Reacting to Bo Burnham's Words Words Words

So sorry there was no uploads from me last week everyone.. My last couple of videos got blocked :( I had to take out a huge chunk of this one as well as it got blocked due to Art is Dead, so there's only one song reaction for this video sorry. But Words Words Words deserves it's own video anyway!
Hope you enjoy the video!
Words Words Words - • words, words, words.

[@Cyrinil142]

It's a shame we're not getting the "art is dead" reaction. That's, in many ways, the start of him switching up his style.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Omg it was such a confronting song into his mind hey 😱 a lot of self awareness but guilt in that one 🥺

[@joesephkroll2056]

It wasnt a switch, or a view into his mind. Listen to tim minchin, an influence on bo. Besides it's all ironic detachment. Bo is a lyrical genius but even tom lehrer was doing this back in the 60s. Hes still alive too, like 96.

[@HovektheArtist]

@@joesephkroll2056 it was bo moving more towards his more current style over the shock jock humor he mainly did early on

[@redthorne1129]

I think part of what's great about Bo is that he makes it virtually impossible to catch everything the first listen. Love the post-lyric-lookup (we've all done it) bit - it's fun watching people realize just how much he packs into a three-minute song :D

[@gafgarian]

This is the first song that really moved towards his standard model of comedy plus a message on the third act. Great one for sure.

[@RakkiXIII]

Bo talks in the third person actually has 3 meanings Botox in the third person; self explanatory Bo talks in the third person; he is speaking while being inside the third person Bo talks in the 3rd person; he is narratively speaking in the 3rd person

[@canada8574]

I didn’t get that second one

[@Azizzmuck]

As someone else said, the big thing I see others do is cranking the transparency on the video and flipping it. If that doesn’t work, I’ve seen people just blur it out or put words over it.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Oh so it’s just the video itself and not the audio!? 🧐

[@dauntingbutthereyougo6910]

Yes it seems to be the case

[@Aliceingingerland]

@@dauntingbutthereyougo6910 well that’s great to know! Thank you all so much! 🙏🏼

[@23mezz]

@@Aliceingingerland It's mainly the video. If you still get blocked after trying out everyone's suggestions, then try editing in a few 3-4 second breaks/pauses during the time you're reacting to the videos. Maybe put in a fun fact about you or the person you're reacting to. If you're able to upload after doing that, then it's probably both video and audio. I honestly don't know if it this will work, I'm just sort of thinking out loud....well not really out loud since I'm typing....and people tend to read to themselves in silence........Anyway, I hope just flipping the video or making it semi-transparent works, and you don't need to do this. Love your content! Looking forward to the next one! If breaks are needed, just make sure to pause a few times while recording future videos.

[@Aliceingingerland]

@@23mezz hahahaha love it 😂 definitely going to give it a red hot go! Hopefully be up next week 🙌🏼 thanks for your help!

[@elkaiozen]

flipping the video in the playback apparently helps. Can also blur it if needed. Would love to hear your other reactions even if you have to make adjustments and re upload

[@minnesotaman3]

Making these videos transparent and flipped doesn't get it blocked and you can watch the video with the reactor unlike if you blurred it

[@Aliceingingerland]

As in literally just flipping the video? I thought it was the audio that’s getting claimed! Would love for everyone to see the others 😭

[@minnesotaman3]

@@Aliceingingerland flipped as in mirrored (if there was captions they would be backwards) i watch a lot of youtube reactors its the visuals that cause it to get claimed 60% transparent would prevent it watch a cliffbeats video as an example

[@Aliceingingerland]

@@minnesotaman3 so good to know! Thank you! 🤩 so nice having such helpful and lovely subscribers 🥰

[@zeallust8542]

@@Aliceingingerland making it transparent and mirroring it works for most videos. Like that person said, Cliffbeats is a good example if you need a reference

[@andrewkeyser8428]

Glad you did this one and sorry the other videos got taken down. My favourite part in this song is "We the people of the USA Jose, we're not talking to you, esse. We got a border in order to keep you out, It's what my NYU essay"s about."

