Banana Man Is A Song About Drugs (And Criticising Religion)
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- čas přidán 2. 09. 2023
- Banana Man is one of the best songs to come from Tally Hall, and most people just consider it to be an absurd and meaningless bop, banger and everything in between. Those people are wrong, but that's alright, because no sane person should think anything more about a song with the chorus of 'do you want a banana'.
Anyways, it's about drugs, and probably religion too. If you need me to go into any more depth then drop a comment and i'll gladly respond :)
#joehawley #tallyhall #hawaiipartii
Tally Hall can make anything into a song with deep meaning apparently
They could’ve made a song that’s based on unicorns and how cute they look. And the song would be about how nothing is real and existentialism. (I’m gonna write a song about that)
Kid named mucka blucka
I mean, one of their songs is just called "&"
@andistambury4366 it's rather obvious how & would be about duality but that's just me
@@getaround1276 it's also a banger
Funnily enough, Mucka Blucka can actually have a pretty deep meaning. It’s supposed to be a generic pop rap song, but the lyrics are just chicken noises. They were calling generic pop rap writers chickens for not innovating or being original.
@momsspaghetti5824 That doesn’t mean that they didn’t have other intentions.
it’s actually theorised mucka blucka is a reworked version of a song tally hall made that only consisted of swear words, considering ‘mucka blucka’ is a play on ‘motherfucker’
@@bottledfish.. one of the parts sounds like "look out, motherfucker" and theres the ending that quite literally sounds like BITCH
* this is the most deep thought provoking comment about chicken rap i've ever seen
It was a scrapped song reworked that was made up of mostly cuss words from an "edgy faze"
“This bit just sounds like getting high. I don’t sense any religion here,” has to be one of the best out of context quotes I’ve ever heard.
It is
It does range from banana's to electric shock therapy.
Is banana man in the same universe as TME?
dont forget 9/11
That's just tally hall
“Father, your honor, may I expla-“
“DIS BANANA FOR YOU”
@@ate_my_wheaties "fountain of infinite-" "BANANA"
I honestly thought it was about a racist guy who was putting on an accent while selling bananas getting ridiculed by local people.
I thought that it was a slave owner who asociates his black slaves with monkeys, offering them with bananas.
@@krowta2062
What do you think it means?
It means that if you're selling Banana's and doing a Black Accent, People are gonna ridicule you for being Racist.
I would fall in love with anyone with an accent trying to sell me bananas. Black or white
@@virtualcynical8515unless you're singing the banana boat song. For some reason.
@@krowta2062 *ridiculous
I always just assumed this song was simply about insanity
AKA a man literally going bananas.
Great video!
Me too friend.
goat simulator pfp :D
Why go bananas when you can become a banana
That actually makes some sense lol
Guess you could say he went bananas
💀💀💀
Bannaner
another bananananger
Drug connection: very feasible
Religion connection: stretching very far
I live in Detroit where Joe lives. I sat down ate a banana and in my window I see Joe walking by, and Im not joking
You were nearly the victim of the Banana Man.
Joe doesn't live in Detriot
@@thetigerstreakchronicles8169But he still lives in Michigan.
and everyone clapped.
@@Somedudewithaflareyfm reference1!1!!!1!1!!1!1!1
'spirit game' could just be like... a drinking game?
taking shots?
ya know spirit is a way of saying alcohol
My favorite lyric from this song is
"I've never left so early and you may wonder why."
It's seemingly simple, but could hold a ton of depth when looked at a certain way.
He appears to be leaving the "party", but it is much earlier than most other times. This could either be because he is starting to get sick of the "pure pleasure" experience and wishes to return to his responsibilities, or perhaps the highs from the bananas are wearing off much quicker than they used to and he has subconsciously taken note of this and has given up on chasing the "first high" he had from the banana.
Me walking down a random alleyway of busy town only for a random man to offer me a banana (hell nah, bananas make you go insane 🗿)
1:00
The song starts in an alley, where the guy is trying to make sure nobody is watching... just more that could work in this one.
I always interpret it as a man being too busy and uptight, and by the end of the song, he learns to have a little fun at times 😃
Also Joe’s accent is fun to do 😂
don't take life too seriously
@@sympatheticflake890 “Wouldn’t the world be better off if we took nonsense more seriously?” -Marvin Yagoda
@@MinaWalker Probably not. Not everything is supposed to be looked deep into and if you do, you can either help yourself or someone else OR you can absolutely backstab yourself and ruin yours or someone else's life. Kicking back and enjoying your life is one of the best things you can do while also recognizing how important it is to take responsibility for your actions, especially in social life and health (if one cares about it enough). I mean I can sense what you are getting at - That looking into things can help us avoid future issues but honestly, I and many others disagree and have relatively different perspective. Taking life too seriously more often than not is harmful for everyone involved.
