Ranking Bo Burnham INSIDE songs by how life ruining they are
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You missed an opportunity to call it a "Tear List"
clever lol :)
Smart lol
As a Dad, I approve of the word play.
Fucking underrated comment
I was just about to comment this, lol
Fun fact, in the chorus of looks who's inside again the chords are D E A D. So essentially 'dead inside'
I love how bo sneaks in quick jokes only some people would understand
Wow jesus fuck. That's #deep
Yes a genius
The man is such a legend
@@LazyGardenGamer I love #deep. It's so good.
As a schizophrenic person in Goodbye he said "am I going crazy, would I even know? Am I right back where I started 14 years ago" it legit ruined my life. That whole section between "am I going crazy" to "well well look who's inside again" was so much emotional damage, I will never recover
His whole album makes me cry, man. The whole album reminds me of the Steven He meme: EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!
Like me finding out I have derealization 😬
I feel exactly the same.
You can recover stick by Jesus you can heal
@@Hdhdjdudh-fv5jk I respect anyone who believes in Jesus or God or any other deity (or deities), but for me, trying to wholeheartedly believe in any religion is like trying to believe in Santa Claus or Harry Potter. It's just so far detached from my experience of reality, and all attempts to believe in Jesus and find any form of mental support in religion in the past have resulted in just further hopelessness for me. A good example is when I was a child, I desperately prayed for my parents to not get a divorce, and then it happened anyways. As an adult, I know now that it was inevitable, but that didn't help me then. The idea that I could pray to a deity and somehow either prevent something bad or cause something good to happen was something that was really engrained in me, but that experience, along with several others, convinced me that trying to rely on a deity to solve my problems or help in tough situations is a great way to end up depressed with suicidal ideation. If any deity does exist, they evidently either have favorites or just don't pay attention to what someone prays to them about.
I do want to say that's just my experience, and I don't think less of anyone who believes in any given religion or uses religion as a coping mechanism. It's just not for me at my stage in life, and offering it as a solution to serious mental health problems can feel like a slap in the face. I can't pray autism, anxiety, depression, or gender dysphoria away, I can't pray generational trauma away, and I can't pray for my parents to accept and love me unconditionally. Or, more accurately, I could pray for all of those things, only to be disappointed, betrayed, and heartbroken when nothing improves, and I've wasted time and effort trying to ask for favors from someone who may not even exist.
I wish it was as simple as "stick by Jesus", though. That seems like a lot better of a world to live in.
As a teen who was raised by the internet, Welcome to the Internet is definitely one of the most influential songs for me (Life ruining).
Totally agreed!!!
I was shocked that this and "That Funny Feeling" weren't automatic Life Ruiners. With the two she picked, it's the Mount Rushmore of Dread.
@@socialops Real
I was borin in 1984, I was in the transition from analog/paper everything to the internet. I thought it was a miracle until it wasn't. I really thought we were moving forward to a utopian paradise of knowledge 😭
@@noahkilleen239 We almost did. Welcome To The Internet even highlights the moment we drifted away from it. Around the time the towers fell. That's the distinct moment where cybersecurity, surveillance, and corporate opportunism accelerated.
I think the height of comedy is Bo singing the verse on the mom dying in “white woman’s Instagram” and then immediately following it up with “a goat cheese salad.” Incredible.
Oh God finally someone explains it, I've been begrudgingly living with "a Gucci salad" stuck in my head for the past 3 weeks
@@kappanova1302 LMAO
@@kappanova1302 I am glad that I wasn't the only one. 🤣
@@kappanova1302 "Gucci salad" is the funniest thing I've heard all week besides listening to Bo Burnham's songs
@@yoshidaaimi34 I'm really glad my suffering has had a comedic purpose, that way it wasn't for naught
As someone with a depression; that funny feeling is LIFE RUINING.
It's LIFE ON EARTH RUINING
@@a_a_ronn3146 it is universe ruining
AtLeast life ruining
I'm diagnosed major depressive. That song hit me the hardest for sure
Yes!! That one was the absolutely most life wrecking song. Like a sucker punch to my emotional gut.
“Got it? Good. Now get inside” made my cheeks vibrate. Also, That Funny Feeling deserves to be in Life Ruining. At least Phoebe’s version does for me.
👍👍
That funny feeling is one that's extremely hard for most people to understand. I don't think a lot of people experience existential dread to the level that Bo Burnham has, as a person who has felt that for many years, I don't think I know anyone personally who has.
Which cheeks.....
@@JNB0723It can be a lot of things to different people, I think that's part of the beauty of the song. It could be disassociation, anxiety, depression, or all at once. I don't like to assign meaning to artists' works that isn't there, but I think "that funny feeling" is just the perfect way to describe an emotion or state of being that can't quite be defined in words.
During the portion of "White Woman's Instagram" where she talks about her mom, the resolution opens up from the narrow view of an instagram post to a full view of the speaker and her surroundings, only to narrow back down as her comments turn back to humblebragging for clout. An interesting commentary on the nature of honesty and vulnerability in the context of the dopamine cookie clicker of social media.
Also if you notice it’s the same camera view from the video call with his mom. Connecting the two longs. One before and after her death.
I agreed with most everything, except that Goodbye is a life ruiner for me. The "I promise to never go outside again" when inside is meant to be his depression, and the callbacks to other songs with "all I ever wanted was a little bit of everything" and the end where he's suddenly naked and vulnerable in the spotlight while the disembodied voice repeats the "well, well, look who's inside again" ughh that literally ruined my life
AGREED
100%
I 100% AGREE WHEN SHE HAD IT SO LOW I WAS LKE AHDJZJBEB
yes! goodbye was the one that caught me off guard and i 100% agree this one is a life ruiner
Agree! This one definitely needed to be much higher.