[@XplosivCookie]

It's nice to revisit these after loving Bo's material for years now. English being a second language, there are jokes still that I've missed through who knows how many listens.

[@jimmoffit]

Id recommend "channel 5 news", "rant", "art is dead".....then react to his specials in order. I've seen others grab random songs and are confused. His work is a story...don't jump ahead.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Such a timeline hey! Omg I love channel 5 🤩 it didn’t let me post art is dead 😭 but will make some adjustments since everyone’s given me awesome tips to avoid copyright 🙌🏼

[@MikeTheGrand]

I love how you added "Editor Alice". Also love your reactions, I always laugh with you. You have such great energy in your videos.

[@sumthngcool4221]

It is always so fun to see new boburnham-ers!

[@TheRustyGuitarist]

This is song is BRILLIANT!! Loved your reaction, sorry to hear your last couple were blocked. That's super frustrating I'm sure. But I'll keep watching what's not blocked, so keep posting!!👍🏻🤘🏻

[@Rezkin144]

This is by far his most lyrically complex song. The wordplay is nonstop

[@TheStupendousM]

People have been helpful about the videos getting blocked: lowering the transparency and mirroring the video you react to do seem to help. There is also something I'd highly recommend: pausing and actually commenting on the content then rewinding few seconds and continuing. Providing commentary in the middle of the content might feel disruptive but that actually is a way to somewhat mess with the automated copyright system and give you a fighting chance when it comes to the copyright laws and fair use. Providing more commentary and criticism is more work, but it is also the only thing that copyright laws give you permission to do with other peoples content.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Love it! Will do thank you so much 🤩

[@ahotwcom]

Give the first tip a try, and don't do it on the plain white wall (do it over the bookcase, or something equally as non-uniform). Also, I much prefer reaction videos where they stop (and do the 5 second rewind (left arrow key does 5 seconds back)) and chat in the middle.

[@Teeklin]

@@Aliceingingerland You can also put a transparent overlay over the video, and when it comes to anything music doing simple things like slowing to 0.9 or speeding the audio to 1.1 or putting a filter over it to distort it can help. It's all just a computer program flagging things automatically so it's just finding ways to trick the video and audio scanning to not match something copyrighted.

[@RyanJohnson1374]

@@Aliceingingerland Some put a light text overlay over the video. Look at other channels who uploaded the same video that you were trying to and see what they did to get around it.

[@GreenDudeHC]

Hey alice please give the videos around 30% transparency and push the video a little further into the top left corner such that you cut off a slight sliver on the left and top. This will make it where the automated system cannot detect it. This reaction obviously falls under fair use but the automation doesn't know that so I hope this trick helps you. Hope to see you give the videos another try.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Oh my god amazing! 🤩 getting so many helpful tips thanks to all you beautiful subscribers! Thank you so much will do that from now on! 🙌🏼

[@dauntingbutthereyougo6910]

Hey Alice such a shame about the lost reactions! Could you try flipping them, making them transparent or putting writing over them and trying to upload again? I would hate to never see them. This is something other reactors have done and they have got them through, maybe something to try for the future too? Been looking forward to this, watching at 4.15am in the UK! Also, he's not touring, you will learn more about that further down the line...

[@Aliceingingerland]

I’ve had so many people suggesting that and I love you for it! I love how everyone but me seems to know these tricks.. hahaha will do some firing magic and try compile them all together! 🤩

[@dauntingbutthereyougo6910]

That would be so great, I love your reactions and would love to be able to see them all, especially art is dead

[@MrE724]

Very, very nice post-video breakdown. It's a lot, and it took me several times to get all the wordplay and jokes. Keep it up with the great Bo reactions. Art is Dead is great as well.

