It just blew my mind that Bo recorded this scene in the same room he recorded all of Inside. Make Happy ends with him going out the door by the piano, Inside starts with him coming back in that same door. Crazy, man
This part is also probably just me looking too far into it, but when he steps outside, the door is the only ray of light in the room, and the music crescendos as he walks out into the light. When he comes back, the door is shut and the light scheme is washed in sorrowful blue. It probably isn’t intentional (though I wouldn’t put it past him, Bo is an absolute mastermind with these things.), but it gives me a strong message of how taxing it is to perform, that returning means closing the door to hope, joy, the simpleness of living, and confining himself in that small box of sorrow, facing a camera and trying to “give us what he cannot give himself”. (Rant over, lol)
yup, I agree. I love the smooth transition from strings to electronic orchestra. I love how the credits in the show start RIGHT as the synths come in too.
THANK YOU!!! It's like the light at the end of the tunnel. Most uploads of this don't include it I guess because it's not "a part of the song", but to me it absolutely is. The song isn't complete without it.
I prefer a moment in Bo's "Straight White Man", in this video- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jk6gjqMrOy8.html it's between 3:20 and 3:45
Its good I agree but I still find myself coming back to this. I wish I could have a loop of that piano lick. It builds me up and tears me apart at the same time.
This song legit hits me and so many other people in the face, I legit cried when I heard it especially after the rest of Make Happy. The little skit after he was done playing the song was so saddening because it reminds you: he's human as well. With friends, with family, with a life. Not only is he alive to entertain people, more importantly he's alive to be a person. Not only is this song so sad, it's also so creative how it was used. The song was in the trailer of "Inside", Bo's new special and it's absolutely beautiful. A great, creative, funny, amazing person. Truly.
It seriously makes me break down into tears when he exits the room and the music changes, it definitely reminds you that he’s a person too with his own complex life aside from performing - it feels a little bit nostalgic too me, weirdly, because the time you spend with family is something that your probably gonna look back on the most, and with the most sadness yet happiness because when you realise how comforting those times were you get reminded that it’s not there anymore and you have to look forward. Looking forward is difficult and strangely it’s way more appealing than focusing on the present. As an entertainer you are kinda sacrificing your own privacy and life, I think a lot of people are unaware that when you make it big, the audience will probably never go away, you will live your life as someone who is expected to bring enjoyment, to distract, you’ll run around in circles exhausting your creativity to pull heartstrings, attempt to wring out some kind of emotion from the crowd, on-top of all that you should be prepared to fail because if you aren’t you’ll fail anyways. We look at this industry as something so normal, so accepted, that we forget that it isn’t normal.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw this at the end of Make Happy. I was very fortunate back in 2015 to see Make Happy live before the special came out on Netflix. My girlfriend at the time surprised me with tickets for my birthday and it blew me away she got them for us. I was 20 years old when this came out, not much younger than Bo at the time. I moved in with said girlfriend in another state, got a different job and I thought I was gonna figure it all out. Low and behold, I didn’t. I was insanely unhappy and drowning myself in alcoholism. I had no idea what to do with my life and I felt trapped, and I had no one else to blame but myself. When I saw it live the “Kanye Rant” stuck with me because it’s exactly how I felt at the time. I recorded the whole song on my phone and listened to it on repeat the whole way home. After a few months he announced there will be a Netflix special of the same show. I was so excited and I couldn’t wait to hear all the songs and see the special again and not have to watch it from my phone. When it came out, I was working 2nd shift 4p-12a at a nursing home. I told my girlfriend I wanted to watch it together but she had classes the next morning so I opted to watch it by myself, drinking a little, completely alone around 1am. Everything was almost the exact same as the show, just how I remembered it live. Then BOOM at the end of the special he drops this. It hit me like fucking brick. A nice little gift for those at home and those who thought they saw it all live. I wasn’t happy, and still struggling with that, and the concept of “happy” in general. Every now and then I come back to this and it reminds me of that time, no I’m still not 100% happy, and I live somewhere else with a different girlfriend almost 10 years later, but those words still play in my head “what the fuck kind of question is ‘am I happy?’ “ I don’t know but I know I’m understood. Thanks, Bo. ❤️
I suffer from severe depression and anxiety disorder, but this is my go-to song. Because Bo reminds me every time I sing this or listen to it. That I can be happy. I owe Bo Burnham an insane amount of gratitude, because his work and comedy has saved me from incredibly dark places.