@@sympatheticflake890 all tally hall fans ever do is take meaningless shit seriously
@@LugiDergX Consider, you making that giant paragraph is taking nonsense seriously
I grabbed a banana, sat down, & clicked on the video . . . Maybe bananas aren't as innocent as I first imagined.
Also, very interesting take on this song, & good analysis as always!
sniff it. shove the banana up your nostrils
i thought is was about a guy literally going bananas
Average Joe Hawley moment
this is my first time using a green screen, so i'm sorry it's not perfect... it should get better as i use it more. also, i didn't quite have the budget for a very good lan mic (the little one clipped to my chest) so forgive me for the not great audio quality, i'm planning on upgrading asap. and most importantly, thanks for watching! i really hope you enjoyed :)
You good. The green screen is really good lol. Good video! :))
The clip mic is very well good enough I think
i agree!
The green screen was also not even close to the worst I've seen btw! You did and are doing very well, I think you have big potential (even out of the TH bubble, if you ever decide to step beyond that) and I'm genuinely excited to watch your channel grow (in some form or another)
Green screens are fun
lol
I don't usually comment, but the way you mix humor while also being able to dive deep into a seemingly shallow song while simultaneously keeping it short is genuinely admirable and you should proud. I hope to see your channel grow in the future, especially if you want to branch out of Tally hall content.
this song is also also about going *BANANAS* over *BANANAS*
The beat of song makes me feel high and banana man just sounds like calling a drug dealer a candy man
I thought of it as just a description of what it's like to be introduced to a new culture, with the lines about being around a campfire, bananas, and going on a plane, returning to a city, while still remembering what that culture was like
I always interpreted it to be about literal bananas, albeit with spiritual/psychological effects when you eat them, to the point that a small cult was formed around it. I always picture (as though it were an animated music video) a regular business guy on vacation, gets mixed up in the wrong crowd when a guy keeps bothering him about bananas, sees some weird crap and literal spirits flying around and dancing at whatever weird bonfire this banana cult has going on and he's being forced to stay at until he eats a banana, things get REALLY psychedelic, he finally eats one at the big hushhhh part, and then everything appears relaxed and almost normal, and the business guy and the original banana man from the start look like good friends, hugging, pats on the back, blah blah blah, BUT THEN the next morning when the business guy is on his plane home from his vacation, he can't stop thinking about wanting to have bananas again (wow i guess there really are drug parallels) and he ends up jumping out the side of the plane with a crazed smile on his face as the rest of the passengers get sucked out the door behind him.
As a Christian I can personally say that religion does make people not confront their problems and instead put all their faith in higher powers, I mean look at misery fell
All I gotta say 2 Kings 2:23-25.
OMG CHRISTIAN KOICHI!!! HAII!! HELLOOO!!!
@@JG_Wentworth we don’t talk about Old Testament here 🤫
@@Koichi-Kun Why not? Not a fan of debating the details of god enlisting Joshua to commit genocide? He left *_no souls._*
@@Koichi-Kun We don't talk about Christianity here
I had read a post on this where joe did an interview, and he admited to the song being inspired by a dream he had where there were "tribal" people were in a city like setting and they were playing music that sounded similar to what was played.
One line you glossed over but absolutely hammers home the drug connotations is “make up your mind and tell me no”
This song has been stuck in my head for three days straight. It seemed to have finally left my brain this morning and lo and behold, it has returned. There truly is no escape from the banana man. Oh well, I’ll put up with it, I love these tally hall song deep dives man, great job!
“… And lo and behold” is that a rotary park reference
Banana man is like my favorite song
And the deep meanings in their songs always surprise me
i see banana man.
do you?
I don’t 😡
i've heard a few people say banana man was confirmed to be a joke song by joe hawley but i never found his pronunciation
This is interesting because I thought the song was about eating bananas🤷♂️
I think saying spirits automatically means religion is a stretch but it’s definitely drugs
Well yes but Reddit atheists think more about religion than religious people
I think the first part is about summoning ancient spirits on the beach, the second part is about getting so high yo need to go to the hospital and the third part is about leaving everything behind and starting to live your life normally again
Dude pls keep these kind of videos going because I'm currently trying to hold my laughter. Genius video. Imma keep watching now, wish me luck
You should do an analysis on Spring and a Storm
omg please
"no banana make you go insane" is also arguably about religion
tallyball, keep cooking. your videos are awesome, and you're underrated. waiting for more tallylores or miracle meanings.
