Author: Kierstyn Warner

Hamilton will always be top 5 musicals for me (I’ve only seen about five.) But that’s not the point. It was written by the musical genius Lin-Manuel Miranda. The songs are amazing, but of course I have favorites. SO, THIS WILL BE MY TOP 10!!

10. You’ll be back

You’ll be back will always be a classic favorite. It has to be one of the most popular Hamilton songs and I think it’s the first one I ever heard. It is sung by Jonathan Groff, and he does an amazing job as his role of King George. The song is one that never fails to make me wanna sing and I think it kinda gives toxic ex, which I guess matches him having control over the colonies..

9. Guns and Ships

Guns and Ships, my love.. This song was sung by Daveed Digs, and he is one of my favorite actors ever. He does a great Lafeyette and Jefferson, and this song always makes me so happy. It’s so chaotic and everyone just does their own little thing as he’s rapping. The song ends with George Washington who is played by Christopher Jackson, and he says Alexander’s name at the end, and it will always give me chills. That man was singing his heart out.

8. The Room Where It Happens

The room where it happens.. One of the first Hamilton songs I had ever heard. Admittedly, I used to skip this song every time I watched it because I hated Aaron Burr so much that I skipped all of his songs, but one day I gave them a listen and my Hamilton life was changed. The room where it happens has amazing vocals and choreography. Everything about it gave me chills. I kinda mess with Aaron Burr now. 

7. Say No to This

I used to be so ashamed for liking this song because I watched Hamilton back in like 2020 or 2021 when people used to hate this song because Alexander was cheating on Eliza.. But of course, I wouldn’t like it for that reason!! As I said in this song Alexander cheats on Eliza with a woman named Mariah Reynolds, who tells Hamilton that her husband is treating her terribly. Eliza is out of town with her sister and her children to visit their parents. They begged Alexander to come, but he didn’t go. He has this affair, but Mariah is also married. A man named James Reynolds tell Hamilton to send him money and he won’t say a word, but if he doesn’t then he’ll tell Eliza. He agrees to send the money and stop the whole situation. The vocals are beautiful, and I love the story behind it. This song is full of suspense, and it would be higher on my list if I was able to enjoy this song when I first heard it. 

6. Farmer Refuted

This song is my favorite ever omgee. It’s not higher because the song is kinda stupid.. It’s just an introduction to you’ll be back. This song always makes me wanna sing because Samuel Seabury is my GOAT. The song is just really catchy and really funny to me. Samuel is singing about the revolution, and Hamilton is disagreeing with everything this man is saying. Samuel is just trying to read off his little scroll, and Hamilton is literally hoping up on the box with him. I would’ve crashed out.

5. Satisfied

This song never fails to give me chills. The first time I listened to it I fell in love with it. The second time I learned all of the lyrics, and ever since then I have never stopped singing this song every time I hear it. The way she talks about the situation makes me foam at the mouth. She recounts the details of the night they met, then she names out all of the reasons she knew they couldn’t be together. She says she knew she could’ve had him, but she introduced him to her helpless sister, Eliza. She was thankful that Alexander was in her life, but she knew she would just never be satisfied.

4. The Reynolds Pamphlet 

This is like the funniest song in the musical. They expose him so crazy for cheating on Eliza. Well, Alexaner exposes himself, and Jefferson makes sure that EVERYBODY hears about it. They sing about how he’ll never be president now, so he’s no longer real competition. Angela comes to support Eliza, and Alexander thinks she’s there for him! Anyways, the choreography is my favorite. Everyone is just running around and throwing letters around. It always makes me laugh. They even end the song saying, “His poor wife”.

3. Non-Stop (This is a long one)

Non-Stop begins after John Laurens dies, and he was one of Hamilton’s best friends. He says, “I have so much work to do” after finding out. Burr and Hamilton are both lawyers, and Burr talks about how Hamilton just never stops talking; he never stops writing. He’s just non-stop! (haha get it?) Anyways, Hamilton was chosen for the constitutional convention. He proposed a new government, and that night he shows up at Burr’s door to defend the constitution for him. Burr disagrees because he stands for keeping his plans private. No one really knows what Burr stands for, and he plans to keep it that way. We hear from Angelica that she is now married and lives in Londen with him. Her and Hamilton send each other letters. Eliza tells Hamilton that all she wants him to do is stay alive. Burr tells us about the Federalist papers that Hamilton, John Jay, and James Maddison all wrote. They planned to write 25. Hamiton wrote 51 pages all by himself! There was a total of 85 essays. They talk about how he writes like he’s running out of time, and Hamilton does this because writing saved his life. George Washington comes in and promotes Hamilton over the state department. Now! Introducing my favorite part of the song. It starts with Eliza calling Alexander’s name, and he tells her she has to go. Angelica joins in and says he will never be satisfied, then George Washington Joins in! I will always be in love with overlapping vocals oh my goodness..

