Singer/Songwriter reacts to BO BURNHAM - ALL EYES ON ME - FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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Hey guys thanks for watching! I’m getting a lot of comments about censoring the video. I’ve always tried to make my channel family friendly as much as possible so if you go through my videos you will see I censor a lot of the stuff I watch for that reason. I realize for many of us that takes away some of the “gusto” of the song but if you’re here watching this, I assume you know what is supposed to be in those parts when it bleeps out. Again, sorry for the censoring. I just know I have some kiddos watching! Again, thanks for watching!
I understand and respect that decision, its just....when the original video is on the same platform and you link it in the description you are not really making much of a point. I get it, I just can´t shake of the feeling that its a really backwards kind of useless...great reaction tho :)
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I don't seek out family friendly stuff and it sticks out like a sore thumb when it's censored. With that being said I think its cool you choose to do it. People can find a dirty version if they really need it.
You should react to white womans instagram.
I love how it plays with the dual meaning of "all eyes on me" as in both "pay attention to me" and "oh god, they're all watching me."
Nice catch.
This!!!!
No.
@@RDB93 gotta love how you just say no and don’t give any opinion if your own
@@braydencrickenberger3785 Thanks.
Right before the song starts he says, “I’m not well” and starts sobbing. Kills me every time.
Me too 🥺
Saying it out loud and admitting it to himself.
I feel it.
I know I’ll take my life one day. I get that vibe from him. He knows he won’t last.
@@babykay1330 please don’t. You are needed here.
Great reaction! For me, I think the tragedy is that he actually WAS in a good enough mental place to start live performances again - he just wasn't in a good enough mental place to spend a year isolated in his home while the world around him fell into disease and chaos. So his fall back into depression and anxiety is even sadder, because it *wasn't* inevitable.
Absolutely. Very well said
Yeah, that’s how I read it too. It hurts right?
You can kind of see it especially in the shift in tone from the first half of the special compared to the last half. It seemed like he was somewhat having fun with it in his sort of cynical way still towards the beginning, and then the project of the special started to get to him combined with the quarantine. He talked a lot about the state of our world, the digital age takeover, his own struggles, as well as the creation of the special. Him feeling out of his mind sometimes trying to get things just right, you see multiple moments of him expressing frustration with his perfectionism and mistakes. (Restarting Look Who’s Inside Again, or when he throws the equipment). But at the same time also like “without this project though, what am I going to do? What will I do when it’s over?” since he probably spent hours at a time putting energy into different steps of the process.
I’m in a mood with Bo Burnham, lol if you haven’t watched the FULL special with all the context you’re doing it wrong! As much as I do love the two reactions to it so far. At the very least I hope you continue to check stuff out from the soundtrack or music videos when they drop. Loved the video! ❤️
Were any of us? I live in Victoria, Australia where we endured one of the longest enforced lockdowns - from about March to October 2020 with a few weeks of relief in June - and I never would have anticipated the deterioration I saw in those around me and in myself. It felt like everyone went s little mad.
That’s... ugh
That "Got it? Good, now get inside." made me cry when I first watched this.
Have you watched the whole special? It hits even harder. I watched it 2 days in a row and it made me cry both times
You say the ocean's rising, like I give a shit, you say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did.
That gave me chills.
@@jordanmcquay9077 oh yeah, for sure. Multiple times.
@@m249machinegun2 you're not a wrong.
When I first heard it on tiktok I didn't cry, but when I listened to the songs on here I definitely cried a bit😂
My soul left my body at the end of the bridge with “get inside” with those harmonies. Must have listened to it a million times and I still shiver every time
It's heartbreakingly beautiful
I feel the same way about the bridge. (Plus, shivers during all of "Welcome to the Internet" as well.)
@@squiddyhs i don't like the melody of welcome to the internet
you should listen to the transposed version someone made on YT of his original voice
His voice is like a church.
Your facial expression at “Got it, good, now get inside.” was ALL OF US. It fucking hurt my feelings and my stomach and my chest. It aches. I love him.
I like your explanation “it hurt my feelings”. I commented on Bo’s channel that I’m crying but I didn’t know why, sadness, happiness, awe? It’s overwhelming when that harmony hits. Bone chilling
I think the voice changer, is his way of hiding himself. You don't hear his real voice. He's putting on a show. He's asking us, if we're nervous or having fun, and then is trying to put us at ease, with the pop/club "get your hands up. Look at me, and laugh. I'll help you be happy"... But it's also, "I'm not okay, don't just look at me, but see me.... And pray for me..."
I think he changes his voice because the song isn't from his perspective. It's from the perspective of his depression and anxiety.
Think its a combination of both. It's Bo's voice but it's distorted due to the depression and anxiety. I feel like Bon Iver take a similar approach with some of their songs. When it's applied well it's magical.
I heard somebody else say the song was going to the theme of a mental breakdown and I think your interpretation adds to that with the happy, laughing. Then the next line is “pray for me” I’m in a bad place.
The fact that this "comedy special" has a message about suicide at the end tells you all you need to know about it.
Its a horror movie about covid isolation
"best comedy is a tragedy with anesthetic"
wait what was the message about suicide
@@hardstuckbronze5880 dooooooon't... just.... DON'T... just.. quit it. Could ya?
@@hardstuckbronze5880 Get to the very end of the video. Like, last 30 seconds of the special.
