White Woman's Instagram -- Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)

"They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard" - Martin Luther King

"may contain WINE" bo's got this shit down to a science

"Give a hug and kiss to dad" really is the saddest plot twist. Not only did she lose her mom, but her dad too

I think my favourite line is actually "I miss sitting with you in the front yard" -- because that is not generic, that is obviously a very specific memory about this person and her mother and how they used to hang out. Everything in the song is lightly making fun of this person for how basic their tastes are, but in a really simple evocative line you're reminded she's a particular person like anyone else, she has an inner life and experiences that were unique and meaningful to her in particular.

Bo Burnham does this thing where he ridicules someone and instantly challenges you for feeling superior.

The fact that the frame widens the moment she mentions her mom is dead, and starts to close back in when her monologue starts to become superficial again. Feels like she's putting the mask back on.

The way the lyrics are set up gives me the feeling that the POV character isn’t her, but rather some random person that found her Insta and decided to scroll through it. They’re skimming through, seeing all those images and rolling their eyes at them until they get to the mom photo. That’s the post they decide to select and read the caption of. It’s only when they bothered to take a closer look that they get a perspective shift, and when they go back to scrolling with that new context they see it all differently and they understand a little better.

I love that Bo tricks viewers into ONLY having sympathy for this hypothetical person after the middle part of the song. While she's posting harmlessly happy pictures, she's a target for ridicule, but after she's an orphan, the tone of the viewers change. Almost like an episode of America's Got Talent lol. She's only relatable and worthy of people's understanding after we realize she's had to go through something terrible. I think it's clever that he makes fun of how superficial 'white women on Instagram' are, but also subtly exposes his entire YouTube audience for being pretentious and unsympathetic.

I think Bo just wanted an excuse to take all these cute pics. Respect.

best shit ever

One of the first lines is "a couple holding hands" and then in some of the lyrics and pictures from the middle of the song are describing and showing her decorating a house. "A coffee table made out of driftwood", the video of him covered in paint while painting a wall, him holding various decorations that she would potentially be putting in her house. I think that this song also describes her relationship developing from just casual dating to them moving in together to eventually a proposal with "and a ring on her finger from the person that she loves" Also I just cried a little at the realisation that she turned 27 during this song meaning she was only 17 when her mom died.

"I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Anor" MLK Jr. RIP.

Bo is a better white woman than I could ever be

"Fly, you fools!" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I miss my mom so bad. It has literally been two decades since my mom has passed away. I was 13. I am getting married next month and this honestly hit me in the gut.

I love/hate that when I listen to this song I'm always tearing up as 'goat cheese salad' rings out angelically

"One does not simply walk into Mordor" - Martin Luther King Jr.

the fact that he looks like the white womans hipster boyfriend 😭

"It's amazing how the song can spend 35 lines just listing fairly silly instagram aesthetic picture subjects and then in 10 lines give us a suddenly intimate glimpse of a woman who lost both her parents, implicitly recontextualizing the rest of the video as her trying to focus on things that make her happy. That's just an amazing amount of talent at lyrical narrative." just putting a comment I like here so I don't have to scroll forever to find it again

As a white woman that lost her mom a decade ago this year, I can say…. I laughed hysterically when he said 85% of everything I wrote in my IG caption under my fave pic of me and her 😂