Banana Man Is A Song About Drugs (And Criticising Religion)

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  • @grayanddevpdx
    @grayanddevpdx Рік тому +2982

    Funnily enough, Mucka Blucka can actually have a pretty deep meaning. It’s supposed to be a generic pop rap song, but the lyrics are just chicken noises. They were calling generic pop rap writers chickens for not innovating or being original.

    • @grayanddevpdx
      @grayanddevpdx Рік тому +133

      @momsspaghetti5824 That doesn’t mean that they didn’t have other intentions.

    • @bottledfish..
      @bottledfish.. Рік тому +160

      it’s actually theorised mucka blucka is a reworked version of a song tally hall made that only consisted of swear words, considering ‘mucka blucka’ is a play on ‘motherfucker’

    • @thecatacombhimself
      @thecatacombhimself Рік тому

      @@bottledfish.. one of the parts sounds like "look out, motherfucker" and theres the ending that quite literally sounds like BITCH

    • @TrueKrisDreemurr
      @TrueKrisDreemurr Рік тому +43

      * this is the most deep thought provoking comment about chicken rap i've ever seen

    • @mr.eggiplier4030
      @mr.eggiplier4030 Рік тому +29

      It was a scrapped song reworked that was made up of mostly cuss words from an "edgy faze"

  • @ilovetallyhallalot
    @ilovetallyhallalot Рік тому +1849

    Tally Hall can make anything into a song with deep meaning apparently

    • @Manicpixiedreamidiot
      @Manicpixiedreamidiot Рік тому +5

      They could’ve made a song that’s based on unicorns and how cute they look. And the song would be about how nothing is real and existentialism. (I’m gonna write a song about that)

    • @thecatacombhimself
      @thecatacombhimself Рік тому +33

      Kid named mucka blucka

    • @andistansbury4366
      @andistansbury4366 11 місяців тому +35

      I mean, one of their songs is just called "&"

    • @getaround1276
      @getaround1276 10 місяців тому +11

      @andistambury4366 it's rather obvious how & would be about duality but that's just me

    • @MemeLordCthulhu
      @MemeLordCthulhu 10 місяців тому +8

      ​@@getaround1276 it's also a banger

  • @Hungry-jg6lc
    @Hungry-jg6lc Рік тому +992

    “This bit just sounds like getting high. I don’t sense any religion here,” has to be one of the best out of context quotes I’ve ever heard.

  • @TheInvisibleCactusYT
    @TheInvisibleCactusYT Рік тому +1166

    I always just assumed this song was simply about insanity
    AKA a man literally going bananas.
    Great video!

    • @CØsmic_ElIteX2
      @CØsmic_ElIteX2 Рік тому +15

      Me too friend.

    • @Banana_Judge
      @Banana_Judge 10 місяців тому +8

      Why go bananas when you can become a banana

    • @carl_andstuff
      @carl_andstuff 8 місяців тому +1

      That actually makes some sense lol

  • @CORNERSTONEDELUXE
    @CORNERSTONEDELUXE Рік тому +465

    It does range from banana's to electric shock therapy.

    • @Nos1maj
      @Nos1maj 9 місяців тому +19

      Is banana man in the same universe as TME?

    • @suburbiaa
      @suburbiaa 9 місяців тому

      dont forget 9/11

    • @guhuploadssometimes
      @guhuploadssometimes 9 місяців тому +4

      That's just tally hall

    • @ate_my_wheaties
      @ate_my_wheaties 7 місяців тому +17

      “Father, your honor, may I expla-“
      “DIS BANANA FOR YOU”

    • @vivianhornegcc
      @vivianhornegcc 7 місяців тому +6

      @@ate_my_wheaties "fountain of infinite-" "BANANA"

  • @YeOldenImbecile
    @YeOldenImbecile Рік тому +1249

    I honestly thought it was about a racist guy who was putting on an accent while selling bananas getting ridiculed by local people.

    • @latiendadepaikawaii
      @latiendadepaikawaii Рік тому

      I thought that it was a slave owner who asociates his black slaves with monkeys, offering them with bananas.

    • @virtualcynical8515
      @virtualcynical8515 Рік тому +120

      ​@@krowta2062
      What do you think it means?
      It means that if you're selling Banana's and doing a Black Accent, People are gonna ridicule you for being Racist.

