I don't think it's perfectly morally defendable.". For fans who struggle with panic attacks (myself included) its a comfort to see yourself represented in an artist whose work you respect. He also costarred in the Oscar-winning movie "Promising Young Woman," filmed in 2019. "If greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate, then when the clock runs out, the average global temperature will be irreversibly on its way to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels.". And it has a real feel of restlessness to it, almost like stream of consciousness. He doesn't really bother with any kind of transitions. Bo Burnhams Inside: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/arts/television/bo-burnham-inside-comedy.html. All Eyes on Me takes a different approach to rattling the viewer. Thematically, it deals with the events of 2020, rising wealth inequality, racial injustice, isolation, mental health, social media, and technologys role in our lives. One comment stuck out to me: Theres something really powerful and painful about, hearing his actual voice singing and breaking at certain points. Throughout "Inside," there's a huge variety of light and background set-ups used, so it seems unlikely that this particular cloud-scape was just randomly chosen twice. HOLMES: Yeah. Well now the shots are reversed. Other than Fred Rogers, Bo Burnham is one of the most cited single individual creators when discussing parasocial relationships. 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? So we broke down each song and sketch and analyzed their meaning and context. Get up. A harsh skepticism of digital life (a life the pandemic has only magnified) is the dominant subject of the special. @TheWoodMother made a video about how Burnham's "Inside" is its own poioumenon, which led to his first viral video on YouTube, written in 2006, is about how his whole family thinks he's gay, defines depersonalization-derealization disorder, "critical window for action to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming irreversible.". 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. And then, of course, he had previous standup comedy specials. The clearest inspiration is Merle Traviss 16 Tons, a song about the unethical working conditions of coal miners also used in weird Tom Hanks film Joe vs. ", Right as Burnham is straightening up, music begins blaring over the speakers and Burnham's own voice sings: "He meant to knock the water over, yeah yeah yeah, but you all thought it was an accident. How how successful do you think is "Inside" at addressing, describing kind of confronting the experience that a lot of people have had over the past year? Burnham spent his teen years doing theater and songwriting, which led to his first viral video on YouTube a song he now likely categorizes as "offensive.". Mirroring the earlier scene where Burnham went to sleep, now Burnham is shown "waking up.". His hair and beard were shorter, and he was full of inspired energy. MARTIN: And it's deep, too. "Truly, it's like, for a 16-year-old kid in 2006, it's not bad. 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. you might have missed in Bo Burnham Anyone can read what you share. HOLMES: Yeah. The comedy special perfectly encapsulated the world's collective confusion, frustration, and exhaustion amid ongoing pandemic lockdowns, bringing a quirky spin to the ongoing existential terror that was the year 2020. "I'm criticizing my initial reaction for being pretentious, which is honestly a defense mechanism," he says. But unlike many of us, Burnham was also hard at work on a one-man show directed, written and performed all by himself. Just as often, Burnhams shot sequencing plays against the meaning of a song, like when he breaks out a glamorous split screen to complement a comic song about FaceTiming with his mom. When Burnham's character decides he doesn't want to actually hear criticism from Socko, he threatens to remove him, prompting Socko's subservience once again, because "that's how the world works.". Doona! Viewer discretion is advised. When we see it again towards the end of the special, it's from a new camera angle. Now, hes come a long way since his previous specials titled What. and Make Happy, where his large audiences roared with laughter The penultimate song "All Eyes on Me" makes for a particularly powerful moment. It's an instinct that I have where I need everything that I write to have some deeper meaning or something, but it's a stupid song and it doesn't really mean anything, and it's pretty unlikable that I feel this desperate need to be seen as intelligent.". But now Burnham is showing us the clutter of the room where "Inside" was filmed. See our analysis of the end of the special, and why Burnham's analogy for depression works so well. Its called INSIDE, and it will undoubtedly strike your hearts forevermore. "And so today I'm gonna try just getting up, sitting down, going back to work. And finally today, like many of us, writer, comedian and filmmaker Bo Burnham found himself isolated for much of last year - home alone, growing a beard, trying his best to stay sane. Copyright 2021 NPR. Similarly, Burnham often speaks to the audience by filming himself speaking to himself in a mirror. But, of course, it tangles that right back up; this emotional post was, ultimately, still Content. "Inside" kicks off with Burnham reentering the same small studio space he used for the end of "Make Happy," when the 2016 Netflix special transitioned from the live stage to Burnham suddenly sitting down at his piano by himself to sing one final song for the at-home audience. A distorted voice is back again, mocking Burnham as he sits exposed on his fake stage: "Well, well, look who's inside again. jonnyewers 30 May 2021. The clean, tidy interior that first connected "Inside" with "Make Happy" is gone in its place is a mess-riddled space. ", "I do not think my intention was homophobic, but what is the implicit comedy of that song if you chase it all the way down? And the biggest risk Burnham takes in the show is letting his emotional side loose, but not before cracking a ton of jokes. After more sung repetitions of get your fuckin hands up, Burnham says, Get up. Bo Burnham Hiding a mysterious past, a mother lives like a nameless fugitive with her daughter as they make hotels their home and see everyone else as a threat. Bo Burnham, pictured here at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, wrote, directed and performed the entirety of his new Netflix special, Inside, by himself. And he's done virtually no press about it. Teeuwen's performance shows a twisted, codependent relationship between him and the puppet on his hand, something Burnham is clearly channeling in his own sock puppet routine in "Inside.". Daddy made you your favorite. The flow chat for "Is it funny?" It chronicles Burnhams life during the pandemic and his journey creating the special. With menacing horror movie sound effects and hectic, dreamy camerawork, what becomes clear is Burnhams title has a double meaning: referring to being inside not just a room, but also his head. "All Eyes On Me" starts right after Burnham's outburst of anger and sadness. That's when the younger Burnham, the one from the beginning of his special-filming days, appears. The song, written in 2006, is about how his whole family thinks he's gay, and the various conversations they're having trying to figure it out. begins with the question "Is it mean?" Or DM a girl and groom her, do a Zoomer, find a tumor in her HOLMES: And this is what the chorus of that song sounds like. . Theres a nostalgic sweetness to this song, but parts of it return throughout the show, in darker forms, one of many variations on a theme. Likewise. 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. Other artists have made works on the wavelength of Repeat Stuff, but few creators with a platform as large as Burnhams return to the topic over and over, touching on it in almost all of their works. The global pandemic and subsequent lockdown orders of March 2020 put a stop to these plans. Burnham's creative background began with being a theater then he transitioned to musical-comedy. The penultimate song "All Eyes on Me" makes for a particularly powerful moment. It's just Burnham, his room, the depressive-sound of his song, and us watching as his distorted voice tries to convince us to join him in that darkness. Comedian Bo Burnham recently a new comedy special for Netflix aptly titled Inside which was filmed entirely by himself while under lockdown during the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020. "I was in a full body sweat, so I didn't hear most of that," Burnham said after the clip played. He takes a break in the song to talk about how he was having panic attacks on stage while touring the "Make Happy" special, and so he decided to stop doing live shows. Burnham reacts to his reaction to his reaction to his reaction, focusing so intently on his body and image that he panics, stops the videoand then smiles at his audience, thanking them for watching. Please check your email to find a confirmation email, and follow the steps to confirm your humanity. 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. Bo Burnhams 2021 special, Inside. Might not help, but still, it couldn't hurt.". "Robert's been a little depressed," he sings (referring to himself by his birthname). The scene cuts to black and we see Burnham waking up in his small pull-out couch bed, bookending the section of the special that started when him going to sleep. Then, of course, the aspect ratio shrinks again as the white woman goes back to posting typical content. The song untangles the way we view peoples social media output as the complete vision of who they are, when really, we cannot know the full extent of someones inner world, especially not just through social media. 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. WebBo's transcripts on Scraps From The Loft. Like he's parodying white people who think that by crucifying themselves first they're somehow freed from the consequences of their actions. Bo Burnham He says his goal had been to complete filming before his 30th birthday. Not a comedy per se, but a masterpiece nonetheless. The label of parasocial relationship is meant to be neutral, being as natural and normal and, frankly, inescapable as familial or platonic relationships. "Got it? Burnham is also the main character in the game, a character who is seen moving mechanically around a room. Hes been addressing us the entire time. Because there's also a little bit Bo Burnham the character in this almost. It's like Burnham's special has swallowed you whole, bringing you fully into his mind at last. You know, as silly as that one is, some of the other ones are more sedate. I got so much better, in fact, that in January of 2020, I thought 'you know what I should start performing again. During the last 15 minutes of "Make Happy," Burnham turns the comedy switch down a bit and begins talking to the audience about how his comedy is almost always about performing itself because he thinks people are, at all times, doing a "performance" for one another. But he meant to knock the water over, yeah yeah yeah, art is a lie nothing is real. "Goodbye sadness, hello jokes!". Theyre complicated. Then he moves into a new layer of reaction, where he responds to that previous comment. HOLMES: Well, logically enough, let's go out on the closing song. And so I think he's always had that stubborn insistence on holding both of those things in his head at the same time. Thank you so much for joining us. The song brings with it an existential dread, but