When you get to All Eyes On Me, do yourself a favor and watch the part of the special leading up to the song as well. The context behind it is VERY important to the song's meaning and a very specific part of the song itself. You will not be disappointed.
Absolutely. I would also recommend making it a movie night for yourself, like a whole personal event. Please give yourself the grace to really get comfortable for it. On your TV if you have one. You might think it's too personal of a setting, but trust us, that vulnerability is the ENTIRE POINT of Burnham's 'Inside.' I'm sure we would all like to see you in the thick of emotions (as we all were) when we got to "All Eyes On Me" And, since you probably can't react to the whole special without getting copyrighted, the last couple songs could suffice as a "proper" reaction video!
Not really it says more anout warped perception wbich os a common issue Statisticlu the beleif of somthing normaly outwights the actual act several times over
I love how in White Woman's Instagram, when it gets to the middle with the part about his mom, the camera sort of widens horizontally to the screen, it's like showing that the character is being 'real' in that part and then it slowly goes back to being square like before. It's such a good song, it teases you in to laughing at these types of people, and then reminds you that they're just humans expressing themselves in a now cliché way
Like for that one moment you can see the full picture. Before it narrows again. That song is an artistic masterpiece in my opinion. The song itself is basically also like what he describes. So much distraction around it, that you might even miss the moment where the real feelings, the struggle shines through, before the facade is reestablished.
@@TheAlja But after that widened screen part the rest of the song gets a new context and even the phrasing changes. After you hear about how her mother died and how she wishes she could show the mom her new apartment, job and lovely boyfriend and that her daughters is not a bad person, the following Instagram posts are about at least trying to think about the well being of others even if failing (the misguided political posts and quotes), buying stuff for her apartment and about her marrying the boyfriend she loves (it is not just "a glass of wine", but "a simple glass of wine", and not "a ring" but "a ring from the man I love"), which are the things she is sharing because she can't show them to her mother. It begs you to consider that even the shallow stuff, even if posed, IS still part of who she is or is trying to be to some extent. I mean, wedding pictures are the epitome of posed, but that doesn't mean the feelings are not (or could not) be real.
The square is in the exact same aspect ratio as an Instagram post and so by widening it it's literally telling you this is Outside of Instagram and that these people are much more than just what fits into that little box
People need to stop saying Bo had a ‘mental breakdown’ and took 5 years off between these specials. In that time he acted in ‘Promising Young Woman’ and wrote and directed ‘8th Grade’! It’s not like he was in an insane asylum, he literally achieved more than most of us will in a lifetime!
@@iainmcguire7190 Alice said ‘mental breakdown’ in the reaction! And she’s not the only reactor or person whose thought that Bo had stopped working for 5 years. My only point is that he’s actually been very active and his ability to express these feelings successfully is actually proof that he’s doing fine
*mental breakdown* doesn't always mean insane asylum. And idk for sure how Bo would have classified it, but it was enough of a "mental breakdown" that he had to stop performing. He was having regular panic attacks. To me, someone who suffers from anxiety and depression, that classifies as a breakdown. Yes, he was still able to work and do life, but he wasn't doing it live in front of a crowd because that was too much for him at the time.
@@terminatrix92 u overreacting. No one thinks mental asylum when u say mental breakdown. He simply had some panic attacks on stage so he stopped live performing for couple of years
I must say I found it extra hilarious when I finally noticed your avocado plushie and the octo's flower crown in the corner during white woman's instagram lol
@@Aliceingingerland no worries that song dings all of us. I showed it to my mom and (even though it wasn't on instagram) she started sending me screenshots of every thing he mentioned that I've done and it was.... a lot hahaha
Your infectious enthusiasm was just what I needed tonight, so thanks Also the bit in white woman's Instagram always hits me in the heart as someone who has lost a parent, which is why it's my favourite song of his.
He probably has had voice lessons recently but also in the past when he's sung he's pitched his voice up for comedic purposes whereas this is his natural singing voice.
Also, I'm pretty sure that he is using Autotune in Inside, as it was intended to be used (and wasn't on previous specials except turned way up for Can't Handle This). It was developed to make people's voices sound better than they actually do, then artists discovered it sounded cool if you turned it up "too far" and made that sound we now think of as autotune. To my ear, Bo is using it very expertly throughout Inside, then tweaked for All Eyes on Me. It's great, his tone is so rich! You can tell every once in a while, there's an edge to the sound. He may also have had singing lessons, as it seems like the autotune isn't having to correct pitch that much but rather is adding depth and timbre to the sound.
@@nahadoth2087 I'm actually not sure he uses Autotune, it might be Flexpitch within Logic Pro X. He definitely is using Logic Pro X in Inside. That not only pitch corrects - which can make a big difference in how listeners experience the sound anyway - but also smooths vibrato and raises or lowers formant and a bunch of other stuff. This video ua-cam.com/video/z8tqojYN6TQ/v-deo.html gives an example around 13:35 that actually sounds a lot like Bo's younger voice, and pitch correction and vibrato adjustment make it sound richer to me. But not as rich as Bo sounded in Inside, so I totally agree that him getting older, perhaps plus vocal training as others have said, is probably also part of the improvement. My voice teachers always said that peak vocal age is after 30!
