As someone with depression the end of Make Happy still hits me every time. It just feels so raw.

@@cnesmith978 man I think it hits us all. Seen it so many times and still get goosebumps. On my worst days the weirdest quote always runs through my mind, "I had a privileged life, and I got lucky, and I'm unhappy." Keeps me grounded and helps me to stop comparing myself to everyone else. Kinda just ranting now..hope you're well:)

or you could literally just watch the 20 interviews he partakes in talking about it.

It’s unintentionally worked out because the location for “Are you happy” (his last song from his last special before Inside) was filmed in the same location as Inside (which I read is his guest house). It makes it seems like he’s been inside all these years trying to find his way out. SPOILER: at the end of Inside he leaves the house looks at the world and wants to go back in, but the door is locked and there’s a shower of laughing that comes in when he tries to go back in to his safe space where he felt he can’t be judge or used.

Make Happy was one of the most emotionally charged comedy specials I’ve ever seen.

I don’t know if he ever will. That was a serious bad idea to take a shot at someone when you don’t know by your own admission. And he literally made fun of him. I’m not a fangirl but having been watching how smart, I mean once in a lifetime intelligence of a man, socially Bo is, he isn’t. Good luck to you and your lava lamps. Your golf clap applause should be bowing down and begging for one millionth of his talent. People like you are good for comparison.

@@adamjcohn What the hell

You begin to realise after the story in the middle what this song is actually about. This isn't Bo singing. This is his mental illness. He thought he was better, and now... "It's almost over. It's just begun." "You say the whole world's ending, Honey, it already did. You're not going to slow it, Heaven knows you tried. Got it? Good. Now get Inside." It's literally a love song from his suffering calling him back "home". And he gives in and goes back. Because familiarity is comforting. The truly ironic thing is that the laugh tracks at the most inappropriate moments are literally Bo echoing the exact kind of response this guy just gave him. He bares his soul and has a mental collapse on camera and people applaud how artistically he did it and don't actually care or pay attention. Because the chord progression, guys! 🙄

@@Brooke-rw8rc Pretty good analysis, but the only laugh tracks Bo put in were on his jokes. He made one about his panic attacks and how the stage "is not a great place to have them." Then the second joke with a laugh track was "then the funniest thing happened" regarding COVID hitting when he was getting ready to start performing again in January 2020. As for the reaction, yeah, the guy completely missed the point and had really inappropriate laughs. I thought after the monologue he was going to reframe and understand at least to some degree what the track is about, but nope. Just clueless.

@@mchealy90 I feel like you and Adam are being a tad presumptive here. I feel his reaction was fair, and considering he had not seen any of Bo's specials, he was very poignant and insightful. Had he seen them at the time of this reaction maybe he'd have made a little different commentary considering the context of Bo's mental health. I'm so tired of faceless internet people passing judgement or pretending they know who someone is just because they've watched a 12 minute video of them. Yes, this special was a brilliant interpretation of not only Bo's mental condition, but of MANY of us who had a rough time going through the completely unwarranted "lockdown". The social commentary was on point (as Bo's usually is), and I feel he speaks for countless individuals who look at the madness that is our reality, and just shake our heads in disbelief/disappointment at the irony of it all. Give this guy a break. He hadn't seen the special and didn't understand the context.

Most people from his generation went into lockdown thinking "this'll be so easy." I should know, I'm from his generation, as are most of my friends and we all thought that... It was around month one that I started to dread my own living room. But it's crazy imagining that from Bo's angle, cause... I stopped going out, which I thought I wouldn't mind... He had it somewhat backwards. He was opening his door and going "ok world, here I go, catch my sass" and the world just went "fuck no, here you go, a reason to hide again, now get inside and stay there for at least another year."

@@mordirit8727 yep... had a complete breakdown halfway through 2020. I'm better right now, but still not okay.

