I thought it was bad. Embarrassing. And a chore to get through. Average songs (for a YouTuber) don’t become good because you slip in a few lines about how you’re self aware of how obvious and uninsightful they are.
I read it over there but I can't comment since I don't subscribe.
I think you hit the nail on the head, but never has one piece of modern art been so perfectly summed up by the Family Guy "It Insists Upon Itself" meme. When it came out , I got into an argument that it was a little too smug for me. For the uninitiated:
When it first came out, I really appreciated a lot of the songs, but the constant doomerism made me roll my eyes hard. "20,000 years of this, seven more to go" always reminds me of the worst parts of social media brain.
I always imagined Burnham leaving his shitty little dark room to the rest of his big ass, well-lit house, giving his millionaire wife a smooch while she asks how the depression music is going, and then they chat about where to have dinner and if they should change the cleaning lady's schedule before he eats some Pringles and goes back to his melancholy cave to ruminate on Amazon some more.
Bo is only a couple of years older than me, so I was a huge fan of his from the first time I saw his Comedy Central special. I went to one of the shows on his Make Happy tour, I went and saw Eighth Grade when it was in theaters.
But I found Inside insufferable, and I felt so alone feeling that way when everyone was showering praise on it. His insights in the social media/content creation world were, as always, on point, but I had the same critiques about his lazy Millennial socialism and the meticulously crafted performance of his depression/suicidal ideation that really really soured it for me, and made me a lot less excited for his future work.
I thought it was bad. Embarrassing. And a chore to get through. Average songs (for a YouTuber) don’t become good because you slip in a few lines about how you’re self aware of how obvious and uninsightful they are.
I read it over there but I can't comment since I don't subscribe.
I think you hit the nail on the head, but never has one piece of modern art been so perfectly summed up by the Family Guy "It Insists Upon Itself" meme. When it came out , I got into an argument that it was a little too smug for me. For the uninitiated:
https://youtube.com/shorts/C4ictNgsb0A?si=6cjxgI0z6TuF15lF
When it first came out, I really appreciated a lot of the songs, but the constant doomerism made me roll my eyes hard. "20,000 years of this, seven more to go" always reminds me of the worst parts of social media brain.
I always imagined Burnham leaving his shitty little dark room to the rest of his big ass, well-lit house, giving his millionaire wife a smooch while she asks how the depression music is going, and then they chat about where to have dinner and if they should change the cleaning lady's schedule before he eats some Pringles and goes back to his melancholy cave to ruminate on Amazon some more.
Welcome to the Internet is a classic, though.
Bo is only a couple of years older than me, so I was a huge fan of his from the first time I saw his Comedy Central special. I went to one of the shows on his Make Happy tour, I went and saw Eighth Grade when it was in theaters.
But I found Inside insufferable, and I felt so alone feeling that way when everyone was showering praise on it. His insights in the social media/content creation world were, as always, on point, but I had the same critiques about his lazy Millennial socialism and the meticulously crafted performance of his depression/suicidal ideation that really really soured it for me, and made me a lot less excited for his future work.