I always saw this song as being about the Banana Republics, and more broadly how people are often told to not pay attention to where products come from
The banana man refers to the bananas as being taken, and there's the whole section about how we should forget about considering if anything we've done has ever really been good
How I LOVE this kind of videos explaining the meaning of tally hall songs
I always thought Banana Man was just a song about bananas xd
Nice video btw c:
joe has some of the weirdest music ever. i love it. but i personally believe that banana man is just a song without meaning, and it's just a song about bana and fun. i do love to hear other interpretations though
DO U WANT A BANANA
PEEL IT DOWN AND GO MM-MM-MM-MMM
DO U WANT A BANANA??
DIS BANANA FO U
@@shtanininininina TONIGHT WE DANCE AROUND THE FLAME
@@Fiskiuggar DEN WE HAVE TO PLAY SPIRIT GAME
I always joked about it being a song about a cult and drugs but now I'm sorta unironically believing it cuz of this lol. Honestly a really good analysis
"Somebody has been smoking bananas"-Underbanana
i start my new school year tommorow its 3 am tf im doing here
gaining much more important knowledge
@@tallyballYT There are things important and even more important
One issue, Tally Hall confirmed it was a song about nothing.
Lets be real. Will they admit at that time
I don’t get the religion part but drug part is kinda obvious.
very good analysis! would love to see more
Great Analysis! I love your videos
I thought it was a monke at a circus who would give people banabnas as an act
I mean, I figured it was about the banana wars and the business plot...
Banana
🍌
"joe hawley is very well known for psychedelic drugs" well, thats one way to put it LOL
Is he actually? I can't find a source for this
@nathanmcgill7249 some allegations came out a few months ago, iirc joe was offering psychadelics to a 16 year old fan, or something like that? just what i heard though, no idea how true it is
Well...
Last time i checked, Bananas makes me go bananas...
I will have a allergic reaction...
i love the fact that you made every "the," into "de."
I see it as a type of trippy ritual going along spiritual motifs like those of time and Mr moon
2:28 a Theory
BUT THATS JUST A THEORY, A TALLY HALL THEORY AAAAND CUT
I loved the video and love seeing what meaning we pull from things without a clear understanding. I looked into this myself wondering about it’s meaning when I heard the song. Turns out tally hall went out of there way for this song to say it doesn’t have a meaning and it was purely because they wanted to make a fun and silly song. I still appreciate being able to see your take on the song.
There’s also how, throughout the song, “de” is used instead of “the”. This distinction is common in Caribbean countries. The discussion of spirit games is superficial and likely romanticized. To top this off, in the beginning, there’s the talk of “*Zimbabwe* songbirds”. Not only is Zimbabwe a far-off location, its name even sounds exotic.
Tally Hall, meanwhile, is four white guys.
Banana Man has themes of cultural appropriation or something; idk, it’s like 10pm here and I’m tired
the chonny jash cover for this song talks about this
Oh god, if this is true…. what has Mucka Blucka been hiding from us this entire time?
I choose to believe that this song is just about bananas
I want some bananas
I always liked the idea that the song was a story where a business man finds a travel agency flyer in the trash, spends all his money and vacation days on going to the Caribbean, does drugs there, comes home, tells all his coworkers, with the restrictive table thing being society trying to normalize him, the slow part being him realizing he wasn’t happy with his routine and day to day life, and the ending bit being him taken to an asylum because he doesn’t fit in with societies desire for him to be complacent
The fact that I found this video on CZcams music is kind of crazy, but very informative
You really whent bananas with this one. :)
In an interview in 2005, the answer behind the meaning of the song was "Work V.S. Play." Balancing your social life with your obligations at your job or your family obligations. The 'banana' is whatever you, the listener, attribute to having fun.
what i think is that its just a really busy guy taking a ( very insane ) vacation then going back home,
eoj yelwah is going bananas in this year 😊
This theory is bananas
Mucka Blucka is the deepest tally hall song change my mind
didn't joe confirm that it was just about nothing and its just bananas
#rallyhall just watched the reunion video you made, currently planning to play In The Sand and Banana Man non-stop!
I personally take the hospital bed part as him being tied down for him to not be able to take drugs (last ditch effort to make them stop being addicted but overly dramatized) instead of him being forced to take them
You got me subbed at hitting the green screen with a spoon.
Just let me listen to the funny banana music goddamn
i genuinely thought the song was just about a guy going to normally take out his trash but he saw some plastic birds and started going absolutely crazy
My wife introduced me to this stupid brainworm song a few days ago. I agree with your assessment. However I do think there are tinges of drug induced psychosis/ schizophrenia given that our main character is strapped down to a gurney and being wheeled around a nuthouse at multiple times in the music video.
do you see drug jesus man
nah he just really liked bananas
i always saw banana man as a song about completely losing touch with oneself.
Now that's why they give me trapped wind...hm...
Ok you have to make one about ruler of everything
Love this!
