I had my husband join me recently to discuss "All Eyes on Me" and it was such an interesting experiment that I thought I'd share this discussion from the first song off of the special that we checked out. As filmmaker and songwriter, we were excited to experience this. Shortly after, we watched the full special. This was a few weeks ago. We pause to discuss, so please be warned! :) OH, and chime in! Thanks for watching!
I love watching people's reactions but also hearing their thoughts on stuff like this. So, no, I have no problem with you pausing to talk out your thoughts.
He has multiple cameras when he does those shots - that is all one take. When you brighten the original video you can see he has about 4 cameras set up around him that are blinded by the shadows in what you're seeing
Maybe I'm a little bit slower than other people. I took a while to get the "your inside is out" line. It's like.... before the internet everybody had their private lives inside, but now everybody knows everything about what you do because of social media and this volunteered exposition... so your inside is out. Very clever Mr.Burnham
Thats OK, I spent weeks trying to figure out what he meant by "buy a broomer". It wasnt until I saw the subtitles that I realised the line was "buy a broom, or".
I took that line to be the internet talking to Bo, commenting on how it's his time, his Inside (the name of his special) is out, and how far they've come together.
My little sister actually brought something up that I thought was super interesting when I showed her this song. She said that she interpreted the lighting as kind of the space of the internet. The little dots everywhere resembled the universe to her and she said it made her think it was meant to show how the internet knows and has everything. Then when he brings up when the internet was first coming up, all that's there is the single spotlight because at that point, the internet didn't have everything (like he said, it was only blogs and like 2 chat rooms). Then when the lighting changes a 3rd time when talking about the 2 year old growing up with internet, it's super hazy. She saw that as the internet kind of hypnotizing people into unwittingly growing it and getting their kids into it. Then ends with both lighting because it has everything now and still is hypnotizing us to this day. I hadn't seen a take like that yet so I thought it was super neat lol
Your sister is right even the dots colors are green which is meant to symbolize birth and freshness indicating the early stages of growth of the internet. Good catch 👍
Its most terrifying to think about computers/internet/skynet advancing to the point of simulating infinite concentric realities, giving the paradox of Creator vs. Creations... "It was always the plan to put the world in your hand"
Please continue pausing. I’m here for the analytical content. HOWEVER Please wait until the end of lines to pause, and then rewind a few seconds. It feels disjointed if the rewind doesn’t happen. As someone who has listened to thousands of reaction videos, I promise you, it makes us want to watch more when you keep our minds running smoothly ;) Love your takes. Thanks!
Also, and surely just a suggestion, but pause every time you want to talk about stuff. Y’all missed (from your audience’s perspective) multiple lines that die-hard Bo fans want you to hear and hope you’ll address. The way you continue talking light heartedly about previous lines while missing the next can be frustrating as a viewer. Hopefully my thoughts land as intended. You guys have that potential to be pretty big reactors imo. I enjoy your personalities and you both clearly “get it”. Best of luck whatever you decide to do though!
Such a surprisingly deep song. I wasn’t expecting a song that’s just so fun to listen to would have such double meaning and depth. In this song Bo himself IS the internet. And he plays the role of salesman, deceiver, and ferryman. The internet is almost a living thing. It has power, and it is NOT necessarily our friend. Devices like iPads “did exactly what we intended them to do”, ensnare and create an addiction. Apathy has become a tragedy and boredom is now a crime. Humanity was never intended to have access to everything at any point in time.
I mean, I wouldn’t say it wasn’t “intended” as I don’t think nature has a plan. But it’s definitely changed how we’re evolving and changing culture in a way we can’t really predict with any degree of accuracy.
actually the internet was created with the intent to give younger generations access to tons of knowledge in a few keyboard clacks, but instead it expanded into a lot more than knowledge and has become very addictive yet toxic
Well I mean that's actually alot of bo burnham songs. They start funny but if you pay attention definitely near the end of alot of his other songs he'll get very deep with it like from the "perspective of god" "Art is dead" "Kanye rant" plus a good amount of them he'll start talking about his depression it's why he left stand up for years...
@@LizaQuinyeah also I interpreted it kind of like he is a tour guide the room is the internet and we are the internet users us the viewers are representing a new user being guided through what the internet is and being taught its history
I'm so happy that you caught his circus "ring leader" performance as he is embodying the internet! Like he is presenting all of these things we can find online as if it were a "freak show" (sorry for the bad/dehumanizing term), one strange element at a time in increasing increments to make the audience look all over the stage! No other reaction has noticed the circus elements of this song yet! Thank you!
