This song demonstrates why Bo is so brilliant on a visceral level - the first half of the song I was laughing at the all the cliches and then in middle Bo starts with this heartfelt message to this hypothetical women’s late mother and suddenly I found myself annoyed at myself from 30 seconds ago like “This poor woman is going though this life the best she can, it’s tough out there, who the fuck are you to judge her?!”. And then left the remained of the song trying to figure out wtf just happened. Bo is an artist.
Yeah. That is exactly my take away. This video deliberately kind of pulls you into laughing at how basic it all is, complicit in mocking them, then you're given this reminder that actual people are behind there. Living their life. Facing their own struggles. And afterward you're like, man, they can be as basic as they fucking want to be. Whatever brings them happiness. Its so well done.
I think there is another level. Bo putting himself in the shoes of these women isn't just for the laugh, funny as it is. He is also drawing a parallel between himself and these women who are creating a performance on the internet, and his own performance. He can make fun of their self-indulgence and hyper curated image without malice, because he knows he is no different. Everyone is seeking recognition. And when he opens up, literally, and show real vulnerability in his performance as an influencer, it's because he knows he is also showing vulnerability in his special. He is practicing empathy, and asking for grace in return.
Then when you watch it a few times you realize she has been telling the time line story of her relationship with this guy over the past year. From holding hands to moving in to getting engaged. Clichéd & in the parlance of our times? Sure but a scrapbook not that different than my grandmother kept. It's the glossy highlights of the trips & nights out. Not the mosquitoes or run in her hose.
Yah. It's easy to digest the first time if you let yourself be led ...and then it turns out there's more, and the song seemingly becomes a parody of its own critical attitude, and also you're never quite sure -- because he doesn't actually tell you what to think. I appreciate Bo.
I'm a guy and that tears me up every time it gets to the point where she talks to her parents who died about how they did a good job and that she's doing well. I can't even put the feeling to exact words, but its ... visceral... and I really start to feel for this hypothetical woman. First half, I'm laughing and teasing, second half, I'm just smiling that this good woman is out there making it and living a good life
Yup.. and that is when the screen pans out. This is to show that, despite all of the SUPER fake stuff on IG, there actually is some very real stuff in there as well... Unfortunately, it usually gets lost in all of the other stuff. Most people dont really notice this on their first viewing of the video.
Yeah...I always think how much of this curated "I'm doing so well" imagery we create online is like. A substitute for having someone we feel close enough to to bring them our struggles and accomplishments. The woman in the song has lost both her parents. How much of this picture of her life is a substitute for being able to call her mom and hear "I'm so proud of you sweetie."
One thing that Bo does so damn well is every so often, right in the middle of his song, right in the middle of all the laughter, he will suddenly throw a curve ball and manage to make us think, and to even squeeze out a few tears from the audience, and then transition right back to the humor. He does the same thing is his Kanye rant video.
One thing about the camera slowly panning out when Bo starts singing about "mama", is because it starts to get more "real", instead of the perfectly manicured instagram shots - which we see in the rest of the video. It's a nice bit of subtext to the whole video shown via aspect ratio.
It’s great because it shows everyone is dealing with “real life” outside of their social media accounts. Bo is great at mixing comedy with real life problems
Let me pile this on. "It's been a decade since you've been gone." + the 27 birthday balloons photo. - She lost her when she wasn't even an adult. At 16-17. "Give a hug and kiss to dad." - She lost them both, actually. "Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves." - With her parents dead, she had nobody to walk her down the aisle and she seems to be into the whole traditional thing. Nobody to have "the talk" with. Bo isn't just adding a bit of a subtext. He is punching us right in the gut, only to open a switch blade hidden in the fist and twisting it in the wound. Saying Bo was giving us a nice bit of subtext is like saying Big Brother has a bit of a trust issue and got a bit controlling.
@sebastiandiaconu1221 so you don't think she missed it or she needed to rewatch it in order to understand, which is it? You understand how contradictive your comment is, right? Stop kissing everyone's butts and maybe you'll start making sense.
The screen widening represents the “white woman instagramer” opening up and being real but then she reverts back to “everything is amazing” and the sides close back in into Instagram “performance mode”.
Kinda feels like you missed the serious turn in the middle by focusing more on the aesthetics. It does a good job of showing how all these fluff tropes are just helping someone cope with trauma and loss and covering up pain.
I love how it starts with the couple holding hands and goes through the year or so. As they move in, get engaged, her messages to her mom. Instagram may seem clichéd and trite. That doesn't mean it's not heartfelt scrapbooking - if you will- of what is on people's mind at the time. This piece - the visuals and music are such a layered piece of art to me.
Or about how the zoom out, occurs when she’s being real, which shows a bigger picture where things aren’t perfect, but then as she (via Bo) starts trying to talk about how she “didn’t do too bad” it’s zooming in again, back to that filtered Instagram square…. Like how we try to project a filtered idealized version of ourselves to others… and that, is messy. Bo doesn’t condemn it, or prop it up, just gives us this messy real message about how we can struggle and hurt, and cover that up to move forward. Is that good bad? No clue, but that’s Instagram for ya.