Same, I first discovered his music and comedy when I was younger, browsing through the internet unsupervised. At first I didn’t really get the message of his songs, but when I began struggling with anxiety, depression, and mental issues as a child, he was my go-to comedian, because I found that he was able to give comfort in the tragedy of his comedy. Not only is he a talented, genuine, and hilarious person, but even his saddest of songs don’t just make me *sad*, they make me feel less *lonely*.Bo means a lot to me, as much as he has expressed his hatred of paradoxical relationships, I see him as someone to listen to, and to take inspiration from because *he gets it*. Lol, sorry to ramble, I’ll take my leave
Make Happy was released whilst I was in the middle of a 4 month stay in a psychiatric unit, and that show bought me a glimmer of something to focus on and enjoy. This song made me cry like a bitch then, and it continues to do so now, four years on at 4am but for wholly different reasons What a fucking masterpiece
@@jacobmoretz3243 the new special fuckin blew me away tbh, made me kinda sit and reflect for about an hour after it'd finished. piece of art, and really sort of humbling to watch his experience with mental health in lockdown
"Look ma, I made it! Are you happy?☹😢" To me that line is actually saying, I just made it to finish line, shouldn't I be happy? Through my life, even when I win something small like winning a game of Uno or big like getting my Bachelor's degree, I feel like I should be happy, yet I feel like the biggest loser and failure. I will go as far as distance myself from the victory aftermath.
The parallels between this song and 'I don't wanna know 'are amazing, it feels like the question was being asked to himself during make happy yet in his new special inside looking for the awmseres is terrifying and just dosent want to know the awnser in a ignorance is bliss sorta way. I loved these specials so much
when I first watched this special I was watching it with a friend but she got up and went to the bathroom right before this part. i didn't pause it because she had seen it before but immediately after she left it went "oh good it's just us" and it kinda scared the shit out of me
This song always makes me cry. No matter how far I've come I don't think I'll ever be truly happy again. "I wouldn't even want it if I got it" hits so close to home.
This song just about singlehandedly changed my life a few years ago. I mean, I was still unhappy after I came out as trans for a few years and I really wondered why. Honestly, sometimes I didn’t even think about it. But this song made me think about it. Not in big terms like “How do I make people understand what I want?” Or “What am I going to do with my future?” Or “How do I stop my girkfriend being mad at me?” Or “What if I’m never a good enough student to make it?”. Just simply: “Am I happy?” And I wasn’t. And I didn’t know why I wasn’t. But I knew those problems didn’t have to stop me from being happy. And this song taught me that. My favorite part is that the question never actually changes. At the beginning it’s “One to Zero” and later it’s “One to Two”. And that’s a brilliant lyric because it’s the same question: it’s a binary scale. But One to Two sounds so much better. Because it moves forward: it looks towards the next number, and it can be something more. It’s the same question, but with the decision to ask it with hope. The decision to be happy. Bo helped me make that decision. And it saved my life. I’m glad I listen to this.
This makes me so freaking sad. I've just been crying all night and all morning and watching this just makes me feel worst but at the same time I can't stop. Aw man I don't know what to do
@@johnaguilar6906 oh it's really kind of you to worry about internet people, u can be proud. ❤️ It just happen sometimes to be down. I wish you the best ❤️
This is my favorite Bo Burnham song not just lyrically but also the way it symbolises him leaving the stand up comedy gig by leaving the door and then at the start of INSIDE he comes right back through the exact same door in the exact same camera angle.
Are you happy gotta be the most repeated quote in my head for... years now, this man has had such a large impact on my growing up as a person... I really hope he's still doing okay after all of Inside's successes
This song, and really whole last show of his are kind of a hilarious yet somber send off, and you can’t help knowing you’ve reached the end of an era with him here. And it always make me feel a lot of shit. Love ya, Bo.
if i ever watch Make Happy and am not a total mess by the time Bo (literally) drops the mic, this one always gets me - particularly the orchestral part at the end. It's so sad sounding.
