Slow Down 

slow up

*I'm going to hell and I'm late for it*

Bill's video making process: -Go to a lake -Write it down -Analyse -Put it in the pan -Exploit a computer glitch *STOP* continue -Dig a hole -Feel the sense of victory done

“It’s easy to tell if you’re useless but it’s strange when you tell your friends” is actually really deep. I’m sure Bill infuses some deeper meaning in his lyrics sometimes.

Here’s the thing. Everybody fanboys over the graphics, but guys. Give the guy some credit for the *SERIOUSLY SEXY MUSIC THEORY TALENT* he has.

Bill is very good at being specific while being vague at the same time. It's like he's the god of surreal dreams.

I feel like he is trying to tell us that he can manipulate time

the reason bill hasn’t uploaded in so long is because he’s struggling to find a lake

I drop whatever it is I'm doing whenever I get that sweet sweet Bill Wurtz notification.

woah there friend you might need to slow down...

"Going to hell and I'm late for it" is a pretty raw quote, goddamn.

0:17 " My hat is *bent* . *OH I GOT A BENT HAT* "

Damn bill out here pushing the boundaries of whats possible with art

I can’t wait 100 years from now historians will have to analyze this

Fun fact: The line “ The physicists are always letting it bounce around” Is incredibly more accurate then you would’ve guessed, as some clocks function by letting a single particle bounce around a small area, and every time it hits a wall the time is Advanced one second. Look it up, it’s pretty cool.

0:57 “I’m going to hell and I’m late for it” That got me on a personal level

I'm not sure how many people realise how talented this guy actually is. His understanding of music along with his creativity with structure/arrangement is pretty awesome. Comes up with some funny shit and has a good voice too Keep it up my dude

Bill's songs remind me of dreams. Probably cause I know they should mean something, but at face value they look like surreal nonsense.

There is a deep irony in the music writing here in relation to the time signatures. He is asking us to slow down, yet he consistently chooses to cut off of the last beat on some of the bars. Wurtz is creating an effect in the music that "skips" us forward in time to the next bar, essentially speeding us up. The easiest example of this is the last 11 bars that are written in 7/4. The more insane areas are closer to the start where he is not simply cutting the bars off one beat early, he will cut them off a half a beat early, AND without warning. You end up with really difficult to count bars and the only way you can really describe it is with halves in the time signature like 5.5/16, or 3.5/4 because the rest of the bar before the end is not actually subdivided smaller than the previous bar. For the 15/8 section it was so difficult I just gave up trying to figure it out by ear and just guessed it for the whole section. Would love to know if anyone else has tried to figure out that puzzle. Funk Section 2 and 3 have the 6/8 bars with triplets near the end, also creating the effect of speeding up rather than slowing down. Then right after you get a 2/4 bar that trips you up. It is almost like you went to fast and got dizzy. Funk Section 2 and 3 have some interesting stuff in the middle, but it doesn't deviate from 4/4, almost as if he is holding back just how bonkers he could have made this song, getting progressively simpler towards the end, as if he himself is slowing down his writing. This whole composition is brilliant. Intro Arpeggios: 4 bars 4/16 ("timekeeping) 1 bars 5.5/16 Funk Section 1: 3 bars 4/4 ("Look at the time") 1 bar 3.5/4 1 bar 15/8 ("slow it right off the wall") Funk Section 2: 18 bars of 4/4 ("my hat is bent") 2 bars of 6/8 ("and the world goes round") 1 bar of 2/4 Funk Section 3: 18 bars of 4/4 ("inside the video") 2 bars of 6/8 ("then the roof blew off again") 1 bar of 2/4 Outro 1: 9 bars 4/4 ("and the hurricanes") Outro 2: 11 bars 7/4 ("Going very very really slowly now...")

Bill Wurtz: *”slow down”* Me: *listens to the song at 0.25x speed*

*"Its easy to feel if you're useless, but its strange when you tell your friends."* thats going on my tombstone

"and it's easy to feel if you're useless but it's strange to tell your friends" I literally went through this today.

First moments of Minecraft Dig a hole Feel a sense of victory *done*

No one's talking about how the clock at the beginning moves counter-clockwise

how can we slow down when all of us are rushing to watch your video?

i’m convinced this guy writes his scripts with the middle autocorrect button on his phone

These videos genuinely feel like they were birthed from a recording of someone’s dreams

we gonna appreciate how at 3:01 the word raising is actually raising

There is actually a lot of time and effort gone into this editing to make it seem like it's poorly or stylistically edited.

"look at the time, it's twelve-thirty, I'm going to hell and I'm late for it," holy fuckinnnn shit thats a cool line???

I just managed to listen to Bill's stuff for the first time in months without feeling pangs of guilt. I won't bore anyone with the details, but my ex left me for my best friend about 6 months ago, and we bonded over Bill's content so much. Every time I would hear his voice, I would think about my ex. But now that I've "reclaimed" this, so to speak, it all feels so good. Thanks for the content, Bill. It means the whole world to me.

How many genres do you want in your song bill wurtz: yes

The title is an anagram for "Ow, LSD won".

Im going to hell, and I'm late for it But I'll slow down Makes perfect sense

This is actually an unironically beautiful song, I've always loved Bill Wurtz but damn I was caught off guard by that last minute

Friend: what kind of music do you listen too? Me: **looks into the fourth wall** Friend: wtf Me: *you get the point you seen these comments before* Friend: **visible confusion**

*going to hell and I'm late for it*

If you think about it. His crazy funny videos are actually pretty good life lessons..