The thing that really works with “Welcome to the Internet” is the constant contrast. “Here’s a tip for straining pasta, here’s a 9 year old who died.” It highlights just how easy it is to go from something totally inoffensive and practical to ‘hey, you want to be sad right now?’ And the way the verses speed up too, almost giving you no time to actually process what he just said before something else pops up.
it's crazy how many levels his content has. I don't know how he fits it all in his head and gets it out in performance.
Yes! And the way the tempo picks up along with the craziness of the lyrics is just stupendous. Feels like you’re headed for a disastrous crash.
It's just an Intrusive Thought, Funhouse, Hell-on-Earth, rave. And yet... WE'VE ALL BEEN THE CLOWNS!
The internet can really give you whiplash.
yep that's the line that stood out to me too,
"That Funny Feeling" is the "We Didn't Start the Fire" of the generation. Which says a lot--about generational perspectives, about the state of the world, and about many things besides. Definitely a life ruiner for me.
Well put
Couldn't have put it better. Only recently was it that I realized, while listening to WDSTF, that nothing has really changed. There's just not been an updated version of the song (at least not one that's not satirical). That Funny Feeling is absolutely our generations WDSTF.
@@TG-nd9rj I'd nominate REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" as gen X's iteration.
This is true. Because Ryan started the fire..
It is as if James Taylor wrote a modern WDSTF.
In my opinion:
The progression of the special itself was life ruining. How the world works was near the beginning, so I thought of it as a comedy song voicing what's happening in the world. But as it goes on, you see more of his struggles until it all comes together in Goodbye, which incorporated elements of all the other songs, to make an ending that was truly life ruining for me. I walked away having a mental breakdown that lasted weeks
Unpaid Intern is so underrated, probably cause it’s like two seconds long but his voice sounds SO GOOD I love it
Its the one i want so much more of
WADAWAPWAPWAP
I legit want a full song of it
"Jeffrey Bezos, you're the specialest boy! You did it!"
also it's indeed absurd that it's legal. signed, rest of the world
That funny feeling was life ruining. “A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall” the funny feeling is the disassociation he feels from his surroundings and he mentions that phenomenon several times in his special.
that funny feeling is my number 1 life ruining. then goodbye, then all eyes on me
“Derealization” is the phenomenon of viewing yourself almost from the outside, like a third party. It’s a common symptom of anxiety and panic disorder, which Bo is diagnosed with and what caused him to leave performing live at the end of the Make Happy tour. I think the feeling he’s describing is his anxiety as a whole and feeling helpless to improve during the pandemic. As a clinician and also someone who struggles with anxiety, he broke my heart with how beautifully he described it and I tear up every time. Life ruining 100%
@@AngelArsenic i think hes also describing the absurdity of late stage capitalism and human existence. like "20000 years of this, 7 more to go", "robert igers face", "in honour of the revolution its half off at the gap", "the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door".
especially the 'half off at the gap' line is describing how capitalism and corporations even try profiting off of the peoples desire to oppose them, they sell you the revolution. its about how everything is monetized and used for profit
I also thought of depersonalization as well when watching the video for the first time, in addition to disassociation
100%
"Facetime with my mom" means so much to me more than any other song from this special, because I no longer have that option and the anger and annoyance he conveys with his facial expressions and silent screams make me think of all the regrets i have where my mom is concerned.
Right there with you.
Love the fact that none of the categories are bad, they’re just different levels of good
“You say the whole world’s ending honey, it already did. You’re not gonna slow it heaven knows you tried” this line r u i n e d me. I’m still not recovered. This whole song, just, *depressed chef kiss*
“Got it? Good. Now get inside.” 🥺😩
Starting at the "oceans rising" line, I was absolutely just floored. I watched it at like midnight alone on the couch because I couldn't sleep and was excited to see his new special. But I was not at all prepared for the feeling this song (along with others) gave me.
I love how every one of his shows ends with just dropping the joke pretense and breaking all of our hearts
I hope that you get better. Recognizing something its the first part getting to know yourself and getting stronger, wiser and hopefully a bit more empathetic and kind. Hurts but it's worth it. I hope that you have a nice life :)
Why does it have to be depressing though. With ending there is rebirth and rebuilding.
Goodbye is life ruining when the song gets really low and it goes “your really joking at a time like this … WELL WELL LOOK WHOS INSIDE AGAIN” that part killed me
Yes! It feels straight up like a scary circus you're trapped in.
That part was weirdly comforting to me, but also made me cry.
Yeah it should’ve been ranked higher
⚠️TW: $U1C1D3⚠️I love the last lines, not because they’re nice but because they remind me of a voice mocking someone for always being inside and then that person killing themself because of that voice
yeah it really hurts
"Goodbye" never fails to make me cry, every damn time I hear it. Even now, those few lines we got to hear in this video, my eyes are getting wet. I can't listen to it unless I'm ready for my entire day to have a drastically lower mood. It's pure magic at its darkest.
the reprise of look who's inside again at the end of goodbye is such a prefect hit to the emotions.
You're not a;one. Here for you bud.
