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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Feb 27, 2023 ^^
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I love how Bo is both the antithesis AND the epitome of an entire generation's sense of humor. Millenial/early gen z humor is really defeatist. The entire thought process is "life sucks let's laugh" but rather than going fully nihilist, Bo uses his humor to make impactful points that lots of other people are afraid to talk about or they seem weak in a world that taught us that weakness is the worst thing we can feel. Yet another reason Bo is the GOAT
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During this tour Bo was having frequent panic attacks on stage. When his voice and hand was shaking towards the end, he was having one then. He walked away from stand up for a few years to pursue other ventures (acting & directing). He eventually decided he was "mentally stable" enough to go back on the road, but it was in January 2020, right before the pandemic. Which led to the masterpiece of "Inside".
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The name of this special was Make Happy. The part at the end where he says âI hope youâre happyâ calls back to the line where he says âlaugh as he attempts to give you what he canât give himself.â Heâs performing at the expense of his mental health to make others happy. A lot of people think the âI hope youâre happyâ is followed by a silent âbecause Iâm sure not.â A lot of people also think itâs a âI hope youâre happy with what youâve done to me.â
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A big part of why this was Bo's last performance for 5 years was because he had been having frequent panic attacks on stage. You can sometimes see it in some of his performances but Bo has said himself, that when he's rewatched performances where he remembers having a panic attack even he can't hardly tell, because he spends so much time memorizing the script that the performance is engrained in him to be perfect. A lot of the time it can be caught by how out of breath or shaky his voice sounds like at the end of this performance.
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Ok the most beautiful part of this is that you understood his metaphor with the burrito being âfameâ. Heâs spoken several times about it- the fact that the whole âI wouldnât a got the blank if I knew it wouldnât fitâ is his processing everything being famous brought into his life. Heâs saying âI wouldnât have done this if I had known what it would do to my lifeâ
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One thing to note about the ending:
He says, "Handle this right, I'll handle this right, handle this right now" then drops the mic and walks off stage and doesn't perform again for 5 years to work on his mental health... literally right at that moment to go handle it correctly and no longer feed into what has been damaging to his mental health (performing).
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That final line 'Thank you, goodnight, I hope you're happy', I believe he's stated in interviews since that it was both sincere and ironic, and the intent behind it would change each night on tour depending on his mental state: Some nights it was a completely genuine expression that he hoped the audience enjoyed his performance, others it was a bitter ironic statement like 'I hope you're happy with yourself after what you've done to me', and most nights it was a little of both.
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I genuinely believe this to be one of the most defining performances of human creativity and genius ever performed, or at least of the 21st Century. Never fails to give me goosebumps and make me tear up. I wouldn't mind another 10 minutes of discussion and reflection at the end, there's so much to say about it and your insight and way of expressing your thoughts is so interesting and compelling
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This was very insightful, and I'm really impressed you picked up a lot of what he was putting down, because I certainly didn't the first time.I'm sure other people will fill you in on what happened with Bo after this performance, but if you pay attention you can kinda catch that he's having trouble during this. There are a couple frames (it's brief so I can't mark it) that it looks like he's shaking a bit, and that last scream he didn't wasn't planned, from what I've read. Bo plans his performances down to the breath, and the fact he gave that rough yell towards the end actually worried the producers of this show that he was about go off script. I think he left the stage so abruptly because he was in the middle of a panic attack. As a person with pretty bad anxiety/panic disorder, I would have RUN off that stage immediately. Props to him, absolutely legend.
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My God knox you are the best reactor on this app. Hands down. This is the best react to this art...and watching you catch it as it went was incredible.
This was his last show before the hiatus he took...those yells were not planned, he was having a panic attack. Live performances were grating on him. Which is why the covid special was soooo good.
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As a dj that sometimes have panic attacks while playing, this hits home, I know this for years, since im a big Bo fan, but is always nice to see how you manage to really get things, I dont think I know another person reacting to stuff and actually gettin it, you are the only one, thanks for this.
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@gafgarian
1 year ago
This one always makes me near tear up. You are literally seeing a man self-destruct and beg for help on stage. The fact that he was able to step away enough to survive after this is fantastic. Other people havenât had that strength and left us too early as a result.
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