    • @AceMachine5
      @AceMachine5 Рік тому

      I would fall in love with anyone with an accent trying to sell me bananas. Black or white

    • @normanclatcher
      @normanclatcher Рік тому +18

      ​@@virtualcynical8515unless you're singing the banana boat song. For some reason.

    • @feetfinder488
      @feetfinder488 Рік тому +5

      @@krowta2062 *ridiculous

  • @Malarc695
    @Malarc695 Рік тому +319

    Guess you could say he went bananas

  • @guestb8389
    @guestb8389 8 місяців тому +107

    My favorite lyric from this song is
    "I've never left so early and you may wonder why."
    It's seemingly simple, but could hold a ton of depth when looked at a certain way.
    He appears to be leaving the "party", but it is much earlier than most other times. This could either be because he is starting to get sick of the "pure pleasure" experience and wishes to return to his responsibilities, or perhaps the highs from the bananas are wearing off much quicker than they used to and he has subconsciously taken note of this and has given up on chasing the "first high" he had from the banana.

  • @rapvelasco1932
    @rapvelasco1932 Рік тому +352

    I live in Detroit where Joe lives. I sat down ate a banana and in my window I see Joe walking by, and Im not joking

  • @TheDukesOfIDV
    @TheDukesOfIDV 8 місяців тому +103

    Drug connection: very feasible
    Religion connection: stretching very far

  • @tallyballYT
    @tallyballYT  Рік тому +378

    this is my first time using a green screen, so i'm sorry it's not perfect... it should get better as i use it more. also, i didn't quite have the budget for a very good lan mic (the little one clipped to my chest) so forgive me for the not great audio quality, i'm planning on upgrading asap. and most importantly, thanks for watching! i really hope you enjoyed :)

    • @Manicpixiedreamidiot
      @Manicpixiedreamidiot Рік тому

      You good. The green screen is really good lol. Good video! :))

    • @shrimpypyeah
      @shrimpypyeah Рік тому +9

      The clip mic is very well good enough I think

    • @manuuu..-
      @manuuu..- Рік тому +2

      i agree!

    • @shrimpypyeah
      @shrimpypyeah Рік тому +7

      The green screen was also not even close to the worst I've seen btw! You did and are doing very well, I think you have big potential (even out of the TH bubble, if you ever decide to step beyond that) and I'm genuinely excited to watch your channel grow (in some form or another)

    • @TheInvisibleCactusYT
      @TheInvisibleCactusYT Рік тому +3

      Green screens are fun
      lol

  • @Undersans
    @Undersans Рік тому +216

    I grabbed a banana, sat down, & clicked on the video . . . Maybe bananas aren't as innocent as I first imagined.
    Also, very interesting take on this song, & good analysis as always!

    • @dreitonn
      @dreitonn Рік тому +1

      sniff it. shove the banana up your nostrils

    • @ElAdriánLRZ
      @ElAdriánLRZ Місяць тому

      &?!?!?
      GOOD & EVIL REFERENCE?!?!?!?!

  • @bigrodent-kingofRNG9931
    @bigrodent-kingofRNG9931 Рік тому +128

    Me walking down a random alleyway of busy town only for a random man to offer me a banana (hell nah, bananas make you go insane 🗿)

    • @amcselili
      @amcselili 2 місяці тому

      No, NO bananas make you go insane

  • @someoneelse2413
    @someoneelse2413 Рік тому +122

    I don't usually comment, but the way you mix humor while also being able to dive deep into a seemingly shallow song while simultaneously keeping it short is genuinely admirable and you should proud. I hope to see your channel grow in the future, especially if you want to branch out of Tally hall content.

  • @babroosssgames5028
    @babroosssgames5028 Рік тому +78

    i thought is was about a guy literally going bananas

    • @tallyballYT
      @tallyballYT  Рік тому +29

      Average Joe Hawley moment

    • @T64-xy5tn
      @T64-xy5tn 3 місяці тому

      I thought it was about the real Banana Man😅

  • @MinaWalker
    @MinaWalker Рік тому +360

    I always interpret it as a man being too busy and uptight, and by the end of the song, he learns to have a little fun at times 😃
    Also Joe’s accent is fun to do 😂

    • @sympatheticflake890
      @sympatheticflake890 Рік тому +11

      don't take life too seriously

    • @MinaWalker
      @MinaWalker Рік тому +24

      @@sympatheticflake890 “Wouldn’t the world be better off if we took nonsense more seriously?” -Marvin Yagoda