My boyfriend has been watching Bo Burnham since he was a depressed teenager and now he's depressed and almost 30. FaceTime with my mom actually hit him very hard because his mother passed right before lockdown in 2020 so he gets choked up over it.
the line “am I going crazy, would I even know? Am I right back where I started 14 years ago” from Goodbye will FOREVER make it life ruining for me
So true
the entire outro is looped in my head forever now and i have no complaints
Same. Also "apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime" hit a bit too close to where I live. I know that this line is also part of welcome to the internet but there it just felt uncomfortable but in Goodbye it hit me
I don't know why but goobye breaks me apart everytime
Everything after "am i right back where i started 14 years ago" is so life ruining
Its a bop and so catchy but literally changed me
As someone with social anxiety Look Who’s Inside Again is definitely day ruining
I feel it's more life ruining
Life ruining for me cus of personal trauma
@@Mouseypaws thank you for pointing out what always give me existential crisises when I wake up
Amen
100% agreed
I’m so glad he got an award for “all eyes on me” but it was absolutely hilarious when everyone cheered when he won and then “Bo’s not here ya’ll” and everyone kinda chuckled 🥲😭
Because Bo is a perfectionist it took one year to finish this movie. Because he took so many takes. he wanted it to be perfect. But it also made him lose his mind. You can see how his expression changes through out the movie. That’s probably why he started throwing everything around at one point. And also because he’s been locked in for several years😫🥺
What? Quarantine wasn't several years. Unless you mean his time away from performing, but he wasn't locked in then. He still did interviews and directed films. He was still out and active lol.
“Googling derealisation, hating what you find” was life ruining alone for me
I did that in May. How does he know we all did that?
"Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul. A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall."
When I heard that, I had to take a minute to process it since I had done the exact same thing. It really hit hard
as soon as I heard the song I googled derealization and I hated what I found haha kill me
MOOOD
I'm surprised "Goodbye" wasn't higher. That ending bit where he brings back parts of previous songs felt so much like a musical and the "I'm finished playing and I'm staying inside" feels so much like the third-act dark twist on the original lyrics.
Ikr, I would put it as life ruining in my personal ranking
Yeah, Goodbye was the most life ruining song of them all to me, like holy shit.
When he turns around comedy on himself... "call ME up and tell me a joke" and THEN there's the horns and .... it definitley gets me.
Goodbye was a goddamn masterpiece - the way he brought pieces of everything together was just AMAZING
Fully agree. That Funny Feeling, All Eyes On Me and Goodbye all in a row hit me like a truck. Thought I was doing well but those had me bawling through the end of the special lmao
“Look Who’s Inside Again” would absolutely be life ruining for me. It reminds of how many years I spent playing alone, in my room, because I didn’t have anyone to play with, and how I would make up friendships in my head. Hearing it for the first time was like looking at that little girl, all alone in her room, as a separate person and realizing how sad it was. Actively cried about it more than once. Still haunts me even months after the special came out.
Wow. Never knew this would have such an impact on people, he's truly amazing
Pull up the scabbed over scars of your PTSD,
Barely contained, years of festering, trauma.
Everybody, wants to see, only,
The distanced, vicariously enjoyed and deliberately edited drama,
Is exactly what the doctor ordered for you and you and you and you and me,
Hehe, exposing the infection publicly and acknowledging it, openly, happens to be damaging, "surprisingly".
inside is such a masterpiece. i don't think I've ever watched something touch on so many serious topics while still being funny, and the songs are so catchy and heart wrenching at the same time. plus the cinematography considering he did it all himself??? i can't get over it.
“all eyes on me” literally ruined me
same oof
same, i‘ll never be the same again
Same here I’m still recovering from it
SAME
God same
I would’ve put “30” higher up the tier because he talks about putting a bullet in his brain at the end of the song, and the whole special turns from that point on.
Agreed, I'm almost a 40 year old man and found it at least as a big oof. The performance is absolutely beautiful though.
Couldn't agree more. At 20 I didn't think I'd make it to 30, so for him to say he'll end it in ten years was too real
He said he was jokeing
I thought for sure I'd be dead by now. Not for lack of trying.
Yeah I almost didn't make it to 30, now I'm 37 and that line HURT.
I'm not a woman, i don't even use instagram, have never posted a picture like those anywhere. Still it hit me hard. I think the message is not really about instagram, more about the perception we want our surounding to have of us, it's about pretending to be well while hurting inside. To me that was the one that really touched me the most on a personal level, even though i am so not the person portrayed in the song.
You really need to go back and react to his 'Can't Handle This' performance from his 'Make Happy' special. It's the last thing he did before his 5 year mental health break, and the raw emotion underlying the performance is bone chilling.
That Funny Feeling is probably the most Life Ruining to me. Like that quiet irony and discomfort that comes from just existing in a world of late stage capitalism, and the way that discomfort has become normal. Like fully Life Ruining.
The line from that song that says "a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" just gets me for some reason. Like stare at the wall and contemplate for 20 minutes gets me.
This one brought me right into a crisis I didn’t expect to have. Kinda haunted me for these last two weeks or so.
Such a good tune, sounds so good, but really makes me upset
I keep listening to it and poking the bruise. I can't help it.
couldn't agree more
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door." Got me feeling some kind of down. I can't explain it. It feels like he is saying everything we do know is readily available for me to explore at will, but everything we don't know is right outside for me to discover. Comfort is close but adventure is not inconveniently far, and we seem to choose comfort every time.
At least, thats my perception of it.
“Welcome to the internet” made me uncomfortable of how accurate is was. As a gen z, I can definitely say the amount of media we consume is so much all the time. After that song finished It definitely was life ruining. I came to realize how desensitized to big events I was, I’ll go from admiring art to watching a video of someone being killed and not bat an eye. It’s terrifying how ours brains can just do that- I think Bo captures that feeling of choking on the sheer amount of media we consume perfectly. The fact that we can’t even escape it, that it’s already cemented itself to our society and daily life’s was earth shattering. Basically- that song is both a bop and life ruining.
I’d put it in it’s own tier of “life ruining bop” lol. But that’s just my opinion on it 🤷♀️
I completely agree. It made me realize how incredible large the net of the internet is, how connected we all are and how lost I would feel if that was lost and I was back in my "bubble" I can't escape (the borders of my town/country that I can't seem to cross). At the same time the internet is such a scary place and once you enter, you can't escape. The song makes you feel uncomfortable on the perfect level
Agree
I also felt the same. There's is undeniable & irrefutable truth to the song's message. Like, I have no choice but to agree.
