I love this comment for having nearly 600 likes. I mean 600 people volunteering to hear the same song five times. Only for the chance to hear one different, one new or one line in a other way and knowing there won’t be much different probably not even a new line, but the did it anyways. And im happy
I love the green room version because it’s so raw and kinda ironic, made me cry the first time I saw it. He get angrier the more the audience laughs and he’s just so fucking mad that it sounds so fucking sad.
The green room is full of performers and comedians right? Dang imagine criticizing the morality of the career of you and a group of people and being laughed at for ir
Cagkiller0 Don’t go making fun of young people, they’re just getting their emotions out, let them be cringe and learn, otherwise we would never get bo burnham types. Cheers!
@@johnathom-v3y as a fourteen year old, please make fun of those people. I have watched friends get sucked into those all to inclusive tumbler 'feels' communities, and they take those stupid suicide jokes, the idea life has wronged them despite being spoiled, that they dont need to try hard to get things, that people will accept them no matter what into real life. They become just unbearable and social outcasts. Then they claim to be depressed or to have social anxiety, which they lie to themselves about so throughly it just becomes part of their character, at which point they are just useless.
I find it oddly amusing that “Art Is Dead” is probably Bo’s most popular song and yet it’s also his least funny which I believe it wasn’t meant to be funny.
For a while when he said "Feel free to correct me." I thought he was just saying he's not always right just cause he's an entertainer but now it feels like he's begging someone to correct his point in this song and say "No, you totally deserve all this fame and money." because he can't bear to give it up now that he's got it even though it conflicts heavily with what he thinks of highly paid celebrities. He hates himself and is looking for someone to help him out.
I always thought it was something closer to him wanting someone to correct his point of view and tell him he's not an artist so he could escape the hell he put himself in
Well you're mostly correct, Bo's act is him being everything he hates (as said in Are You Happy) so this song is him saying he's everything annoying about artists that he hates.
Oh my God, Bo seemed to get livid when people started laughing at: “We could feed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights!”. He seemed to play much more aggressively and sang and looked extremely angry.... (2011 version)
I think it was more about his nerves - that clip is from when he had to perform impromptu, in front of a room full of well-respected comedians. Maybe a part of it was annoyance, but I think a large part was due to his anxiety
@@b.l7491 he plays normally at the beginnining, but as the comics laugh at the phrases which arent meant to be comedic- THE WHOLE SONG ISNT MEANT TO BE FUNNY- he just gets more easily annoyed you can tell
Notice he took out the "there's other people, you selfish asshole" line in later versions, probably because it was one of the lines that made people laugh the most.
Hank DeVries his point is that the song isn't funny, so why are people laughing at it? The song is so sad and people laugh at it, even though there's nothing to laugh about.
You’re one of those people who think that they are so deep because you really “understand the song on a spiritual level” where in reality, we all love the song and understand it. Those people were probably just laughing because of how much they related to the song,
that was Ray Ramano... and yea he did give him a look lol. if you watched that episode he(Bo) was actually saying how he feels that, in the comedy world, he felt like he was less respected because his show isn't vanilla, traditional comedy. Ray knew that when he was making that jab at him and, even though i think it was intended as harmless, I think that maybe Bo's performance changed just to shove it back at him a bit. Like a friendly duel.
@@spacelegos4964 If you pay attention to what Bo is singing is that he changed the "I" into "we". That made me realize he was singing his inner feelings, and not making some kind of satirical statement, well at least if you ask me.
In a way, that kind of proves the point of the song. He changes and becomes less honest to himself to please his fans and feed his 'addiction', so to speak. It's really sad
isn't it wild that like Bo changed it to "WE wanted our names in lights when WE could have fed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights" and everyone around him laughed the hardest at that part like ,,, idk,
yea that bitch behind him on the left when he says "family of four"... i wanna knock her teeth out everytime she starts cracking up... like HAHAHAHA POOR PEOPLE good one satan.
spaceLegos he was in a room full of comedians so they all understand and they laugh at it because they know that it’s true and that’s just how they deal with it
My favorite is always gonna be when he performed it in The Green Room IN FRONT OF A BUNCH OF COMEDIANS and changed the "I wanted my name in lights" to "we wanted our names in lights". It's so uncomfortable, because everyone is laughing even though Bo is actually putting passion into what he is saying and criticizing them.
honestly its absolutely heartbreaking to see him perform it after the event and seeing how uncaring he was compared to the raw emotion of his performance in the green room, even stopping in the middle to say "we just did a special you get the point". yikes.