You gotta admit, *Its pretty effing catchy*

"and it's easy to feel if you're useless, but it's strange when you tell your friends" Underrated line

I live on 124th Street and I am now cautiously looking out my window

bill said to slow down so i'm watching this at 0.25x playback speed

0:53 "I'm going to hell but I'm late for it. But I'll slow down... and talk about it." For lyrical nonsense, this is genuinely accurate to so many people.... They're well overdue for hell, but they're trying their best to dawdle. It's not so much talking it out and figuring how to fix their direction in life, however, so much as it is broadcasting their sin, bragging about how evil they are in a society which rewards just that. Like the murderer who bragged about shooting a Patriot Prayer member in the back to VICE.... Proudly going to hell, but he didn't intend to get there quite so fast.

0:25 *Top ten anime betrayals*

Video making process: 1. go to a lake 2. write it down 3. analyze 4. put it in the pan 5. exploit a computer glitch 6. stop 7. continue 8. dig a hole 9. feel the sense of victory

It's just me or his videos are getting more structured and with a more cohesive theme? It might be just me

Meaning of the song: Don't get angry and stop trying, keep trying until you get it right. "My hat is bent, oh I got a bent hat, maybe i'll slow down, and straighten it out" Is an example of not giving up.

My theory on the video making process is that it's symbolic of his actual video making process. He starts by going to his lake of video ideas, writes them down, than figures out how they could work and refines them, than the exploit a computer glitch could be recording them and animating, than he takes a break, continues and finishes the project after spending some time away from it, than finally has the video compleated.

This channel is the closest we can get to interdimensional cable.

You don’t need to comment first *you gotta slow down*

2:06 this actually kinda happened to me, a storm recently hit the uk, and I had to get across the courtyard to make it to my next lesson. When I opened the door, a nearby painting fking flew off the wall and almost killed me flying over my head. somehow the frame nor the paint was damaged

1:45 so I reloaded my fax machine with some fresh clean paper so I can slow down and have a slow time printing it out.

It is impressive that bill wurtz makes lyrics, sings them, makes plans for what else to be in his video, makes the video, and makes a unique soundtrack to go along with the video. He does that for a lot of his videos which are about 3 minutes long each and manages to upload on a fairly frequent basis

Start of video: Pretty meaningful video! Rest: W h a t did I just w a t c h

"It's easy to tell if you're useless but it's strange when you tell your friends." That line is so real and so painful...yet its still a reality, why?

online tests when you’re clicking fast: 0:08

2:42 underrated transition

"it's easy to feel if you're useless but it's so strange when you tell your friends" there's always at least one line in every bill wurtz song that hits me like a ton of bricks

I listened to bill wurtz during online school. His music has helped me stay positive and upbeat when I’ve been stressed and overwhelmed.

I’ve always wondered how to personify my adhd

These songs make me a different kind of happy

"i'm going to hell but i'm late for it" me too bill

00:33 I love this part with the stick figure bopping down the road! It's so wholesome 😀👍🔥

“And I’m pondering out about how it’s daily been” -Bill Wurtz 2018

0:30 --- This key/style change is about the sexiest thing I've heard in long time.

1 second of bill wurtz is 3 weeks of editing

I spaced out while listening to this and when I tuned back in I was completely and udderly confused, so about the same as is if I hadn't tuned out in the first place.

These are typically like 3 min long but it feels like an hour.

I think one of my favorite things about this channel is that he never explains _anything_ . It just _is_ .

Yall need to slow down and watch the video before commenting

1:39 but it’s strange when you tell your friends Oh silly Bill. *I don’t have any.*

Bill’s music is like those dreams you have where everything makes perfect sense in the dream world but no sense once you wake up.

Oh, would you look at the time. It is currently *now*

Sorry bill, but I like my bent hat, I'm keeping it bent

Why is "Going to hell and I'm late for it" such a sick line

This makes me feel an emotion that I don't know how to describe.

“Mt. St. Helens is about to blow up” mentioned “Everything’s green and gold, so I’m not in hell yet.” Now, in “Slow Down”, “I’m going to hell and I’m late for it.” Any correlation?

"im not in hell yet" "im going to hell and im late for it" bill wurtz cinematic universe

Last bit is my favorite 7/4 groove I’ve ever heard

This is Bills lost masterpiece. It’s literally perfect

s low d o w n

In all seriousness this might be his best song ever

I’m confused yet intrigued

"and its easy to feel if youre useless, but its strange when you tell your friends" i dont know what you meant by that bill, but i have definitely felt like that

When did Mr. Rogers start making EDM Jazz?

I just saw that Sciencephile just uploaded a video entitled "Would Aliens Enjoy Human Music?" Good timing.

I love how the circle around the clock at the start is perfectly in time with the beat

I like how he has a new character for each video, like he doesn't have one to represent himself.

*Sorry, but we don't need drugs if we have bill wurtz*

This feels like the thoughts of a completely non-musical person, translated perfectly into music

i feel like bill got a messed up business email with "[client's name]"

This song, along with the animation, makes me giggle. Not just laugh, but like… giggle. This is probably my favorite Bill Wurtz song because of that.

Every video Bill releases feels like a cry for help.

Funny thing is, the lyrics actually make good sense. Not merely the stuff of meme-culture, and it's catchy, in a PBS, Reading Rainbow kind of way.

me: *humming this song* friend:what song r u humming? me: well, a song, like ummmmm just a normal song nothing to be suspicious about.... hehe

This feels like a mass secret message for secret agents, coded and with music

Everyone should be more like [client's name]

There's rarely any artists like you that can put out quality songs everytime.

"And the pharmacists are frequently making drugs about it" I swear this man can make any ridiculous line sound good

"I'm going to hell and i'm late for it" that goes in the quote book