Like the soundtrack to any great musical, this collection of songs from Bo Burnham’s film Inside won’t replace the original work, but provides a way of experiencing the agony and ecstasy of the songs from another angle.
Yep. A serious contender for my Album of The Year is a comedy album.
After quickly gaining fame from viral YouTube videos of his musical comedy and then having a successful career as a standup comedian, integrating his music and visual components into his set, Bo Burnham retired from stand up comedy in 2016 after his internal struggle with art, comedy, performance, capitalism, depression, and existentialism lead to him having panic attacks on stage. After spending time to focus on his mental ... read more
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Inside (the full special) has been incredibly important to me recently, and That Funny Feeling is genuinely my favorite song of the year so far. I obviously love the rest of the album/special as well, but specifically that one song always hits me so hard. I think hearing the songs just by themselves is a little less of an experience than the actual special, but hearing this as an album is still fantastic.
Bo Burnham is probably one ... read more
As much as I love the comedy on "what." and in my opinion is his best in terms of comedic writing, I feel "Inside" is a lot more personal, has impressive cinematography and has a lot of clever aspects within filmmaking which I find very impressive. In his previous two specials he used lighting and camera perspective, highlighting the audience in a lot of clever ways, but setting up a performance like this was far more impressive. Brilliant stuff. The music itself is very ... read more
1 | Content 1:36 | 83 |
2 | Comedy 5:19 | 82 |
3 | FaceTime with my Mom (Tonight) 2:20 | 79 |
4 | How the World Works 4:15 | 81 |
5 | White Woman’s Instagram 4:00 | 82 |
6 | Unpaid Intern 0:34 | 75 |
7 | Bezos I 0:58 | 81 |
8 | Sexting 3:21 | 77 |
9 | Look Who’s Inside Again 1:23 | 86 |
10 | Problematic 3:13 | 81 |
11 | 30 2:34 | 81 |
1 | Don't Wanna Know 1:03 | 79 |
2 | Shit 1:18 | 76 |
3 | All Time Low 0:54 | 72 |
4 | Welcome to the Internet 4:35 | 89 |
5 | Bezos II 0:45 | 72 |
6 | That Funny Feeling 5:01 | 91 |
7 | All Eyes On Me 5:02 | 90 |
8 | Goodbye 4:09 | 89 |
9 | Any Day Now 0:57 | 76 |
#12 | / | Billboard |
#15 | / | The Sunday Times |
#30 | / | Consequence of Sound |
#30 | / | The Wild Honey Pie |
/ | AllMusic | |
/ | Atwood Magazine | |
/ | Vinyl Me, Please |