Bo Burnham: INSIDE - That Funny Feeling (REACTION)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 20. 06. 2024
- Reacting to That Funny Feeling from Bo Burnham's Netflix special INSIDE.
There was a lot to unpack here so let me know in the comments what I missed or how you interpreted it!
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Hey, what can you say? We were overdue.
Reaction starts at 0:25
it will be over soon, you wait
I'm not a guitar guy but I read he played D.E.A.D. if that's off I wonder where they got it.
He plays D E A D in the chorus of look whoâs inside again
Itâs a shame it wasnât 0:22 as that would rhyme
This line is about, as the songs, about his panic attacks. The verse and chorus are about his triggers. Most of the stuff you talk about you say wonderfully and truthfully but the whole section, including âAll Eyes on Meâ are specifically about his panic attacks (That Funny Feeling = his panic attacks. The line, âHey what can you say, we are overdue. It will be over soon, just wait da da daa da da da daaaaaaâ etc. is him saying itâs been long enough without one, he was due for one and as someone who gets panic attacks because of my general anxiety disorder, I am not even slightly unsure of what heâs saying, although my panic is usually more selfish and happens when something is bad to me personally.
He has a panic attack on camera earlier on, when heâs cling in the camera. That was real. I would know a fake panic attack. Started with him just being angry he couldnât get the take, felt it coming on and decided to get in front of the camera and show the world at his most vulnerable and this song, in its entirety is about that. âItâll be over soonâ is the only thing that keeps you from wanting to just die when youâre in the middle of a panic attack. Ainât nothing we can do, just wait.
The part about obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto 5 is really the part that hit me the hardest. The GTA series has always been âthat gameâ you play to go to a world where you can do all the things you canât do in real life. The concept of real life being so crazy that you just want to live normally and obey traffic laws in GTA because you canât live normally and peacefully in rl anymore, is perhaps the most horrifying line in this entire specialâŠ
i think its absolutely this. But I interpret an additional element where in playing a game where we're given full permission to do any bad we want, we have moments where we want to take control and show ourselves we're capable of functioning with respect in spite of that permission
@@nocturnalbroadcast if I can add on here, I agree that it's both. The craziness, the chaotic anything can happenness, has been this world for a while, especially once you hit Jan 6th. We don't know (that I know of at least) when he finished working on this. His turning 30 moment happened Aug 21, 2020 (and I completely believe that was legitimately timed and not simply staged to look like it). But he makes small references like his revolution line - yes it's probably a July 4th sale reference but it could also be a reference to a situation like the Insurrection being commemorated by sales. Memorial day, a day to remember and honor our fallen, is also the day mattresses go on sale.
But we still have people choosing to be lawful, because when you think about it lawfulness is often more choice than not. Keeping the law and the trust that your average citizen actually does so is saying that integrity is a vital part of our civilization. And I think Bo was scratching at that idea of integrity with the line. It's part of our social contract with each other and our governments. I think several following lines hit at this but especially the one concerning mass shootings. That's the ultimate break of social contracts there can be and it can and has caused other things mentioned in the song like agoraphobia, dissociation, derealization, etc.
It also loops around to his revolution line again which I for some reason only now realized was also about capitalizing off war/deaths/american battles. Again almost mirrored with his couplet: gift shop at the gun store / mass shooting at the mall. Again tying violence to capitalization. War profiteering long after the war, and now profiteering during social justice movements and reactions to tragedies (like all the BLM products sold by private companies or people, meaning buying it was essentially virtue signaling since the money just went to some person, not to the cause).
I like to think Bo has some faith left in humanity to live up to that challenge of integrity, especially since he dedicated the special to Lor "for everything" (Lor being his gf). But this song highlights a lot of the ways that integrity is bent, bruised, and broken.
Yeah it was the same here for the same reasons just... Hit. Went from nodding with that funny feeling in my gut to full on bawling after that one. Amazing how just a softly delivered line can just stab Into you line that.
@@thanatos7007 WHile you have a fair point, and I in no way want to take away from that, I do have to add to what you're saying that a vast majority of what was purged was not purged for "breaking" that very low bar, but rather for "not sufficiently providing evidence" that it wasn't meeting that very low bar.
To my knowledge, a vast majority of what was purged came down to "looks young enough that we can't fully prove they're not underaged". If even 10% of what was purged was actually breaking ToS, I'd be highly surprised.
All that being said, if even 0.1% of what was purged was breaking ToS, that's incredibly saddening regardless.
Aw wow that is a perfect interpretation! Thank you!! X
My favorite part is the "female Colonel Sanders/easy answers" and I think it's kinda talking about the way that instead of taking actual steps to equality, companies cop out by making "female" versions of stuff and pretending that fixes it. Performative activism.
I heard it "Easy answer: Civil War" separate from the Colonel Sanders line (which I agree with your take on). That would reference the complexity of the intensifying political divides in most countries right now.
@@Cruxador that's fair and a valid way of looking at it, but i do think the like is actually "easy answers/civil war" via the cc on netflix. that's v cool tho and totally fine to take it that way!!!
@@beesbrownies Ah, good point about the CC! I didn't think to check that.
