Banana Man Is A Song About Drugs (And Criticising Religion)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Banana Man is one of the best songs to come from Tally Hall, and most people just consider it to be an absurd and meaningless bop, banger and everything in between. Those people are wrong, but that's alright, because no sane person should think anything more about a song with the chorus of 'do you want a banana'.
Anyways, it's about drugs, and probably religion too. If you need me to go into any more depth then drop a comment and i'll gladly respond :)
#joehawley #tallyhall #hawaiipartii
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.
@momsspaghetti5824 That doesn’t mean that they didn’t have other intentions.
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’
@@bottledfish.. one of the parts sounds like "look out, motherfucker" and theres the ending that quite literally sounds like BITCH
* this is the most deep thought provoking comment about chicken rap i've ever seen
It was a scrapped song reworked that was made up of mostly cuss words from an "edgy faze"
Tally Hall can make anything into a song with deep meaning apparently
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)
Kid named mucka blucka
I mean, one of their songs is just called "&"
@andistambury4366 it's rather obvious how & would be about duality but that's just me
@@getaround1276 it's also a banger
“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.
It is
You do not banana all the time
@@sledger2066
I second that
The context makes it sound even weirder tbh
I always just assumed this song was simply about insanity
AKA a man literally going bananas.
Great video!
Me too friend.
goat simulator pfp :D
Why go bananas when you can become a banana
That actually makes some sense lol
I honestly thought it was about a racist guy who was putting on an accent while selling bananas getting ridiculed by local people.
I thought that it was a slave owner who asociates his black slaves with monkeys, offering them with bananas.
@@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.
I would fall in love with anyone with an accent trying to sell me bananas. Black or white
@@virtualcynical8515unless you're singing the banana boat song. For some reason.
@@krowta2062 *ridiculous
It does range from banana's to electric shock therapy.
Is banana man in the same universe as TME?
dont forget 9/11
That's just tally hall
“Father, your honor, may I expla-“
“DIS BANANA FOR YOU”
@@ate_my_wheaties "fountain of infinite-" "BANANA"
Drug connection: very feasible
Religion connection: stretching very far
Guess you could say he went bananas
💀💀💀
Bannaner
another bananananger
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.
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
You were nearly the victim of the Banana Man.
Joe doesn't live in Detriot
@@thetigerstreakchronicles8169But he still lives in Michigan.
and everyone clapped.
@@Somedudewithaflareyfm reference1!1!!!1!1!!1!1!1
'spirit game' could just be like... a drinking game?
taking shots?
ya know spirit is a way of saying alcohol
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 🗿)
No, NO bananas make you go insane
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!
sniff it. shove the banana up your nostrils
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.
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 😂
don't take life too seriously
@@sympatheticflake890 “Wouldn’t the world be better off if we took nonsense more seriously?” -Marvin Yagoda
@@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.
@@sympatheticflake890 all tally hall fans ever do is take meaningless shit seriously
@@LugiDergX Consider, you making that giant paragraph is taking nonsense seriously
this song is also also about going *BANANAS* over *BANANAS*
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
All I gotta say 2 Kings 2:23-25.
OMG CHRISTIAN KOICHI!!! HAII!! HELLOOO!!!
@@JG_Wentworth we don’t talk about Old Testament here 🤫
@@Koichi-Kun Why not? Not a fan of debating the details of god enlisting Joshua to commit genocide? He left *_no souls._*
@@Koichi-Kun We don't talk about Christianity here
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
Banana man is like my favorite song
And the deep meanings in their songs always surprise me
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
i thought is was about a guy literally going bananas
Average Joe Hawley moment
I thought it was about the real Banana Man😅
I think saying spirits automatically means religion is a stretch but it’s definitely drugs
Well yes but Reddit atheists think more about religion than religious people
i see banana man.
do you?
I don’t 😡
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
tallyball, keep cooking. your videos are awesome, and you're underrated. waiting for more tallylores or miracle meanings.
This is interesting because I thought the song was about eating bananas🤷♂️
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
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
Joe Hawley: *breaths*
Tally hall fans: “write that down, it’s an acronym for 911”
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
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
I mean, I figured it was about the banana wars and the business plot...
Mucka Blucka is the deepest tally hall song change my mind
"no banana make you go insane" is also arguably about religion
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
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:
I personally think that the main idea of the song may be that it's a commentary on how many of us live lives that we hate and try to find any means of escaping for at least a little while. The line "tomorrow morning on the plane, no banana make you go insane" encapsulates the feeling of coming back home from a vacation and dreading having to go back to your daily routine more than craving another fix of drugs in my opinion. However, I definitely agree that drugs and religion are a theme, as those and our conception of vacations are all just means of escapism from the pain in our lives, and can all lead to unhealthy outcomes. I think that the main takeaway from the song is that we need to make a change in society to make our everyday lives more fulfilling, whether that be at the workplace or at home.