I’d say the Green Room version is the best one because the audience inadvertently hammered Bo’s point in perfectly. He usually sings this about how the entertainment industry is horrible but in the Green Room he’s singing it directly to the people he wrote the song about. I think the fact that he gets more livid and raw as they laugh just shows the song’s point is far from false, especially how the audience of oblivious and selfish assholes laugh at the “feeding a family of 4” line. It turns the song from a critique of the industry to a fucking exposée.
@@shankaka_99 humans laugh at pretty fucked up stuff some people even laugh under pressure I guess you could call it a defence mechanism if you pretend something is funny you don’t have to address a problem.
The clip where he's performing in front of those other comedians - bo later said he hated that whole event, having this performative conversation with a bunch of people you don't know. Him playing that song, there, feels like an indictment of everyone present.
2 things I noticed: When he performed for the comedians (8:28), he changed the "I"s and "my" to "we" and "our" in "Because I wanted my name in lights, when I could have fed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights" The comedians were the only ones who laughed in the middle of the song
"The comedians were the only ones who laughed in the middle of the song" - Not true, at the fortnights you can see the audience behind him laughing hard. Unless they were also comedians? Or do you mean this was the only audience (the regular audience + comedians) that laughed, while his own show audiences didn't?
I noticed that the in 2013 version, instead of "but we're not complicated", he says "but they're not complicated" as though he's implying he "grew out of it". Good for him.
Art is Dead is and forever will be my favorite Bo Burnham song by a long shot. The fact that he knew so much about art all the way back in May 2010...Bo is amazing.
I was thinking like that by the age of 16, but sure wasn't writing as well as he was. It felt like I flipped a switch, and started learning and thinking actively.
It’s kind of sad watching it because to him it used to just be a song that was for him but overtime like in 2011 people thought some of the things were joked and so he made jokes in the song like in 2013 and 15. The song got different from what he wanted it to be to what the fans wanted it to be, so there’s more jokes and no more cuss words but it’s kind of sad because that’s what the song was about and it turned into it.
Why would he cut out the “there’s other people, you selfish asshole” line? That’s one of my favorite parts of the song. Maybe he wanted to cut out the one line that tends to come across as explicitly funny
I think its because he is literally saying that to the other comedians on the stage near him, but in the other ones hes talking to the audience and they are not artists.
chromso He did from the 2015 and 2013 bits that were shown and I think it’s because he never really wanted it in the song but he had to to make it funny
I'm not surprised that he needed to take a 5 year break. Whether or not it's part of your "comedy special", speaking your feelings and having them laughed at wears down on you. I don't like how the green room responded... You could tell that they weren't trying to understand the meaning, only laugh at the punch lines. (Although I suppose that's what they thought they came to the show for.)
@@Caedynna guys he wrote funny bits in it.. just cause you can laugh at it it doesnt mean you dont understand it... people make jokes out of tragedy to cope
@@eli4677 Same. Don't get me wrong, this song is amazing. But there are plenty of amazing songs absolutely forgotten and ignored by the majority of the world. Not to mention, plenty more worthy songs are being created. This one isn't that special, regardless of how good it is. Glad someone else isn't overestimating Bo Burnham's popularity.
Kayce Weathers he usually plays an old song as an encore at the live shows for people to sing along. That’s what people got live instead of “Are You Happy?”
8:26 The green room- that performance shows so much of what vibe this song gives off, he sounds so upset and like he’s breaking- meanwhile they audience laughs and goes along with it not seeing how genuinely hurt he is- or the truth he is spewing from his heart about the industry THEYRE a part of. They just laugh- this just proves what the song is all about. 6:05 favorite performance by for the way the piano sounds and the drawn out parts 8:14 “hypocritical artist” o w. 10:23OW OW OW 10:56 Bo was and is wise beyond his years, art is dead will never stop being my favorite song Kinda wishing each version with its changes was on iTunes
The way he is playing the piano in the 2011 version is both distressing and amazing...it takes so much skill to purposefully mess up like that while still keeping time and not bleeding into the clean notes You can definitely see he's uncomfortable though...
"I am artist, a self-centered artist, a self-obsessed artist. I am an artist, I am an artist, I am an artist, but I'm just a kid. Kid, kid, kid. And maybe I'll grow out of it." Gets me every time.
i hate that people stopped taking his music seriously, like yes he is a comedian but for one second you could stop interupting and laughing while hes singing about poor people, and feeding a family. He just looks mad at the audience for not shutting up in some of them.
