Biggering and How Bad Can I Be? (Lorax lyrics analysis)

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  • @AnyNotEverything
    @AnyNotEverything  2 роки тому +362

    Update: got 88.33%

  • @CA-xx7no
    @CA-xx7no Рік тому +702

    I like to imagine Biggering is what actually happened and How Bad Can I Be is what The Onceler told Ted happened

    • @tigertempertantrum6573
      @tigertempertantrum6573 Рік тому +50

      ... Yeah, that has to be canon because that just makes so much sense. XD

    • @TuPapa...
      @TuPapa... Рік тому +32

      Yeah, biggering is like with more memory stuff like i remember when i smoke in my bif chair big hat, i remember when all the crowd was a fan of me
      And how bad can i be is like more surrealistic and more of a musical

    • @8bitbumps
      @8bitbumps Рік тому +6

      Omg that’s smart

    • @triday_dimroy5171
      @triday_dimroy5171 Рік тому +3

      Dude yes!!

    • @Cozm1k
      @Cozm1k Рік тому +8

      That’s the theory most people have. You can find other people saying the same in the comments of videos about Biggering.

  • @NectarNapper
    @NectarNapper Рік тому +559

    Love hearing the contrast between the happy and upbeat “how bad can i be” against the depressing and rock “biggering”

    • @elver2218
      @elver2218 Рік тому +22

      I would call it
      Epic build up decay of a person

  • @professormadhattgaming583
    @professormadhattgaming583 Рік тому +691

    I like to imagine that at the end of How Bad Can I Be, he’s wondering how much he can get away with before they stop him.

    • @Michealaflon
      @Michealaflon Рік тому +53

      "How bad can i be? Lets see."

    • @blockedjuser1272
      @blockedjuser1272 Рік тому +19

      But what he fails to accept is that he is the only one resposible to stop.

    • @Redman_real
      @Redman_real Рік тому +15

      ​​@@blockedjuser1272xactly its clear he has no regard for the law and also bribes them he is the one

  • @ontos8914
    @ontos8914 Рік тому +358

    I really wish we had gotten that slightly darker original version of the movie they clearly wanted to make

    • @FNAFfan.lovesFNaF
      @FNAFfan.lovesFNaF Рік тому +6

      Same 🥲

    • @farnell9344
      @farnell9344 Рік тому +19

      I think how bad can I be is really a good representation of how people justify obvious wrong doings while biggering he is aware, but just doesn’t care which also happens, but for his character I think how bad can I be suits him but doesn’t sound as good as biggering

  • @M.Ogames
    @M.Ogames Рік тому +458

    Something I realized is that in "How Bad Can I Be" the Loraz is trying to save the trees, but in "Biggering" the Loraz is trying to save the Oncler.

    • @FNAFfan.lovesFNaF
      @FNAFfan.lovesFNaF Рік тому +30

      :0
      Truth …
      Kinda weird isnt it ..

    • @Abdeena
      @Abdeena Рік тому +49

      Lorax is trying to stop onceler from cutting the trees lorax has always wanted a happy ending where the trees are safe and sound and so is onceler, he just wanted onceler to go away in peace so that no one is harmed.

    • @Abdeena
      @Abdeena Рік тому +15

      ​@ErikuISmaybeBACK are you telling me ur shipping some old man with a furry orange Pringle man?

    • @FNAFfan.lovesFNaF
      @FNAFfan.lovesFNaF Рік тому +7

      @@Abdeena NO !
      I would never do something like that uhh 😳

    • @YourLocalNerd69
      @YourLocalNerd69 Рік тому +4

      ​@@FNAFfan.lovesFNaFI AINT MAD OK👍

  • @vanilladip
    @vanilladip Рік тому +58

    “How bad can I be” gives “oops I accidentally joined the Italian mafia” vibes

  • @dilophosaur.1
    @dilophosaur.1 Рік тому +335

    how bad can i be fits better into the goofy theme of the movie, but biggering is the better song

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  Рік тому +165

      the fact they made such a goofy movie for one of dr suess's most serious books is just...

    • @elver2218
      @elver2218 Рік тому +39

      ​@@AnyNotEverything depressing?