[@falsicorgi813]

Glad you seem to be enjoying. I think your chronological method of watching these makes sense, but you're hitting a huge span of videos that are famous for being copyright nightmares. His new stuff is fair game but there's a good bit of context that you wont get if you jump that far ahead. Hopefully you can figure out how to navigate all this

[@Aliceingingerland]

Damn! People did say at the beginning that heaps of his stuff gets blocked 😭 glad his new stuff is fair game though that’s good to hear! 🙌🏼

[@zeallust8542]

To be clear, a lot of his new stuff is pretty harsh too

[@moulinnoir8956]

i hope we get to see more of Editing Alice! you're doing great, can't wait to see where you go from here

[@lumandabel]

I'm a new fan of Bo's based on his 2021 extravaganza, and have only minimally poked at his early work because he's said in interviews (and a recent song) that he's not proud of a lot of it, that he was a teenage boy being "edgy" and often went too far. Going on this journey with you confirms my choice to avoid the early stuff, but it's fun to watch you laugh so hard at it. I am all the more anxious for you to get to his more recent work! Frankly, it's a little heartbreaking to watch him become more jaded, and he seemed rather miserable in the Welcome to KZbin performance. He seemed happy experimenting with the Words Words Words video though! Thanks for doing these videos.

[@shadowfragment]

Sucks that all those reactions got blocked, because I like all of those videos and would love to see your reactions to them.

[@yarewesewbline9025]

FINALLY! So excited to watch this.

[@superdrwholock]

Sorry to hear about the technological difficulties Alice, technology do be like that sometimes, but I’m glad you’re back, I love these videos :)

[@TheFornaz]

I loved the Editing Alice post reaction recap! I hope you get your problems sorted soon 🤞🏼

[@MarcosBiga]

The best part of the video is you without makeup. Freaking refreshing.

[@Bolt986]

I like that your reacting to the videos in order. First person I've seen do that. Keep it up.

[@fangurks]

Honestly, I love your Bo Burnham reactions so much, I'd be willing to pay a small patreon fee to watch the blocked videos on there, lol (only next month tho cuz I'm in debt for this month haha). Still really happy you watched them and that you really held unto the chronological order so far.

[@rileyhehe8005]

you should try reuploading with the transparency lowered and flipped! would love to hear ur thoughts on art is dead :)

[@Aliceingingerland]

So I’ve been told! Will be editing like crazy this weekend! Hahaha

[@SeekinOne]

Don't beat yourself up about not getting everything, nobody does, esecially not on their first listen. You did great!

[@ISavant]

Your tim minchin video showed up on my phone last week but when I tried to watch it was blocked so i figured copyrights were the cause of the absence. But I'm pleased to see you're back 🙂

[@Aliceingingerland]

Yeah so sad 😭 but I’m going to try edit the hell out of the other ones to try get past it 🙌🏼

[@ISavant]

@@Aliceingingerland like others are saying mirroring the video and upping the transparency always seems to help, especially since none of us watching actually need to see the video (or shouldn't cause why would we watch reactions to things we haven't seen)

[@carsonriess3469]

Thanks for sharing! You don’t come across as not getting the jokes… Bo Burnham loves to layer his comedy (and this increases as he matures), so it is very difficult to pick up everything on one listen… for anyone. Loved your examples, but one of my favorite from this song is (how he plays with the sound E-S-A) “We the people of the USA // Jose, we’re not talking to you ese // We got a border in order to keep you out // That’s what my NYU essay’s about.” I really just wanted to say how fun it is to watch you discover Bo. I love that you’re following him chronologically, because it’s difficult to understand some of his most recent work without having seen his evolution. Thanks again!

[@baumundallesandere]

Yey another Bo reaction! I appreciate the Edit-Alice comments about jokes you didn't get on the first listen. I still find new jokes that I didn't get before when listening to some of his songs for the 20th time.

[@_Glass-_-House_]

No worries on the lack of videos last week Alice allowed me time to catch up on some of your older ones. Glad you are safe and healthy and that we all were able to share in the expierence of this video. Sometimes on any journey we happen to go on there is going to be some unexpected bumps and roundabouts but despite that we keep going. After all wouldn't be a journey worth taking part in otherwise. I admire your perseverance I would have sworn off technology for a week as well with that frustration. After all technology is only great when it wants to work same goes with KZbin in general that's why we will burn'em with Burnham the next time around. Haha

[@charltonnewman2242]

Hope for the best in the future of posting without being blocked maybe try changing transparency or flip the image, loved the reaction