The 2011 version makes me kinda sad that people would laugh, maybe they don't think he's being serious......like it's not just a chuckle it's a full on laugh like he made a joke.
well, they actually understand it, they're comedians as well, and they were actually talking about how it's not a comedic song, he just made it a little more funny for those guys, since they already understand, rather than hearing the same song, he shook it up a bit.
Not much of a change aside from maybe a few lyrics, more slurred words, and different tempo. But every year still shows what an amazing song Art is dead is. Well there is the one from May, 2013, where a lot of the song is different mainly in the length words are held out for and different lyrics in parts along with a different beat
I always hate when people laugh at the part of his name in lights and feeding a family. I think its the deepiest part of the song (of course, if you laugh its okey, but it isnt a joke. he didnt say it as something funny)
Did you guys not notice in the 2nd one, he's making it so fast and the pain in his voice makes it like he wants the song to end before he even starts it.
i love how he cuts probably the only ~joke~ in the song (the one about the selfish asshole), that probably would get a big laugh when he's already kinda annoyed that people in the audience actually know the song. i dont know if that's the reason why but i would 100% do it to throw people off (and how he slowed the song down too), it's just neat
dude i’m high key so annoyed with the one 2011 one, like the audience seriously need to get over themselves. they’re sitting there with these smug smiles on their faces while bo’s up there singing this crazy deep song that isn’t supposed to be funny.
I feel bad for Bo in the 2011 performance because people laughed during the song. This is (to me) a more serious song and shouldn't have laughing or people making jokes afterwards besides the "There's other people you selfish asshole" part. My opinion though.
Celebrity one was almost perfect, it’s also the one with the absolute most emotion making it the best one I think they could possibly happen. Seeing one of the celebrity’s look down was just poetic
this song is so beautifully complicatedly good and I can’t get enough of it it’s just so GOOD and I LOVE how much emotion he put in it in the first one omg ahhhh
Bo is one of my biggest inspirations for music and I've listened to almost every one of his songs several times and I can say that in a lot of them you can tell he doesn't want to be confined to being exclusively a comedian. He loves being a comedian, yes, but he also wants to make genuine music that people take seriously and don't take as a joke. I think Art is Dead was a way he tried to be a serious musician but everyone thought it was a joke, and he felt like a joke because of that.
@@kaylalong1942 WELL if you really think about it, it can also be someone who hasn't met that "famous" status left. Like the part where he's talking about the guy who grows up and succeeds
It feels like there's a real cynicism to the 2015 performance. It's the way he's grins throughout the song, the extra performative acts that he does that feel like they serve to mock the original song and its message. In that performance, 'Art Is Dead' feels vandalized, as if the song lost hope.
July 2011 (the green room version) will always be my favorite, there’s so much more emotion and resentment because of everyone laughing, he even smashes the keyboard harder. Also he changes “I” to “we”. (Plus it was the first version of Art Is Dead I’ve heard.
Why is no one talking about the fact that he literally started crying while singing the 2013 version? That was heartbreaking, I started crying with him
8:31 out all the songs that bo has written, the comedians in the room decide that he should play the ONE song during that time that has no comedy at all in it.
Notice in the Green Room version, when he hits the line about wanting his name in lights, he changes the wording to, "...cause WE wanted OUR name in lights when WE could've fed a family of four..." He's pointing the finger at every other entertainer in the room, as they just watch and laugh.
I wish people would shut up when they go to a concert, like, they came for the music, not to hear themselves yell, clap after the song, that's it, that's all that's needed.
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Just noticed that I accidentally put the 2011 version after the 2013 version, sorry about that
Musical Comedy It's okay juicy Daddy
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Can you send the link to the 2013 version please
Kensley Swift he looked at the camera
It's okay juicy Daddy
I'll be honest I just came here to listen to the song 5 times in a row
Anja khi
Same
Big mood
Same
I love this comment for having nearly 600 likes. I mean 600 people volunteering to hear the same song five times. Only for the chance to hear one different, one new or one line in a other way and knowing there won’t be much different probably not even a new line, but the did it anyways. And im happy
“my drugs attention. i am an addict, but i get paid to indulge in my habit” that part gets me everytime ugh
AvaB815 Bo’s best line of all time in my opinion.
@@richtofen4888 are you sure... i mean have you heard a world on fire
@@christianjohnson7947 "aaah aaaaaah"
That makes us his dealers.
Kailou Cleary haha true
2010 - Art is dead is my favorite song
2017 - Nothing has changed
2018? >:]
@no rkn too early lol
MOOD
2013: Art is alive, nothing is real!