So much THIS. It's like in Can't Handle This. He starts out talking about Pringles and burritos and then he gets serious and you realize the deeper implications and the metaphors. To be fair " give a hug and kiss to dad" did obviously hit different here but wasn't processed in the moment.
I feel like the beginning of the caption is genuine, but then it moves to the posturing halfway through, which as Geoffrey points out is highlighted by the camera widening away from the typical Instagram aspect ratio, but then narrowing back at that halfway mark
The first time I saw this I interpreted the bridge as a kind of sarcastic critique of how open people become on social media, writing long captions on Instagram instead of something more meaningful. But I think the aspect ratio really changed my mind. It slowly expands as she reveals her mom died, taking away the perfect "filter" and showing her as a real person, and then immediately begins closing up as soon as she starts talking about how she has all these good things.
Exactly. I always think back to when Bo monologued in 'Make Happy' about how the only thing he knows fully is performing and how social media has melded together audience and performer. So when I listen to his songs, I always think, 'What is Bo trying to say about performing?'. People perform on social media constantly. Other people interpret the bridge as her showing her true self when the shot widens out of the Instagram square, but not enough people talk about how it starts shrinking as soon as she starts performing again. There is also performative activism and some deliberate cultural appropriation here - there is a reason why Bo has specified this is a *white* womans Instagram. I feel like he is nodding to white privilege in a way because white women get to do a performative post about certain issues, but once their post is up, they don't have to deal with the issue anymore. This activism is performative and temporary and potentially for clout. People might think I'm reading too far into it but the shot that makes me believe Bo intentionally did this is the shot where he comes through the vines, then he very deliberately turns his head to the side to show feathers in his hair. The turn is an awkward shot I feel, so it makes me think its important.
everything except for the monologue is shot in the standard instagram ratio, whereas when the monologue starts, it slowly fades out of it. Kind of revealing the truth and shedding the extreme superficial elements that a lot of people post about on their social medias.
This song takes on a much different tach if you think of it being about a single woman (not ALL women) and the whole song is in 1st person. This is her story and how she is trying to capture "Heaven" through pictures as a way to deal with the loss of her parents. The IG viewer will only see the picture of her mom with a caption of "My Favorite Picture of my Mom" and, unless you know her, you don't know her mom has passed, her dad has passed and that she's spent 10 years trying to live her life to make her dead parents proud. We make fun of the banality of the imagery in the rest of the song because it is easier than seeing each picture as a metphor for something much deeper. We are more than the pictures that we post. Each picture is a conversation we want to have if we can find anyone else willing to ask about it. This song is devestating. "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" - HDT
The worst part is when you realize that, based on the birthday cake, not only did she lose her mom when she was 16 but she's also lost her father too because how else is ghost mom giving him a hug and kiss for her?
Bo made that whole special alone in a room. Light, angles, camera, lyrics, music and so on. He did everything. Every camera angle is him moving one of his two cameras for that shot.
I love the section in the middle. It's Bo making a point that while it's fine to laugh at the silliness of Instagram people, we need to remember they are still real people behind the accounts.
I was so stoked for this one!!! It’s the perfect snapshot of mid 2010’s Instagram. Bo’s so gosh darn good at flipping the script and making you think about what you’re watching…underneath all the curated and highly polished picture perfect images, there’s a real person with real struggles. It’s beautiful. Loving the Bo reactions! Keep ‘em comin! Cheers
I think the reason the aspect ratio during the bit where the poster is talking to here mom fades in and out is because for that brief 20 seconds it's showing the real person behind all the fluff
This is hands down my favorite 'joke song' and I watched it 4 times when watching the Inside film lol. Glad you enjoyed it as much as me, great stuff!!
I really love Bo Burnham. He's such a complex mixture of funny yet serious, happy yet tragically sad. As funny as he is, his real talent is his ability to express so much with words and performance.
I love the facetiming with my mom song. It’s so relatable to just missing your parents and wanting to talk to them but also them wasting half the time trying to figure out how to use the technology properly 😂
As funny as this is, remember that he is making fun of these Instagram influencers for having a carefully curated front, but then slips briefly into a moment of real vulnerability when his act and the literal screen opens up. It never feels malicious because he knows he is no different. He is making a carefully curated comedy special, and allowing himself to be vulnerable at times during it. He is empathizing with these women who just want recognition, because he knows he is no different. That's why he is literally in their shoes. He can make fun of people because he is also making fun of himself. But he does so while practicing empathy, and he is also asking for empathy in return.
crazy thing about the inside special Bo 100% did everything in terms of setting up shots, music, lighting etc.. even simple as having to write all over his own face for that shot.