[@evanwarped5870]

Haha, glad you liked that one. I remember hearing this for the first time back in the day. Took like a month of listening to the CD before I was sure I'd caught everything in this song. 😂 Anyways, great reaction. Loved it

[@waka1834]

If you ever get around to doing like patreon or other like ‘support for additional content” you can use those videos for that type of stuff

[@waka1834]

Real bummer when work is wasted but dont fully get rid of them im sure you’ll be able to use them later

[@leanzadoodles5354]

Such a shame we didn’t see Art is Dead! One of my favorite songs from Bo

[@charliemanning3416]

Great reaction, sad we won't get to see the Art is Dead react though D:

[@Aliceingingerland]

I knoooow so guttered but going to try edit to be able to post it 🙌🏼

[@williamfurlan9176]

What a shame for high school party and art is dead. So good with those two.

[@cyrisssmith8830]

I have the same problem with some of my doctor who reactions getting blocked my most recent one got blocked once and I was just like, "I'm not ready to re-edit that four times." It took so many tries just to get the last one that did that.

[@sanbilge]

Please, please try and continue to talk the way it makes sense to you :) I myself really enjoyed the honesty I perceived. Let's see your other vids

[@simenkvamme3003]

Sad we didn't get to watch you react to Grew On Me, it's probably my favorite Tim Minchin song. Made even more frustrating with KZbin putting it in my recommendation feed over and over, but not letting me see it!

[@Aliceingingerland]

Gaaaaah so annoying! Such an incredible song! Had goosebumps the whole time, incredible 🤩 I’m going to edit them to try avoid copyright so hopefully I’ll be able to post them! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@brianmendoza5860]

What did you think of “Art Is Dead”?

[@Aliceingingerland]

Omg such a good insight into his mind hey! Feels like he has so much guilt and thinks it’s so bizarre how big he is.. I’m going to edit the crap out of it to try post it again 🙌🏼

[@DanaKelly-y]

After all, you can create a patreon and upload there what KZbin blocks... (unless of course you deleted those videos) btw: love your reacts :3

[@FredrikJansson1]

Where are you? More Bo please! We are waiting over here :).

[@hika_ariel]

Many suggested tips for the video, to which I add: write something on it to make it less "recognisable" while still giving the idea of what is going on to us that know the video already. As for the audio, try changing the pitching or stopping the video more frequently to give your opinion so yt sees it more like ab edit or an analysis than a reaction

[@richarddweckcomedy]

This was made by Comedy Central to promote his first special so that’s the selling out line reason

[@siddhartramotar8774]

Oh darn, You Grew On Me is my favourite love song, sucks that KZbin had those problems.

[@Sheldon.Williams]

Yea this took me a few watches to get everything - the genius is just too deep!

[@matthewlewis8566]

Every line in words words words has like 3 different meanings it’s crazy

[@Charsept]

Editor Alice has such a nice energy 😆

[@Aughtel]

Hey, here I am 15 years later and realizing the bras and burnham, too XD

[@BigBoss-ou5ij]

Can you try re-editing the videos you already reacted to with the recommendations (mirroring etc.) Don't give up on them, you can still make it work!

[@trevie25]

Damit, I've been waiting for high school party AND love is!

[@hika_ariel]

Also I'd like to hear your thoughts on art is dead even w/o the original video

[@Jwoz333]

Bo is the king of trolling and double entendres.

[@peterlewis2178]

Would you at all consider uploading the blocked videos somewhere else, and then linking them in the description of relevant not blocked videos, so we could at least still see them? I know it's not ideal, but if you're not gonna try to get them on KZbin anymore, it would at least be nice if all the effort wasn't for nothing, and if we could still experience it. I've seen a few reactors do that with blocked videos using things like vimeo, onehub, or I think even dropbox.

[@godzillaeyes]

This. I've seen people upload the blocked ones to Patreon or Instagram

[@Aliceingingerland]

I saw someone suggested discord 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’m so oblivious when it come to knowing other platforms haha but I’ve gotten some tips from subscribers on how to avoid copyright so will give it a go and reupload!