Part of your comment reminds me of another issue the internet has caused; we constantly worry about what other people think (which happened before on a MUCH smaller level and scale). Anonymous strangers can post pretty much whatever they want about other people. I think its also caused many people to be overly-obsessive about many things as well. I'm not religious at all, but it makes me think of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; people are much more aware of "evil" in the world thats always been there. People try way to hard now to virtue-signal to the rest of the world and act as though theyre "good" people and they have the perfect life, when theyre really not any different than everyone else.
It is a bit like the Internet from American God's, except Gaiman wrote it on 2001, so his character is a representation of the Internet back then, before any social media stuff.
Am I the only one who's picked up on the break being another performance, that it's constructed to make you engage with the false sincerity because the moment I watched this and he started laughing I felt the mockery of "oh you thought that was real" and then the laugh becomes unhinged like made you fall for one more trick it had up its sleeve. I can't be the only one right?
in the slow part he was tenderly speaking about the 2 year old using the ipad.. so yeah he's laughing because tech companies want to suck our souls, our attention makes ads more valuable.. social media is just advertisement and pay per click
@@OmfgHiii I'm not saying that's wrong I mean even the authenticity of the statements are false and the real truth is so insidious he just starts laughing. I'm saying its a triple not just the inverse and said.
I understand where you’re coming from, to me I think the funny juxtaposition is that the character of the internet genuinely loves them for being passive and able to be manipulated
@@seanathanfitz7887 that's what I was thinking. His character IS the internet, and I think that soft bit was there to represent a person's introduction to the internet. The tone, the lyrics, followed by that EPIC menacing laughter.
I would love it if you let the part you're talking about end before you pause it, and then maybe rewind 5 seconds after you've analyzed it so you don't miss anything.
And since they are on computer, they can use the left arrow and it'll rewind 5 seconds and they can take in what was said again and maybe not miss anything
I seriously think he perfected his look on how to make catchy trendy music. Simultaneously pouring his own emotions into it. The entire special is perfection . A rollercoaster of emotions.
One thing I think you missed is this song compositionally is genius for the reason of the accelerating tempo gives you the feeling of being constantly bombarded with information, which is exactly what the internet is. It's a constant bombardment of information from all angles. It's actually so fast that you can't think about it, and you even miss some of it. This song starts off with the sense of innocence and like navigating the internet is easy, and it soon becomes overwhelming. And then you find the sinister undertones of the effect of the internet toward the end of the song.
@@f0il3d_gg65 No, they didn't. They simply picked apart his tempo and instrumentation, but they missed the fact that he's using music as a way to actually give the sense of the constant bombardment that the internet gives.
He's portraying the internet as the villain speaking to Gen-Zers. They are hooked since they were two. He's evil saying its trapped us all and there's no way to put the genie back in the bottle.
As someone once said.. “The Internet is the best and worst thing humanity has every created.” For example, the parents of this generation don’t understand why their kids are so absorbed in their devices because they didn’t grow up with that so therefore they don’t know how to help. They try to use the things that their parents taught them, but it doesn’t work because it’s not the same thing, it’s a completely different issue. Which leads to conflict and parents guilt tripping their kids and pointing out they’re addicted to their devices and making them feel like they’re the only people in the world with this issue. We are the very first generation with the particular problem and are the first of many more to come. *And that personally scares me.*
Burnham has always been upfront with how much of a perfectionist he is with his art. He started on RU-vid where you can fix and perfect. I personally think that is why he would have panic attacks at live shows. You can't stop, delete, and retake at a life performance. His Netflix special, "Inside," also shows his precision. It shows clips of him working behind the scenes. I really hope him and his partner are doing well.
I can definitely relate! Perfectionism has good intentions behind it, but can often be an artist's downfall as well. In the end the little imperfections and differences in each performance are the reason why people pay to come to live shows rather than just listening to the studio version. It's about seeing that performer as a human, "warts and all".
Something that I like about the ending is that there's not a stinger note at the end. I feel like most people have come to expect there to be one more note at the end, but Bo leaves this silence almost like dead air. Because people expect that stinger note that doesn't happen, it leaves more of that uneasy feeling that the song has been giving us the whole time.
I watched this before to listen to the song in general, but I never really thought about it. He is literally symbolizing to us the stages in which the internet hypnotizes you. First stage, just trying to convince you calmly with a few reasons. Second stage, showing you more stuff so you go back for more and more. Final stage… it’s far too late. You’ve been grasped in by the internet and now you are on it every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year for the rest of your life.
