A Philosopher Reacts to Bo Burnham's Outtakes
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Is Bo Burnham . . . Depressed?
Bo Burnham surprised us with another full hour of content from his 2021 special, Inside. And we think that it serves as an interesting philosophical companion piece to the original. So let's find out what philosophy can teach us about depression and hopelessness in this episode of A Philosopher Reacts to Bo Burnham's The Inside Outtakes.
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What's your favorite new song or bit from the Inside Outtakes?
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Spider in a Corner deserves a Grammy and I will not be taking questions at this time.
Probably that podcast sketch. If you closed your eyes it sounded just like your average podcast, except without all the time wasting digressions. The, “dick spray,” ad during the point when he was vaunting his philosophical chops kind of sums up all podcasts.
PLEASE DO THE VENTURE BROS, WISECRACK!!!!
Chicken song!
You really need to drop that constant forced smile, it's annoying and cringy! you can be nice without to have to always smile!
The irony of watching a reaction video to Inside is not lost on me.
I'd say it's more of an analysis, but the irony still prevails lol
At least it’s not an analysis of Unpaid Intern. That would not just be ironic but silly given the gimmick for that song.
Also, Unpaid Intern is far too short for a video.
Formatting this as a reaction video was such a bad read by wisecrack. Shoulda gone regular style video essay-style.
The irony of watching him talk about the add in the podcast and how philosophers would say knowledge should be free, yet talked about keeps at the start of the video...
I feel the biggest irony is watching the ad at the begginig of this video about Inside Outtakes where ads are a major topic
I want to point out that Bo demonetized the video. He shared an hour of content for no financial gain.
I think by this point, his special has made so much money (song revenue too) that he doesn't want that any more. In the special, and lots of his other content, he talks about how he would do this even if money wasn't involved but that he also needs to pay the bills. He saved the most introspective and less "funny" content for these outtakes because having this as the netflix special wouldn't have done as well. The Netflix special was so successful because while it touched on the deep questions, it didn't leave the viewer crippled with those questions. He basically validated our feelings about the world, and then moved on to the next bit.
"Laughter is the best medicine, besides...medicine"
-Bo Burnham
My favorite elements included the obsession with spiders, and the obsession of trying so hard to catch the video of a plane flying & filtered through window blinds.
Wait is that what the plane was about?
I thought he just went to try to record it whenever a plane flew over while he was trying to record something else, because the plane sound would come through in his audio.
@@Mutantcy1992 me too, I thought he was just frustrated with the noise 😂
@@Mutantcy1992 is right before the ATL joke (I think)
@@Mutantcy1992 he got a successful shot and showed it in Inside, but showing the process of getting that shot was a nice touch
I could imagine it is easy to interpret too much into anything. But in my experience, when hearing a plane and trying to locate it, I look in the wrong direction. Sound travels slower than light, so I first look for where the plane was in the past and have to look "into the future" to find it. Through the blinds, Bo has a limited view and therefore needs to anticipate the occurrence through experience gained (e.g. flight schedules) or expand his view by going outside (which he promises to never do again). Some things can't be seen due to a (hopefully) temporal lack of perspective. We crave change and need it.
Or it was a callback to child-like curiosity. But most probably he was passing time and thought it was funny.
I’m sad you did not incorporate a discussion of the chicken song into this analysis. I feel it was such an earnest song, and it’s placement right at the end made it an incredibly compelling synthesis of all the ideas presented beforehand. I believe that it represents the decision to choose hope in the wake of a bleak reality, the role of modern comedy to reveal hidden depths beyond the surface, and the ability for hope, despair, and comedy to coexist and create something beautiful. It’s tone was so different to anything else contained in the special or the rest of the outtakes, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I first heard it.
Could not agree more - I’ve had that song on repeat, and the last lines are so fantastic! 🐓
Same! Especially the ending where he says “Most think she died, but I think we ought to believe that she got to the other side, and that’s why she did it.” It’s a hopeful note after so much pessimism.
Agreed!
I love that the chicken had to get to the other side and in the final song ‘Goodbye’ he sings I’ll see you on the other side of the street. Maybe he’s singing to those that dreamed and strove for something despite the risks.
@@jsauce8669 I hadn’t considered that connection! That line from Goodbye has always felt a bit strange to me, maybe the chicken song is the additional context we didn’t know we needed.
