Bo Burnham - Reaction - White Woman's Instagram

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[@TheArbiterOfTruth]

What’s interesting about this song, is that it does poke fun at the “basic white girl” tropes, because sure they’re a bit shallow. However, it also points out how shallow seeming people also are real people too. They have struggles and pain just like anyone else.

[@Jacky-sw6jx]

I agree it pokes fun, but I think it does so very respectfully. Even if you leave out the middle bit, I think it's quite gentle.

[@MattRobson22]

My favourite part is how he used aspect ratio to tell part of the story. The majority of the video is in instagram’s aspect ratio. Then, when the character starts talking about their mother, the aspect ratio starts to widen to show the real person. Showing honesty. No longer putting on a show for social media. And then, going back to the “I have an apartment, I have a boyfriend and I’m crazy about him,” etc hits and the sort of “performance” of social media comes in, the aspect ratio starts to go back to Instagram settings and is fully back by the time the character is talking about goat cheese salad again. Such a clever way to add to the storytelling.

[@xtldc]

This is the best part of the video for me. The various tropes are amusing - but that framing choice is just so cool.

[@empod]

100% it’s a beautiful visual representation that there’s more behind the scenes than what you see in a picture.

[@awesomefacematt]

Was about to comment this exactly

[@LongandWeirdName]

"Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves." So, it looks like she married that boyfriend she was crazy about. Too bad she had no dad to walk her down the aisle.

[@prestigeworldwide5239]

Am I the only one who sees this part played out as a white, wannabe, Instagram "influencer" who over-shares information for the sake of exposure regardless of personal content? Everyone wants to be an influencer and some people have no limits You can't send a prayer or send birthday wishes up to your mom in heaven through a facebook or Instagram post.

[@chickenstrips7618]

The way he follows the caption under her mom's picture (which makes me cry every time) with "gOAt chEEsE sAlAd" 🖐🏽

[@dangkolache]

I'm a 34 year old dude and that part makes me tear up every time too, absolutely gutted

[@melindamuller4466]

Oh me too.

[@lukeewald6781]

“Goat cheese salad crying”

[@Blarglesnarfe]

The damn ‘27’ birthday balloons and then “I’d been a decade” mean she lost both parents when she was early 17. Hurts man.

[@samholder196]

ooof fuck you for making me realise this

[@monodescarado]

It’s pretty great how a single few seconds of a silly song can completely reconceptualise it. Without that middle part, the song is a parody poking fun at artificial women on social media. With the middle part, it becomes a jab at you for being judgemental and taking away people’s humanity. You almost get lured into this song by laughing with him at the first part before he essentially turns the song back at you and says: hey, these are people you’re laughing at.

[@Katy-sh3ru]

Nail on head

[@newloon]

Nope the middle part is the dagger...using dead parents for likes and sympathy from strangers on the internet

[@KrasBadan]

​@@newloonThe changing aspect ratio shows that these lines are genuine. Most of the video it's Instagram 1:1 aspect ratio, but at this moment it widens to show that there's more to person than just what is visible on social media.

[@lukeewald6781]

@@KrasBadanyes, but even in that, can’t stop from humble bragging as the aspect ratio is moving back to IG settings. It’s both- it shows the humanity and challenges the audience for laughing earlier- while also still being critical of the need to 1. Share everything on social media and 2. Find a way to still present yourself in the best light possible (via the humble brag). What a mind fuck.

[@MeganTheLibrarian3]

Listening to Bo describe his inspiration for making his movie Eighth Grade impacts how I interpret this song. He talked about seeing a teenage girl sitting at the mall looking at her phone, looking sad. But then she would pop up and smile real wide to take a selfie before retreating back to her former hunched posture. And everyone else was seeing those polished pictures of her, but he was witnessing the real her without the camera. In some ways, I think this song is a grown-up version of that, and during the middle section we get to see the real person with real pain behind the airbrushed photos.

[@dauntingbutthereyougo6910]

Yes. Thank you for saying that.

[@TryPuttingItInRice]

Great addition info

[@dariajansen]

Yes. And just like how Instagram works, and people who post on Instagram work, immediately after her sad story, it's "a goat cheese salad"... Back to the filter life.

[@AA-xb2zm]

Even the people this song parodies, must appreciate how much time Bo spent setting up the poses for this song.

