where i've been 

The editing aesthetic is the same, but you can tell how much it's advanced and improved over the years

Man single-handedly created an entire new genre of music/entertainment with SIMPLY his imagination. Genius.

The entire song is so nice and soothing and amazing but 1:23-1:43 and 2:31-2:51 truly do it for me, I love this

one thing I don't often see complimented about Bill's work that I'd like to highlight is the audio production quality. Mixing and mastering your own stuff can be a tough ask but with Bill's songs I can hear every layer and every little intricacy with perfect clarity

I had forgotten how incredibly smooth this man's voice was. We missed you Bill Wurtz! Anyway, see you in 3 years

Man always comes out of the middle of nowhere but never disappoints.

We don’t deserve this man. He chose to use his ungodly talents to make the greatest “I’m not dead” channel update vid ever.

this guy is insane. not only did he make the single most popular history of the world video on youtube, but he also has an incredible talent to sing, entertain people, and animate. he definently deserves more views on these music videos and not just on his history videos. his ability to make these amazing animated songs and include jokes in them is insane. keep it up man

Bill Wurtz has the unparalleled ability to make music that you can both completely turn your brain off to and simultaneously requires your full attention. It's legitimately impressive

I love how you can just vibe to the music and not really think about its words, or you can read into it and find that it’s actually a lot deeper than it first appears

How Bill gets ideas for his videos; Step 1. Eat bucket of paint, color matters, warm colors often result in music videos, cold colors often result in storytimes. Step 2. Draw, animate or record audio of whatever you see or hear while high on paint. Step 3. Post video and you’re done.

I always listen to music on Spotify so this is the first Bill Wurtz music video I've watched and OH MY GOSH

Seeing bill wurtz go 3D is like seeing a reboot of one of your favorite childhood shows

leaves for two years and comes back with barely a word, leaves for 3 weeks and comes back with a song called "where I've been" I love this guy edit: I know it's just the title of the song, I'm just pointing out that at first glance it looks a bit amusing

I love how this song can be totally meaningful or totally meaningless depending on how you look at it, but is beautiful to listen to either way. This man has a talent.

seriously, where HAS he been?

Dont care if you leave us for decades, the history of the entire world never gets old to me

I do hope Bill is going alright after all this time. These lyrics kinda show another side to Bill that can’t always be seen behind his music.

2:31 I love this part, It's just so silly

I felt transported in outer space and into my life at 3:06 One of my favorite Bill Wurtz moments so far.

Only Bill Wurtz can rhyme “day” with “day” and then rhyme it with “day” again in the same phrase and it’ll still sound okay.

2:21 "I don't have any skills" - Bill Wurtz; singing, writing, playing several instruments and animating this all by himself

i am going to figure out the meaning of alot of bill wurtz's songs. Im starting with this one. its about an amnesiac("where ive gone i dont even remember" and "what ive done i dont even remember") that learns about what they regularly did before their traumatic experience, and strives to be better("what i do i dont" and "so pave the way all the way from yesterday into another day") and because of their amnesia-inducing experience, they have a vivid imagination, creating stories("let me tell you a story" and "let me tell you a fable"). they are also trying to find out their whole past by disassembling their stories, believing their stories have a link to their past("lets put it together, lets disassemble it, then reassemble it back to 100%"). the next part is something like they found out something horrible about their past and is about to end themselves?(that goodbye part) idk. then they remember they were in love once, and how it felt("fell in love once. fell in love hundreds of times..." then "each one of those times was a good time") then they learn they DIDNT do the crime or somethin?("where i was i just found out that i wasnt!"). thats my interpretation. whats yours?