I remember watching Bo talking about something rather serious in a talk show interview with genuine concern and it seemed the audience would laugh at everything he said. And you could see it bothered him. I think his run in comedy took a toll on his mental health when he realised that he wasn’t able to address anything seriously because everyone expected him to be the funny guy.
I've seen that a lot of comedians have this same issue, and are sometimes the saddest people but no one wants to notice. So many examples... 😔
He definitely references that here. When he said he couldn't perform due to his panic attacks...canned laughter follows immediately after.
@@StarMama90 But Doctor, I am Pagliacci.
@@Chase0The0Bass I don't get it
@@StarMama90 It’s from Watchmen by Alan Moore:
"Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Pagliacci.' Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains."
I liked your interpretation of the "a funny thing happened". I took it to mean COVID-19 struck and forced everyone back inside, which in turn made his anxiety relapse and thus we're here stuck in a room with him literally having a delusional, almost fantastical episode about performing again. So it's a little of both I suppose? "We're going to go where everybody knows" for me means, we're all going back into our own minds because we're going to have nothing else to do. In any case this song is brilliant and opens up so many avenues for discussion. Not to mention it is musically impeccable.
I thought about that as I was editing this video together. Originally, I thought it meant his performing again sparked his anxiety but listening back, it probably makes more sense to think he was referencing the pandemic starting right when he was gonna make a comeback
You gotta finish the quote, "We're going to go where everybody knows everybody." Its about the internet. We're going where every body knows everybody, yet, from what we've see so far, we still wont give enough of a shit about the planet or each other to produce vital change. "You think the worlds ending, it already did."
@@ForceGhostAnakin i disagree, think wher eeverybody knows everybody is home where we are lockeddown
the ocean rising like i give a shit to me is, how can i care about that when i am suffering myself so much right now
hence how the world ended for many people because of the huge uproar and mental anguish with lockdown
and then all off the craziness that happened with people, protests and america in general during lockdown
and that leads to gotta good now get inside
@@ACey96 “everybody knows everybody” is infused with robotic synths. “Welcome to the Internet” tells of a plan to put the “world” in the hands of the youth right before the quintessential villain laugh.
“You’re not gonna slow it. Heavens know you tried. got it? Good, now get inside”
Many reports say climate change is irreversible at this point. Got? Good, now get inside, buy shit, expose yourself to our ads, get hooked on your favorite content.
That’s exactly what a majority of the youth does right now. I guess you could say the world already ended.
I think a big part of Bo’s intended meaning is also about the nature of fame. His anxiety has a lot to do with the pressure and nervousness of being in the spotlight, despite feeling a simultaneous need to be in said spotlight. The spotlight is “where everybody knows”, because everybody’s watching you, prying into your life, wanting to know you, observing you, judging you, but also being the source of gratification, recognition, acceptance, approval, etc... that’s all been ramped up by the internet age, for sure, where everybody wants to be and can be a celebrity of their own followers. The celebrity culture is bleeding more and more into social culture as our circles take on a larger global size online. Everybody feels a need to participate and “get out of your seats” to join the crowd in everything that’s going on, be on the right side of things and feel like part of the group. But it all leads to more and more social anxiety for a lot of people, feeling more judged and/or judgmental, and developing anxiety issues and depression because none of us feel like our real lives actually measure up to what the White Woman’s Instagram looks like. You’re being judged for this... because EVERYBODY KNOWS.
And I think you’re right that it’s about the prison of your own mind as well, coinciding with the prison feeling a lot of people have gotten from lockdown... it’s kind of all of this wrapped into one universally meaningful song.
He never mentioned Covid once in his special making it timeless
I think the further away we get from the beginning of Covid, the more people might start to realise these songs-- hell, _the entire special--_ was never really focused on the pandemic. At some point it should click that the word "inside" doesn't just have a physical/material meaning.
He did mention vaccinating
@@jamdee2237 Yes but that wasn't a specific reference as it was in the context of Obama. So way before covid. More a reference to general anti-vaxers
though he does mention 2020.
I’ve seen so many reaction videos where people laugh uneasily at parts of this song because they think they are probably supposed to be laughing, after all it’s a “comedy special”.
But you’ve given your honest take, and you clearly took everything in in the way Bo hoped audiences would 👌🏼
I think it also involves people having no other possible response. This song and the video are a lot to process
I see that a lot too, but to be fair to others they’re watching these songs piecemeal style with no context. It’s difficult to “get” the messages in a vacuum. This special is one fantastic piece of art taken together.
That's a pretty narrow view. The whole special and almost all of Bo's comedy is about balancing between funny/real/scary/hard emotions. He even mentions it in Inside, saying stuff like 'how can you be laughing at a time like this'... the message isn't don't laugh at this stuff, if it was he wouldn't satirize it. That's the whole point of satire, these are real and difficult emotions, comedy is one way to deal with them. Laughing at this stuff is both the intent and the reflection we have to look at to get at the heart of it.
@@GoldyMcGoldface my comment probably did come across as narrow. To clarify - I don’t think people should contain their laughter or avoid laughing. But it’s clear to see when someone has laughed because they’re thinking “I should probably make this reaction a bit more interesting” or “I don’t get what’s going on so probably safest to laugh”. To be fair, the guy above made a good point - a lot of people are watching this out of context
@@JJ-gh2is Sure yeah that makes a lot sense. Cheers mate.
I genuinely had a breakdown when I heard this song in the special. The whole special hit very hard home but this song what was absolutely broke me.
I am absolutely in love with inside but it's going to take some time to be able to watch it again. Bo is an absolute genius.
