Singer/Songwriter reacts to BO BURNHAM - THAT FUNNY FEELING - FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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I think the "funny feeling" is best described as "casual existential dread." The feeling that the world is teetering over the edge of collapse and disaster, but meanwhile society is just vibing and acting like everything's fine, all while growing ever-more absurd and dystopian. All the things he's naming - the awful, the contradictory, the absurd - are things that conjure that feeling of casual dread.
He says "loving parents" at one point. That throws me off cause I'm not sure what he's getting at by mentioning them.
@@bigdog91paper I think that one might be part of the sort of stock phrase or cliche, maybe even in extreme uses like "the shooters had loving parents, and no motive is known at this time." but it's certainly not a very clear implication if it's meant to be that specific.
it also goes with the next cliché, "harmless fun." I think these are terms that conjure a sort of familiar dread for him.
there's also the possibility that, being afflicted by existential dread about the future of humanity, and expecting the end to be caused by our own inertial recklessness and apathy, he is disturbed by the idea of people having more children, and the term "loving parents" makes him anxious because he sees it as an act of self-love to keep procreating in this world. ("my stupid friends are having stupid children....") but I dunno if he's expressed anti-natalist sensibilities before. it just seems increasingly common among a certain type of depressed millennial that spends more time than warranted dwelling on climate catastrophes beyond their control.
@@bigdog91paper it’s also the accumulation of these various things and the way they bump into each other and interact, rather than any of them individually. For example, talking to your loving parents while still disassociating anyway.
I think it’s the feeling of the absurd but that fits as well and the two aren’t mutually exclusive.
@@shortdrink873 I only now realized the relevance of Deadpool's fourth wall breaks. duh. it's the reverse of an artist beginning to dissociate from reality and see his own life as a spectator. Deadpool is the the fictional object who talks like he's a subject. In a way, dissociation is like a fourth wall break in the other direction.
I'm pretty sure the "20,000 years of this, 7 more to go" is a reference to the Climate Clock. There's only 6.5 years left before we reach the climate "tipping point" and it would have been 7 years when he wrote the song. It also makes sense considering the earlier lyric "the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door" pointing out that the ocean is rising.
That reminds me of when I was in high school in 2008 and they told us that we had 8 years until the climate tipping point which would have been 2016.
"You say the ocean's rising, like i give a shit.
You say the whole world's ending, honey it already did"
This! Looming environmental disaster is a recurring theme in his work. He is talking about the tipping point where we can not reverse climate change.
As if you can change the climate change in 7 years hahahha just roll with it. If its gonna end anyway so be it
@@dareal5401 "you're not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried."
I heard the 'funny feeling' described as 'sitting watching the violin players as the ship is sinking' and I can't get over how accurate that feels.
damn
Shit…. 💗
I believe "googling derealization, hating what you find" speaks plainly what the rest of the song hints at. That funny feeling is the sense that this cannot be real, that this cannot be what life is. And all of the other things are just examples of the surreal existence he finds himself in.
This
I feel like that derealization line goes hand in hand with the deadpool self awareness one but I haven't seen a lot of people connect that so maybe that's not correct.
That's how I interpret it too. That funny feeling is the feeling of how absurd this all is. Absurd, as in "struggling to find meaning in a chaotic world and feeling unable to do so." The song is a list of topics for a comedian to riff on, comedy being a way to make meaning out of chaos (see the 9/11 whiteboard gag earlier in the special), but one of the themes of Inside is "should I be joking at a time like this?" A lot of these things don't feel all that funny right now. They fill Bo, and us, with existential dread. For every funny-haha feeling during a game of GTA V, there's a funny-dreadful feeling that comes from another corporate woke marketing campaign or mass shooting.
Brother, this comment has put into words something I've always felt in myself but never been able to explain half as well as you have
I was struggling to put it into words but I think you described it perfectly. I think another word i would use to describe the funny feeling is existential dread
“A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall” BROKE ME. What an absolutely powerful lyric.
I seriously don't understand why we prioritize guns over human lives? We truly are living in the dystopia.
I kinda connected his line "you say the whole world's ending, honey it already did" on "All Eyes on Me" with the "funny feeling" - the anxiety and depression he may be feeling as we live through what seems like the end of the world. He even says on his last verse "The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all."
yup, he's specifically referencing sea level rises and taking what you can easily take either metaphorically or literally in 'all eyes on me' and have it make sense, but here he's just being more explicitly literal.
in my opinion.