I don't know why but this song perfectly describes ADHD

I love how your music is instantly recognizable as Bill Wurtz and unlike anything anyone else makes, with its own distinct style, yet you manage to make each song very different at the same time. :)

I love how this can be applied to my life either as existential crisis or nonsensical fun depending on my mood at any given moment.

when watching older bill wurtz videos, i noticed that bill's visual style changed once he learned 3d with 'here comes the sun'. the main differences are: • less color flashes and other drug-like effects • more dream-like smoothness but the sounds and music sound the same style as before. way earlier, when he started putting his media on youtube and not just his website, that's a much bigger change: his music became much less predictable (much better), and he does them as music videos rather than just the music itself

Bill Wurtz is my number one comfort artist. Anytime I get overwhelmed or anxious or I have an anxiety attack, I just turn on his music and I’m good again. Love this new bop, thank you man! :)

I thought this would be what happened over his time between “might quit” and “here comes the sun” and why he left, then I remembered bill’s unique style of videos and music.

2:20 “I don’t have any skills.” Not true. I aspire to have the style and feelings you give in your content. It’s absolutely beautiful, thank you Bill.

He has to make a vr version of one of his vids cuz it will be the most life changing trip ever

This makes me uncomfortable and very nostalgic at the same time.

I don't know why, but I relate so much to these songs. They just give a feeling of familiarity like they're breaking down my own random thoughts in their verses or something.

"So pave the way, it's already been paved today. You don't have to pave it again." I really love this lyric. It's a reminder that we don't have to strive to be extraordinary all of the time. Some days we can just exist, and that's fine, because the world does not sit on just my shoulders, or just yours. It's okay to let someone else be extraordinary today, I've got plenty of time to be extraordinary tomorrow, or next week. Today I can slow down for a bit, because someone else has already paved the way, I can just follow it.

I’m going through one of the hardest times of my life right now and this man makes it feel like I won the lottery

From 3:00 to 3:11 just melts my brain and I love it

this might be my favorite bill wurtz song, and that's saying a lot. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but there's such a sense of freedom, hope within stillness, vulnerability, conveyed both through the lyrics and the music itself, and then the animation is so enthralling it's just so good. The vibes are immaculate, excellent work once again.

It's rare to see something new from an artist and immediately feel like it's their best work, but I feel that with this song.

I love this song… this is actually exactly what I needed to hear right now. I’m about to make some big changes to my lifestyle. Gotta pave the way for something good

This is crazy good, from the notes to the visuals, I'm stunned. This is like a whole new genre. Bill invented his own genre.

Bill: *hasn't been on RU-vid for ages* Fans: where is this guy? Bill: Y E S

Putting aside the incredible visuals and creative lyrics for a second, can we just appreciate what a good singer Bill is? Like dang

I’ll be honest, when I just knew Bill Wurtz for his more goofy content like his vines and history vids, I tried listening to some of his music and at first it just didn’t click with me for some reason. But over time, it really grew on me, and now I can’t get enough.

3:38 i love this section, it's so different from what he usually does :D I hope he's gonna write a full song in a minor key soon, I'd love to hear ut

Bill, you couldn't have known this. I was invited yesterday to my old high school to talk to students about career choices and my personal experience moving forward after school. I listened to this song on my feed minutes before my presentation and found it incredibly fitting. I even incorporated a bit about uncertainty in the future and paving roads. Your music always comes out of nowhere and hits in a way you wouldn't expect. You are brilliant, man!

Bill makes another fun and fantastic animation and song: _That seems pretty standard!_ Amazing work as always lad!

masterpiece

2:20 I was not expecting to hear a spoken version of a thought I have daily in a bill wurtz song

This is making me realize how good this man would be at making a musical show for children

Normal RU-vidrs: Hey sorry I'm back. I've been moving and working on my mental health :) Bill: *Drops a banger out of nowhere*

bill can turn something random into a masterpiece

Such a bop. And his editing has definitely gotten better. This is gold if I've ever seen it.

I've just arrived in Japan for the first time in my life for a whole academic semester. I wake up for the first time in the country, and this is the song I find. Thank you, Bill. "Where I'm going, I haven't even been yet, Where I was, I'm gone."