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  Рік тому +65

      @@elver2218 I was thinking irresponsible but that works

    • @elver2218
      @elver2218 Рік тому +25

      @@AnyNotEverything Listening to it again in the video just makes me hate it more.
      Its just a neverending corporate jingle.

    • @deadmeme7030
      @deadmeme7030 Рік тому +12

      I think that clash of tones could have actually made Biggering more effective

  • @NineOneTwenty
    @NineOneTwenty Рік тому +60

    While I don’t mind How Bad Can I Be, I absolutely love Biggering. It sounds like it came out of a rock opera and the lyrics have this melancholy feel to them. Like the Onceler is reflecting on how only caring about the results and the bottom line got him to where he is now…

  • @magentawool2556
    @magentawool2556 Рік тому +62

    Everyone says this, but the meaning clearly changes by the latter half of the song. He starts off innocent, then he realizes he can get more power. The meaning changes from "Oh, how bad can I be? I'm just cutting down some trees." to "How bad can I be before someone stops me?"

    • @toastyeditz
      @toastyeditz Рік тому +5

      I don't know why no one realizes that. He literally says "How bad can I possibly be? let's see"

    • @astraamarante6233
      @astraamarante6233 3 місяці тому

      Any message about him trying to see what he can get away with is immediately undercut by his realization of just how much the environment was destroyed, which paints him in a naïve light and as though he didn't truly realize the damage he was doing.

    • @magentawool2556
      @magentawool2556 3 місяці тому

      @@astraamarante6233 yes, because that's human nature. People lie and cheat and scam, but once they're confronted with the consequences (in this case, the animals leaving and such), they realize "hey, that was really stupid of me"

  • @Entertainmentchaos24
    @Entertainmentchaos24 Рік тому +15

    Biggering is seriously a iconic word from the lorax, Like BFDI's number 2763.

  • @sergiogoni1108
    @sergiogoni1108 Рік тому +89

    With the similarities, I think Biggering could've been used as a darker reprise of How Bad Can I be?
    HBCIB would show his naive start and slow descent into greed, where is no longer about "How is this that I'm doing bad?" and more "How bad can I truly become?". Then Biggering would've made it clear that he has completely fallen victim to his own pride and now knows what he's doing is bad but he'll keep on doing it anyways to "survive".

    • @worthybutter2004
      @worthybutter2004 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, i agree. They should’ve used that idea for the film. Missed opportunity, right there.

    • @HyperTimeWaste
      @HyperTimeWaste 8 місяців тому

      They could’ve made the movie longer, changed then ending of how bad can I be, and made the movie get much darker from there leading to biggering and the fall of the last tree

  • @DanniIsASquid
    @DanniIsASquid Рік тому +56

    To me "How Bad Can I Be" feels like Oncelers perspective, but "Biggering" is everyone elses (or just the Lorax's) perspective
    (But hey, thats just my interpretation :P)

  • @zombiecombo7441
    @zombiecombo7441 Рік тому +100

    If you listen closeley to "How Bad Can I Be," the backround vocals start to say specific words, such as war, pork, yen, cut, squash, etc.

    • @itisrandom8868
      @itisrandom8868 Рік тому +13

      I also noticed that if your listen to the end of how bad can I be, where the onceler's voice becomes more corrupted and evil, If you listen really closely when he plays a strum on his guitar and the trees immediately fall, the strum sounds a bit like one of the notes from biggering.

  • @zuko6049
    @zuko6049 Рік тому +121

    I just watched a whole school assigned video and actually enjoyed it learning how deep bro pushed my brain into his knowledge of 2 songs.

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  Рік тому +10

      really surprised people did watch it

    • @zuko6049
      @zuko6049 Рік тому +4

      @@AnyNotEverything I truly thought you'd have more than 55 subs 😭 You need more subs bro

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  Рік тому +3

      @@zuko6049 thanks mate

  • @hihey_you
    @hihey_you Рік тому +142

    I think I’m unhealthily obsessed with the Lorax and I’ve watched and came up with so many theories and analyses it’s not good 😨

    • @hihey_you
      @hihey_you Рік тому +8

      I LITERALLY THINK ABOUT IT APL DAY

    • @cookiesandmilkpanda
      @cookiesandmilkpanda Рік тому +6

      SAME OSTG ITS GONNA BECOME MY NEW HYPERFIXATION.

