Bo Burnham: Inside

Bo Burnham would probably be able to write great, serious songs in perhaps any genre, but that probably wouldn't be enough for him. He gives his songs extremely funny lyrics, which are also quite cunningly satirical, and when you listen to them, you often find that you are having fun, but you actually start to think them, because they are right. In fact, Burnham reminds me a lot of Eric Idle, who had the crucified people in Life of Brian sing “Always look on the bright side of life"; in the musical Spamalot, his characters find out that you won't succeed on Broadway if you don't include Jews in the game, in the title song from The Meaning of Life he makes fun of human wandering for nothing, and in the same film he convinces us of human puniness with Galaxy Song. Burnham does the same, but applies it to today's world, to current problems... And he does it great. (18/06/2021)