Same here. Was flat out sobbing at this point. I don’t think any pice of art has hit me this deeply before.
I hope you’re ok ❤️
It fucked me up really bad - for whatever reason a week later I could listen on Spotify while I was driving and without the visuals it was easier.
what did it for me was when he broke down after finally admitting out loud that he's not well.
The whole last half of this special fucking wrecked me
Took me a couple of weeks to process this performance. Now that I have it’s cathartic and the album helps me decompress on my way home from work. At first it hit me where I live and now it’s a reminder that everyone lives in that place mentally when the world is falling apart. Our depression, anxiety, fear, and guilt are reasonable reactions to an ailing world. It gives me so much hope that we’re realizing that we need systematic changes to save ourselves in the long term, now I only worry if the realization happened in time. Peace be with you internet stranger. I hope it gets better.
tw: sh mention
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my first thought on the “come on in the waters fine” parts is that it felt a lot like relapsing. like knowing you shouldn’t but also knowing that it’s somewhere you’ve been and the familiarity is comforting
Very very true. Well said
It's perhaps the hardest thing for those who do not struggle with depression to understand - that depression can feel normal and even comforting. Well spoken.
Very true :(
@@curtisholsinger6023 It's like a warm blanket sometimes. You just want to lay down with it and never get back up, but you have to.
Oh man this is something that I've never really been able to effectively articulate to my family. I've had depression for so long that it is my normal, the standard that is easy to just slip back into. After too long, happiness feels like the scary different emotion
“You say the ocean’s rising, like I give a shit.
You say the whole world’s ending, honey it already did.
You’re not gonna slow it, heaven knows you’ve tried.
Got it? Good, now get inside!”
That part hits sooooo hard.
For me personally, as someone who struggles with anxiety and depression, “Are you feeling nervous? Are you having fun?” are thoughts he is having simultaneously. When I’m having an anxiety attack, I cannot slow my mind down and it’s one thought after another. “It’s almost over. It’s just begun” could mean two things. Either he’s talking about being somewhere or doing something that you don’t really want to do because it causes you anxiety. You can tell yourself it’s almost over, but your mind will counteract that and tell you that it’s just begun, which will add to the anxiety. Or it could mean that when you think your anxiety attack is almost over, it picks right back up and seems never-ending.
“You say the ocean’s rising, like I give a shit” - there’s too many of your own thoughts going on in your head that you don’t have time to think of other thinks that everyone else thinks about like real world issues.
“you say the whole worlds ending, honey it already did” - anxiety and depression make me feel like the world is over at times. There’s nothing left to live for. You’re too wrapped up in your own mind.
To me, “We’re going to go where everybody knows.” means he thinks everybody knows about his mental health struggles no matter where he goes. There have been times that I have felt like people know I’m not well just by me walking in the room. When in reality, nobody knows. But my brain makes me think “all eyes on me” like everybody is constantly watching me.
“You’re not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried. Got it? Good. Now get inside.” means you can’t stop the thoughts in your head no matter how hard you try. His mind is telling him that he can’t overcome this. It’s something he will struggle with for the rest of his life. Got it? Good. Now get inside - back into your own thoughts where you constantly spiral. That’s his mind saying, you’ll never get away from this. It’s your own mind. You cannot run away from your depression or anxiety.
The crowd beginning to cheer at the end is his way of imagining the audience applauding him for completely opening up and talking about his anxiety. His choked up laugh he does at the very end is him being overwhelmed with emotion when he sees the support he is getting from others when he admits that he is struggling. It lets him know he’s not alone.
Damn. This song makes me so emotional.
Just my interpretation. It’s really incredible to hear someone speak the things that have been trapped in my mind for 16 years. Thank you, Bo.
originally felt like this song was expressing an existential crisis with a lot of phrases taken literally. but the video and your description sounds right on.
@@ozaffer77 that’s the beautiful thing about music! It can be perceived an infinite amount of ways depending on who is listening. 😊
God bless you 💪💓🙏
I agree completely. I have bad anxiety and this songs speaks to me very well. In the video where he walks towards the camera and says “get the fuck up” yelling and grabs it. I feel like he is lying down and he’s the camera in this part and Bo is another person looking at the camera like “he’s” normal telling him to just get the fuck up. This right here shows that part very well and when he hits the chorus singing “put your fucking hands up, get on outta your seats, all eyes on me, all eyes on me” could mean double meaning as in his comedy shows and saying it from a norm’s mind applauding him for getting up, but the eyes are on him now and he didn’t want to get up or wasn’t ready. When he says “get your fucking hands up” I feel this could be him saying go ahead and wave your fucking hands in a chanting matter because I’m up after being depressed, etc.
Spot on! I have panick attacks and anxiety attacks every week... when I first heard this song I cracked from crying, because Bo nails these feelings and talks directly to ppl who suffers from this condition...
I haven't seen anyone talk about it yet, but I love the imagery he uses in the chorus. Telling everyone to put their hands up as if we're in a rave/live concert, but then telling them to keep their heads down -- a praying position -- as he literally asks us to pray for him. Maybe it's too obvious for people to mention, but it always gets me.
I feel the second verse on a really personal level. My husband committed suicide in September of 2020. So whenBo says “You say the ocean’s rising like I give a shit. You say the whole world’s ending. Honey, it already did.” I feel that in my soul because for me, the world did end. I couldn’t care about anything else going on around me for a while.
So many commiserations. I also lost someone during the pandemic and to just keep going with everything piling on top of it... Such a burden, like an anchor dragged behind you that nobody else can see.