The beginning and end are also in the exact aspect ratio of instagram, and the middle serious part pans out. he has this aspect ratio thing gimmick on other great songs like face time with my mom, which has the iPhone aspect ratio. There are a few others where he plays with those effects but am drawing a blank at the moment 😊
In the middle It goes from the Instagram aspect ratio to show the full picture and then immediately goes back to the square when she starts bragging again.
I’ve been watching you for a while, but I don’t think I’ve seen you react like this to anything else. It was really funny how at certain points you almost felt like he was coming after your own instagram posts.
One thing you can count on Bo for is that beneath the aesthetically pleasing video, and earworm melody, theres a deeper, more deliberate message. The tone changes when hes singing about "mama", and the frame slowly expands out from the default square picture format of Instagram. We're allowed to see the whole picture, this person is finally talking about something real. But it quickly shrinks back into the curated artsy images. The things that are clearly staged as if to put up a front of what they want you to believe their life is like.
See, I still get a 100% cynical interpretation of that. Yeah, she is saying something real, but to whom? Her parents are dead, so it's not them. She is "being real" for the likes. Like someone wishing their literal baby happy birthday in first person on Facebook.
@Storyville District Right? So many people replying, "But it's a wider angle, so clearly it's sincere..." Obviously, those people are either white women on Instagram, or they follow some.
You were paying attention so you probably noticed that it was all in Instagram aspect ratio until the one moment where it's like a little real about this woman's life and then as soon as she's bragging about her life again it starts narrowing.
good catch on the video format, its mostly in the square instagram photo format, but then it widens for that one moment of realness, when the girl is talking about her late mom ♥
The greatest part of the video is when the Instagram 1:1 ratio starts to stretch when the lyrics deal with something real. But as soon as the superficial humble brags start to come into the lyrics "got a job... my own apartment" etc, the ratio drops back to the insta-square.
You get hit first with the realazation that shes talking to her late mother and start to feel bad, just to realize soon after she lost both her parents.
I feel like the reason why many women who reacted to this didn't have jaw draping moment on mother part is because they never denied this "white woman" her humanity from the start. So they are not surprised when the song focuses on reality for a moment because this woman was always real.
The reason he does the song so focused in is to show what sort of generic things get posted to 'a white woman's Instagram' and when he starts panning out it's giving us a glimpse into the real person, the not so curated side of things for everything. And then zooms right back in when it goes back into the normal front we've been given by the person.
As a white woman i will never be offended at this song. Especially because, if you actually listen to the lyrics, he’s litterally praising white women. “Is this heaven? Or is it just a white womans instagram”. When i hear that line, i understand it as Bo saying “look at how wholesome, beautiful, happy and amazing all this is! It must be heaven!” And that to me is a compliment.
Haha, I love how much fun you had watching that. I think this peak Bo. The video was shot and produced so well. It's kind of amazing. Then the song itself, really nice simple composition but it's effective. And his voice. Wow, I didn't really see him as a legit vocalist before, but Inside in general and this song in particular changed my mind. He's really good. The part where the camera pans out and he starts being a bit serious, yeah, that works so well in what is otherwise just a goofy parody type song. And you know, forget the lyrics, just listen to it as music, it's really good. He's a genius.
Several years ago, a duo named Maddie & Tae did a song called Girl in a Country Song that made fun of how women were portrayed in videos. They had men doing and wearing what women usually did. It is still hilarious and a good song to boot. Check it out if you get a chance. Really fun reaction to this one! I enjoy your channel.
Britt, you laugh like someone I know but I can’t remember who at the moment. It’s somebody I like though, I know that much. I like your laugh and many of your reactions. Thank you.
So when he pans out of the shot, the idea is that you're getting a glimpse of something real. Everything else is in the square like it is on Instagram.
So the part where they temporarily widen the frame is when the "white woman" is talking to her dead mother about how she's doing in life and hoping she'd be proud of her. "Give a hug and kiss to dad" suggests that her father has passed as well. The point is, we can make fun of the surface that we see all we want, but there are real human beings behind every page. And maybe they try to make their Instagram page look pretty because that's how they need life to appear, and maybe that's for some hardcore reasons. So lay off. Also, I just want to put out there that every single shot in every video from "Inside" was done in one single room. And because of the lockdown restrictions of 2020, he didn't have a crew to help him change out the set decoration and lighting. That was all done by Bo himself. Every shot in every "Inside" song was done in the same room. There's no lighting guy behind the camera. There are no people to set up the room between takes. It was all just him, doing all the work himself, in a single room. The other thing is, Bo has talked a lot about what he's *not* in a position to talk about. He knows he's a young straight white male, and he clearly knows what that means in terms of privilege. He's got multiple songs about that. But one thing is, he *is* the quintessential expert on social media. He started out as a teenage kid making songs on UA-cam in his bedroom with an electronic piano for something to do, and now he's... *this.* But then Covid forced him back into making songs in a single room with an electric piano for something to do. The only difference between then and now is that now he has more money and experience. He was able to take his stir-craziness to Netflix. The only thing that Bo can call himself a true authority on is how social media affects people, because he lived that, being the first UA-camr ever to turn it into a real "mainstream" career. Hell, he's the cutting edge of that. And he uses his perspective to talk about the effect of social media in a lot of his songs ("Welcome to the Internet") and other projects (see the movie "Eighth Grade," which he directed).