    • @ChocoRainbowCorn
      @ChocoRainbowCorn 11 місяців тому +1

      @@MinaWalker Probably not. Not everything is supposed to be looked deep into and if you do, you can either help yourself or someone else OR you can absolutely backstab yourself and ruin yours or someone else's life. Kicking back and enjoying your life is one of the best things you can do while also recognizing how important it is to take responsibility for your actions, especially in social life and health (if one cares about it enough). I mean I can sense what you are getting at - That looking into things can help us avoid future issues but honestly, I and many others disagree and have relatively different perspective. Taking life too seriously more often than not is harmful for everyone involved.

    • @fordconnors4326
      @fordconnors4326 8 місяців тому

      @@sympatheticflake890 all tally hall fans ever do is take meaningless shit seriously

    • @chilfang2422
      @chilfang2422 6 місяців тому +1

      @@ChocoRainbowCorn Consider, you making that giant paragraph is taking nonsense seriously

  • @drog9235
    @drog9235 7 місяців тому +9

    I thought of it as just a description of what it's like to be introduced to a new culture, with the lines about being around a campfire, bananas, and going on a plane, returning to a city, while still remembering what that culture was like

    • @underthebunkgaming9353
      @underthebunkgaming9353 Місяць тому

      Thanks interesting but aren’t those also things that would refer to situations in which you would want to be high?

  • @awesomefox555
    @awesomefox555 7 місяців тому +9

    One line you glossed over but absolutely hammers home the drug connotations is “make up your mind and tell me no”

  • @donaddams8825
    @donaddams8825 7 місяців тому +27

    1:00
    The song starts in an alley, where the guy is trying to make sure nobody is watching... just more that could work in this one.

  • @noorangesoda491
    @noorangesoda491 Рік тому +39

    I had read a post on this where joe did an interview, and he admited to the song being inspired by a dream he had where there were "tribal" people were in a city like setting and they were playing music that sounded similar to what was played.

  • @LuvLettr
    @LuvLettr Рік тому +47

    this song is also also about going *BANANAS* over *BANANAS*

  • @Oliver_The_Goblin
    @Oliver_The_Goblin 11 місяців тому +20

    The beat of song makes me feel high and banana man just sounds like calling a drug dealer a candy man

  • @thefriendlyenemy7908
    @thefriendlyenemy7908 Рік тому +33

    I always interpreted it to be about literal bananas, albeit with spiritual/psychological effects when you eat them, to the point that a small cult was formed around it. I always picture (as though it were an animated music video) a regular business guy on vacation, gets mixed up in the wrong crowd when a guy keeps bothering him about bananas, sees some weird crap and literal spirits flying around and dancing at whatever weird bonfire this banana cult has going on and he's being forced to stay at until he eats a banana, things get REALLY psychedelic, he finally eats one at the big hushhhh part, and then everything appears relaxed and almost normal, and the business guy and the original banana man from the start look like good friends, hugging, pats on the back, blah blah blah, BUT THEN the next morning when the business guy is on his plane home from his vacation, he can't stop thinking about wanting to have bananas again (wow i guess there really are drug parallels) and he ends up jumping out the side of the plane with a crazed smile on his face as the rest of the passengers get sucked out the door behind him.

  • @RoboDuckie8972
    @RoboDuckie8972 Рік тому +33

    Banana man is like my favorite song
    And the deep meanings in their songs always surprise me

  • @noahsgettinhisboat815
    @noahsgettinhisboat815 10 місяців тому +10

    0:34 HE SAID THE LINE GUYS HE SAID THE LINE

  • @-Pipsqueak-
    @-Pipsqueak- Рік тому +40

    This song has been stuck in my head for three days straight. It seemed to have finally left my brain this morning and lo and behold, it has returned. There truly is no escape from the banana man. Oh well, I’ll put up with it, I love these tally hall song deep dives man, great job!