    • @nxtsume9330
      @nxtsume9330 Рік тому +2

      @@cookiesandmilkpanda me

    • @ArisbeyBR
      @ArisbeyBR Рік тому

      Literalmente yo
      Me eh visto la película repetidas veces y todos los análisis de UA-cam

    • @Brilliant_bullfish11037
      @Brilliant_bullfish11037 Рік тому

      @@cookiesandmilkpanda for me it already has-

  • @ARanDomGuyOnTheInternet_
    @ARanDomGuyOnTheInternet_ Рік тому +90

    They made a song so true that now we can use it as evidence against their questionable decisions

  • @Mr.Yeast6000
    @Mr.Yeast6000 Рік тому +24

    Biggering is what I like to imagine what was kept from Ted, while secretly the onecler kept biggering locked up in his brain, he's been keeping from the world, only he knows about, the TRUE ending to his rampage on trees

    • @hopelessamaturerougeofhope4399
      @hopelessamaturerougeofhope4399 Рік тому +1

      I like to think biggering is something that the onceler regrets doing and is that one thing he doesn't really like looking back on all the details so we get a watered down version of it which is how bad can I be?

  • @IHaveInsomnia333
    @IHaveInsomnia333 Рік тому +10

    Hell of a school assignment

  • @dablloydtruther
    @dablloydtruther Рік тому +109

    something I recommend is making the music a little quieter,other than that this is a amazing video

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  Рік тому +17

      thanks, i got that feedback from some other people as well

  • @Salamooli_VI
    @Salamooli_VI Рік тому +17

    My theory is that “How bad can I be” is what The Once-ler told Ted but “Biggering” is what actually happened.

  • @Thechannelthatexistsforcontent
    @Thechannelthatexistsforcontent Рік тому +50

    They are both amazing songs

  • @WilliametcCook
    @WilliametcCook Рік тому +3

    "How Bad Can I Be" is more subtle with the slippery slope message.
    The main line is an innocent question at the start. "He's just one dude. What could he actually do?"
    The ending lines twist it, as the chorus repeats it behind lines like "And the PR people are lying!". "Oh," you say, "he could do _that!"_
    "Biggering" is _very_ blatant; see the line "Though the biggering is triggering more biggering!"

  • @Transmasc_Link
    @Transmasc_Link Рік тому +9

    I like to think biggering is what happened well How bad can I be? is what the Once-ler told Ted

  • @hieq
    @hieq Рік тому +6

    how the heck do you only have 125 subs you deserve way more this is amazing

  • @Average_FoxDoge
    @Average_FoxDoge 2 роки тому +26

    you need more subs fancy bc your vids are so good :D

  • @tippyship
    @tippyship Рік тому +4

    This Movie was oranginally going to be very different but since the staff that designed the oranginal can not choose to make it a movie but it would be cool and made a movie just using the scraped clips and songs

  • @Chris_wizz
    @Chris_wizz Рік тому +13

    I like how bad can I be but biggering is so much better

  • @goldgamer9160
    @goldgamer9160 Рік тому +7

    I like to think that how bad can i be is what the oncler thinks hes doing and biggering is what is actually happening

  • @F0X47
    @F0X47 Рік тому +5

    Remember I saw a theory where how bad can i be is what the onceler told ted and biggering is what actually happened

  • @rabiddonkeyy
    @rabiddonkeyy Рік тому +1

    great video thank you!!

  • @ChickenNuggetManCNM
    @ChickenNuggetManCNM Рік тому +1

    I hear a lot of people say that they like to imagine that How Bad Can I Be is what the Onceler told and Biggering is what really happened, but what I like to imagine is that after how bad can I be Biggering happened but Onceler left it out.

  • @blockedjuser1272
    @blockedjuser1272 Рік тому +4

    I feel like this is just confermation of the message. That corporate greed has mutch the same as the lorax drowned it out with noise.

