Theyre complicated. You can tell that he's watched a ton of livestream gamers, and picked up on their intros, the way the talk with people in the chat, the cadence of their commentary on the game, everything. For those who are unaware, Bos real name is Robert Burnham. The global pandemic and subsequent lockdown orders of March 2020 put a stop to these plans. Its called INSIDE, and it will undoubtedly strike your hearts forevermore. Now, hes come a long way since his previous specials titled What. and Make Happy, where his large audiences roared with laughter Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime. And now depression has its grips in him. On June 9, Burnham released the music from the special in an album titled Inside (The Songs), which hit No. At various points, the gamer is given the option to make the character cry. Here's a little bit of that. And so I think he's always had that stubborn insistence on holding both of those things in his head at the same time. There's also another little joke baked into this bit, because the game is made by a company called SSRI interactive the most common form of antidepressant drugs are called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, aka SSRIs. Not only has his musical range expanded his pastiche of styles includes bebop, synth-pop and peppy show tunes Burnham, who once published a book of poems, has also become as meticulous and creative with his visual vocabulary as his language. So we broke down each song and sketch and analyzed their meaning and context. Some of this comes through in how scenes are shot and framed: its common for the special to be filmed, projected onto Burnhams wall (or, literally, himself), and then filmed again for the audience. The result, a special titled "Inside," shows all of Burnham's brilliant instincts of parody and meta-commentary on the role of white, male entertainers in the world and of poisons found in internet culture that digital space that gave him a career and fostered a damaging anxiety disorder that led him to quit performing live comedy after 2015. our full breakdown of every detail and reference you might have missed in "Inside" here. Now, five years later, Burnham's new parody song is digging even deeper at the philosophical question of whether or not it's appropriate to be creating comedy during a horrifyingly raw period of tragedy like the COVID-19 pandemic and the social reckoning that followed George Floyd's murder. So we broke down each song and sketch and analyzed their meaning and context. When we saw that projection the first time, Burnham's room was clean and orderly. At the forefront of this shift has been Bo Burnham, one of YouTubes earliest stars, who went on to make his own innovative specials with satirical songs backed by theatrical lighting and disembodied voices. Good. Im talking to you. It's like the mental despair of the last year has turned into a comfort. BURNHAM: (Singing) Start a rumor, buy a broom or send a death threat to a Boomer. But in both of those cases, similarity and connection would come from the way the art itself connects people, not any actual tie between Burnham and myself, Burnham and the commenter. But, like so many other plans and hopes people had in the early months of the pandemic, that goal proved unattainable. This is especially true for Patreon campaigns that give fans direct access to creators on platforms like Discord. Burnham's hair is shorter in those initial behind-the-scenes moments, but his future-self has a longer, unkempt beard and messy hair. MARTIN: Well, that being said, Lynda, like, what song do you want to go out on? Like most of Burnhams specials, it includes comedic songs and creative lighting effects. All Eyes on Me also earned Bo his first Grammy win for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2022 Grammys. I mean, honestly, he's saying a lot right there. The song is like having a religious experience with your own mental disorder. Burnham wrote out: "Does it target those who have been disenfranchised in a historical, political, social, economic and/or psychological context?". Thought modern humans have been around for much longer than 20,000 years, that's around how long ago people first migrated to North America. While this special is the product of evolution, Burnham is pointing out its also a regression. Depression acts like an outside force, one that is rather adept at convincing our minds to simply stay in bed, to not care, and to not try anymore. "And so today I'm gonna try just getting up, sitting down, going back to work. Research and analysis of parasocial relationships usually revolves around genres of performers instead of individuals. A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall. But by using this meta-narrative throughout the whole special, Burnham messes with our ability to know when we're seeing a genuine struggle with artistic expression versus a meticulously staged fictional breakdown. I did! See our full breakdown of every detail and reference you might have missed in "Inside" here. This line comes full circle by the end of the special, so keep it in mind. And like unpaid interns, most working artists cant afford a mortgage (and yeah, probably torrent a porn). I got so much better, in fact, that in January of 2020, I thought 'you know what I should start performing again. Burnham says he had quit live comedy several years ago because of panic attacks and returned in January 2020 before, as he puts it in typical perverse irony, the funniest thing happened.. HOLMES: So, as you'll hear there, on the one hand, there's a lot of sadness in what he's talking about there. newsletter, On Parasocial Relationships and the Boundaries of Celebrity, Bo Burnham and the Trap of Parasocial Self-Awareness.. But on the other hand, it is lyrically so playful. Might not help but still it couldn't hurt. He also costarred in the Oscar-winning movie "Promising Young Woman," filmed in 2019. Burnham's creative background began with being a theater then he transitioned to musical-comedy. An astronaut's return after a 30-year disappearance rekindles a lost love and sparks interest from a corporation determined to learn why he hasn't aged. His career evolved through YouTube, MTV, Vine, his movie "Eighth Grade," and now Netflix's "Inside." Is he content with its content? Well, well, buddy you found it, now come out with your hands up