    • @loganhaynes9176
      @loganhaynes9176 6 місяців тому +1

      “… And lo and behold” is that a rotary park reference

  • @Josehuds69420
    @Josehuds69420 2 місяці тому +3

    Joe Hawley: *breaths*
    Tally hall fans: “write that down, it’s an acronym for 911”

  • @LFLRFPS
    @LFLRFPS Рік тому +16

    i've heard a few people say banana man was confirmed to be a joke song by joe hawley but i never found his pronunciation

  • @LitNotFig
    @LitNotFig Рік тому +22

    You should do an analysis on Spring and a Storm

  • @theplague5803
    @theplague5803 8 місяців тому +6

    2:32. A song theory

  • @promaster424
    @promaster424 Рік тому +11

    I think the first part is about summoning ancient spirits on the beach, the second part is about getting so high yo need to go to the hospital and the third part is about leaving everything behind and starting to live your life normally again

  • @Pumpkin_Carving
    @Pumpkin_Carving Рік тому +27

    I always joked about it being a song about a cult and drugs but now I'm sorta unironically believing it cuz of this lol. Honestly a really good analysis

  • @greycat1246
    @greycat1246 11 місяців тому +8

    I always saw this song as being about the Banana Republics, and more broadly how people are often told to not pay attention to where products come from
    The banana man refers to the bananas as being taken, and there's the whole section about how we should forget about considering if anything we've done has ever really been good

  • @JunoTheJackalope
    @JunoTheJackalope Рік тому +25

    This is interesting because I thought the song was about eating bananas🤷‍♂️

  • @mars7660
    @mars7660 8 місяців тому +2

    Mucka Blucka is the deepest tally hall song change my mind

  • @Manicpixiedreamidiot
    @Manicpixiedreamidiot Рік тому +9

    2:15 JESUS 😱😱

  • @bealea1127
    @bealea1127 Місяць тому +3

    Its not about drugs, its about banana man.

  • @icepl831
    @icepl831 5 місяців тому +24

    'spirit game' could just be like... a drinking game?
    taking shots?
    ya know spirit is a way of saying alcohol

  • @I_Am_Very_Bored
    @I_Am_Very_Bored Рік тому +27

    joe has some of the weirdest music ever. i love it. but i personally believe that banana man is just a song without meaning, and it's just a song about bana and fun. i do love to hear other interpretations though

  • @FreddOtaku
    @FreddOtaku Рік тому +13

    tallyball, keep cooking. your videos are awesome, and you're underrated. waiting for more tallylores or miracle meanings.

  • @Gregory_12
    @Gregory_12 7 місяців тому +4

    0:01 I hate when those banana strands get in my mouth.

  • @agentmothman
    @agentmothman Рік тому +33

    i see banana man.

  • @kaszankanya
    @kaszankanya Рік тому +11

    i start my new school year tommorow its 3 am tf im doing here

    • @tallyballYT
      @tallyballYT  Рік тому +6

      gaining much more important knowledge

    • @kaszankanya
      @kaszankanya Рік тому +1

      @@tallyballYT There are things important and even more important

  • @Stix17-s4w
    @Stix17-s4w Рік тому +5

    eoj yelwah is going bananas in this year 😊

  • @Explosive_Ukulele
    @Explosive_Ukulele Рік тому +9

    Dude pls keep these kind of videos going because I'm currently trying to hold my laughter. Genius video. Imma keep watching now, wish me luck

  • @_ocuious
    @_ocuious Рік тому +8

    Oh god, if this is true…. what has Mucka Blucka been hiding from us this entire time?

  • @krockpotbroccoli65
    @krockpotbroccoli65 Рік тому +8

    My wife introduced me to this stupid brainworm song a few days ago. I agree with your assessment. However I do think there are tinges of drug induced psychosis/ schizophrenia given that our main character is strapped down to a gurney and being wheeled around a nuthouse at multiple times in the music video.

  • @kassidy9744
    @kassidy9744 Рік тому +7

    How I LOVE this kind of videos explaining the meaning of tally hall songs
    I always thought Banana Man was just a song about bananas xd
    Nice video btw c:

  • @oofbi_gremlin
    @oofbi_gremlin Рік тому +3

    what i think is that its just a really busy guy taking a ( very insane ) vacation then going back home,

  • @puppydougan7430
    @puppydougan7430 10 місяців тому +2

    Well...
    Last time i checked, Bananas makes me go bananas...
    I will have a allergic reaction...