Many have also described it to be like a villain's song where he have already won the war & so he's just welcoming every newcomer/generation to the internet.
It just put into words the existential dread we all perceive behind the sparkly facade of the internet. Definitely life ruining category.
same it's so life ruining for me i've bean think about it since i first heard it, like every f night before bed is a nightmeare
As a person that was recovering from agoraphobia "well, well, look who's inside again" throat punched me so hard
Same but I’ve bin stuck with it for 13 years at this point so it hit extremely hard
Same. Divorced. Friendless...well..... except for my cat who goes outside more than i do.
I also have agoraphobia! It's gotten better, but it's so hard and I feel lots of people don't really understand it and think it's an easy thing to just get over :(
"Goodbye" is definitely a life ruiner for me. It definitely hit close to home, I was so touched by the lyrics that.
Same, I suffer with an anxiety disorder and depression so a lot of the lyrics speak to me
@@PercyJackson329 I'm so sorry to hear. I hope you get better mentally.
In White Woman's Instagram there's this really cool thing he does with the ratio where most of song is in a square, like Instagram posts, but on the verse about the mom, the ratio widens out to fill the screen, like it's becoming more human/less fabricated. Just something I noticed
He does it in FaceTime, too, makes the screen look like what you see on a phone. I thought it was a really clever use of the medium
I noticed that, and I thought it was really interesting. Like this momentary widening of the screen seemed to point to a momentary realness, but then before the verse is even done, it's narrowing again, and to me, that meant that like entertainment and art and love and even racism and advocacy have been squeezed into little palatable internet squares, so has grief. That our selves and lives and feelings and passions are all packaged up for public consumption on the internet, and that made what on the surface felt like a fun little teasing song Life Ruining to me.
I think it's supposed to remind us that there is a real person behind the screen with real problems and feelings, so if she wants to post about latte foam art for the aesthetic - let her be. It's fun and it isn't hurting anybody. If he really wanted to make fun of the types of photos, he could have made his recreations look weird or funny but he didn't. At the same time, he is obviously not letting her get away with everything and points out white privilege by including lines like "her favorite quote from lord of the rings, incorrectly attributed to martin luther king" and "a dreamcatcher bought from urban outfitters"
@@user-es7ui5mc1m Yeah, I disagree a bit with the harmlessness point bc I think a large part of this persona of “the white woman” online is that we are harmless and innocent, and that this image of harmless allows us to get away with doing harm (if you look at a lot of the supposedly innocent images, the text on the t-shirt or the mug or a feather in the hair points to a casual racial ignorance that white women get away with), but I do think the song is meant to be humanizing as it is critical. That we fall into the same trap as everyone else, and sometimes more so, of our whole lives, grief included, needing to be polished and packaged for consumption on the internet. That while white women are harming others with our internet persona, we are also harmed by it as we become people of the internet instead of just people.
It changes ratio, until she goes back into her fabricated image. She dives back into bragging about how great she is, and is using her mom's death to do it. So as she steps away from her own humanity, the ratio closes back in. Truly horrifying.
There is another theory going around about how well he actually made the photos out to be, women often get critized for anything they like ever by men. It doesn't matter if it's an app, a game, a store, they find something to mock us with. Yet, mocking women is the only time they can actually be feminine without being shamed. I don't think this was the main focus of the song, but I did think it was an interesting perspective.
I feel like "Goodbye" was much higher on the list for me.
He basically takes all the emotional bits from each song and puts them all together.
"Im slowly losing power, has it only been an hour?" My social anxiety relates to this.
"I wanna hear you tell a joke when no ones laughing in the background" The feeling of judgment finally making you snap. That feeling of "well if you think its so easy, lets see *you* do it!"
"Am i going crazy? Would i even know? Am I right back where i started 14 years ago" The worry of backsliding, all that progress on his mental health wasted.
"Im finished playing and im staying inside." When the world gets to be too much and you just dont wanna go out into it again.
"If i wake up in a house thats full of smoke I'll panic, so call me up and tell me a joke" The way this line changes from the original. First time around its saying "im here for you" second time around its saying "i need someone to be be here for *me* im not doing well"
"Well well look whos inside again, went out to find a new reason to hide again." This line feels so much more judgemental to me the second time round. Maybe because it only comes *after* all the lines that show hes not doing well.
Edit: also "That Funny Feeling" was top of the list for me as well. The lines "full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown" and "the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" both had me tearing up.
Goodbye deserves to be in life ruining for me, I straight up vibe with this whole comment.
that shit hits too hard for me. life ruining for suuure
20,000 years of this, 7 more to go
Goodbye was definitely life ruining for me
If this was Reddit I'd give you a gold, summed it up perfectly
I can't fathom Goodbye not being life ruining. My heart sank and sank. It reminded me of when I went to the make happy show and he did the Kanye rant, I realized what was happening after he started saying, "Come and watch the skinny kid with the steadily declining mental health" Jesus Christ. The goosebumps
Also, the Disney Princess singing “What the f*** is going on” got me. 😂
"Do you need help, should I call the police?"
The biggest disagreement I have is not having another category titled, "Humanity Ruining" and putting "Welcome to the Internet" there.
this
LORD. ALL OF THIS
I distinctly remember being in 8th grade, walking through a classroom in which 6th graders were watching Saddam Hussein's execution with glee. Like, I remember almost nothing from middle school save for that one memory. I can only imagine what kind of reprehensible shit kids younger than that are currently watching.
THIS
Agreed
All Eyes On Me shows off his voice more than anything he’s ever done. If you search on TH-cam for the unvocoded versions, people removed the effect and it’s just his voice and it is, by far, the best vocal he’s ever had.