Burnham's depression-voice tells us not to worry and sink into nihilism. "Any Day Now" The ending credits. And then the funniest thing happened.". "Part of me needs you, part of me fears you. Bo Burnhams latest Netflix special, Inside, is a solo venture about the comedian and filmmakers difficult experience in quarantine thats earned enthusiastic critical acclaim. Burnham achieved a similar uncanny sense of realism in his movie "Eighth Grade," the protagonist of which is a 13-year-old girl with extreme social anxiety who makes self-help YouTube videos. Bo Burnham: Inside, was written, edited, and directed by the talent himself and the entire show is shot in one room. Its an origin story of sorts. But it doesn't. WebBo Burnham: Inside is a 2021 special written, directed, filmed, edited, and performed by American comedian Bo Burnham. When he appeared on NPR's radio show "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross in 2018, the host played a clip of "My Whole Family" and Burnham took his headphones off so he didn't have to relisten to the song. Photograph: Netflix Its a measure of the quality of Inside 1.0 that this stuff could end up on the cutting-room floor. Unpaid Intern isnt just about unpaid internships; when your livelihood as an artist depends on your perceived closeness with each individual fan, fetching a coffee becomes telling someone theyre valid when they vent to you like they would a friend (or a therapist). Instead of working his muscles at open mics or in improv, Burnham uploaded joke songs to the platform in 2006. Finally doing basic care tasks for yourself like eating breakfast and starting work in the morning. Still, its difficult not to be lulled back into, again, this absolute banger. We're a long way from the days when he filmed "Comedy" and the contrast shows how fruitless this method of healing has been. It's a reprieve of the lyrics Burnham sang earlier in the special when he was reminiscing about being a kid stuck in his room. Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime. Bo Burnham: Inside Burnhams 2013 special, what., culminates in Burnham, the performer, reacting to pre-recorded versions of himself playing people from his life reacting to his work and fame, trying to capitalize on their tenuous relationship with him. Its a stupid song, and, uh, it doesnt really mean anything. The video continues. / Are you having fun? The crowd directions are no longer stock pop song lyrics; now, the audience understands them as direct orders to them from Burnham. The song is like having a religious experience with your own mental disorder. For the album, Bo is credited as writer, performer, and producer on every song. 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. At just 20 years old, Burnham was a guest alongside Judd Apatow, Marc Maron, Ray Romano, and Garry Shandling. But he knows how to do this. that shows this exact meta style. But then, just as Burnham is vowing to always stay inside, and lamenting that he'll be "fully irrelevant and totally broken" in the future, the spotlight turns on him and he's completely naked. 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. he sings as he refers to his birth name. Bo Burnham All Eyes on Me also earned Bo his first Grammy win for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2022 Grammys. If we continue to look at it from the lens of a musical narrative, this is the point at which our protagonist realizes he's failed at his mission. Bo Burnham That YouTube commenter might be understood by Burnham if they were to meet him. While he's laying in bed, eyes about the close, the screen shows a flash of an open door. Next in his special, Burnham performs a sketch song about being an unpaid intern, and then says he's going to do a "reaction" video to the song in classic YouTube format. So this is how it ends. 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 Instead of a live performance, he's recorded himself in isolation over the course of a year. He's freely admitting that self-awareness isn't enough while also clearly unable to move away from that self-aware comedic space he so brilliantly holds. Bo Burnham Good. Bo Burnham's 'Inside This sketch, like the "White Woman Instagram" song, shows one of Burnham's writing techniques of bringing a common Internet culture into a fictionalized bit. Under the movies section, there's a bubble that says "sequel to classic comedy that everyone watches and then pretends never happened" and "Thor's comebacks.". WebBo Burnham: Inside is by far one of the riskiest and original comedy specials to come out in years. Went out to look for a reason to hide again. The special was nominated for six Emmy Awards in 2021, of which it won three: Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special, and Outstanding Music Direction. (For example, the song "Straight, White, Male" from the "Make Happy" special). 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. Tapping on a synthesizer, he sings about the challenges of isolation as he sits on a cluttered floor, two striking squares of sunlight streaming in through the windows of a dark room. WebBo Burnham's Netflix special "Inside" features 20 new original songs. HOLMES: Thank you. His virtuosic new special, Inside (on Netflix), pushes this trend further, so far that it feels as if he has created something entirely new and unlikely, both sweepingly cinematic and claustrophobically intimate, a Zeitgeist-chasing musical comedy made alone to an audience of no one. A Detailed Breakdown of How Bo Burnham Burnham watching the end of his special on a projector also brings the poioumenon full circle the artist has finished their work and is showing you the end of the process it took to create it. Bo Burnham Is he content with its content? From the very beginning of "Inside," Burnham makes it clear that the