This is months old now, but I think each part of this line is itâs own self-contained reason to feel that âsomething isnât right hereâ feeling. Female Colonel Sanders is an idea that would make you feel odd. Easy answers isnât something that makes a ton of sense, especially for hard questions, but on a grander scale why do we have the question if the answer is really that easy? And Civil War is separate as its own oxymoron, how can war be civil and so on. I think itâs up to interpretation, but for me, it just seems to list 3 different ideas like âCarpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paulâ that had similar cadence
@@TheHebrewHand I might be mistaken but I think the female Colonel Sanders line is _literally_ referencing the KFC marketing campaign a year or two ago where they had different actors slinging chicken in Colonel Sanders costumes.
Existential Dread, the song.
kinna about everything that's happening at the moment and how bad it is and how we are all so f'ed up in the future, ect.
@@bushytrout0494 why are you still alive then?
@@KaneK1234 I said the future, so give it a bit of time
@@bushytrout0494 itâs great commentary but it comes off as though heâs just given up in a way. I think bo is a certified black pill. Which makes sense, this special was created from the perspective of someone unwillingly isolated.
Totes. I feel like bo is walking me through the apocalypse
I heard Bo say he wanted to write something for Gen z. I finally got around to listening to this for the first time in front of my mom cause we were talking about how Gen z sees the world. When I heard âgift shop at the gun range a mass shooting at the mallâ my heart dropped into my stomach and I was holding back tears as my mom was like âha! Thereâs a gift shop at our gun range how funny is that!â He did what he set out to do. He wrote something only young people really understand. Old people think this song is funny.
I'm over 40 and I wept when I first heard this. Some older people have been watching this slide our whole lives, shouting out to deaf ears.
I'm ngl you're comment made my heart drop, I felt that. It's almost like our early exposure to literally everything gave us a more wide perspective on how horrifying things are. "The world at our fingertips," this was for us at the very start, younger kids that is. Idk, just wow though
Iâm a millennial. I feel it too
Itâs this generationâs âWe Didnât Start the Fireâ
im so glad someone else thought of that when hearing it. that was my first thought after hearing the song
I'm not aware of that song. Can you tell me what it's about?
Isn't "We Didn't Star the Fire" kind of the opposite of "That Funny Feeling"? Joel's song is all about how every generation, every decade, has some kind of craziness going on. Bo's is more about the recognition of said craziness, but also how we're very close to the beginning of the end. At least to me, but maybe I'm interpreting it strangely.
@@cameronvincent3122 I think the existential dread/resignation to fate implied in âThat Funny Feelingâ is part of what makes it this generationâs âWe Didnât Start the Fireâ. Joel was just sort of listing things and and saying âdeal with it; this is how it is and itâs how it always will beâ. Boâs list implies the ridiculousness of it all and also inevitability of the aftermath along with frustration of having no control. I think that self awareness and deeper contemplation of events is evolutionary and something that separates this generation from previous ones. (âŠand it gradually got to this point with each generation becoming more and more emotionally and intellectually responsive to events).
YOOO YOU'RE RIGHT
I think the "derealization" part really summarizes what that funny feeling is pretty well:
"Derealization is a mental state where you feel detached from your surroundings. People and objects around you may seem unreal. Even so, you're aware that this altered state isn't normal."
Everything just feels damned, and it feels like we're collectively refusing to process it, so it ends up just feeling surreal instead.
I didnât even know thatâs what it was called until I saw the special, and not only because English isnât my first language. I called them my âglitch in the matrix momentsâ when suddenly my surrounding would feel blurry, where it felt like nothing was real and I couldnât even process thought because my brain went âbut what do words mean?â
My depression feels like that, makes it really hard to care about living/taking care of myself anymore.
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder where the person is afraid of places that they perceive as unsafe or they can't escape from. Frequently this manifests as a fear of leaving their home.
As someone with agoraphobia, yes. This. Most people go for the " exact translation" of the word for the meaning. "fear of the market place" or "fear of open spaces" but that isn't what it actually is. It's much more *complex* than that. It's not just crowds and open fields with blue skys that can potentially trigger someone with agoraphobia. It's more about being unable to escape a situation, if needed. Any situation and location imaginable, pretty much. And the _reason_ for wanting escape from a situation is different for every person with agoraphobia. But the root is usually to do with public embarrassment or bodily harm, from what I've seen. I'm, personally, afraid of bodily harm happening to me. That's my main reason for not going outside.( _Thankfully_ , nothing horrible has happened to me IRL in that way. That's why I'm okay with disclosing/discussing it. It's not an actual trauma. Just the reason my brain is making me stay in my "safe place"). But some people with agoraphobia are afraid they will get very very sick in public and not be able to get to a bathroom in time. Or will have a panic attack in public. Something that is completely out of their control and potentially embarrassing or very scary. The stereotype in the media is that *all* agoraphobic people have panic attacks. Some do. But not all. I was diagnosed with Agoraphobia With No History of Panic Disorder or Primary Agoraphobia. I had no clue it existed before I was diagnosed with it. So the diagnosis was a little bit of a shock. It never occurred to me I might have it because I didn't have uncontrollable panic attacks. Whereas, I was pretty much expecting the social and generalized anxiety diagnoses.