@@mordirit8727 I'm Gen X but pretty introverted and thought I'd coast it. Yep....nope. Disassociated enough at the time that I had no idea how not ok I was, and been struggling with it the last few months. The whole second act of Inside was just ugly crying. I keep trying to share this with folks my age + hardly anybody gets it - they just laugh when the laugh track does. Like... "Can't you hear him??! He's broken, right down the middle, he's in pain, can't you hear that?" Then realise I am talking about me too. Some feelings lots of us have had and you cant articulate it... but if youre astoundingly talented and brave, you can perform it in a netflix special and people around the world will recognise it and ugly cry in the bath for an hour.

There’s no love button. So a like will have to do on this wonderful comment.

Again and again and again, Inside isn't all about him folks, yes it represents his experience in some way but as he said before this is an act, i believe inside is representing our experience as a whole in the pandemic and recent times.

Literally everyone is saying this so I’m gonna!!

@@MusicShed full reaction to the special?

@@MusicShed Please do a react to it, or do the other songs before watching the special.

@@MusicShed when you watch the special in totality, you feel his rawness and his frustration and desperation as well as his aspiration and need to work. Also was that d minor chord ref about Spinal Tap?

Yeah. When he was saying this is just basically a sarcastic mocking of pop songs, I was cringing. Please watch the special 🥺 this song is an emotional rollercoaster.

That’s awesome! 🤩 I really really hope he wins! He deserves it so much!!

Like with the grammys, it has been disqualified.

@@joshbull623 yeah I saw that ... it's stupid. It's being lumped in with music from movie, tv shows and stuff. It's so stupid - Even though it was trending #1 on comedy music on spotify and stuff for a while

@@joshbull623 uhh no he won 3 of the 6. Just disqualified from the Grammy category for comedy.

Hahahahahaha ;_;

I've definitely seen several people reacting to this song exactly like this. They talk about the technical stuff which can be interesting. But they completely miss the emotional content. And even laugh along with the laugh track when he talks about his panic attacks. This song clearly separates reaction people who have suffered from anxiety from the perfectly happy stable people. 😅

That entire section of the song is crushing. "Got it? Good, now get inside"

I've notice it's the older KZfaqrs tend to breeze past those lines...not to be completely ageist but I think people older than millennials/gen z don't get that it's all too late

What I noticed is people going into this only knowing that Bo is a "comedian". That preconceived notion on top of serious content throws people off, and they don't know reaction is appropriate. To me it's disappointing, but I understand why they feel that way.

I completely feel you on this. Cliff Beats’ reaction was the best one for me on this song so far Edit: fixed his name cuz I remembered it wrong

Sometimes the pausing is truly bad. You are reacting mid sentence/mid line to an incomplete thought. And you kill impactful moments and treat them like a novelty rather than art.

Oh man. This part hit me like a ton of bricks. I was dealing with a pretty intense depression at the time I watched this and it was as if he was speaking directly to me. Like “stop moping around. If I have to be here so do you. We’re in this together. Get the fuck up”. Sobbed like a baby.

I hear ots almost over its just begun, as the back and forth flip flopping of the psychopaths telling you its safez oh nope. Not safe..two more weeks lock downs, its almost over..nope its just begun.. got it? Good now get inside

I will

Right before this song starts he is sitting in the room and says IAM NOT WELL and he is sobbing. I lost it and this song in that context made me a mess.

@@smartcookie493 why spoil it 🤦‍♀️

Im not sure how hes having panic attacks on stage and still performing. I have had 2 in my life, one of them recently. My legs and arms were shaking and I couldnt stand. There was this intense vibrating feeling in my whole body. It was pretty scary. Not to take away from his struggles, its probably a spectrum. I just wanted to share.

@@hypnoticlizard9693 he took a couple year break and went to therapy I believe

@@hypnoticlizard9693 there's definitely a spectrum a panic attack can look like alot of different things!

@@hypnoticlizard9693 he spoke about it in a few interviews. The show is so highly produced and rehearsed that he can do it without really being present much. His panic attacks are similar to one's I get. They're not the kind where you hyperventilate and shake and cry, but rather you're yanked out of your head and you look OK on the outside but inside your head everything is just pure terror. Depersonalization and derealization are big parts of it. It doesn't look like your usual panic attack symptoms and if you've rehearsed something to the point of automation, I can see how it would be possible.

I totally missed his meaning of this song, I’m gonna check out the whole special. He seems like a really unique artist.