These beats always come back and hit me like I misused a boomerang again

This is like Toto’s “Africa” but vaporwave.

"what i do i don't" "when i will i won't" brings tears to my eyes

You never know what's happening next in his songs. His level of creativity and spontaneity without going too overboard has amazed me for good few years now.

Bill is that part of the Internet that barely is present, but once gone the Internet will never be the same again.

last time i saw a video titled like this it did not end well

It’s like the crossover between your favorite childhood show and the reboot of it. Still following?

For some reason this song feels oddly sad. It also gives me the vibe of that he is leaving again with his lyrics of "Nevermind we'll do this another time, so you can say goodbye." as if this was the "another time". I could be wrong but if I'm not, goodbye Bill. You've been an inspiration to a lot people and hopefully more to come.

1:47 This part with the guitar riff is sooo heavenly 😭

"So pave the way all the way from yesterday to another day. Nevermind, we'll do this some other time. So you can say goodbye... Goodbye forest, goodbye trees, goodbye plant, goodbye leaves, goodbye flowers and beauty. Goodbye horses, goodbye bugs, goodbye challenges, goodbye love." Is this song about suicide?

I am confused enthralled and entertained

1:23 is just beautiful. Wish it were long enough that I could just jam to that. Lyrics are great too

awesome, love the lyricism and the bit at 2:37 where you go "brr br brrr br brrrrr"

My man's a : Human Animator Singer Artist AND the bes5

Song starts at 0:21

This a fucking masterpiece, you make masterpieces, you're a really good artist

1:24 dude this melody has been stuck in my head since i was a kid and finally hearing it in a song itches my brain so well

if a 90s pop band and There Might be Giants had a love child your music would be the musical equivalent.

everytime i watch one of this videos its like going into the woods and eating the first mushroom you find

bill has been describing my life for the past 5 years in the most weird ways, but its so comforting.

bill is one of those people who can appear out of thin air and never get questioned about it.

One day there will be art history lectures, and right after talking about Salvador Dali and Phillip Glass, they'll be talking about Bill Wurtz.

There is a weird comfort in not knowing what im watching but understanding it completely

On the most unexpected moments, bill wurtz always come back, this is just awesome.

3:10 this visual concept hit me really deep for some reason

Sounds like a Disney princess’s song that plays when she escapes the kingdom on a boat to become a adventurer

2:05 "When I will...I won't" That about sums me up in a nutshell.

you’ve changed my life forever bill wurtz, I don’t think you can understand how much of your art I’ve paved into my personality. I’ll continue getting better and growing. Thank you.

2:46 Charles Cornell is gonna need like 45 minutes to break these four seconds down

this is what's happening in my back self conscious, telling me things will work and figure themselves out better than i can rn.

This feels like the start of a good pixar movie

1:54 tricks pro skaters don't want you to know about

Ah yes. Bill coming back with another cheery song about fears, anxieties and many other sad themes.

I love how the last question explains why this video looks how it looks differently, yet so familiar, less 3Dish then other songs.

The intro Proves that this man could make a killing with those vhs type horror things

This song changed my life. It feels so depressing yet revitalizing. I feel so good about myself right now. But so .. lost. It’s hard to explain.

I didn't think I was a fan of abstract art until I found this channel, you've changed me bill

2:52 this relates to me whenever I was done playing outside as a small child. I’d say good bye to the trees and the bugs and everything.

I can’t explain why but that ‘pave the way’ bit is the best part of this sing to me

3:01 ah yes, "horses"

1:15 i love having myself a bowl of yup

omg the little blink at the end gets me every time

The visuals here seem a lot more refined than Bill's previous videos. There's a whole bunch of stuff that feels like it might show up in future design trends, maybe five or ten years down the line. I guess we'll see.

2:02 skamtebord :)

Saddest deaths in history: piano 1:00

This song makes me think of my old life, which makes me very sad (affectionate)

I was expecting a map of the countries he's been to.. But instead he gives us a song