The best part of the middle section in my opinion is the perspective of it. I remember back in the early days of tablet and smart phone development the key focus was to develop an interface that a "baby could navigate" (I don't recall exactly where I first heard that but it stuck with me). It was amazing to see the first smart phone interface, and how easy it was to use. Back then I thought it was just another generation improvement of technology; something that would improve quality of life. But I think here in this musical segment he sees it another way, as an intentional, deliberate, patient approach at targeting Gen-Z youth and groom them to becoming content providers. The line "unstoppable, *watchable*" and describing them as "insatiable" is on the nose. The whole point was to groom the children from the early 2000's into the internet-addicted, content providing subjects they are today.
But neither of you guys are listening to the lyrics. That’s the important part. Not just the theatrics. It’s about how it’s made to get young kids addicted, and now that they are, there’s nothing they can do. It’s a part of their culture now. Being bored is now impossible, as they have technology since they were raised with an IPad. Hear the lyrics. The theatrics adds to it afterwords, and make it much more better to the viewer.
@@oogatz1917 I hear what you’re saying, but to remember the lyric, “you know you like it you whore” and completely miss “see a man beheaded” or “DM a girl and groom her” immediately after shows that they weren’t really paying attention. They also laughed and talked over a good portion of the song.
It’s so funny because the way the song is hitting you is the way the internet hits everyone (“it goes by so fast i can’t even pick it all up”, “i can’t get it out of my head”) Also, best reaction video to something Bo Burnham in a long time! you guys picked up all the best stuff on the first view
What's amazing is that he did the camera setup, the lighting setup, the lighting control, and everything else all by himself in one room. I'd recommend doing "White Woman's Instagram" next, that one gets stuck in my head. A suggestion on reacting - after pausing, back it up a few seconds when you resume just so we know you aren't missing any good lines.
I don't mind the pauses at all, but you guys should go back 5 seconds everytime you pause, that way you won't cut anything from the original video or break it up as much
This was such a beautiful video! I loved your comments and insights. I can tell you have a great deal of knowledge in your respective fields, and still the video was not a lecture--just a fun chat where you shared what you know and felt
I also feel like the speeding up and him throwing internet related things at you faster and faster and you trying to process the jokes while he's onto the next is also symbolic of how society is still trying to process all of this new technology that keeps coming into our lives and we still havent fully processed how it's effecting us and the next thing gets here before we're even ready for it. Or maybe not lol
This movie blew my mind and I was so impressed with how much love and work Bo put into the special and you guys are asking smart questions I didn't even think of lol. Like when you and your husband asked if he edited the vaccination joke in one take or multiple. It's insane that he did all of this by himself.
Suggestion, get a headphone splitter so you’re both listening to the audio in stereo as intended. You’re both missing a lot of the audio that is hard panned left or right.
Probably because they’re not there to analyze the lyrics they’re there to analyze the musicality and the visuals. analyzing lyrics is a whole other thing
probably the best breakdown of this song i've heard. no, thinking about it, it IS the best breakdown, because you mentioned stuff i haven't noticed after several watches. Kudos.
with the line "your time is now, your insides out" I believe, it means that peoples true self comes out on the internet, the "inside" comes out with no filter because most of the time there are no consequences like you can put on a mask in front of people but as soon as a thing comes in were they have no idea who you are their true self shows
I've never considered, nor seen anyone else describe the juxtaposition between the antiquated music and the futuristic topic. Very good observation there, great, intelligent reaction.
The speeding up for me comes across as scrolling faster and faster. And the cutting starting at “He’s a healthy Breakfast Option” is like pop-up ads. Also I love that the zoom was matched perfectly on both sides with the “vaccinate your kids” keeping the pace of the shot pushing in on him.
His whole performance is brilliant! But that evil laugh gives me chills every time..! He does it so perfectly, he could voice the role of a great Disney villain!
I like this movie because it’s just him making a Live show without it actually being live. He made this solo in one room the whole time and it’s great. Plus he kinda made it like if someone recorded a behind the scenes movie, and instead of using the movie he used the behind the scenes footage as the movie. If you haven’t watched it I recommend it
I love the way you put the lyrics and show how he controls the melody. This is the visual to how I see lyrics when I try to break songs down. I'm glad I'm not the only one to do this.