  • @Nightcorefrom2010
    @Nightcorefrom2010 Рік тому +3

    Just let me listen to the funny banana music goddamn

  • @Someone-sq8im
    @Someone-sq8im 8 місяців тому +5

    There’s also how, throughout the song, “de” is used instead of “the”. This distinction is common in Caribbean countries. The discussion of spirit games is superficial and likely romanticized. To top this off, in the beginning, there’s the talk of “*Zimbabwe* songbirds”. Not only is Zimbabwe a far-off location, its name even sounds exotic.
    Tally Hall, meanwhile, is four white guys.
    Banana Man has themes of cultural appropriation or something; idk, it’s like 10pm here and I’m tired

  • @brasunlol
    @brasunlol Рік тому +2

    Now, we've arrived, my friends. To the beginning, the TRUE beginning, I may add. The beginning of a core character. The name?..

  • @bennerdinner646
    @bennerdinner646 5 місяців тому +1

    "Somebody has been smoking bananas"-Underbanana

  • @notoriouswhitemoth
    @notoriouswhitemoth 6 місяців тому +1

    I mean, I figured it was about the banana wars and the business plot...

  • @Thebirdman206
    @Thebirdman206 11 місяців тому +2

    i love the fact that you made every "the," into "de."

  • @eggseed6543
    @eggseed6543 2 місяці тому

    I love to see people throw their wild interpretations on vague songs, its pretty fun

  • @FailureGamin
    @FailureGamin 11 місяців тому +5

    nah he just really liked bananas

  • @stinkystonerharvey2774
    @stinkystonerharvey2774 11 місяців тому +2

    i always saw banana man as a song about completely losing touch with oneself.

  • @sadsnow8040
    @sadsnow8040 3 місяці тому +1

    3:11 he’s on a hospital bed, which, if people take too many drugs, you get hurt. So, maybe he’s overdosing?

  • @fiid-ui5uf
    @fiid-ui5uf Рік тому +7

    a few months ago i actually analyzed banana man and concluded that it was about drugs i can not believe that this video just proved me right

    • @fiid-ui5uf
      @fiid-ui5uf Рік тому

      hes saying what i was saying

    • @mari-with-a-gun
      @mari-with-a-gun 11 місяців тому +2

      Well not necessarily. Analyses can’t really be “right.” And if you want to define a “right” analysis, it would probably whatever the original creator intended
      And Joe Hawley did not intend this song to be about drugs
      /lh(lighthearted)

    • @ChocoRainbowCorn
      @ChocoRainbowCorn 11 місяців тому +2

      There are multiple different interpretations of this song, ranging from drugs, through societal and mental health issues to just a silly banana song and and nothing more. I think interpretations can be highly subjective and there is no single one that's ever right - So many different opinions and interpretations can be right all at once that it's actually hard to believe but that is the case here for example. However, if we look at what the writers of the song themselves have apparently said, we get the most objective/grounded in reality meaning of the song (outside of interpretations/interpretation intended by the writer) which is that the song apparently has no real meaning behind it outside of just being silly (this is only what I have heard, no idea how real that is)

    • @ChocoRainbowCorn
      @ChocoRainbowCorn 11 місяців тому +2

      @@mari-with-a-gun Even if lighthearted, it can go a long way to actually explain the writer's intention behind the song. They are the person who wrote it after all and so their interpretation should be the most important one to take into consideration - We are still obviously allowed to interpret the song to our own meanings but we shouldn't plain just ignore what the writer himself was trying to write about. You, my man, although I'm not sure how right what you say is, as this is my first time in life with this song, have a solid point :)

    • @mari-with-a-gun
      @mari-with-a-gun 11 місяців тому +1

      @@ChocoRainbowCorn thank you so much, I’ve been stressed out with finals and that really helps

  • @SlamDunkPyro
    @SlamDunkPyro Рік тому +3

    Can I give a genuine shoutout to Steve for committing to that grey face paint for the video despite not staying in the band lol that probably felt awful to put on and take off

  • @clemclemclemclemcl
    @clemclemclemclemcl Рік тому +5

    do you see drug jesus man

  • @parkerlarson6692
    @parkerlarson6692 Рік тому +9

    I think saying spirits automatically means religion is a stretch but it’s definitely drugs

    • @alfalldoot6715
      @alfalldoot6715 10 місяців тому +3

      Well yes but Reddit atheists think more about religion than religious people

  • @Neptun35
    @Neptun35 Рік тому +6

    I want some bananas

  • @avian1799
    @avian1799 8 місяців тому +1

    1 second into the vid and he‘s eating a banana with the Stringy stuff. Unconscionable