2. It’s Quiet Uptown

This song takes place after their son, Philip, dies in a duel due to Hamilton. Angelica starts the song talking about terrible unimaginable suffering. The Hamiltons moved uptown and learn to live with it. Hamilton is alone, and he is quiet. He’s never liked the quiet. He takes his children to church, and he prays. He never prayed before. The company comes in and says if you see him walking in the street to have pity. He walks by himself and talks to himself, and he just walks. Hamilton sings about his son, and it makes me wanna cry!! He tries to talk to Eliza. He knows he doesn’t deserve her, and he wishes to sacrifice himself if he could. They say have pity if you see you walking and talking to her. He tries his best to speak to her, but Eliza stands there, unresponsive, until she grabs his hand and forgives him. I didn’t realize how much I loved this song until I made this list. It’s truly one of my favorites, and it makes my heart ache. 

1. Your obedient servant

Your Obedient Servant is a summarization of Hamilton and Burr’s feud. Burr is upset because Hamilton endorsed Thomas Jefferson. He believes Hamilton did it to keep him from winning. So, he sends him a letter saying that he doesn’t get angry often, but Alexander made that happen. He looks back on all of his failures and Hamilton’s disrespect is always there. Hamilton called him immoral and a disgrace, so Burr told him to name a time and a place. He signs the letter saying, “I have the honor to be your obedient servant. A. Burr”. So, guess what Hamilton does. He sends an ITEMIZED list of THIRTY years of disagreements. He says he didn’t mean to offend him, but he won’t be apologizing either. He signs the letter saying, “I have the honor to be your obedient servant. A. Ham”. They send letter back in forth before agreeing to have a duel with each other to solve the argument. 

^ (Can’t find a pic with everyone, but these are some of my goats. Except Winston, oh my god I dislike him so much, he’s so annoying to play against. Anyone who plays him is my worst enemy. Oh, and also Tracer, she will never be my goat, I will never play her by choice, I will always target her in every game I ever play)

For a little over a year, I’ve been playing Overwatch 2. It came out in 2016 and is on its 14th season. (15th in about a month) I started playing during season 8 and I quickly found myself actually liking this game. I’ve never been a gamer in my life. All I played was Roblox and Minecraft, but those games became boring, so I decided to give this one a try. I played with a friend who didn’t teach me how to play, just simply threw me into a game and told me who to play which led to my first main. D.va!

^This being the skin I have for her. D.va has two lives. She’s a tank and she’ll sit in this big Mech, Tokki, until it breaks, and she has to jump around in what people call her baby D.va form (which is just normal her, but she has 175 health?? I feel like a little roach whenever I get out of mech) and hopefully either get it back or die. (You always respawn it’s fine). One thing I love about Overwatch, though, is the variety of skins. People complain about the game being a cash grab, but if I get to collect these stupid character skins then I will! Anyways, after I realized I was terrible at D.va I stopped playing her. (I play her again now, I just had to actually get good at the game) The friend and me were no longer gaming together so I played with someone else and that’s when I discovered Moira! My second main. (who is level 24 for me, and I have like 27 hours on her)

Moira has become one of my favorite characters. She is a support who requires no aim whatsoever. She uses her purple to do damage and yellow to heal. She just throws around these orbs and does A LOT of damage. (At least she did until they nerfed her</3) but the characters are another thing I love about overwatch. Right now, there are 42(I think?) characters. All of them are diverse and somehow connected to each other. People complain and say they shouldn’t add so many, but like I love seeing new characters even if they suck sometimes (Which no one does except PHARAH.), because making a character is a hit or miss with most things and I feel like the more chacters they add the more lore we get and I would prefer to learn about character lore over the world lore because all I know is omnic war and only like six people fought in it. Anyway.

In overwatch there is a group called overwatch (duh), but not everyone on the cast list is IN overwatch, but they’re related to it in some way. Which is something I may talk about in another blog.

Anyways. Right now, I main Cassidy and Mercy.