You can see the shadows of the other cameras in the special. I'm sure he rehearsed quite a bit, but just like his live shows, he does this in one take, and he does the effects live.
If you pause. Before you push play again rewind 5sec. It's a practice I saw others doing and I really liked it. Helps you not cut out a word accidentally.
Just found this channel and wow, really high quality content here. As weird or odd as it seems to say, the room you film in is beautiful and the video was made with super high quality and I loved both you and your husbands’ takes and perspectives on this music video. What an absolutely amazing performance from Bo and an amazing reaction and analysis from you guys. You have definitely earned a subscription from me and I will continue to look out from more content from you!
I love that just before the laugh when he turns off the background lights, right when he clicks the button all the sound stops even the wisps of reverb, so the laugh is completely dry which makes it even more sinister and feels closer to you.
You are already better than most reaction tubers, and I have only seen this video. You mentioned this is the 1st/2nd reaction video you have done so here is the shit sandwich (compliment, criticisms, complement) [assuming you want critique, if not then ignore the rest of this post and know that I think you are doing a fantastic job]: 1) I LOVE the way you do the subtitles above the video. 2) having multiple people in a reaction video is a good thing because it allows you to bounce your feelings off each other. Yall do a good job of taking advantage of that. 3) rewind after a pause. when you go back after a pause rewind a few seconds so the audience (and yourself) are reminded where we are in the video 4) don't talk over the video. I know it is organic but the audience wants you to see the whole thing and not miss a second 5) I really like how you focused on the whole production (lyrics, the "set", music analysis, and stagecraft). most "vocal coaches" channels focus on just that aspect, this is a great changeup from that.
My favourite part of the the quick juxtaposition is how it represents the actual internet experience so well, but in a way that you don't really think about until they're put together like this. "Here's a tip for straining pasta here's a nine year old that died" sounds shocking (when your brain catches up) when put together in song, but we really do scroll past dead children and buzzfeed food videos right next to each other and never really think about it. The fact it's so fast it takes a second for your brain to catch up and you miss half the things he's saying on the first pass are also very representative of the way it feels to be scrolling on the internet. So much information that you literally can't take it all in. Somehow he both makes the song feel like what the internet feels like, but also presents it in a way that communicates the shocking nature of the internet to the viewer who is already numb to it. It's a really delicate balance and he manages it so well.
The sincere sounding slow ballad in the middle of the song ending in an evil laugh really hit me. I think it was showing how even when you find a honest heartfelt moment in the internet, it's really just another ploy to draw in your attention. BTW, I think your analysis is one of the best I've seen so far and I've been on a binge. It's insightful and fun. You caught most of the things I did after several playthroughs and still had new things to point out.
I like that this channel admits its both a reaction AND analysis, so you don't pretend it's a first time viewing. I've seen other channels that have clearly seen/heard it before, and maybe even watched other analyses, but then try to present their research as if it's a first time reaction.
Heya, as a Vocal Coach could you please please review Jacob Colliers Moon River, it was grammy award winning for vocal arrangement and I would absolutely love to hear your take on it!! 😊
So I watch his videos & am just blown away by how he always is hitting you with one feeling then the opposite feeling & you can be laughing your ass off, one second & the next, you can feel called out for thinking what he just said. He's obviously incredibly talented but your video really made me think about how much had to have gone into this. We already know he is kind of a one man show but understanding that he's like a master at lighting, piano, writing, singing, videoing, choreography... it's just mindblowing.
It's so wild that it's impossible to even focus on "nine year old who died," a literally gut wrenchingly tragic moment that we "scroll past" because that's how insane and frantic the internet is. And we only really feel the weight of it as it gets progressively darker.
A little background: Bo wrote and directed the film Eighth Grade in 2018. In his award speech for the screen play he talked about the struggles Gen Z is facing. He mentions that Gen Z was given these tools and have had to conform to this life that we created and judged them for. Obviously his actual speech is better but i think Welcome To The Internet is probably talking to the kids he wrote his film about
This is Bo as The Internet addressing everyone and everything (but mainly Gen Zers). At the end its the internet remembering that apathy is a crime but if apathy is a crime so is empathy and its just devolving into what the internet is today, pure chaos. We have a little bit of everything all of the time and its a pure chaos machine in our hands or pockets or laps 24/7/365.
Why does everyone seem to fail to catch that he's singing to middle schoolers? He's the personification of the internet, talking to the adolescents of 2021. Any time he's saying "you" it isn't you, the adult viewer. It's to kids right now, whose entire lives have been shaped by the internet. Kids who were "barely 2" when iPads came out. He literally made a movie about eighth grade. Why is this so hard to pick up on?