In WTTI, he’s basically a snake oil salesman for the Internet. He grabs your attention by showing you this wonderful, shiny thing… and he tells you why it’s great, and slowly trickles in some of the cons with the pros, and the cons become more frequent, and increasingly worse, but you don’t notice them because it’s all being thrown at you so quickly and then when he sees he has you hooked, he sings a beautiful sort of lullaby’s about how much you’ve grown thanks to this wonderful cool thing, and by then he has you. So he evil laughs, because it worked. And then you belong to the evil man forever lol. White Womens Instagram is great because he plays up the stereotype of the typical, basic, white girl posting about ridiculous nothing, but then the aspect ratio widens to ‘real life’, and he describes how that ridiculous girl it’s fun to poke fun at is still human too, and has human feelings, even if they’re hidden by mundane materialistic things.
@@Aliceingingerland The patreon thing: Look, you said "I don't have enough disposable income for multiple frivolous tv subscriptions....I was like "I can spare $5 toward that cause..." clicked your info....no way to send money. I'm sure a few others would've had the same sentiment were it an option.
Bo has always been a decent singer, but it’s much easier to tell how good it is on “Inside” when he’s in a more controlled environment and gets multiple takes and post production to clean up the track. He still sounds pretty great in “Make Happy” live on stage
Bo is a genius. Welcome to the Internet is so true, and so creepy. Like, what have we done? And the serious part in the middle of White Woman's Instagram makes me tear up. I'm not a woman, and my mom's not gone, but the delivery of those emotions just really hits hard. I think that was his way of saying yeah, we laugh at the dumb stuff people post online, but they're still real people with real issues. Beyond that the song is absolutely beautiful. The music, his vocals, the video itself, all perfectly executed.
I always feel compelled to make this point on White Woman Instagram. Bo makes fun of these women yes, but the part about the dead mom shows that he is fundementally empathetic towards these people he is making fun of. He does this because he knows that, just like the video, he is in their exact same position, doing what they are doing: he is curating his life for an internet audience, him with his comedy, them with their Instagram. They arn't any different, they both just need to be recognized, and both have a life underneath the persona, filled with struggles. He makes fun of them the same way he makes fun of himself, but it has to come from a place of love if he wants to expect the same. He needs to open up about his own struggles, and so he gives a place for this hypothetical woman to also open up, in the section of the video where the aspect ratio also opens up, and bursts outside the confines of an Instagram aspect ratio. Bo knows they are one and the same.
I always interpreted it as drawing the audience in to be judgmental, and then humanizing the women who need to escape the tragedies and sorrows of their lives just like everybody else. We all cope with the difficulties of the world in different ways, it just so happens that society denigrates the hobbies that women use to do it.
@@HollowGolem exactly thank you. When this first came out I would see so many people like "the point is about how the woman is oversharing and putting serious personal things next to frivolous things. isn't she so stupid". I couldn't for the life of me understand how they had come to such a different conclusion than me and it's nice to see other people saw it the way I saw it.
One of my favorite parts of this is the cinematography where he pans out from portrait view(like a phone) to landscape view and you can then see the mess in the room when he is talking about something real in life like loosing a loved one. The symbolism of how life really isn’t about the curated version of ourselves we put out on the internet for the word to see is powerful.
I'm so so excited for more Bo Burnham reactions! They're all such good songs! But my heart, thoughts, and prayers go to everyone out there in a tough spot right now! I had no idea about the intense rains and flooding in Australia right now! 💚
I was so looking forward to this! I was not disappointed! It was delightful to see you enjoy it as much as so many of us have. All of Inside is amazing. And yeah - his eyes are very blue AND he's...um..."blossomed" rather positively in the last 5 years in many ways. Lol. I was only guilty of maybe three things he mentioned, but it was absolutely spot on, right? He didn't really disappear nor have a breakdown which would preclude him from acting in a few movies and writing/directing one of his own. Only his live performances were on hold. You might want to watch Promising Young Woman. He plays opposite Carrie Mulligan and is really impressive as an actor as well! Yes, go Patreon. I'll be there! 💕
As others have mentioned a few of the songs from this special are almost necessary to react to within the context of the special and not independently. All Eyes On Me being a big one, probably Bo’s finest work but loses almost all of its weight without being viewed as a part of the full special
Honestly “Welcome to the Internet”, “All Eyes on Me”, & “Goodbye” are my faves from Bo Burnham (you should check that latter ones out too btw, I think you’ll like them!)
He's been doing theatre most of his life, so that's why his voice and performing is so amazing. Loved your reaction...you should do more Bo! You won't regret it and it would be great to watch.
The explanation for the difference in his singing voice compared to his previous specials may be that 1: he's older, so his voice has matured more since then. He was only 16 when he started on UA-cam, 18/in his early 20's during specials, and now he's 30. Not much changing would happen at these ages, (at least not compared to 12 to 16) but your voice still changes a bit. 2: He's always been good at singing and had a good voice, he was just kinda out of breath while performing live from going non stop and his anxiety. I know from experience that those two things make your voice sound less good lol
There’s also the line “it’s been a decade since you’ve been gone” while earlier there’s a balloons which say 27 which means she lost them when she was 17 or even earlier
His voice has definitely improved. I'd say it's probably a mix of things. Probably vocal lessons, but also his voice maturing. I also think his songs often really pushed his vocal range farther than he could comfortably go, and now he's had time to improve his range a bit, and also more of his songs are in his comfortable range.
HOLY SHIT!!! YOU GOT IT IN REAL TIME!! You're my new hero. (talking about the internet song). As a content creator or reaction video person, I can only imagine how this song hits.
Ok after REALLY overindulging my nostalgia by watching WAY too many of your reactions to people I've loved watching over the years, YES you should do a reaction to inside... in as many parts as you need it's amazing :)
Going from Make Happy to Inside you can definitely appreciate how his voice has both matured with age and the work he's clearly put in over the last 5 years focusing on developing his singing more than creating comedy so that he can come back and give us these gems
Great video! Awesome to see you react to these songs in particular, I think welcome to the Internet is one of my favourites. Hope you'll also put "we think we know you" on your list, first time I saw that I was blown away!