These two have managed to become two of my favorite characters to play, and I love these skins so much omgee. They’re like the most fun for me and I find myself winning more when I play them (Send help, I’ve spent so much money on this game.)

Still, there are many things I love about overwatch even if the game makes me want to take a bite out of my controller. What I really enjoy about it is the unique set on abilities the characters have. Not all of them do the same thing. It made it so much easier for me, someone who never plays games, to get good at this game because everyone is so different. You don’t even need aim half the time! (It’s still humbling to have a 15% aim accuracy..)

In the past few weeks, I’ve been teaching my closest friends to play this game and even if they end up not liking it that’s fine because I’m able to share something I really like with them. Right now, I have a group of four people, and we all play together! (Just one more person and we’ll have a full team of friendship!) Still, I have been encouraging friends to try out this game with me or at least let me talk about it, because there’s so much to it and I am still learning many things about overwatch.

As terrible as the game is at times, it brings me peace even if I rage, because if nothing else is here for me I know Overwatch is. 

Tyler, the Creator is one of my favorite artists and I can confidently say that I have heard at least two songs from every album of his!! Now I know J.T. did a blog his ranking songs, but I’m ranking albums so this is different >:] Also, I cannot put Cherry bomb or Goblin in this ranking, I have only heard two songs from Goblin and I’m kinda scared to listen to it!! And I only know like three from Cherry Bomb.

1. Call me If you get lost

I love this album so much, specifically the estate sale because it’s the one I always listen to and the record I have. This has to be one of my actual top 10 albums. I don’t listen to it as much as I wish I did, but I definitely need to. I don’t know many of his songs by name because I listen to most of these on my record player, so it just goes, and I always have a good time when this album is playing. This album has a couple of popular songs like “Sweet/I thought you wanted to dance” and “Dogtooth” It is 1 hour and 17 minutes long and has 24 songs. My favorite song is “Massa”.

2. IGOR

I’d say this is one of his most popular, having a bunch of songs we all know and love as “A boy is a gun*”, “Are we still friends?”, and “New Magic Wand”. In this album Tyler is in love with a man who is dating a woman. To me the album is pretty collected in the way. You can hear his desperation, but it’s clear he’s upset. He’s goes through these many stages. He’s sad, then he accepts it, then he gets angry. This album is 39 minutes long and has 12 songs, my favorite song is “Puppet”.

3. Wolf

Oh my, I love Wolf so much. The album is oddly aggressive, and I just love when singers are like this. Truthfully, I don’t know many of these songs by name because I always listen to them on my record, but whenever I do it makes me just wanna hop around. One of his most popular songs is in this album, “IFHY”. There’s also “Colossus” that everyone has been talking about since “Noid” came out. Tyler will always be one of the only male rappers I can listen to and actually enjoy. This album is 1 hour and 10 minutes long and has 18 songs. My favorite song is “Awkward”.

4. Flower Boy

So, I really enjoy flower boy as a whole. Everything about it just makes me happy, the aesthetic, the vibe, and definitely the music. This album has one of his most popular songs “See you again.” Flower boy also has some of my favorite music videos. (I’ve only seen like three, but I never watch music vids please spare me.) I also just love that his albums have different vibes to them, it’s my favorite artist thing when all of their music sounds different but still like them. This album is 46 minutes long and has 14 songs. My favorite song is “Who dat boy”.

5. Chromakopia

Yummy, Chromakopia. Originally, I was gonna do a blog ranking these songs and I still might, just not now. This album and Kendrick’s album both dropping after I had the worst breakup ever literally got me over it faster! Being able to hear two of my favorite artists make the amazing music they did just makes me so happy. Chromakopia was everything to me when it came out, I listened to it over and over and I still enjoy all of these songs. I don’t care how much they get overplayed. The vibe in this is amazing and all of the features he added just makes it all the much better. The vulnerability in this album also just makes me wanna sob when I listen to it. Anyways, this album is 53 minutes long and has 14 songs. My favorite song is “Judge Judy”. 

Amanda palmer is one of my favorite artists at this time in my life. I used to listen to her but not like how I do now. A lot of you may have even heard her before without knowing that it was her! Here I will be naming some things she has done and talk about my favorite songs from them.

1. Dresden Dolls

The Dresden dolls were formed in 2000. With, of course, Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione. The two played at Halloween party together and formed the duo afterwards. Amanda did the vocals and piano, along with ukelele and a harmonica while Brian played the drums, bass, and guitar. The group was inspired by Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper, and Laurie Anderson. One of their most popular songs is “My Alcoholic friends” and “Coin-operated boy” My favorite song by the duo is “Missed Me” (go listen to it.) The duo broke up in 2008 but continued to have reunions. 

