worked for in order to have this silly fluffy cute Instagram.
@@margheritamiceli8940 Evidence for the interpretation? Because the white woman says the mother's been "gone" a decade and says she's "still figuring out how to keep living without [her]." And she specifically says "it's been a decade since *you've* been gone," which means the separation wasn't because the white woman grew up and left home, because it was the mother who went. And since the language discussing the mother is loving, the lyrics don't support the idea that her mother's alive and they just don't talk. Which, for me, given how people discuss death and loss in our day, means the most immediate interpretation is that her mother's dead, and subsequently implies the father is too. What lyrics do you see as suggesting that the parents aren't dead?
@@AlashiaTuol It's Bo Burnham, that's how people know it's part of the joke. Is this your first time listening to his music? He's a comedian. This whole song is a joke, and not joke -> serious time -> joke. On top of that, someone can be "gone" without being dead, and to "keep living without" makes complete sense in that context. Have you been living with your parents your whole life? Perhaps you cannot yet understand this. The screen widens to make you think she's finally talking about something real, then starts to close in again when you realize white girl just being white girl again. Overdramatic for the sake of attention. Your "proof" is merely interpretation and not at all proof. If "INSIDE" was your first time listening to Bo, then I suggest you familiarize yourself because your interpretation is not at all BB, but definitely a BB move to make you think that way. You are a perfect example of the kind of person the joke was meant for.
This song starts out like a commonplace mockery of women depicting them as superficial, dumb, boring, self-important, etc. Then it takes a surprising turn in the middle where it gets revealed that the "white woman" we laughed about is actually a three-dimensional human being who experiences pain and struggles too, and we realize that her Instagram, however unoriginal it is, is the record of her trying to live her life to the fullest.
It is not about women. 🥴 It is about narcissistic women bolstering their ego on instagram. 😆 Who the fuck says it is the same woman? 🤨 It a different level of stupidity but still stupidity. The great thing about his songs, you can read into it whatever you like, no matter who you are. From based chad to professional victim and feminazi. 😜
@@Scribe13013 Seriously. Get these pros off the board. No wonder Bo acts the way he does + a litany of other mental health issues. Of which I'm very sympathetic, as we suffer nearly identical types of anxieties, it would seem.
What makes this song so perfect is the fact that we *know* Bo is stuck in a room, one of the most "miserable" situations he could be in, yet showing "how great his life is" with pictures.
"Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves." That line makes me smile. It's so nice to hear. Especially after the part where she's posting about her mother. This song is hilarious, sad, and really nice. :)
This is why bo is a one of a kind artist. He gives you lots of laughs but he also wants you to know the deeper meaning behind his songs and I feel for him. And I can't think of anyone that could do all this in their room by themselves
He really is extremely talented and intelligent. I think more and more people are waking up to messages like this and all the lies that are pushed on us.
It’s still kind of hate. Hate for what it is doing. But then again, a lot is hated for this kind of stuff. Hell, right after this, Bo points the finger back at himself.
@@moonmoon2479 i mean...i am a white woman with an instagram and i didnt find anything hateful. It was kinda accurately funny 😂. He never said those were bad things
@@vickytsak2285 I think the point of the video is that much of a "White woman's Instagram" is superficial. The part where he talks about his dead mom and the aspect ratio breaks away from the Instagram ratio supports this. The video isn't hateful, but definitely a criticism, not of the women or people on Instagram, but of Instagram itself.
Most of the song is (kinda accurately) describing the stereotype of a basic white girl and the sometimes superficial/naive/pointless things they post, and that part reminds us that basic white girls are just.. people too. Maybe alongside posting superficial stuff on Internet they're also dealing with trauma. Maybe more than me or you have ever dealt with, and maybe they're doing a better job it at dealing with it. "Don;t judge a book by its cover" and all that jazz.
When he talks about the girl who lost her mom I feel like he’s saying even though he’s joking about “a white woman’s instagram” he still acknowledges they’re all human beings going through real things even if at times they’re not being genuine through the internet. Bo is such a genius
I interpreted it as a commentary of how we are expected to grieve publicly on the same platforms where we cultivate a persona of a certain type of life - ie a deeply personal and sad post followed by a goat cheese salad.
I just took it as this song is what it feels like to scroll through an instagram page and how jarring/out of place it is to go from Latte Foam Art to Memorial to Goat Cheese Salad
@@baileyrogers4055 I think that's part of it. You scroll through, it's banal stuff pretending like life is perfect but then you get a glimpse of the human behind the Instagram. That's when our frame opens wider to see more of her, then it's back to the same old stuff. But if you notice, after that, it sounds like she does find happiness - she quits pretending after she gets engaged to the person that she loves, and then it becomes a legitimate question: Is this heaven?
@@stanleyburke3533 well he wasn't exactly saying we should cut it down, all he did was raising attention around what the internet is doing, but that one specific scene from the special he says maybe its a bad idea.
The artistic shots and self harmony is amazing. Not to mention the talent to create the lyrics and music by himself. Truly amazing. His whole inside movie is the same, but this one gets me most woth his color saturation, artistic shots and how much it *feels* like a white woman's instagram
i unironically cried at the middle verse about her mom, like it's so cliché and so true at the same time. i love bo burnham for making us laugh and cry at the same time
It’s only “cliche” because profound grief is something we all end up experiencing but there aren’t words enough to express the enormity of our emotions.
Okay I read between the lines obsessively, but I love when he starts talking about her mum the typical Instagram borders pull back to show that they’re real people with emotions and they’re not always gonna be who they present as online! A lovely touch!
I totally agree! and idk if this is a stretch or not but I can't stop thinking about how perfectly he captures the essence of "white women on Instagram"-posts in a room that we know, from shots before and after this song, is really bland and at times messy and chaotic. idk, I just feel like that emphasizes that absolutely anyone can "fake" this perfect social media life. and keeping that in mind during the song, how the rest of the room probably looked like during these shots, makes it so much more real and relatable.
And the borders zoom back in after her moment of realness when she slides back into performative vulnerability again. There’s so many subtle details, I love this so much.
The verse where he describes a woman who has lost both her parents made me tear up instantly. I was laughing hard before that, but that moment was really so special. Bo Burnham is genuinely talented.
Then goes right into "A goat cheese SAAAALAAAd", just like most people do on their profiles. Emotions are so spliced together unnaturally online like that. That's what i get out of that verse anyways, the sharp contrast snap back to the cheesey pics.
@@yours12342 I guess that it's because you live and if you choose to you upload different moments to your feed, but all those moments are together without anything to mark the real pass or time beside the little date thing that you probably won't see if you aren't looking for it. So that's why it could look so weird when you see it all together, almost like it's simultaneous when in real life it was not. Also, humans are emotional and can feel a wide range of things in short periods of time, so there that to consider too, haha. Nice day/night 'nd life!
I love how literally everyone in this thread misunderstood that part of the song. He is making fun of a person claiming that her mom had been "gone" only to then reveal that she was alive by saying "give a hug and kiss to dad" Ya'll motherfuckers are retarded
this song really fits the part of being in a musical about quarantine, we spend so much time judging people for the things they post and being so vain as to mock them for being basic. This song really made me sit back and realize that everyone is a person with countless emotions and feelings with stories I've never heard... its beautiful
This song makes me cry. My mom had a Pinterest and always filled it with cute images.. but she had a really rough life and she was always so brave.. and it just so happens i try to be optimistic and a light in the dark too.. but now she's gone and its so much harder to be that way now. I can't hide the pain like she could. I miss her so much.
Grief is normal, and it's healthy to process that grief. Unfortunately, some people might have more or less flexibility in how they are able to process their grief, but try not to let the hardships of life prevent you from doing what's best for you. Easier said than done, of course.. but do it on your terms.