@@AnxietyRat that's really interesting, thanks for sharing!
@@AnxietyRat from my experience it also tends to manifest from or with other anxiety disorders. I have cPTSD and my hypervigilance going into overdrive caused my initial agoraphobic tendencies. I'd sit under tables at the laundromat because it felt safer to be out of people's eyesight and windows and doors freaked me out. For my dad it was his settling in bipolar disorder that led to him being on full disability cultivated safe space syndrome (one of my nicknames for agoraphobia). It started with him needing to drive to family parties to have an exit option without ruining it for us and became full blown over time.
@@palpablenotion yeah, and agoraphobia is technically a trauma based disorder. All phobias are. So usually the people have trauma of some sort ontop of other mental health struggles. My other anxiety disorders feed into my Agoraphobia, 100%. Especially, my social anxiety. Comorbidities with mental illnesses is pretty common, sadly. Anxiety and depression are comorbid the most often, I think. It's rough.
Any volunteer job(I've never been able to hold down a job job. But had to volunteer somewhere for x amount of hours to graduate highschool. So I have that experience. So I'm looking into getting on disability. Got denied once. Not giving up yet.) I need a quiet area to hide in... Where I can get away from everyone else. Places where people don't usually go in the building. Where you will be left alone. I did the same when I was in school. So having hiding places you feel safer in isn't a strange thing, I don't think. But... I have severe anxiety so what's normal to me... Might not be normal. đ
@@godzillaeyes Thank you for reading it! đ„°đ
this one had me in tears while watching the special for the first time, especially the line "googling derealisation, hating what you find", I was extremely mentally ill as a teenager, and I remember one time googling derealisation and yeah, fuckin hating what i found. so that line really hit home for me
When I first heard this song I googled it and then went "....shit..."
Same
Same, it both felt like I finally wasn't alone anymore and that everything was crumbling around me-
Struggled with that too as a teenager. It was something I never thought I'd get out of. Scary feeling :(
I personally think that âthat funny feelingâ is what he mentions in the last verse. âThe quiet comprehending of the ending of it allâ. Life is absurd. This human experience is weird and crazy. Thatâs just my take.
Beautiful take, life truly IS absurd
That's exactly what I thought too. That line is the anchor of the song for me when I listen to it.
No, that's not your take, that's just a correct observation.
I read it as the end of our society and thi climate era
The funny feeling is apathy. Weâre so devoid of actual caring.
"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" is the most gut punching line of the whole special to me ...... I just wish it didn't resonate so much.
"20 000 years of this, 7 more to go." "The ocean at your door." "Quiet comprehending of the ending of it all." "What can I say, we were overdue." This is a requiem to a world we are killing and I fucking can't deal.
And the unapparent summer air in early fall
We are inconsequential to the planet, to think otherwise is incredibly arrogant and solipsistic.
@@Xachary500 Yep, the world will go on with or without us. It will heal on its own, even if that means being rid of us.
@@Xachary500 If you're saying what I think you're saying; it's incredibly ignorant to think we have no effect on the atmosphere. The great dying (one of the mass extinction events) was caused by bacteria producing greenhouse gases.
â7 more to goâ is referring to the climate clock and its predictions.
I love this song. It seems so random until you realize that theyâre all essentially trigger words for what sends Bo into an anxiety spiral.
WowzaâŠ. Never thought of it like that. That gives it a whole new meaning when rewatching through that lens
they're also all completely absurd. why does a meditation app need to be in 8k? hell why does a meditation app need to be in any resolution above 720p?
@@ISavant thatâs the âfunâ part of having out of control anxiety. Sometimes the things that can lead to âthat funny feelingâ are beyond ridiculous. When the world feels like impending doom all of the time, itâs often even difficult to appreciate light hearted dumb stuff, like the absurdity of an 8k meditation app, or carpool karaoke without eventually leading into the feeling of existential dread. And i think Bo suffers a lot from what many millennials suffer from, which is the passage of time, and the heartbreaking realization that we have almost no control over what will happen to us in the future.
@@ISavant the funny thing is that you usually have your eyes closed when you're meditating.
And if you think about anything, and I mean really start to think about it, everything is so bizarre and sometimes terrifying. Stupid shit like the live action lion king or carpool karaoke can trigger anxiety when you think about the fact that everyone just addresses the movie as "live action" even though its animated. Or celebrities sitting in a car, pretending to be driving and singing songs together with a camera crew around them while the public watches and smiles.
That funny feeling is like cognitive dissonance. Basically, how we perceive and rationalize contradictory information. It can sometimes leave us feeling uneasy. I love this song.
There's also a sad irony to the fact he recreated an outdoor campout with friends and family scene using technology, alone, indoors. That establishing shot of the LED panel and the light coming from the projector just screams to me "this is all fake".
I remember there was a time where I listened to this for hours on repeat, just sobbing my eyes out when I felt so numb that I found it hard to even feel empathy for others. This special really helped me get through a really rough patch.
'Cause tragedy will be exclusively joked about
Because my empathy is bumming me out
Panic attacks were probably what you were having, especially âwhen sobbing your eyes outâ like he does on camera during the special. I would advise counseling if this song brought you to listening to it in that way. The best to you. Anxiety is a mofo. Donât get on drugs for it. Find someone who will get you the tools to deal with this daily changing harder to live in world. Therapy is going to be needed during this young generation like never before.