[@Aliceingingerland]

@@godzillaeyes oh damn it! So annoying 😭

[@MostlyAnimatedSketches]

Idk about him going on tour this year, but we’ll see if he announces anything. He hasn’t toured since 2016 so y’know. I don’t trust lol

[@alnondowlastnamerequired729]

Hopefully you can reupload all the Tim and Bo content you've already worked on with the video adjustments everyone suggested in the comments. Since some of those are some of the best songs from them. Also, like you said, you've already put time and energy into them so why not.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

I *was* thinking "hey alice, where were your videos last week" about 2 days ago!

[@Aliceingingerland]

Aww thanks for caring! It’s been a rough week I tell ya! Hahaha

[@ahotwcom]

Last week in your posting absence, I checked your socials links on KZbin and both were dead links. Might want to update those.

[@NeXXor]

If any of the following videos gets blocked, put them up on a Patreon or anything. Don't wanna miss your reaction now when the specials are coming up.

[@jasonbuckley4118]

You got to be doing something wrong. beacuse most reactions "especially" Art is dead, never get blocked. always full transpancy, maybe a few puases. i would of love to see your reaction to Art is dead, one of his best pieces of Art (pun intended) i wish you all the best Alice, im also an aussie and sad Bo doesnt do international tours.

[@Aliceingingerland]

Yes I’ve gotten heaps of tips and will edit the crap out of it to make it work! 🙌🏼 and yes so sad hey 😭 glad to have another aussie here though! 🙌🏼❤️

[@johankaewberg9512]

So many good bars in this song! My favorite was the Xenophobic Princess (I really liked Xena the Warrior Princess. Australian TV show :-). )

[@minnesotaman3]

Flip the video and make it like 40 to 60% transparent to avoid blockage blurring it will prevent us from watching it with you at that point you might as well just have us do audio only while you see the video

[@Aliceingingerland]

You’re the best thanks for all the advice! Will be editing like crazy this weekend hahaha

[@mattstanford9673]

If you get videos that get blocked harshly, you could always upload to another service, like Rumble or something, and link to it. Community post, for example.

[@mattstanford9673]

Or you can be one of those LAME reactors and block out the video, or whatever. Lmfao.

[@brandonwheeler156]

Transparency helps theres a percentage that won't get blocked

[@AnimeCatDad]

He’s writing songs for Sesame Street movie

[@Aliceingingerland]

What!? Omg amazing! Can’t imagine him writing kid songs though.. hahaha I’m sure they’ll be amazing

[@XboxJohnBrown]

Bo usually will unblock stuff with appeals. The blocks are automatic

[@EmperorEnder]

A bit of unintended comedy while watching this video. While watching you rant about your previous two videos getting taken down and how much work you put into editting, I got a playback error that I've never seen on KZbin before, and figured, "Whelp, guess they nuked this one too."

[@Aliceingingerland]

Aw nooo! Grrr so frustrating hey haha

[@itzhaznabz1945]

Need more bo

[@captaintortuga3191]

"below me" is also a semi homophone for "blow me", and whether they're in the basement or on their knees they're still literally below him! Bo's wordplay is insane.

[@lauravturner]

I prefer the album version to the studio version of Words Words Words because it's far faster and that feels more impressive to me. The version you watched is actually the SLOWER version so that audiences could keep up and the editors could make a more cohesive video.

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

I know this video is over a month old, but you should look at the genius lyrics on your own time for words words words to see a lot of the crazy stuff you missed :D

[@Area-gh3pq]

finally!

[@brandonkane03]

FINALLY ! lol

[@yarewesewbline9025]

So sad about the other videos. Are there any other forums we can see your videos? LIke a discord or something? Hate to miss the Bo content...

[@Aliceingingerland]

I know! 😭 this one also took like 50 tries to upload.. and I don’t know about other platforms, I’m not the best with technology 😅 really need to find another platform..

[@yarewesewbline9025]

@@Aliceingingerland Do you have a patreon!? I'd love to help out where I could! Loving the content. Perhaps you can upload videos here as well as somewhere else, so that if things get blocked, etc., they would still be up other places.