This is the most Bo-ish song from back in the day when he'd just satirize something silly and probably the most heartfelt part of the show when he talks about the girl missing her parents. He can still point out something's over-performative in the most accurate way but see the underlining pain and beauty in everyone's lives What an evolution. Our boy's all grown up now
Unfortunately that was the point of this project, seeing an already mentally ill man go literally insane and struggle to keep his head above water during the pandemic. The best “comedy special” there will ever be
My mom died when I was 2 and I had an abusive, drugged and drunk dad up until I was 8. I did move to a better home, but I cried during the part about the moms death. I'm still here, at 3:05 am, crying alone. Thank you, Bo.
Is it bad that I feel inspired to do IG photoshoots from this video making fun of IG photoshoots?? :P His styling, lighting and framing are all so good!
@@allisonheath1156 embrace the white woman's instagram aesthetic! lots of these shots are so popular on the internet *because* they look so good. bo looks incredible in these and so i'm sure you would too
I love that when the the song starts to tell about the woman’s loss of her family, the ratio of the video is no longer 1:1. It visually shows that she’s being vulnerable and is telling things about her life that’s no longer “for the gram”.
In the context of the whole special he is DEFINITELY still commentating on the commodification and social mediarization or close relatives dying by posting about it online.
I don't know what's more impressive, the fact that I've seen literally every single thing in this on white women's Instagrams, or that a giant 30 year old man with a beard is so good at acting that he is actually able to look exactly like a white woman having fun in her 20s
Let us also appreciate that when she starts talking about her mom - the frame literally expands from a narrow view to a more full, broad one of her rather than the instagram phone ratio the rest of the video is shot in
@@nickhopwood4233 I sort of see it that way too, but more of just an interesting juxtaposition of a very personal and very real life post on a platform that’s otherwise full of inane clichés and kitschy pictures. It’s maybe less of a trope and more of just something you will find on pretty much every social media platform - that juxtaposition.
@@nickhopwood4233 it definitely is. That’s the weirdest part of the whole concept of the industrial movement that instagram has become. Women sell this idea of their lives, occasionally pause to show a real moment of a real life, and then resume the image they’re working to maintain. I have friends who plan their life choices around the posts they’re going to make. Weddings are centered around Instagram aesthetics. Average people have 10k followers for what? They don’t know you. They never knew your mom. So of course you’re not going to open your heart to thousands of strangers. Not if you’re really hurting in that exact moment. Not honestly. Few things sting like being honest and thousands of people rejecting you for it by scrolling past. So you go back to goat cheese salad. You know?
I wish I could appreciate it to the utmost. Half of his jokes go over me, because I have never been to America. I can see that there are subtle details, but i don't get them.
The images in the video are all so damn precise, but wow he *NAILED* 1:27… the coat with the fake fur fringe, the over-exposure already against a white background, the expression especially the eyes & how they seem to be colored *extra* bright… just perfect. I remember every girl either having or wanting a photo like that in the early to mid 2010s especially & at one point I was forced into position of photographer to take such photos for a precious friend who definitely had a White Woman’s Facebook, including the dedication to her mum- not as she died but as her mum inspired (i.e. *forced* her) her degree in gynecology…. :/ fun…
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"may contain WINE"
bo's got this shit down to a science
This got me dying
I don't get it
My mom has that shirt lmao
@@sadisadra It's just a basic white women thing, they like wine and bragging about how much they like wine. Live Laugh Love!
@@aarav_sharma no lol its a joke about how white women stereotypically love wine
the fact that half the comments are analyzing the meaning of the song and praising the artistry put into the video and the other half are Lord of the Rings quotes really shows how well Bo walks the line between comedy and serious introspective messages
yesss!
yess!
yes!
ye!
y!
"They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard"
- Martin Luther King
You just winmed the internet! What a throwback!
"A [redacted] is never late." - Rosa Parks
"They're taking the [redacted] to jail" - Malcolm in the Middle
"One does not simply sit at the front of the bus" - Nelson Mandela
What did you say?
Legend.
"Gondor calls for aid!"
*MLK stands up heroically*
"And Rohan shall answer!"
The way the lyrics are set up gives me the feeling that the POV character isn’t her, but rather some random person that found her Insta and decided to scroll through it. They’re skimming through, seeing all those images and rolling their eyes at them until they get to the mom photo. That’s the post they decide to select and read the caption of. It’s only when they bothered to take a closer look that they get a perspective shift, and when they go back to scrolling with that new context they see it all differently and they understand a little better.
I agree. First time hearing I thought oh she is like most seeking attention for no reason than just that attention. I've come to feel empathy for her. I assume from the visuals she lost both of her parents at 17. Either that or grew up without her dad as he died earlier in life. At 17 just when she thought her life was starting then also losing her mom. Imagine an orphan at 17 being asked are you ok over and over thru that time trying to show she was. That she was just like all the other girls her age. I hope she married had kids and realized she was in heaven with her family. She didn't need to prove it anymore.
Omggg smart
You win the internet three months ago🤯🍻
Or it's legit just on every white woman's Instagram.
This is exactly what I felt the first time I heard this music, put into words beautifully.
Bo Burnham does this thing where he ridicules someone and instantly challenges you for feeling superior.
Yeah, really slaps you out of the trance
This. This is what I wanted to say but couldn't find the words for.
That is beautifully put 🙀😭😻 spot on 🤘
I do think its about how all people are all materialist and tries to build the intersectionality of privilege. The theme is, this is a person who is also trapped inside.
I took it a different way. The heartfelt message to her mum is the first part of the Instagram feed that's genuine - hence the aspect ratio widening. She's allowing herself to be vulnerable.
But then as soon as the character starts listing off her achievements again the aspect ratio closes in, it's no longer genuine.
But maybe this just says more about me and my relationship with social media 🤷🏻♂️
The fact that the frame widens the moment she mentions her mom is dead, and starts to close back in when her monologue starts to become superficial again. Feels like she's putting the mask back on.
As it widens, you can see how messy the room actually is too, that its not "perfect". Bo is a true craftsman
i think saying it's a mask it's reductive i guess, more than that it's just showing the person behind the phone. She's being genuine about what she likes to post but Instagram isn't a blog is more of a supercut of people's lifes
@@josierosie21 I agree with this interpretation. It's taking intimate aspects of a person's life and personality and putting them in the context of a perfect lens to see through. Bo did really well with that one moment, showing how despite "thousands of the same thing" online behind each one of those personas is a real person with real values and issues like everyone else.
The special is a really terrifying double-take on the current age of online social culture.
#Deep
@@Whywhywhyok wonderful
*“A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.”* -Martin Luther King Jr.
😂🤣
He was probably talking about a KKK wizard
**chef’s kiss**
"That still only counts as one" - FBI to the CIA 4th april 1968
@@thesiege6003 *spit take*
I love/hate that when I listen to this song I'm always tearing up as 'goat cheese salad' rings out angelically
OMG SAME! Every. Freakin. Time.
SAME
Goddamn I'm always tearing up and laughing at this part as well.
It’s funny that it has this genuinely touching part
so true 🥲
"Fly, you fools!"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
oh i like this one
👏
You crack me up!
I’m imagining the clips of him leading the march onto Birmingham and shouting to the demonstrators when the cops start to get rough.
I mean, I know that’s making light of one of the most horrific episodes in the history of race relations…
…but…
…I’ve got a sincerely fucked up sense of humor.
Of course, thinking about that time reminds us that Dr. King didn’t just talk the talk … he walked the walk.
"xD"
- Grigori Rasputin
“I can’t grow a beard, that is not ironic, that is just sad.” He lied.
