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the nonsense is the point. the "funny feeling" is the existentialism of dealing with all the nonsense of social media and how life currently is, compared to the internal struggle to come to grips with that realization, and still feel like your life has meaning. this is one of my absolute favorite songs of his. catching yourself thinking of all these things, all the nonsense and time wasting consumption of media, and the funny feeling of realizing how little any of it really matters sometimes. "the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" is the part that ties it all together, realizing that if things continue like this, that society and possibly the world will just be over soon if this is what we spend our time and energy thinking on. I absolutely adore this song.
I second this.
I think it's also commentary on the anxieties of modern life brought to its boiling point by the pandemic, and especially dissociation and derealization, when you feel detached from your body, and the world feels unreal, a severe coping mechanism of the brain when dealing with too much stress and anxiety. The song juxtaposes the benign and mundane with the absurd, cruel and horrible. Especially in the line "a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall". The juxtaposition of shopping at a gun range, with shooting at a shopping mall, and how numbing these horrors have become that we can compare them to something much more benign, if still indicative of american culture. That's my reading, anyway.
You guys get it. I'm surprised he was so dismissive of the lyrics. I find something new to dissect every time I hear the song. That line female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, Civil War. I just got that line. This song is an onion bro. And if you didn't catch it, that line is a double, maybe a triple. A lot of those lines are.
The funny feeling is the feeling adjacent to irony. Like "hand delivered by a drone" is ironic because drones don't have hand.
@@MrSchism Sure, but I think it's a bit more than that. It's the juxtaposition of contradictory, yet similar things that make you almost feel a bit... Uneasy? And I don't think the irony is the lack of hands, but wanting to be better, while avoiding all human contact. And it's sort of the theme of Inside, the internet, social media, and technology bringing the whole world to your fingertips, but while doing so bringing us further and further apart, as all human interaction is becoming more and more online, on social media platforms built on engagement, which is most easily achieved through conflict and derision. And now we've gotten to the point where not even shopping involves another human being.
I mean, you can just look at self checkouts in grocery stores, unstaffed grocery stores, free home delivery, sometimes without a delivery person even. Our interactions online have been reduced to just engaging with the latest discourse (the backlash to the backlash).
I think this song may be more confusing taken out of context, as the whole special has interweaving themes that carry through to the end.
I feel like either you feel this song resonate deep in your soul or you’re someone who is in a good place and healthy mentally, so I’m glad that you’re in a good place my friend
Aww. That was sweet. 😉
Can’t you be both? I’m a happy dude most of the time but this song took my breath away.
@@CarlosLiberated I was making a dark joke at the expense of my own mental health it isn’t that deep
Depends on the person and circumstances. I watched this special on the anniversary of my dad dying of COVID. So yeah it hit pretty hard.
I was thinking something more along the lines of "ignorance is bliss"
He isn't speaking nonsense. It's the sensation of cognitive dissonance... "That funny feeling."
Personally, I think “that funny feeling” is anxiety.
All of the things he sings about are examples of modern issues that are cumulatively giving people existential dread. Cognitive dissonance is definitely a part of that and on display in many of the lines in this song (specifically the early verses) but the lines about mental health issues like agoraphobia and derealization, as well as global warming and the end of humanity point to “that funny feeling” specifically meaning the feeling of anxiety that comes from all the overwhelming stimulation from the problems and insanity of our current social situation.
Especially the “there it is again” part of the chorus, which invokes a sort of familiarity with and the normalization of anxiety as a new norm of the human experience in the age of information.
I’m not disagreeing with you, btw. Just adding to your interpretation.
More existential dread
I think it's also talking about all the things we fill our lives with in order to try and avoid "That Funny Feeling"
🤦🏼♂️ you’re all right, how are you missing that?
@@bigpictureguys8415 we're not having a big fight or something so I don't even know why you said that.
"20,000 years of this, 7 more to go" refers to the climate clock. when he recorded this song, it was supposedly 7 years before the damage to our planet became irreversible and irreparable. This was almost 2 years ago, so I believe it's almost 5 years on the countdown now
Omg, someone got it! High-five Qrow and Bo! Woo!!
Try again we missed.
Woo!!
Shit, one more time!
Woo!!
...
Whatever, good enough. We're white.