Jesus CHRIST.
I can't even begin to imagine the pain. Kelsey, I really hope you're getting all the help you can. How are you doing?
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth I appreciate your concern. I take my antidepressant and anxiety medication regularly and have monthly follow-ups with my doctor. Personally, I don’t find that counseling helps, but the more time passes, the better I’m able to cope. Also, I still have our three-year-old daughter and she makes it easier for me to be ok.
@@kelseyallen3930 it’s good to know that you’re trying. That’s the thing you have to remember. You have a daughter to look after, (I’m not saying that as being condescending by the way), she loves you, and you know that. just remember, you have people to talk to. Whether you have actual friends, (I’m not sure, this is the random void of the Internet after all), or not, you can just yell into the Internet and hopefully someone will hear you. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. That doesn’t matter though. The point is, you will always have people that will care about you. I really do hope you’re doing all right. From what I read of your comments, you seem to be. That’s awesome. Let’s hope it keeps up. i’m sorry to hear about the shitty stuff that happened, (I legit mean it).
God I'm so sorry.. I cant imagine how much youve been through. Many condolences and stay strong
This song hit me in ways I wasn't expecting... not that I stopped performing comedy for 5 years, but I silently dealt with some severe depression for most of 2019, not doing the things I usually would do with my friends. And around the holidays of 2019/early 2020, I finally got out of the funk, and just like him, was done staying alone in my apartment feeling sorry for myself, just for, "the funniest thing to happen"... I'm fine now, but wasn't expecting my up-swing to be cut so sharply in 2020, and this song sums it up pretty damn well.
Glad you came out of that dark place!
I feel you on that, nearly mirrors my life at that time.
TMI comment of oversharing: 2019 I broke up with my partner of ten years in March. Good terms and good friends still, living together as house mates but still a shock to the system. November she had a brainstem stroke and I was there throughout. From 32 years old and starting anew to totally paralysed overnight. A rough ride followed going to see her, being part of her support. Alone at home dealing with my shock and grief. Then the pandemic hit. F*ck. Couldn't see her. Couldn't see friends. Still key working in the apocalypse. Having to go to work having just seen someone I still love nearly die and then live but in such an awful situation. Then this year my father falls ill and within two months has passed from pancreatic cancer after being nursed by my mother and me. Couldn't hold a funeral. And when he passed I couldn't cry. I had spent an entire year on the very edge of insanity, quite honestly and I'd cried myself numb already. Then I watched Inside with my new partner and boom, tears. It just poured the cathartic healing waters on me and... I feel so much better. It's a delicate state but, I feel reconnected by the mainstreaming of the trauma of the last year. Now we don't have to pretend the world didn't end. It did.
@@TalynStormcrow No more pretending anymore which is honestly so refreshing. We’re all messed up and not doing as well as we may seem. The world ended, but maybe we can rebuild if there’s time. Restart. Reconnect. I’m really glad you’re feeling better, and I hope you and others who may be in a dark place can start to heal soon. I’m still trying.
I think I've watched INSIDE 3 times now, but the first time, I couldn't watch it straight through. I had several panic attacks throughout, and I think the reason is because even though he was describing his battle and his illness, he was exposing ME as well as himself. I'm not shy about my diagnoses, but that doesn't mean I let people actually see it. INSIDE wouldn't let me hide. He articulated in so many ways what I can't articulate about myself. I now listen to All Eyes On Me at least twice a week, and it comforts me, because I now praise INSIDE as being incredibly brave to allow the world to see such vulnerability and it shows me that I'm NOT alone. I've been working on myself trying to get healthy for 3 years now, and since I'm also on chemo and afraid to leave my house because of COVID, I needed to feel like I was "in the presence" of someone who understands. Best wishes! ❣
“You say the whole world’s ending
Honey it already did”
-That lyric to me the first time I heard it was an immense catharsis after what our world and our communities have been through. When I heard it I let out a breath of relief that it felt like I’d been holding in for over a year. Seems you had a similar reaction
I feel a little bad for people experiencing this show piecemeal. Watching the special front to back is such an intense experience.
Yes, totally agree
agreed. it stands by itself but the end hits SO much harder when its at the end of the entire show for sure.
The jarred reaction you had when he picks up the camera is exactly what I think he was going for. It snaps you out of this comfort of spectating and into a moment of panic. It pulls you into the chaos he's experiencing
The fact that Bo Burnham is so talented as a comedian, musician, song writer, makes for such great art.
He also editing his own videos and programing the lights in his room. All by himself.
This makes me want to see him direct a lot more stuff
@@parkdowning2855 well he directed a movie before
He also directed the movie Eighth Grade, which has some of the most convincing child actor performances I've ever seen in a movie, and the whole movie feels like a documentary and not a fiction.
This song is literally just what a depression and anxiety relapse sounds like and I think that's why I find it comforting
I feel like in the start of the special the songs are lighter, and more focused on the funny aspect and as the special drew out longer and longer he realized that comedy isn't what the world needs right now, and that it won't fix everything people are suffering from, but he has an obligation to try the impossible.
The part in the special where he closes his eyes and seems to “go to bed”, everything after that kind of looks and feels like a fever dream rooted in depression. Then after All Eyes On Me is over, it cuts to a scene of him waking up under the same blanket as the scene in which he went to sleep, and everything seems significantly more grounded in reality.
@@danayellabua224 I love that, that slipped right past me!
I think Bo structures it that way intentionally as it reflects his declining mental health over the year.