2019 - still the same
I love the green room version because it’s so raw and kinda ironic, made me cry the first time I saw it. He get angrier the more the audience laughs and he’s just so fucking mad that it sounds so fucking sad.
The way he walks after performing this song in the green looks like he is trying not to show how angry he is
Can you timestamp it for me?
@@alyssaolson7964 8:32 is when the performance starts
@@vpani1928 thanks!
The green room is full of performers and comedians right? Dang imagine criticizing the morality of the career of you and a group of people and being laughed at for ir
Bo: Art is dea-
Man in the audience: WHOOOOHO
BO: I SWEAR!
please time stamp 😭
@@quacke4160 6:04
what does he mean "its not that one"?
@@Seadance100 trying to make em think its not art is dead ig idk
@@AtlasBRR_mp4 what?
He wrote this song at the age of 20. Most people will never write anything this poetic and wise ever, let alone so young.
Tyree Flores Edgy 14 year olds: Allow me to show you how deep my tumblr is.
Cagkiller0 Don’t go making fun of young people, they’re just getting their emotions out, let them be cringe and learn, otherwise we would never get bo burnham types. Cheers!
@@johnathom-v3y as a fourteen year old, please make fun of those people. I have watched friends get sucked into those all to inclusive tumbler 'feels' communities, and they take those stupid suicide jokes, the idea life has wronged them despite being spoiled, that they dont need to try hard to get things, that people will accept them no matter what into real life. They become just unbearable and social outcasts. Then they claim to be depressed or to have social anxiety, which they lie to themselves about so throughly it just becomes part of their character, at which point they are just useless.
Henery McGregor Ok republican
@@johnathom-v3y libertarian but close enough
I find it oddly amusing that “Art Is Dead” is probably Bo’s most popular song and yet it’s also his least funny which I believe it wasn’t meant to be funny.
Yeah it wasnt this was supposed to him venting
Well it wasn't supposed to be a joke...maybe the honesty is a little bit funny.
"This song isn't funny, but it helps me sleep at night"
Wait why are people laughing tho.. Are they laughing purposely 😃
"it’s also his least funny"
let me introduce you to "All Eyes On Me"
"Is this Art Is Dead?" "Yep." "Awesome."
"shhhhh"
I love that interaction sm man
the “i know” sounded like dream lmao
For a while when he said "Feel free to correct me." I thought he was just saying he's not always right just cause he's an entertainer but now it feels like he's begging someone to correct his point in this song and say "No, you totally deserve all this fame and money." because he can't bear to give it up now that he's got it even though it conflicts heavily with what he thinks of highly paid celebrities. He hates himself and is looking for someone to help him out.
Wow I never thought of it like that
@@squelcher8120 me either, although it really makes sense
I always thought it was something closer to him wanting someone to correct his point of view and tell him he's not an artist so he could escape the hell he put himself in
Well you're mostly correct, Bo's act is him being everything he hates (as said in Are You Happy) so this song is him saying he's everything annoying about artists that he hates.
I thought it meant please correct me by telling him he’s not an artist
Oh my God, Bo seemed to get livid when people started laughing at: “We could feed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights!”. He seemed to play much more aggressively and sang and looked extremely angry.... (2011 version)
I think it was more about his nerves - that clip is from when he had to perform impromptu, in front of a room full of well-respected comedians. Maybe a part of it was annoyance, but I think a large part was due to his anxiety
@@b.l7491 hmm I disagree. I watched that video many times and be seemed quite annoyed when people laughed and started going harder
@@b.l7491 he plays normally at the beginnining, but as the comics laugh at the phrases which arent meant to be comedic- THE WHOLE SONG ISNT MEANT TO BE FUNNY- he just gets more easily annoyed you can tell
Especially because it's originally "when I could've fed a family of four" but he changed it to "we "
Notice he took out the "there's other people, you selfish asshole" line in later versions, probably because it was one of the lines that made people laugh the most.
most singers live take out the concluding lines it's so frustrating lmao
I feel like he took it out because that’s something people had said to him and people make fun of it :’/
In the second to last one it seemed like Bo was getting really pissed off because everyone was laughing. Even though the song isn't even funny at all.
Hank DeVries whats funny about it? Tell me a line that would make you crack up from it
Hank DeVries Yeah sure. Now give me a funny lyric from this song.
Hank DeVries his point is that the song isn't funny, so why are people laughing at it? The song is so sad and people laugh at it, even though there's nothing to laugh about.
They actually asked for Bo to play that specific song for some reason.
You’re one of those people who think that they are so deep because you really “understand the song on a spiritual level” where in reality, we all love the song and understand it. Those people were probably just laughing because of how much they related to the song,
"Art is deeeaaad... art- it's not that one, I swear dude."