  • @moonycat
    @moonycat 11 місяців тому +4

    I choose to believe that this song is just about bananas

  • @poundlandrasputin4801
    @poundlandrasputin4801 9 місяців тому +1

    Spirit game could be a drinking game as well spirit does mean alcoholic drink

  • @isaacmancool
    @isaacmancool Рік тому +5

    very good analysis! would love to see more

  • @rivers-cuomos
    @rivers-cuomos 8 місяців тому +1

    i genuinely thought the song was just about a guy going to normally take out his trash but he saw some plastic birds and started going absolutely crazy

  • @dr.coomerclone146
    @dr.coomerclone146 6 місяців тому +1

    I thought it was about taking a vacation

  • @crazycrazycatkid
    @crazycrazycatkid 6 днів тому +1

    DONT DO DRUGS OR DRINK! IT COULD LEAD TO FATAL CONSEQUENCES!

  • @shisue1397
    @shisue1397 9 місяців тому +2

    This theory is bananas

  • @audiping3691
    @audiping3691 Рік тому +3

    I've always felt like this song could be about a cult or a different religion than cristianity, banana man is their deity, and the guy who's talking is the leader, he wants to convince them to join "Do you want a banana?"
    the next lines could be seen as some type of ritual "Tonight we dance around the flame
    Then we get to play the spirit game
    Spirit names we shout out loud
    Shake the thunder from the spirit cloud"
    He's trying to convince you to join the cult here
    "Do you want a banana? (Do you want a banana)...
    Look you your too uptight you know
    You can laugh and kick it back and go (we)"
    Then he tries to manipulate you by telling you that, without this religion, your happiness is gone, you depend on it
    "But without a rhythm or a rhyme
    You do not banana all the time"
    You need it, the city represents your reality, you want to scape it
    "Fly away from city on the run
    Try to make a little fun"
    "Look you come to the bungalow
    Make you shake until the bum go numb
    Let the bungo play you 'til you drop
    This banana never stop (never stop, never stop)" this religion is going to take everything from you, go numb, never stop
    "Forget all your troubles and go with the flow..." this whole section is telling you to forget your responsabilities in "town" for this cult
    "... And then forget about banana when it sticks in your throat" banana is this religion, and even if it's killing you, taking your air, you don't notice or won't
    "That'll make you take another and make a mock of your plan" your plan refers to your way of living in the "city" banana is going to take over it
    "Bungale bungalo make up your mind and tell me no umm shh" They're pressuring you to make a choise
    "Well it's nine o'clock and it's getting dark
    And the sun is falling from the sky
    I've never left so early and you may wonder why" you join them but end up opting out of it to go back to your life
    "Tomorrow morning on the plane
    No banana make you go insane
    Floating back to busy town
    No banana make you want to frown"
    Here the dependency to this other lifestyle shows, you need it
    Sorry for bad English

  • @Dystdotmp4
    @Dystdotmp4 11 місяців тому +3

    "joe hawley is very well known for psychedelic drugs" well, thats one way to put it LOL

    • @nathanmcgill7249
      @nathanmcgill7249 10 місяців тому

      Is he actually? I can't find a source for this

    • @Dystdotmp4
      @Dystdotmp4 10 місяців тому +1

      @nathanmcgill7249 some allegations came out a few months ago, iirc joe was offering psychadelics to a 16 year old fan, or something like that? just what i heard though, no idea how true it is

  • @fabianulyssesascencio3729
    @fabianulyssesascencio3729 9 місяців тому +4

    2:28 a Theory
    BUT THATS JUST A THEORY, A TALLY HALL THEORY AAAAND CUT

  • @ScirioBirdLover
    @ScirioBirdLover 8 місяців тому +2

    Watching on YT music, awesome video

  • @purpleguy....
    @purpleguy.... 8 місяців тому +1

    but that's just a theory a game theory

  • @gripen777
    @gripen777 Рік тому +3

    Next, do the Coconut song

  • @EuphoricPentagram
    @EuphoricPentagram 6 місяців тому

    I see it as a type of trippy ritual going along spiritual motifs like those of time and Mr moon

