Bo Burnham welcomes us to the Internet in song (including lyrics so we can all join in!)

[pesco]

Originally published at: Bo Burnham welcomes us to the Internet in song (including lyrics so we can all join in!) | Boing Boing

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[Papasan]

Welcome to the internet
Put your cares aside
Here’s a tip for straining pasta
Here’s a nine-year-old who died

Yep, that’s about the size of it.

[prooftheory]

Talented dude.

[milliefink]

I wish he’d get another chance to make a movie. I thought Eighth Grade was fantastic.

EIGHTH GRADE Trailer (2018)

[lewsmind]

This song was definitely the highlight of the special for me, but there was a lot of other good stuff in there, too.

[Ozymandias]

@Papasan

Here’s a nine-year-old who died

Man, this made me uncomfortable for a moment, and then I thought “Yup, pretty good reflection of internet.”

[johnson]

When this came on during the show, I could not stopping thinking “Tom Lehrer is back!”

[Melizmatic]

@milliefink

I wish he’d get another chance to make a movie.

He did.

He’s in Promising Young Woman, which is a brilliant yet harsh film.

[milliefink]

@Melizmatic

He did.

He wrote and directed it? (That’s what I meant by “make”).

I am aware that’s he’s acted in other movies.

[Melizmatic]

Oh; my bad, I misunderstood.

No, he did not; PYW was written directed & produced by a woman named Emerald Fennell.

[drpfenderson]

This whole special was…something else. Weird, powerful stuff. It definitely captured a lot of the strange, hard feelings this pandemic, and isolation in general, have brought up from deep in my brain. Definitely recommend the special, but also maybe avoid if you are in a particularly sensitive emotional space. Or maybe that’s the best time to see it, who knows? It’s raw though, and I don’t know if I was fully prepared for how much so.

[Thomas_Lee]

Bo Burnham is in a word, a prodigy. His first special was an incredibly well considered essay on the trials of adolescence and post-adolescence. The special before this current one was maybe the most insightful commentary on social media that I have seen. He (humorously) made the point that social media has turned our lives into a performative act, not to be lived by us but to be consumed by others. The new special is a continuation of that, where we became even more dependant on the internet for our access to the world, and the world’s access to us. Bo is called a comedian, but he is in fact an incredibly deep and astute cultural critic who uses humor and music to deliver his insights.

[paulzero]

The White Woman’s Instagram song SLAYED me…