Darby aka Piplup212/Piplup0503 i laughed way too much at this
His improvised response there shows his talent as a comic above anything else
In the green room when one of the guys said "look he's a prop comic" he looked like he wanted to kill him
Alex Lefebvre I feel like he wanted to kill them the whole time.
that was Ray Ramano... and yea he did give him a look lol. if you watched that episode he(Bo) was actually saying how he feels that, in the comedy world, he felt like he was less respected because his show isn't vanilla, traditional comedy. Ray knew that when he was making that jab at him and, even though i think it was intended as harmless, I think that maybe Bo's performance changed just to shove it back at him a bit. Like a friendly duel.
he said "look, he's a prop COVER"
kurzackd are you fucking deaf? he said comic.
@@spacelegos4964 If you pay attention to what Bo is singing is that he changed the "I" into "we". That made me realize he was singing his inner feelings, and not making some kind of satirical statement, well at least if you ask me.
I feel like this song slowly became less serious to the public so he gave them what they wanted. A funnier edition.
i know, its kind of sad
Tea ☕
In a way, that kind of proves the point of the song. He changes and becomes less honest to himself to please his fans and feed his 'addiction', so to speak. It's really sad
Ironic eaven
@@olivergriffin331 I R O N I C I N O R I R O N I C
isn't it wild that like
Bo changed it to "WE wanted our names in lights when WE could have fed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights" and everyone around him laughed the hardest at that part like
,,, idk,
yea that bitch behind him on the left when he says "family of four"... i wanna knock her teeth out everytime she starts cracking up... like HAHAHAHA POOR PEOPLE good one satan.
I think he was in a room full of comedians and artists.
spaceLegos he was in a room full of comedians so they all understand and they laugh at it because they know that it’s true and that’s just how they deal with it
I imagine they have to come to terms with the fact that they can only do so much and also want to provide for their families for as long as possible.
@@spacelegos4964 This song is both serious, but it is also comedic. Dark comedy is very prevalent in Bo’s work.
My favorite is always gonna be when he performed it in The Green Room IN FRONT OF A BUNCH OF COMEDIANS and changed the "I wanted my name in lights" to "we wanted our names in lights". It's so uncomfortable, because everyone is laughing even though Bo is actually putting passion into what he is saying and criticizing them.
You can also hear the pointed anger in the verse, especially as they start laughing
honestly its absolutely heartbreaking to see him perform it after the event and seeing how uncaring he was compared to the raw emotion of his performance in the green room, even stopping in the middle to say "we just did a special you get the point". yikes.
I’d say the Green Room version is the best one because the audience inadvertently hammered Bo’s point in perfectly. He usually sings this about how the entertainment industry is horrible but in the Green Room he’s singing it directly to the people he wrote the song about. I think the fact that he gets more livid and raw as they laugh just shows the song’s point is far from false, especially how the audience of oblivious and selfish assholes laugh at the “feeding a family of 4” line. It turns the song from a critique of the industry to a fucking exposée.
Just because they laugh does not mean that they dont get it, they might just be laughing out of emberassment or at themselfes.
@@ninatheinkling5748 why would you laugh at something like that
@@shankaka_99 because subjective comedy
@@DMFM71 laughing because you’ve utterly embarrassed yourslef as shitty is shitty in itself
@@shankaka_99 humans laugh at pretty fucked up stuff some people even laugh under pressure I guess you could call it a defence mechanism if you pretend something is funny you don’t have to address a problem.
The clip where he's performing in front of those other comedians - bo later said he hated that whole event, having this performative conversation with a bunch of people you don't know. Him playing that song, there, feels like an indictment of everyone present.
I didn’t know about his follow up comment about it!
where did he say this
source?
where did he say he hated the event?
source: trust me bro
2 things I noticed:
When he performed for the comedians (8:28), he changed the "I"s and "my" to "we" and "our" in "Because I wanted my name in lights, when I could have fed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights"
The comedians were the only ones who laughed in the middle of the song
"The comedians were the only ones who laughed in the middle of the song" - Not true, at the fortnights you can see the audience behind him laughing hard. Unless they were also comedians? Or do you mean this was the only audience (the regular audience + comedians) that laughed, while his own show audiences didn't?
the slower version he did in 2013 lets you really think about the lyrics
I noticed that the in 2013 version, instead of "but we're not complicated", he says "but they're not complicated" as though he's implying he "grew out of it". Good for him.
r u sure
Wrong, still says "we"
Art is Dead is and forever will be my favorite Bo Burnham song by a long shot. The fact that he knew so much about art all the way back in May 2010...Bo is amazing.
