I absolutely love Bo Burnham, and this and Right Brain, Left Brain are my favorites! "IT'S A F*CKING SCARECROW AGAIN!" has become one of my favorite quotes.
Growing up listening to country for 40 years this is spot on. The crap on the radio today is not country. It’s teen pop and these guys have never been on a tractor, went hunting, or shot a gun their whole life.
It reminds me of Jason Aldean's song "Try That in a Small Town", dude has never lived in a small town lol. Or his song Country Boy's World which contains the lines: "Rome Georgia Picked peaches off the trees" The problem with that, is that there are no peach trees in Rome Georgia lol.
You need to watch "cant handle this right now". He had to quit for a while due to having panic attacks on stage. This song explains his feelings, leading up to it. i think five years later he puts out a new special, "inside". Its real good. You just have to listen to that other song first.
My favorite line that no one ever catches, “Like Mike Evander-ln’, f- your ears I’m panderin’.” Such a great reference they almost always gets overlooked.
I don't even like country music and I still find it wholesome you fell in love with it from the requests you've got. Your obvious gratitude at finding a genre you love through your channel and viewers is just way too heart warming Thanks for the nice feels creator and viewers alike. You guys do good work together
Blues Traveler - Hook. Made #23 in the top 100 songs of 1995. Whole song makes fun of the music industry and it's fans while most people did not even know it was making fun of them and just loved the song.
Great reaction Britt. Totally get where he’s comin’ from. The great Alan Jackson and George Strait perform a duet - ‘Someone Committed Murder Down on Music Row’ which also laments how modern country music has gone down this same path. Well worth a listen. Love your channel, keep up the good work. 👍🏼🎸🤠
There is some amazing country music out there, Dolly Parton especially is incredible as are Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, but at some point (from my memory, around 2001) it devolved into basically what Bo is describing in this song. Stadium Country, also called Bro-Country, showed up around 2011 and is basically just pop music with a country sound. Keith Urban is a great example of the genre, a lot of his music sounds exactly like this song.
90s had some amazing rock country mash and into the 2000s-2011 it turned into a more pop country and by the end of 2011 we started to see a weird hip hop infused country then it just became a bad trap country i think most country songs now are just awful cant stand the radio i loved 90s and i loved 05-2011 sound but now it just sounds awful
Oh, he takes down pop (Repeat Stuff) and your example of rap (its bo yo) in other songs as well. Definitely a few of his earlier songs. Not as early as gems like "My whole family thinks im gay" tho, this was one of the few that he recorded in his bedroom when he was still living with his parents and uploaded it on TH-cam.
My Gosh I've never been so glad I clicked on a vid in my life. Lmao. This was so funny and real af. Great reaction, love watching ur genuine reactions. Ur going places Kid. Lol.
A lot of newer country music (from the late 2000's to now) is "bro country", guys singing about hot girls wearing short shorts, drinking on a dirt road, in a truck, and once you've heard that once you really don't need to hear the other 250 songs exactly like it. As I've known for years just because someone wears a cowboy hat that don't make him a cowboy. Country music is about the lyrics and not just the music, so if you can't hear the words of a song because of the music it has stopped being country and is pop music.
Most of the real ones wear ball caps, and just go to work unnoticed. Unfortunately, their pride leads to them dying too soon, poor, and unnoticed, which is the most Country way to go. Country came from Blues, and in the old days, it showed.
This is your first bo burnham experience, your in for a treat. *all eyes on me, gods perspective, welcome to the internet, can’t handle this (kanye dis,)
i'm very drunk and tired but on your upload page everything is uploaded 17hrs ago so i'll refrain from watching more than this until i check it out after a good nap
In most trends I think it starts out pretty genuine but gets more corporate over time. Artists don't make as much money anymore is another factor about the rapper's.
There are definitely some formulas that you will find. If I recall, you've already noted some of the cross over formulas from R&B. I find a lot of newer country to be rather Pop-ish. Some is still good, but the older style country is definitely more my wheelhouse. If you want a good song that fits into the formula, yet I think you will really appreciate... Check out "Front Porch Looking In" by Lonestar. It will really pull on your parent heartstrings, though from a dad's perspective.