One of my favorite details is that during the bros podcast, they say “their just jokes” and “it’s not they serious”, right before immediately talking about how comedians are philosophers, showing the hypocrisy of these podcasts.
The shot of the ocean at the end made me think of “the whole world at your fingertips/the ocean at your door.” A darker reading.
Yes, but it also reminded me of the few microseconds of birds chirping you can hear at the end of All Eyes on Me. The answer is going outside, always.
@@josephyn89 Yeah it feels like he ended it by telling us all to go touch grass
What I thought was interesting was that the Outtakes presented themselves an intimate, behind-the-curtain look at the production of Inside, when they themselves are an edited, curated video where Bo chooses what to show us. It's impossible to give some kind of totally raw, genuine experience, that's just the nature of content creation and would be intrusive and parasocial, but I just thought it was interesting that Inside was already supposed to be this raw, emotional look into Bo's psyche, but the outtakes show that that was a presentation put together by Bo, but the outtakes themselves are also a product that has been edited and cropped, it's like Inception, where there's increasing levels of "unscripted" content, which are all a simulacra of the actual lived experience of Bo creating the special.
You know I think that is a totally accurate observation. If we see his first netflix special everything was so perfectly timed out on purpose. I mean just an example: (first special, I think “what”?) the moment he dropped his water and so beautifully acted it out that for a second we didn’t know it was planned until the prerecorded music came on singing about how Bo just spilled his water on purpose. This is a man that has so much control over what his audience sees. And I think that is an impactful thing to understand when watching this particular special because his inability to control his own environment is what has caused him to birth this genuinely Ingenious look into the anxiety that the state of the world is inflicting on him in a way that is so relatable yet explicitly tailored and meticulously calculated on his part to create a sense of reality but not one that is actually existing in that moment. That might not make any sense idk, I’m an actual idiot. I think I’ll just post it.
I really like how Wisecrack uses contemporary philosophers like Berardi as sources -- helps cement the sense that we're talking about conversations that are still alive
I think another point of that ad during his speech about his embarrassing history being preserved online is that he's pointing out that that process is not over. Being the comedian is being the fool; being human is being imperfect, and needing to constantly improve. He's not some perfectly formed being now, he will continue doing ridiculous things in his specials, things that he'll probably look back on in his 40s and be embarrassed by. Surely not every joke he makes now will age well or remain in good taste and society's tastes change.
The ads placed throughout the special made me think of this moment I had the other day. I was watching Mathew mcconaughey talk about the uvalde shooting and was getting quite emotional as he told these childrens stories. When all of a sudden I’m hit by 2 ads playing at max volume for some stupid product.
On the 'just in case': this is also his point with the 'Don't kill yourself' segment in Inside: 'there might be people who love you in the future'. Also I think that the 'feeling' he discribes as a Shepard's tone clarifies what 'that funny feeling' is from the original special. All the tension created by looking at your feed and seeing everything that the guy in 'Welcome to the internet' is describig, and feeling like it all builds up, but never gets solved, never leads to any conclusion. I think the random listing of stuff in 'that funny feeling' makes sense, it's trying to explain what the feeling is by listing the things that cause the feeling. The feed. That's how I understood this part.
I read the last image in a much darker manner.
"You say the oceans rising like I give a shit. You say the whole world's ending. Honey it already did."
"The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door."
Yea the touch grass interpretation is just so nothing
You spoke on a lot of my Fave moments. The Future song hit me. I love the mockery on the ads. I didn't understand the ocean scene until you said that last bit and "whatever your beach may be." That's really good to hold on to. Enjoyed the video
Surprised you didn't get into the All Eyes on Me Reprise/Duet. the juxtaposition of that version with the original, is jarring to wrap the head around. both entrancing and haunting.
A lot of what I took away was that filming and creating all of "Inside" was not just draining, but numbing.
And I feel like that probably holds true for a lot of comedians or content creators on a professional level.
Where they have to repeat over and over saying they're shit as a joke until it becomes meaningless. But you're still calling yourself shit. Where you say casually "you should kill your mom" and that apathy in filming is a struggle because you... still need to care.
Creators likely go through a good dozen takes for some shots, and if they're lucky, it's for something they like and want to express, but a lot of self-deprecating jokes or media just reinforce some of the negatives as background noise and accepted. Making things feel hopeless.
Honestly incredible you didn't cut to an ad for Keeps while discussing the ads in the Inside Outtakes.
Funny how he explained Bo putting an ad in his "Philosophic" podcast while he has a Keeps ad in HIS philosophic CZcams video....