2. Evelyn Evelyn

This duo was made in 2007. While on tour Amanda and her friend Jason Webley found these girls on myspace, they were made by the Neville sisters. The two listened to the one song they had posted and fell in love with the song and the two conjoined twins, Eva and Lyn. They asked them if they wanted to record a song, and the creators agreed. They recorded multiple demos before it was actually released in 2010.  The most popular songs are “A Campaign of Shock and Awe” and “Have you seen my sister Evelyn?”. My favorite song from this is “Sandy Fishnets”! 

3. Amanda Palmer (Solo)

In my final category I will be talking a little bit about her solo account. Amanda went solo in June of 2008. The exact month I was born! Her first solo album was “Who killed Amanda Palmer”.  Unfortunately, I’m still getting into her solo music so I can’t speak too much about it. But! My favorite song that she has is “Runs in the Family”. Her music is amazing and the way she sings always hypnotizes me and I think everyone who reads this should give these songs a listen!!

PBS kids! The channel I only watched besides boomerang, Nick, and Cartoon network. PBS kids was the only cartoon channel we could catch at my grandma’s house since she didn’t have cable. PBS kids is a big part of my childhood, and I know it’s a big part of some of yours, so I will be talking about some shows that I enjoyed that I barely hear about anymore! This isn’t a ranked list! It’s just in order of what I remember.  

1. Word World

I genuinely loved this show as a child. I was always a kid who liked words I think, I was in spelling bees and had so many story books and maybe word world is a part of that. From the theme song to the delivery of most of the jokes I loved this. I have a memory of this playing in the background while doing multiplication cards. I thought I was Einstein man.

2. The electric company

Truthfully, I don’t remember much from this show other than the theme song and how much it reminded me of fresh beat band at times. This was one of my childhood favorites, maybe I’d remember if I went back and watched some of the episodes, anyways that guy with the hat is kind of creepy,, why’s he looking like that.

3. The Berenstein bears

Ah yes, the show that no one could agree on the name of! I honestly read the books more than I watched this, but I always related to the little girl bear. She was kind of my goat, and I’ll never forget the book where she couldn’t stop biting her nails and they wrapped them up in bandaged. (Was it a book, and episode, or both?)

4. Cyberchase

A show that I still watch to this day, because I think it’s the only one on this list that still runs on tv. (Don’t quote me on that!) I have fond memories of this show and thinking that the bird really sounded like that parrot on Aladin. Anyways, this was a problem-solving skill show. I think it’s mostly math, but all I remember from that show is math. Also, I think Buzz and Delete are my favorites, I’ve always wanted a friendship like they have </3

5. Martha speaks

Ending the list with my GOAT!! I love you, Martha!! (For those who don’t know she’s the dog). As a kid who talked a lot, and who talks a lot now, Martha was always one of my favorite shows, because I love words, and she always made me feel so normal to talk a lot. When I was younger, I always knew big words, I loved spelling words, I loved knowing the meanings so I could tell people what they meant. She was and always will be my idol. I love you; Martha Speaks. Also, guys don’t feed your dog alphabet soup!! They might end up being smarter than you.

Mitski has to be my favorite artist. She got me through my whole tenth grade semester. I’m at the point where I can guess most of her songs just from hearing the first few seconds of it!! I will be naming off my favorite albums from her, why it’s my favorite, and my favorite song from it without going into a deep dive because I have no idea what these albums are actually about! (This might’ve been the hardest thing I’ve ever done.)

1. Laren Hell

Laren Hell is one of Mitski’s more upbeat albums where it doesn’t sound like she’s gonna rip her heart out in the studio (not to say I don’t love that). The first time I listened to this was last year and I wanted to get up and dance! (I was in Geometry.)  This album came out in 2022 and has 11 songs that last for 32 minutes. This is me convincing you to listen to it. My favorite song from this album is Stay Soft!

2. Lush

Okay, everyone has heard a song from Lush rather that be liquid smooth or Abbey, you have heard it before! This album came out in 2012. It consists of 9 songs and is 26 minutes long and it also was a school project for Mitski (I think) So, unfortunately, I can’t add this to my record collection </3. Lush has some of Mitski’s best songs in my opinion, it would be in the first spot, but I enjoy Lauren Hell just a little more. My favorite song from this album is Real men.