  • @TallHally
    @TallHally Рік тому +6

    Banana

  • @too_online.3441
    @too_online.3441 7 місяців тому +4

    "no banana make you go insane" is also arguably about religion

  • @myshelleseamore6319
    @myshelleseamore6319 11 місяців тому +1

    This is clearly a guy who give ppl magical banana that make them chill

  • @billo770
    @billo770 Рік тому +1

    i think the peels in the ally way at the end of the music video is supposed to resemble used needles or cigarette butts

  • @uniformsyter927
    @uniformsyter927 11 місяців тому +3

    And bananas

  • @LoganLowery-n5v
    @LoganLowery-n5v Рік тому +18

    DO U WANT A BANANA

  • @bonsaikittenmew
    @bonsaikittenmew 7 місяців тому +1

    My interpretation of the song is that it’s just a satire of those old racist songs that have weird asf lyrics but are a bop

  • @treflecrystal
    @treflecrystal 8 місяців тому

    I personally take the hospital bed part as him being tied down for him to not be able to take drugs (last ditch effort to make them stop being addicted but overly dramatized) instead of him being forced to take them

  • @rose_no
    @rose_no 8 місяців тому +1

    Yeah, I though it sounded like it was about drugs when I heard it :P

  • @medic6994
    @medic6994 7 місяців тому

    I always liked the idea that the song was a story where a business man finds a travel agency flyer in the trash, spends all his money and vacation days on going to the Caribbean, does drugs there, comes home, tells all his coworkers, with the restrictive table thing being society trying to normalize him, the slow part being him realizing he wasn’t happy with his routine and day to day life, and the ending bit being him taken to an asylum because he doesn’t fit in with societies desire for him to be complacent

  • @josephmeluso2377
    @josephmeluso2377 2 місяці тому

    I happened to remember the fever dream that is the Banana Man video, then this video popped up in recc's, and from there I'm hooked on your channel. Well done, even though I'm barely a Tally Hall fan

  • @judebug1997
    @judebug1997 Рік тому +2

    banana man-velous

  • @Koichi-Kun
    @Koichi-Kun Рік тому +212

    As a Christian I can personally say that religion does make people not confront their problems and instead put all their faith in higher powers, I mean look at misery fell

    • @JG_Wentworth
      @JG_Wentworth 11 місяців тому +5

      All I gotta say 2 Kings 2:23-25.

    • @ChromiusLain
      @ChromiusLain 11 місяців тому +2

      OMG CHRISTIAN KOICHI!!! HAII!! HELLOOO!!!

    • @Koichi-Kun
      @Koichi-Kun 11 місяців тому +2

      @@JG_Wentworth we don’t talk about Old Testament here 🤫

    • @JG_Wentworth
      @JG_Wentworth 11 місяців тому +5

      @@Koichi-Kun Why not? Not a fan of debating the details of god enlisting Joshua to commit genocide? He left *_no souls._*

    • @PouLS
      @PouLS 10 місяців тому

      @@Koichi-Kun We don't talk about Christianity here

  • @im_genuinely_confused
    @im_genuinely_confused 8 місяців тому

    A friend of mine showed me this song as the first I've ever heard from Tally Hall that wasn't the happy monster band

  • @SireD-si2xt
    @SireD-si2xt 9 місяців тому +1

    Hey, hey, hey... why so mean? It's just a song...
    Want a banana?

  • @rapvelasco1932
    @rapvelasco1932 Рік тому +5

    What amazing quality video
    Its just marvelous

  • @lotsalogic
    @lotsalogic Рік тому +2

    I could really go for a banana rn

  • @schneedlemusic
    @schneedlemusic 8 місяців тому +2

    you have such a deep sensual voice

  • @Bugsinyourskin2000
    @Bugsinyourskin2000 11 місяців тому

    Tallyball never fails to make me bust with ooey gooey goodness

  • @bailfoat3513
    @bailfoat3513 11 місяців тому

    i always interpreted this as a kinda cult like circus (because of the intro), and the first part is our perspective finding out about it. then being convinced into indoctrinating others (because of the line where he says "you do not banana all the time" meaning that the others do not "banana" all time, saying that they dont take time for themselves and let their worries leave, and saying that the cult will give them that) then this leads to the main character ultimately going crazy in a sense and becoming heavily reliant on the cult and having to be sent to a mental facility to learn how to survive on his own, and after that suffering some kind of ptsd (because of the part that goes from quiet calm to loud energetic parts again)