That covers the second half pretty well. I think the twenty thousand year part is referring to the introduction of agriculture that led to the first villages. I think he means the rise of civilization and we are about to start the fall.
@@steven1763 Exactly. Also, I think he uses the lower of two numbers, while (unadvisably) pretty much everybody else uses the higher number for the climate change thing. It wasn't "12 years until ..." when it was first announced that way, but instead "ten to 12 years until ...". Constantly using the higher number is making light of the situation while addressing it. In 2018 it was "ten to 12 years", so Bo must have written that song - or at least meant for it to release, as it did - in 2021, when it was "seven to nine" years.
Funny how the timer keeps getting extended
@@MalkyTalky How is it getting extended?
I think if "a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" doesn't make the song click for you, nothing will.
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue.
@@nathandiefenbach1274But it’ll be over soon, you wait. Baduba, baduba, dubadubaduba
To me, the song is about the absurdity of our day to day lives and how it brings "that funny feeling" that we have reached a point of no return. That we had a good run. The verses are all things that are absurd or horrifying.
Yep, I've seen it called a modern version of "We didn't start the fire."
Let's also mention the contrast between the mundane bull that we're mostly preoccupied and the actual horror/dread invoked of all the big things we're incapable or unable to affect.
The most terrifying line of this song is "A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall". It makes my stomach turn and is hits my gut.
I can't believe I hadn't watched the full special until yesterday, but it's incredible, and that line still stands out as probably the best line in the whole thing.
You got the funny feeling.
It's good, for sure.
The line that still gets me every time though, is 'The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all.'
Disagree. "Googling derealization, hating what you find" is the most terrifying. But it's a great line so I respect your choice.
Nah that’s not scary…20000 years of this, 7 more to go is terrifyingly accurate…but “hey what can you say, we were overdue. But it will be over soon” that’s effin terrifying…a few dead is nothing to the end of our species
Every verse has a pattern. Nonsense distracting you. Then reality and horror reappears. “There it is. That funny feeling.” So one searches for distractions again.
Repeat.
This song makes me want to cry when I hear it. That funny feeling refers to the pointless & hopelessness that Bo sees and experiences in his day to day life and sadly he isn't wrong. It perfectly explains his downward mental health cycle and the struggle he has been having getting back to himself
Odd you didn’t pick this one up.
The funny feeling is “the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all”. There were lots of lines that absolutely make sense that you seemed to miss.
@@crystalcharee57 seemed pretty chill to me, just a conversation
I think this made a lot of sense in the time that it was released - in the depths of lockdown. We were getting all of these little news blurbs - but there was this funny feeling that the world was never gonna be quite ok again. At least that's what I got from this song!
Also - I really enjoy hearing your take and perspective! I would absolutely love for you to watch this entire special, and rather than react to the whole thing, just sum up your thoughts in a review style video?
I think you are spot on.
I like your idea for a reaction format. He could even edit together just his reactions as he watches. Would make it easier I feel than trying to sum it up at the end. Bo's special is... special and would be a task for anyone to just try and sum up after watching. Then again, maybe it would be nice to get his take at the end of it all. Either way, good idea.
A lot of the message in my mind is about the absurdity and duality of the verses.
Seconded! I really want a reaction of his watching the special "cover-to-cover". A lot of Bo's material hits harder in context.
To me, the song became clear after "googling derealisation, hating what you find". I think *that's* the point of the song
TW: depression, Suicide
The song resonates with me a lot as someone with depression, autism, and ADHD. Constantly getting input from my immediate surroundings, the news, and social media. And (that funny) feeling a dissociative dread to everything. In the song he says the line "Googling derealization and hating what you find". When you google derealization you get this:
"Derealization is a mental state where you feel detached from your surroundings. People and objects around you may seem unreal. Even so, you're aware that this altered state isn't normal. More than half of all people may have this disconnection from reality once in their lifetime."
I think the song is trying to evoke that feeling because It's pretty common with people with depression (and I would assume that Bo has depression, most comedians do). Throughout the song he's pointing out contradictions and hypocrisy in life. And using juxtaposition to make his point. Here's a few examples:
"Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war"
To me this makes me think of what "Colonel Sanders" represents (the south, specifically civil war era and the confederacy based off his style) and trying to superficially make the character more palatable and modern by making him a woman without acknowledging what the character actually represents, and the juxtaposition of that with the actual civil war.
"Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go"
Here he's clearly talking about modern humans, and the fact that we're literally killing ourselves off with climate change (and wars, and all the other shitty things we do) and we really don't have much time left. To me this line just feels very blunt and feels like the intense waves of depression I sometimes get when looking at the news and realizing all the horrible things that are happening in the world.
"A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall"
I think this one is pretty self explanatory ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown"
Agoraphobia: "Agoraphobia is a condition where sufferers become anxious in unfamiliar environments or where they perceive that they have little control."
"losing focus" (having a panic attack)
"cover blown" people realising that you're not okay and the mask coming off that you've been using to blend in with society (with autism we call that masking, intentionally not showing "autistic traits" to fit in)
"A book on getting better hand-delivered by a drone"
Getting a self help book from a completely dehumanized and de-personalized source. When what a lot of what people need for their mental health is to be more social. And I think the juxtaposition of "hand-delivered by a drone" really sells that.
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all"
I think this could both represent the thoughts about our species going extinct due to climate change and thoughts of suicide. (and thoughts of humans going extinct leading to thoughts of suicide)
I think the song is about depression, anxiety, nihilism, and overall mental health.
"Hey, what can you say?
We were overdue
But it'll be over soon
You wait"
Agreed fellow autistic here.
Pretty good analysis. What is your take on the opening lyrics?
^^^^^^^^^ (as a fellow autistic,) this.
world in your fingertips, the ocean at your door, is also about climate change. destroying the world yet believing were more attached to it.
It’s almost never completely nonsense with Bo. The more you listen to him, the more you will find that he’s #deep
Love the #deep reference. Just listened to it before this one lol
I’d say this song and most of the rest of the soundtrack are best understood/appreciated when viewed with the full context of the Inside special itself. If you finish all of them and remain confused (certainly understandable) I definitely recommend checking it out in its entirety.
^agreed
The one two punch of Welcome to the Internet, where he directly makes you feel titular Funny Feeling, into this song that directly describes it is a stroke of genius
He is describing situations that give “that funny feeling” without naming it, so different people may name that feeling differently.
he does name it though
derealisation
I always thought of it as the feeling of existentialism mixed with the surreality of reality... does that make sense? Probably not. Don't mind me.
It’s anxiety. And yes, existential dread.
Surreality of reality and reality of surreal.
Like the campfire setting (itself a real place) being projected on the wall (becoming unreal) but accompanied by a guitarist (even acting as campfire guitarists do: "I can't really play the guitar very well, or sing") merging both real and unreal into surreal.
And then there's the existentiality of it :D
I just wrote a paragraph to explain what you said in 2 sentences bravo 👏 😂
This was like watching Albert Einstein trying to solve a Van Gogh
Beautifully said.
This is art and this was a good reaction
Brilliant ❤️
To me, it's an assortment of things that just make you go "this doesn't feel right" but that you also shrug off because of the way we're all so comfortable being so apathetic.
All these things add up but we take them all in as individualities.
We're fucked but what ever.
This one's a bit more open to interpretation than some of his other songs, but I think the general idea is he's cataloging all the surreal and mundane things we've come to accept as parts of daily life in the last couple years: things like the corporate sponsorship of everything, how we can feel so disconnected at a time when you can talk to anyone in the world without ever leaving home, etc. And then the line about "20,000 years of this; 7 more to go" is likely a reference to how some scientists think we've only got 7 more years to do something about global warming before it gets REALLY bad. So the "funny feeling" isn't really named, but to me it's the feeling that something's just "off" about everything. For a lot of people it's more a feeling of existential dread that things seem to be getting worse and worse and we're all just kind of standing around watching it happen like a slow-motion car wreck because everywhere we look, it's nothing but propaganda and corporate sponsorships.
I do agree that the song sounds great, and it's likely one of my favorite of Bo's songs, even if the meaning is a little hard to pin down.
It is a very hard song to pin down without the context of the special so I get why he struggled but glad you explained it so well.
The 7 years line refers to a certain timeline that some scientists have figured how long we might have left on this planet if things continue the way they are, such as climate change, pollution, deforestation, destruction of nature, etc.
I've always associated "that" feeling with existential dread and kind of cognitive dissonance.
Some of the things that he's saying are just ridiculous and screwed up, and other things are how we cope with those things.