Would love to listen to some Jason Isbell with you and hear your reaction. Amazing songwriter, more Americana than classic country in sound but wonderful songs that take you to vivid places in time and space and can make you smile and weep all at the same time. I'd suggest Alabama Pines, Speed Trap Town, If We Were Vampires, 24 Frames, Dress Blues, etc., etc., etc. Love you reactions. You're a good sport and I appreciate your enthusiasm for new things, your kindness, and you have a wonderful singing voice to from the little bits you've shown us. Wishing you the day you deserve, and looking forward to seeing what's next.
Great reaction. Please do ‘Repeat Stuff’.. imagine this, but ripping on artists like Bieber rather than country music. The music video is awesome. But the live is good too.
What he is saying is so true I've requested before that you react to George Strait and Allan Jackson Murder On Music Row there is another one by Shooter Jennings Waylon Jennings son They Should Outlaw You
My dear if you want to hear Country Music then listen to George Jones, Faron Young, Hank, Williams, Ray Price True Country Music kind of died around 1976
If you’d like to hear some modern country that isn’t pandering garbage, I’ve prepared a short list of legit artists: Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Whiskey Myers, Colter Wall, The Dead South, Margo Price, The Steel Drivers (Chris Stapleton’s band before he went solo) and Jason Isbell. There’s a lot more out there but this is a nice starter set.
Bo is great. I also found it funny that "rape" is edited out, but the word "fuck" stays in. I know it's because of youtube's algorithm bs but it reminds me of movie ratings and parents being okay having their kids watch R-rated movies since it's only violence and gore. But as soon as sex/nudity is brought up, those same people lose their minds.
Fun reaction. I think you should turn down you mic a little. Your voice is a lot louder than the video! And try not to clap, that was really loud in my headphones!!
I don't know if I would put Keith Urban in that category, he is a h*** of an entertainer, and definitely not all country. I took my wife to see him last summer and she doesn't like country at all, and she loved the show. Good luck with that giant rabbit hole!
@@michaeljacyna1973 yeah bro, but still, by censoring puns we are building a path to limit our freedom of speech (i know it sounds super dramatic but there is at least 50% truth in these words) and count or cunt, not a really bad word anyways.
@sickturret3587 I consider she likely blocked it to not get blocked by YT algorithms. No big deal, we've heard the song. This is just a reaction to it. It is a little bit dramatic IMO.
@sickturret3587 Also, you need to consider YT being a privately owned entity have every right to censor as they please. It's not like this is a slippery slope to government censorship.
There's an interesting argument that country music really took this ugly commercialised almost self parody turn post 9/11 because of the heightened nationalism in response to that attack. All the beautiful soulful earnest country songs got shut out by these loud ass "MURICA AND PROUD" style songs diggin their heels into blue collar southern American stereotype, and usually from people who hadn't actually lived a rural country lifestyle in YEARS, if ever. No more vunerability or using country stylings to tell a story, it was al "HOT GIRL IN DAISY DUKES AND BEER AND EAGLES AND STARS N STRIPES YEE HAW" on an electric drum beat so it can get on the pop stations.
“I write songs for the people who do jobs in the towns that I’d never move to” is one of the hardest lines ever delivered.
"Y'all dumb mfers want a key change?!" Is my favorite line in any song
Hi Britt, real country people say that the singers he is describing "They are all hat and no cattle"
They also say people who lump music in a bag are idiots.
Name one genuine country "artist"
George Strait is the real deal!
@@toddntamcates1974As was Chris LeDoux(RIP)
And Alan Jackson
"Is he gonna sing, or is this stand-up?"
Yes.
Love Bo. He takes apart Teen Pop music in a similar way with his song "Repeat Stuff" Highly recommend it. Even has a music video!
And rap/hiphop in Oh Bo
And inspirational songs in "Kill yourself"
Honestly I'm surprised stadium country music survived this song. Bo laid it bare.
i really wish this did to stadium country music what zoolander did to male modeling.8
I absolutely love Bo Burnham, and this and Right Brain, Left Brain are my favorites! "IT'S A F*CKING SCARECROW AGAIN!" has become one of my favorite quotes.
i love the parallels you make with rap and country because there are so many its kinda crazy
Oh Bo is his take on hip hop like this.