This is the ONE video where Bo is a bit off... This is EVERY womans instagram... not just white womens. Edit: Nice, you called it too. Makes me happy, cuz I like your channel xD
All of her reactions of Bo "He is a genius" but she does not address the message, it feels like it goes over her had every time. Or she does not want do expose her feelings. She was laughing at the "give a hug and kiss to dad" and commenting on the shuts. "I love how the camera is panning out" without understanding why it was panning. At the end she was afraid we might misunderstand Bo, we should not judge him for making fun of Instagram girls, "if you are not laughing hysterical at this" . I am crying at this not laughing the song does such a good job of helping you get over this shallow interpretation of "basic esthetics" and just laughing at them. It pains me Britt is missing the best part of Bo art.
Need to do reaction parodies, looking at this one. This time he shows that the reaction channels are focusing more on their own appearances during the video and completely missing the point of the video. Instead of paying attention to what he's saying, they just want to comment on how tall you so you don't actually have to think about what that person is saying.
Maybe someone has said this already but you commented on the camera panning in and out, that's telling the point of the song right there. 95% of the song is in the aspect ratio of an instagram post and its all manicured performative nonsense but then she starts talking about her mom and the borders open up because she's being real about struggling with the loss of her mother and how she misses her and then the borders come back and we're back on the false reality of instagram. Its a commentary on how social media is largely performative and fake and people are just trying to get attention but there are pockets of people being real and authentic but they're lost in the sea of false identities that people manufacture and share.
the aspect ratio sliding always kinda signaled to me when he was leaving the satire and entering a place of sincerity for a moment, highlighting that even these basic Instagram posts have a real person behind them. Then, the aspect ratio narrows again as it goes back to the superficial.
This song demonstrates why Bo is so brilliant on a visceral level - the first half of the song I was laughing at the all the cliches and then in middle Bo starts with this heartfelt message to this hypothetical women’s late mother and suddenly I found myself annoyed at myself from 30 seconds ago like “This poor woman is going though this life the best she can, it’s tough out there, who the fuck are you to judge her?!”. And then left the remained of the song trying to figure out wtf just happened. Bo is an artist.
Yeah. That is exactly my take away. This video deliberately kind of pulls you into laughing at how basic it all is, complicit in mocking them, then you're given this reminder that actual people are behind there. Living their life. Facing their own struggles. And afterward you're like, man, they can be as basic as they fucking want to be. Whatever brings them happiness.
Its so well done.
@@zotaninoron3548 I also think about the throw away line about her having a ring from the man that she loves in this sense. Dude's a master.
I think there is another level. Bo putting himself in the shoes of these women isn't just for the laugh, funny as it is. He is also drawing a parallel between himself and these women who are creating a performance on the internet, and his own performance. He can make fun of their self-indulgence and hyper curated image without malice, because he knows he is no different. Everyone is seeking recognition. And when he opens up, literally, and show real vulnerability in his performance as an influencer, it's because he knows he is also showing vulnerability in his special. He is practicing empathy, and asking for grace in return.
Then when you watch it a few times you realize she has been telling the time line story of her relationship with this guy over the past year. From holding hands to moving in to getting engaged.
Clichéd & in the parlance of our times? Sure but a scrapbook not that different than my grandmother kept. It's the glossy highlights of the trips & nights out. Not the mosquitoes or run in her hose.
Yah. It's easy to digest the first time if you let yourself be led ...and then it turns out there's more, and the song seemingly becomes a parody of its own critical attitude, and also you're never quite sure -- because he doesn't actually tell you what to think. I appreciate Bo.
I'm a guy and that tears me up every time it gets to the point where she talks to her parents who died about how they did a good job and that she's doing well. I can't even put the feeling to exact words, but its ... visceral... and I really start to feel for this hypothetical woman. First half, I'm laughing and teasing, second half, I'm just smiling that this good woman is out there making it and living a good life
Same!
YES
Yup.. and that is when the screen pans out. This is to show that, despite all of the SUPER fake stuff on IG, there actually is some very real stuff in there as well... Unfortunately, it usually gets lost in all of the other stuff. Most people dont really notice this on their first viewing of the video.
Always!
Yeah...I always think how much of this curated "I'm doing so well" imagery we create online is like. A substitute for having someone we feel close enough to to bring them our struggles and accomplishments. The woman in the song has lost both her parents. How much of this picture of her life is a substitute for being able to call her mom and hear "I'm so proud of you sweetie."