Haha loving your Bo Burnham adventure! Looking forward to seeing more! A good way to react to his specials are to watch them all the way through and then break out the reactions per song/skit.
BTW: Can't Handle This is one of my favorites by Bo. I have always had trouble with anxiety and depression and I cried the first time I heard it (and have been unable to see it without tearing up ever since - especially when he sings "and laugh as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself " at the end).
I love the many layers to the Instagram song, because the screen moves from the square of Instagram shots to more of a real video ratio when the song gets “real”/the hypothetical woman says something sincere… then right back to square and things either meant to appear a certain way.
Not gonna lie, our last flood here was '98 and I still remember it vividly, and it's a big part of why I'm a Community Emergency Response Team volunteer
Bo's always been sharp and funny. But with Inside, he unleashed an insurmountable amount of pure genius. Which is why I strongly recommend watching the whole special from start to finnish. It really is a masterpiece. All the songs hit harder in context. Anyway, nice video!
You are missing the context of the pandemic special by eating random chunks. Inside was filmed, edited, and performed ALL inside a single room at Bo’s house during Covid (inside) - he explains it all in the special. It deals with depression and isolation and art and anxiety. You can’t tell both songs you watched already are from the mid section of a masterpiece and hold a lot more weight as part of a whole. Realizing the process behind the construction of these clips is where most of the magic is.
I am sure he has had voice lessons, but he is a professional singer. It would be strange if he hadn't ever had training. Even when he sings with autotune on his voice, people underestimate how good your voice and control have to be to make it sound as good as his songs usually do, especially since so much of his work is recorded live. Also 14:25, I thought it was great that Alice proudly announced she doesn't yet have a dog (with or without a "flower crown") or posted about avocadoes...with a plush octopus in a flower crown and an avocado on the shelf behind her.
I was very amused about you saying how you've never posted an instagram of/with avocados. While literally having a plushie avocado just behind you in the video 😂😋
Welcome to the internet is VERY inspired by Dany Elfman's work. that evil and unsettling but also whimsical and fun feeling you mentioned. This entire comedy special touches on cognitive dissonance which this song causes in us. it is incredible. That all said, if you enjoy this kind of music you should check out natewantstobattle as well! Specifically Phantom by natewantstobattle or Twisted from his Ocarina of time inspired album. :)
All Eyes On Me and That Funny Feeling were my favorite songs from Inside. Both of them just broke me. Watching the special was truly an experience I won't forget for a while.
Also as a fan of his and of how your geeking. He was Nominated for 6 and won 3 Emmys for his show Inside. He's an award winning artist I'm sure I'm not the only one who's proud of how he's grown I've watched this entire Playlist of Bo. Lol keep it up
I would highly recommend watching the ‘Inside’ special in full instead of listening to one thing at a time. That special is really a full story from beginning to end and you’re doing yourself a disservice watching them out of order.
6:08 I haven't received one, in that I wasn't the intended recipient, but when I was ~12 we went to Delaware for a wedding, and I was forced to let one of my Delawarian cousins borrow my phone. He decided to use my phone to take roughly twenty pics of his trouser tadpole, and sent them to _every girl in his class_ through their _student email._ He then proceeded to not only _not delete the photos before returning my phone to me,_ he also *_made my phone's wallpaper his junk._* Needless to say, there's a reason I've never gone back to the East Coast.
I really enjoy your energy in your videos and your sense of humour. After you live with someone for years who doesn't laugh at the things you do, its refreshing to find someone I can relate with while enjoying a joke. I was married to a Swede for 6 years, I loved her dearly, and she will always be a part of me, but man... ever watch your favorite movie with a friend and a really good part you like is coming up and you're waiting to see their reaction, and in the corner of your eye you see them on their phone instead or they leave to the restroom while saying "You don't have to pause it.) (sigh+sad face) Yeah... Anyways, on Bo. His music is always layered. On the surface he'll be funny, but somewhere in a song he'll bring up something that makes you think. In this one, delving deeper, this whole bit is about a single woman who's living life. Lost her mom at the age of 17, its been a decade since she died, at some point dad also died, and as song progresses you find that she eventually marries and is still moving forward. Even from here I'm sure one could dive even deeper and pull something else out of it.
I am not legally allowed to say "you should take up piracy". It is legally actionable to endorse that "you should take up piracy" on a public platform, and I would NEVER be the one to insinuate "you should take up piracy"
Yer i live in the goldcoast. but in the mountain area just inside Goldcoast. the floods have completely locked us in havn't being able to leave the Suburb. But thankfully we live safely at the top. have a few friends and family in Really Bad areas. Thanks for the Thoughts, Awesome to see your Content as allways.
Update: i have now Escaped to Adelaide and no longer locked in from the flooding.. Glad to come rewatch some more Gingerland content and remember the good vibes.