Rap, country, folk, punk, all at their cores about people telling stories about their lives.
Growing up listening to country for 40 years this is spot on. The crap on the radio today is not country. It’s teen pop and these guys have never been on a tractor, went hunting, or shot a gun their whole life.
It reminds me of Jason Aldean's song "Try That in a Small Town", dude has never lived in a small town lol. Or his song Country Boy's World which contains the lines:
"Rome Georgia
Picked peaches off the trees"
The problem with that, is that there are no peach trees in Rome Georgia lol.
Hahaha your reaction to the key change was GOLD.
You need to watch "cant handle this right now". He had to quit for a while due to having panic attacks on stage. This song explains his feelings, leading up to it. i think five years later he puts out a new special, "inside". Its real good. You just have to listen to that other song first.
My favorite line that no one ever catches, “Like Mike Evander-ln’, f- your ears I’m panderin’.” Such a great reference they almost always gets overlooked.
Absolutely it does! One of the best lines ever!
Sadly, that's because it comes right after the second best joke in the song, so most people are still laughing when it rolls by.
"Like Mike's Evandering, fuck your ears, I'm pandering" is one of the most slept on lines in this song.
I don't even like country music and I still find it wholesome you fell in love with it from the requests you've got. Your obvious gratitude at finding a genre you love through your channel and viewers is just way too heart warming
Thanks for the nice feels creator and viewers alike. You guys do good work together
Blues Traveler - Hook. Made #23 in the top 100 songs of 1995. Whole song makes fun of the music industry and it's fans while most people did not even know it was making fun of them and just loved the song.
Yep, the lyrics of the song are all about why the song sounds good to you.
A modern version: "Radio" by Sylvan Esso.
@@jackplume9045
Bands have been singing songs about radio since the early 70's or before.
I was talking about a song that talks about itself.
@@elbruces I mean, did you listen to it? It's pretty clearly including itself.
@@jackplume9045
We're apparently arguing about how we're in agreement.
Great reaction Britt. Totally get where he’s comin’ from. The great Alan Jackson and George Strait perform a duet - ‘Someone Committed Murder Down on Music Row’ which also laments how modern country music has gone down this same path. Well worth a listen. Love your channel, keep up the good work. 👍🏼🎸🤠
There is some amazing country music out there, Dolly Parton especially is incredible as are Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, but at some point (from my memory, around 2001) it devolved into basically what Bo is describing in this song. Stadium Country, also called Bro-Country, showed up around 2011 and is basically just pop music with a country sound. Keith Urban is a great example of the genre, a lot of his music sounds exactly like this song.
90s had some amazing rock country mash and into the 2000s-2011 it turned into a more pop country and by the end of 2011 we started to see a weird hip hop infused country then it just became a bad trap country i think most country songs now are just awful cant stand the radio i loved 90s and i loved 05-2011 sound but now it just sounds awful
This is so accurate. Wonderful reaction! I stand with Bo on this, and it's so dang funny.
Oh, he takes down pop (Repeat Stuff) and your example of rap (its bo yo) in other songs as well. Definitely a few of his earlier songs.
Not as early as gems like "My whole family thinks im gay" tho, this was one of the few that he recorded in his bedroom when he was still living with his parents and uploaded it on TH-cam.
My Gosh I've never been so glad I clicked on a vid in my life. Lmao. This was so funny and real af. Great reaction, love watching ur genuine reactions. Ur going places Kid. Lol.
Also “rant” is a great one from him!
God, I love Bo. Great musician and comedian.
A lot of newer country music (from the late 2000's to now) is "bro country", guys singing about hot girls wearing short shorts, drinking on a dirt road, in a truck, and once you've heard that once you really don't need to hear the other 250 songs exactly like it. As I've known for years just because someone wears a cowboy hat that don't make him a cowboy. Country music is about the lyrics and not just the music, so if you can't hear the words of a song because of the music it has stopped being country and is pop music.
Most of the real ones wear ball caps, and just go to work unnoticed. Unfortunately, their pride leads to them dying too soon, poor, and unnoticed, which is the most Country way to go. Country came from Blues, and in the old days, it showed.
