Awesome Music / Bo Burnham: Inside

• The opening song is amazing (both lyrically and visually).
  Look I made you some content!
  Daddy made you your favorite, open wide
  Here comes the content!
  It's a beautiful day to stay insiiiide!
• "Unpaid Intern" is a quick but memorable tune that's wonderfully jazzy.
• "Bezos I" is gloriously ironic, with a spectacular synth solo that will stick it your head forever.
• "That Funny Feeling" is a beautiful, James Taylor-esque song that lists off trends in pop culture and society in general while Bo is constantly getting a "funny" (read: dreadful) feeling.
  Hey, what can ya say?
  We were overdue
  But it'll be over soon, you wait...
• "Welcome to the Internet" is a Villain Song for the Internet, is as grandiose as any villain song you'd hear on Broadway or in a Disney musical, perfectly personifying the internet as an unnerving and creepy entity that happily talks about how it has given us everything we could ever imagine, and now has us firmly in its grasp, hopelessly addicted. The jaunty, circus ringleader melody sells the ridiculous insanity of all that's on offer so well that the horror doesn't hit you until the beautiful bridge section ends with deliciously mocking laughter, followed by the song concluding on a final, more menacing repetition of the chorus. It was so popular and memorable that Josh Scorcher made an Affectionate Parody of this song for video games and the failures of its industry in 2021, titled "Welcome to the Industry".
• "All Eyes On Me" has drawn many comparisons to "Can't Handle This" from Make Happy and for good reason. It's an emotionally devastating gut-punch of sincerity and desperation that manages to capture the swelling emotions of an arena rock audience participation song in a sold-out stadium despite being performed and filmed in front of an audience of 0 in a tiny and cluttered studio apartment.
• "Goodbye" captures the feeling of isolation and despair that many felt during quarantine, and perfectly captures the special's themes of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
• From The Inside Outtakes, "The Chicken" might be the most beautiful song Bo has ever written: a completely sincere, melancholy, existentialist Deconstruction of the oldest joke in the world.

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