So. There's some songs that are perfect to listen to in context of the special and just good outside of the context. While, obviously, after listening to them once (or hundreds of times) before it'd be less exciting to watch the special. Hence I'm gonna list the songs that are, imo, are ok to listen to out of context even if you don't want to make 112% great impression into 104% (or something more like 80%), and that won't ruin your impression of the special, that songs being: • Comedy • FaceTime with My Mom (Tonight) • How the World Works • White Woman's Instagram ✓ • Unpaid Intern • Sexting • Problematic • Welcome to the Internet ✓ (Don't remember every song you've seen so far, but it's hard to miss those two))
Would definitely pay to watch your reactions to the specials on a patreon! Also You should wait and not react to All Eyes On Me until you watch the special. There is so much context from the entire special that is crucial to setting the tone of the song
Love your reactions!! Just a suggestion if you do more from Inside, and I have seen other reactors do it this way: watch all of Inside and then break it into chunks for your reaction videos. If you’ve already reacted to something it would still be worth seeing you react again with it in context! (Often when people break it up they include the bits before or after)
Yo, low key, if you need a Netflix log in, I'd be chill to throw you mine. I'm all about supporting fellow creatives, and that'd just be an extremely easy way pitch in. Also, Bo Burnham is my spirit animal, and your reactions are high key low key S tier.
I would be happy to subscribe to your Patreon for the full special reactions! (And some of the other videos you couldn’t post because of copyright) It’s so awesome to see someone react to Bo from his start up to now. I usually see people react to his newer stuff and then maybe discover some of his older stuff. But it’s really nice to look back at how he’s grown and changed.
White woman's Instagram is peak Bo, a 80% silly song that people love cause it's so relatable then for just a short bit he shoves a message in there, "yeah this is a generic white woman, but she's also a person that's gone through tragedy and is trying to make a life for herself." Dude let's us laugh at a stereotype then smacks us to remember people are still people I LOVE it!
Yup, an excellent reminder that even the supposed stereotypes are underneath it all real people, with real experiences and feelings and tragedies. That no one is only one thing. It's fine to make fun of the silly parts of it, but that we should always still keep that in mind. The use of the aspect ratio there is brilliant. That you somehow get people arguing on that song that no, that's just Bo continuing to make fun of the hypothetical white woman, is just insane.
Been waiting for these! Would 💯% pay to watch you react to the specials on Patreon. One that I already subscribe to is only $1 a month, so it doesn't have to be much. You could also do reactions to Eighth Grade and Promising Young Woman that way too!
I'm just dying while you're describing away all the things not on your instagram with an avocado plush and a flower crown directly behind you lmao.
this ^ lmao
Came here to say this. 😂
The artfully stacked pile of books and the leafy house plant...
Same 😅
I stopped the video just to come here and see if anyone else saw the avocado!😆😆😆
i need a clip of alice saying "i don't think i've ever posted about avocados" while slowly zooming in on the plushy avocado doll at her top shelf
HAHAHAHAHAHA oh my god the irony 🤣🤣
I literally pointed at my screen
Don't forget the octopus (not a golden retriever though) in a flower crown
And the novels
When you get to All Eyes On Me, do yourself a favor and watch the part of the special leading up to the song as well. The context behind it is VERY important to the song's meaning and a very specific part of the song itself. You will not be disappointed.
**watch it in the special, not outside of it
context is important for these songs
agree with this. Even if you can't react live to the special, but watch it and then come back to youtube and record the reaction to the song itself
"I've got one question to ask you" lol
Absolutely. I would also recommend making it a movie night for yourself, like a whole personal event. Please give yourself the grace to really get comfortable for it. On your TV if you have one.
You might think it's too personal of a setting, but trust us, that vulnerability is the ENTIRE POINT of Burnham's 'Inside.' I'm sure we would all like to see you in the thick of emotions (as we all were) when we got to "All Eyes On Me"
And, since you probably can't react to the whole special without getting copyrighted, the last couple songs could suffice as a "proper" reaction video!
I hope she takes that advice, too many reactors watch All Eyes On Me and have no clue what it means.
You know society is fucked up when it’s actually refreshing to hear a woman has not been sent unsolicited nudes 😂
I'm curious if the number remained zero after this video. :-D
@@caddyguy5369 ...probably not, sadly...
Not really it says more anout warped perception wbich os a common issue
Statisticlu the beleif of somthing normaly outwights the actual act several times over
@@demonic_myst4503 Trying to read this gave the same stroke, by proxy, you were having when you typed this.
@@caddyguy5369 Congratulations.... you jinxed it
I love how in White Woman's Instagram, when it gets to the middle with the part about his mom, the camera sort of widens horizontally to the screen, it's like showing that the character is being 'real' in that part and then it slowly goes back to being square like before. It's such a good song, it teases you in to laughing at these types of people, and then reminds you that they're just humans expressing themselves in a now cliché way
Like for that one moment you can see the full picture. Before it narrows again. That song is an artistic masterpiece in my opinion. The song itself is basically also like what he describes. So much distraction around it, that you might even miss the moment where the real feelings, the struggle shines through, before the facade is reestablished.
@@TheAlja But after that widened screen part the rest of the song gets a new context and even the phrasing changes.
After you hear about how her mother died and how she wishes she could show the mom her new apartment, job and lovely boyfriend and that her daughters is not a bad person, the following Instagram posts are about at least trying to think about the well being of others even if failing (the misguided political posts and quotes), buying stuff for her apartment and about her marrying the boyfriend she loves (it is not just "a glass of wine", but "a simple glass of wine", and not "a ring" but "a ring from the man I love"), which are the things she is sharing because she can't show them to her mother. It begs you to consider that even the shallow stuff, even if posed, IS still part of who she is or is trying to be to some extent.
I mean, wedding pictures are the epitome of posed, but that doesn't mean the feelings are not (or could not) be real.
Not only that but the image in instagram 1:1 is a perfect shot but in the wider image you see mess around the room too
The square is in the exact same aspect ratio as an Instagram post and so by widening it it's literally telling you this is Outside of Instagram and that these people are much more than just what fits into that little box
@@pink_alligator He's so clever
"I'm no good at Instagram, because not much interesting happens in my life."