narrative arc of the special will be self-referential. Bo Burnham: Inside It's prison. The songs from the special were released on streaming platforms on June 10, 2021. I did! And did you have any favorites? Bo Burnham Inside, a new Netflix special written, performed, directed, shot, and edited by comedian Bo Burnham, invokes and plays with many forms. WebA grieving woman magically travels through time to 1998, where she meets a man with an uncanny resemblance to her late love. He, for example, it starts off with him rhyming carpool karaoke, which is a segment on James Corden's show, with Steve Aoki, who's a DJ. Trying to grant his dying father's wish, a son discovers an epic love story buried in his family's distant past. But in recent years, theres been enough awareness of online behavior to see how parasocial relationships can have negative impacts on both the creator and the audience if left uninterrogated by both parties. Now, the term is applied to how viewers devote time, energy, and emotion to celebrities and content creators like YouTubers, podcasters, and Twitch streamers people who do not know they exist. "A part of me loves you, part of me hates you," he sang to the crowd. 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. It's progress. The question is now, Will you support Wheat Thins in the fight against Lyme disease?). On June 9, Burnham released the music from the special in an album titled Inside (The Songs), which hit No. In White Womans Instagram, the comedian assumes the role of a white woman and sings a list of common white lady Instagram posts (Latte foam art / Tiny pumpkins / Fuzzy, comfy socks) while acting out even more cliched photos in the video with wild accuracy. But the lyrics Burnham sings seem to imply that he wants to be held accountable for thoughtless and offensive jokes of his past: "Father please forgive me for I did not realize what I did, or that I'd live to regret it, times are changing and I'm getting old, are you gonna hold me accountable?". The whole song ping pongs between Burnham's singing character describing a very surface-level, pleasant definition of the world functioning as a cohesive ecosystem and his puppet, Socko, saying that the truth is the world functions at a much darker level of power imbalance and oppression. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Not only is this whiteboard a play on the classic comedy rule that "tragedy plus time equals comedy," but it's a callback to Burnham's older work. LINDA HOLMES, BYLINE: Thank you, Michel. Today We'll Talk About That Day Burnham uses vocal tuning often throughout all of his specials. People experiencing depression often stop doing basic self-care tasks, like showering or laundry or brushing their teeth. On the other two sides of that question ("no" and "not sure") the flowchart asks if it could be "interpreted" as mean (if so, then it's "not funny") or if it "punches down.". "Problematic" is a roller coaster of self-awareness, masochism, and parody. 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. 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. They may still be comical, but they have a different feel. When that future-Burnham appears, it's almost like a precursor to what he'll have shown us by the end of the special: That both he, and his audience, could never have known just how brutal the next year was about to be. As we explained in this breakdown of 31 details you might have missed in "Inside," Bo Burnham's newest special is a poioumenon a type of artistic work that tells the story of its own creation. Inside BURNHAM: (Singing) The live-action "Lion King," the Pepsi halftime show, 20,000 years of this, seven more to go. Bo Burnham And like unpaid interns, most working artists cant afford a mortgage (and yeah, probably torrent a porn). "), Burnham sang a parody song called "Sad" about, well, all the sad stuff in the world. Burnham slaps his leg in frustration and eventually gives a mirthless laugh before he starts slamming objects around him. We're a long way from the days when he filmed "Comedy" and the contrast shows how fruitless this method of healing has been. "I didn't perform for five years," he says. And they're biting, but he's also very talented at these little catchy pop hooks. The special is hitting an emotional climax as Burnham shows us both intense anger and then immediately after, a deep and dark sadness. Good. His career evolved through YouTube, MTV, Vine, his movie "Eighth Grade," and now Netflix's "Inside." Not putting a name on parasocial relationships makes the theme less didactic, more blurred while still being astutesuch sharp focus on the eyes, you dont notice the rest of the face fades into shades of blue. The song made such a splash in its insight that it earned its own episode in Shannon Struccis seminal Fake Friends documentary series, which broke down what parasocial relationships are and how they work. So we broke down each song and sketch and analyzed their meaning and context. Having this frame of reference may help viewers better understand the design of "Inside." And she's with us now to tell us more about it. To save you the time freeze-framing, here's the complete message: "No pressure by the way at any point we can stop i just want to make sure ur comfortable all this and please dont feel obligated to send anything you dont want to just cuz i want things doesnt mean i should get them and its sometimes confusing because i think you enjoy it when i beg and express how much i want you but i dont ever want that to turn into you feeling pressured into doing something you don't want or feeling like youre disappointing me this is just meant to be fun and if at any point its not fun for you we can stop and im sorry if me saying this is killing the mood i just like ".
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