Impending doom is a great way to describe it
Todays mood:
Bo: A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall. There it is again, that funny feeling.
Chris: (Quietly) Yeah...
I think that's the line that made me draw in sharply and not breathe for a while
His voice when he says " hand delivered by a drone" it has a little robotic/drone effect on it. This song is incredible.......just wait.
Dude, I never noticed that until you pointed it out!
Erm no it doesn't
@@themollyrhubarb it does ! it actually has a robotic effect on it, listen closely .
Probably auto tune haha
@@ChrisReactsToThings it's mostly when he says the word drone but you could be right lol but it just seems very fitting and perfectly timed lol makes ya think....just like all his work
This is the saddest song in the special for me, so of course its title is "That Funny Feeling." The feeling of nothing making sense. Existential dread. Constant, nagging, familiar worry that things are not right. The feeling of everything just about to go wrong. The various allutions to climate change and the end of the world and how it is all overdue is ominous as well. But he delivers it in such a warm, comforting song. Bo does so much in this special, so much that I'm moved by and thankful for.
Chris you're so good at this. I see the "funny feeling" as a sense of things just being not quite right, a bit surreal. A couple of my thoughts:
- loving parents, harmless fun - this one reminds me how fucking weird and surreal it felt last year to just do normal daily things when the whole world was on fire literally and metaphorically.
- the backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun - has so so many applications, but it mostly reminds me of US politics and how it's now all based on hurting the "other team" rather than actually doing right by the people
-7 more (years) to go - commonly interpreted as the Climate Clock which says we have that many years left to make sweeping changes as a society/species before climate catastrophe is unavoidable. I don't have much hope for that happening. There's the quiet comprehending of the ending of it all.
- my favorite part is the smile he has during the end of the song. Just
...acceptance. Like, life is difficult and it's going to get WAY WORSE but it won't last forever. Humanity will kill itself off and end our collective suffering, hooray.
bo is such a genuis my god
@@marsh8795 I recognize you from the Livestream last night! And yes, he certainly is.
@@godzillaeyes Hahaha yeah i recognize you too!! But yeah bo writing lyrics is just a WHOOLE nother level
I've always taken the loving parents / harmless fun line as a sort of link back to the themes touched on in Welcome to the Internet. The supply of technology to affluent children was well-meaning at first, beginning with rudimentary video games, never knowing what damage it might cause. The backlash (to the backlash) could then represent the growing awareness of the damage and distortion being done to younger generations, each going deeper than the last, despite occuring in such a short space of time (just begun.)
@@goblincollector36379 just stumbled on this video, but one thing that struck a cord with me regarding that line is how redundant âlovingâ and âharmlessâ are! like, parents *should* be loving and the fact that it needs to be pointed out, suggests that parents arenât necessarily loving. same goes for âharmless funâ. fun *should* be harmless. no one says, hey, letâs go have some harmful fun haha. but when harmless fun is used, itâs used in the context of âhey, theyâre just kids having harmless funâ. this suggests that the fun is potentially harmful, and so the saying is of âharmless funâ is just absurd when you peel back the surface and think about it. Boâs a genius! haha. just wanted to put my take out there
A little thing you should do: When you react to All Eyes On Me please begin with the scene where he stands in front of a camera before the song. It's really important for the song.
He watches all the bits in between offscreen so he should see it.
Itâs the conjunction of this song to that. Thatâs about THE panic attack and specifically about him having them on stage during his last two tours with 5 years between each on his last 3 (counting this) and he was gonna tour again to make what would have been not a pandemic one but probably a more watered down version of this (Inside). Through tragedy, great works are born. Iâve been a huge fan of his since the first time I heard the songs youâre talking about on that interlude scene. Itâs what bridges That Funny Feeling to All Eyes on Me and both directly refer to his panic attacks. He speaks of it directly during the interlude of AEOM.
I think you totally nailed what the âfunny feelingâ is. Itâs like thereâs all these huge problems in the world but what can any individual do? Nothing really. We need the people in power to do it and so I feel like a lot of people just go about their lives because they donât know what to do. We can organize and try to fix things but ultimately it means nothing if the people in power donât listen. So I think itâs like this constant existential dread in the back of our minds. And this song just verbalizes that feeling so well.
Well if the individual has no power, to effect change, then the only possibility that leaves is that, maybe, we can accomplish something together. Also, individuals do have that power and they have already designed the system to empower and protect them to do, virtually, anything they want, at the cost of those who count on said system to empower and protect them. They're not gonna do sh|t (not enough, anyway). So it's, indeed, up to us, not as individuals, but as a society, to affect change. Still, congrats on your clean bill of responsibility. I hope you choke on your blue pill.
The irony here is that the people in power are only in power because the rest of us let them be. If we all gathered together and started behaving in ways that will fix things, then it wouldn't matter what the people in power say or do, because they'd just be individual people who are being ignored. The bigger issue isn't that the people in power won't do anything, I think it's more like we won't do anything because we don't think too many other people will go along with it, and then we who want change to happen are the odd ones out, being ignored at best.