And “hey, what can you say, we were overdue… but it’ll be over soon” seems to be him sort of shrugging at the end of the world and saying, “it was only a matter of time before we fucked everything up for ourselves”. That fits with “All Eyes on Me” too
@@verraguid Political no, society targeted sure, but he's focusing on his own view always
Yeah this is also what I thought after watching the special twice
the “whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door” line as well 😭
I feel like this song is our generation's "we didn't start the fire."
It absolutely is, which is why I adore all the covers and additional verses people are writing for it. This song has morphed into something more than itself. A community project, the outcry of a generation that is terrifyingly aware of how fucked up the world is and yet too paralyzed and powerless to really feel like we could ever change anything before it's inevitably too late.
@@magiv4205 unfortunately even with the wokeness of this generation the old white conservatives are still pulling the strings. If we were only one generation sooner. But the McConnells, and Grahams fucked us
It may even be closer to our generation's "eve of destruction"
@@andrew348 I like to think there’s still a little spark of hope. Things are going to get bad, awful even. That ‘funny feeling’ is knowing that, but not being able to connect it to the world around us that seems to otherwise just continue as is. It’s a strange, absurd existential dread.
And then the pandemic happened. And it was the great equaliser; it wasn’t just about the virus, all that time in lockdown and the issues rising to the surface since have highlighted for everyone in plain sight all the problems we’re dealing with. The dread is larger now because we’ve had time to reflect.
Something similar happened with The Black Death. After the horror was over, society responded to the danger and existential dread with collective self-reflection on what the fuck was going on. It birthed The Renaissance. We were overdue something like the pandemic, some canary in the coal mine that would wake us the fuck up and make us notice even more how bad things are becoming.
It will be over soon, like Bo says. And that can either be the most hopeful sentence ever, or the least. But I like to believe it in this sense; the reign of old rich white dudes like that who are holding us back is almost done. The world is crying out for change. And there’s a generation who just had to endure a fucking pandemic. And when humans respond collectively to existential danger, some of the greatest things we accomplish as a species can often be born.
And yet I’m typing this on a phone that in all likelihood was made by a person in China who’s life was made so poor by their working conditions that they jumped out a window.
There it is again, that funny feeling.
I definitely got "we didn't start the fire" vibes
In an interview several years ago he described Deadpool being self aware that he's in a comic book to be existential and unsettling and he doesn't like that feeling, and I think these are all examples of things that exist that make you feel unsettled or give you the "why... why is this real?" Feeling. It's an existential dread or apathetic empathy that we've been jaded into feeling when we see bad news alongside unnecessary small stuff.
Fantastic view of that narrative.
This is just my interpretation but I think "that funny feeling" is a sense existential dread. For every improvement we make, there are underlying problems that could end humanity. Violence, climate change, political strife, disassociation i.e. We make efforts to distract ourselves, but that underlying feeling of dread is always still there.
Well said
Or like cognitive dissonace
Agreed a lot of reference to existential dread.
And in a couple of billion years, the sun will swallow the earth and everything we worry about or do will be for nothing and meaningless in the sense of it all. That's existential dread for you. Nothing matters, what do we do with the time we have?
I see this as “things are not okay” that’s the feeling...we’re walking through life in taking in entertainment while beneath the surface it’s all ending. We deserve it.
That’s how I interpreted it too
20000 years of this seven more to go. "This" is human civilization. In seven more years we are predicted to have tipped the climate beyond recovery.
Hey, what can you say, we were overdue. But it'll be over soon.
The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door. We're preoccupied with the Internet while the coasts flood, the hot parts of the world dry out and become uninhabitable, and civilization collapses. What a funny feeling.
I had such a visceral reaction and felt offended by "We deserve it." Like, I had nothing to do with the bad shit that's happening in the world. But then I'm sitting here thinking about, well, I'm not fuckin doing anything about it either. Because after watching Inside and watching reaction videos of it on UA-cam, I'm just gonna go on with my day like usual.
We deserve it. I deserve it.
"we" don't deserve it. the people who will be most immediately and severely effected by climate change are those who had the least power and influence. the systems that are destroying the natural world are driven by the greed of the few, to the detriment of all.
@@MH-hv1gf what are you going to do about it?