3. Retired from Sad, New Career in Business

Retired from sad, new career in business was also a school project! This was released in 2013 and consist of 9 songs and is 23 minutes long. This is another album that had a few popular songs. Strawberry blonde and I want you are the most popular ones I’ve heard. This album makes me so sad, and I love it so much. It genuinely gives me chills because of how well she sings and conveys the emotions in these songs. My favorite song in this album is Shame.

4. Puberty 2

Puberty 2 is one that always makes me sad. This isn’t one I listen to often, but it is still one of my favorites. The songs have so much feeling in them, like there’s so much hope in these songs. It consists of 11 songs and is 31 minutes long. My favorite song from this album is Crack Baby.

5. Bury Me At Makeout Creek

This is one of Mitski’s more popular having songs like Drunk Walk Home, Francis Forever, First Love/Late Spring. You have most likely heard some of these before! It’s one of her louder albums, featuring more screaming or electric guitars more than her others. In this album the music feels like more of the focus over her voice. It consists of 10 songs and is 30 minutes long. My favorite song from this album is Townie.

6. Be the Cowboy

Be the cowboy! I feel terrible having this at the bottom of the list since it features some of her really good songs like Me and My Husband, Nobody, A pearl, Washing Machine Heart. I could go on! The only reason it isn’t is because a lot of these songs are overplayed for me. I mean, I could listen to Mitski alllll day long, but I guess since these are some of the first songs I listened to on repeat I’m a little burned out. I still love all of these songs and still listen to them daily! They just aren’t at the top of my list. This album consists of 14 songs and is 32 minutes long and was the first Mitski vinyl I bought! My favorite song from this album is Pink in the Night.

It’s been a while since I’ve done an overwatch blog, so I’m coming back with some of my favorite characters and the lore behind them. One of my favorite things about overwatch is the backstory they give their characters. In the world of Overwatch, it takes place in the future. There was an omnic war where robots and humans fought. Only some characters actually fought in the war, and there’s also a group of evil people who were in the group Talon. So, I will be yapping about backstories and maybe get more into the actual groups another day.

So, the first backstory video I watched was Hanzo & Genji Shimada

Hanzo ad Genji grew up in Hanamura, Japan. Their family was the Shimada clan, a family of assassins that was established hundreds of years ago. When their father died, he instructed that Hanzo straighten out his younger brother, Genji, who was a troublemaker. During a dispute between the two Hanzo was forced to kill his brother. With a sword, which he had promised to never use again, Hanzo abandoned his brother half dead. Genji was found by Mercy and his body is now mostly robot. After the healing and coming to terms with his new body Genji studied with Zenyatta, who is monk, and learned peace, he forgave his brother. They met 20 years later; Hanzo would sneak into the castle and sit by a shrine that was made for Genji. Genji found him, but Hanzo didn’t know it was him until omgee dragons!! The two brothers have these dragon spirits that only the Shimada clan has. At the end of the fight Genji tells him that he forgave him and all that’s left to do is forgive himself.

Next up! Hana Song aka D.Va

Hana grew up in Busan, South Korea. She was a professional gamer, who was chosen to be a part of a group called MEKA since they claimed gamers would be able to control the mechs easily. D.va was chosen for her outstanding skill. South Korea established the mechanized armored drone unit to fight against a colossal mechanical monstrosity that rose from the depths of the East China Sea. The robotic creature caused terrible damage to coastal cities before retreating back to the city. In her video she is seen overworking herself, fixing her own mech and improving it as the robot evolves. She leaves to fight it on her own when it suddenly rises from the sea due to not having enough time to wait on her team. She fights the giant robot all by herself and ends up breaking a leg where she promises to take more time to rest.

Niran PruksaManee aka Lifeweaver

Niran grew up in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was the middle child in an extremely wealthy family who always had high expectations for their children. His family believed in perfection, and he did not. He spent all of his time planting alongside his family’s gardeners. Early in his life he was too smart for everything, often getting answers wrong for overcomplicating them. His parents sent him to the prestigious Vishkar Architech Academy, desperate to instill order in Niran. While at the school Niran discovered hard light, something the founder couldn’t share due to Vishkar implementing restrictions to technology. Using the structure, Niran created something new. An unstable biolight that could create organic material and heal the world in a blink of an eye. Niran wanted to gift it to the world, but Vishkar wanted to claim ownership of the invention. Niran ended up leaving the school and his parents begged for him to return, cutting off all of the money he had from them. Niran retreated to the Atlantic Arcology where he stayed and perfected biolight, making it more stable. 