Oh I completely agree. And thatâs part of the problem. We need more organizing. If the working class truly United we would have unstoppable power
It really feels like we're all aboard a sinking ship and the captain & crew are busy squabbling over some petty nonsense.
Wow. Iâm surprised that this many people donât know what âThat Funny Feelingâ IS actually about. I guess if you donât have anxiety disorder or ever had multiple panic attacks, why would you? The âwhat are we gonna do, itâll be over soonâ is just advice for what you do during one, âHere it comes, that funny feeling, that funny feeling once again (Another panic attack), what are we gonna do? It will be over soon (So try and breathe and relax or take your breakout meds like alprazolam / xanax), just wait. Last time Iâll post this because most of the comments here are missing the song meanings and they are to be interpreted indivisible for sure and he means the things he says but the focus of the song is That Funny Feeling, his panic attacks (Once again). He talks about what that feeling is in that part of inside where, person says âhow does it feelââŠsomething like âa few things start to happen, my heart turns to dappinâ, my vision starts to flatten, and I think Iâm gonna dieâ (paraphrased and sung real fast). That is âTHE FUNNY FEELINGâ and this song is about feeling one coming on and he lists reasons. Altruistic feelings as most people,have them more for personal reasons, like your dog dies or your girlfriend breaks up with you. Bo is a better person than me though.
8:40 yeah the "seven more to go" is a throwback to the theory that we only have 7 (now closer to 6 since "inside" was released) till the earth hit's the so-called "self-destruction" button
No such thing.
this song made me tear up when i watched it in context of the whole special, it's kind of a breaking point before the collapse that follows after...White woman's instagram, Funny feeling and All eyes on me brought tears.
How did a White Woman's Instagram make you cry?
@@kaithecactus3714 the part where the subject of the song is suddenly humanized in a sharp way.
@@snazzydrew yeah same, but she quickly mentions her mother's DEATH, and then goes back to singing about goat cheese salad lmao, which is brilliant comedy, but i couldn't possibly see myself crying because of it, it goes away too quickly....
@@kaithecactus3714 idk. I've actually lost a sibling is grief is weird...
It legit can come and go like that. I 100% believe that people are missing the point of the song if they heard the subject of White Woman's Instagram open up about her life but ignore it because of the other stuff on her instagram.
I kinda feel bad for Bo Burnham. To make this special and everyone just thinks it's a joke. đ€đ€·đŸââïž
@@snazzydrew i understand that the humanizing of the song is nice, and an accurate representation of grief, but you cannot deny that the pace and context of how it's mentioned was purposefully really funny and it quickly pulls itself back so that you don't focus on it too much for the rest of the song. This song was good at setting a serious tone which would on later songs be further built up on, but the song itself is not a melancholic breakpoint, it's just dark humor...
The outro of the song is heartbreaking and hopeless but at the same time itÂŽs a beautiful piece of art,amazing
"A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall" tears me to pieces every time.
I learnt this song on piano, everyone be proud of me plz.
Edit: I made the be proud of me thing as a joke, but i mean, thank y'all!
I suck at it on ukelele, so jealous.
thats awesome
Good job
I'm proud
The council of the internet gives you the "proud" medal, here đ
I didn't really feel this one at first, but I've seen the special like 15 times now and everytime I love it more. Right now it might be my favorite and it's definitely top 3
It took a while for it to hit me, too, but now itâs...oof.
âFemale colonel sanders, easy answer, civil warâ is talking about the divide between progressive culture and conservative backlash to stuff like this. Like the Mr. Potato head or Aunt Jemima thing from last year. Something so small and petty turns into a huge social issue. The conservatives see it as some affront to their ideals and this weird nostalgic sense from the MAGA type crowd for some kind of âbetter timeâ in America, which was ironically not a better time at all for a huge portion of the American population. You can just imagine it... a commercial comes on the scene with a female colonel sanders and you have news stories of how this feminist PC culture attack on âAmericanâ ideals has one side up in arms, calling for civil war.
The âeasy answerâ part of the line is the most chilling part of the line.
Thank you, I never thought of this interpretation! Makes total sense.
@@godzillaeyes one of the most poignant lines of the song IMO
This is my favorite song of the special. I have to be careful about what kind of mood I'm in when I listen to it, though, so I don't wind up crying in my car
Again, another person with the intended reaction. You are literally having âthat funny feelingâ, probably something close to panic if not a full blow attack. Do you ever become near hyperventilation? Does it get that bad? If so, I would advise therapy. Good luck. The best most caring people are people that have anxiety and feelings.
The first time I listened to this song, I cried, and then proceeded to have an existential panic attack.
Chris: "It seems like this song is just all about irony?"
You're close.
Chris: "Maybe it's not ironic, maybe it's more like knowing there's all these bad things going on and we know we can change it, but we just don't?"
Getting warmer.
Chris: "That funny feeling is just that little thing in the back of our minds that we all know there's something wrong with the world."
You pretty much got it. That's as best as I can figure it, too. Only Bo knows the full meaning of his words, of course. Maybe he'll tell us one day, or maybe he intends for us to come to our own conclusions.
imagine flexing your guitar skills in a reaction video, the audacity
(jk great thoughts as always, hope your channel keeps growing)
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agitprop was originally communist but its not limited only to communist propaganda.