we've got you surrounded.". And the biggest risk Burnham takes in the show is letting his emotional side loose, but not before cracking a ton of jokes. But look, I made you some content. But then the video keeps playing, and so he winds up reacting to his own reaction, and then reacting yet again to that reaction. And while its an ominous portrait of the isolation of the pandemic, theres hope in its existence: Written, designed and shot by Burnham over the last year inside a single room, it illustrates that theres no greater inspiration than limitations. that shows this exact meta style. By inserting that Twitch character in this earlier scene, Burnham was seemingly giving a peek into his daily routine. And then, of course, he had previous standup comedy specials. But during the bridge of the song, he imagines a post from a woman dedicated to her dead mother, and the aspect ratio on the video widens. (For example, the song "Straight, White, Male" from the "Make Happy" special). And you know what? MARTIN: So as you can hear in that bit, he sounds something like other comedic songwriters who do these kind of parody or comedy songs, whether it's Tom Lehrer, Weird Al or whoever. But, of course, it tangles that right back up; this emotional post was, ultimately, still Content. Initially, this seems like a pretty standard takedown of the basic bitch stereotype co-opted from Black Twitter, until the aspect ratio widens and Burnham sings a shockingly personal, emotional caption from the same feed. So for our own little slice of the world, Burnham's two time spans seem to be referencing the start and end of an era in our civilization. Back in 2010, Burnham appeared on Showtime's "The Green Room," a comics round table hosted by Paul Provenza. Its an uncanny, dystopian view of Burnham as an instrument in the soulless game of social media. While the other songs have abrupt endings, or harsh transitions, "That Funny Feeling" simply fades quietly into darkness perhaps the way Burnham imagines the ending of it all will happen. It's as if Burnham is showing how wholesale judgments about the way people choose to use social media can gloss over earnest, genuine expressions of love and grief being shared online. During that taping, Burnham said his favorite comic at the time was Hans Teeuwen, a "Dutch absurdist," who has a routine with a sock puppet that eats a candy bar as Teeuwen sings. The performer, along with the record label and brand deals, encourage a parasocial relationship for increased profits. That quiet simplicity doesn't feel like a relief, but it is. One of those is the internet itself. Burnham spoofs a PewDiePie-like figure a YouTuber who narrates his playing of a video game with a dead-eyed smugness, as shown in an image at the bottom-right corner of the screen. At just 20 years old, Burnham was a guest alongside Judd Apatow, Marc Maron, Ray Romano, and Garry Shandling. Performing "Make Happy" was mentally taxing on Burnham. And you can roughly think about this, I think, as a series of short videos that are mostly of him singing songs and that are sewn together with a little bit of other material, whether it's shots of him lying in bed or setting up the cameras. That's a really clever, fun little rhyme in this, you know, kind of heavy song. WebBo Burnham is more than a comedian he's a writer-director-actor who first went viral in 2006. I'm talking to you, get the f--- up.". "), Burnham sang a parody song called "Sad" about, well, all the sad stuff in the world. A harsh skepticism of digital life (a life the pandemic has only magnified) is the dominant subject of the special. The vocal key used in "All Eyes On Me" could be meant to represent depression, an outside force that is rather adept at convincing our minds to simply stay in bed, to not care, and to not try anymore. And part of it is sometimes he's just in despair. Underneath the Steve Martin-like formal trickery has always beaten the heaving heart of a flamboyantly dramatic theater kid. On the Netflix special, however, Josh Senior is credited as a producer, Cooper Wehde is an assistant producer, and a number of people are credited for post-production, editing, and logistical coordinating. Burnham reacts to his reaction to his reaction: Im so afraid that this criticism will be levied against me that I levy it against myself before anyone else can. The video keeps going. And that can be a really - if you're not very good at it, that kind of thing, where there's a balance between sort of the sarcastic and ironic versus the very sincere can be really exhausting. Look at them, they're just staring at me, like 'Come and watch the skinny kid with a steadily declining mental health, and laugh as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself. It's a dangerously tempting invitation to stop caring, coming from the villain of this musical comedy (depression). "That's a good start. He has one where he's just sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar describing our modern world. Bo Burnham defined an era when he created Inside. Soering New insights from various parties come to light that raise questions about Jens Sring's conviction of the 1985 murders of his then-girlfriend's parents. I have a funky memory and I sometimes can't remember things from something I've watched, even if it was just yesterday. I hope to see you inside at some point. A college student navigates life and school while dealing with a unique predicament he's living with a beautiful former K-pop sensation. He was alone. "Healing the world with comedy, the indescribable power of your comedy," the voice sings. Its easy to see Unpaid Intern as one scene and the reaction videos as another, but in the lens of parasocial relationships, digital media, and workers rights, the song and the reactions work as an analysis for another sort of labor exploitation: content creation. BURNHAM: (Singing) The live-action "Lion King," the Pepsi halftime show, 20,000 years of this, seven more to go. HOLMES: I liked a bunch of the songs in this, and a lot of them are silly songs about the things that his comedy has already been concerned with for a long time, right? He's the writer, director, editor, and star of this show. Burnham lingers on his behind-the-scenes technical tinkering handling lights, editing, practicing lines. Remember how Burnham's older, more-bearded self popped up at the beginning of "Inside" when we were watching footage of him setting up the cameras and lighting? On the simplest level, Inside is the story of a comic struggling to make a funny show during quarantine and gradually losing his mind. Netflix. The flow chat for "Is it funny?" In his new Netflix special, Inside, Bo Burnham sings about trying to be funny while stuck in a room. Theres always been a tension in his comedy between an ironic, smarty-pants cleverness and an often melodramatic point of view. In this time-jumping dramedy, a workaholic who's always in a rush now wants life to slow down when he finds himself leaping ahead a year every few hours. Trying to grant his dying father's wish, a son discovers an epic love story buried in his family's distant past. HOLMES: Yeah. Partway through the song, the battery icon switches to low and starts blinking in warning as if death is imminent. An older Burnham sits at a stool in front of a clock, and he says into a microphone that he's been working on the special for six months now. Open wide.. It also seems noteworthy that this is one of the only sketches in "Inside" that fades to black. WebA Girl and an Astronaut. The tropes he says you may find on a white woman's Instagram page are peppered with cultural appropriation ("a dreamcatcher bought from Urban Outfitters") and ignorant political takes ("a random quote from 'Lord of the Rings' misattributed to Martin Luther King"). Daddy made you your favorite. But now Burnham is showing us the clutter of the room where "Inside" was filmed. While he's laying in bed, eyes about the close, the screen shows a flash of an open door. In this case, it's likely some combination of depression/anxiety/any other mental disorder. But usually there is one particular voice that acts as a disembodied narrator character, some omniscient force that needles Burnham in the middle of his stand up (like the voice in "Make Happy" that interrupts Burnham's set to call him the f-slur). Inside (2021) opens with Bo Burnham sitting alone in a room singing what will be the first of many musical comedy numbers, Content. In the song, Burnham expresses, Roberts been a little depressed ii. He had a role in the film "Promising Young Woman." The Volcano, which touched on labor rights. Fifteen years later, Burnham found himself sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic and decided to sit back down at his piano and see if he could once again entertain the world from the claustrophobic confines of a single room. Netflix did, however, post Facetime with My Mom (Tonight) on YouTube. I like this song, Burnham says, before pointing out the the lack of modern songs about labor exploitation. Bo Burnhams Inside begs for our parasocial awareness The comedians lifetime online explains the heart of most of his new songs By Wil Williams @wilw_writes Jun 28, 2021, 11:01am EDT It's progress. Then comes the third emotional jump scare. '", "Robert's been a little depressed, no!" That cloud scene was projected onto Burnham during the section of "Comedy" when Burnham stood up right after the God-like voice had given him his directive to "heal the world with comedy." And if you go back and you look at a film like "Eighth Grade," he's always been really consumed by sort of the positive and the negative of social media and the internet and the life of of young kids. WebBo Burnham: Inside is a 2021 special written, directed, filmed, edited, and performed by American comedian Bo Burnham. Burnham's career as a young, white, male comedian has often felt distinct from his peers because of the amount of public self-reflection and acknowledgment of his own privileges that he does on stage and off screen. Like he's parodying white people who think that by crucifying themselves first they're somehow freed from the consequences of their actions. When you're a kid and you're stuck in your room, you'll do any old s--- to get out of it.". Sitting in the meeting room, not making a sound becomes the perceived 24/7 access fans have to DM you, reply to you, ask you questions. Comedian and filmmaker Bo Burnham used his time alone during the pandemic to create a one-man show. "Trying to be funny and stuck in a room, there isn't much more to say about it," he starts in a new song after fumbling a first take. HOLMES: So before he was this celebrated filmmaker, Bo Burnham was himself a YouTube star. MARTIN: So a lot of us, you know, artists, journalists have been trying to describe what this period has been like, what has it meant, what's been going on with us. Linda, thank you so much for joining us. Because there's also a little bit Bo Burnham the character in this almost. The reason he started making this special, he explains in the show, is to distract himself from shooting himself in the head, the first of several mentions of suicide (including one in which he tells viewers to just dont). Burnham brings back all the motifs from the earlier songs into his finale, revisiting all the stages of emotion he took us through for the last 90 minutes. ", He then pulls the same joke again, letting the song play after the audience's applause so it seems like a mistake. The battery is full, but no numbers are moving. WebBo Burnham: Inside is by far one of the riskiest and original comedy specials to come out in years. Doona! "Any Day Now" The ending credits. One of the most encouraging developments in comedy over the past decade has been the growing directorial ambition of stand-up specials. You can stream "Inside" on Netflix now, and see our ranking of all 20 original songs from the special here. "Inside" feels like the creative culmination of Bo Burnham's career over the last 15 years, starting with his first viral YouTube video in 2006. It feels like the ending of a show, a climax, but it's not. His hair and beard were shorter, and he was full of inspired energy. According to the special, Bo decided he was ready to begin doing stand-up again in January 2020, after dealing with panic attacks onstage during his previous tour, the Make Happy Tour of 2015-2016. The special is available exclusively on Netflix, while the album can be found on most streaming platforms. Though it does have a twist. Now we've come full circle from the start of the special, when Burnham sang about how he's been depressed and decided to try just getting up, sitting down, and going back to work.
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