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all." Yup.
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I think the line about obeying the traffic laws in GTA V is supposed to be describing a state of being so just utterly empty and apathetic to life that you've gotten to a point where you're finding joy in doing something that should be objectively boring.
I don't know if I described that well, but this song is definitely like a depression song, but not like a surface level one it's describing the sort of weird surreal way that it paints the world around you to create this sort of empty and bleak landscape. Boy...I'm bad at explaining things lol
I wonder if the 7 years lyrics is referencing the Climate Clock. I've heard several references to climate change in the song and overall album. The Climate Clock has just under 6.5 years left when I checked today.
That's exactly what he's referencing. The belief according to many climate experts is that if we don't do something significant soon, in 7 years (less now) we'll pass a point of no return where we can't undo the damage we've done.
Specifically yes, it’s about the climate, but i also think it’s just that general feeling that things have been getting bad and worse and we finally only have a short time left.
@Fysh you do know that most people wouldn't like the world to end, and that if corporate oligarchy and unabashed capitalism were somewhat kept in check, we could actually prevent this, according to 99% of climate scientists, other than the ones paid off by oil gremlins
There's a little bit of good news, though. Like Carlin pointed out, the Earth will be just fine.
We’ll be long gone; we’ll take out most of the rest of the species with us... but the Earth will be just fine.
@@asperRader Yes, but most Christians likely believe that the end of the world is inevitable no matter what we personally do...
As someone with depersonalization/derealization it was soooo sobering and validating to hear him mention it and to SEE it throughout the special. I don't think any media has resonated so much with me.
And yeh, the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all is what I feel we all live with in 2021
im only part of the way through the video so idk if u ended up looking this up for yourself, but the line “20000 years of this, 7 more to go” seems to be referencing the 2028 climate deadline. the annotation for the line on genius is:
“Leading theories suggest Paleolithic humans arrived in the Americas in the neighborhood of 20.000 years ago. The discovery of agriculture prompted the Neolithic Revolution, which started independently in many places, including in South America around 9.000 years ago.
Since then, there have been many profound changes in the way people live and organize. The First Industrial Revolution and subsequent developments have resulted in humans dominating the Earth system, causing a distinct geological age, the Anthropocene. For many decades, but especially since the turn of the twenty-first century, it has become apparent that this has thrown the world into climate and ecological crises.
These crises have already caused untold damage across the globe. Possibly, “seven more to go” refers to the climate deadline of 2028 - if outputs of greenhouse gasses are dramatically reduced by then, the worst effects of irreversible climate change could be avoided. Based on climate science, this corresponds to staying below a 1.5ºC change in average global temperature when compared to pre-industrial levels. From the context of the song, Bo imagines a dramatic shift in global infrastructure - notably the social internet and consumer culture - before the worst that climate change has to offer takes hold. This could be interpreted optimistically or pessimistically, but because of the contract to humanity’s initial spread around the globe, one must imagine Bo’s take is pessimistic.”
i haven’t seen any other interpretations of the line, but since the numbers match up so well with what the genius annotation proposes im assuming that was bo’s intended meaning with the line
Thank you
I think it could also be a reference to revelation taking place over 7 years which also heralds the end of the world. Could be both though!
This is what I thought as well after googling especially with the comment about the ocean at your door just before.
This song has exploded with a lot of people creating their own lyrics going along with their own lives and stuff like that. Ethan's from CrankGameplays was heartbreaking ....
I really like Bo's vibrato .. He might not have the BEST singing voice in the world, but it is still excellent, especially from where he was years ago.
He should definitely react to Ethan's version, I think.
I think he “hey! what can you say, we where overdue. But it’ll be over soon, you wait” kind of sums up that funny feeling that he’s been singing about in the entire song
"Googling derealization hating what you find" really really hit me hard. I experience the same kind of dissociative panic attacks Bo does. He's described them before and they're not the hyperventilating crying type. It's like you're being sucked out of your body out of your head and you're crushed under the feeling of intense panic and fear and you're not in your body, almost as if you're watching your body go through the motions while you scream silently inside your head.
Edit to say I can't even fucking IMAGINE having one of these on stage. The audience would have no idea as they're watching him.
The other one that hit me is the phrase about agoraphobia and you order a book on treatment delivered by a drone. Aka taking surface level steps to treatment because technology allows us to.