As for the ending with the image of an ocean hitting the shore. In inside he uses the image of the rising ocean quite a lot as impending doom (be it depression, global warming, society in general, .... several interpretations are possible) so ending the outtakes with an ocean might also be a reference to that.
You're going to do a whole other video about the chicken, right?
...right?
Daddy made us some contenttt
It was so interesting to see the different tunes used in other songs. Like ideas he didn’t use.
Yes! I loved the alternative lines. I found myself mentally correcting the *creator of the song* because he went with a different line for the final song.
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A 25 minute video just to tell us to go touch grass. Thanks Wisecrack.
Well said.
I loved every one of the songs from the Inside Outtakes, but my favorite has to be the Medieval choral rendition of Bezos. It's moving and ironic in its comical worship of a man that he's spent a lot of time critiquing throughout his special and the outtakes. Thank you for making this analysis video!
There is nothing more confidence inspiring about an in-video commercial about hair loss prevention than it being promoted by a balding man lol
You should really talk about James Acaster’s specials “Repertoire” and “Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999” they are also very personal and layered comedy specials similar to Inside. He deals with a lot of themes of identity crises, depression, loneliness and all other sorts of harsh realities in his stuff. Really phenomenal watches even if you don’t do a video on it!
i agree
Couldn’t agree more. Repertoire is one of the best things I’ve ever seen
Agreed!
I still need to watch those. I've only seen what I think is the intro to Cold Lasagne where he's making fun of "edgy" comedians making fun of trans people. Acaster is definitely another super good comedian everyone should look up.
thanks for the rec friend, gonna check this out.
The philosopher most referred to in this video is Franco Berardi and his book, "After the Future".
This was one of your best analysis of the year imo, great video
I really love the analysis here. This is so interesting and fun to look at from a philosophical perspective ❤️
Your hot take link between Plato's cave and his shed.....is absolutely spot on, hadn't even considered that myself.
Your breakdowns are always insightful. Thanks!
Hey Michael, it’s Michael! I love everything you do at wisecrack and this was no exception. If anything I love your analysis so much I’m very disappointed you didn’t get into 1985 or the Chicken song, two songs that to me at least seem so blunt yet so complex at the same time. The chicken song alone is like worth a whole episode there’s so many layers of meaning you can peel off from it! Anyways love all you do and I’ll watch anything you do about Bo in a heartbeat!
I love that the chicken had to get to the other side and in the final song ‘Goodbye’ he sings I’ll see you on the other side of the street. Maybe he’s singing to those that dreamed and strove for something despite the risks.
It’s so freaking funny to me that one of the biggest philosophy channels on CZcams covering Burnham’s “Inside” is set in a corporate office and has to run ads for hair loss pills. Huh, there’s that funny feeling again.
Nice I absolutely love this kind of content! I guess who Burnham could say, in relation to having no audience,”Bo audience, Bo problem!”.
Dude, great shirt. The analysis is good too and love Burnham....but that shirt is awesome.
My friend doesn't understand the laceless shoes joke, can somebody help him?
Probably has something to do with suicide
I have no idea who this Bo Burnham person is
You aren't allowed shoelaces in the psych ward, in order to prevent self harm
My visual anchor while watching his "Inside" content is the brown smudge on the door. He goes outside often enough to leave a mark.
I remember watching "Inside" for the first time a couple of months ago and thinking "this man is not okay". I know that there's an element of performance there, but it immediately set off a series of red flags
He's not okay because we as a people are not ok
After watching this I have picked up Bifo's book and while I am not through yet, I find it incredibly valuable for me right now, so thank you for doing this work :3
which books? some of these quotes are really interesting to me, id love to dig into his work more
Please do the philosophy of the 2008 Jim Carey film “Yes Man”
Yas
gotta love bo and his social commentary since you know it is so funny
I just made soup and I thought my day couldn't get any better, and then I pull up youtube and see a Wisecrack video about Bo Burnham
The best part of the motivational speaker trio-monologue is the fact that all the voices get louder until they're basically unintelligible and then "nothing" is said entirely on its own
This video was very well put together and I'm thankful for getting to know Franco Berardi through it!
would love to see you do an analysis of everything everywhere all at once! talking about absurdism, existentialism, etc
he did already boo! go to the channel page to find it, it’s fucking great
This was great. Kudos. You're doing good work!
The Chicken is so good.