The Jake Peralta move (whom probably copied it from Bo Burnham)
a lot of people aren't able to grow beards until their late 20's/early 30's.
Lol
He has had 5 years to work on it.
@@brunosanchez3427 I'm 31 and have bald cheeks the pain is real
how it stops being an instagram aspect ratio when the message is genuine and not performative, cheff kiss.
I love it when filmmakers use the Aspect Ratio to earnestly show us that there should be a shift in our perspective
He’s brilliant isn’t he.
GENIUS
I didn’t notice that until you pointed it out but I sure felt it
Even when it shifts to genuine emotion exhibited through the ratio change, it's just as easily perceived as part of a performance. Such a good special
One of the first lines is "a couple holding hands" and then in some of the lyrics and pictures from the middle of the song are describing and showing her decorating a house. "A coffee table made out of driftwood", the video of him covered in paint while painting a wall, him holding various decorations that she would potentially be putting in her house. I think that this song also describes her relationship developing from just casual dating to them moving in together to eventually a proposal with "and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves"
Also I just cried a little at the realisation that she turned 27 during this song meaning she was only 17 when her mom died.
If this is from the perspective of somebody scrolling through someone's instagram, the first post would be the most recent, and it would go backwards in time from there. So the proposal was the earliest chronologically.
@@franciswalton7102 so painting the walls white, is to prep the house for sale? The story tells differently if you reverse the chronology.
@@franciswalton7102we could be scrolling up, or it could be her story. Instagram **stories** are oldest first, so that could be one option
Yeah that’s what I always thought. This song is brilliant. It starts with what a stereotypical white woman would post, throwing shade at that while being funny before moving to this serious and somber reveal of character. Then you have the sprinklings of her relationship growing to marriage. Just a beautiful piece all together.
As someone who lost their mom and that age it means a lot. I never watched the video until more recently to see the balloons but that makes it even sadder having lost both parents.
Every scene in this song is of some semi-famous picture
Let’s be honest most of those pictures looked unironically fantastic and were extremely well done
Right like where are these filters and the angles are amazing. My insta could never
YES
I think your profile pic fits perfectly with your comment
True. All very accurate to how you'd find them in the wild too.
He is a film maker, after all. I think he understood that a while ago. His vision is exceptional, so I’m not surprised he can achieve spectacle in this way.
The fact that this cinematography is made in one room by one person in insane
@@hidefdad6318 let’s see your 4 day shoot then
@@hidefdad6318 , quit trying to act like what you said made sense, it's embarrassing. Replying "that's how cinematography works" to the original comment is just dumb. If you just wanted to make the case that the specific shots here are simple, then you should have just started with that, not some odd conflation between cinematography, in general, and specifically solo projects. Whether you want you want to belittle it or condescend to people who are impressed by it, it was still a _very_ effective job of using "incredibly simple" shots to convey a message. "lol"
@@hidefdad6318 , thing is, your initial reply makes _you_ the one that felt somehow triggered by benign subjective praise. Why? Why was it that when you read the comment you felt compelled to take their image down a peg by inserting your own awkwardly presented subjectivity?
And, yeah, it's still laughable to hear you try to make sense of your own thoughtless words, because you're still not comprehending that it's the compilation and execution being praised by most commenters here, not high technical skill, nor are you understanding how broad the term "cinematography" actually is, and how unfit your use of it was. I call dumb as I see it, my guy.
@@hidefdad6318 Is it fun embarrassing yourself on the internet?
@@hidefdad6318 Hey, at least you were right about one thing. It is funny watching someone get offended. In this case, you. Irony can be so bittersweet~
This is what he does. He lures you in with humor and then goes to the deeply hidden and often painful topics.He makes you feel less alone.
This whole special hurt me to my core as a 32 year old who grew up without the internet and then became consumed by it.
This Comment is stolen from his Kanye rant and What does that to do with this video? This video is comedy not the heartbreaking stuff like the other songs
@@chuck4332 it does get kinda deep in the middle when he talks about the white lady posting about her mom. im not very good at explaining but other people in the replies to some comments worded it really well
@@LenaHokanson oh, i thougt that was supposed to be funny...
That part almost made me cry. My mom's mom passed away quite a while ago. I miss my grandma. ;-;
2:50 Your little girl didn't do too bad.
Gosh this line is gold.
1. Sit down
2. Try not to cry
3. Cry a lot
E
I almost cried tbh
He manages to be satirical and still show empathy and do it without being overtly mean or condescending.
Just a good human with immense talent.
I think he's actually pretty mean (in a good/dark way). Most people are just too distracted by the pretty face and surface visuals.
@@andybaldman he's honest.
@@andybaldman what part of this is mean? I mean he never says anything to say this is bad, it’s jus5 a joke based on how many have this
@@babycakelings That what is on the surface. But he's actually pointing out how generic and shallow people have become because of the internet, by just copying the same stuff, styles, looks, and pictures they see online (usually just for attention), instead of doing and believing in things that are genuine, and expressing and discovering who they truly and uniquely are. (And that's why the screen opens up when he's doing the scene about talking about missing the mom, because that part is genuine. And then it narrows back to the instagram square when he goes back to talking about 'a goat cheese salad', because that's the same boring stuff that everyone posts). It's a commentary on the banality of society today, and a pretty harsh one.
@@andybaldman yeah but that’s not mean, it’s no where near mean. It’s just the truth and it’s not even a mean truth. It’s just facts
Outside the obvious sad part, I'm glad this fictional woman has gone from meeting a guy, to falling in love, to getting engaged by the end of the song
I’m glad she got a goat cheese salad
@@coreynik5369 yeah same
@@danksanchez4324 what???
And then marrying him, cheating on him, then taking him through court to get half of his money for nearly 2 decades.
Beautiful modern story
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 Found the incel
This song really humbles you. You start off rolling your eyes if about all of the cliches, and then realize this is just a person who is going through life, just like you are. That they've experienced pain, and hardships and are just doing what they can to get by. You're not always privvy to what is going on behind closed doors in another persons life.
But there is also a feeling of dread after that where you wonder if this is genuine or just the second level of surface level you found. Kinda like how American idol squeezes artificial sympathy from you to keep you engaged.
This of course is not an issue with the woman but rather shows how superficial the viewer is as we superficially stereotype her with negative thoughts based on info that shouldn't really affect how we think about her. And then when we are presented that sad fact we immediately sympathize with her despite not knowing in such a fake way.
I think the song is to make people assess how much they should judge someone based of their persona which is interesting for the special as it is called inside and is primarily about understanding what Bo goes though in his mind.
Only if you're a hypocrite than can only bully people if they don't have anything bad happen to them in life. Life sucks for all of us get over it and make fun of people for doing stereotypical things, who cares if she lost her mom at 17 she isn't the only one to have had that happen that doesn't make her exempt from laughter and ridicule
@@tosutaaL take honestly “make fun of people for doing stereotypes” ironically you’re being a pretty stereotypical edgy kid here so we should make fun of you for that?
The way the frame expands when she has a moment of honest vulnerability. It's just SO good.
Absolutely. My first watch I didn’t even notice. Now I can’t take my eyes off it every time. Clever editing there.
There's literally not one moment in the entire special that isn't perfectly crafted, I just don't get how he's so fucking **good**
That's... normal cinematography? Don't get me wrong it's good ,but, is quite common
@@joekreissl4499 You aren't wrong! I still love it though.
@@joekreissl4499 normal doesnt mean it shouldn't be appreciated though, you can look at a normal sunset and be like "damn that's a cool sunset"
It's crazy how accurate all of these shots are. Seen every single one on Instagram at one point or another
You saw bo burnham holding a pillow on Instagram?