The pitched-up one hour version has been my soundtrack today
I can’t stop listening to it bro
My fave for sure. Was stuck in my head for days
Thank you for mentioning this, just went and looked it up- gorgeous
@@AngelArsenic I also recommend the orchestral version by Jsco
I thinks it's probably because of Ethan's (crankgameplays's) cover of "That Funny Feeling" but I definitely think it deserves "Life Ruining" for me. I think after hearing both versions and being able to pick out lines from each that are more personal to me, even just the original is more emotional.
Personally, That Funny Feeling is life running or higher. "The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" That line destroyed me.
That Funny Feeling was absolutely top tier for me.
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door."
"20,000 years of this, 7 more to go."
"A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall."
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all."
I'm still gasping
EXACTLY
"Total disassociation, fully out your mind.
Googling 'derealization', hating what you find" absolutely ended me
"That unapparent summer air in early fall."
This one is my favorite, and it’s so hard to pick one. So many are my favorite! But this one has a special place in my heart now
literally every lyric there is heartbreaking for me. i can't stop thinking about this song (which also kinda sucks cos i'm stuck in a constant and really bad existential dread now haha)
so yeah definitely top tier and life ruining
I didn’t cry until the very end when he got locked out and everyone was laughing at him. That part just felt like a smack in the face for some reason.
god I know right !?! and when it shows Bo watching this happening to himself and starts laughing as well. cannot describe.
He wanted to go back inside again. He went out to look for a reason to hide, again.
The moment I got worried was the one where he started crying. It felt way too vulnerable.
Same
That funny feeling and all eyes on me left me shook the first time I watched the special. As someone who has been extremely depressed, especially at the time that the special was released this whole special spoke to me on levels that nothing else has ever come close to. When he bursted out crying at the point of the special when he said “I am not…well”, I felt him. I think he’s the greatest artist of our generation.
No joke, he was my most listened artist on Spotify last year. All due to this special. Most of these songs just make me feel like im not alone in the dread and panic that is my existence.
Hard techno is a good place to
Exercise these feelings too ❤
“Goodbye” is so life ruining for me, I’ve been shout-singing it in the car multiple times every day for like a week. It was such a good ending to the special but like it wasn’t funny, it was just pure talent. Left me feeling super empty and unwell, adding to how ruined I was by “All Eyes On Me”
Glad to hear im not the only one shout singing Bo Burnham in the car. "Does anybody want to joke when no ones LAUGHING IN THE BACKGROUND"
“Apathy’s a tragedy and boredom is a crime, I’M FINISHED PLAYIN AND I’M STAYIN INSIDE”
It's basically a funeral song.
That Funny Feeling should be at Life Ruiner just for the “gift shop at the gun range, mass shooting at the mall” line. That hurt my soul.
and “the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door”
"20,000 years of this, seven more to go"
Totally agree. This is the song that ruined my life the most. And is also one of my favorites.
100% agree. That Funny Feeling has been looping in my head non stop for two weeks now. It was the first time I cried during the special. Definitely broke me. I also think Goodbye should have been higher. That was at least day ruining.
fucking same. that is one of the only lines i know from that song.
I love the term “existential bop” lol
All time low is life ruining and just scary for me because as a teen I use to struggle with terrible panic attacks on a daily basis and the way he described it in such a jolly way is just so accurate and it kinda reminded of the same feeling of those panic attacks I used to have and it’s something I never wanna have to go through again.
As someone with an…. Iffy… relationship with his mother, for me “FaceTiming with my mom” was up in day ruining, solely because it just hit so hard. I go into every encounter with her trying desperately to fix things between us, and having grand visions for how I’m going to do so. But then, like in Bo’s song, things devolve and inevitably go to shit.
same!!
and the dad part was so painful in like 2 lines it actually ruined my day on first watch
@@pitpat2928 agreed! We love emotionally distant fathers… (/s)
i really love how if you watch his lips in the video of that part he starts screaming at his mom for covering the camera and then apologizes profusely. hit me in some.. oddly specific ways
it's also very different if you just hear it on the album as opposed to seeing him losing his mind on the video
I'm honestly shocked that 'Funny Feeling' wasn't in Life Ruining, as that song hurts me the absolute most. Gave me general anxiety for weeks after hearing it for the first couple times.
🥺❤️
SAME.
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" sends me into existential downward spirals it physically hurts
It had me tearing up even in this video
I cry every time. Definitely "Life Ruining" for me.
“Welcome to the Internet” “Funny Feeling” and “30” were life ruining for me. Having a 13 year old daughter I see how much of her life is consumed by media, and it saddens me. Funny feeling just lays it all out about how the world is ending but we gladly ignore it. 30 for me is personal, I had a lot of depression that caused me to dread turning 30, including 2020 being a terrible year.
"I still haven't stopped singing Inside... I watched it last week" girl I watched it three months ago and I still do this I think these songs can officially be awarded "most catchy soundtrack ever"
10:19 yeah i'm gonna have to stop you right there. That Funny Feeling was the most life ruining of them all in my opinion. "Hey, what can you say, we were overdue. But it'll be over soon, you wait." i mean cmon! he's literally telling the audience that humanity is winding down. currently. right now. we're in our final years, and soon we'll all be gone. that's life ruining.