I believe it’s 7 years before we have irreversible damage and can no longer fix it. 7 years of the way we are living
until our future is doomed
@J Hoop nice
@J Hoop That's because we haven't reached 2030 yet? That's like you scheduling a vacation for next year and your girlfriend saying I've been hearing about this vacation all year...no shit because the date hasn't been reached yet. We've been hearing about the 2022 world cup for 4 years....duh it hasn't been played yet.... what's the mystery?
@J Hoop The climate clock is adjusted as we make positive and negative changes. In 2020 it was projected as becoming irreversible at 2027. But, hey, why worry about the future when we can bury our heads in the sand. We'll be dead by then anyway, fuck future generations, right?
can confirm we have already reached the point of no return :) good luck to us ig, right now there are unexplained extremely high temperatures at the pole and we have no idea why and there's literally no publicity about it, the media says 7 years because they don't want to cause mass hysteria + other political reasons
-environmental science student
To me, the song is about the degredation of our society and the end of the world as we know it.
It starts off optimistic but you start to notice the inconsistencies within it that don't make sense.
The realization that something is wrong is "that funny feeling"
By the end you have reached acceptance that there is no going back and all you can say is we deserved it and "we were overdue"
- 20k years of this, 7 more to go
- summer air in early fall
- the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all
Climate change
Also -the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door
This is a list of odd, bizarre, ironic, dumb and shitty things that trigger this funny feeling that things have really gone to shit and that we were overdue for a reckoning.
It's better than that. It's a list of dumb shit we're told is normal, but we know it's not, and we're powerless to do anything about it.
The difference being we haven't gone to shit yet. We have a dumpster mindset and we're headed there, and Bo's generation is caught in the middle of it's fine I'm dying happy, and everything is shit so what's the point.
Sure, he says many random “nonsensical” things, but the lines that aren’t filler are also the most important ones. The irony of meditating through an app, or getting a self-help book delivered by a drone, those show a desire to improve while still remaining isolated, and relying on technology to try and fill the emptiness. Other lines allude to the climate crisis, “the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door,” “that unapparent summer air in early fall,” “the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all,” “20,000 years of this, 7 more to go,” which is a common theme in his songs from Inside. He’s acknowledging the climate crisis and his dread of a mass extinction event, “hey, what can you say? We were overdue, but it’ll be over soon, you wait…” I think the enormity of what we’re facing, and any individual’s powerlessness, is the “funny feeling.” The rest of the song may seem like nonsense filler, but it hits on where our society is, essentially in a state of denial, and how entertainment is used as an escape from those “funny feelings.” There’s also added social anxiety with mass shootings, making it hard to find respite from the “funny feelings.” How all these issues understandably take a toll on him is layered into the song, “full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown… total disassociation, fully out your mind… Googling derealization, hating what you find.” All that, on top of racism, backlash to social movements, and how we’re having a cold, cultural civil war over these issues. It’s a lot to take in. I think he fragmented the song to feel like you’re wanting to escape the inundation of bad news with lighter topics, only to realize the undercurrent of “funny feelings” is too powerful to sweep under the rug, so it maintains its grip, no matter how hard you try to distract yourself. I can tell he sees crisis unfolding that leads to civilization and ecosystem collapse. But that’s all too heavy, so let’s not think about it…
Which line is filler?
The 7 years to go line is based on the Climate Clock. Essentially we have 7 years to reduce global warming by 1.5 degrees before we reach a no-return.
I could be wrong, I am not studied in this matter it's just my interpretation. I only heard of the climate clock right before I listened to this song, so maybe that is why I correlate it.
People really think all the damage done since the industrial revolution can be reversed? Thats the same as trying to safe a burning house with 1 cup of water.
Also, you can recycle all you want but all the multinationals keep on with their agenda so goodluck
@@dareal5401 actually it is exponential so the damage done 200 years ago while still substantial is nothing compared to the last forty years. So your characterization isn't really accurate.
@@andrew348 deforestation was huge back in the day, so was coal. driving electric isnt green since the battery's are not recyclable and the electricity gotten from sun/wind/water has to be stored in battery's as well. just accept the fact that its useless and enjoy the time left
It's about isolation, climate change, and the way nothing feels real anymore. You can interpret 'that funny feeling' to mean either derealization or hopelessness in the face of climate change.