@@walnutyuh6456 nothing he says in this is really negative and he humanizes the subject halfway through the song
@@walnutyuh6456 how can you cancel someone who is more critical of himself than we could ever be.
@@walnutyuh6456 my roommate explained it to me in the sense that its because he went as far to recreate all of the shots himself and put himself in the frame of the "generic white woman". If he hadn't, and just sang the song it would have had a different effect. Idk that's how they explained it to me.
Yes!
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” ― Frodo Baggins
Love it!!!
Oh how the turntables...
HAHA AMAZING
Some random quote from Martin Luther king incorrectly attributed to Lord of the rings
I think you incorrectly attributed there, that sounds far more like Sam Gamdschie!
I love that Bo tricks viewers into ONLY having sympathy for this hypothetical person _after_ the middle part of the song. While she's posting harmlessly happy pictures, she's a target for ridicule, but after she's an orphan, the tone of the viewers change. Almost like an episode of America's Got Talent lol.
She's only relatable and worthy of people's understanding after we realize she's had to go through something terrible. I think it's clever that he makes fun of how superficial 'white women on Instagram' are, but also subtly exposes his entire RUclips audience for being pretentious and unsympathetic.
I think you put it into words really well.
Ive never denied being a piece of shit. But even turds can weep.
It's a good reminder that while yes, a LOT of stuff on social media is a bunch of random whatever, it's also populated by PEOPLE, living their lives and experiences and sharing them. And sometimes, those moments and genuinely and sincerely worthy of saving and documenting. Because human life has sole moments worth showing the world, like a mirror held up to our own humanity
You know it's called a reframing device right?
It's used everywhere in storytelling, even in real world geopolitics as such when they wanted to reframe Ukraine with corrupt leaders to one with a heroic one.
"The problem is you"
I think Bo just wanted an excuse to take all these cute pics. Respect.
The amount of work for every frame!
for sure
100%
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I mean, he nailed all of them. The whole song is spot on!
That one genuine moment where she expresses real feelings and then it opens up, but quickly shifts back to just random shit again was so absolutely well done. The fact that he made this all himself is just incredible.
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I agree, so well done, I was almost tearing up at how real it suddenly became
If you look closely, you’ll see the aspect ratio widen when that verse starts and then immediately shift back to the square frame when the random shit starts again.
The moment a man realises that she’s not shallow, just coping
I love how the character in the song is like a real person who has turned 27, lost her parents at 17, and got married and like shit... I hope she lives her best life
Yes! I also kind of morbidly love how he says “is this heaven” as he’s pointing at the 27 balloons, which is a famous age to die at.
Anyways yes I love how he starts by just mocking the “white woman” and her Instagram, and the listener laughs about the superficiality of the fictitious subject, and then Bo completely humanizes her as someone who is real beyond her IG and has gone through pain and lost both of her parents when she was young. She feels like a real person, probably because there are many real people like that out there. It’s a really powerful moment in an otherwise comedic song, and I love how the aspect ratio changes from IG aspect ratio when he gets real about talking to her deceased mom. It’s like it’s saying that these people we see and roll our eyes at and might think are self-obsessed are also real people with pain and heartache too. I also hope she lives her best life!
The parent part was genuely heartbreaking
@@Monique.Marceline That’s the beauty of this song. It criticizes how basic white girl Instagram pages are cliche, fake, and entirely doctored to try and show a perfect life. There’s very little truth behind those kinds of pages. That said, there is a person there, so the people who do nothing but spew hate about basic bitches on Instagram and actively attack the people who do it need to realize that the ones they are attacking are real people with real lives, real issues, and real pain. I personally have been guilty of this. I’ve criticized basic white girls on Instagram, and been fairly hostile at points because I saw the people AS the accounts. This song helped me realize that my actions may have seriously hurt some people. Bo showed me a different point of view with this song, and I hope to become a better person because of it. I still think those accounts are fake, unoriginal, and awful, but I am trying to no longer think of the people behind them as such.
Bro I’m so Anti social media. I didn’t even get those humanizing messages I thought she was just bragging about her success to her parents she’s to ‘busy’ to visit anymore but now I feel like the asshole 😔
@@letsgetbetterfrank6152 damn. You might be the asshole on this one mate. Better luck next time :(
"It's amazing how the song can spend 35 lines just listing fairly silly instagram aesthetic picture subjects and then in 10 lines give us a suddenly intimate glimpse of a woman who lost both her parents, implicitly recontextualizing the rest of the video as her trying to focus on things that make her happy. That's just an amazing amount of talent at lyrical narrative." just putting a comment I like here so I don't have to scroll forever to find it again
The thing that I like to keep in mind though, is that only maybe 2-3 of those things listed have even the slightest judgement applied to them by the song itself. Everything else listed being seen as puerile, trivial and worth being mocked is just our societies (almost all societies around the world) biases and tendency to default to mocking anything young women are into in that way.
Bo and the song itself is largely non-judgemental regarding most of the things listed, the mockery comes from inside us.
He's a genius for that.
I don’t know, I perceive it as seeking others approval by following the most generic trends you find on IG. The one moment of actual realism is talking about missing her mom, but then after a moment of self-reflection it goes back to seeking the approval of others. It’s quite literally the problem of social media today.
"don't smile because it's over, cry because it happened" - Kartin Muther Ling
ah yes my favorite Chinese philosopher
These made forgot what the quote actually was.
@Dalton Lee Elmer The 5th 1:40
Why are you people like this?
You really had to give me a stroke today
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
- Aragorn
Martin Luther King is the original "quoter"
That is perfect.
🤣
ITT: people getting whooshed.
@@stevetaranto6732 nah man this was first quoted by Aragorn
If she's 27 as the balloons indicate, she lost her mom at 17 and she's been without parents ever since. Damn...
and the fact that she's still struggling with her mom's death may imply that her dad passed away when she was even younger
I'm sure the idea or even the aftermath of losing a parent is something you never get over.
I don't think the song is from the perspective of one woman, could be multiple
@@tabathaarria9558 Also in the lyrics it’s says “give a hug to dad” and if the mom is dead then so is that dad 😞
You can miss people that are alive still ya know?
I thought this was a clever and funny take on stereotypical girl insta accounts, but then you realize that even the most mundane appearing people struggle and things like these is what makes them happy
made me learn to let people have their fun with seemingly trivial things, if it makes them happy then its good and right
every time i’m out here tearing up at the white woman’s caption about her mom and bo hits me with the “a goat cheese salad” before i’m done crying
saaame
Me too. I cry every time.
That is, indeed, the best time to have a goat cheese salad.
wdym. i cried to the goat cheese salad like who eats that shit
That’s the whole point. The song is a commentary on how social media distracts us from what’s important. An Instagram page is filled with silly, meaningless pictures but sprinkled in between is the occasional heartfelt post that is actually a piece of reality. Everything else is fake, but you get a small taste of the real world and the real person in the photos. But the entire experience is heavily altered to make everything see better. It’s all fake. Hence “is this heaven? Or is it a white womens instagram?” Everything has been altered to make it seem like heaven.
"Do not take me for a conjurer of cheap tricks!"
-Martin Luther King Jr.
“A day may come when the courage of men fails… but it is not THIS day.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Oh my god
"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!" - MLK
I don’t give a Fawkes about your order of Phoenix
@@bbrbbr-on2gd "may the force be with you" - MLK
“They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard!”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
This comment better get the respect it deserves.
When I first heard that line I was thinking about the exact same quote xD
"you shall not pass!"-gandhi,2009
Amazing comment!
@@coreyharding6421 does 800+ likes in less then 20 minutes count?
I miss my mom so bad. It has literally been two decades since my mom has passed away. I was 13. I am getting married next month and this honestly hit me in the gut.