He made it over the course of a year I’m pretty sure it was in quarantine so I think he just slowly got more depressed
@@danayellabua224 this I think is it, or perhaps close to it. I think just saying depression is a bit restrictive and that it's more of an amalgamation of all the symptoms of being rather mentally unwell that are mentioned a lot throughout the special,
I like though that earlier in the special Bo says he is ok when he's asleep but nearer the end we see the lines between mental space and physical space blurring and the unwellness may have crossed that boundary as we have in the show.
It just NAILS me every time at that "Got it. Good. Now get inside!" It's almost like I would think people get an ASMR tingle and it lights my brain up.
"He went back into 'I'm feeling nervous, I'm feeling scared...'"
Those were NOT the lyrics, but I COMPLETELY understand why your brain remembered them that way lololol
You should post your reaction to the whole special. Not many people are doing it either.
It's so good though, but by watching it start to finish, this scene has such a heavy emotional weight to it that it's almost euphoric.
Good idea :)
A little Easter egg for everyone. The scene projected in the back during his monologue is pre recorded and then he mimicked it almost perfectly, there's a couple moments where you can see the difference, but the attention to detail is amazing.
Yeah that’s actually bs but w/e
i like the genuine reaction when you realize and put all the lyrics together.. wide eyed with your hands up... Bo gave us all what we desperately needed, and said it best for so many with this song.
i think this blew up so much because especially after the pandemic people can relate to being depressed, as well as people who already dealt with anxiety and depression before, can relate to this song.
Thank you for “getting it.” So many reactors glaze over and and chuckle and ask for more subs. Your sincerity earned my subscription.
It has been said that there is a very thin line between Comedy and Tragedy. I think this particular song is right there. The first time I heard this song and watched the special, I really liked the mood of the song. I still do, but I can't listen to it and watch it without a tear rolling down my face. It's that thin line, the line between laughing and crying.
He's unstoppable, watchable. His time is now, his insides out.
I listen to this over and over because the harmonies of "got it, good now get inside" it sends me to another dimension. I constantly want to stay there. 🤷♂️
I was thinking the "funniest thing" was Covid-19 as he's like "it's almost over, it's just begun" 'cause just when everyone thought covid was ending it kicked back in full force
Gosh this is all so traumatizing. I can’t believe it’s been more than a year.
@Bridger Bingham yes, I think this is the right interpretation. "It's almost over" is when his mental health was getting better, then "it's just begun" was when his mental health declining again. But I don't think it has anything to do with covid. It's just about his depression.
Pretty sure it's about the world ending actually. That's a theme to the special that is oddly ignored.
Or that his mental struggles seemed to have a clear ending point as he could return to performing. But then with corona, it was the beginning because now there is no clear end or goal to work towards.
I think it could just as easily be argued that it's a combining of both of those things as a parallel. He mentioned in an interview about Eighth Grade that there's a parallel between young children and people with anxiety in that they perceive "small" inconveniences as much larger because their frame of reference is clouded, either by a lack of experience or by paranoia and sensory overload. Similarly to that, I don't think it'd be far-fetched to say Inside presents the fleeting but inevitable "bad ending" of the world in general, whether it be by a global pandemic or by the climate crisis, as a parallel to the fleeting but inevitable "bad ending" that depression and anxiety anchors your mind to accepting as your reality. He mentions a lot of really distracting things about modern culture that we use to divert our attention from the parts of reality that we're scared of, in a similar way to how someone suffering from a mental illness might try to distract themselves in order to cope with it. It might just be me, but being a reflection on the parallels of one AND the other rather than adhering to one OR the other makes it much more powerful to me.
Thank you for not talking over the "story" part of the song like many of the other reactors.
Great reaction!
"Get your fucking hands up" possibly his depression/anxiety forcing him to surrender to them. It makes sense in the context of the song.
I love this song, specifically because I barely left my house for all of 2019, except to go to the hospital for chemo and radiation appointments to treat cancer at only 32 y/o. My last treatment was January 15th 2020. So needless to say, my return to a normal life, friends and family interactions, going to concerts or basically doing anything fun was undercut instantly and I had to return to my apartment that had already felt like a prison. I feel the "You say the oceans rising, like I give a shit, You say the whole worlds ending, honey, it already did" like a punch in the face.
The song feels like a simulation of him on stage and what he went through. When he makes eye contact, he asks if you’re feeling nervous, there’s only one pair of eyes on you. Thousands of eyes on him. Nobody except a few people can really relate to what that’s like. He hides his true feelings behind a stage persona (hinted at by him hiding his true voice)
The waters fine he says. To not overthink it. That’s the impression he wants to give the audience when he’s performing maybe. But the blue motif, the flailing arms, it’s all very suggestive of drowning which is a common sensation with panic attacks. The water is not fine in reality, but the audience can’t relate to it.
He seems to take you through a panic attack as he slowly devolves through the song. He’s shouting for the audience to get up and it’s like resentment, because of what he’s having to deal with the entertain them.
Man, I was depressed when this special came out. It was on repeat for me, specifically this song. The lyric “don’t be scared, don’t be shy, come on in, the water’s fine” felt like depression to me. Once you slip in, it is disgustingly comfortable to stay there.
"We're goin' to go where everybody knows everybody." Yeah, It's easy to know everybody when you are the only one inside. It's even more haunting when you realize that Bo has such a severe internal perspective of himself.