I appreciate everyone’s interpretations here in the comments! Some of the comments here are a little morbid for my taste but I still appreciate everyone’s perspective! 😂
Yeah I definitely have a morbid take on this song. This special made me rethink having children. But I appreciate anyone who can watch it and not be freaked out. Or, envy, maybe.
The world is ending. Nothing you do is gonna stop that. Got it? Good, now get inside.
@@TheAnnaCarol11 I suppose it shall someday 😂
@@goat2601 if you're not sure about having kids, don't, because there's no unringing that bell. but if your reason is that you honestly think anyone will prefer non-existence to existence solely due to their evaluation of "how bad the world is" in any part of the 21st century, I think you are suffering from a shortage of perspective. you exist because every generation of ancestor you have - those that lived through the dark ages, through mass migration due to famine or war or disease, through the absolute shittiness of the world in comparison to the present day in just about ever conceivable respect - appreciated life for the gift that it is.
if you think coastal flooding, hotter weather, and greater human conflict would make this world finally not worth inhabiting anymore, while the Black Death, or the Holocaust, or the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans, were moments worth surviving, I have to question your judgment and especially its recency bias.
I am not advocating having kids you're not sure you want, especially while your judgment is apparently shaded by existential dread. for your own sake, first, I am saying you need to accept the miracle of your existence with a little more appreciation. But, I suspect that if you get to a place where you appreciate the sacrifices of your ancestors for giving you this unlikely shot at existence, rather than rejecting it as a mistake... you may find you want to pay it forward, and downward. and in the meantime, please don't frame your reservations as an altruistic concern for your putative offspring and the worsening world they'd be inheriting. maybe it'll be worse than the world you were given, but a very tiny share of humans in history have preferred non-existence, or to have the choice to exist taken from them, over existence in difficult times.
@@jedinxf7 yeah man, fuck how YOU feel about having kids, you should definitely have kids because this condescending random thinks you should because your imaginary offspring will be upset if you don't have them.
This song is our generation's "We Didn't Start the Fire."
In that song, the Boomer singing is just blindly optimistic and energetic in the face of rampant catastrophe that he denies any responsibility for.
In this, the Millennial singing is grappling with the existential dread of realizing the probable end of humanity at the hands of previous generations that we had no power to even TRY to thwart.
These lyrics are swimming with irony. Fun and scary at the same time.
This is the song I’ve listened to least from the special. Not because I dislike it - it might actually be my favourite - but it just fills me with this sense of discomfort and dread that I can’t explain, even to myself
I feel exactly like that about how the world works. It's unhinged brilliance, but where he submits socko "verbally" immediately takes me darker places. But as they say art is supposed to make you feel.
It feels like he's listing all the things he occupied his mind with and tried to distract himself during the lockdown, but the existential dread kept creeping in.
I like your interpretation!
The control he has over his voice is so amazing. and when he opens up into his resonant low notes he just gives me chills.
A song sung by the campfire, a song about the end.
Described by perfect satire, an extremely wealthy land.
I'm glad you specifically call out his musicianship. I've always loved Bo, and I've always known he COULD sing, but his singing and playing and songwriting have come a LONG way even since his most recent special. He's an incredibly skilled musician now.
At the beginning he says something like “hey I don’t play the guitar and I can’t really sing either, sorry” and it turns out to be the most DELICATE singing I have ever heard out of him - highlights the irony immediately and continues throughout the song. It is the best song on the album and honestly makes me cry every time.
I was waiting for someone to give this song the attention it deserves, it's my favorite of the special. I love the others as well but my ear is tuned to singer-songwriter tunes and you were spot on with the John Denver/Dylan comparison I had the same thoughts. He did a great job evoking the contradictions of life and the beauty of the song contrasted with the hopeless existential crisis we might feel when nothing feels real enough to make us care. Great reaction and thank you for looking up De-realization for the context!
I feel like "that funny feeling" might be the sense that the world is just not quite right, from the 8k meditation app to the gun range/mall comparison to obeying the law in GTA; this is not how it is supposed to be. So much of our society, especially America's, feels like the opposite of how things should be. The other "funny feeling" is likely what you get when one spends too long thinking about this; existential anxiety, derealization, agoraphobia.
There are plenty of overt hints throughout the lyrics at fantasising about the end of the world, and welcoming the end of this horrifying, distorted humanity that we've become.
