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Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Jul 9, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.834 (357/8,265 LTDR)
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This song hits so hard when you watch the special. The special starts out like typical Bo comedy, and you can just slowly see him become more unhinged as the special progresses. Then this one comes up at the end, and you're left feeling equally as empty. It's a wild ride, and Bo is a virtuoso for being able to display the jaded cynical dissociation that so many people are feeling today.
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To me the part where he says "it's almost over, it's just begun" and "Don't be scared, don't be shy, come on in the water's fine" resprisents how shitty it feels when you make a lot of progress on your mental health and then regress for a few days then tou think 'here we go again' and then how it's so easy to just give into past thought cycles and bad habits.
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"All Eyes On Me" is from his special "Inside", which he performed, filmed, edited and produced by himself inside his home completely isolated during covid. Musical comedy is Bo's strong suit and there are many great songs in "Inside", but the thing that intruiged me the most was, you can see him living through different mental states throughout the 90 minutes and in between songs. Right before this song he sat in front of the camera trying to say, "So, I've been working on this special for a year now, which is a lot longer than I anticipated, when I started..." He couldn't build that sentence and had to abort his attempts infuriated. That scene alone broke my heart and gave me shivers down my spine, because it felt real. Bo Burnham has a deep impact on me. By the way, "Welcome to the Internet" is from that same special and shows the emotional range. I hope to see more Bo soon.
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The fact that he locked himself in his own house to work on this special is absolutely a monument to the mental strength he has. He took a break for 5 years because of panic attacks, and after finally being ready to get back into the mix and not hide from the world, the world stops. Covid hits. And he is forced right back into isolation again. I canāt even imagine how hard that mustāve been
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I absolutely love how he crafted the "stages" of this song, more then anything else.
He starts with the sound of a crowd and then starts speaking as if it's at them, "all eyes on me" and "put your hands up" and all those lines that gives the listener the idea that he's addressing the "crowd," whether you realize they're real or not lol
You then get a hint of something being more off when we switches from "get your hands up" to "heads down, praying for me."
Right after that first switch up he then gives you his very real story, of his struggles, and explains where he's been for so long, only to finish it off with the realization that he was forced back INSIDE once again.
He then repeats those same lines that were originally made to look like they were directed at the crowd, but this time with the story you just heard it re-frames everything, now realizing that it's to him, it's his anxiety and panic, he's basically describing what they feel like.
Then ofc going into describing further the feelings created from his depression and mental state.
Finally leading into him grabbing the camera just to break the illusion for good at the end, with it no longer looking like a "music video" but just a guy with a camcorder in his room during the pandemic.
It's a fucking journey through his entire psyche and just goes to show how much of a lyrical and musical genius that man is. This song is a masterclass on every facet of production lol
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I'd love to see a reaction "Can't Handle This" aswell, as the one on YouTube is his very last performance specifically as he's talking about in this song.
Honestly, after learning how Bo Burnham has struggled so much with Anxiety and stuff even while on stage, it made me look at his Netflix special "Inside" with even more pain, love and everything.
It's an hour and a half with different songs, but I'd LOVE to see your reaction from start to end on Inside especially.
After learning so much about Bo, I hold him up with the legends. He's an amazing artist, and his songs hits hard, wether it be a comedic song, it always breaks down into some very real stuff, and there's always so many thoughts to be juggling behind each of his song.
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This song is kinda a sequel to the last song he did before his hiatus called "Cant handle this". You can kinda tell his breaking up a bit and by the end of the song he gets really deep about how bad he feels and the last words he says are "I hope you're happy." It's something you should watch if you want to understand his journey a little better.
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Wow. Iāve listened to this song over 100 times and you just now made me make the connection of the āyou say the oceans rising like I give a shitā part. I always heard it as him saying itās too late to change anything but I never considered the fact that itās his anxiety thatās the problem for him caring about bigger issues. āWhy would I care about climate change ending the world when I feel like Iām dying every day because of my mental health.ā So interesting
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This entire special helped me a lot with understanding my mental illnesses, and this song specifically resonated a lot with being sewer slidal for me. Like "you say the ocean's rising, like I give a shit, you say the whole world's ending, honey it already did" was so powerful. The entire special was so powerful. I really recommend people watch this
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I have such a connection with this song. It always makes me flash back to the first time I started going out to public places (church, gatherings,etc.) after working through the first wave of covid in the ICU. I was so apprehensive, shaking, had palpitations because I felt I didnāt know how to be normal after all the things I saw/did. And then as soon as I felt it was getting better, I had to work through the second wave and right back into isolation. Iāve gotten better, but it was such a difficult time.
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itās not like he his in his house - he IS in his house.
This was from his 2021 special called Inside which was recorded throughout 2020.
For context, Bo Burnham was a YouTube star (early youtube) turned to a standup comedian. He made 2 popular standup specials, what. and Make Happy, but he stopped performing in 2016 because of severe anxiety and panic attacks - which he mentions in this song.
INSIDE is basically about a man who spends 5 years bettering himself mentally, and he finally feels confident enough to go back outside and start performing again, and in a tragically ironic twist of fate, the pandemic happens which forced him (and the rest of us) back inside. Right back to square one.
INSIDE is touching, depressing, hilarious, cute, raw, and downright beautiful. You owe yourself the experience of watching it. Plus, when youāre finished, Bo just released over an hour of extra footage, songs, and outtakes from INSIDE.
I hope youāre well. Keep it up, this was a great reaction.
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I actually had something very similar happen to me. For five years I lived with pretty severe agoraphobia. I basically designed a kind of exposure therapy for myself that my friends helped me work through and was able to get well enough to go back to school. I studied to become a medical assistant. My externship at a lab was going to be my first real big test for myself to see if I had actually gotten over it... and my first day was a week after the outbreak. After all that time I finally came outside and literally everyone else on the planet went in.
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@DragonJr
1 year ago
You absolutely need to sit down and watch the whole special, not even for the channel, but the experience. Bo locked himself in that one room from the beginning of this project until it was finished, and I cannot overstate how profound and powerful the final product is, on every level, from music, to mood, to meaning. Such an indescribably talented and tortured artist <3
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