One thing I have always appreciated about Bo is that when he does something he does it 100%. He is ALL IN on everything.
This is my first time hearing a Bo song but the first minute of this one and your comment will have me searching for more later today! Thanks.
@@tonydelapa1911 Oh you have an amazing journey ahead of you! Enjoy
One thing that Bo does so damn well is every so often, right in the middle of his song, right in the middle of all the laughter, he will suddenly throw a curve ball and manage to make us think, and to even squeeze out a few tears from the audience, and then transition right back to the humor. He does the same thing is his Kanye rant video.
Right!?!?
The little story from the girl in the middle of the song, always makes me bawl my eyes out.
the best part of the story is when it ends he goes right into "goat cheese salad"
After his "honest part" of the kanye rant, there's no humour anymore for me, it reframes the whole theme of the song
One thing about the camera slowly panning out when Bo starts singing about "mama", is because it starts to get more "real", instead of the perfectly manicured instagram shots - which we see in the rest of the video. It's a nice bit of subtext to the whole video shown via aspect ratio.
It’s great because it shows everyone is dealing with “real life” outside of their social media accounts. Bo is great at mixing comedy with real life problems
Let me pile this on.
"It's been a decade since you've been gone." + the 27 birthday balloons photo. - She lost her when she wasn't even an adult. At 16-17.
"Give a hug and kiss to dad." - She lost them both, actually.
"Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves." - With her parents dead, she had nobody to walk her down the aisle and she seems to be into the whole traditional thing. Nobody to have "the talk" with.
Bo isn't just adding a bit of a subtext. He is punching us right in the gut, only to open a switch blade hidden in the fist and twisting it in the wound. Saying Bo was giving us a nice bit of subtext is like saying Big Brother has a bit of a trust issue and got a bit controlling.
She totally missed that
@sebastiandiaconu1221 so you don't think she missed it or she needed to rewatch it in order to understand, which is it? You understand how contradictive your comment is, right? Stop kissing everyone's butts and maybe you'll start making sense.
The screen widening represents the “white woman instagramer” opening up and being real but then she reverts back to “everything is amazing” and the sides close back in into Instagram “performance mode”.
The fact that he can point out how superficial they seem while giving examples how they're fully relatable is a talent rarely seen.
Kinda feels like you missed the serious turn in the middle by focusing more on the aesthetics. It does a good job of showing how all these fluff tropes are just helping someone cope with trauma and loss and covering up pain.
I love how it starts with the couple holding hands and goes through the year or so. As they move in, get engaged, her messages to her mom.
Instagram may seem clichéd and trite. That doesn't mean it's not heartfelt scrapbooking - if you will- of what is on people's mind at the time.
This piece - the visuals and music are such a layered piece of art to me.
Or about how the zoom out, occurs when she’s being real, which shows a bigger picture where things aren’t perfect, but then as she (via Bo) starts trying to talk about how she “didn’t do too bad” it’s zooming in again, back to that filtered Instagram square…. Like how we try to project a filtered idealized version of ourselves to others… and that, is messy. Bo doesn’t condemn it, or prop it up, just gives us this messy real message about how we can struggle and hurt, and cover that up to move forward. Is that good bad? No clue, but that’s Instagram for ya.
But shes also the first reactor I’ve seen realise that that section is the caption.
So much THIS.
It's like in Can't Handle This.
He starts out talking about Pringles and burritos and then he gets serious and you realize the deeper implications and the metaphors.
To be fair " give a hug and kiss to dad" did obviously hit different here but wasn't processed in the moment.
I feel like the beginning of the caption is genuine, but then it moves to the posturing halfway through, which as Geoffrey points out is highlighted by the camera widening away from the typical Instagram aspect ratio, but then narrowing back at that halfway mark
The first time I saw this I interpreted the bridge as a kind of sarcastic critique of how open people become on social media, writing long captions on Instagram instead of something more meaningful. But I think the aspect ratio really changed my mind.
It slowly expands as she reveals her mom died, taking away the perfect "filter" and showing her as a real person, and then immediately begins closing up as soon as she starts talking about how she has all these good things.
Exactly. I always think back to when Bo monologued in 'Make Happy' about how the only thing he knows fully is performing and how social media has melded together audience and performer. So when I listen to his songs, I always think, 'What is Bo trying to say about performing?'. People perform on social media constantly. Other people interpret the bridge as her showing her true self when the shot widens out of the Instagram square, but not enough people talk about how it starts shrinking as soon as she starts performing again.
There is also performative activism and some deliberate cultural appropriation here - there is a reason why Bo has specified this is a *white* womans Instagram. I feel like he is nodding to white privilege in a way because white women get to do a performative post about certain issues, but once their post is up, they don't have to deal with the issue anymore. This activism is performative and temporary and potentially for clout. People might think I'm reading too far into it but the shot that makes me believe Bo intentionally did this is the shot where he comes through the vines, then he very deliberately turns his head to the side to show feathers in his hair. The turn is an awkward shot I feel, so it makes me think its important.
everything except for the monologue is shot in the standard instagram ratio, whereas when the monologue starts, it slowly fades out of it. Kind of revealing the truth and shedding the extreme superficial elements that a lot of people post about on their social medias.