For instance, the line "the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" could be taken literally - the oceans are rising, but it could also mean the flood of backlash or rage or evil that people open themselves to on the internet.
A very important line was “googling de-realisation hating what you find” as the whole song is around that concept
In my mind, everything he says elaborates everything in society that makes you go "What the fuck?". Also I think I differ from most people when it comes to the "Ocean at your door" line. The world at your fingertips is obviously your phone, but the ocean line to me refers to the difficulty of crossing an ocean and the difficulty of leaving you house and interacting and relating to other people.
It's bo thinking the world's going to implode or something and the oceans are rising because of global warming. The earth is fine and we'll make it through whatever is coming.
I still think the ocean at your door line is referring to rising sea levels
that's the great thing about art- the ambiguity allows for multidimensional meaning making. So yes, you are all correct 🤣
@@thehills1042 we likely will but seas are rising and climate change is already affecting places in other parts of the world, theyll be fine but many people already have died from increased air temperatures dude:(
Which parts of the world are affected by global warming? People have been dying of heat exhaustion for a long time so how do you directly connect that to global warming?
“2000 years of this, 7 more to go” is a reference to the climate countdown clock, which states we have 7 years (at the time of Bo’s release of Inside) to dramatically reverse climate change before the effects become irreversible.
He's talking about the bullshit we focus on instead of the fact that we are negatively impacting the world, climate change being the 7 years to go get refers to. That Funny Feeling is him saying 'wait, this feels wrong'
The "nonsense" all adds up to one thing: That funny feeling. The feeling where you take a moment to reflect, think about humanity, that out of body meta experience that comes through in all the scenarios he paints in this song. They all correlate in the best way to showcase the abstractness of life and where we take a step back.
This song makes more sense in the context of the special, that I pray you'll watch soon; it's truly transcendent art.
He is recapping 2020 from his viewpoint as someone isolated in the pandemic, on the internet, and describing why we are doomed as a species. This comes from a larger special so you have to take it all in for context.
To me this song is the epitome of depression.
That funny feeling describes how it will suddenly set upon you. The lyrics read as him cataloging his internet with the random topics as well as UA-cam series and people. And then that funny feeling will come along and blindside you. The lyrics also sprinkle in those darker topics to show that feeling of depression always looming over you. Then towards the end he describes what it is by googling it. He finds out and hates it. And then the funny feeling comes back. And he's kindve expecting it at this point because hey he was overdue for an episode, and he's gotten to the point where he can almost calm himself down because it never lasts but it always comes back.
This song is one I relate too so much. But hey maybe I'm reading too much into it.
Everything's always up for personal interpretation. I definitely relate to your personal interpretation but I don't have too much dread about the funny feeling washing over me. I sometimes enjoy its company. It can be scary but addicting for some people I guess, as I almost can't live without it...
Check out Glowing Eyes by Twenty One Pilots. It seems to sum up the feeling from my perspective.
This right here is the reason I watch MrLboyd's reactions. He is the most ultra-literal person I've ever witnessed. The '70's song' he mentioned is "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. The fact that that song also makes no sense to him is fundamental to his character.
This! I was literally just thinking, "Why do I watch every one of his videos when he never seems to "get it" and takes everything so literally?" But may you're right. It's so fundamentally him that I now almost enjoy it? It's consistent.
He's so literal he has to read the lyrics because only listening to them leaves too much room for interpretation.
I feel like missing the context is the biggest thing within this reaction. Watching the full special is the only way you'll understand all of the songs together. This song is shattering because it paints life like we're all screwed, and stuff is wack, which is true.
this guy seems a little too well-adjusted to understand. I for one have read pornhubs terms of service and have taken an 8-hour road trip obeying all the traffic laws in Just Cause 2 years before this came out. if this song doesn't articulate perfectly why it's hard to get out of bed in the morning to you. then I'm happy for you
20,000 years of this, 7 more to go is talking about the climate clock. It mirrors the phrase "the whole world at your fingertips the ocean at your door.", probably referencing the internet (your phone)
Think of this as the antithesis of the "My Favorite Things" song from Sound of Music. These are all things that give Bo that funny feeling that there's something not quite right with the world. A lot of them are things that he's talked about in interviews and previous specials (Carpool Karaoke, Logan Paul, and Deadpool, for example). Others just don't make sense like the Live Action Lion King, which was still animated and something be HAND-delivered by a drone...which doesn't have hands.