[@nov6786]

He rocked them also lol

[@whitetshirtdraws]

Yeah and getting all the props too. So much respect 😂

[@charmer129]

He does it so earnestly too

[@dariajansen]

Regarding the part about our mom a lot of people don't realize or notice that it happens kind of in the middle of the song, it gets you kind of emotional because it's a sad emotional moment... And then you notice right after that moment is over, it says a goat cheese salad, a backlit hammock yada yada yada. This is just like Instagram, everything's lovely lovely perfect look at me look at me, every once in awhile you see the truth coming out behind somebody, real feelings real sadness, then their next post is right back to a cafe latte or whatever. I think that was his point.

[@SuffiReax]

That is a fantastic point

[@markyochoa]

Fuck finally someone gets the whole of the song on the first try. Not everyone got the "give a kiss to dad"

[@TryPuttingItInRice]

Right before he tells the story, he's seen pointing up to the numbers "27" which insinuates their age. Then in the story he says "it's been a decade since you been gone" to his mom and then tells his mom to tell his dad that he misses him as well. So their parents died when they were 17 and had to go into adult hood and the rest of their lives alone. Really shows how sad someone could be but their social media wouldn't show it. Amazing work by Bo on this.

[@shhsjjbbjs4224]

in fairness, the parents didn’t necessarily die at the same time. the dad is also dead, but that could have happened at any time. obviously just losing your mum at 17 is hard enough to deal with though, so your point still stands

[@LongandWeirdName]

"Three little words, a couple of doves, and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves.", but no father to walk her down the aisle.

[@TryPuttingItInRice]

@@LongandWeirdName huh?

[@LongandWeirdName]

@@TryPuttingItInRice If you didn't get it, explaining probably won't help.

[@VivBrodock]

@@TryPuttingItInRice well we've put together her dad is already dead In a later part of the song there's the section that the user described, it's a description of an engagement post, the boyfriend she mentioned in the mom post proposed to her, but she won't have her dad to hand her off in the wedding. The Mom post isn't just sad on it's own, it informs a lot of the other posts and the context they live in, like working out that her mom died when she was 17.

[@cesarcarvalhod1100]

Knowing someone through social media is like not knowing them at all. Reminds me of that Martin Luther King quote: “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

[@Katy-sh3ru]

🤣🤣

[@theConquerersMama]

😂

[@82gamerprincess31]

The best part of nearly everything Bo does is he doesn’t bully people or judge them. He plays with your expectations, preconceived notions, and even prejudices in order to make you understand how alike we all truly are and to point out deep emotional stuff we all feel buried under the layers, masks, and lies we all tell or are told. Bo lives rent free in your head and gives you tours of things you didn’t even know were in there.

[@trintink]

Aspect ratio change - away from the IG square when we pull back and see the real woman behind the curated feed and the return to 1:1 on goat cheese salad... It's effing brilliant.

[@viperkil13]

You picked up exactly what I did! Bo is a tremendous artist, I’m loving your reactions.

[@christopherwalsh2368]

This song sums up the Inside special very well. Performative art blurred with real world problems.

[@armaitisalimi7486]

I hate Instagram too cause it just makes you feel like everyone in perfect except u but this song kind of shows both sides

[@SuffiReax]

100%!

[@genostellar]

The thing to understand about instagram is that it's okay to want what others have, just as long as you're strong enough to be happy with what you've achieved for yourself already. Sure, that other person might have a bigger house, but your house is something you worked hard for, and their bigger house could never be your house, and your house can still grow.

[@SuffiReax]

I totally agree

[@Pip.Darling]

Can we all take a second to appreciate how handsome suffi is , ok goodbye ☺️

[@SuffiReax]

😂😂

[@suvijii841]

Looks & brains, the whole package! :D

[@carnivorepanda4411]

Bo's voice is unironically really good! :) Great analysis btw!

[@dangkolache]

I would love a long-form reaction to Inside, even if it was patreon-only. Dig your stuff man keep it up

[@whitetshirtdraws]

No one ever talks about how he RIPPED duct tape off his beard and mustache. That had to freaking hurt 😭

[@r0tten.4pple]

RIGHT?! i've always wondered how many takes that took lmao

[@LongandWeirdName]

One. The simplest trick is to wet the glue. It did look like it stuck to it a bit, though, so it was probably glued to a hairless body part a few times first, to weaken the glue. Also, it's not black Flex Tape, so it wouldn't do a lot of damage anyway.