  • @mr.mcknight9536
    @mr.mcknight9536 2 роки тому +9

    Cool Video.

  • @iLikeTheUDK
    @iLikeTheUDK Рік тому +11

    I think that ideally the movie would keep both songs, with Biggering coming later and How Bad Can I Be modified to have a bit less of Biggering in it. It would be made longer and fit more things between them to keep them not too close together, but I honestly think the idea of having a reprise of How Bad Can I Be in a different context would be really powerful. In HBCIB we see the Onceler just throwing around nonsense, this misreading of "survival of the fittest" that's made to excuse things like eugenics and imperialism, disconnected from what's actually going on, like some conservative propaganda account on Twitter or a PragerU video, maybe the Onceler kind of seeing the writing on the wall and trying to deny it. But then in a later song we see him not only reaffirming those same beliefs but DOUBLING DOWN on the harm he's causing in the name of those beliefs. We see what they actually translate to in practice (you should see the storyboard for this scene, it's great), and suddenly those words get a new meaning and feel different, and it's terrifying, in a good way. We see just how dangerous those ideas are and how monstrous the Onceler actually is, which after he previously seemed problematic but still cute and tame enough is shocking. How bad can the Onceler be? _Very_.
    Unfortunately this an animated feature film aimed at kids and intended on making the most profits possible, and now a three-hour stage musical :(

  • @SuperBatSpider
    @SuperBatSpider Рік тому +16

    The comment that put it best is this (Forget the Username):
    Biggering is what happened
    How Bad Can I Be is what you say in court

    • @ultrakid8497
      @ultrakid8497 Рік тому +2

      That actually makes sense

    • @SuperBatSpider
      @SuperBatSpider Рік тому +1

      @@ultrakid8497 Also, How Bad Can I Be works in context in my opinion. Contrasting by trying to deny you’re doing anything wrong while directly showing us you’re being awful. But the problem is when we’re being shown what the Onceler is doing, it’s all visual, and the audio in a SONG will obviously linger much longer, the song absolutely does not work without that contrast.

  • @potato7640
    @potato7640 Рік тому +4

    It's ironic they got rid of this song so they can bigger.

  • @cc-or1mp
    @cc-or1mp Рік тому +3

    bro you need way more subs

  • @cuddlycathy6951
    @cuddlycathy6951 Рік тому +2

    I feel like biggering happened after how bad can I be, considering the fact how he was already evil. HBCIB was the start of him being evil, and in biggering he was already evil.

  • @Toddmypookie
    @Toddmypookie Рік тому +1

    I'm like both song to be honest

  • @stelbertstylton
    @stelbertstylton Рік тому +1

    biggering didn't deserve this man

  • @davidcaceres9184
    @davidcaceres9184 Рік тому +2

    6:27 Twitter vs Mr beast

  • @EthanPlagueTheOneAndOnly
    @EthanPlagueTheOneAndOnly Рік тому +2

    I thought you had much more subscribers! 200k at least! What the hell? Why is nobody subscribing?

  • @MinaWalker
    @MinaWalker Рік тому +5

    I think the song “cuckoo” by Rob Cantor is better then both of these. Personally I’d say the onceler could absolutely pull it off ❤

  • @AnyNotEverything
    @AnyNotEverything  2 роки тому +16

    Like if you found this video while researching for a school assignment

    • @Addsup
      @Addsup 2 роки тому +8

      I just found it from recommendations after watching a bunch of let it grow memes

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  2 роки тому +4

      @@Addsup fair, i guess that would ve how most people find this video

    • @hello_ree
      @hello_ree Рік тому +1

      @@Addsup me too

    • @prxblematic_
      @prxblematic_ Рік тому +1

      im actually making a school project thanks for being a distraction i needed it /j

  • @georgemilkovich8791
    @georgemilkovich8791 8 місяців тому

    I imagine how bad could i be would be about the oncler earlier on while biggering was him at the prime of the business

  • @Abdeena
    @Abdeena Рік тому +1

    200th sub

  • @Xtreme_Official1
    @Xtreme_Official1 Рік тому +1

    cool

  • @Addsup
    @Addsup 2 роки тому +5

    tell your classmates i said hi lol

  • @ODSToftheMOJAVE
    @ODSToftheMOJAVE 8 місяців тому

    Anyone else CAN get how bad can i be out of your head?