Even more, the book that's being delivered by a drone is a book about dealing with agoraphobia - which is a fear of strangers.
I'm getting tired of watching bo burnham reactions from this guy and him not understanding the meaning of any of the songs, even the simplest of songs like "welcome to the internet"
That funny feeling is anxiety. Worry. No hope. Depression. Confusion. Confusion.
There is a message in the irony of the things he lists. That funny feeling is the existential dread that even though we "know" things are bad, not enough is being done about them. And worse, corporations/politics just milk the outrage & concern for likes on social media: e.g. KFC had a female Colonel Sanders. He gives multiple issues, and examples but hammers home the point with: the quiet comprehending of the ending it all. The theme that the internet & social media are more of a problem than a solution is a theme throughout Inside, and other projects he's done.
Every time he goes into the chorus "there it is again that funny feeling". He's referring to the feeling of hopelessness brought on by the last thing he mentioned in the lyrics. You have to remember that this is while he is recovering from severe anxiety and depression, and at a time in history that is increasingly anxiety inducing. Basically representing the increasing feeling of hopelessness.
Thank you,your analysis just made me realize how much time goes by on media,I'm gonna take a long break now and focus on writing
I feel like “that funny feeling” is revealed in the last verse as being “the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all”
The entirity of the special 'Inside' is a little bit about Bo's personal mental health state, a little bit more about the Covid Lockdowns and how it relates to that, and a LOT about how contemporary internet-based algorithim-driven for-profit monetization of information production and consumption is basically re-programming humanity... and not for the better.
Good summary, I would just add existential dread related to climate change.
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Thanks for adding another layer to this song that I didn't have before.
Bo is listing off examples of stuff that doesn't matter to you, it's all nonsense but it DOES matter to the kids coming up. He's saying hey, I know you think it's normal to brush off tragedy or disaster, but it's not. That feeling that something is messed up with the world, but you are told you can't, or aren't equipped, to do anything about it is real, don't let them tell you it's not. The Phoebe Bridgers version is amazing.
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The line that sums it up and hits hardest is “the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all. There it is again, that funny feeling”
My daughter learned to play this and recorded a cover... I’m... whew. This song is... she’s 17, so as a mom it really hits me hard.
You have to think of this one in the same vein as Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire." The things he lists are signs of the times, some meaningless but popular, like Logan Paul, some self-contradictory, like a stunning 8k resolution app for meditation. The world is falling apart and we're all absorbed in these meaningless things instead of trying to fix it.
Oh, great comparison. This is like a much more pessimistic "We didnt start the Fire" haha
its so interesting to watch older people vs younger people listen to this song. I feel like to younger generation has a greater experience with the extensional dread that comes along with growing up in this moment in time that the older generations may not understand.
I got the same feeling about this song: all of this is meaningless after we're gone.. and at this rate, we will be - soon. While this is, at least for me, a very depressive song, I still love it: it sounds comforting, warm and nice. Phoebe Bridergs actually made a cover of this that I listen to quite often.
It's like another commentator said, very aptly: It's like we're sitting in the front of a bonfire, listening to Bo as he calmly assures us that the world is ending.
this is a report from the first class seats; we're headed for a mountain, the pilots are dead and the cockpit door is sealed
The quiet comprehension of that verse hit. I feel for him writing that.
The deep dread I felt listening to this song watching Inside for the first time in a darkened room was hollowing and crushing.
Wow im really disappointed that this song didn't really "click" to you, its an incredibly beautiful and heartbreaking song when you understand what's going on. I won't go into what it's about because I think the rest of the comments pretty much covered it, but its just disappointing that you didn't really get it in the moment :(
He shuts down if he can't read ahead in the lyrics and "predict" what's going to be said because it makes him look smart. If he doesn't understand it then it must be nonsense
Lmfao every single reference, and the juxtaposition went right over his head
i love to listen to this song while a late night and after doing some work, it really gives a funny feeling
I also had to listen to it multiple times and spend some time thinking about it. From my current vantage point I have a better understanding, but it took a while. It's honestly pretty brave of you to outright say that you don't get the song and would need to listen to it multiple times to understand it better. Many people who watch reaction channels seem to expect people to "get" things instantly, and have less than positive reactions if they don't. I'm super glad that most of the comments I've seen here are from people attempting to be helpful, it means you've been putting together a community of good people.