@@peensteen Luke Combs.
This is your first bo burnham experience, your in for a treat. *all eyes on me, gods perspective, welcome to the internet, can’t handle this (kanye dis,)
i'm very drunk and tired
but on your upload page everything is uploaded 17hrs ago so i'll refrain from watching more than this until i check it out after a good nap
I lost it at the key change 😂
In most trends I think it starts out pretty genuine but gets more corporate over time. Artists don't make as much money anymore is another factor about the rapper's.
we have that same problem in germany with "volkstümliche" music, which is sort of popart of actual volk music. its so the same!
Also most hate it and avoid it like the plague ... Like people end conversations and friendships about liking or not liking "Volksmusik"
"It's a fucking scarecrow again" always make me laugh lol.
Yeah, Bo caught a body with this track. 💪🔥🔥
3.14 apple pi and Bo Fo Sho by bo burnham
There are definitely some formulas that you will find. If I recall, you've already noted some of the cross over formulas from R&B. I find a lot of newer country to be rather Pop-ish. Some is still good, but the older style country is definitely more my wheelhouse.
If you want a good song that fits into the formula, yet I think you will really appreciate... Check out "Front Porch Looking In" by Lonestar. It will really pull on your parent heartstrings, though from a dad's perspective.
Bo’s parody songs:
Pop - repeat stuff
Hip hop - oh bo
Drake - 5 years
Kanye - can’t handle this
Enjoy!
♥️
He nailed mainstream country.
did a studio recording course and the instructor let us know the Country and Gospel labels were the most ruthless
this is one of about 2 of the only "country" songs I can stand.
I’m a metal head, but as I get older I find comfort in most types of music. Maybe not EDM though 😂
Old video you might like is 4 chords by axis of awesome, they show how every pop song is written the same
Please do bo Burnham - art is dead!
He's very good at stuff like this. Can't Handle This was basically the same idea.
That was clever and funny as hell. 😂😂😂
Would love to listen to some Jason Isbell with you and hear your reaction. Amazing songwriter, more Americana than classic country in sound but wonderful songs that take you to vivid places in time and space and can make you smile and weep all at the same time. I'd suggest Alabama Pines, Speed Trap Town, If We Were Vampires, 24 Frames, Dress Blues, etc., etc., etc.
Love you reactions. You're a good sport and I appreciate your enthusiasm for new things, your kindness, and you have a wonderful singing voice to from the little bits you've shown us. Wishing you the day you deserve, and looking forward to seeing what's next.
Yes she needs to react to him!
Florida Georgia line is the definition of stadium country
Truth.
Lol Keith Urban and Luke Bryant called TF out
You should also check out bo burnhams "all eyes on me" song
Love this! Gotta do the Kanye rant!!! Pretty sure it's from the same special
nailed it
0:20 you and bo said "country music" at the same exact time lol
Repeat stuff is the same approach but with love songs and pop rap songs.
"I don't like dirt" I love that you get it
i accidentally love ... this channel
Classic Bo is the best Bo 👍
The funniest thing is that he plays a country idol character on Parks and Recreation that is EXACTLY like the artist he is describing here.
"I don't like dirt"
sounds like genuine countrymen like it.
Well, at least you usually don't mind, working on a farm while being squeamish with getting your hands dirty plain does not work
Can I request “The Cowboy in Me” by Tim McGraw and “Comedy” by Bo Burnham?
Thanks for the fun and entertaining reaction videos!
Two bears one cave podcast is tom segura and bert kreischer's podcast. Just look up "kool aid"
If your looking for an interesting country song to react to I can only recommend "HARDY - wait in the Truck." Featuring Lainey Wilson.
HARDY is an amazing songwriter and artist. Britt should react to a few of his songs
If you're looking for another song of the same motif but a different genre, "Title Of The Song" by DaVinci's Notebook is well worth a listen
For the algorithm
😂😂😂that was funny
Check out "4 Chord Song" by Axis of Awesome I'd recommend the live version.