This song takes on a much different tach if you think of it being about a single woman (not ALL women) and the whole song is in 1st person. This is her story and how she is trying to capture "Heaven" through pictures as a way to deal with the loss of her parents. The IG viewer will only see the picture of her mom with a caption of "My Favorite Picture of my Mom" and, unless you know her, you don't know her mom has passed, her dad has passed and that she's spent 10 years trying to live her life to make her dead parents proud. We make fun of the banality of the imagery in the rest of the song because it is easier than seeing each picture as a metphor for something much deeper. We are more than the pictures that we post. Each picture is a conversation we want to have if we can find anyone else willing to ask about it. This song is devestating.
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" - HDT
The worst part is when you realize that, based on the birthday cake, not only did she lose her mom when she was 16 but she's also lost her father too because how else is ghost mom giving him a hug and kiss for her?
As someone who lost their dad at 18 and their mom at 24, this song always makes me ugly cry. Cathartic but painful
Bo made that whole special alone in a room. Light, angles, camera, lyrics, music and so on. He did everything. Every camera angle is him moving one of his two cameras for that shot.
That mama part is a punch in the nose to all of us smugly laughing at how much better we are than the stereotypes spoofed. To quote Bo, "We all suck."
I love the section in the middle. It's Bo making a point that while it's fine to laugh at the silliness of Instagram people, we need to remember they are still real people behind the accounts.
its a hilarious song but i almost tear up when he sings about the dead mom and saying give a hug and kiss to dad
... and therefore, dead dad too
currently binge watching all of your bo burnham reaction videos and loving them!
when ppl miss the serious part of the song...im like done with you lol
I have not seen a reactor yet who got the point of the song.
I was so stoked for this one!!! It’s the perfect snapshot of mid 2010’s Instagram. Bo’s so gosh darn good at flipping the script and making you think about what you’re watching…underneath all the curated and highly polished picture perfect images, there’s a real person with real struggles. It’s beautiful.
Loving the Bo reactions!
Keep ‘em comin!
Cheers
craziest thing is; he done all this music, the shots, production etc. by himself at seclusion during pandemic.
Praise to the person who donated for Britt to react to this. Been waiting for this one. Brilliant 👏
I think the reason the aspect ratio during the bit where the poster is talking to here mom fades in and out is because for that brief 20 seconds it's showing the real person behind all the fluff
Your reactions are SOO fun to watch! Im excited to catch up on a bunch. Glad you're enjoying Bo's genius on this specials!
This is hands down my favorite 'joke song' and I watched it 4 times when watching the Inside film lol. Glad you enjoyed it as much as me, great stuff!!
Also the part about the ambiguous woman's parents in the middle legit makes me tear up every time, classic Bo
I really love Bo Burnham. He's such a complex mixture of funny yet serious, happy yet tragically sad. As funny as he is, his real talent is his ability to express so much with words and performance.
I love the facetiming with my mom song. It’s so relatable to just missing your parents and wanting to talk to them but also them wasting half the time trying to figure out how to use the technology properly 😂
As funny as this is, remember that he is making fun of these Instagram influencers for having a carefully curated front, but then slips briefly into a moment of real vulnerability when his act and the literal screen opens up. It never feels malicious because he knows he is no different. He is making a carefully curated comedy special, and allowing himself to be vulnerable at times during it. He is empathizing with these women who just want recognition, because he knows he is no different. That's why he is literally in their shoes. He can make fun of people because he is also making fun of himself. But he does so while practicing empathy, and he is also asking for empathy in return.
Bo is over 6'6 according to IMDB. He is a very tall genius
Good catch -- Bo is 6'6"! He has to duck under the door frame to get in and out of the room!
crazy thing about the inside special Bo 100% did everything in terms of setting up shots, music, lighting etc.. even simple as having to write all over his own face for that shot.
Most of us are too self absorbed to notice other people.. but not Bo, he pays attention.
He usually states his height as 6 ft 5 or 6 ft 6. (197 cm).
"One ring to rule them all,
one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them." - Martin Luther King
Thank you for this comment. 😂
PO-Tate-Oh's - Martin Luther King
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Bo isn't standing on anything. He's super tall
I have never seen someone have so much fun watching this video. And I am so here for it.
Can’t imagine how long it took him to order all of this from Amazon to get all of these shots.
And that's probably when he decided to write Bezos haha!
The beginning and end are also in the exact aspect ratio of instagram, and the middle serious part pans out. he has this aspect ratio thing gimmick on other great songs like face time with my mom, which has the iPhone aspect ratio. There are a few others where he plays with those effects but am drawing a blank at the moment 😊
In the middle It goes from the Instagram aspect ratio to show the full picture and then immediately goes back to the square when she starts bragging again.