He takes a banana right after saying it is a metaphore for drugs . WOOOOOW
Hey, hey, hey... why so mean? It's just a song...
Want a banana?
Great video, loved your analysis 😂
what if the spirit lines mean spirits as in the drinks, the shaking thunder is a bottle braking, the songbirds chanting a tune to let them free may be them chanting in group to open more bottles and the spirits jumping may be them jumping after drinking and drinking more
Tallyball never fails to make me bust with ooey gooey goodness
I've always felt like this song could be about a cult or a different religion than cristianity, banana man is their deity, and the guy who's talking is the leader, he wants to convince them to join "Do you want a banana?"
the next lines could be seen as some type of ritual "Tonight we dance around the flame
Then we get to play the spirit game
Spirit names we shout out loud
Shake the thunder from the spirit cloud"
He's trying to convince you to join the cult here
"Do you want a banana? (Do you want a banana)...
Look you your too uptight you know
You can laugh and kick it back and go (we)"
Then he tries to manipulate you by telling you that, without this religion, your happiness is gone, you depend on it
"But without a rhythm or a rhyme
You do not banana all the time"
You need it, the city represents your reality, you want to scape it
"Fly away from city on the run
Try to make a little fun"
"Look you come to the bungalow
Make you shake until the bum go numb
Let the bungo play you 'til you drop
This banana never stop (never stop, never stop)" this religion is going to take everything from you, go numb, never stop
"Forget all your troubles and go with the flow..." this whole section is telling you to forget your responsabilities in "town" for this cult
"... And then forget about banana when it sticks in your throat" banana is this religion, and even if it's killing you, taking your air, you don't notice or won't
"That'll make you take another and make a mock of your plan" your plan refers to your way of living in the "city" banana is going to take over it
"Bungale bungalo make up your mind and tell me no umm shh" They're pressuring you to make a choise
"Well it's nine o'clock and it's getting dark
And the sun is falling from the sky
I've never left so early and you may wonder why" you join them but end up opting out of it to go back to your life
"Tomorrow morning on the plane
No banana make you go insane
Floating back to busy town
No banana make you want to frown"
Here the dependency to this other lifestyle shows, you need it
Sorry for bad English
a few months ago i actually analyzed banana man and concluded that it was about drugs i can not believe that this video just proved me right
hes saying what i was saying
Well not necessarily. Analyses can’t really be “right.” And if you want to define a “right” analysis, it would probably whatever the original creator intended
And Joe Hawley did not intend this song to be about drugs
/lh(lighthearted)
There are multiple different interpretations of this song, ranging from drugs, through societal and mental health issues to just a silly banana song and and nothing more. I think interpretations can be highly subjective and there is no single one that's ever right - So many different opinions and interpretations can be right all at once that it's actually hard to believe but that is the case here for example. However, if we look at what the writers of the song themselves have apparently said, we get the most objective/grounded in reality meaning of the song (outside of interpretations/interpretation intended by the writer) which is that the song apparently has no real meaning behind it outside of just being silly (this is only what I have heard, no idea how real that is)
@@mari-with-a-gun Even if lighthearted, it can go a long way to actually explain the writer's intention behind the song. They are the person who wrote it after all and so their interpretation should be the most important one to take into consideration - We are still obviously allowed to interpret the song to our own meanings but we shouldn't plain just ignore what the writer himself was trying to write about. You, my man, although I'm not sure how right what you say is, as this is my first time in life with this song, have a solid point :)
@@LugiDergX thank you so much, I’ve been stressed out with finals and that really helps
Now, we've arrived, my friends. To the beginning, the TRUE beginning, I may add. The beginning of a core character. The name?..
JESUS! (jesus appears)
i thought it was about getting used to a vacation and being hungover about it when you have to go back to responsibilities
"tommorow morning on the plane" - going back to the city and having to go back to work
"no banana make you go insane" - no more free time, having then being used to freedom you get hungover
My mum sent me this😭
highest privilege
Lol
"Eating bananas" is literally a term for getting high, its little known slang according to google but I looked "is banana man a song about drugs" and that's what google told me, so take it with a grain of salt, especially because it came from redit.
My interpretation of the song is that it’s just a satire of those old racist songs that have weird asf lyrics but are a bop
Me walking around the city and seeing going in an alley to send me a spazzing on bananas and trys to give me one hell nah keep you bananas Im not fina be on bananas I want zaza
I’ve herd the song before, but I had no idea that it was made by Tally Hall. Good to know.
Watching on YT music, awesome video
this is the explanation I've seen that makes the most sense
i interpreted this song as a man that is crazy obsessed with bananas and trying to get others to understand him. idk how i came to this conclusion but i did
3:11 he’s on a hospital bed, which, if people take too many drugs, you get hurt. So, maybe he’s overdosing?