Shop is an album made by Jack Stauber that aired on adult swim in 2019. It consists of 8 songs, and I will be talking about the videos!

The musical begins with the main character struggling to choose a free sample. You can only get one and he’s not sure which on to get. The person selling it tells him to just take one and he walks away saying he’ll come back for it.

1. Milk

In the song milk a guy runs into an old lady saying “Pecan”. She wants pecan cookies, and he reaches to get them but grabs the wrong ones. The lady asks if he’s deaf then asks for him to get the right one, saying she’ll try the other cookies next time. He grabs the box but when he looks down the lady disappears. When he gets his milk, he sees that it’s expired.

The song consists of many questions. Like asking what kind of milk are you? What kind of life did you live? Was your life good or bad? Did you have friends or were you all alone? Did they laugh at you, or did you laugh with them? The song ends with saying your days are gone and the grocery list goes on. The guy eventually finds one that isn’t expired and puts it in his basket.

2. Bread

It starts with the guy looking at artisanal vitamin bread. A man grabs it from him and the guy calls it interesting and asks about it. The man says it’s for his dog, he says doesn’t shop there and practically calls the food inedible. The guy makes a joke about his dog being artisanal bred and the man asks if he’s deaf because he just said the dog ate the bread. He then leaves. 

The song starts with talking about everything artisanal. A house, a wife, a car, an artisanal life. Just to see what people would think of him. He asks, “What’s an artisanal me?” Which people are his artisanal friends? Does he impress you? Can he hide behind his success? Is it really success if he lets his things talk to him? Then they all go away and he’s on his own again. He then grabs a bread branded ‘WOWZA’ and puts it in his basket. (I just think it’s a fun name.)

3. Paper towels

This starts with a couple across the aisle looking for vegan hotdog buns. Something falls on the man’s head and it pans back to the guy where a glass falls in front of him. The employee asks if he just broke that, the guy says no. He then gets down and starts picking the glass up before cutting his finger. The guy asks if he’s okay, but the employee starts yapping about how the glass shattered instantly but it would take weeks to put it back together and it’ll never be the same. The guy keeps trying to talk but the employee keeps going on how even with his finger, it cut so easily but it’ll take years to heal. Then he tells the guy the paper towels are on aisle 8. He even says the more paper towels you use the more of a mess you make.

The songs start with saying messes are irreversible, unraveling, unstoppable. How can you contain it when it’s nonstop and endless? Can he put a halt on his? There’s an infinite gain but there’s a break in the chain. It’s out of his hands, the universe will expand! It ends with him finding and indestructible washrag. He even says, “No downside to mass producing these.”

4. Oatmeal

Starts with a man asking to guy to move out of the way. The man is clearly troubled and in a rush. He’s on a tight schedule and needed to be in the frozen sections 3 seconds ago. He won’t be able to have peas with his dinner this Wednesday! He says your body is like a clock and in you don’t plan accordingly you could, y’know. He stops explaining due to the fact he was behind. He then walks away, and the guy looks at oatmeal. A whole box isn’t expensive, for 100 bowls. He could eat it for the rest of his life!

The song starts with him saying he could have oatmeal for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He could have it when he wakes up and brushes his teeth. He could have an oatmeal job, and oatmeal home, oatmeal sleep. An everyday oatmeal routine. Life could have rhythm and harmony! The vibe of the song changes and talks about unexpected circumstances. How could you know what will happen? Is routine human? Is it a master? It’s disastrous without one, but you can adapt to chaos faster. The guy just grabs a mystery flavored oatmeal.

5. Coffee

He thinks he has the whole aisle to himself until a lady appears out of nowhere with a cup of coffee in her hand. The lady talks very fast before just stopping, her entire face drops, and he’s confused. She fell asleep and all it took was a sip of the coffee to wake her up. She looks at the time and says she forgot her son at daycare. She asks his name, and he sits in silence, so she asks if he’s deaf, she then leaves and says she’ll pray for ears before he spaces out.

The song starts with asking is it needed? The coffee. How it makes you feel alive, but do you really need it to survive? Just a sip, the coffee is coaxing him into having more, but he’s conflicted on if he needs any more. The coffee is turning into an addiction, he spends money on it and not anything important. He says maybe he needs a cup of self-control. The song ends with him just getting decaf coffee. 

