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Date of upload: Oct 11, 2022 ^^
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This song was Bo's goodbye. He cried for hours after performing it, and actually fought a panic attack onstage while performing it.
He quit performing for 5 years and worked on his mental health before creating "Inside".
I interpret the Pringles can as the mold he felt he had to fit to be a success in comedy, and the bursting burrito as a representation of the emotional repercussions of trying to fit that mold.
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I know it would be difficult to cover on the channel but his project called Inside is very relevant to the topic of mental health. It's a difficult to watch special about his battle with mental health during the pandemic. It received a ton of awards and it's filmed, written, directed and performed entirely by him in a tiny room over many weeks.
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I wanted to let you know that that final scream before he says "goodnight I hope your happy" was actually real, and he was in the middle of a panic attack on stage. these panic attacks were a big part as to why he stopped doing comedy/specials for a while, and when you hear him talk about the panic attacks that is what he is referring too.
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For me, when he goes back into the Chipotle stuff, it feels heartbreaking. Because he's just told us how not okay he is and that he just has to keep performing through it, doing something that, we can conclude based on how he was talking about things, is actually damaging his mental health more or at least acting as a mask. We know that he has all of these dark feelings underneath the silliness now and it just- the crowd applauding, to me, feels a little tone deaf at that point, you know? Like, damn. This is exactly what he's talking about. (I guess what else are you supposed to do, stay awkwardly quiet? But yeah, intense.)
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I really liked what you said after the reaction. One of the themes that becomes increasingly prevalent in Bo Burnhamās career is that neither he nor any entertainer can make a person happy. He responds with hostility towards crowd members yelling āI love you!ā. āNo you donāt!ā.
Iād like to give you a quote that is a bit unrelated, but which I think will increase your interest in Bo:
Bo Burnham speaking to the audience in his last special before quitting for 5 years:
āThey say it's the 'me' generation. It's not. The arrogance is taught, or it was cultivated. It's self-conscious. That's what it is. It's conscious of self. Social media - it's just the market's answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said, here - perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time, for no reason. It's prison - it's horrific. It's performer and audience melded together. What do we want more than to lie in our bed at the end of the day and just watch our life as a satisfied audience member. I know very little about anything. But what I do know is that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it.ā
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The burrito story is just so fascinating to listen to if you put it side by side to his own personal journey, starting so young, doing so much like TV shows, music, comedy, touring, guest appearances it was all too much and he just wishes somebody approached him and said "Hey man, you might be hitting 'maximum burrito' pull it back a bit for your sake."
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Bo says something really fascinating in interview, and that's actually something that is an essential part of his work. He said something like "I don't know why people believe that when I become more serious, it's the real me". And he adds that both funny bits and more serious ones are as much of himself as the other. And I must admit that I thought those serious bits were "the actual him" when I dicovered him. However, at the beginning of What! or Make Happy (I can't remember which one), he starts by knocking a watter bottle over, supposedly by accident and then a song starts and says "He meant to knock the water over, yeah yeah yeah! Art is a lie, nothing is real!" And although in this case it is just a joke, he has actually always been questionning the place of art, its nature and everything. That's when I understood how his quote from above was actually in his shows and not just a sentence he said to wash himaself away from a question he didn't like.
Now that this is said, we know that he actually had panick attacks, and that parts of what he says here come from his true self. However it doesn't mean that the rest is less of himself or that the serious bits are not as staged and exagerated as the rest. I personnally think that it's what makes Bo such a great artist. That and his capacity to make me cry and laugh inside of the same song (je managed that twice in that funny feeling and in the chicken).
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The more you watch this the more it means.
For instance, I think the pringles can and chipotle burrito are metaphors for reaching out and forcing yourself to fit where you ultimately feel you donāt, and then asking for too much and being overwhelmed with how much youāre given in return and regretting asking for it all in the first place
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The second time he runs the Chipotle hook ā after getting so deep about his anxieties on performance ā gets me emotional every time. Like it's intentionally not as funny now, and I lowkey feel bad for laughing the first time.
One of my favorite performances ever, by anyone. Thanks for your great insight on it.
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Something to notice, and something about artists like Bo: itās always deeper. The Chipotle thing isnāt just him complaining about burritos. Itās an analogy for the trappings of fame, trying to have and do it all, only to have nobody tell you that it wonāt all fit and destroy the appeal of the whole thing in the first place. His desire to make everyone happy and do it all broke him, and he knew it.
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Awesome reaction!! Youāve gotta continue your dive down the Bo Burnham rabbit hole!!! Thereās so much to see and feel. This song was his very last performance before walking away from performing. He was fighting a panic attack during it and scared his crew at the end with that final yell.
The thing about Bo that youāll find is that heās really, really good at expressing things that are difficult to express. Heās like a magnet for ppl with mental health struggles lol. He can put a face on the monster in a way thatās extremely cathartic.
Any track of his will be a treat but Iād love to see your take on his song
āLeft Brain, Right Brainā.
My therapist has used it in the past during sessions as both an example of transactional analysis, and as a visualization of the internal drama that happens when someone with anxiety or depression is symptomatic.
Keep āem coming!
Cheers
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The crazy thing is that this show is called Make Happy. He wants to make not only the people happy, but himself. The very last song of this show is called "are you happy?" Which is essentially a song about bo giving the listener a chance to make a review, but before he leaves, he wants to know if he made you happy. Love bo Burnham
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@madhatter2549
1 year ago
That "I hope you're happy" with that unspoken "cause I'm not" always hits me hard
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