"Somebody has been smoking bananas"-Underbanana
0:01 I hate when those banana strands get in my mouth.
2:15 JESUS 😱😱
I love to see people throw their wild interpretations on vague songs, its pretty fun
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
the chonny jash cover for this song talks about this
One issue, Tally Hall confirmed it was a song about nothing.
Lets be real. Will they admit at that time
i start my new school year tommorow its 3 am tf im doing here
gaining much more important knowledge
@@tallyballYT There are things important and even more important
Banana
🍌
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
I choose to believe that this song is just about bananas
eoj yelwah is going bananas in this year 😊
Oh god, if this is true…. what has Mucka Blucka been hiding from us this entire time?
2:28 a Theory
BUT THATS JUST A THEORY, A TALLY HALL THEORY AAAAND CUT
This theory is bananas
The fact that I found this video on UA-cam music is kind of crazy, but very informative
Well...
Last time i checked, Bananas makes me go bananas...
I will have a allergic reaction...
"joe hawley is very well known for psychedelic drugs" well, thats one way to put it LOL
Is he actually? I can't find a source for this
@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
2:32. A song theory
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
I want some bananas
I don’t get the religion part but drug part is kinda obvious.
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.
I thought it was a monke at a circus who would give people banabnas as an act
Just let me listen to the funny banana music goddamn
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
i always saw banana man as a song about completely losing touch with oneself.
"you see guys, & is CLEARLY about how society is nothing but mindless anima-"
blows you up with my FUCKING MIND
Now that's why they give me trapped wind...hm...
Now, we've arrived, my friends. To the beginning, the TRUE beginning, I may add. The beginning of a core character. The name?..
nah he just really liked bananas
guys he's matpat in disguise
He takes a banana right after saying it is a metaphore for drugs . WOOOOOW
0:34 HE SAID THE LINE GUYS HE SAID THE LINE
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
And bananas
JESUS! (jesus appears)
Hey, hey, hey... why so mean? It's just a song...
Want a banana?
"Eating bananas" is literally a term for getting high, its little known slang according to google but I looked "is banana man a song about drugs" and that's what google told me, so take it with a grain of salt, especially because it came from redit.
i thought it was about getting used to a vacation and being hungover about it when you have to go back to responsibilities
"tommorow morning on the plane" - going back to the city and having to go back to work
"no banana make you go insane" - no more free time, having then being used to freedom you get hungover
You really whent bananas with this one. :)
It could also be about getting away from society and just being more laid back
i interpreted this song as a man that is crazy obsessed with bananas and trying to get others to understand him. idk how i came to this conclusion but i did
EXACTLY BRUH
I see the part where it's 9 o'clock as the drugs wearing off, where they got in a fight with their partner. Or the drugs just wore off and they feel like shit.
I love how the song is 4:40 seconds long(excluding the blackness in the end) which is 2 seconds less than the banana man song
I thought it was about taking a vacation
Next, do the Coconut song
Drugs definitely could have inspired religions around the world.
I just thought Banana Man was about Escapism in general or how the greatest moments of your life can pass by and returning to put your nose to the grindstone.
I’ve herd the song before, but I had no idea that it was made by Tally Hall. Good to know.
Spirit game could be a drinking game as well spirit does mean alcoholic drink
I love the idea of the banana man being a cryptid like Bigfoot or nesse.
no banana make me go insane? me when withdrawals
I have a small theory about the song.
“When it’s 9 o’clock and it’s getting dark and the sun is falling from the sky.” Is a very calm lyric, not energetic like how most of the song is, and it sounds almost sad. What I think this means is he views the world without “bananas” (Drugs) as a boring world, and just shows how much he relies on them. Came up with this theory in like 10 seconds, lol.
I think the birds represent pier pressure
i sing this song every month without fail
I loved the video and love seeing what meaning we pull from things without a clear understanding. I looked into this myself wondering about it’s meaning when I heard the song. Turns out tally hall went out of there way for this song to say it doesn’t have a meaning and it was purely because they wanted to make a fun and silly song. I still appreciate being able to see your take on the song.
"1 of 2 joke songs on the album" bro forgot Two Wuv exists
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
The bananas are truly the hidden ruler of their life 😔
Well, certainly, no banana make you go insane, so clearly you dont have taken a banana yet, do you want a banana?
im in physical pain from that intro. i have misophonia if anyone is curious why :)
Fist time: that’s crazy 💀
After this video: that’s CRAZY💀💀
i always thought he was just going *bananas*