That Funny Feeling got me on the verge of tears. Definitely life ruining
I have a bad habit of going "meh, there's no swears, my son can listen to it"
Then my kid started humming "hey, what can you say, we were overdue. But it'll be over soon, you wait, buhdahdah, buhdahdah" and I damn near needed to pull over from the tears
These lines specifically dont make me feel bad cause for all weve done to this planet its pretty fair if all of us just disappear this very instant...but yes the song is really life ruining
yeah... "20.000 years of this, 7 more to go"
"A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall"
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door"
"That unapparent summer air in early fall"
it's filled to the brim with lines that absolutely wreck me
@@benjaminhondorp8593 yep...its amazing...Inside itself is amazing...when you watch it the first time expecting it to be a comedy special you ll be confused abt what you just watched...but then when you watch it again knowing what to expect and take everything fully into your mind...it ll change the way you think and live lol
“Went out to look for a reason to hide again.” That line trashed me because I related to it so hard, because I do look for reasons to stay in my room and not talk to people, my social life has been more rough than most but I really need to go outside but I find reasons to sit on my ass and hide in my room and never leave
“well well, look who’s inside again” . it makes me realize my mental health is now as bad as it was when I was younger. I got better from when I was suicidal and then it all went down when I got *inside* (quarantine). “Looks who’s inside again” makes me think that i’m back where I was.
omg yeah and then when he goes outside and can’t open the door back up ugh that was sad
Same man I'm starting a job in like a week (plus my birthday is the day before which doesn't exactly inspire happiness either lol) but I feel like I'm just on the look out for reasons I should decide not to do anything again. Like im just searching for an excuse to hide in my room again cause it feels safe there
@@nataliesmith267 good luck with your new job! I’m sure you’ll be absolutely fine but Jesus Christ starting a new job is so daunting
@@laurenclowser273 thanks so much man! And yea it really is lol I'm just trying my best to be calm and confident about it right now haha
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" is definitely life ruining...
It really hurts my heart because people won’t watch this when they hear it’s just songs. Like the amount of time and dedication this man spent making a true fucking piece of art… and people won’t even give the man two hours
My “life ruining” is: all eyes on me, look who’s inside again, that funny feeling, and goodbye.
And that’s all I have to say on that-
SAME
"life ruining" for me is: all eyes on me, welcome to the internet (legit its so fucking eerie and accurate ive never looked at the internet the same again), how the world works, that funny feeling, and ofc, goodbye. So the same as ur list pretty much but with two more songs
same same
Agreed
Correct!
The whole special is just life ruining, basically.
Facts.
That Funny Feeling is definitely the top Life Ruining one for me. It's got such a haunting sound to it and so many depressingly real lyrics. And, like you said, it leaves you feeling hollow.
I’m still obsessed and glad to have found this. I’m sure You’ve moved on but there’s no one anywhere near me who feels like I do about this special and it’s so good when I find someone (even in the past) who I feel like relates to how much this affects me. Hope You’re having the best day (not ruined) and know You brightened mine to know I’m not totally alone.
Life Ruining for me would be "That Funny Feeling", "All Eyes on Me" and actually also "Welcome to The Internet". The last one was a slap in the face like damn the Internet is almost like some entity and it won and this is its victory villain song. Even by watching this video, I'm participating in a cycle that capitalizes on my desire for something more, to experience everything at once because "Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime".
You could call it "i-r-o-n-i-c"
"this is its victory villain song" got me
welcome to the internet is definitely in life ruining for me too idk just something about it made me feel so 🧍🏼♀️
These are my exact top 3 life-ruiners too. There’s a specific line that gets me in “Welcome to the Internet” that I feel deserves more appreciation as well. “Mommy let you use her iPad, you were barely two. And it did all the things we designed it to do.”
I mean god… it HAUNTS me. So many of his other lines haunt me too.
@@the_greenhouse Because it let's people know that everything they do online is being exploited for corporate purposes and everything you do on it benefits someone else.
OK I've noticed alot of people not seeing the GENIUS that is white women's Instagram, in the special/video of the song there is a sequence where he is next to a wall with 27 written on it, a few seconds later he drops the line about how this person has lost her mum a decade ago, in a single line he makes a quirky song making light fun of people into a full blown heartbreaking story about how a young girl loses her mum and how she grew up and managed to survive the world. LIKE HOLY FUCK HE'S A GENIUS
Also, the monologue about how she lost her mother ends with, "Mama, I love you, give a hug and kiss to Dad" implying that she also lost her dad.
@@Anna_Vegan ohh wow are you sure? I thought of that line as if he is touching on how everything on social media is fake and exaggerated, and that people fake sad stuff for likes etc. Like this woman's post makes it seem like her mother is dead, but ends it with just exaggerated emotions of not being able to see her mother as often after growing up and moving out haha, but of course after re-listening now I totally see it the way you guys describe it as well. Maybe even more so actually.
Also that's the moment when the frame widens out from the Instagram size to draw you into what he's singing.
@@northpaal6125 Based on the lyrics it strongly implies that the Mum has passed (possibly the Mum and Dad). Specifically the ‘since you’ve been gone’.
‘Her favorite photo of her mom
The caption says, "I can't believe it
It's been a decade since you've been gone
Mama, I miss you, I miss sitting with you in the front yard
Still figuring out how to keep living without ya
It's got a little better but it's still hard’
Additionally as other people have mentioned during this part of the song the aspect ratio of the shot expands from a 4:3 shot to widescreen to represent something genuinely revealing being shared.
I understand that you could read the ‘give a hug and kiss to Dad’ line as something that’s in the present tense but it’s also common for people who have suffered a bereavement to talk to people who’ve passed in the present tense as using a different tense or phrasing changes it from being conversational to something more like a monologue highlighting (to the speaker) that the person isn’t there.
I had to read this a couple of times, but that just hit me like a truck.
Doubt anyone will read this, but when I realized the true meaning behind white womans instagram, I started crying. I'm not a crier at all. Bo Burnham is the best artist I have ever heard, his song's have so much meaning that can really be interpreted to be truly meaningful to a lot of different people. Love Bo so much.
Came to know Bo's work trhough your channel nd I gotta say, I 'm a fan of his now too. He is brilliant. He is the ultimate lyricist that rarely comes around and has the gift to give the perfect melody to them. It's astounding! I'm a fan.