  • @TheBird..
    @TheBird.. Рік тому +13

    Biggering should have been the song used instead of how bad can I be

    • @sakareeh
      @sakareeh Рік тому +1

      Fr but it was too realistic for illumination

  • @Vextonomy
    @Vextonomy Рік тому

    Was top ironic

  • @JoelTheParrot
    @JoelTheParrot Рік тому

    5:15 what? That's such a stretch
    ...AND THAT'S IN YOUR SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT?!
    otherwise great

  • @Rifilon
    @Rifilon Рік тому

    How babble can i be

  • @Kougga
    @Kougga Рік тому +8

    When having a look at 'How bad can I be' the background choir sings "how ba-a-a-ad can we be?" at some point.
    Listen to the choir at 2:10 of the song. They first say "How bad can I be?", but after that they change to "How bad can we be?" for 2 times. I don't know if they sing "he" or "we", but it doesn't sound like "I".
    You propably need earphones to hear it, you need to listen very closely. Perhaps I keep mistaking it, but I want tomeone else to check. 🥲

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  Рік тому +3

      I definitely think I hear what you are talking about, it sounds like "he" to me. But I can't find lyrics online that has that

  • @seanandre4432
    @seanandre4432 Рік тому

    I see it ass: "how bad can i be" the justification" and "Biggering" the truth

  • @SamsterHamster23
    @SamsterHamster23 2 роки тому +8

    C grade video

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  2 роки тому +8

      Eh, didn't get my grade back yet so I don't know

    • @AnyNotEverything
      @AnyNotEverything  2 роки тому +6

      oh wait, you're Ryan's friend

    • @SamsterHamster23
      @SamsterHamster23 2 роки тому +7

      @@AnyNotEverything Ryan doesnt have friends

    • @Rigby350
      @Rigby350 Рік тому

      @@SamsterHamster23 yeah bruh Ryan's like the gayest guy ever

    • @ryanlulw2812
      @ryanlulw2812 Рік тому +1

      @@Rigby350 who are you bro

  • @dr.coolsman9564
    @dr.coolsman9564 Рік тому +1

    🤓☝️

  • @victorbrachojr1114
    @victorbrachojr1114 Рік тому +2

    To be fair, I prefer How Bad Can I Be's latinoamerican version, Onceler sounds less stupid there haha

  • @Jamlord2061
    @Jamlord2061 Рік тому +2

    biggering is a more powerful song

  • @karlbergman5678
    @karlbergman5678 Рік тому +1

    I like this analysis, but I think the primary reason biggering wasnt used is because its a depressing rock song. I dont think ive ever seen a down beat, depressing rock song in a kids movie. How bad can I be fits better in the movie, but biggering is so much more meaningful, the lorax just wasnt the place for it.

    • @Flips_the_Scriptor
      @Flips_the_Scriptor Рік тому +5

      Thats probably one of the excuses that Illumination said to keep it out of the movie, but I think it's a combination of "ooo it's too dark children are watching this" and "why would we badmouth corporate greed if we have so many ties in advertising?"

    • @karlbergman5678
      @karlbergman5678 Рік тому

      @@Flips_the_Scriptor The entire movie is kind of anti-corporate which leads me to believe it wasnt a reason, but perhaps they dont want specific messages to be too loud

  • @aperson1842
    @aperson1842 Рік тому +1

    biggering better

  • @JSpleen
    @JSpleen Рік тому +2

    FARD

  • @LivMLund
    @LivMLund Рік тому

    It's a shame the music in the background is almost the same volume as your voice while you speak over it. I can barely focus on what you're saying or hear it a some points

  • @RandomGuyOnTheInternet833
    @RandomGuyOnTheInternet833 Рік тому

    team biggering reply here

  • @Rifilon
    @Rifilon Рік тому +4

    How babble can i be