I get how it didn't quite fit in the finished film. A classic nonetheless.
I have chickens. It hits real hard.
5 years was my favorite from the outtakes
Same
same here. Very funny and at the same time explores long term relationships
You owe me a dumpling or a dumpling equivalent
I'd love a take from you in this format on Everything Everywhere All At Once. That movie did some mind fucking. 😂
To add to the final image of the end of the outtake. If you listen closely to the waves hitting the rock it almost sounds like static, almost like at the end of a broadcast network when the national broadcasting network discontinue programming and either leaves static or the color bar dial tone. It almost as to stay with the theme that the internet has become the "real world" in most people's minds and that the actual real world is not and is more of the disconnect. Maybe I'm reading into it but that's what I got from the image after this special.
14:07 "Can a earnest desire for meaning or self exploration coexist with trying to sell sh!t or just get you to give more of your attention away?"
I don't know, but I'm sure that question KEEPS you up at night.
One song that didn't make it into Inside or Outtakes is 1985, where he says he wishes he was his dad in 1985. If you pay attention to the backing track towards the end of the song, he calls his dad an oblivious white guy, so Bo is haunted by knowing the truth about how the world works, the cause of his depression, and wants to feel good as a result, wishing he didn't know what he realised a while ago. Combined, Inside and The Inside Outtakes are ultimate way of saying "ignorance is bliss"
That's why we turn towards fiction, where things aren't so ambiguous and messy, and there is a clear, immersive storyline that everyone agrees upon.
I was waiting for this thank you! Also I'm waiting for your opinions on the new southpark episode!
5 Years was my favorite.
I would slightly argue with Barardi at 6:07. Yes, depression shows what public discourse hides, however I believe that the general public is aware of the aspects of life that depression puts under a microscope--I simply believe that the "truth" is subjective, and if the "truth" is derived off the values of the general public, then the "truth" is a part of life those without depression accept and choose to ignore; the void/abyss being a waste of time and effort; while those with depression struggle with the inability to accept overlooking it, the full-understanding of the truth as a hunger that can never, and will never, be sated. Hence, why depression is considered a mental illness. Source: I have chronic depression, and I've come to this conclusion I can do nothing about over the decades.
If you've read this, please like it so I can be aware my words have reached you. Thank you.
By "truth", you're referring to a truth "derived off the values of the general public", whereas Barardi isn't. Sure, some truths can be seemingly subjective, such as "I am unattractive", because this is dictated by society's values. But then there's also other truths that are far less subjective, such as "I will never be cured of my genetic illness," or "I will never see my late father ever again." Both are called a "truth", but I think what Barardi was really referring to was being truthful to oneself and not being blinded by faith, hope, or optimism (thus leading to depression, since reality can be dismal at times). It's seen as human and "normal" to lie to oneself and to overlook the terribleness of reality, but depression keeps us trapped in realizing that reality is - truthfully - very harsh.
Some part of me wonders if there is a difference between personal depression and existential depression, depending on what kind of "truth" keeps you trapped.
@@twilight3272 I haven't thought about it in that sense. I suppose my explanation is only relevant to the truths derived from societal standpoints. However objective truths unbound from the thoughts or emotions of humans remain, of course, objective. I suppose in that sense my point may still have a small amount of merit, since those suffering from depression will inevitably put those objective truths on the microscope, regardless of the ability to act or make recognized change to them.
Your words were a pleasure to read. I can tell you put a lot of thought into it, and you raise some very good points.
@@jacksonholt4594 Thank you! I know my comment was sort of mostly contradictory to yours but I think your points have more than just merit. Perhaps the condition of depression can be just as varied as the condition of being human. Have a nice day (or evening)!
Those "pop-up ads" are brilliant.
cool, i didn't know about the extra content ... the original was one of the best pieces of art of 2021
Very well done!! I am actually Inspired.
This idea of understanding, and how it correlates to happiness reminds me of great gatsby
I thought that the pineapple Minecraft thing had more to do with what he was talking about. During the shot, he was talking about wishing to go back as a child and avoid making all of those cringey content. I'm thinking he's holding a mirror up to the audience, the type of content that Minecraft pineapple enthusiasts are generally made by children or at least man children that may feel remorseful of the type of content that they made during that time.
It's also possible that he is saying that if he were to start a new, he could have fallen under a different rabbit hole of cringy content that he would not like to have tied to him in the future.
great video, not enough about the chicken though haha
Great video !!