But Alice, that's what Instagram is for; to pretend.
TRUE
But is "pretending" really something to be proud of?
@@jeffbrehove2614 if it makes you mad cash, sure, pretending can walk the "its fine" line in most cases... most.
People need to stop saying Bo had a ‘mental breakdown’ and took 5 years off between these specials. In that time he acted in ‘Promising Young Woman’ and wrote and directed ‘8th Grade’! It’s not like he was in an insane asylum, he literally achieved more than most of us will in a lifetime!
Lmao been thinking this too...he never goes long without doing SOMETHING we can watch
Had a quick flick through the comments, the only person who mentions a "mental breakdown" is you. So ....
@@iainmcguire7190 Alice said ‘mental breakdown’ in the reaction! And she’s not the only reactor or person whose thought that Bo had stopped working for 5 years. My only point is that he’s actually been very active and his ability to express these feelings successfully is actually proof that he’s doing fine
*mental breakdown* doesn't always mean insane asylum. And idk for sure how Bo would have classified it, but it was enough of a "mental breakdown" that he had to stop performing. He was having regular panic attacks. To me, someone who suffers from anxiety and depression, that classifies as a breakdown. Yes, he was still able to work and do life, but he wasn't doing it live in front of a crowd because that was too much for him at the time.
@@terminatrix92 u overreacting. No one thinks mental asylum when u say mental breakdown. He simply had some panic attacks on stage so he stopped live performing for couple of years
I must say I found it extra hilarious when I finally noticed your avocado plushie and the octo's flower crown in the corner during white woman's instagram lol
Yeeessss man I’ve been called out for this so much! Hahaha did not notice an avocado was behind me hahaha
@@Aliceingingerland no worries that song dings all of us. I showed it to my mom and (even though it wasn't on instagram) she started sending me screenshots of every thing he mentioned that I've done and it was.... a lot hahaha
The way Bo uses the aspect ratio in white woman Instagram is brilliant.
Your infectious enthusiasm was just what I needed tonight, so thanks
Also the bit in white woman's Instagram always hits me in the heart as someone who has lost a parent, which is why it's my favourite song of his.
He probably has had voice lessons recently but also in the past when he's sung he's pitched his voice up for comedic purposes whereas this is his natural singing voice.
Also, I'm pretty sure that he is using Autotune in Inside, as it was intended to be used (and wasn't on previous specials except turned way up for Can't Handle This). It was developed to make people's voices sound better than they actually do, then artists discovered it sounded cool if you turned it up "too far" and made that sound we now think of as autotune. To my ear, Bo is using it very expertly throughout Inside, then tweaked for All Eyes on Me. It's great, his tone is so rich! You can tell every once in a while, there's an edge to the sound. He may also have had singing lessons, as it seems like the autotune isn't having to correct pitch that much but rather is adding depth and timbre to the sound.
@@nahadoth2087 I'm actually not sure he uses Autotune, it might be Flexpitch within Logic Pro X. He definitely is using Logic Pro X in Inside. That not only pitch corrects - which can make a big difference in how listeners experience the sound anyway - but also smooths vibrato and raises or lowers formant and a bunch of other stuff. This video ua-cam.com/video/z8tqojYN6TQ/v-deo.html gives an example around 13:35 that actually sounds a lot like Bo's younger voice, and pitch correction and vibrato adjustment make it sound richer to me. But not as rich as Bo sounded in Inside, so I totally agree that him getting older, perhaps plus vocal training as others have said, is probably also part of the improvement. My voice teachers always said that peak vocal age is after 30!
In WTTI, he’s basically a snake oil salesman for the Internet. He grabs your attention by showing you this wonderful, shiny thing… and he tells you why it’s great, and slowly trickles in some of the cons with the pros, and the cons become more frequent, and increasingly worse, but you don’t notice them because it’s all being thrown at you so quickly and then when he sees he has you hooked, he sings a beautiful sort of lullaby’s about how much you’ve grown thanks to this wonderful cool thing, and by then he has you. So he evil laughs, because it worked. And then you belong to the evil man forever lol.
White Womens Instagram is great because he plays up the stereotype of the typical, basic, white girl posting about ridiculous nothing, but then the aspect ratio widens to ‘real life’, and he describes how that ridiculous girl it’s fun to poke fun at is still human too, and has human feelings, even if they’re hidden by mundane materialistic things.
Oh wow so true what an analysis! 😱👏🏼
@@Aliceingingerland The patreon thing: Look, you said "I don't have enough disposable income for multiple frivolous tv subscriptions....I was like "I can spare $5 toward that cause..." clicked your info....no way to send money. I'm sure a few others would've had the same sentiment were it an option.
Bo has always been a decent singer, but it’s much easier to tell how good it is on “Inside” when he’s in a more controlled environment and gets multiple takes and post production to clean up the track. He still sounds pretty great in “Make Happy” live on stage
Bo is a genius. Welcome to the Internet is so true, and so creepy. Like, what have we done?
And the serious part in the middle of White Woman's Instagram makes me tear up. I'm not a woman, and my mom's not gone, but the delivery of those emotions just really hits hard. I think that was his way of saying yeah, we laugh at the dumb stuff people post online, but they're still real people with real issues. Beyond that the song is absolutely beautiful. The music, his vocals, the video itself, all perfectly executed.
I love your reactions to Bo. Also Alice, you do totally have an avocado plush behind you on the shelf. Bo gets us all, even if we don't realize it XD
I always feel compelled to make this point on White Woman Instagram.