[@whitetshirtdraws]

@@LongandWeirdName Idk if that last line was a reference to that one flex seal ad, but if it was, I found it funny. Maybe a little too funny 😂

[@kieranmccann94]

This is another one of my favorites., and another great reaction. Like you said about this being more of a song about humanizing the person behind the account. I'm not sure if you spotted the aspect ratio change in the serious section almost like that one yearly post where she opens up a little and you get to see what they're really dealing with in life then it just immediately switched right back to the "basic" posts as that day was finished. When he sings give a hug and kiss too dad I always interpreted that like he had just died at that moment rather than him being dead already and she was like "give him one last hug & kiss for me"

[@edwarddean7]

'SOME AAAAASS' dude, I was legit startled lmao

[@dixienoble8872]

Good reaction. I missed it first time around. Bo really nailed the poses, getting in touch with his feminine side.

[@christiananderson8686]

Thanks for your insight into Instagram and the reasons it isn't for you. I never really acknowledged that that's how insta makes me feel but you're so right, and I've never uninstalled an app so fast. Love your content man, and thanks for keeping it real with us x

[@eloquitodelaesquina]

The song for me is the description of your experience as you scroll down a white woman's instagram. You laugh at the silly things, then you suddenly stunble with some VERY REAL shit like the pic of her mom and you remind yourself "hey, this is still a person just like me or everyone else", and after that you can keep going and laughing, but allways remembering everyone deserves respect.

[@TeiJay_]

hey suffi ive just gotten into bo like actually, ive heard his stuff before a little but the past few days i really listened and that was partly because of seeing one of your videos. i have now seen all 21 current videos in the bo playlist, had a great time loved all the stuff you have said and i shall watch more hope youre having a great day dude

[@emily93800]

I've watched many reaction videos of Bo and his songs, but this is the only one who actually understood the message. Thank you for taking the time to think and analyze his work. Love the videos!

[@MissFazzington]

I love how everytime he reacts to Bo he looks more like Bo

[@drakedasnakeroberts3165]

The mom was never dead, it’s misdirection

[@_iievolve9804]

I just sat here all day watching all your Burnham reactions all the way through -- Thanks! Easily the best Burnham reaction's I've ever seen -- Even if you don't want to react to it, I hope you've heard "Nerds" --- You've hit on so many important songs he's done, and this one says so much about him as a person. Actually, anyone seeing this should go watch it now.

[@hitchhiker6407]

Your thoughtful reactions are an intrinsic part of my Bo Burnham experience. Thanks, Suffi!

[@lisa_vxng]

insightful reaction aside - this just made me realise that my relationship with instagram has actually become quite good because of how I curate my content? I don't have these jealousy/comparison problems anymore and almost all things I see on there are either motivating, funny or just make my happy? I did not think I had achieved that but now that you put it into words, I realised I hadnt had those kinda thoughts in a long time? thanks for that!

[@essesinryoutub]

You have so fresh takes on your reaction videos. I subbed!

[@lekkerleven3787]

Bezos I is my fav, but I hate that it's so short lmao.

[@lunawolve]

Wake up honey, another Bo Burnham reaction video just dropped!

[@shylemon406]

Hey, Suffi! I just found your videos and finished binging your Bo Burnham reaction videos. I've absolutely loved what you've had to say so far and would love to hear more of your thoughts regarding certain subjects, outside of the reactions. If you see this and you care to indulge me, I'd absolutely watch it 🙏🏽

[@dauntingbutthereyougo6910]

Is she using Instagram to show the things that she wishes she could show her Mum? Is this heaven...?

[@dariosouza3421]

I think u should react to "facetime with mom". It's funny but at the same time there's some melancholy on it.

[@Charsept]

I think you hit the nail on the head. Humanizing the people behind the cliche posts.

[@bipolarewok]

I like seeing people that understand the serious part. And I mean at least understand the intent, even if it takes a couple of minutes to understand what it means. Like, I understood immediatly that it wasn't part of the joke, but I started piecing it together after the song was over. The meaning of the lyrics, the meaning of the aspect ratio changing... I've seen some reactors not getting it but not misinterpreting it either, but on those videos where the reactor didn't said "that's sad" there were always comments of people thinking that the joke was how some people write too much on instagram, which I guess it's not meant to have a long text, just short captions. And I guess that's the point of the aspect ratio getting bigger as well: real life is not a 1:1 square nor it can be contained in a short caption. Real life issues go into tl;dr territory and a wider ratio shows that, outside the 1:1 ratio, your room is a mess. But I can't blame the people that think that's the joke. After all, if you don't know bo's work and haven't even watch anything else from "inside", and the only thing you know is that he's a comedian, then there's no reason to think that his song would have a 10% of seriousness in the middle.