Congratulations on your marriage, and Sorry about your mom.
@@Twtgod Thank you on both ends. I do believe in some way she'll attend in spirit!
@@chapstickaddict435 Yes and Happy Married Life to you.
A half remembered "comedians" video about white womens instagram photos has you remembering your mothers death?? Fuck me, sounds like some introspective thought would do you well.
i'm so sorry :( i hope you have a happy marriage full of love, and that this song is more cathartic than painful 🤍
You really humanized this fictional woman with that letter to her dead parents.
Um it's someone's real life just because it's not yours. I don't have my parents. So hug them right tonight.
It could be pointing out that people are willing to share their most private feelings for instagram follows
@@destinybarron8946 chill out. Nobody was asking for your life story. Sorry about your parents but I lost mine too and if you think guilting people in the RUclips comments section is gonna do squat you are prolly the person this video was made about.
@@mariahpohl8040 no one is guilting anyone lol. At least I don't have a shitty attitude or outlook like yourself. I was just informing because people take things for granted, I know when it's my time I'll be back with them. So I'm not sure what your comment was for, what do you gain? I bet your parents would be proud honey 🤣
@@destinybarron8946 I'm sorry, but Mariah isn't the one with the shitty attitude... Get off your high horse and stop virtue signaling. If you want to share your experience, fine. You don't have to do it in such a nasty and self righteous way though.
“We’ve had one, yes, but what about second breakfast?”
-Martin Luther King
i was just abt to do this one noooooooooo
He was so far ahead of his time.
Ok that got me. ive been looking for a funny one to steal. You got me. Good job
@RUclips Creators ✓ bro stop
Fouckhe....
Everybody talking about that the girl lost her mom, but he sings "give a hug and kiss to dad" meaning he also has passed away... That's too heavy man
She's trying to recreate heaven via her insta bc she misses her parents
I may be bawling my eyes out
I also noticed that...I want to cry...I am crying.
The balloons @ 1:47 also give an indication that the white woman who operates the Instagram in question is not much older than 27. We can infer that her mom died when she was 17-ish, on the cusp of adulthood and the new challenges and triumphs that come with it.
The second half of the song could be interpreted as an indictment of people (like me) who scoff and jeer at the stereotypical "white woman's Instagram" as being created by someone who is vapid and soulless. The content certainly gives the indication of those things but it's a leap to assume that the person behind the account is entirely captured by this representation.
Social media allows us to expand the facade of how we present ourselves to others to include idealized moments and constructed situations, leading observers to assume that our entire life is charmed and easy. However, it's important to remember that this facade is a lie we tell to other people, not only for our own benefit, but for the comfort of others. How often do we not disclose our thoughts to avoid people getting "weirded out", feeling depressed, misinterpreting our words, or shading their view of us with their own meaning?
This cliche of a "white woman's Instagram" might be a reflection of our own expectations for what a "white woman" should be. Attractive but not beautiful ("fake"/"plastic"). Well-read but not smart ("bossy"/"a bitch"). Aware but not too "woke" ("bleeding heart"/"SJW"). Happy but sad enough to be relatable ("a mess"/"falling a part"). Quirky but not esoteric ("weirdo"). It's less about avoiding the criticism of others and more about avoiding criticism from the internalized "other", the super ego.
But Bo says all that in four minutes six seconds so he definitely wins.
haha hes taking the piss about a girl posting a message to her dead mother on instagram. shes putting it on instagram to look for attention and is actually just bragging about her life to her followers if you listen to the words.like why would she write a message to her on instagram!? haha Bo is a genius. he captures all the Instagram vullshit perfectly in that song.
there are so many parts of this that are beyond awesome. obviously the incredible songwriting, the relentlessly perfect frames. but there are also so many little details. i love the bridge and then the epic harmonies coming out of it into "goat cheese salad, back lit hammock". THEN the topper is the perfectly in-key church bells when he says "three little words, a couple of doves, a ring on her finger from the person that she loves". this song is a masterclass of don't judge a book by its cover.
Ripping duct tape off a beard is quite possibly the boldest thing about this.
was about to comment this lol
What’s impressive is he kept his composure after it.
If you had eyes you would notice it wasn't extremely sticky and just rested on his face
@@TokuNorth ….. i think it was a joke
@@TokuNorth damn who hurt you?
"Mama, I love you. Give a hug and kiss and to dad"
Bo out here killing entire imaginary families
@SML how about you stop spamming
@@oscarpeters5309 report them. I do whenever i see this shit. Kills the whole platform
Who is this woman for whom both parents have been dead for 10 years by the time she gets a job and her first apartment?
@@louisrios5546 that could've happened at any point during those 10 years, the song never says that it just happened
@@louisrios5546 I think the joke was that her parents aren't dead, the sentence 'give a hug and kiss to dad' implied to me that she just moved out and she probably still gets financial help from her parents or something, that was my interpretation at least
The tonal shift of "let's point out how basic people are and make fun of them" to "oh shit these are real people with complex histories and they maybe posting all this for validation they can no longer get from their parents" is phenomenal
But because you don’t have a checkmark next to your name your opinion doesn’t matter and won’t be publicized. Good work on being one of the few who understand it though.
@@Gormfork except that’s not it at all. He shows how it’s bullshit by shifting the aspect ration to “oh this is real” to “oops so close but no keep fishing for likes”
@Nonaya Bidness both can be true
I read it more as how folks hide behind images of happiness and perfection on their social media while dealing with real feelings of loss or sadness that aren't allowed because they would break that facade. This is why I think these songs have so much depth, a lot to unpack there.
@@jerrytruckn I don’t think it’s bullshit. You are viewing this as someone scrolling through the girl’s feed. You get a glimpse into this persons struggles and then keep scrolling back to the basic posts. She’s not just posting the message for likes, it’s supposed to be taken as sincere, but as someone scrolling through an Instagram feed you are only getting snippets of this persons life not the whole picture.
Every few months I'll watch this for a chuckle, and every single time I forget about the bridge and need to sob for a while after it hits like a train. It maps onto me just about perfectly - I lost my mom at 21 (and my stepdad at 13), she was such a huge part of my life it took years to start to comprehend how to live without, and now I have an apartment, a fun job, and an incredible relationship, none of which she ever got to see. I don't personally believe either of them is still out there anywhere, but I miss them constantly, and I hope they're proud if they can be.
Damn, i dont know what to say, but your parents would definitely be proud of you! :)
"Tell me, friend, when did Saruman the wise abandon reason for madness?!"
-Martin Luther King
Balls
based MLK
This is hilarious 😂
Had me rolled over
"I am Gandalf, and Gandalf is me!" - MLK
*heartfelt grief message to mom*
me: getting all emotional
A MILLISECOND LATER:
goat cheese saladdddd 🎵
I read this just as the lyric came on... something smells fishy about this whole brain business.
hue, i always thought he sang goji-salad
I always heard "Gucci salad", but thought that he must be saying something else.
That's also very realistic - what you see on your feed is sometimes deep and heart-wrenching one second, and then menial the next
a back lit hammacccccccck
The thing I love the most about this (aside from the insanely talented photography) is the aspect ratio change at 2:30 - 2:43. It goes from the Instagram phone screen when the messaging is solely performative for the world, then suddenly widens as the woman opens up about something that is truly honest and painful, before narrowing back in as the message becomes more for the public gaze. It really shows how unhealthy our relationship with social media can be in expressing ourselves.
hmm neat
This is a really good observation--thank you for sharing it for those of us that missed it
Woah. Good observation! Bo is so intricate in his art form, everything is detailed and infused with rather sublime meaning. Poggers
Interesting.
omg I didnt notice this, now I appreciate it even more
As someone who has now lost both my parents by 35... this song hits way too fucking hard in the middle. We're all just trying so hard to find the joy and share it with others.