Bo makes fun of these women yes, but the part about the dead mom shows that he is fundementally empathetic towards these people he is making fun of. He does this because he knows that, just like the video, he is in their exact same position, doing what they are doing: he is curating his life for an internet audience, him with his comedy, them with their Instagram. They arn't any different, they both just need to be recognized, and both have a life underneath the persona, filled with struggles. He makes fun of them the same way he makes fun of himself, but it has to come from a place of love if he wants to expect the same.
He needs to open up about his own struggles, and so he gives a place for this hypothetical woman to also open up, in the section of the video where the aspect ratio also opens up, and bursts outside the confines of an Instagram aspect ratio.
Bo knows they are one and the same.
I always interpreted it as drawing the audience in to be judgmental, and then humanizing the women who need to escape the tragedies and sorrows of their lives just like everybody else. We all cope with the difficulties of the world in different ways, it just so happens that society denigrates the hobbies that women use to do it.
@@HollowGolem exactly thank you. When this first came out I would see so many people like "the point is about how the woman is oversharing and putting serious personal things next to frivolous things. isn't she so stupid". I couldn't for the life of me understand how they had come to such a different conclusion than me and it's nice to see other people saw it the way I saw it.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only male compelled to mansplain white woman's instagram.
One of my favorite parts of this is the cinematography where he pans out from portrait view(like a phone) to landscape view and you can then see the mess in the room when he is talking about something real in life like loosing a loved one. The symbolism of how life really isn’t about the curated version of ourselves we put out on the internet for the word to see is powerful.
I'm so so excited for more Bo Burnham reactions! They're all such good songs! But my heart, thoughts, and prayers go to everyone out there in a tough spot right now! I had no idea about the intense rains and flooding in Australia right now! 💚
Seeing your expression change so quickly so many times is an accurate representation of this song 😂
I also noticed that his singing voice has gotten much better now.
(Side-eyeing the stuffed avocado right behind you)
I was so looking forward to this! I was not disappointed! It was delightful to see you enjoy it as much as so many of us have. All of Inside is amazing. And yeah - his eyes are very blue AND he's...um..."blossomed" rather positively in the last 5 years in many ways. Lol. I was only guilty of maybe three things he mentioned, but it was absolutely spot on, right? He didn't really disappear nor have a breakdown which would preclude him from acting in a few movies and writing/directing one of his own. Only his live performances were on hold. You might want to watch Promising Young Woman. He plays opposite Carrie Mulligan and is really impressive as an actor as well! Yes, go Patreon. I'll be there! 💕
As others have mentioned a few of the songs from this special are almost necessary to react to within the context of the special and not independently. All Eyes On Me being a big one, probably Bo’s finest work but loses almost all of its weight without being viewed as a part of the full special
Also important to have seen his Kanye Rant before All Eyes on Me
Honestly “Welcome to the Internet”, “All Eyes on Me”, & “Goodbye” are my faves from Bo Burnham (you should check that latter ones out too btw, I think you’ll like them!)
Sad is also grate!
He's been doing theatre most of his life, so that's why his voice and performing is so amazing. Loved your reaction...you should do more Bo! You won't regret it and it would be great to watch.
Thats cool info but if you listen to his previous songs before this special his voice isn't nearly as nice. Im sure that's what she was talking about.
I've seen some piano instructor's reaction to Welcome to the Internet, he said that it has a traditional Jewish melody, which is just brilliant. 👌
The explanation for the difference in his singing voice compared to his previous specials may be that
1: he's older, so his voice has matured more since then. He was only 16 when he started on UA-cam, 18/in his early 20's during specials, and now he's 30. Not much changing would happen at these ages, (at least not compared to 12 to 16) but your voice still changes a bit.
2: He's always been good at singing and had a good voice, he was just kinda out of breath while performing live from going non stop and his anxiety. I know from experience that those two things make your voice sound less good lol
"Give a hug and kiss to dad." Losing both of them must have sucked.
I would hit that big red subscribe button, but for some reason it's greyed out.
There’s also the line “it’s been a decade since you’ve been gone” while earlier there’s a balloons which say 27 which means she lost them when she was 17 or even earlier
You literally have an Avocado plushie over your left shoulder...
Alice; there is literally a plushie avocado in the background of the shot you posted whilst saying you don’t think you’re an avocado girl. 😂😂😂
It's just looking off camera like "this is fine."
And a flower crown on that purple octopus
15:03 well…you do have an avocado on the back shelf 😛
His voice has definitely improved. I'd say it's probably a mix of things. Probably vocal lessons, but also his voice maturing. I also think his songs often really pushed his vocal range farther than he could comfortably go, and now he's had time to improve his range a bit, and also more of his songs are in his comfortable range.
HOLY SHIT!!! YOU GOT IT IN REAL TIME!! You're my new hero.
(talking about the internet song).
As a content creator or reaction video person, I can only imagine how this song hits.
You have a compelling camera presence, great content as always, thank you!
His voice has definitely aged like wine.
Ok after REALLY overindulging my nostalgia by watching WAY too many of your reactions to people I've loved watching over the years, YES you should do a reaction to inside... in as many parts as you need it's amazing :)
Going from Make Happy to Inside you can definitely appreciate how his voice has both matured with age and the work he's clearly put in over the last 5 years focusing on developing his singing more than creating comedy so that he can come back and give us these gems
don't forget his first special isn't even on netflix, and his second is here on youtube in full
"What" is on UA-cam and Netflix. "Make Happy" and "Inside" are only on Netflix.