This song always gives me chills. So unbelievably good. Definitely the understated, lowkey standout of the entire special. Honestly one of the best, more successful modern folk songs i’ve ever heard.
You really should react to the whole special… it really flows together. Truly a work of art. 💕
James Taylor, the influence you are looking for is James Taylor. It was practically an imitation of the man. Another great song by Bo and a good reaction from you. I've watched three of your vids now and you've earned a sub - keep up the good work!
It's definitely about the low-thrumming anxiety a lot of have felt in the last couple years. He mixes a lot of cynical capitalist imagery of popular culture just trying to drum along as usual with imagery of the horrible events we've all been experiencing/know are coming (shootings, political civil war, climate change i.e. "the ocean at your door"). That "funny feeling" is the unease we all have that we are at a tipping point in spite of all our pretending that things are still normal.
The "20,000 years of this, 7 more to go" is in reference to the ticking time left until the heating of the planet is irreversible.
This song brings me so much comfort. Just to know that someone else looks at the world and thinks "This is all too crazy to actually be real life." So thankful for people like Bo.
Also I think what trips me up the most about this song is how stripped back and soothing his singing is, while the lyrics are all the crappy and overwhelming things happening around us. When usually (and in this special) he uses camera angles, lights, and voice distortion to communicate his anxiety and depression.
“The whole world at your finger tips, the ocean at your door”… what I got from it is we have access to “anything and everything all of the time” putting us in a spot where we’re extremely connected, but also on an island, meaning alone. The more technological connection we have, the lonlier we become.
i cannot express how many times i’ve sobbed to this song. it just hits me so hard.
The "funny feeling" is that derealization where we feel like we can see all of the problems in the world, and we have all the answers at our fingertips, but we're just so detached that instead we feel like we can't change anything and that the world is spiraling out of our control so why bother trying. So instead we seek out cheap entertainment and distraction to try and escape from that feeling. That funny feeling of staring out the window and listening to lowfi beats to relax to while the paramedics hook your neighbor up to oxygen and load them into an ambulance outside.
Love the video man. This is my favorite song from the special. It encapsulates what it feels like to live right now.
I really liked his Deadpool reference..his self awareness...that 4th wall break that's almost like watching yourself and the world through you're own eyes, but at the same time like from an outside perspective. Seeing things so clearly and being hyper aware of yourself and the world around you..that funny feeling is that weird feeling you get as you try to act normal when the whole world is being swallowed whole....thats the ocean at your door..
I don’t know if someone else has mentioned it but I’m pretty sure the line:
“We were overdue, but it’ll be over soon. Just wait.”
It’s a double meaning. Because it reflects how through the pandemic no one knew how long it would last. We were told that we were overdue for a pandemic after the fact. But authority figures were just asking people to wait because it’ll pass.
At the same time, it’s a representation of that existential dread that is leading people to more depression, violence and fear. The feeling that the world is slowly ending and that we’ll just have to wait for it to end. But the waiting isn’t going to end until we’re already gone.
This song speaks to everyone in different ways for sure. For me That Funny Feeling is intrusive thoughts. Like, in the lyrics he alternates between absurdity and real life horrors.
Congrats, I think you’re the first person on the internet to react to this lol. I literally can’t find anything but covers elsewhere lol
Love all your reactions to Bo's latest songs!! I can't get enough of his Inside special and your reactions. Hope you do them all!
Out of a special of only incredible songs, this one has to be the best one.
Looked up Bo Burnham reaction videos and saw yours up there. I have now watched a good chunk of your stuff. You sir have got yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the great work
So glad you reacted to this one.
I think "that funny feeling" is anxiety. Anxiety over the way things have ended up, anxiety over how he is living his life, anxiety over not being able to do something about it, anxiety about feeling increasingly alienated by society and from others. 24 hours news cycle, always being online, climate change, always performing for someone, the rise of fascism, fake wokeness. That is the reality we live in.
Could be, but I think it's more like having a feeling of nihilism. Everything is absurd and stupid so you just lose hope and get that "funny feeling" in your stomach.
yep, that’s my interpretation too.
“that unapparent summer air in early fall; the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all” I love how these two lyrics go together.
The line that best cements what the funny feeling is for me is the "gift shop at the gun range..." line
To me I think a lot of this the funny feeling of switching between living in and enjoying the moment, and then being distracted by the intrusive unignorable bad stuff his mental health or the way capitalism wormed its way into every aspect of society and life of the fact the we likely will live through the collapse/ending.