I was thinking like that by the age of 16, but sure wasn't writing as well as he was. It felt like I flipped a switch, and started learning and thinking actively.
mitch momo Same
He had been making videos for 4 years at that point, maybe longer.
mitch momo who else didn't get the it's not that one joke
Albano Gonzalez he said it cause he got a tune wrong duh
It’s kind of sad watching it because to him it used to just be a song that was for him but overtime like in 2011 people thought some of the things were joked and so he made jokes in the song like in 2013 and 15. The song got different from what he wanted it to be to what the fans wanted it to be, so there’s more jokes and no more cuss words but it’s kind of sad because that’s what the song was about and it turned into it.
more like te evolution of video quality, am i right?
Scott Hennessy "aaaaawwwwww shuuuuuuucks...... Aaam iii riiiiight?"
Scott Hennessy PREACH
no.
Why would he cut out the “there’s other people, you selfish asshole” line? That’s one of my favorite parts of the song. Maybe he wanted to cut out the one line that tends to come across as explicitly funny
2 years late but he didn't cut the line, he was staring at the group of famous comedians on the couch so the mic didn't pic it up that well
@@chromso no but in some other bits he cuts that line out
I think its because he is literally saying that to the other comedians on the stage near him, but in the other ones hes talking to the audience and they are not artists.
chromso He did from the 2015 and 2013 bits that were shown and I think it’s because he never really wanted it in the song but he had to to make it funny
He also likes to throw off people singing along live because he hates that.
he looked fucking LIVID when the guy laughed at the birthday party verse. 2011 was definitely the worst audience by far.
I-R-O-N-I-C-I-N-O-R-I-R-O-N-I-C
Imagining bearing your soul to people and them laughing in your face. Ouch
From some of the comments, that particular audience was actually comedians.
@@chunchunmaru8620 it doesn’t really matter tbh the song is very serious and shouldn’t be laughed at
@@kas7693 r/Im14andthisisdeep moment
I'm not surprised that he needed to take a 5 year break. Whether or not it's part of your "comedy special", speaking your feelings and having them laughed at wears down on you. I don't like how the green room responded... You could tell that they weren't trying to understand the meaning, only laugh at the punch lines. (Although I suppose that's what they thought they came to the show for.)
@@Caedynna guys he wrote funny bits in it.. just cause you can laugh at it it doesnt mean you dont understand it... people make jokes out of tragedy to cope
This song is fucking eternal. It will go down in history in a way that songs like Stairway to Heaven and We Are the Champions have.
kurzackd WHAT ABOUT BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY?
i dont think so
@@eli4677 Same. Don't get me wrong, this song is amazing. But there are plenty of amazing songs absolutely forgotten and ignored by the majority of the world. Not to mention, plenty more worthy songs are being created. This one isn't that special, regardless of how good it is. Glad someone else isn't overestimating Bo Burnham's popularity.
Idk about that but ahha😮 good stuff
@@invisiblebutaintblind6582 Are you Bo Burnham's arch-rival / nemesis ?
Cut down on the envy and spite a bit, will ya? ;]
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I like how when Bo Burnham plays Art Is Dead in Make Happy, it's slower and better paced.
"Bo performing Art is Dead 2/28 @ Club Nokia"
Question, I watched the netflix special, why did he not sing it there?
He did not play it on Make happy he played it on words words words
Kayce Weathers he usually plays an old song as an encore at the live shows for people to sing along. That’s what people got live instead of “Are You Happy?”
One of the most important songs in Bo's line-up, truly amazing
It's interesting to me that in 2015 version he seems much more comfortable owning it.
8:26 The green room- that performance shows so much of what vibe this song gives off, he sounds so upset and like he’s breaking- meanwhile they audience laughs and goes along with it not seeing how genuinely hurt he is- or the truth he is spewing from his heart about the industry THEYRE a part of. They just laugh- this just proves what the song is all about.
6:05 favorite performance by for the way the piano sounds and the drawn out parts 8:14 “hypocritical artist” o w.
10:23OW OW OW
10:56
Bo was and is wise beyond his years, art is dead will never stop being my favorite song
Kinda wishing each version with its changes was on iTunes
The 2013 one killed me... Hearing "a hypocritical artist" just seemed to comment on how the song had changed
8:25 You can see how Bo it's instantly cleaning his eyes. Man...
when i saw that i fr started crying...
