Hi guys! Do you remember that two part blog I did on Inside by Bo Burnham? Well, I said I’d talk about the outtakes and here I am! Inside Outtakes is one of my favorite things in the whole entire world. In this blog I’ll only be talking about songs he actually sang, and not just the instrumental, but you should give this a watch or listen! Free on YouTube! Also, some of these songs don’t have actually pictures so I just picked some I like for the most part. Bo Burnham is a very pretty man; I love these pictures.
Small Tw because there’s a picture of a spider down the line.
Bezos III- 1:25
“Jeffery Bezos”
This is the third Bezos song in the deluxe album. It’s just him saying Jeffery Bezos over and over again, but it’s used to transition into the next song.
The Future- 1:33
“I’ll bother getting ready when I bother getting dressed”
The Future is Bo singing about what the future will be like. He’ll wake up at a quarter to ten trying to decipher if it’s real, and his daughter will come wake him up. Well, he doesn’t have a daughter right now, but this is in the future! He doesn’t know if he’s depressed or stressed, or if this will end any time soon. He showers at a quarter to one with a 2-in-1 shampoo. He’s struggling to get up to get dressed and he doesn’t wanna deal with it, so he downloads an app to mediate. It’s the future.
WTFIGO- 0:54
“I don’t know what’s happening”
In this song, Bo talks about how he doesn’t know what’s going on, and he doesn’t know what’s happening. WTFIGO stands for “What the f–k is going on?”
1985- 2:26
“If I could be anybody, dead or alive. I would wanna be my dad in 1985”
Bo starts this song with describing a guy. He’s cool guy with a cool shirt, cool shoes (Did he mention the shirt?) But yeah. This man he’s speaking of gains respect by walking into a room. The news doesn’t affect him when he reads it. He’s happy to be alive, and he’s any white guy in 1985. He supports his family despite his wife’s underwhelming cooking. Bo wants to be who he is right now but 40 years ago. But wait! He doesn’t mean just any white guy. He means his dad, Scott Burnham, in 1985.
Feel Good- 0:43
“I’m not even close to kidding. Write it in an email”
Feel good is the ending song when you watch the video, but it’s here ion the album. In this song Bo talks about how all he wants is to feel good. He wonders if anyone actually knows how to and if they can inform him on how to do that exactly.
Five years- 3:48
“Everyone’s a feminist until there is a spider around”
In this song Bo is singing about how he and his partner have been together for five years. He starts off by saying she’s his best friend, and they can work any problem out! In this first example we have of this couple is Bo ordering food and her stealing food from him. He gets upset, and she calls him a psycho. He just says she owes him a dumpling. Our next situation is the couple seeing a spider and both of them jumping to high ground. Shew tells him to be a man and kill it, and Bo response is that her whole world view collapses the moment there’s a spider. The last verse is him pointing out how she needs to poo every time he uses the bathroom! But they have two bathrooms….
Biden- 0:51
“How is the best-case scenario, Joe?”
This song is short, and I usually skip it. The most I can do is agree with the fact that Joe was a best-case scenario, unfortunately.. Presidency is a long rant for another day. (maybe) But let’s not get too political.
Microwave Popcorn- 2:27
“There’s a button and the button says ‘popcorn’ ”
Bo is making microwaved popcorn! In a microwave because he’s on that wave. (I love this song) We get introduced into the steps on making popcorn. Taking it out the plastic, looking at the directions, putting the packet on the glass- The little glass dish in the microwave! He closes the door. Bo starts singing about how he’s a rule follower because he’s a studious guy. He starts the popcorn and burns it. So, he eats skinny pops instead, but when he looks at the microwave, he sees a button that says popcorn! How did he miss that button? The voices take over and the song ends.
Bezos IV- 0:38
“Jeffery Preston Bezos”
Our last Bezos song. Bo is sticking with Jeffery! He gets a feeling when he looks in his eye.. (I don’t know if his other eye even sees..) Do you need reasons why he’s sticking with Jeffery? Well, he doesn’t give any. That’s all!
Spider- 0:35
“I ain’t afraid of no spider”
There’s a spider hiding in the corner! Bo isn’t afraid of no spider, just until it starts moving, and he starts panicking. He loses the spider, and the song ends mid panic.
This Isn’t A Joke- 1:12
“I came out face first”
This isn’t a joke so don’t joke about it. Bo is taking it slow. I think he got a little sidetracked because he starts to talk about his pores, and how weird looking he is. He’s 29, and in his prime! But he doesn’t wanna talk about it. He begins talking about his birth scar, and how he got it because when he was born, he came out face first. Now look at him!
The Chicken- 4:09
“There’s just one thing: The chicken must first cross the road”
Last song, so let’s get emotional. This song always makes me cry, and I’m actually tearing up while typing this. This is a song about why the chicken crossed the road, and I encourage everyone to listen to this song if you don’t listen to any of the others. You may not be as emotional as I am, you might not even like the song, but I love it. Bo starts the story about a chicken who wakes up to the sounds of her husband’s screams. She is nursing eggs, and she is tired of her life. She’s in the dark, thinking about the life she can have. Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist, anything other than this life. She loves being a mother and a wife, but it feels like that’s all she is. She looked out the window. The next day she wakes up and decides to escape. She wants freedom. She runs out of the coop and stares meadows full of other animals, but there’s just one thing. The road blocking her from this dream. So, she has to cross it to get there, the giant road when she’s so little. She moves one foot after the other but is frozen in the place of headlights. A car coming her way. No one knows what happens next, but Bo says we should think that she got what she wanted. She got to the other side.
This might be basic, but I adore 1985 and all of the Bezos songs. I love Bo and how unserious he is.
the love i have for Inside and the Outtakes is crazy- i couldn’t explain it even if i tried. i watched Inside with my parents basically as soon as it came out, and it changed me as a person. i still cry listening to the sound track. that man is so talented and i love his music so much.
You’re bringing me back into my Bo Burnham era (what a beautiful woman)… I’ve never actually heard the Outtakes before, this is definitely a sign that I should.
I’ve only heard a handful of these songs, and this makes me want to listen to all of them they all sound so complex!