I think it adds a lot of emotion in the special because right before this he says, "I'm not alright" and begins to sob :(
When those harmonies hit, my dude looked like a startled Crab 🦀🦀 got me dyin and my sub.
I love how everyone has their own interpretation of what this song means to them. This is the song that everyone with depression and GAD needed to hear after last year.
“Funny feeling” or “possible ending song” next pls!
i second Funny Feeling. Probably isn’t a video of it on youtube, but it’s legit one of the best modern folk songs i’ve ever heard
That Funny Feeling is probably my favorite out of all of the pieces in "Inside" I'd love to see Brad react to that, especially from a singers perspective.
Your reaction to “got it good now get inside” is ON POINT
I take "all eyes on me" to mean being self conscious. Anxiety makes you think that everyone is judging you and analysing your behaviour in a negative way. Almost like there's a spotlight on you and you're completely exposed & vulnerable. "It's almost over, it's just begun" the anxiety builds, subsides for a moment, don't get too comfy, here it comes again 🥲. "Oceans rising like I give a s**t" not being selfish but when you've got anxiety engulfing you're entire existence there's not much space left to care about the ocean. I've had anxiety for years and this speaks to me. I feel you Bo
I struggle with anxiety and this song is a brick to the face for me. I can't listen to this without crying, yet I want to scream it to the whole world.
This song really resonates with me! My sister suffers from debilitating anxiety, panic attacks and depression. Her husband suddenly passed away 5 weeks ago and she has been forced to do things that she would normally not be able to do because of her anxiety… because she has kids. Bo has such an amazing talent of telling stories through song. I love this song so much!!!!! 🙏🏻❤️ I hope everyone suffering from these conditions knows that they are not alone and we love you. We must normalize mental health and help one another. ❤️🙏🏻
This is the saddest song i think i've ever heard. It hits home so hard. I also recommend checking out the version of this song that someone changed the pitch to be more like his voice without the changer.... hits in a totally different way.
Liked the video! A personal favourite part of mine was being able to see on your face the same reaction that happened to me the first time watching the video and his eyes look squarely at you... You recoiled, almost like it was uncomfortable that you knew he was going to tell you something that was going to change the way you look at everything.
Another good song from the special is "That Funny Feeling". Stay strong everyone, we're going to go where everybody knows everybody soon.
White Woman's Instagram is sadder...
@@springer1985 I feel like everybody can resonate with all eyes on me, but white womans instagram is very individual whether or not you like it
Can't Handle This hits me harder, but this one hits hard too.
@@empod I hadn't gone back and listened to can't handle this since these came out... Man that hits so much harder/differently after seeing inside.
Different genre completely but the saddest song I've ever heard is Sun Kil Moon - Micheline. The last section of the song kills me every time. Check it out and grab a box of kleenex.
My interpretation was a little more glum. The way I saw this song, especially when coupled with "That Funny Feeling", which comes right before, is essentially saying enjoy it while it lasts. The world is falling apart around us, but pay no attention to that. Keep watching my Netflix specials. Keep watching your UA-camrs and streamers. Keep distracting yourself from everything else that's going on, because nothing you do is going to change the fact that the world is going to end soon. Just have fun. Put your hands up, dance, do what you need to. Just don't think about what's going on around you. That's also why he says "pray for me". He knows that he's profiting from this situation, and contributing to that lack of awareness. It gave me the same uncomfortable sensation as being reminded that I can feel my clothes, or becoming aware of my tongue in my mouth (sorry for that, by the way). Only much worse. As I listened to what he was saying, I became aware of myself watching the special, and more acutely, the things happening in the world around me that I had been trying to distract myself from by watching it in the first place. To say that the end of the special left me shaken would be a colossal understatement.
I so appreciate this comment. I also think it has to do with something bigger than his isolated experience. He tends to be quite intentional about directing his songs toward societal issues that cause lots of harm and are readily disregarded or brushed under the rug (in addition to this song, I can’t get ‘welcome to the internet’ and ‘repeat stuff’ out of my mind). I’ve been bouncing between the idea of us becoming complacent and preferring to turn to our devices and isolated lives instead of our communities and the suffering that’s been happening for so long. Then the idea that everything is effed, and try all we want we’ve hit the tipping point. I appreciate the reaction video too because I hadn’t thought of the possibility of an inner dialogue contributing to the lyrics. Bo is an incredible creative! And love interpreting these things and sharing how we’re impacted.
YES! I felt the exact same way about this but I couldn't find the words to articulate it. The whole vibe of all eyes on me is that all hope is completely gone. I didn't understand the pray for me lyric but I really like your interpretation. I felt really uncomfortable during the whole song and the part where he yells at us to get up literally scared me. There are so many times when he interacts with us throughout the special but I just was not expecting him to come at us like that. I felt weird too when he was swinging the camera around and laughing because it didn't feel fun, it felt like someone just having a mental break.
Your reactions were perfect... For some reason seeing other people react to music that you feel the same way about is so fascinating. Great video bud
Wow man what a fantastic interpretation of this song being a conversation between him and his mental health struggles. As soon as you said that it felt like everything clicked into place. I’m subbing for sure.
I think this song spoke to me, and a lot of people for the same reason: it doesn’t have a message. There’s no broader point, or specific thing it’s trying to say. Things are just awful no matter what we do, how we react to them, or where we are in our lives. It captures a specific omnipresent feeling of dread in such a haunting, beautifully articulated way.