It isn't "hypercapitalism". It's Nihilism. The actual Void.
i think this would make a very interesting conversation. i mean what really would the difference between “hyper capitalism” and nihilism be? however, nihilism as a concept is very often misunderstood. i think hypercapitalism leads to the void, but nihilism reminds us that it’s up to us to create meaning for ourselves while we are here, in the face of the void.
Hypercapitalism is a form of nihilism. Growth for growths sake robs the world of all morals and values it holds. Capitalism is a blind force that demands infinite growth, disregarding any and all limits like finite resources or ideological standards. To embrace radical capitalism would be to disregard any and all other values in the world beyond it's use as a resource to expand capitalism. It is why climate change has become as bad as it has with very little moves to prevent it. Because the infinite growth demanded by corporations and their shareholders beholden to capitalist ideals is too much for our finite Earth.
"Everyone's a feminist until there is a spider around" - Five Years
Don't know why, but watching Wisecrack deconstruct what I'm consuming feels like that piece of time when you had to remind the VHS tape to watch the movie-the movie would kind of play in reverse but with gashes of static that made me feel like I was destroying the video. And it took a while. So, you're looking at the screen, in silence, watching, for a couple minutes, at what looked like the cremation of a different but similar movie. I don't think I have any of those reflective moments anymore. Other than a good'ol video essay deconstructing my childhood assumptions, I think the best I get are things like Inside. Bo does me the favor of taking the VHS tape, forcing it into the feed upside down, and holding down the rewind button so that I can hear the glassy squeal of mismatched plastic parts rip the film from the spool and play static on the screen-when you press the play button, you realize reality had been on pause the whole time.
Not all Comedians are Philosphers. The best Comedians Are though. Like look at Carlin. If you only know him from one or two bits you can miss it but if youve seen all his specials or are familiar with his Writing etc theres no real way to deny the man was a Philosopher first and fore.
Love this.
when I first watched the outtakes and saw the last scene, my conclusion was that in counterpoint of what he said when he interviewed the entire "crew" behind the outtakes, his answer to the question "what's next for you guys?" was "a vacation". and the outtakes was released after the flexibilization of the pandemic, so I felt like "yay! he did take a vacation!" ya know?
You realize the irony of "we will talk about The Inside Outtakes, but first, a shout-out to our sponsor " haha ? Not a real problem but kinda ironic
Does anybody know where that Berardi quote is from? What book, article or interview it comes from?”
I honestly kind of wish you talked more about the chicken song
I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts on these ideas of it being depressing that "the future is in front of now," and contrasting that to the amor fati that Nietzche talks about.
amir fati is actually a concept from the Stoics. al this philosophy started me down the rabbit hole of Stoicism a few years ago and i *highly* recommend it. Nietzche was expanding and playing on and with Stoic philosophy, and i highly recommend checking out some videos here about it. specifically Enzelganger and ryan holliday. (amor fati, memento mori) but yes, exploring that contrast or duality has definitely been part of the journey to acceptance of everything that happens! ( i want to say, especially now…but it has always been this way)
'the ocean at your door' - that's probably the meaning behind the last scene. Also, not mentioning how he implied in Chicken that to be happy and reach our dreams we need to kills ourselves - criminal.
I was pretty sad that there was no BTS for 1985, this is my favourite song from the outtakes.
You are starting to get this format right. The first ones were a bit too improvised. This one feels expontaneous, but thoughtful. I almost skipped it, but I glad I did not.
never skip a wisecrack
at the point
in the video you were talking about ingredients and the future and how the pieces of the future are made up of the past and present and we cant avoid the bad ingredients. This made me think of process philosophy/theology in which each moment is a new world of becoming, each moment is a relation between the universe and ourselves in which we can can co-create. or something like that i think. thoughts?
I honestly thought he was not making fun of Joe Rogan at that one part. But you put in a new perspective for everything for me I’m gonna watch the video that he made again I’ll probably miss some stuff.
On the podcast he also explains that "were joking up here its not so serious" and then immediately goes into the "comedians are philosphers/cultural figures" bit. Classic.
love the shirt, where u get it ?
Bo strikes me as modern days answer to George Carlin. Definitely philosophical artists in their own rights.
It's funny because it's called the inside-out takes which means he's literally showing the true inside and brining it out
Ohhh its Inside out-takes! that's all carry on
I'm not intended to be rude, because this seams like a well thought/produced video, but I can't help but think that this feels like a part of the special.