[@Aliceingingerland]

@@yarewesewbline9025 I don’t! I need to figure out what it is and how to work it! Hahaha aww that’s so nice of you thank you! Does patreon have the same copyright infringements as KZbin?

[@JeaHSaren]

I really think you should pause more, it would allow you to go over specific lyrics that were just said easier, intake the material better so you may not need to come back later like you did in this video, as well as help avoid copyright.

[@andrewbyronloveshire5209]

ok Patreon time to rescue Gingerland missed vids - who's in?

[@Prometheusforliberty]

Bummer. Art is Dead is great.

[@Aliceingingerland]

So good! 😭 I’m going to try reupload and edit the crap out of it to avoid copyright 🙌🏼

[@lilac670]

wtf how am I so early to this-

[@Aliceingingerland]

Hahaha I spent my whole morning and into the afternoon trying to upload it! So it’s up later than usual, maybe that’s why haha thank you for being one of the first! 🙌🏼

[@dblankenship5453]

You literally have an avocado above your head.

[@Travis-hq3lh]

Alice, they gave you the Basement/semen joke, but I feel like people are missing the even deeper part of that joke. “If I’m in the closet, then you are below me, taking the b a t out of basement homie.” He’s essentially saying, if I’m gay (in the closet), I’m the top and you are the bottom(below me).

[@mattstanford9673]

*reacts to Bo’s “How to Be a KZbinr”* KZbin: “And I took that personally.”

[@daddyfae]

if you make the video 10% translucent and flip it, you can upload it and can avoid the block.

[@gregbryant3826]

I've seen other reactors change the opacity the video they are watching and they seem to get everything through so you might want to try that. Even if its at like 20% the people watching you react will know whats going on in the video.

[@luigimario4458]

Was Bo actually the first one who used deep fakes? Or did he just stuff a lot of pillows in under his shirt?

[@lilykep]

Personally I'd say make a drive file and upload all the blocked videos on to patrion behind like a dollar/month paywall.

[@GabrielKitignaTessouat]

I do not know what I’m talking about here! Like hamlet, all about "words, words, words" Divide a whole into thirds, thirds, thirds. Hamlet is a book by Shakespeare, and are about words. He wrote in “iambic pentameter” meaning

[@GabrielKitignaTessouat]

I tried looking it up but I find anything that I could understand but I assume he divided words/sentences in three parts. (?)

[@brabbelbeest]

I've decided not to make this comment either funny or clever on purpose to protect you having to try and pronounce my name again... :) As I saw in other comments, a lot of people have experience in avoiding upload errors/blocks/bans, so perhaps with a few pointer (putting the footage in mirror, blurring it out, put letters across the footage, keeping below the 10 minutes "fair use" limit, etc.), we'll get to see those reactions in the future. Greeting from the literal other side of the world.

[@Scrub_Jake]

6 parts deep and haven’t even gotten to his best stuff yet 🔥

[@roberte-s2628]

Noooo I want to see your reaction to art is dead

[@j.genovese1769]

Why didn’t you watch the entire thing? Like… the whole show?

[@davidstothers8395]

Just put your stuff on rumble or something. I want to see them!!!

[@jonforeman7731]

hes changed up his style from these lyrical things you need to watch 10 times, to help his live shows be better.

[@bcrides6717]

Damn the Botox joke is good tho

[@jordanledoux197]

Keep in mind, most of your viewers who are commenting on these videos are coming from recommended videos and have probably had like 10 years to "get" all the jokes and puns and wordplay in Bo's stuff. On top of that, Bo's early stuff before the 'What.' special was purposely written to basically be impossible to fully get on a first listen. Bo got better as an artist over time, and now his stuff still has lots of cleverness, but it's accessible on a first listen. All that is to say that anyone who thinks you should get all the jokes in something like "Words Words Words" or "New Math" on a first listen is completely bonkers.

[@mynameismanic]

You said you work full time 20 hours a week ? What

[@ronan8118]

Omg an hour ago

[@tsilmanav]

Try the Art is Dead version from the Green Room. It is a better version and its not a "netflix" version.