I'm glad this community understands and feels this message
I sure hope after the 3rd or 4th viewing of this Mr. Lboyd gets it. I am a fan.
This essentially an existential crisis/ internal realization version of we didn’t start the fire
The sense of impending dred that something is not right just sitting in the back of your head while you're just getting on with life
Different people will feel different about this song. The funny feeling is your feeling on all these things. It isn't one thing specifically to everyone and it isn't given straight forward, allowing interpretation and personalization. It is genius that he made a song that on the outside it is random subjects and leaving your brain to interpret.
It makes more sense each time you hear it
It is a social commentary mixed with general discord and poetry. It has a sad sound but no real correlation
Think of this song as scrolling through the Facebook feed. Then it all comes together.
The coordination is the irony that all these things exist together at the same time in our life.
You absolutely need to watch all of Inside!! This is near the end of the special and it ties so much of what Bo was going for in it together. It really sets in the existential dread he felt throughout the early pandemic and being stuck inside, quarantining alone.
Like any form of artistic expression, the potential for different people to find different meaning in this song is what makes it art.
For me, the song is about looking at all the little things that make up the world and our daily lives, and recognizing the meaninglessness of it all. Movies and entertainment ("the Pepsi halftime show"), social media drama ("the backlash to the backlash"), idle pastimes ("reading Pornhub's terms of service" or playing GTA5), celebrity culture ("Steve Aoki, Logan Paul"), news and current events ("a mass shooting at the mall"), etc. Looking at all these things that surround us on a daily basis, realizing that this is where humanity is after thousands of years of culture and history ("20,000 years of this"), and feeling fundamentally dissatisfied and/or disinterested by it all.
That's "that funny feeling". The feeling that everything the world has to offer is essentially meaningless. Also known as depression. Elliott Smith described it perfectly in the title of one of his songs: "Everything Means Nothing To Me". Looking at the world, and thinking "is this all there is?"
I think the entire special “inside” is best enjoyed as a whole. The entire thing is a one man show that’s both a meditation on life during the pandemic and bo burnham reflecting on his experience of the social internet, as a UA-cam created former child star. This song in particular is meditating on the surreality of experiencing life on the social internet in an increasingly chaotic society.
Somehow, the first time I listened to this it already made sense to me. I just felt like I understood it right away. Maybe it’s because I had the context of watching the whole show. Maybe it’s because I could relate to the feeling of the song.
I believe the meaning lies behind the way all these things make him feel; I'm guessing a sort of "empty pointlessness or apathetic revelation". All these things seem minimal, normal at first until you think about the implications and the way there's nothing you can really do to directly change and impact the world for the better, no matter how strange and boxed in it makes you feel and no matter how wrong or unnerving some of the things in the world are, some peoples minds just cant be won and therefor most of these things stay the same. (Although i still don't understand the part about Robert Iker's face lol)
"A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall." (Violence)
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door." (Climate crisis)
"A book on getting better, hand-delivered by a drone." (Mental health)
It's entirely a song about modern society and how incapable we are at focusing on really important issues, because we're so distracted by media and petty politics that we disassociate from the real issues and lose our empathy.
7 years to go refers to the climate clock, which had about 7 years left at approximate time he would have been writing this song.
They said that since the hole in the ozon layer and acid rain in the 80s/90s
I really enjoy watching Bo reaction videos, but at the same time a lot of his work needs more than one watch. I've rewatched his videos so many times. He is brilliant and puts a lot of meaning in his lyrics.
I originally took this as a piece about the strangeness of the times and that feeling you get like you're living out of time or out of society, like reality itself has been misplaced.
Just curious, why does Mr Lboyd make it so the videos he’s reacting to are transparent and we’re unable to see them? I understand that he’s really only reacting to the song itself, and not the video, but it would still be nice to be able to see the actual videos clearly in the corner. My first guess is that he does it to obey copyright guidelines or something so the videos won’t be claimed.. but idk, that’s just a wild guess. Does anyone have the answer as to why he does that?
The song "from the 70s" you're thinking of might be We Didn't Start the Fire?