6. Cheese (and all of the cheese puns)

In this song he doesn’t meet anyone. Instead, it starts by saying, “A dark walk through the five aisles of grief.

In the song he is overwhelmed by choice “This can’t brie”. There’s so much cheese and he doesn’t know which on he wants. “You gouda be kidding me. I can’t make these decisions on my provolone.” He’s conflicted and unsure on which one to chose. It’s a throwback to the beginning where he’s indecisive. “Could someone else select my cheddar?” He’ll just look the other way and let the universe choose for him. He did! Dairy free maple coconut water cheese. He says I could’ve picked something better than that.

7. Finale

In this song he realizes that he can make his own choices. He could pick something better for himself than anyone else could! His decisions make him a good go-getter. All milk expires and sometimes your oatmeal/routines need to be tossed and something new can come out of it. Moderate your coffee! Life gets messy and the things you own do not define you. 

The musical ends with him going back to get the free sample. He tries strawberry and thinks it’s amazing! He asks to try the other and the man tells him no. 

1. Don’t Wanna Know 1:03

This song starts with Bo asking a bunch of questions and then saying he doesn’t want to know the answer. That’s about it! He starts to have a crisis asking if anyone else is out there, saying he thought it would be over by now but there’s still a while to go. “Never mind, I don’t wanna know.”

(Skipping the next song!! It’s just Bo talking about feeling like poop.)

3. All time low 0:54

In this song Bo talks about his mental health and how it is approaching and ATL. He says he’s okay when he sleeps, but as soon as he wakes up, he has a feeling deep inside. “A few things starts to happen. My vision starts to flatter. My heart, it gets to tapping, and I think I’m gonna die.”

4. Welcome to the internet 4:35

One of the most popular songs in this whole album. Bo sings about the internet and everything you can see and do! There’s a duality from calmer things to more drastic incidents that can occur. From straining pasta to someone dying, there’s everything! It’s everything, all the time and there will only be more the more people feed into it. He speaks about how not even that long ago everything was different until the newer generation who was exposed at such a young age. The younger people who were easily drawn to iPads and phones. At first it was meant to be a breakthrough, we were meant to be in power, but we’re just controlled by our devices. “Apathy’s a tragedy and boredom is a crime.” 

5. Bezos II 0:45

Unlike the first song, Bo doesn’t really talk about Jeff Bezos, all he does is say his name over and over with little adlibs like. “You did it!” and “Congratulations!”. “Jeffery Bezos”

6. That funny feeling 5:01

In this song Bo sings an acoustic song about a funny feeling. He uses many statements explaining what this feeling can be. Some things more serious than others like “Obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V” or “A book on getting better hand delivered by a drone.” Bo sings about how we were overdue, but it’ll be over soon. “There it is again, that funny feeling.”

7. All eyes on me 5:02

Bo starts this song by singing and telling everyone to put their hands up and get out of their seats. All eyes on him. He starts asking the listener questions. If they’re nervous or having fun. Bo then talks to us about how he quit five years ago due to having panic attacks on stage. He spent his time improving to get better and says that he did. He decided to preform again in January of 2020 but “the funniest thing happened”. He continues to sing saying it’s almost over, but it just begun. He tells the listener don’t overthink it. But then goes on to say the ocean is rising and the world is ending. For the rest of his song, he repeatedly says get your hands up, get out of your seats, all eyes on him. “You say the whole world’s ending, honey, it already did.”

8. Goodbye 4:09

In this song Bo starts off bidding his farewell. He talks about how hard it is to joke with no one laughing in the background. Is this how it ends, he asks before he promises to never go outside again. He talks about losing power, how time is passing by slowly. He tells the listener next time they should be the one entertaining and he’ll sit on the couch and watch. He wants to hear you tell a joke with no one laughing in the background. He feels like he’s even crazy, he feels like he’s right back where he started. All he ever wanted was a little bit of everything all of the time. He goes back to the song comedy, saying if he wakes up in a house that full of smoke he’ll panic. So, call him up and tell him a joke. Is this really the time for jokes though? “Well, well, look who’s inside again.”

9. Any day now 0:57

A short song of him saying it’ll stop any day now. That’s it! “It will stop any day now.”

That’s concludes inside! I may do the outtakes if I dare to rewatch it and not cry from the chicken song.

Inside is an album that came out in 2021 made by Bo Burnham. It captured the attention of many young people who were trapped in their home due to quarantine. I will be talking about the songs from it as someone who is a huge fan of all of his work!! This will only be disc 1. I’ll do the rest another time.