@@5stardave his first special was "words words words", which isn't on netflix OR youtube. I think it's on prime video
Great video! Awesome to see you react to these songs in particular, I think welcome to the Internet is one of my favourites. Hope you'll also put "we think we know you" on your list, first time I saw that I was blown away!
The new special is rly worth to see fully with all talks
Haha loving your Bo Burnham adventure! Looking forward to seeing more! A good way to react to his specials are to watch them all the way through and then break out the reactions per song/skit.
Great video! Really enjoyed it, especially the editing
Welcome To The Internet is like a Disney villian carnival barker origin song. Evil and vaguely seductive. So good.
She seemed to miss the really deep part of the White woman's instagram song.
14:33 - "Never posted about avocados" Has avocado plushy literally less than a meter away.
BTW: Can't Handle This is one of my favorites by Bo. I have always had trouble with anxiety and depression and I cried the first time I heard it (and have been unable to see it without tearing up ever since - especially when he sings "and laugh as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself " at the end).
I love the many layers to the Instagram song, because the screen moves from the square of Instagram shots to more of a real video ratio when the song gets “real”/the hypothetical woman says something sincere… then right back to square and things either meant to appear a certain way.
Not gonna lie, our last flood here was '98 and I still remember it vividly, and it's a big part of why I'm a Community Emergency Response Team volunteer
Bo's always been sharp and funny. But with Inside, he unleashed an insurmountable amount of pure genius. Which is why I strongly recommend watching the whole special from start to finnish. It really is a masterpiece. All the songs hit harder in context.
Anyway, nice video!
I really like your editing! Keep it up! awesome
" I don't think I have those things" - Sitting in front of all of those things, lmao. Great reaction
Jesus, it’s like australia is either dealing with fire or water. I don’t know which is worse.
Thats what happens when the Fire Nation Attacks.
May I point out you have an AVOCADO plushie right above your head? xD
Really fun reaction video, thanks for sharing!
Damnit, you finally got me to subscribe. So damn happy and positive and all that shit. You're good for the world.
His laugh in Welcome to the Internet always reminds me of Jafar from the original Disney's Aladdin
“Groomers, predators, just stop it, y’know?”
-Alice
You're laughter is so infectious 😂 love these reactions!
The avocado in the background while she’s saying she’s not like that 😅🤣
You are missing the context of the pandemic special by eating random chunks.
Inside was filmed, edited, and performed ALL inside a single room at Bo’s house during Covid (inside) - he explains it all in the special.
It deals with depression and isolation and art and anxiety.
You can’t tell both songs you watched already are from the mid section of a masterpiece and hold a lot more weight as part of a whole.
Realizing the process behind the construction of these clips is where most of the magic is.
I am sure he has had voice lessons, but he is a professional singer. It would be strange if he hadn't ever had training. Even when he sings with autotune on his voice, people underestimate how good your voice and control have to be to make it sound as good as his songs usually do, especially since so much of his work is recorded live. Also 14:25, I thought it was great that Alice proudly announced she doesn't yet have a dog (with or without a "flower crown") or posted about avocadoes...with a plush octopus in a flower crown and an avocado on the shelf behind her.
I was very amused about you saying how you've never posted an instagram of/with avocados. While literally having a plushie avocado just behind you in the video 😂😋
Welcome to the internet is VERY inspired by Dany Elfman's work. that evil and unsettling but also whimsical and fun feeling you mentioned. This entire comedy special touches on cognitive dissonance which this song causes in us. it is incredible.
That all said, if you enjoy this kind of music you should check out natewantstobattle as well! Specifically Phantom by natewantstobattle or Twisted from his Ocarina of time inspired album. :)
All Eyes On Me and That Funny Feeling were my favorite songs from Inside. Both of them just broke me. Watching the special was truly an experience I won't forget for a while.
lmao there is literally an avocado behind you. love the reaction!
You can really tell how much he cares about and empathizes with my generation (gen Z), especially in interviews, just seems like a great guy
I discovered your channel a few hours ago. I'm on a binge. Please someone stop me :')
Thanks for your dangerously appropriate interpretations I've heard so far. I enjoy your channel and can't wait for you to BLOW!💯🤙
She starts the actual reaction at 4:00
the video starts at 4:00.
11:41 “B-o lingers and it makes ya think.”
and completely baffles you 😂
Also as a fan of his and of how your geeking. He was Nominated for 6 and won 3 Emmys for his show Inside. He's an award winning artist I'm sure I'm not the only one who's proud of how he's grown I've watched this entire Playlist of Bo. Lol keep it up
The way he drops in that part about her mom and dad being dead for 10 years and then immediately talks about goat cheese salad. 🤯
Right!? Only Bo can put us on emotional roller coasters like that.. hahaha
Hey Alice, he got you good! Absolutely happy to see all the specials on Patreon, bring it on! Can't wait 😁
I agree we are so lucky to have Bo! He is totally healing the world with comedy 💖
Making a literal difference (metaphorically).
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I would highly recommend watching the ‘Inside’ special in full instead of listening to one thing at a time. That special is really a full story from beginning to end and you’re doing yourself a disservice watching them out of order.
6:08 I haven't received one, in that I wasn't the intended recipient, but when I was ~12 we went to Delaware for a wedding, and I was forced to let one of my Delawarian cousins borrow my phone. He decided to use my phone to take roughly twenty pics of his trouser tadpole, and sent them to _every girl in his class_ through their _student email._ He then proceeded to not only _not delete the photos before returning my phone to me,_ he also *_made my phone's wallpaper his junk._*
Needless to say, there's a reason I've never gone back to the East Coast.