These last songs are some of the best in the entire special. Looking forward for watching you finish it!
I think "that funny feeling" is a combination of repressed rage, existential dread, and a mixture of shock and disbelief that we have and continue to go down this path as if we have no other options when we DO! Why are we just sitting back and accepting this reality!?! Has the nihilism completely taken over? Or is it laziness? Propaganda, perhaps? Have we now fully accepted the extinction of our species as inevitable or are we just in denial? Maybe it's a combination of the two?
PS You felt it when you shook your head slightly to say no and then said "yeah" very softly when he mentioned the gun range gift shop and the shooting at the mall. That feeling. That's what this song is about. Every time you shook your head "no" and your face looked like you are about to cry. That. That funny feeling...
Man i sure do love getting to feel a burning truck going at a million miles per second whilst filled with nothing but pure existential dread punching me in the gut with this song, and im not complaining one bit
To me, That funny feeling is Existential Dread. Also a lot of people are saying this is the modern day we didn't start the fire
Then all eyes on me is basically him begging to believe in an afterlife to escape the existential dread. In the middle he goes back to the struggles of life and the futility of trying to save the world, because it'll end again with begging for an afterlife.
By far and away my favourite song from the special. All Eyes on Me up next is another very good one, but I think Goodbye is also absolutely top tier
I feel like all the random things heâs mentioned throughout the song, along with all the very dark concerning things in the same sentence, all go along with the idea of derealization and disassociation as we find ourselves looking at these random things and feeling absolutely numb and detached about it all, including and especially all of the heavy and dark things. You mentioned about us all being very aware of how much things need to change and how critical the change is for not only our survival, but for the survival of the planet and everything on it, yet feeling so detached, depressed, and numb to it all that even though we understand how serious it is, we canât find ourselves able to care about fixing ourselves, much less anything else including the world, even if it means we die along with it. Itâs very interesting the things that he mentions as these are all things we do or focus on mindlessly to sort of fill the void of emotion that we all feel on a regular basis. What gets me is how it takes a very dark turn towards the end of the song that shows more of why we feel this way and why we lack the empathy and motivation to do anything, much less care about the seriousness of things that are happening while also depicting the severity of depression that weâve all grown accustomed to and perceive as normal these days. Thatâs why that line at the end about âthe quiet comprehending of the ending of it allâ is so genius because again we are all completely aware of it all is and how critical it is that we change at this point yet again find ourselves lacking any sort of real motivation to do anything about it and essentially just excepting our fate and our deaths seeing as it goes hand-in-hand with our already existing depression and borderline suicidal thoughts and tendencies. We somehow find ourselves more comforted about the fact that we are all going to die someday, potentially in the very near future, and rather than trying to find ways to prolong our lives and futures, we would rather just die seeing as how we all perceive this potential future as nothing but more existential dread, depression, suffering, trauma, etc. instead of anything positive that could maybe come out of it. Itâs a beautiful song about depression and that sense of apathy and numbness that we go through as well as going through the auto pilot phase where nothing Hass to matter because if it doesnât matter then it canât hurt you and if it canât hurt you then you can go on âlivingâ every day until you die.
Is ''that funny feeling'' the only song that has a smooth transition in the special? Kind of like how the world will have a smooth transition without human beings. Not sure if intentional but I thought that was a nice interpretation.
I never realised until recently when someone pointed this out, but this whole song is about absurd contradictions In our lives. A "stunning 8k resolution meditation app" when you're supposed to close your eyes when you meditate. A book on getting better "hand delivered by a drone" when simply going outside and talking to people would help you much more than having a robot deliver something to you
Dude, just found your reactions this morning and these songs are giving me goosebumps all over again watching you react to them. Easy subscribe!
your videos have given me such a great different view of these songs I loved already. Thank you for sharing.
Exactly why I wanted you to react to this dude, your insight to this is song is so eye-opening. Many reactors skip past the details that you stop and ponder on so honestly... loved it.
loved this vid, this is my favorite song from the special because its so intricately written and can be viewed through a lot of different lenses and i think all interpretations are accurate in their own way. i enjoyed your take on it, for me i think that funny feeling represents existential dread
To me, "that funny feeling" is described perfectly in one of the first lines of the special:
"What the f*** is going on?"
This video was so good, you helped explain a lot of lines I didn't fully get and now I have such a deeper appreciation for the song, so thank you
Agitprop: agitation propaganda
He's talking about capitalisms comodification of revolutionary tools. Like Hot Topic selling Che Guevara Tshirts.
The first time I watched INSIDE, at the line "The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean and your door" I started to sob and it lasted all the way through to the end. So goodonya for keeping it together so far! I love these reactions dude. Thanks.
dude youâre seriously so good at picking up on Boâs intent and the meaning behind a lot of these songs upon first viewing itâs really impressive
I think "that funny feeling" is the difference between things that we experience as normal everyday life, and then the experience of being jerked out of normality and considering things that are beyond us or looming. The line that I thought was most illuminating was "in honor of the Revolution, it's half off at the GAP." Kinda set the stage for me. We are so used to experiencijg the world in unchanging terms, that even Revolution is commodified. Then he goes on to talk about how little time we have to make any change. And that Funny Feeling is that we aren't going to force a change, we are too preoccupied with life as normal that we are numb. That Funny Feeling is the realization that you want thing to be better, but you would rather other people are the ones that fight for change. Which I think he mentions with the line "self help book hand delivered by a drone."