Maybe don't try to find the joy in a c list celebrities song? Maybe have some inward thoughts that are your own? No? Ok, can't expect the world over to understand simple concepts.
@@rolodaitilamsrommula
I cannot imagine being this bitter. Maybe you SHOULD learn to live laugh love like a white woman.
@rolodaitilamsrommula I can't imagine having a mindset so warped, as to take issue with a comment as harmless as the original poster's. Weirdo.
@antoniasinfield1762 yeah, I wasn't bothered it's clearly not about me. They didn't understand my comment anyway. I was saying how the character in the song is exemplifying how we're all trying to find the joy. She's grieving, but maybe the latte or the fall scene or whatever other small pleasure is just enough to get her through the day 🤗
Hope you found some joy today ❤️
@@rolodaitilamsrommulatry to read the comment again my friend
"They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"to isengard, to isengard, they're taking the hobbits to isengard" etc.
"What about second breakfast?" - Martin Luther King
Ahead of his time
“And my sword.”
-MLK Jr.
"THEY'RE DEAD" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"I never pictured myself fighting side by side with an elf."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"How about side by side with a friend?"
-Malcolm X
''Aye, I could do that''
-Barak Obama
"And my axe!"
-George Washington Carver
Pure comedy
Nobody tosses a Dwarf!
-Frederick Jackson
@@armchairrocketscientist4934 "Now for wrath! Now for ruin, and the Red Dawn!!!"
-James Baldwin
“PO-TA-TOES. boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew” - Martin Luther King Jr. 🥺🙏
Dude 😭😭
*and I live by that*
Some inaccurate quote from lord of the rings attributed to Martin Luther king✨🎶
Okay, okay, I'm down in the comments to see how people are talking about the emotional part of the song, tearing up a bit and peoples stories, then this.
Take my like
TATERS
I think it's really beautiful that although this woman has a lot of sadness inside of her, she still finds joy in her instagram posts. It teaches us that our criticisms aren't always justified, and sometimes things that seem stupid to others can be really important to someone else.
One thing that really stuck with me when watching this as part of ‘Inside’ is that before this skit he was talking about what comedy is and he had a whiteboard where it was written that making fun of someone in a negative way wasn’t comedy. After this skit, there is a shot from afar where he is watching this video, sitting in the dark, and in the foreground the whiteboard is once again present with the message. I interpreted this as him disliking what comedy has become, yet inevitably doing it because it is what he will benefit from. It really reminded me of ‘Art is Dead’, and how he feels trapped in this corporate version of comedy yet has to continue or else he will be worthless. Very powerful message
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Wow, I've watched Inside a few times now and I didn't fully understand that scene until now. I read that scene as him being generally unsatisfied with his comedy, but I missed that broader context. I'm glad you pointed that out, I'll definitely be looking for that next time
Obviously a lot of this special is about our relationship with technology in the modern world. He takes a balanced approach though, in my opinion, as while the majority of this song is tongue-in-cheek, the poignancy of posting about missing one's dead mom captures that small bit of connection we have online that is genuine. It's really interesting how he zooms in and out during that section of the song, in a way showing a broader and more complete view of the self before zooming back in and going back to singing about trite posts.
The part where the WW talks about her mama adds to this because it goes beyond the surface level of even a commonly made fun of stereotype.
wait thats a really good take on this!! because of how intricate and well done the sets are where u can truly see how much time was put into it i took it as bo calling out how men will make fun of women and mock them in these ways as they its the only chance they have lots of the time to express femininity.
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge Bo's courage in willing to risk that whole mustache just for the 5-second "HATE" duct tape shot?
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I thought about this and without a doubt he diffused the stickiness of the duct tape to some degree.
He probably reduced the stickiness of the tape before hand. Altough bo was in a dark place when recording this so maybe he did risk it
He probably ran it through carpet or got it wet before. Otherwise that mustache would have been gone.
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Bo is a better white woman than I could ever be
Felt
ouch, same
Happy 1k likes 😂
Same
Not same
Absolutely love that as our perspective of the person changes, the camera widens to signify the importance of it, as it literally broadens our perspective on who they are.
how you achieved all the lighting in 1 room is mind blowing.
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Absolute dedication
I just him waiting for sunny days for some shots
With lights probably
Probably used lights I would think
It's amazing how the song can spend 35 lines just listing fairly silly instagram aesthetic picture subjects and then in 10 lines give us a suddenly intimate glimpse of a woman who lost both her parents, implicitly recontextualizing the rest of the video as her trying to focus on things that make her happy. That's just an amazing amount of talent at lyrical narrative.
For me this song is at surface-level making fun of Instagram and "basic bitches" but then 1cm underneath is a really powerful story of self care, little rituals of self love and finding joy in little things that all make a really sympathetic and wholesome character out of our "white woman" and her Instagram, with everything she's worked for in order to have this silly fluffy cute Instagram.
that is the joke, the parents are not dead. She's just being dramatic.
@@margheritamiceli8940 Evidence for the interpretation? Because the white woman says the mother's been "gone" a decade and says she's "still figuring out how to keep living without [her]." And she specifically says "it's been a decade since *you've* been gone," which means the separation wasn't because the white woman grew up and left home, because it was the mother who went. And since the language discussing the mother is loving, the lyrics don't support the idea that her mother's alive and they just don't talk. Which, for me, given how people discuss death and loss in our day, means the most immediate interpretation is that her mother's dead, and subsequently implies the father is too.
What lyrics do you see as suggesting that the parents aren't dead?
@@AlashiaTuol it's not humanizing, it's a commentary on how now even these tragedies can be manufactured or exploited for likes and views
@@AlashiaTuol It's Bo Burnham, that's how people know it's part of the joke. Is this your first time listening to his music? He's a comedian. This whole song is a joke, and not joke -> serious time -> joke.
On top of that, someone can be "gone" without being dead, and to "keep living without" makes complete sense in that context. Have you been living with your parents your whole life? Perhaps you cannot yet understand this.
The screen widens to make you think she's finally talking about something real, then starts to close in again when you realize white girl just being white girl again. Overdramatic for the sake of attention.
Your "proof" is merely interpretation and not at all proof. If "INSIDE" was your first time listening to Bo, then I suggest you familiarize yourself because your interpretation is not at all BB, but definitely a BB move to make you think that way. You are a perfect example of the kind of person the joke was meant for.
"Give a hug and kiss to dad" hits so fucking hard...
i cry everytime. im a man
@@nirj5991 same 😢
An avocado 🥑
@@cloggedabyss005 i cry everytime.
When your dad is a dead criminal
This song starts out like a commonplace mockery of women depicting them as superficial, dumb, boring, self-important, etc. Then it takes a surprising turn in the middle where it gets revealed that the "white woman" we laughed about is actually a three-dimensional human being who experiences pain and struggles too, and we realize that her Instagram, however unoriginal it is, is the record of her trying to live her life to the fullest.
It is not about women. 🥴 It is about narcissistic women bolstering their ego on instagram. 😆 Who the fuck says it is the same woman? 🤨 It a different level of stupidity but still stupidity. The great thing about his songs, you can read into it whatever you like, no matter who you are. From based chad to professional victim and feminazi. 😜
balls
"a coffee table made out of driftwood"
Looks at coffee table. "FUCK!"
LOL
Nothing wrong with that. Driftwood tables are a-ok in my book.
Oooh you made a top comment without a check beside your name! Congrats!
Thou hast been seen!
@@Scribe13013 Seriously. Get these pros off the board. No wonder Bo acts the way he does + a litany of other mental health issues. Of which I'm very sympathetic, as we suffer nearly identical types of anxieties, it would seem.