I saw a therapist on TikTok who said “shit” has been really been really helpful for patients to be more comfortable expressing when they’re feeling like short without feeling shamed or negative about it and I thought that was amazing.
i’d put goodbye in life ruining just for
“when i’m fully irrelevant and totally broken, damn it, call me up and tell me a joke”
and then the slowed down “look who’s inside again”
same here
As a person who *learnt* to be alone and uses humor as a form to socialize after many years thinking I was shy and has a mom who always hated my personality leading to made me repress my way of being, Looks who's inside again is life ruining for certain
The more I listen to "That Funny Feeling" the more it moves upwards towards "Life Ruining" for me ("Goodbye" too, if I pay really close attention to the words he sings and their context/meaning)
Another thing about Bo's voice is he isn't trying to sound like a professional singer
his singing voice (to me) sounds very realistic and true to his natural voice...it's harsh but personal
Quick edit: This fits with the "all eyes on me" song where his voice is pitched down because...it isn't our Bo
and yet he still sounds so good! He owns himself 100% and I aspire to have his level of control.
His natural voice is actually lower
Oh god, 'All Eyes On Me' 100% belongs in the life ruining category... I cry every time I listen to it, and genuinely end up feeling like shit and rethinking my life fifty times over.
Why?
My favourite song from Inside, it doesn't make me cry but it's such a beautiful song
Yea 😢. Also nice pfp amity
When he said “got it good get inside” I collapse
@@HolbrookStark it's about the emotion. The lyrics are super super simple but that "I'm talking to you GET THE FUCK UP." and then his frantic camera movements and the laughing really makes you uncomfortable in almost a satisfying way. He didn't do those things because they were fun, it's almost like an example of his mental state. The scene in the show right beforehand shows him barely holding on, trying to get through a small scripted monologue but he just genuinely can't do it. He gets frustrated and knocks over his gear in a really rough way. That anger resonated with me so deeply because I understand that it wasn't that anything was wrong with the scenario around him. I don't even know how to describe that anger but I've felt it so many times. It's destructive and frustrating and scary for the person that's feeling it.
Personally, I think that goodbye was life ruining for me. Especially the "Am I going crazy, would I even know? Am I right back were I started 14 years ago. Wanna guess the ending, if it ever does?"
Plus the references to the other songs just gets me. I feel like the song is more impactful when you watch the special as a whole. Because, this is the end of it, and it's such a unique and kind of depressing finale to the last hour or so you just spent watching this guy.
Literally since I watched the special about a month or so ago, this album has stayed on my top played on Spotify since. I actually didn't like the special too much just because wow it hit me in the feels lol, but God these songs are all so unironically amazing. Like, I never expected a comedian to create a special that not only worked as a special, but also as an unironically great album. Like, wow.
"Existential Bop" is by far the best music genre I've ever heard of.
The part in welcome to the internet where he talks about how it was all according to plan to put iPads in front of 2 year olds to get them addicted and "exploit their neurochemical drama" as he says, that these giant corporations are fucking that hard with society for profit, with no accountability, no concern for the consequences *cough Myanmar*, that hurts me deep and does not go away.
Absolutely agree
He’s actually a genius if you break everything down like the D E A D chords on inside. His voice was tuned to hz outside of the range that we use all instruments on. He’s crazy talented dude
The way inside still makes me cry and smile at the same time. Such a great special to put out after 2020
That Funny Feeling = Life Ruining for sure.
"Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go"
Was gonna comment with this exact lyric. The other songs get stuck in my head more, but that gentle little throwaway haunts me, ha.
Never actually understood that line, care to explain it to me?
@@filipfmc6481 the UN set a deadline for irreversible climate damage to our environment, and we're at 7 years to go 💔
@@filipfmc6481 And current evidence suggests paleolithic humans arrived in the Americas approx 20,000 years ago.
@@keenanchandler2469 That makes it so much heavier oh my god.
I can’t believe you didn’t include the best part of the Jeff Bezos song.
*”AAAAAUUGGGHHHH-“*
COME ON JEFFERY, GET ‘EM!
I have also been obsessed with Burnham lately, and your video was nice way to engage with his content without feeling like I'm just clicking "replay" on his videos or running his albums off of my phone.
I think your tier list is pretty on point. I mean it's yours, so you know it best. Welcome to the Internet was definitely day ruining for me. It's the kind of song that puts into really succinct words things many of us half assed think about during our days, but can't quite put a point on or summarize. It does it. Perfectly and while being impossibly catchy. Somebody on Burnham's official video commented, that Welcome to the Internet was the villain's song, but in a story where the villain won, and I think about that a lot.
That Funny Feeling is probably my favorite out of all the songs (and there isn't a single track on these albums I don't unquestionably love and enjoy) because it's so well sung and played, and with lyrics that are melancholic with a very slight hope (at least in my ears). It's just beautiful.
Before I watched the special, I saw somebody talk about it, and they said the special was really good and that every single song in there was an absolute banger in its own right, and that was definitely true. I've only watched the full special once (it's heavy and repeated viewings are taxing) but I bought the albums and it's been my goto ever since.
Anyway, I could ramble about Burnham for hours. I appreciated your video. Your enthusiasm is contagious and it was fun to see what other people thought about it.
I only just watched the special, but i cant stop thinking about it. Your way of describing each song perfectly captures what im feeling, love it
The part of in Goodbye that makes it life ruining for me is where he says, "Am I going crazy? Would I even know? Am I right back where I started 14 years ago?!"
Maybe because I've followed Bo since 2009 when I first discovered his content but it really felt like a whiplash to me.
The ending of “Goodbye” hit me like a freight train. Feels like every single time I’ve ever gotten out of my depression for a little while, and finally fall back in.
That was so fun to watch. I love Bo too and it was nice to find someone who appreciated Bo like I did. Love the tiers ❤
This is amazing. I had the literal identical reaction to this special. I watched it twice in a row, which I understand is deeply disturbed.