I will play this video everytime I go to sleep.. And sometimes I have to play this video again if I still didn't sleep..
Love this new "evolution of" series. Also love art is dead more than most things
+Beck Bartholomew Thanks! Glad to see you're a regular viewer (I've seen you comment before). :-)
Musical Comedy I watch each of your videos lmao! You're the reason I've started to like Tim Minchin, so thanks for exposing me to him!
+Beck Bartholomew I'm glad! Tim Minchin was one of Bo's inspirations (and from his work, I can see why lol)
The way he is playing the piano in the 2011 version is both distressing and amazing...it takes so much skill to purposefully mess up like that while still keeping time and not bleeding into the clean notes
You can definitely see he's uncomfortable though...
"I am artist, a self-centered artist, a self-obsessed artist. I am an artist, I am an artist, I am an artist, but I'm just a kid. Kid, kid, kid. And maybe I'll grow out of it." Gets me every time.
"I love this song"
"I know"
i hate that people stopped taking his music seriously, like yes he is a comedian but for one second you could stop interupting and laughing while hes singing about poor people, and feeding a family. He just looks mad at the audience for not shutting up in some of them.
This aged extremely poorly and I’m happy about it
@@shankaka_99 ?
The 2011 version makes me kinda sad that people would laugh, maybe they don't think he's being serious......like it's not just a chuckle it's a full on laugh like he made a joke.
well, they actually understand it, they're comedians as well, and they were actually talking about how it's not a comedic song, he just made it a little more funny for those guys, since they already understand, rather than hearing the same song, he shook it up a bit.
probably at the piano stuff/i'm wearing makeup
Imagine being such a deep human that you don’t laugh at a comedy show
@@yogibear8676 the song isn't meant to be funny dipshit
@@yogibear8676 Because Bo said that this one is not something that they should laugh at
when people laugh the "when ppl think you're funny" line comes up...
This shows this song is deep af and serious unlike any other of his song
#deep amirite? Hhahahahahahauauzkzidixkxxkzk. I hope your being sarcastic.
@@chunchunmaru8620 fuck off
Not much of a change aside from maybe a few lyrics, more slurred words, and different tempo. But every year still shows what an amazing song Art is dead is. Well there is the one from May, 2013, where a lot of the song is different mainly in the length words are held out for and different lyrics in parts along with a different beat
“No I’m not you can see my acne that was just for the special” me
I always hate when people laugh at the part of his name in lights and feeding a family. I think its the deepiest part of the song (of course, if you laugh its okey, but it isnt a joke. he didnt say it as something funny)
after the second “forty fucking fortnights” the piano part that goes down is so good like literal chills
fr thats my favorite part
dude in the crowd: whoooooooo
Bo: ah so you have chosen death
the green room is my favorite version
imagine having to relive the same mental breakdown but still like he says, “i get paid to indulge in my habits”
The evolution of hairstyles.
Did you guys not notice in the 2nd one, he's making it so fast and the pain in his voice makes it like he wants the song to end before he even starts it.
holy shit the green room never stops blowing my mind when i see it. he fucking slayed
wich year is the green room?
2011
8:28
@@seamuswalker6879 thank youu :)
it makes me really fuckin sad that people laughed in the crowd. this wasn't written as comedy song. it was an apology
His Green Room preformance gives me chills because he's just proving his point.
I might actually be addicted to this song
i love how he cuts probably the only ~joke~ in the song (the one about the selfish asshole), that probably would get a big laugh when he's already kinda annoyed that people in the audience actually know the song. i dont know if that's the reason why but i would 100% do it to throw people off (and how he slowed the song down too), it's just neat
dude i’m high key so annoyed with the one 2011 one, like the audience seriously need to get over themselves. they’re sitting there with these smug smiles on their faces while bo’s up there singing this crazy deep song that isn’t supposed to be funny.
AvaB815 he is a comedian. What kind of self absorbed bubble do you live in where you frown at a comedy show
@@yogibear8676 shut the fuck up
Bo likes to think of his shows as “one man shows” not comedy shows.
@@yogibear8676 he did say that the song wasn't funny, I just wish some of the audiences would have took it a little more seriously
@@yogibear8676 its like a cry for help dude
I'm pretty sure this is in my top 3 favorite songs
I feel bad for Bo in the 2011 performance because people laughed during the song. This is (to me) a more serious song and shouldn't have laughing or people making jokes afterwards besides the "There's other people you selfish asshole" part. My opinion though.