This is the song that was the core message of Burnham’s Netflix Special. It still hits hard. Those of us that were physically, financially, mentally or emotionally inflicted by the Covid pandemic knows *why and how* this song made such a contemporary inpact.
the harmonies make my hair stand on end. I've heard this song dozens of times and I STILL get goosebumps all over my body. i loved your interpretation of the depression talking that is actually really interesting and helpful.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the lyrics. I have difficulty interpreting lyrics sometimes, and you explaining helped out a lot. Love your channel!
6:50 that moment of realization is EXACTLY the same reaction I had when I first watched this special. God I got goosebumps
I dont get it, what's the realization for the "got it good now get inside" ?
Just found your channel today from your previous Bo "Welcome to the Internet" reaction. Loved the way you broke it down, and you just speak to the music and message. Loving your vibe and style. Definitely hit that sub button.
A great context for this song is his ending song for his previous special “I don’t think I can handle this”
Your reaction to the harmony addition is exactly what I did lol I had a physical reaction to it, it hits so hard!! Nice reaction here, well done.
dude i haven't even finished the video and im so comforted that someone else was physically repelled when he first looks into the camera at "are you feeling nervous?" I saw you lean back and shake your head a little, and that was my reaction the first time (and honestly still!!!) not enough people are talking about his EYES in this song. It's genuinely haunting and unnerving, like his eyes are inviting you into the depressive spiral. except the spiral is more like a whirlpool, and if you step in, you will only sink faster and faster. it's already plunged him down, here. it's like his eyes are a lifeline, desperate for anyone, anything to hold onto. I don't know if you even noticed it or talk about it, but your body language told me everything. One of the reasons I love seeing reactions to this song specifically. he's telegraphing a lot in those close-ups...
I know he's listed as a comedian, but none of this is laughing stuff! It's real life, issues that can drive anybody to depression.
I can only hope that the whole world learns from its mistakes, and we can reach a better future!
"the funniest thing happened..."
The panic attacks came back hard. You can tell.
The thing that happened was Covid. He was ready to come back and then everything shut down.
It was covid bc he got better and was ready to come back, thats what he said.
Your reaction had so much depth that I’ve now watched this video more than a handful of times because it put me in a brilliant and meaningful headspace. Thank you for posting this.I’ve watched a few reaction videos on his song but this was the one.
"All eyes on me" then he grabs the camera the way depression grabs a person. We are on the other side of the screen helpless to change it bc all the control of the screen is in his hands and we go where he takes us wether we like it or not.
If you have seen the special you will know exactly if hes ok or not at the time of recording this song.
This is a great explanation. Really insightful I actually like everyones reaction to this song there are so many different takes to this song to an optimist to pessimist perspective.
As a person with bipolar disorder which has anxiety and depression. This song just hits your soul. I felt like it was saying I want attention, but attention causes eyes on me and can I handle that? It could mean just going outside, going to work, school or performing live. It's an anthem for those who are dealing with an inner turmoil of being alive with your brain working against you some of the time, half the time or all the time.
I can resonate with this. I have appreciated thinking about the lyrics as some sort of inner dialogue. Ugh so healing and vulnerable. What adds to this for me is the potential of double meaning, like there being this global turmoil simultaneous to my own and having to fight with so many forces not wanting us to make our lives or other people’s lives better.
It's not that his anxiety immediately returned, it's that when you have anxiety/depression, sometimes it feels like the whole world is against you. Sometimes you have this feeling of, 'what's the point?'. Bo, in January of 2020, finally felt that he had improved himself to the point that he could start performing again. The 'funny thing that happened' wasn't a random return of his anxiety, it was the rise of the pandemic which didn't allow him to perform even he was ready. And not only could he not perform, but he was forced back inside alone. Literally the worst thing that could have happened to him. That's why 'You're not gonna slow it, heaven knows your tried' is such a perfect lyric. Bc it relates to the masses regarding dealing with the pandemic, but it also is him talking to himself, saying, 'well, you tried to improve your anxiety, the world won't let you, better to just accept it.'
That whole special is absolutely incredible, absolutely phenomenal.
"we're going to go where everybody knows everybody knows" sounds like two things to me: either isolation, because you know what you know ... and/or the internet, because it's like a virtual diary where we vent our frustrations, which results in everyone knowing what everyone else also knows. That line stumped me for a while. Spent a good 24 hours thinking about it.
Get inside. Your house and yourself. Also when he says we’re going to go where everybody knows; I hear everybody knows everybody, as in, your closest personal bubble of people for six months, but also everybody knows, as in, everyone knows your problems and vulnerabilities.
Just a beautiful piece of work and I hope Bo is doing ok these days, knowing what a gift he has given to us all.
And, following your interpretation, “Get you F’in hands up” can be the anxiety or the quarantine holding him hostage ... robbing him of his chance to re-enter. Like in a robbery or hostage situation ... they’d say, “Get your hands up.” Or is it the singer calling out to the non-existent audience ... or all of the above. Love how we hear an audience but as the camera pans ... he’s alone. Just brilliant and powerfully moving. Thanks. ✨🤪
"We're going to go where everybody knows everybody, knows everybody knows" - INSIDE (alone, just you and yourself)
This is my favorite song from the special. I also thought this was from the perspective of his depression- like, come on in... waters fine... don’t bother to fix anything you already tried.
I love that line. It’s like when you know the water’s cold but it’s more comfortable to stay in because it’s too much effort to get out
The whole song is masterclass, the "Whole world's ending" passage hits me every time.