1. Content 1:36

Content is the first song of the album where Bo speaks on being back online after disappearing for years. He starts off saying that he didn’t expect to be inside of his home all of the time. He talks about not being able to leave and being a bit depressed about it, doing little things to get back into the swing of things. “I’m sorry I was gone, but look I made you some content.”

2. Comedy 5:19

Bo Burnham starts this song off saying how everything is changing, and no one knows what’s happening. Everything is happening all at once. Politics and climate change are overwhelming and it’s getting harder to be a comedy in such serious times, who wants to joke at a time like this? He wants to make a change but feels like comedy isn’t something that can make a change. He says he should use his voice, but also says that white men have had the stand for at least four hundred years so maybe he should just step out of it. But no! Bo wants to help without standing on the sidelines, even though he really knows he can’t. “Should I be joking at a time like this?”

3. Facetime with my mom (tonight) 2:20

In this song Bo starts by saying he’s dropping everything to FaceTime his mom. He speaks about their conversations and dynamic. His mom is clearly an older woman who enjoys The Blacklist. He speaks about the odd relationship between him and his dad, the two barely talk with one another. His mother covers the camera with his thumb and Bo gets frustrated, we see him literally yelling at the phone. We never see his mom or dad. “I’ll waste my time facetiming with my mom.”

4. How the world works 4:15

This song takes the view of a show that is clearly meant for the children. He speaks about how the world works and that it can only work when everything works together. He speaks of thing in a very childish way, speaking about animals mostly and how they all give and get what they need. He then pulls out a sock puppet named “Socko”. The sock is more realistic than Bo, the way he speaks of things is devastating. Bo asks, “What can I do to help?” Socko tells him to educate himself and Bo makes a statement saying that he’s the one in control here. Socko argues against this but is almost pulled off of Bo’s hand. He begs to not go back to where it is he is when he’s not on his hand which is a state between not being dead, but not alive either. They end the song normally, but Socko gets taken off his hand anyway. “Remember who’s on whose hand here.”

5. White Woman’s Instagram 4:00

In this song Bo talks about just what the title is! In the song he names out very simple things. An open window, a novel, and avocado. Nothing that we all haven’t seen on Instagram before! The song is mostly repetitive, but in the video, we see Bo doing many poses of pictures I know I’ve seen on there before. At the end it gets a bit sad, speaking of the prospective from this woman. Apparently, both of her parents have passed. A lot of people think that it’s Bo’s actually story. I’m not very sure the condition his parents are in, but Bo made a bunch of jokes in the past about his parents being deceased. “Is this heaven? Or is it a white woman’s Instagram.”

6. Unpaid Intern 0:34

In this extremely short song Bo sings about being an unpaid intern, running around and not having any time for yourself at all. Questioning how most of the people there can even work there, but who cares? You’re just an intern. “I’m an unpaid intern.”

7. Bezos 1:58

This is one of out the five Bezos song Bo Burnham made and I’d say it’s the most the popular one. He tells us that Jeff is an entrepreneur, and he was born 1964. He’s above them all! Zuckerburg and Gates and Buffet can suck it, he says! Also has a crazy piano riff. “C’mon Jeffery, you can do it.”

9. Look who’s inside again 1:23

It might seem like it, but this isn’t the most popular songs! Almost everyone has heard this title before, but it actually comes up in a latter song, singing the part we all know and love. Bo talks about how it is to be funny while being stuck in his home. How hard it is to make a joke and feel funny without an audience in front of you. “Trying to be funny and stuck in a room.”

10. Problematic 3:13

So, before Bo Burnham disappeared from the internet, he had a bit of controversy attached to his name. During the times of 2020 we had people using their voices for things no one really needed it for, a lot of people who didn’t even have the authority to cancel him did try to! It didn’t go too far after those two years. He speaks about how times are changing. Is anyone gonna hold him accountable? He talks about the awful jokes he made when he was younger, but he isn’t using his age as an excuse. He did those things, but he does regret them. He ends the song saying sorry over and over “Isn’t anybody gonna hold me accountable?”

11. 30 2:34

In this song Bo talks about how he just turned thirty. We his birthday pass as we watch him make this series. He talks about how he got used to being so young, but now he’s thirty. He also speaks on how his granddad did so much at the age of 30 and he’s not doing anything, and everyone is having children except him. “Now I’m turning thirty.” (Not putting a picture. He was half naked for like most of this album, man.)