Hey man, just dropping by to say that this is among the best reactions I've ever watched, really enjoying your videos.
Really enjoying your reactions, you're damned good at analyzing the text and all. keep it up!
Great reaction as always
I think i need to watch the whole special again for like the 6th time
Its so incredible
i'm getting separation anxiety now that we're nearing the end of Chris Reacts to Inside
Man you are so good at this, thankyou for another great analysis.
This song hit me so personally, I do feel like it's working on both a micro and macro level - the crushing existential dread of the world we live in, and the patterns that a decline in mental health can push us into (maybe not Pornhub, but I have totally ended up blankly reading legalese instead of doing the thing I was originally intending to do, when my brain has been particularly broken).
In particular, the 'hey, what can you say' refrain definitely feels like it's talking about the seemingly inevitable doom of humanity, but it really reminded me of conversations when chronic mental illness (or physical for that matter) strikes - particularly going back to it after the All Eyes On Me story. You have a really good stretch where you dare to feel like things have improved, then the relapse hits you like a truck, there's nothing you or anyone else can do to fix it, you just have to grimace and say hey, I knew this would come back round eventually, I was lucky to have that long, and I've reached the other side before, all I can do is keep holding on.
This is probably the only reaction channel worth watching, with actual insights of your own on every line, and its actually good, thank you
It's so awesome to me that your entire channel is reacting to bo one song at a time.
Iâm way late here but your reactions are so genuine and honest and insightful. Big fan.
YAYAY IM SO EXCITED YOU UPLOADED
Just re-suggesting what I suggested a few videos ago regarding your upcoming âall eyes on meâ reaction, but you should really watch or include the couple of scenes before the actual song because it adds a lot to the song. Especially the scene right before
The last few lines about us being overdue reminds me of how people talked about the pandemic. And then to say âitâll be over soonâ seems consistent. I think this is a play on those words as the pandemic is very emblematic of the song as a whole: we kinda deserve this, we could have done more to stop it, we should be doing more to stop it, itâs eventually going to destroy us - whether itâs this disaster or the next one.
"the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door". Access to anything you can click on at the cost of near total isolation. Reminds me of the song I Need You So Much Closer by Death Cab for Cutie..."and thousands upon thousands made an ocean, making islands, where no islands should go".
Great video as always! Man, this song really does hit every time, its so great. Super excited to see you watch All Eyes on Me, if you liked this you'll absolutely love that one.
Nobody can convince me that the funny feeling isn't the sense of impending doom.
Gotta love a full-blown existential crisis.
I love that right after he GIVES you that "funny feeling" he calls it out with a chorus. That uneasy, sort of "that's funny, but not 'haha' funny, more like 'wow, damn, yeah', funny". And then he's like "THERE, there it is, that. That's it, right there. THAT funny feeling." Oh, and the irony of the "8k resolution mediation app" is that your eyes are closed while you meditate. So why does it matter if it's 8k? You're not gonna be staring at it.
I am of course adding my own spin on this, but This Week I Review (or the comments in his review for the special, I forget which) said it extremely well (and honestly his review of Inside is the best review of anything that I've ever seen), that this song is essentially a song of jokes left unsaid. It hits on all the big ticket thoughts that live in your head for free, both serious and not, by making you think about them instead of actually talking about them. This song is the hidden central piece of the entire special, and is laid out in a format that simply gives you the feelings and leaves your thoughts to themselves.
Love your reactions đ new sub! You should really consider reacting to his older stuff too from his other specials. Canât wait to see where your channel goes. Good luck! âđœ
I think I fell in love with you while watching this haha great reaction
I donât know why, but this this special repeatedly brought me to tears and this song was one of the most impactful.
âFemale Colonel Sander, Easy Answersâ is relating to how Ai is used from Turing popular icons into different things and how it can also give out answers at the writing of a prompt.
Dude, I've seen a few of your reactions but you've really understood the song much more than most people seem to. I noticed that when apparently TikTok blew up with people's added verses and you can really tell how little some people understand the point. Which is fine enough I guess but nice to see someone actually get the point of it.
I got your video recommended while browsing through Bo's songs, and remembered finding your channel when you just started with Inside reaction videos. I vaguely recalled you quitting/taking a break because it got too overwhelming? (Forgive me if I remembered wrong, a lot happened this past year) And I quickly checked your channel to see if you started uploading again, you haven't, so I just wanted to write this to say I hope you're doing well, internet stranger, your insights are still nice to listen to, and your cover of Funny feeling is still the best cover of it online. I hope you're doing what makes you happy!
This song always struck me as a "the end of the world is happening" type of song. Like the end of the world just happened and this is a campfire song where the survivors are gathered around looking back at all the obvious signs that the end was coming.
he did such a good job as showing the scope of what that funny feeling could be. We all know it but it's still different for all of us, that weird strange dread without immediate cause, knowing something is...off but not knowing how to fix it.