The 20,000 years of this 7 more to go is seemingly talking about human civilization, 20k years ago is just about the start of the Mesolithic era where we started to make settlements and pottery and stuff. So we're at the peak of civilization Superbowls and crazy half time shows, 20,000 years spent building up to this point and he thinks about how this path is about to lead us off a cliff.
I think this is another telling line pair "That unapparent summer air in early fall" "The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" The first line is that living in the moment, enjoying a nice sunny day and warm air, then being taken out of the moment to think, why does it feel like summer in fall, and then quietly comprehending the end of the world is in our lifetimes.
Then when you consider All Eyes on Me you also know hes given up on being able to impact these things and is resigned to just sit back and watch it all happen.
"You say the ocean's rising like I give a shit
You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did
You're not gonna slow it, Heaven knows you tried
Got it? Good, now get inside"
Derealization is often connected to disassociation, which he also mentioned in the song. Disassociation is where you feel like you yourself aren't real, that you're just a body going through life.
Somewhere in the special he alludes to the possiblity that he has a disassociative disorder. So the "hating what you find" part is likely referencing the "oh fuck" moment where you realize you are unwell mentally.
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Dear Brad
Points you missed
Deadpool self awareness :
Deadpool actually knows he is a fictional character who exists only to perform for his audience, and thats why he is so flamboyant all the time.
That also led him to actually murder his creator to be finally free to die.
The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door :
People due to the constant access to the internet, literally have the whole world at their fingerprints. That makes the world seem a lot smaller. Eventually so small, you are drowning. Nothing is enough and eventually nothing is worth it.
Unapparent Summer air in early fall, the quiet comperhending of the ending of it all:
There are autumnal changes that are unaffected or even slowed by a long, hot summer. Leaves won’t lose their green colour until the nights start to get chilly, because cold temperatures are needed to break down the chlorophyll pigment. Also, birds decide when to migrate south for the winter by the shortening day length, not the weather.
Summers keep getting warmer, the planet is actually heating up, like a lot in our lifetime.
That is a weird way to say the world is coming to an end for humanity due to the extreme damage we've done to the enviroment.
For the last part i have no way nor the knowledge if its spot on, or he's taking some liberties.
Connect the dots and you will find that this song is borderline suicidal.
Its not a cry for help per say, but an understanding that nothing really matters.
If you found this helpful, you are welcome, and just made my day.
Cheers everyone.
The ocean at your door could also literally mean that the oceans are rising and in coastal cities the ocean is coming in quick
“Deadpool’s self awareness” is likely a more direct reference to Bo’s distaste for Deadpool, and the songs overall themes of the painful weirdness of the corporate apocalypse we’re all headed towards. Quote Bo:
“Deadpool is so deeply troubling to me, because it’s like a billion dollar corporation winking at the audience, and everyone is just totally cool with it. It’s a 200 million dollar movie with a guy being like, “Here is the trailer for my stupid movie, watch it you idiots,” and everyone is like, “Yeah, he gets it.” I’m like, “Does he? Does Deadpool get it?””
@@danielwilson5422 at the same time Robert is the creator of Bo, and Bo is the performing act when Robert gets on the edge.. So, Bo is self - aware, and Robert knows Bo exists to perform. Just Like Deadpool is self aware
Its extremelly meta and really difficult to make out what he really means.
Its very possible theres a double hint where hes showing distaste for deadpool when hes doing the exact same thing
..thats a different angle from going back to "you're everything that you hated, are you happy, hey look ma, i made it, are you happy"
“There it is, again, that funny feeling” in my understanding is described as remorse and loss
but since we already had this “Funny feeling” it starts to get numb inside mentally.
“Gift shop at a gun range, a shooting at the mall” Even though they cancelled each other out, we already heard this “ funny feeling”
A thousand times, yet we feel guilty that this horrific stuff still goes on, while we look outside our kitchen window or look inside a monitor or listen to the news, whether it’s flooding, police brutality, racism, sadly even if these horrible things happen it wouldn’t get attention from politicians because of reasons not said. But we still can’t get people of power to listen is what I’m saying.
We didn’t start the fire, but now our house is burning, what are we going to do.