I loved this so much I may have ranked along with you as I watched. I feel like how a person ranks this list probably says ALOT about the dark inner workings of our minds. 😅
To really go too far, I put my list in order as the songs appear on the film, because I was curious to see out how my emotional turmoil played out through the special. (spoiler alert: the despair grew steadily throughout. (lol) I progressed from a bop/ouchie phase to an ouchie/oof phase and then upwards until my life was ruined.
Thanks for this fun talk! you are the only person I've encountered who felt the same as I did about this special. I truly think that Bo Burnham is brilliant and that he's created a great work of art out of the pandemic. Also....is he ok? I hope he's ok. ❤️
Content: Bop (side note: I was not familiar with Bo Burnham. My Netflix auto-played a clip from this song and I immediately knew I would be obsessed.)
Comedy: Ouchie
Facetime With My Mom: Bop
How the World Works: Ouchie
White Woman's Instagram: Ouchie
Unpaid Intern: Bop, unless you factor in the whole review within a review thing, which was weirdly unsettling to me and would take it up to Ouchie
Bezos 1: Bop
Sexting: Bop
Look Who's Inside Again: Ouchie
Problematic: Oof
30: Oof, bordering Life Ruining (higher on my list because I was heartbroken hearing him talk about actually turning 30 while creating this project)
Don't Wanna Know: Ouchie
Shit: Bop
All Time Low: Day Ruining (..but hilarious and accurate)
Welcome to the Internet: Oof
Bezos 2: Ouchie (Him saying "You did it!" makes this one hurt me more somehow)
That Funny Feeling: Day Ruining
All Eyes On Me: Unquestionably beautiful and entirely Life Ruining
This is Goodbye: Day Ruining
Any Day Now: Oof
Honestly, as a part of gen z, Welcome to the Internet fucking broke me
Same
me too. it’s the one song i can’t get over. i’ve never wanted to grow up in the pre-internet era so bad.
I want to make a "Welcome to the Internet BUT it's generation z trauma version" cover. I want to make it so bad because every time I listen to it I get so angry I could kill a bitch (or my mum, it's the same).
I wanna live in the era of KH2
You know what's really sad? Im so desensitized to shit I heard welcome to the interned and wasn't even fazed, like "yup, I have a disfunctional and unhealthy relationship with the internet, what of it?"
The way i interpret "Content" and the reason it hits so hard for me is because it has themes of feeling like you owe someone something, even when you don't. Like, he talks about all the problems he's had for the past five years, and then he dismisses his own problems with 'but I'm here to give you what you want'
i’ve always thought content was so underrated
that pringle in a can song that he has has similar themes too fucked me up big time
There’s something so comforting having someone spell out so well something you’ve been feeling for a long time. Yes, a lot of it is bad feelings. But at least we’re not alone, in a sense. At least we have art to listen to each time the feeling comes back.
Goodbye for me, is life ruining, the look who's inside again requiem is what made me have a certain need to cry but I dont cry until- I cry
I agree with most of your tier list, I would add That Funny Feeling to Life Ruining though. Simply because I relate to it in the way that once I'm drifting back into that one state of mind/being, that I had finally fallen out of, I can recognize some patterns and/or feelings.
Also goodbye into day/life ruining and comedy into big oof or day ruining. Both hit me fucking hard.
@@saltymcginger2027 I can't imagine "Comedy" hasn't changed the way I'll look at comedy in the future.
FUN FACT: In the song “30,” the word “thirty” is sung 40 times… bravo, Mr. Burnham, for attention to detail. (Thanks to a comment for pointing this out to me, that’s just a cool as 30 times)
This is just not even a little bit true but okay 🤣
false
isn't bo like 30?
I thought this was visually one of the best. And he did so many creative things so it’s hard to say it’s my favorite. But can you imagine the guy practicing for hours and hours, how to make certain light figures and how to get them on beat, etc. I was just slack jawed. I’m quite past 30 now, but it gets better.
And like it just hit even harder when you come to learn he’s celebrating his birthday alone. Now. I have had, oddly, *a lot* of bad birthdays in my life so I just stopped having childlike hope about them. But I have never ever been alone for one 😭
FUN FACT: it’s actually 40 times, which backs up the point when at the end he says he’ll kill himself when he’s 40… oh
That funny feeling is my number one life ruiner, I can feel myself just draining away every time i hear it. Even this tiny clip had me ready to tear up, it's so powerful at describing a common feeling I know a lot of young people share and can't name.
I missed this coming out so just watched it a few days ago. I’ve had dreams about it. I’m not sure what about depressing songs that make me feel alive. Can’t Handle This nails the feels and he took it up a notch with this special.
As someone who spends half my day reading and researching politics everyday, Socko is FUCKING BASED AF. Never thought a sock would be more researched and politically well versed that 70% of my International Relations peers
That made me laugh
Not sure about that. Socko is a bit of a communist. Not exactly based.. but there were a few points made well.
@@An.Unsought.Thought oh god you people. I don't care about you Americans and your views on communism. His Marxist analysis was pretty suprising. I recommend you learn about politics. I hate replying to people about silly stuff like this
@@lukethomeret-duran5273 just don’t reply, it’s not worth your time.
@@An.Unsought.Thought Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
-Karl Marx
Actually just kidding, it was Abraham Lincoln. But this sounds exactly 100% like something Karl Marx would say.
Americans being brainwashed into thinking that socialism doesn't have any merits is probably the biggest con of the 21st century. Even of you dont agree with the model in its entirety, you can at least cherry pick some things.
No ones going to mention how she put the bezos songs as being more emotional than goodbye?
goodbye was criminally low on this tier list
This is so good 😂 love the tier categories!
I absolutely love that you absolutely love this special!
We could be even more friends than I already thought we could be from watching your previous videos! Awesome!