It gives the "react to everything/give an opinion about everything" vibe that he mocks in inside.
Films have for decades used imagery of water crashing over something as symbolism for rebirth, a metaphorical baptism in which this water running over you creates a new phase in your life where you can now live how you want to live.
So I feel that Burnham is using that idea to tell the audience that he can now move on from being stuck inside. Whether that means returning to live comedy like he commented on in ‘All Eyes on Me’ or just means stepping away from creating content entirely is a very different question though.
Perhaps it means his new content will be much more politically focused. To tackle some of the issues he addressed in Inside and to help him find more meaning and hope in his own life.
does someone know which of Berardi´s books is he talking about?
You need to do a video on Everything Everywhere All at Once!
Great video.
he's always incredible
Agreed
I am genuinely sitting here envying the amish we all laughed at in the 90s and 2000s with Weird Al..
I think I'm more content knowing the truth than being ignorant between what choices I have.
Is Franco "Bifo" Berardi hard to read for beginners? Where should we start?
The future is ahead of now:
I think this idea isn't a representation of him saying that the future is a combination of not only the circumstances he's in now as well as his actions until that point in the future, but rather an expression of lust for an idealized future that has all these things in them. I know that sounds rose tinted in comparison to the ideas and expressions Bo's used up until this point but hear me out. Bo in Inside, not the outtakes, but the original, expresses the idea that if he could kill himself, for only a year, he would do it. This quote in combination with his satirized desire to have a daughter in Make Happy, his most recent comedy special before Inside, as well as his wish to have a daughter in The Future (the song not the time), implies that he IS looking at the future with rose-tinted glasses, rather than with the highly rational ones you imply. This idea, however, is somewhat countered by the thought that depression, while overall being a negative, gives one more rational insight to the world around them. In that same breath, this should mean that depression would give Bo more of a cynical conception of the future. I think there's evidence stacked up to both sides and while I don't like to make a definitive call, I feel that the idea of the future being ahead of now, in this context, is an idealized version, rather than a highly rational or cynical one.
The state of the online union:
My opinion is that this bit, while it can be applied to real life, is not a representation of the current state of affairs in the real world, but rather the online world. It's an extension of existentialism to the blazing inferno that is the internet. Constantly chugging along, constantly moving forward, at a faster and faster pace, speeding up infinitely. The endings that Bo presents for this train are quite bleak too. The ending of crashing, the train slamming into the brick wall with everyone in it, breaking down and becoming a part of the past, or the ending of, well, a lack of ending, the idea that the train will keep going and going, forever. It's in line with the cynicism that he's brought to the table up until this point, that the internet, while connecting us all, also connects the worst parts of our world as well. The parts that show the worst of humanity, and our constant intake of these awful ideas and events, all while the bug-eyed salamanders in Silicon Valley (his words, not mine) profit off of our endless scrolling. It's like a form of digital sadomasochism.
I don’t have much to say on the ocean scene. I would have made a reply for each point but I was talking to my dog about my ideas rather than writing them down lol.
Also one of the funniest things that this video made me think of was the idea that comedians were philosophers and them getting canceled was in the same vein of philosophers getting executed. It made me think of a quote for a meme:
“when socrates gets canceled by the greek democracy”
how long have the flag colors been in the background
Would love to see a discussion of The Chicken. It seems to have a lot of layers, not only as metaphor but also in relation to animal oppression.
I think lots of the lines have multiple meanings, like reading the road as capitalism and the choice of 'left, right, left, right' as you try to get the future being ultimately useless because you'll get caught out. It could be a criticism of the futility of party politics in our current political system.
Ehhh, I feel like that’s stretching it a bit. Like if that’s the case then how else is the chicken supposed to get to the other side? If that is what you read into it it turns a seemingly optimistic song into a very hopeless one where you either stay confined in your current life (which btw what would that be in this reading?) or you try to change and inevitably fail.
Unless you’re saying that the “left right left” means the chicken taking all kinds of turns while walking, but I think it makes more sense to see it as taking steps forward with either foot.
I love that the chicken had to get to the other side and in the final song ‘Goodbye’ he sings I’ll see you on the other side of the street. Maybe he’s singing to those that dreamed and strove for something despite the risks.
@@Viscidsquare040 that's the beauty of art I suppose. It's open to interpretation.
But the few seconds at the end with the waves is a gif.. could that represent our digital lives displacing our connection to nature?
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