I’ve been watching you for a while, but I don’t think I’ve seen you react like this to anything else. It was really funny how at certain points you almost felt like he was coming after your own instagram posts.
Bo Burnham - The Chicken
It's a very beautiful song from the "inside" outtakes album
One thing you can count on Bo for is that beneath the aesthetically pleasing video, and earworm melody, theres a deeper, more deliberate message. The tone changes when hes singing about "mama", and the frame slowly expands out from the default square picture format of Instagram. We're allowed to see the whole picture, this person is finally talking about something real. But it quickly shrinks back into the curated artsy images. The things that are clearly staged as if to put up a front of what they want you to believe their life is like.
See, I still get a 100% cynical interpretation of that. Yeah, she is saying something real, but to whom? Her parents are dead, so it's not them. She is "being real" for the likes. Like someone wishing their literal baby happy birthday in first person on Facebook.
This 100% I think Britt was laughing so hard may have missed that part.
@@D0nut42 Agreed. I just didnt wanna be a bummer lol
I quit social media 14 years ago, and this is all the closer I'll get to it.
@@D0nut42 Dead or not I think she's very clearly talking to her mom.
@Storyville District Right? So many people replying, "But it's a wider angle, so clearly it's sincere..." Obviously, those people are either white women on Instagram, or they follow some.
You were paying attention so you probably noticed that it was all in Instagram aspect ratio until the one moment where it's like a little real about this woman's life and then as soon as she's bragging about her life again it starts narrowing.
good catch on the video format, its mostly in the square instagram photo format, but then it widens for that one moment of realness, when the girl is talking about her late mom ♥
The greatest part of the video is when the Instagram 1:1 ratio starts to stretch when the lyrics deal with something real. But as soon as the superficial humble brags start to come into the lyrics "got a job... my own apartment" etc, the ratio drops back to the insta-square.
You get hit first with the realazation that shes talking to her late mother and start to feel bad, just to realize soon after she lost both her parents.
4:50 Now craving hubba bubba bubble gum 😂
Trever Wallace is the comedian you’re thinking of when talking about the guy who nails stereotypes
I'm not laughing hysterically at this, I'm crying like a baby.
Wow this went right over your head. Maybe watch it again in a quiet moment.
the craziest part is that the song actually gets meaningful and sad af
Whats even more impressive is that he has done this whole thing alone in his appartement during covid.
I feel like the reason why many women who reacted to this didn't have jaw draping moment on mother part is because they never denied this "white woman" her humanity from the start. So they are not surprised when the song focuses on reality for a moment because this woman was always real.
He has a old song called “Bo Yo” that’s so funny and witty I think you might like it!!
I'll never understand how some reactors miss the bridge. I'm not sure yet what exactly is says about them but it definitely says something
I'm still convinced that White Womans Instagram took Bo half of the time it took to record all of Inside 🤣
An eye tracker on this would’ve been spectacular for this.
The reason he does the song so focused in is to show what sort of generic things get posted to 'a white woman's Instagram' and when he starts panning out it's giving us a glimpse into the real person, the not so curated side of things for everything. And then zooms right back in when it goes back into the normal front we've been given by the person.
As a white woman i will never be offended at this song. Especially because, if you actually listen to the lyrics, he’s litterally praising white women. “Is this heaven? Or is it just a white womans instagram”. When i hear that line, i understand it as Bo saying “look at how wholesome, beautiful, happy and amazing all this is! It must be heaven!” And that to me is a compliment.
Haha, I love how much fun you had watching that.
I think this peak Bo. The video was shot and produced so well. It's kind of amazing. Then the song itself, really nice simple composition but it's effective. And his voice. Wow, I didn't really see him as a legit vocalist before, but Inside in general and this song in particular changed my mind. He's really good.
The part where the camera pans out and he starts being a bit serious, yeah, that works so well in what is otherwise just a goofy parody type song.
And you know, forget the lyrics, just listen to it as music, it's really good. He's a genius.
I love your reactions
No, but listen... Bo doesn't need to put his pants back on - it's for the art! 🤣
Think you would enjoy Can’t handle this/ Kanye Rant by Bo Burnham. Prob my favorite from him. Would love to see your reaction!
Several years ago, a duo named Maddie & Tae did a song called Girl in a Country Song that made fun of how women were portrayed in videos. They had men doing and wearing what women usually did. It is still hilarious and a good song to boot. Check it out if you get a chance. Really fun reaction to this one! I enjoy your channel.
I think what's great is that the portion where he talks about the mom is how people post real things but it gets lost in their BS and posturing
Dude's a genius, no doubt about it.
"Where are your pants"
Exactly what we say when we see a white woman's Instagram.
you don't listen. Missed the best part
Britt, you laugh like someone I know but I can’t remember who at the moment. It’s somebody I like though, I know that much. I like your laugh and many of your reactions. Thank you.