Celebrity one was almost perfect, it’s also the one with the absolute most emotion making it the best one I think they could possibly happen. Seeing one of the celebrity’s look down was just poetic
this song is so beautifully complicatedly good and I can’t get enough of it it’s just so GOOD and I LOVE how much emotion he put in it in the first one omg ahhhh
Damnit I’m crying again
Do an evolution of God's Perspective, it has changed a lot, especially the gay people verse.
I think you forgot to add 'please'. ;)
Bodil Matheeuwsen no
What changed?
what.
@Mxsashi you forgot the "please"
2:40 My favorite
For the people bitching about the 2011 one, the people joking and laughing are *comedians* who *asked him to play it*
You can tell in 2015 he's more comfortable playing the song, you can see the smile creep in his lips, maybe he HAS grown out of it...
Thank you for this. This is one of my favorite songs, just in general lol. Love the piano.
9:00 its so interesting watching people react to him singing this. they try to laugh. they fail
Love the 2013 version
It feels like he wrote the song for comedy and slowly started to believe it
tbh i think it’s backwards. he wrote it about himself but over time people just wanted to see a comedy show and the song started to loose its meaning.
Bo is one of my biggest inspirations for music and I've listened to almost every one of his songs several times and I can say that in a lot of them you can tell he doesn't want to be confined to being exclusively a comedian. He loves being a comedian, yes, but he also wants to make genuine music that people take seriously and don't take as a joke. I think Art is Dead was a way he tried to be a serious musician but everyone thought it was a joke, and he felt like a joke because of that.
9:08 its also super interesting that he is singing "art is dead" in front of a room full of artists.
*I cried the first time I heard this* it hit me very hard since I am an artist....
Just a Music Note lol the song shouldn’t really hit that personally unless you’re a SUCCESSFUL artist
@@kaylalong1942 WELL if you really think about it, it can also be someone who hasn't met that "famous" status left. Like the part where he's talking about the guy who grows up and succeeds
I love how you can tell it’s becoming less of a vent song and he’s started to mix some humor in
“is this art is dead... i love this song. it’s awesome”
2019 and I’m late but it makes me big sad
2013 and 2015 gotta be my faves
It feels like there's a real cynicism to the 2015 performance. It's the way he's grins throughout the song, the extra performative acts that he does that feel like they serve to mock the original song and its message. In that performance, 'Art Is Dead' feels vandalized, as if the song lost hope.
“I’m just a kid maybe I’ll grow out of it” and he’s 25 and will never grow out of it and he knows it, the song grows more ironic every year
6:05 this genuinely made me chuckle, thanks gods for Bo
My favorite Bo Burnham song
Can you do a evolution of Bo Burnham's "My whole family"
+ejthegamer I plan to make an evolution vid for several of his songs. Sit tight, I'm going to spread them out over the next few weeks :-)
somtimes when i listen to this song i feel like im intruding on a mental breakdown
July 2011 (the green room version) will always be my favorite, there’s so much more emotion and resentment because of everyone laughing, he even smashes the keyboard harder. Also he changes “I” to “we”. (Plus it was the first version of Art Is Dead I’ve heard.
So is there a video of just the 2013 one where he’s like “I swear it’s not that one dude”
Jeez watching this after inside has come out, it just makes everything so much more meaningfull and depressing, I really hope he's ok.
how did everyone before 2015 have a better phone to record with than the person in 2015
I just wanna give him a hug so bad, bo seems like he doesn’t get enough hugs
I love how as time went on, Bo's piano skills got better and better
did he seriously sing art is dead at a comedy show?
+fake name yes
yup and I think that's awesome
fake name they asked him too
fake name its on words words words and that was on comedy central so not only on a show
He is a comedian wtf are you talking about
Why is no one talking about the fact that he literally started crying while singing the 2013 version? That was heartbreaking, I started crying with him
8:31 out all the songs that bo has written, the comedians in the room decide that he should play the ONE song during that time that has no comedy at all in it.
I think his performance in the green room is probably my favorite. Seemed like he was really feeling it that day.
'for never maturing, for never understanding or learning' holy cow that line hits diff...
6:48 he looks so genuinely sad at this part, i dont like it :(
Notice in the Green Room version, when he hits the line about wanting his name in lights, he changes the wording to, "...cause WE wanted OUR name in lights when WE could've fed a family of four..." He's pointing the finger at every other entertainer in the room, as they just watch and laugh.
He did it slower so people could listen to the lyrics and actual think and stop laughing for a couple minutes to let sink in
I love how in the 2011 he changes so many "I"'s to "we"
I wish people would shut up when they go to a concert, like, they came for the music, not to hear themselves yell, clap after the song, that's it, that's all that's needed.