No dude I'm not happy. I'm a dissapointment, my life is a letdown and the world was never what I thought it to be. I'm not in the loosest sense of the definition, happy
I think the song just made me realize something... It's 5:30am and I'm having a rough fall out with a friend, I'm gonna be a senior with no clue for what I'm gonna do, and I'm scared I may have no friends/ that it's gonna feel worst then junior year but this moment of clarity just popped in my head... Throughout that instrumental part at the end all my thoughts floated away and I realized everything's going to be okay... I'll move on and make new friends... It's okay to not know what to do or what to say... As of recently I've also been watching Bojack Horseman and the end of season 5 is what made me get up the courage to first rant like this and tell my friends how I felt... I had a falling out with one unfortunately but I think it was for the better so now I'm sitting here... But with the combinations of things like Bo Burnham, Bojack Horseman, and other support people/ things I've come to terms that it's okay to not have everything figured out... Grown people don't even know what they're doing... No one does... It's okay to be lost and I will get through this... This feels tacky to say but really... It's okay to not be okay... If you need to take that time to self pity and possibly make worst decisions then do... As long as you come back and become better from it... You make things better for yourself at the end... I'm not condoning hurting other people or really any super harmful behavior towards yourself but it's okay to feel like shit... Things will blow over and there will be that happiness again... Even if it takes forever to find... I believe in you... I was a shitty friend and vice versa but I'm getting better for my sake and if they wanna join they are more than welcome... I know this is an oddly specific situation... All I'm saying is take a moment out for yourself... I understand how easy it is to overthink things but if you sometimes take that step back... Even with all the frustration and confusion you'll have that moment of clarity... Of yeah... It'll all be okay at the end of the day... At least that's the way I saw this... I hope everyone watching this is well and let's hope Bo gets that Emmy!!!
The last line of this always kills me. Like the phrasing of it. Hey look ma I made it! Trying to show off success. Then she asks in return "but are you happy?" :(
The first time I saw this outro it honestly made me choke up. I had just graduated and all my family moved away and I've been living alone pretty much since '17 now I'm 23 and this song still resonates with me.
This is the song I put on when I want to cry. I judge my mental state by which ‘are you happy’ it takes to start. Normal is hey look ma I made it. Tough times are usually ‘but what the fuck kind of question’ and before.
"and if you watched this thing alone you probably didn't laugh but maybe a few times you exhaled out of your nose" The first time i heard this I was at work in a factory, so while I wasn't "ALONE" exactly, just in my own little world. There were times I legit had to put down parts on the nearest table and crack up laughing from this special lol
I always found this song interesting. Not only is it objectively beautiful and armonical, it also gets through the very message that the entire special was trying to portray. Bo is human. He feels unhapiness, unsatisfaction and frustration with the current state of his life, and this is a goodbye as he decides to retire from comedy due to this unhapinness. Not only is the song meant to get that through, but the entire special. It even starts with him wearing clown makeup in public, portraying his disociation and the way he actively felt forced to play and be funny for his public. He cared so much for his audience, he worried so much about their hapiness and not his, that he ended up leaving his own mental health aside. And that is portrayed with this song, because although it is a way of saying "I deserve hapiness, and thus I'm leaving", he doesn't go without asking if you're happy as well first. Even when he decided to retire, he still cared for his audience first.
Kind of strange how as soon as I finally get into Bo Burnham's music other than the 'Left Brain Right Brain' thing that went down, Inside came out. Like. Within a 2-week-span.
I relate to this. Cuz a while ago at the beginning of this year I lost very close friends because of a big fight. Are they happier? I hope they are, cuz I’m not. I mean many days I’m unhappy, a lot of the times downright suicidal. They were my friends for a long time, one of them was my friend my entire life. I’m very attached to them still. And now I live with the fact knowing they hate me. And ofc I blame myself, I’m what I hate most. It’s my fault that it all happened even if it isn’t. Idk.
I know the feeling. I lost a lot of really close friends recently, and I really don’t have anyone else to blame except myself. For the past 4 months I’ve tried so hard to get over it, to move on, but without them it feels like someone tore a hole in my soul. I miss them so much and I want nothing more than to fix things with them, even though it’s impossible. I have to keep living with the knowledge that I ruined it. Today marked the first time I listened to this song since it happened, and it’s the first time it’s hit this hard. Because all I wanted was to be a good friend, and to help them, but my own selfishness ruined it. I actually did become everything I hated, and listening to this song tonight and realizing that... any semblance of emotional progress I’ve made thus far just crumbled. They all trusted me and cared about me because I *was* a good friend, and then I became the worst friend you could possibly be. I wanted to be a shoulder to lean on, and now I’m a bad memory. But I’m also stubborn. I don’t want to go on, I hate the idea that I need to move forward, but I also don’t want to be nothing but a worthless pile of self pity and self loathing. So maybe things will get better. And I hope they get better for you too. I’m just as lost as you, so I don’t have any advice. But I will say this: keep going. I don’t know if either of us deserve anything good, or if things will get better, but keep going anyway. Because there’s chance that things will get better, and that chance is worth it.
The amount of times I’ve listened to this continuously on repeat now… I’m surprised I haven’t gotten some message from youtube or the fbi like “you haven’t changed this song in a while, are you okay?” 😂😂🙃🙃
If you like Bo's work, you might like this video I made using clips from his show "Zach Stone" and his song "Goodbye" (from the "Inside" Netflix special): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iyqYtC7saDM.html