[@lisa_gay]

Again, you're spot on with the reaction, but I can't help think how many more layers there are to this song based on where this comes in INSIDE. The piece right before this one really takes viewers into the absurdity of "personal branding," so this whole song hits differently than when viewing it in isolation. INSIDE is one cohesive performance art piece. You need to see it start to finish!!

[@bethfaceplays]

I think you're the first person I've seen react and get the fact that both of her parents are dead. Most people just focus on the mom because its so obvious. Part of me also thinks "maybe she is the way she is with social media and obviously hiding her true self because she's trying to hide her grief and sadness at both of her parents being fucking dead."

[@andrew348]

He was making fun of them for most of the video and then humanized them by reading the caption. Essentially saying behind all this fakeness is a real person.

[@bcal129]

you keep nailing it

[@danchoo5415]

I agree on the third verse, the layers really make a great depth of the song.

[@jazzmojo]

This song takes on a much different tach if you think of it being about a single woman (not ALL women) and the whole song is in 1st person. This is her story and how she is trying to capture "Heaven" through pictures as a way to deal with the loss of her parents. The IG viewer will only see the picture of her mom with a caption of "My Favorite Picture of my Mom" and, unless you know her, you don't know her mom has passed, her dad has passed and that she's spent 10 years trying to live her life to make her dead parents proud. We make fun of the banality of the imagery in the rest of the song because it is easier than seeing each picture as a metphor for something much deeper. We are more than the pictures that we post. Each picture is a conversation we want to have if we can find anyone else willing to ask about it. This song is devestating. "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" - HDT

[@theConquerersMama]

That's how I always took it. Maybe because I joined social media after my husband passed. My sister signed me up and I used it as my scrapbook to him for years. Still do.

[@priscillamcrmy]

loved the reaction!

[@stevezanders8279]

I think any social media depends on how it's used. I mostly use Instagram to follow tattoo artists, painters, and cartoonists. But I used to get sucked into the social aspect and a couple years ago created a second account for hobbies that isn't associated with my real name of ID. It's totally changed the game for me.

[@SuffiReax]

Very true point

[@Efmoirlryexsotxo]

I love your excitement over the Bo Burnham ass lol!

[@Brooke-rw8rc]

This and "All Eyes On Me" are the same song from different sides of the camera

[@CherSandals]

This is honestly a FASCINATING idea. I’m going to be thinking about this for the rest of the day.

[@Brooke-rw8rc]

@@CherSandals It's really less of "same side of the camera" and more starting with the base assumption of "I'm laughing at this person" or "I sympathize with this person." Basically, all internet culture and political discourse in the year of our Bo 202X

[@CherSandals]

@@Brooke-rw8rc I can see that. I also think it’s an interesting theory to examine psychologically. There are definitely similarities in the base actions of the characters of the two songs. Both are highly attention seeking, sad, and probably suffering from some sort of chronic depression. But like you mentioned, there’s a huge difference between the audience reaction to them. The woman from White Woman’s Instagram is mostly laughed at for being shallow and dumb, and the man from All Eyes on Me is almost universally seen as tragic and crying out for help. I don’t think those reactions are inherently wrong at all, because the songs are intentionally very different thematically, and I do think one is mostly meant to make you laugh and the other is definitely meant to make you cry. But that’s still such an interesting distinction between automatic ridicule vs instinctive sympathy when the underlying characteristics are pretty much the same but the coping mechanisms are wildly different. We’re very quick to judge someone for finding a way to cope with her problems because her solution is objectively superficial and frivolous, but then we make a martyr out of a man who’s lost all ability to cope and is actively experiencing a mental breakdown. I don’t think I would have ever connected these characters without your comment, and now I find them to be such an interesting pair.

[@hika_ariel]

Can't believe you didn't react to this before lol

[@Fubbernutt]

It’s funny and all but it’s also a real bop. Great reaction. I have to recommend you watch linkin park’s live performance of When They Come For Me at the iTunes festival in 2011. It’ll be very different from what you’ve heard from them so far

[@hoop3r23]

Did you see Bo just put out an hour+ KZbin outtakes from Inside video??!!