I'm impressed how you got understood the song so well on the first listen. I needed several! haha.
This song hit me the hardest. The overall feeling of disassociation and detachment from the world at large is something I've definitely struggled with; even more so with depression. But the repeated line at the end: "...we were overdue, but it'll be over soon, just wait." is the same message I tell myself when I'm in a deep funk, and hearing it from Bo was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life 💛
I just subscribed. Love your videos.
Keep up the good work.
Love from Germany!
I feel like the feeling he is alluding to is the empty gut feeling of impending doom. Like, you can see all of this happening around us and we all carry on like everything is fine. It’s almost like we accept what’s happening but feel that quiet dread in every action we perform, every interaction we have and every thought we process.
He's putting a happy voice on all the negative feelings you might have.
Happy you're doing a video on this because this is easily my favorite tune in the whole special. Kind of a nihilistic yet weirdly happy and hopeful vibe.
Also kind of ironic he says he can't play the guitar or sing just before he goes on with this song, because it couldn't be farther from the truth.
Just thought I'd share an amusing tidbit - according to Google Trends, search activity for "derealization" jumped up to about 400-500% in the two weeks after Inside was released. While it's tapered back down since, it still remains at a higher level of search activity than before. Lots of people are actually googling "derealization", and I think that speaks volumes about his relatability and impactful eloquence.
To me the funny feeling resonates thematically with the whole special. It's the simultaneous loving obsession with and distrust of the media, the internet, and commodification of everything.
My favourite line is 'the world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door.'
Both that we'll all escape into the world of knowledge and entertainment even as the waves swallow us, because there's nothing else we can do, and the juxaposition between our wonderful achievements and the cost. 'That funny feeling' is a feeling of powerlessness, dread of the future, the looming awareness that we're spiralling toward doom. '20 000 years of this, 7 more to go' alludes to human civilisation, though I think the number is more poetic than literal because we've been around longer than that. But it all seems to be ending.
for more descriptions of "that funny feeling" I suggest googling the dictionary of obscure sorrows. My favorite word from there is kenopsia - feeling evoked by abandoned places
I think the gift shop at the gun range line is more referencing the idea that you can shop at the place where you shoot, or you can shoot at the place where you shop.
I think that funny feeling is the sad and surreal existential dread we get when we hear about and see the things he’s mentioned in the song
I take "that funny feeling" to be a deeper reference to Absurdism, and a surface level reference to that strange feeling we all have that something ain't right with the world, but when asked to elaborate we struggle to. We can't put our finger on it, we can't explain it because it's not one thing, it's lots of random things all put together in a way that we know is wrong. But we feel it and we know something is terribly, terribly wrong with the world. I get hints of Camus in there too, Camus famously wrote that one day there is an "awakening", one day the "stage sets collapse" and we get a glimpse at how it really is. Some people ignore it and go back to trying to live a normal life because it's the only way they can cope, others are destroyed by their existential awakening, others embrace it as part of the Absurd. That's the vibes I get from this song. That's the funny feeling.
I love everything about these lyrics. I think that he's talking about the feeling of looking around and seeing that everything is so wrong, yet it seems so incredibly normal at the same time. Which is why "funny feeling" is such perfect wording. I don't know how to describe it better than that.
Edit: Interesting that as I watch the end of the video you basically came to the same conclusion.
I think this song could be connected to "welcome to the internet" in some way.
Funny feeling starts right after it and takes place near the campfire, far away from internet and civilization.
And when you get there, you can look on casual life from perspective, apart from internet and society, who constantly tell you what to think, where to look, they give you so much information and opinions, so you don't have time to think about it.
And when you *finally* escape, you get that funny feeling, that it all doesn't make sense at all.
(Where are we all going, really?)
I love comments about funny feeling being "an existential dread", yeah, seems about right to me
I have severe depression and it's largely influenced by the world around me. I can't comprehend why anything is the way it is. Why are we doing these stupid things when our world is ending as we speak? Who cares if Godzilla or King Kong wins when we have destroyed our planet to the point of no return? People are 100% incomprehensible to me at this point. I don't know how to get my priorities straight when I have no point of reference; other people's priorities seem insane to me. The government, large corporations, the internet. Seeing all these things and realizing our world has become dystopian... it's scary.