@@MusicShed the way you explained it, I can see how it would be easy to come to that conclusion - IF you don't know much about him and have heard that he is an especially meta-driven and ironic comedian and artist. I wouldn't worry about it. But yeah, now you need to go understand more about him and watch his specials.

Ty

I’ll be checking it out

@@MusicShed Absolutely brilliant! You will enjoy it for sure.

you're over thinking everything. The special is good but making out as if Bo Burnham was really as mentally depressed as he was is taking a way from the whole point of the special. He is faking a lot of it and playing into a character. He even makes you aware that it's not really as genuine as you initially think based on how many takes he does on each song. Plus the videos of him breaking down on camera, I wonder how many times he rehearsed and reshot that scene. Stop reading into it more than you need to. Dude lived in a mansion during lockdown and used a sleepout as a way to create content.

@@TheHi_King Well first of all, the entire point of the special was him stuck in his room during lockdown and struggling with mental health. If you have watched it you cannot deny this. So saying that making out as if that is the case takes away from the movie is absurd. It cant be over thinking because its plain as day. Where you have misunderstood is he is joking about his depression- but not in a way where he actually is mentally stable. He is joking in a crazy way, and then his actual insanity starts to break through the more the special develops and the longer he is stuck in his room. There is a whole scene that supports this. And he most certainly did not live in a mansion during lockdown. He stayed in his house, the one he recorded the special in. He just decided to do something to keep him busy during lockdown as a distraction because if he wasn't distracted then he was thinking about depression. A common thing people who suffer from depression do. They put a bandage on it with distractions and don't try and heal it. Again, there is a complete scene in the movie supporting this. I don't know if you have watched the movie properly or just seen some parts but you have not understood the true 'behind the scenes'. And even if I was completely wrong, what's wrong with a bit of theory and deep thinking?

@@CalijayOfficial I’m sorry but there’s no way he slept in there during lockdown. He’s creating a character based on traits from his personality. Why would he spend his lockdown in a sleep out when his house is outside as a perfectly viable option. All of you viewers are way too gullible into believing everything you see because he made a shot of himself doing said activity. It was a cool special but not to be taken as bloody gospel as if that’s actually how he spent lockdown

I’m gonna watch the whole thing

@@MusicShed It's definitely a cool way to look at this whole thing - getting both individual, out of context, honest reactions to the songs standing alone, and then the way you'll see them in context. You get the best of both worlds in a way. A lot of your interpretation of this song was right on, I think.

@@MusicShed react to the whole thing. 👀

That’s an amazingly good idea

@@MusicShed I legitimately cried watching the song after watching the whole special. I still enjoyed your analysis here though, I am glad you are checking out Bo. It is first and foremost a comedy special, but it is a deep dive into pandemic mental health too I think. And as a performer too maybe I relate to it even more? I lost my singing voice 5 months before the pandemic to Silent Reflux Disease and I only recently got it back. So perhaps I am also just a raw nerve cause of that though lol

@@MusicShed watch make happy as well specifically the end “Kanye rant” and this song will make more sense as well

No he said he was usually more comfortable towards the end of his shows

I’m gonna

Totally, I get it now. Truth.

Also, it’s important to note that we now live in a one song or single music culture. It’s not even on my radar that someone would do a long form concept project.

Woooo! Thanks Dude!!!

Ty ma’am!

Frankly, I’d like a do over after getting some context by watching the whole thing. But, I would agree, for a reaction with absolutely no context, it was AMAZING!!!! Lol

Perfect time to do something about it.

I had to stop watching the first review of Inside that I saw because they were saying that this serious, depressed tone came out of nowhere, which makes no sense. Bo Burnham has been writing songs about his anxieties since he started performing. "Art Is Dead" was one of the first ones, and I was sure the Kanye Rant was going to be the last I heard.

or Repeat Stuff, but I prefer Art Is Dead

I just totally missed that upon first listen

I totally forgot about that song! It was a pretty funny little rant.

Sounds like an interesting idea. Let me to talk to Howie and see what we can do.

I can’t, I just can’t.

So, get one!

Me too