[@swimncircles7912]

Are you not doing any more bo videos? Your reactions have been my favorite.

[@johna2066]

I think the mom caption bit does humanize at first, but then it goes on and on and on as if it’s a commentary on oversharing your personal inner feelings on social media. Humanizes them rips on them right after. It’s great.

[@ebreshea]

Some people miss the hit when it gets real. Good job taking the time to process it.

[@adda3.14]

you should react to all the songs on Bo Burnham's 'inside' i think you would really like them and oml all the songs are such a gem. BTW good video! new subscriber

[@bongle3726]

“DIY painting” lol this dude’s rich

[@Ward1794]

Listen to his song "30" it's probably in my top 5 of his songs

[@jepito29]

You’re the first one I’ve catch that both parents were gone

[@emmaogea1787]

Definitely a Top 10 favorite!🤣🤣

[@timpwhit]

You mentioned that you thought this song was going to go in the direction that "Country Song" went, in terms of being just a straight-up mockery of the subject at hand. While both songs could be construed as making fun of "poseurs," I believe the difference is that "Country Song" depicts rich millionaires exploiting their fans, while the eponymous "white woman" may be putting up a false front, but it's merely to mask her insecurities and make herself feel better. She's a sympathetic figure--the "stadium country" stars who sing about hardships they never experienced themselves are not.

[@carlluce7951]

Man this song is so fucking good

[@addio1986]

You're laughing then...whoop, it's not time to laugh anymore. THAT just sums up Bo 100%

[@azizulfikri8392]

Instagram is the new age beauty magazines. It's purpose is only to degrade what with you have so you need to buy it even if you don't need to.

[@DomAtaGlance]

Thier are two kinds of reactors, those that completely miss the middle section of this song and those that dont. Its amazing to me how many reactors are so caught up in the white womans instagram that they completely miss the entire theme of the song. Some are so stuck in their mindset that they try to find the humour in the middle section asuming it was meant to be funny and they must have missed somthing

[@guillermogarciaferrer9601]

Where's the "whas-aaa dude" he used to do in the intro?

[@mrharmless297]

You should do 30 by Bo

[@nov6786]

Love inside so much

[@morganeott4604]

Hello you should react to why don't we make you feel my love adele cover acapella and words i didn't say live 927 club medley please

[@bronwynhuffman9598]

You should do Problematic from INSIDE

[@xanadu6784]

There is a layer to this that's easy to miss. Clearly, he is poking fun at the tropes of white women instagram, how it is self indulgent, but their is a also a real person underneath with real problems that he can show empathy for. But remember that Bo is also out there, putting on a performance for an internet audience, trying to get attention by presenting a marketable version of himself, but there is a person under the performer as well who is having a tough time. He can make fun of white women's Instagram, and literally put himself in their position, because he knows that he isn't different from them. They use Instagram, he uses a Netflix special. Everyone just wants to feel the acknowledgement of their humanity.

[@cristhianzerimar]

Unrelated question, you're Irish right? lol You're like the most Irish looking person ever. Moreso than me, but I'm only half through my dad's side.

[@dixienoble8872]

Please react to The Outtakes from INSIDE------BO released it for the anniversary of INSIDE. KZbin not NETFLIX. Copyright shouldn't be an issue.

[@lizmetcalf3714]

Whasah, dude? 💗

[@dariosouza3421]

PLS, REACT TO COMEDY, OR FACING TIME WITH MY MOM

[@RollReacts]

This doesn't pertain to the song at all. But Suffi my man. You have really pretty eyes :P

[@SuffiReax]

😂 Thank you

[@ThrillhoWiggum]

I think the thing is he makes you believe her parents are dead, but really just live far away.

[@newloon]

You do realize the middle part is him shitting on girls who use their dead parents for likes followers and clout right? It's the most brutal part of the whole thing...the rest is just goofy

[@gracexcon]

I know this to be incorrect, and the reason I'll give you is that the frame widens at that part. During the whole song, the frame is narrow to imitate the formatting of instagram photos, but during the part about her mom, the opens up until the borders are gone completely, before coming back for "a goat cheese salad". This is to distinguish that part of the song as separate from the curated, perfect instagram shots. The view opens up to include the entire person beyond the instagram personality. It's a literal and metaphorical perspective shift. Bo's stuff is more nuanced than just generalizing a group of people. He always brings another side to any cultural or political subject he covers.