Anyway.. the verses are meant to evoke feelings of unease and existential dread. Something is not quite right with society. Like the fact that we buy fancy apps on our phone to meditate to, or seek escape from the world by following the traffic laws in a game where you're meant to run hookers over. It's mostly innocent, except for the mass shooting line and the repeated references to climate change.
Ultimately we are not really built to deal with the challenges we are creating for ourselves. Evolution didn't account for the affects of globalization or the internet or prepare us to deal with our waste and co2 emissions. 20000 years of this / 7 more to go is referring to the ending of the last glacial age when humans were presented with a climate they could thrive in, and 7 more to go is the "climate clock"s estimate for the time left until irreversible climate change.
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue. We had a good run for a bunch of apes.
I've seen the feeling described as existential dread. 20,000 years 7 more to go, backlash to the backlash of the thing that's just begun. but i also can get apathy like all these fucked up things mass shootings, global warming, jake paul, whats even the point anymore
Sobbed when I first heard this
each thing goes together when its not suppose to in a bad/sad way
That funny feeling is us forgetting something we need to take care of when we're distracted
What I get from “that funny feeling” is that is the moment when two competing ideas enter your mind and TO YOU they are both true, but there is no possibility of that being possible. So you just shrug it off and believe the idea that confirms your worldview.
How bad things are vs how they've made us not care. Some of us are having this terrified sensation. We know we're done for, but we're somehow still dulled to the sensation and if I'm not mistaken (only can speak for myself) we get that quiet panic that overwhelmed. I'm about to lose my job due to this feeling. The other issues add to it.
That funny, indescribable feeling you get when something that constantly occurs, yet doesn't occur often happens. A paradox of emotions is a good way to describe "that funny feeling"
This song is a masterpiece.
I specifically would like to see this specific type of content.
It is basically the soundtrack to "Don't Look Up".
Songs like this make more sense in the context of the rest of the show. It helps to watch the whole special to get into the right headspace to understand what he's singing about here. It's basically just looking around at everything that you're constantly bombarded with and "that funny feeling" of anxiety about the end of the world/society you get after seeing certain things. "The ocean at your door", "Unapparent Summer air in early Fall", "A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall", etc. Just constant news about various "controversies" mixed with banal b.s., mixed with super serious warning signs of things going to hell while all of it just becomes normalised.
Ben Caplans "bang to break the drum" has a similar random absurdity of human life vibe
It's talking about all of the modern distractions available to keep our attention away from all of the problems that could possibly be our doom as a civilization/society or even as a species... and yet it's increasingly impossible to completely ignore it. There's that funny feeling again.
Made a lot more sense in the context of the whole Netflix Special. I took it as things that are all the things that are happening in the world but having very little impact in the grand scheme of things, and the moments of clarity in which we realize it.
The verse saying “total disassociation… googling derealization” explains the randomness and disorganization of the song because that’s what it feels like getting all the information on what is happening “outside” while having those symptoms. The information you intake gets choppy and disorganized, and can be very disorienting.
The old song you were thinking of was "we didn't start the fire" and this song is strikingly similar
The simplest way to put it is that we all live in uncanny valley.
To me, this song is about that quiet moment when you're looking around at everything falling apart around you. From the inane (logan paul, carpool karaoke) to the disturbing (mass shootings, discussions on civil war), and to mental health (thoughts about death, dissociation, derealization), and from it all there comes a point where we become desensitized and all that's left is a feeling a futility and powerlessness. That said, I think he left it purposely vague so that we, the listener, can project onto the lyrics our own "funny feeling".
The way I took it is the common theme is dread and existentialism, as well as chaos or lack or meaning. From the uselessness of consumerism and acquiring material wealth, to the realization that society is crumbling around us. Between societal collapse, economical ruin, war, famine, pandemics, and global warming, it feels like every next step is hopeless. A book about self improvement being hand delivered by a drone because of both lockdown and the automation of a job a human could perform just as well, to a gift shop in a gun range, and a mass shooting at the mall, it all seems so backwards and like every small thing is another reminder of the societal collapse we seem to be trapped in. It feels like the end of the world, and there’s a very strong urge to just wait for the inevitable demise of the human species or possibly the whole planet. The last few years have been rough for most of us, and only seem to get worse with the passing day. Although, I feel like the end of the world is almost a comforting thing at this point. The thought that we may not even be close to the end or the bottom of the roller coaster is a horrific thought of Eldritch proportions.