Why is this song so haunting, beautiful, and catchy all at once
This song and Bo's art in general means so much to me cause I suffer from agoraphobia, disassociation, and derealization (among other things but that's what he mentioned in this song). It gives me chills every time. Especially because it's like he's expressing how powerless he feels as someone who wants to save the world from ending, or stop mass shooting, or even the brainwashing that the government does. I feel the same way. I cry every time I listen to this cause I understand that funny feeling a little too well.
You should cover it! Your taking voice is great and since you say you don't know how people feel about your singing voice you'd find out.
When i heard the âThe world at our finger tips, the ocean at your doorâ metaphor I figured that he was saying that just like the ocean at your door all the worlds information at your fingertips is to much to handle.
For me, it's 'the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door' I could write an essay about those words
This song broke me. This is the entire mindset of a 34-year old millenial living through the slowest apocalypse ever.
that first chorus hit you in the feels bruh.. somehow I don't think you're alone
I liked just because of how short your intro was. I really appreciate it.
*Edit* Stayed for the reaction. It was interesting hearing your perspective.
It seemed like you got the gist of the song. But rather than blaming those with power for the way things are, I think it's better to just say that things are the way they are because it is. It would be no different if other people were in power.
Whenever I get that "funny feeling", I just think of this song and laugh, and i remember that however I feel is irrelevant to anything. It's better just to be happy and enjoy life.
I mentioned in a previous reaction that I feel like a main theme for the entire special is juxtaposition, and that gets distilled in this song. Having the whole world at your fingertips makes you feel powerful, like with the right tweet you could start a movement, but the ocean at your door makes you feel powerless, because whatever you do won't change the political deadlock that is allowing subsidies to continue pouring into the pockets of the fossil fuel fat cats.
And throughout the song it just kind of feels like scrolling through you news feed. The silly and ridiculous side by side with the atrocious and depressing. And the compassion fatigue that, now around a year and a half into the pandemic, laces our every interaction with the news.
That's just what I think about with this song, anyway.
Spot on my friend. I couldn't find a better way to put it into words.
The colonel Sanders thing is about how the littlest things can cause all of us to blow up at each other over nothing
Ethan of CrankGameplays did a really good cover of this song with different lyrics that were about his struggles. It's pretty heartbreaking, but really good. The line where he referenced Unus Annus .... man
That version killed me and I didn't even follow Unus Annus or know who he was.
@@godzillaeyes yeah, it's easy to feel for him because of the things he sings about.
When I listen to this song I hear him mentioning matching polar opposites of what people will pay attention to. There are the things going on in this world that should draw the attention of everyone in the world and everyone should be so fixated on ( the oceans at our door, a mass shooting at the mall, etc...). Then there are the opposites, the things that people actually ARE paying attention to ( Pepsi Halftime show, Logan Paul, their phones ). We're doomed because the masses cares more about the distractions than the issues.
I feel like the song is talking about superficial fun and entertainment, how they feed it to us to make us comply with the world's irony and bitterness. Logan Paul, live-action lion king, Pepsi halftime show. We try to enjoy our time but what we consume contrasts with the real world.
this song always gives me that funny feeling
"Live action Lion King, Pepsi halftime show" taking the fantasy and trying to make it real while taking the real and making it fantasy.
I love how he juxtaposes two conflicting ideas together to highlight just how absurd everything is in the world right now. "Gift shop at that gun range... Mass shooting at the mall". Bo is a genius.
Excellent commentary. You're spot on. We are screwed unless the elite get their act in gear.
"That Funny Feeling" is something we are all slowly experiencing. The world is too crazy and too extreme and it feels like we're near the end. The twilight of humanity.
exactly, and we (as individuals) are powerless to stop it. we can only watch as the billionaires get richer, pollute the world, pay no taxes to help anybody but themselves, etc, etc... we're just along for the ride. That Funny Feeling.
This song hurts. The line about mass shootings gets me everytime. I have a friend who lives in Santa Clarita. I remember hearing about the shooting at a high school there 2 years ago and going absolutely numb, texting her to see if she was okay. It turned out she had switched schools in the town, but the time spent waiting was agony and this song always brings it up. I also find it really heartbreaking that at the end, when Bo is singing how it'll be over soon seems comforting when it's alluding to the destruction of humanity, especially that it IS comforting
Oh! Also the 20 thousand years of this, 7 more to go line. It's heartbreaking that it's delivered in a way that makes it seem that he's thankful for when humanity will be gone (for good reason imo) and counting down how long we have left
this song is literally Bo putting music to the act of doomscrolling at the start of COVID
first time seeing your content incredible detailed breakdown especially if this was legit a first listen through. /slow claps
You're correct on the "7 more to go". Climatologists estimate about 7 years before we pass the point of no return with climate change. Unfortunately I believe the estimation was at least a year ago already, maybe close to two.
In my opinion that funny feeling is the feeling of just being numb to everything, the way we all go from one thing to another with little to no feeling about it
When you said "maybe it's not ironic," all I could think of was a different Bo lyric: "That one's not ironic, that one's just sad"