What makes this song so perfect is the fact that we *know* Bo is stuck in a room, one of the most "miserable" situations he could be in, yet showing "how great his life is" with pictures.
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It’s ironic yet so true
Absolutely flabbergasted that he did this all himself. And this is just one song
The fact he did pretty much the whole special by himself is incredible.
I want to see his Amazon order history. It's going to look bizarre.
Funny how mainstream artist need a team for their songs
during quarantine, with limited supplies
*AND in one room
"Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves." That line makes me smile. It's so nice to hear. Especially after the part where she's posting about her mother. This song is hilarious, sad, and really nice. :)
“What about second breakfast?”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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@@donalowen4897 who?
best one
WE ARENT GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW HE JUST RIPPED THE DUCKTAPE OFF OF HIS MOUTH, *WHILE HE HAS A BEARD*
i was more worried about the mustache xD
a lot of pain was endured to make this special
@@willoverdoseonmusic are you bo
YESSSSS SSSSSS
It doesn't hurt much
This is why bo is a one of a kind artist. He gives you lots of laughs but he also wants you to know the deeper meaning behind his songs and I feel for him. And I can't think of anyone that could do all this in their room by themselves
Yeah he's amazing. One of a kind
him and jack stauber 😏
@@josierfitz8863 who's jack stauber
He really is extremely talented and intelligent. I think more and more people are waking up to messages like this and all the lies that are pushed on us.
@@josierfitz8863 OMG IVE LITTERLY HAVE BEEN THINKING THAT FOR THE PAST MONTH
This song makes me cry every now and then, but reading the comments just now with everyone breaking down the deeper meaning made me bawl my eyes out.
There is kindness in this parody. It's an amused observation not hate.
It’s still kind of hate. Hate for what it is doing. But then again, a lot is hated for this kind of stuff. Hell, right after this, Bo points the finger back at himself.
@@moonmoon2479 i mean...i am a white woman with an instagram and i didnt find anything hateful. It was kinda accurately funny 😂. He never said those were bad things
@@vickytsak2285 I think the point of the video is that much of a "White woman's Instagram" is superficial. The part where he talks about his dead mom and the aspect ratio breaks away from the Instagram ratio supports this. The video isn't hateful, but definitely a criticism, not of the women or people on Instagram, but of Instagram itself.
Most of the song is (kinda accurately) describing the stereotype of a basic white girl and the sometimes superficial/naive/pointless things they post, and that part reminds us that basic white girls are just.. people too. Maybe alongside posting superficial stuff on Internet they're also dealing with trauma. Maybe more than me or you have ever dealt with, and maybe they're doing a better job it at dealing with it. "Don;t judge a book by its cover" and all that jazz.
Yeah I don’t know how this could be read as “hate”
When he talks about the girl who lost her mom I feel like he’s saying even though he’s joking about “a white woman’s instagram” he still acknowledges they’re all human beings going through real things even if at times they’re not being genuine through the internet. Bo is such a genius
I interpreted it as a commentary of how we are expected to grieve publicly on the same platforms where we cultivate a persona of a certain type of life - ie a deeply personal and sad post followed by a goat cheese salad.
The frame even goes wide, as in telling us this part isn't fake instagram shit anymore (4:3) this is real
@@gorgeluis Then quickly back to the fake shit.
I just took it as this song is what it feels like to scroll through an instagram page and how jarring/out of place it is to go from Latte Foam Art to Memorial to Goat Cheese Salad
@@baileyrogers4055 I think that's part of it. You scroll through, it's banal stuff pretending like life is perfect but then you get a glimpse of the human behind the Instagram. That's when our frame opens wider to see more of her, then it's back to the same old stuff. But if you notice, after that, it sounds like she does find happiness - she quits pretending after she gets engaged to the person that she loves, and then it becomes a legitimate question: Is this heaven?
He seriously created such beautiful sets though. He put every white woman’s Instagram to shame.
Seriously, need to up my insta game. XD
Lol did you not watch the full Comedy Special? One of the major themes is cut down the social media, I feel like you kind of missed the point
@@stanleyburke3533 bro guess what, you also missed the point r/wooooosh
@@harleytheapothecary7849 r/iamaneckbeardredditor
@@stanleyburke3533 well he wasn't exactly saying we should cut it down, all he did was raising attention around what the internet is doing, but that one specific scene from the special he says maybe its a bad idea.
The artistic shots and self harmony is amazing. Not to mention the talent to create the lyrics and music by himself. Truly amazing. His whole inside movie is the same, but this one gets me most woth his color saturation, artistic shots and how much it *feels* like a white woman's instagram
best shit ever
JESUS!!!
Holy shit!
Literally
Our lord and saviour
Woahhh even Jesus likes Bo!
even our lord and savior knows art when He sees it
i unironically cried at the middle verse about her mom, like it's so cliché and so true at the same time. i love bo burnham for making us laugh and cry at the same time
Seriously such sad and beautiful lines
@You're the reason he's crying
"Give a hug and kiss to Dad"
"A GOAT CHEESE SALAAAAAD"
same
same
It’s only “cliche” because profound grief is something we all end up experiencing but there aren’t words enough to express the enormity of our emotions.
A song called “White Woman’s Instagram” should not be allowed to make me cry.
Yes
Agreed
ikr?? its that “favorite photo of her mom” part
literally he can bend ur emotions from a grief filled message to "goat cheese salad"
It does have the “- Bo burnham” anything with that can make you cry
I'm a thirty-six year old man, I live alone and my mom's still alive, but because my mom's getting older that part of the song still hit hard.
Okay I read between the lines obsessively, but I love when he starts talking about her mum the typical Instagram borders pull back to show that they’re real people with emotions and they’re not always gonna be who they present as online! A lovely touch!
I totally agree! and idk if this is a stretch or not but I can't stop thinking about how perfectly he captures the essence of "white women on Instagram"-posts in a room that we know, from shots before and after this song, is really bland and at times messy and chaotic. idk, I just feel like that emphasizes that absolutely anyone can "fake" this perfect social media life. and keeping that in mind during the song, how the rest of the room probably looked like during these shots, makes it so much more real and relatable.
And the borders zoom back in after her moment of realness when she slides back into performative vulnerability again. There’s so many subtle details, I love this so much.
Yesss I saw that too on my second watch
I’ve watched the special five times and never realised this! His brain 😭😭
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The verse where he describes a woman who has lost both her parents made me tear up instantly. I was laughing hard before that, but that moment was really so special. Bo Burnham is genuinely talented.
Then goes right into "A goat cheese SAAAALAAAd", just like most people do on their profiles. Emotions are so spliced together unnaturally online like that. That's what i get out of that verse anyways, the sharp contrast snap back to the cheesey pics.
i was not emotionally prepared for that moment, really catches you vulnerable and hits you right in the raw heart
@@yours12342 I guess that it's because you live and if you choose to you upload different moments to your feed, but all those moments are together without anything to mark the real pass or time beside the little date thing that you probably won't see if you aren't looking for it. So that's why it could look so weird when you see it all together, almost like it's simultaneous when in real life it was not. Also, humans are emotional and can feel a wide range of things in short periods of time, so there that to consider too, haha. Nice day/night 'nd life!
I wasn’t ready for it. It catches you so off guard how much substance is there.
I love how literally everyone in this thread misunderstood that part of the song. He is making fun of a person claiming that her mom had been "gone" only to then reveal that she was alive by saying "give a hug and kiss to dad"
Ya'll motherfuckers are retarded
he put in the over excessive amount of sweater paws
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Sweater paws hahah finally an accurate name for it
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damn, these bots really fighting for most disliked video in this reply section.