I'm fairly confident he did this all in one shot, not just because of the quality of it, but because at this point he probably wanted to do a live show and likely wanted to do the preparation that's involved in it, such as getting it all in one take for the best performance possible (since you can't edit good takes in real life performance).
this is the most considerate reaction ive ever seen on youtube. yknow what? fuck Bo... lets praise these guys on the massive respect they have for the platfor Bo uses and the absolute transparency they use while reacting... kudos to you.
The song starts innocent like anyone who started using the internet. And then the song speeds up, highlighting the chaos of the internet as you use it more. And you know you can’t dodge it. That’s the internet.
Yes absolutely pause and commentate , nothing to get triggered over ...it shows the difference between analysing, "reactions" and sitting there like cardboard just staring blankly at the whole content. And Bo's work is so dense with references and analysis food that people can talk about it for hours...great vid.
Constructive feedback(I hope): You ruin the "impact" of the performance by pausing it all the time, the rhythm and build up goes out the window. You should watch the entire clip first, maybe even mute yourselves so we only see your initial reactions, and then afterwards go back and analyze the different parts of it, but this way you remove the weight that the music, lyrics, cinematography and flow of the performance has as a whole. This is a mix of analysis and reaction, and you need to separate the two. People watch reactions for that, the initial reaction. They reacted strongly to something and it feels good to see other people share that experience. If afterwards you wanna add your angle to it, as vocal coach in this case, that is great and helps distinguish you from the thousands of other reaction channels out there, if you can give some unique insight to some aspect of it. But know that people come to watch you experience and enjoy something they have experienced and enjoyed, and just as it feels great to watch someone fall in love with content they have fallen in love with, its equally frustrating watching someone miss what makes it so great. As people have pointed out you were so focused on the music and vocals, that you missed the deeper meaning of the song, how the internet has both enriched our lives, but to a large extent also ruined us, and we willingly put that "evil circus ringmaster" in the hands of our children, from the age of 2 no less. At that point it becomes a little frustrating to watch, because that is why most people love this song, and you missed it. Other than that its a solid video: set, editing, sound and video quality etc. are all fine. Its just the structure that needs some tweaking :)
Well to be fair that’s the point they’re looking at it from the visual point of view and from the musical point of view how he’s singing what he’s doing to his voice and things like that they’re not really here to break down the lyrics Or too watch the whole thing in one run and then give you their ideas on it
@@oogatz1917 Sure, but they have labeled it in the title as a reaction. Reaction and analysis both work, I just think it would work better if they separated the two so they dont trip over each other. If you come here solely for the analysis then its a fine enough video, but I think many people come for the reaction first, and that was ruined a bit by the interrupting analysis/commentary.
@@TheGnurgen See I think it’s stupid to go to a channel and expect them to play it in its entirety without saying anything that’s essentially just stealing content and is exactly what bo was going after when he did that Meta reaction channel bit in his special. For most a reaction is more than just making faces and listening to the song. So yes they label it a reaction because they are reacting to it
@@TheGnurgen I just don’t get how you think what they’re doing isn’t a reaction or that if it is a reaction you can’t also analyze it. It just seems like people are putting a lot of their own made up expectations of what they think a reaction video should be onto them.
they way the room looks fits well with my image of the character he plays. The snake oil salesman persona seems like the type of gentleman you would find in an abandoned warehouse filled with clutter.
It was all filmed at once< I think - you can see the cameras for the different angles set up around him just outside of the spotlight. So, presumably, this was done all in one run. Really adds to it imo! So fantastically well done.
I’m relatively young but I get the old Willy wonka movie vibe nearing the end of the video because of the menacing colors and green dots, which reminds me of the scene where the contestants are on the paddle boat and Mr.wonka is doing the creepy rhyme.
Just want to say the thing to the left of the screen? The moment I noticed it I couldn't stop looking at it. Forget the video for a sec, I had to watch it again after. But that animated frame thing? Nostalgia and other good things. Also it keep doing things and my brain can't compute when shiny go blink-blink.
It's got some poetical quality that I have stumbled across your channel, watching this video, taken from a special lamenting the existence of precisely the content just like in this video. I need a break. I've got this funny feeling again.
I really enjoyed your reaction. Getting an opinion by two different proffesionals is so interesting, but I also enjoyed the honest reaction. I actually like it that you pause to give your opinions. Good job!