Bow set me up to laugh at lame shit and then he gets all sad and shit. This man is a genius.
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"White, 24 y.o. ( orphan ) woman's Instagram"
keep doing bo !
This is like his Kanye rant in being an incisively empathetic roast
It's such a funny song and accurate
you are just the best👍
So when he pans out of the shot, the idea is that you're getting a glimpse of something real. Everything else is in the square like it is on Instagram.
So the part where they temporarily widen the frame is when the "white woman" is talking to her dead mother about how she's doing in life and hoping she'd be proud of her. "Give a hug and kiss to dad" suggests that her father has passed as well. The point is, we can make fun of the surface that we see all we want, but there are real human beings behind every page. And maybe they try to make their Instagram page look pretty because that's how they need life to appear, and maybe that's for some hardcore reasons. So lay off.
Also, I just want to put out there that every single shot in every video from "Inside" was done in one single room. And because of the lockdown restrictions of 2020, he didn't have a crew to help him change out the set decoration and lighting. That was all done by Bo himself. Every shot in every "Inside" song was done in the same room. There's no lighting guy behind the camera. There are no people to set up the room between takes. It was all just him, doing all the work himself, in a single room.
The other thing is, Bo has talked a lot about what he's *not* in a position to talk about. He knows he's a young straight white male, and he clearly knows what that means in terms of privilege. He's got multiple songs about that.
But one thing is, he *is* the quintessential expert on social media. He started out as a teenage kid making songs on UA-cam in his bedroom with an electronic piano for something to do, and now he's... *this.* But then Covid forced him back into making songs in a single room with an electric piano for something to do. The only difference between then and now is that now he has more money and experience. He was able to take his stir-craziness to Netflix.
The only thing that Bo can call himself a true authority on is how social media affects people, because he lived that, being the first UA-camr ever to turn it into a real "mainstream" career. Hell, he's the cutting edge of that. And he uses his perspective to talk about the effect of social media in a lot of his songs ("Welcome to the Internet") and other projects (see the movie "Eighth Grade," which he directed).
You clearly have more of a reason to have a reaction channel than this woman.
I thought “influencers” were a more recent concept. Were there influencers in 2010? I thought that was a mid to late 2010’s thing, like 2015-2017
This is the ONE video where Bo is a bit off...
This is EVERY womans instagram... not just white womens.
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Nice, you called it too.
Makes me happy, cuz I like your channel xD
All of her reactions of Bo "He is a genius" but she does not address the message, it feels like it goes over her had every time. Or she does not want do expose her feelings. She was laughing at the "give a hug and kiss to dad" and commenting on the shuts. "I love how the camera is panning out" without understanding why it was panning.
At the end she was afraid we might misunderstand Bo, we should not judge him for making fun of Instagram girls, "if you are not laughing hysterical at this" . I am crying at this not laughing the song does such a good job of helping you get over this shallow interpretation of "basic esthetics" and just laughing at them. It pains me Britt is missing the best part of Bo art.
You have a great laugh.
He's actually 6'5
Bo is actually 6’5
Did you do his Kanye rant yet if not you need to it’s pure genius
Need to do reaction parodies, looking at this one. This time he shows that the reaction channels are focusing more on their own appearances during the video and completely missing the point of the video. Instead of paying attention to what he's saying, they just want to comment on how tall you so you don't actually have to think about what that person is saying.
believe it or not bo is actually 6'6 😀
Yeah bo is tall 6ft51/2
Maybe someone has said this already but you commented on the camera panning in and out, that's telling the point of the song right there. 95% of the song is in the aspect ratio of an instagram post and its all manicured performative nonsense but then she starts talking about her mom and the borders open up because she's being real about struggling with the loss of her mother and how she misses her and then the borders come back and we're back on the false reality of instagram. Its a commentary on how social media is largely performative and fake and people are just trying to get attention but there are pockets of people being real and authentic but they're lost in the sea of false identities that people manufacture and share.
Damn you just looked over the mom part
the aspect ratio sliding always kinda signaled to me when he was leaving the satire and entering a place of sincerity for a moment, highlighting that even these basic Instagram posts have a real person behind them. Then, the aspect ratio narrows again as it goes back to the superficial.
His height isnt 6,4, his height is 6,5
HOLY SHIT BO IS STOLAS
He's a good director. Check out his movie "Eighth-Grade"
You missed the whole point.
go sue her attention for focusing more on the aesthetics then the lyrics.
Y'all got played hard, this man understands.
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I guess it could've been more correctly called "middle-class woman's instagram" but it doesn't go with the rhythm
I love Bo but this was more of a moodscape instead of a comedy special… like it was something different…
I love your reactions, but you should really go back a few seconds after you pause especially if you pause mid sentence!
Awww trying to not insult us whities by saying "no matter the skin color" that's sweet, but we know. It's alright
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