@@DlcEnergy Yeah I know right, what the fuck is going on lmao
this song really fits the part of being in a musical about quarantine, we spend so much time judging people for the things they post and being so vain as to mock them for being basic. This song really made me sit back and realize that everyone is a person with countless emotions and feelings with stories I've never heard... its beautiful
"may contain wine" "Just a girl boss building her empire" "Beyonce is my spirit animal" Every detail of this is perfect
Also, "My favorite position? -CEO" lol
small pumpkin
Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss
This song slaps, and then hits, and then slaps again.
like my pearents
Like my dads belt
@@seaspiritinme pretty sure just joking about white womens Instagram doesn’t count as sexism
@@seaspiritinme You missed the point of the whole song, well done.
@@seaspiritinme 2:18 I think you should listen this part if you seriously think this song is about hating on women
"They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" - Martin Luther King
Copying comments in the hope to get likes, is sad. Come up with your own jokes
@@powerpug964 who did I copy? I saw people doing MLK jokes and remembered that line 😅 who actually cares about something as meaningless as likes?
@Dalton Lee Elmer The 5th listen to the lyrics
@Dalton Lee Elmer The 5th 1:39
This song makes me cry. My mom had a Pinterest and always filled it with cute images.. but she had a really rough life and she was always so brave.. and it just so happens i try to be optimistic and a light in the dark too.. but now she's gone and its so much harder to be that way now. I can't hide the pain like she could. I miss her so much.
Grief is normal, and it's healthy to process that grief. Unfortunately, some people might have more or less flexibility in how they are able to process their grief, but try not to let the hardships of life prevent you from doing what's best for you. Easier said than done, of course.. but do it on your terms.
This is the most Bo-ish song from back in the day when he'd just satirize something silly and probably the most heartfelt part of the show when he talks about the girl missing her parents.
He can still point out something's over-performative in the most accurate way but see the underlining pain and beauty in everyone's lives
What an evolution. Our boy's all grown up now
Why did u have to end a good comment with such cringe
@@lucasg.5534 cause he was just facetiming with me
our little boy didnt do too bad
Nah I'd think it would the sock song
The arrogance in this comment is astounding
How to watch Bo Burnham.
1. Laugh
2. Cry
3. Existential Crisis
you forgot the severe depression for a couple days after
4. Repeat
@@a-bird-lover I'm glad you felt the same way. Well not glad you felt that way. Just glad I wasn't the only one.
Unfortunately that was the point of this project, seeing an already mentally ill man go literally insane and struggle to keep his head above water during the pandemic. The best “comedy special” there will ever be
This reminds me of the Pedro Pascal meme
The amount of accuracy
Hello billy
More accurate than a pregnancy test.
Right
hello william
Hey its billy !
My mom died when I was 2 and I had an abusive, drugged and drunk dad up until I was 8. I did move to a better home, but I cried during the part about the moms death. I'm still here, at 3:05 am, crying alone. Thank you, Bo.
“You’re a wizard Harry.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
i wonder if this was bo’s excuse to have a photoshoot because he looks good as hell in some of these ngl
Is it bad that I feel inspired to do IG photoshoots from this video making fun of IG photoshoots?? :P His styling, lighting and framing are all so good!
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@@allisonheath1156 embrace the white woman's instagram aesthetic! lots of these shots are so popular on the internet *because* they look so good. bo looks incredible in these and so i'm sure you would too
Bo covered in pumpkins may just be the highlight of 2021.
"Fine, keep your secrets then" - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lol
@@maswqesadweqw3548 I wish all these bot factories would implode man
I dont know why i care 3 years later but the actual quote is "Allright then, keep your secrets". People always be misquoting the great MLK.
I like that the middle part acts as a reminder to never assume you’ve got someone ‘all figured out’ just because they fit a stereotype
Exactly, or because you see what they post on the internet.
Every single person is a unique and complex being with their own story.
time to bump this album for the rest of the year
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A CLASSIC ALREADY, A CLASSIC
Video about inside when
whens the video about inside then
@@SergioMenaGTS i came looking for this and i was not disappointed!!!
I love that when the the song starts to tell about the woman’s loss of her family, the ratio of the video is no longer 1:1. It visually shows that she’s being vulnerable and is telling things about her life that’s no longer “for the gram”.
Very nice catch
The picture literally gets bigger.
Nice analysis
Oh wow! Never noticed... thank you
In the context of the whole special he is DEFINITELY still commentating on the commodification and social mediarization or close relatives dying by posting about it online.
I don't know what's more impressive, the fact that I've seen literally every single thing in this on white women's Instagrams, or that a giant 30 year old man with a beard is so good at acting that he is actually able to look exactly like a white woman having fun in her 20s
@RUclips Creators ✓
Stop.
Why have you spent so much time on Instagram that you have literally seen every single thing in this on there?
@@smileychess I dont think you realise how long Instagram has been around and how easy it is to see this stuff lol
@@renren5992 I realize that very well.
@@smileychess then you've got your answer
Let us also appreciate that when she starts talking about her mom - the frame literally expands from a narrow view to a more full, broad one of her rather than the instagram phone ratio the rest of the video is shot in
The irony is how freaking good he’d be at running a white woman’s instagram
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@you cant leave this empty And then her next post is a goat cheese salad.
@you cant leave this empty i kind of still took that as part of the trope. idk tho i could be wrong
@@nickhopwood4233 I sort of see it that way too, but more of just an interesting juxtaposition of a very personal and very real life post on a platform that’s otherwise full of inane clichés and kitschy pictures. It’s maybe less of a trope and more of just something you will find on pretty much every social media platform - that juxtaposition.
@@nickhopwood4233 it definitely is. That’s the weirdest part of the whole concept of the industrial movement that instagram has become. Women sell this idea of their lives, occasionally pause to show a real moment of a real life, and then resume the image they’re working to maintain. I have friends who plan their life choices around the posts they’re going to make. Weddings are centered around Instagram aesthetics. Average people have 10k followers for what? They don’t know you. They never knew your mom. So of course you’re not going to open your heart to thousands of strangers. Not if you’re really hurting in that exact moment. Not honestly. Few things sting like being honest and thousands of people rejecting you for it by scrolling past. So you go back to goat cheese salad. You know?
The harmony in “A goat cheese salad. A back lit hammock” is next level. The humour is so elevated by the musical talent.
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the bridge into that final verse is so jaw-droppingly good. IMO, Bo's finest moment as a songwriter.
I wish I could appreciate it to the utmost. Half of his jokes go over me, because I have never been to America. I can see that there are subtle details, but i don't get them.
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Bo has gotten much better at singing since 5 years ago.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” - Gandalf the Grey
Is that an MLK quote incorrectly attributed to Gandalf? Isn’t that I-R-O-N-I-C
Lol !!!
@@Methus3lah that’s the joke
@@rainer_1137 Oh really? I should’ve mentioned the humorous irony.
and gandalf the white and monty python and the holy grail's black knight
The images in the video are all so damn precise, but wow he *NAILED* 1:27… the coat with the fake fur fringe, the over-exposure already against a white background, the expression especially the eyes & how they seem to be colored *extra* bright… just perfect. I remember every girl either having or wanting a photo like that in the early to mid 2010s especially & at one point I was forced into position of photographer to take such photos for a precious friend who definitely had a White Woman’s Facebook, including the dedication to her mum- not as she died but as her mum inspired (i.e. *forced* her) her degree in gynecology…. :/ fun…
“A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he needs to.”
-MLK
@Child and my SAX
Or a queen is never late, everyone else is simply early - Queen of Genovia
“YOUU. SHALL NOT. PASSSS!”
-my history teacher
“No thank you. We don’t want anymore visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations!”
-me
Alright keep your secrets. -Maya Angelou