He got me through my senior year in 2008, I turned 30 in quarantine while he was writing the songs of my generation. Now he's helping me through 2021. I'm forever grateful.
PS there were 420 comments when I wrote this
I saw tonnes of people trying to gain traction with a react to this but yours was one of the very few genuine and insightful reactions. Thank you🙏
it’s fantastic
the emotion is what matters, and you helped me unlock the target of the song, himself reentering the waters of the world after retiring
The youtube algorithms have been flooding me with choices of random reactions to this song, and because I was moved so deeply by his special I have watched many of them. I have watched a handful of reactions from people that don't understand at all where he's coming from, or the intentions with the song.
Your understanding of the performance was sensitive and refreshing, never seen you before, but happy to have found this video. Thank you for paying attention. Good luck with your content
Really loved watching this Brad :) Thank you
the metal sway in his voice when the harmonies come in remind me of a harmonica in a real good way
I'm not sure if this is a strange opinion to have but Bo burnham reminds me just so much of George Carlin.. The cynical societal thoughts, the stream of consciousness kind of presentation, the "hits a little too hard" comedy. But the musical aspect that Bo adds to his comedy is just so uniquely his and it's amazing.
yeah! he's referenced carlin as one of his inspirations. even in 'art is dead' bo mentions carlin :)
@@elijahmoths Oh that makes much sense!! Haha
@@_Bellamii_ also refers to him in left brain/right brain if i’m not wrong haha. so cool u could see where the inspiration came from !
you really helped me understand the lyrics man! awesome video and you got an awesome voice. keep it up!
this is easily bo's best work. like this is just pure art. it hits you in all the feels. its just incredibly deep.
I think one of my favorite things about bo and his songs are the style and formatting of his songs. Especially in Inside, I noticed he’ll give you a verse/chorus without any context and let you interpret it how you want, he’ll then feed you context through the rest of the song until we reach the same verse/chorus and with context it has a very different meaning. For this song it comes with the “are you feeling nervous” part where at the beginning you’re not too sure what POV he’s talking from but right after his intermission exposition section, you know exactly where it’s coming from and it has a totally different meaning than most people would assume right off the bat. He does this in white woman’s Instagram as well by “mocking” the silly photos and stuff but then opening up in the part where he (as the white woman) talks about her mom and shows vulnerability. After that part, you no longer see the silly photos as silly photos, but as someone desperately trying to move on and cover up their pain with a false image of being happy. It’s something I don’t notice happens a lot with modern day songs, which will sit at surface level and don’t show the real side of life, but rather, focus on turning a profit with the “silly photos” equivalent a song
I'm not into reactions, but videos about this get me. I went through something very similar, and when I thought I was getting back to life, there was covid. I told everybody it was gunna get crazy. People told me I'm insane. Here we are a year and half later.
Life takes a toll on people who try. It's easier to keep yourself protected. I never even knew I had mental health disorders. But I resonate there because I've done so much bad shit that I can see it now. What a trip.
Just commented on your other video man but you're responses are just so thoughtful. You take the time to articulate what your interpreting from bo and its honestly insightful, where as other "reactions" are just regurgitating the surface meaning of the songs. Top notch stuff. Gonna subscribe and would love to see a couple more songs from inside, but you got me
Just watched this and Welcome to the Internet's reactions from you, and you've clearly voiced exactly the reaction I was looking for. I've tried talking about this special with other people, and they just didn't get it. So thank you for that, and here's another sub
Every reaction and interpretation of what “all eyes on me” means is correct. It’s open to endless interpretations.
1:20 i am amazed that the audio sounds so good, like, this sounds like a studio recording but its in a room with no acoustic foam recorded on an average camera. I dont know how you did it but amazing job lol (Amazing voice too)
It’s not really an average camera, the camera he’s using is a Panasonic LUMIX S1H which costs like over $3000 plus shipping on Amazon.
@@jaydenvandersluys8477 The camera he uses in the segment i posted? It seems like a different camera than used throughout the rest of the video. Either way the audio is recorded on the mic rather than the camera, i just thought it was interesting how the camera/environment did not reflect the sound quality.
@@snekyspider4219 oh shit sorry I thought you where talking about the bo burnham video, my apologies I’m an idiot!
He's not recording audio on the camera. But even so, the SH1 is dirt cheap by Netflix standards. And tons of youtubers will have something of comparable quality. The A7s III is 3.4k usd, the GH6 will probably be somewhere in the high 2000s.
Probably my favorite reaction so far. It's surprisingly rare that reactions going in blind seem to get the context. Well done
This reaction video blew me away almost as much as the song - and indeed the wider "Inside" special as a whole - did. Phenomenal interpretation of this, and I just found myself yelling "YES!" over and over again when you delivered your opinions and thoughts of what certain aspects meant! I've never been able to have a conversation with someone intellectual enough to truly understand Bo Burnham as an artist.
The world already ended for a lot of us. That part hits me hard
You have a lovely voice Brad!
brad, honestly you need to watch the entire special. as a creator, as an artist, everyone will relate to every second of it. the unease that keeps building up, it is at it's crescendo here. it breaks me down every damn time.
I've listened to this song at least a hundred times at this point, and this time. THIS time. It hit me that when he breaks and grabs the camera off the stand that is exactly what a panic attack feels like. It's so disorienting and but the only thing you can actually focus on, the only thing you can see, is the thing that is causing the panic attack. It is mind-boggling to me that ever after a hundred listens, I am still finding things in his lyrics, in the chord progressions, in the harmonies, that keep me coming back for more.