Avocado. Flower crown. Novel. Neon sign of a flamingo. Three little words. Your shelf is the song in a nutshell.
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Dude you are hilarious 🤣🤣, just subbed, keep up the grind!
Two great songs from the new special. White Woman's Instagram almost requires the video to fully appreciate the song, every shot is gold.
Burnam needs a Dr. Suess style cartoonist to do his videos.
I really enjoy your energy in your videos and your sense of humour. After you live with someone for years who doesn't laugh at the things you do, its refreshing to find someone I can relate with while enjoying a joke. I was married to a Swede for 6 years, I loved her dearly, and she will always be a part of me, but man... ever watch your favorite movie with a friend and a really good part you like is coming up and you're waiting to see their reaction, and in the corner of your eye you see them on their phone instead or they leave to the restroom while saying "You don't have to pause it.) (sigh+sad face) Yeah...
Anyways, on Bo. His music is always layered. On the surface he'll be funny, but somewhere in a song he'll bring up something that makes you think. In this one, delving deeper, this whole bit is about a single woman who's living life. Lost her mom at the age of 17, its been a decade since she died, at some point dad also died, and as song progresses you find that she eventually marries and is still moving forward. Even from here I'm sure one could dive even deeper and pull something else out of it.
I am not legally allowed to say "you should take up piracy". It is legally actionable to endorse that "you should take up piracy" on a public platform, and I would NEVER be the one to insinuate "you should take up piracy"
Lol like Trevor Moore: “it’s illegal to say…”
His specials are just awesome.
I think I remember Alice and Gingerland from a VHS tape I got in the 80s .. there was a black curtain hiding this particular video section. ;)
After "I can't handle this" he went on hiatus for 5 years.. it was kinda a cry for help.. but then he came back with netflix special..
3:15.. I would of stopped and reset.. you held on the until end I give respect hahaha
The one bit of true emotion in the midst of all the Instagram clout chasing is a perfect analogy. Bo always nails it I swear.
Yer i live in the goldcoast.
but in the mountain area just inside Goldcoast.
the floods have completely locked us in havn't being able to leave the Suburb.
But thankfully we live safely at the top.
have a few friends and family in Really Bad areas.
Thanks for the Thoughts, Awesome to see your Content as allways.
Update: i have now Escaped to Adelaide and no longer locked in from the flooding..
Glad to come rewatch some more Gingerland content and remember the good vibes.
So. There's some songs that are perfect to listen to in context of the special and just good outside of the context. While, obviously, after listening to them once (or hundreds of times) before it'd be less exciting to watch the special. Hence I'm gonna list the songs that are, imo, are ok to listen to out of context even if you don't want to make 112% great impression into 104% (or something more like 80%), and that won't ruin your impression of the special, that songs being:
• Comedy
• FaceTime with My Mom (Tonight)
• How the World Works
• White Woman's Instagram ✓
• Unpaid Intern
• Sexting
• Problematic
• Welcome to the Internet ✓
(Don't remember every song you've seen so far, but it's hard to miss those two))
I am one minute and four seconds into this video and it’s just a plug, for yourself. This is when I switch videos. Good luck.
Would definitely pay to watch your reactions to the specials on a patreon! Also You should wait and not react to All Eyes On Me until you watch the special. There is so much context from the entire special that is crucial to setting the tone of the song
Love your reactions!! Just a suggestion if you do more from Inside, and I have seen other reactors do it this way: watch all of Inside and then break it into chunks for your reaction videos. If you’ve already reacted to something it would still be worth seeing you react again with it in context! (Often when people break it up they include the bits before or after)
Yo, low key, if you need a Netflix log in, I'd be chill to throw you mine. I'm all about supporting fellow creatives, and that'd just be an extremely easy way pitch in. Also, Bo Burnham is my spirit animal, and your reactions are high key low key S tier.
I would be happy to subscribe to your Patreon for the full special reactions! (And some of the other videos you couldn’t post because of copyright)
It’s so awesome to see someone react to Bo from his start up to now. I usually see people react to his newer stuff and then maybe discover some of his older stuff. But it’s really nice to look back at how he’s grown and changed.
White woman's Instagram is peak Bo, a 80% silly song that people love cause it's so relatable then for just a short bit he shoves a message in there, "yeah this is a generic white woman, but she's also a person that's gone through tragedy and is trying to make a life for herself."
Dude let's us laugh at a stereotype then smacks us to remember people are still people
I LOVE it!
Yup, an excellent reminder that even the supposed stereotypes are underneath it all real people, with real experiences and feelings and tragedies. That no one is only one thing. It's fine to make fun of the silly parts of it, but that we should always still keep that in mind. The use of the aspect ratio there is brilliant. That you somehow get people arguing on that song that no, that's just Bo continuing to make fun of the hypothetical white woman, is just insane.
If Disney made an R rated sequel to Wreck-It Ralph this would be the song that introduces the villain.
its probably impossible with copyright but would love to see you watch the whole Inside Special.
Welcome to the Internet is easily my favorite thing Bo Burnham ever did.
I think it's sort of the perfect distillation of everything Bo is about as an artist, to be honest.
Nerds. Hands down.
Been waiting for these! Would 💯% pay to watch you react to the specials on Patreon. One that I already subscribe to is only $1 a month, so it doesn't have to be much. You could also do reactions to Eighth Grade and Promising Young Woman that way too!
Alice: What a creepy vibe!
Also Alice: 💃
If you didn't know, "what." Is on youtube.