If you have never heard them before you should check out Maddie & Tae "Girl in a Country Song" ❤
You definately need to check Bo Burnham - Left Brain, Right Brain
Girl George Jones had a show back in the day watch the one with Waylon Jennings and Bobby Bare they talk about the old days compared to now
Please do Hardy, Wait in the Truck!
Great reaction. Please do ‘Repeat Stuff’.. imagine this, but ripping on artists like Bieber rather than country music. The music video is awesome. But the live is good too.
Plz keep doing bo
If you like this you should check out This is how you write a love song by axis of awesome 😁
if you like Bo, you’ve gotta react to Stephen Lynch too!!!
What he is saying is so true I've requested before that you react to George Strait and Allan Jackson Murder On Music Row there is another one by Shooter Jennings Waylon Jennings son They Should Outlaw You
You should listen to "Cam - Country Ain't Never Been Pretty"
My dear if you want to hear Country Music then listen to George Jones, Faron Young, Hank, Williams, Ray Price True Country Music kind of died around 1976
Why was country censored at the end? lmao
C*nt ry boy, I think it’s because of the pause between count and ry lmao
lov u
If you’d like to hear some modern country that isn’t pandering garbage, I’ve prepared a short list of legit artists: Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Whiskey Myers, Colter Wall, The Dead South, Margo Price, The Steel Drivers (Chris Stapleton’s band before he went solo) and Jason Isbell. There’s a lot more out there but this is a nice starter set.
please react to "Stephen Lynch" comedy songs at its best
I don't know who this guy is, but he ain't wrong.
Pleeeaaaassseee do his kanye rant
Bo is great. I also found it funny that "rape" is edited out, but the word "fuck" stays in. I know it's because of youtube's algorithm bs but it reminds me of movie ratings and parents being okay having their kids watch R-rated movies since it's only violence and gore. But as soon as sex/nudity is brought up, those same people lose their minds.
Fun reaction. I think you should turn down you mic a little. Your voice is a lot louder than the video! And try not to clap, that was really loud in my headphones!!
Stadium country is pop country
The days of real musical artists is dead unfortunately and the honest ones don’t get the recognition that they deserve unfortunately.
Now you need to listen to one Keith Urban song so you k own what he's talking about.
I don't know if I would put Keith Urban in that category, he is a h*** of an entertainer, and definitely not all country. I took my wife to see him last summer and she doesn't like country at all, and she loved the show. Good luck with that giant rabbit hole!
This song is about Jason Aldean….
He's talking about country Drake 😂
Please react to five years by bo
Darius Rucker Wagon Wheel
Please check out Gilly and Keeves ISIS Toyota if you get a chance. Super funny.
i like how you censored the word "count".
To be fair "cunt" pun was intentional in the song.
@@michaeljacyna1973 yeah bro, but still, by censoring puns we are building a path to limit our freedom of speech (i know it sounds super dramatic but there is at least 50% truth in these words) and count or cunt, not a really bad word anyways.
@sickturret3587 I consider she likely blocked it to not get blocked by YT algorithms. No big deal, we've heard the song. This is just a reaction to it. It is a little bit dramatic IMO.
@sickturret3587 Also, you need to consider YT being a privately owned entity have every right to censor as they please. It's not like this is a slippery slope to government censorship.
You know Nicole Kidman? Married to Keith
Randy Travis on the other hand
Total f-ing C... ry... Boy...
Just perfect.
Hick-Hop 🤭
Garth, where are the bodies burried? We need closure.
He criticises rap music, country, and pop for teen girls.
Maybe more too.
Because exploitation is rewarded, not art or goodness.
I only came to say one thing, Milady you are super cute.
Luke Combs lol
There's an interesting argument that country music really took this ugly commercialised almost self parody turn post 9/11 because of the heightened nationalism in response to that attack. All the beautiful soulful earnest country songs got shut out by these loud ass "MURICA AND PROUD" style songs diggin their heels into blue collar southern American stereotype, and usually from people who hadn't actually lived a rural country lifestyle in YEARS, if ever. No more vunerability or using country stylings to tell a story, it was al "HOT GIRL IN DAISY DUKES AND BEER AND EAGLES AND STARS N STRIPES YEE HAW" on an electric drum beat so it can get on the pop stations.