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The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door
that line stuck wit me during the rest of the special, a couple minutes later we have "All eyes on me" with that feel as unnerving as the blue of everything, the room, the mood and him, as if he's underwater drowning in anxiety
I always thought the song was about that feeling of knowing somthing isn't right or somthing is wrong but it's become normal, Or accepted.
This is the song that broke m, I was absolutely sobbing by the end. Some of us didn't need to google de-realization.
This is one of my favorite songs from the special. It's a beautiful song and he has a beautiful voice ❤️
I think he is talking to younger generations when he say you have the world at your fingertips and the ocean at your door and the whole song is telling them what they have and then being like we can’t stop the world from killing itself and we have to accept the funny feeling of death and the end because it could happen in our life times
the song is about disassociation and derealization...an anxiety symptom I have them, I have Bipolar Disorder and BPD., ADHD and PTSD. this song hit me in the chest.
That funny feeling, I like to describe as those moments of "This is the weirdest timeline" feeling when you feel like this isn't the parallel universe that your real self is supposed to be living in.
It's real to us. It is our normal. But it's those moments when we feel we aren't real. We aren't in the true timeline. We're the same character in the book of history written into some awful fanfiction.
Gift shops should at the mall and shooting guns should be at a gun range.
I can’t stop thinking about this special. Love your commentary.
You deserve the 100k subscribers. Seem like a cool and very talented guy as well. Thanks for the content.
I always took the "Obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V" as sort of a metaphor for how wild and crazy and genuinely ABSURD the real world has become, that people will try to find familiarity and refuge in fantasy, even when they have the full freedom to do whatever they want. When everything is just too chaotic, and you can't escape that funny feeling, sometimes you just want to boot up GTA and act like it's a normal day.
i hope you hit 100k soon!
"20,000 years of this" references humanity. We've existed for about that long. "Seven more to go" is talking about the feeling that we're near our end. That we're going to implode and destroy ourselves. "The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all." "We were overdue, but it'll be over soon."
"That funny feeling" is the ubiquitous crushing pressure and anxiety of technological Modernity, where you can be aware of and worry about Literally Everything.
Bo is channeling David Foster Wallace.
DFW would totally have been a fan
My thoughts were that the funny feeling was that subtle irony that surrounds us, those things that seem normal but when you really take a step back to stop and think about, it really makes you think “Is this really what our lives have come to?”
I bawled at this song...
The Quote: "We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom." ~ Slavoj Žižek, Popped in my head when you couldn't find the words to describe "That Funny Feeling".
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all"
That feeing that there are literally multiple global apocalypses breathing down our necks and we’re all sitting staring at our phone, distracting ourselves from absolute existential dread
Love your videos bro. Bo is a genius!
Funny feeling is existential dread and anxiety. Also, twenty thousand years of this, seven more to go could be a reference to the world ending.
That funny feeling is the feeling something is deeply wrong but we've become so conditioned to it that it's become normal
I think the funny feeling is the " quiet comprehending to the ending of it all." It's like we all try to live our lives like everything is normal but we know things are coming to a head. We are reaching maximum capacity and the evil is building. Check out " Men and women" live- he plays guitar in that. You see some of his personality there.
The GTA 5 line is about GTA Roleplay Servers which have become widely popular on Twitch, where people basically live regular law abiding lives in a game that was designed to have all the laws broken.
Always gota listen
This proceeds a short clip describing a panic attack, by song. So I’m sure it could be interpreted by other people in different ways, but to me it was like he was listing things that start off kind of funny, then weird, then turn into a spiral. Right before he sings the chorus each time, about a funny feeling, it’s usually preceded by a line that triggers existential dread. That funny feeling, is dread, anxiety, frustration, etc.
And I totally get that feeling because, as someone who has panic attacks on the regular, there are definitely some seemingly benign things that just make my mind go into a complete panic spiral for what feels like no reason.
That funny feeling - is referring to the less common definition of “funny”, which is “difficult to explain or understand; strange or odd… differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way”. That’s the funny feeling you have when passively consuming media & then feel a ping of pain when you see upsetting news. Additionally the irony of describing a painful feeling as “funny” - is the mirror effect he uses in the whole special. Which is why most viewers can’t simply describe his special as a comedy, because he’s constantly reflecting the illusions & reality of how disconnected most people are from the horrible things around us.
The struggle to interpret and understand everything in the song/life is the funny feeling
Ooooooh de realization is the key to the whole song