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In trello, the tack of their biggest challenges with a little imagination, a whole lot of collaboration. The possibilities really do become endless at last. In for projects impossible alone, learn more at lassie and dotcom. That's a t, l a s s! I a dhaka. Last time, I dissect we examined that funny, feeling the song and observe the absurd ironic spectacles of the modern world, while Simon in acknowledging the looming potential for global devastation through climate change and or economic collapse, the song and with a climatic out your refrain in which both seem to take comfort in the fact that things might be ending soon, and thus he be, leave aided the funny feeling or the anxiety and existential dread he feels living in such a world we will do. Overseas just wait.

the resignation that ends that funny feeling signals a dramatic emotional shifting, insights narrative, whereas both seem to be doing is ass to endure and resist the mental decline has been experiencing in the second half of inside. We now reached the point in the film or protagonist, seems to be on the brink of defeat when the here is surrounded and there seems to be no way out fading from black. We see a projection of a blue sky on the rooms made wall scored by chirping birds.

The sun shines brightly behind a few gray clouds creating an almost angelic scene. It gives the impression that it's a new day the morning after the simulated campfire of that funny feeling giving us temporary hope that brighter days, her head for a protagonist, but this specific sky projection is actually a call back to the very first projection we saw on inside the peer during the song, comedy just after both accepted his divine call to heal the world. But this comedy special. He stood up from the piano and behind him was this exact sky projection which, at the time helped if, like both Heaven sent white savour character, a sarcastic symbol of hope for the future. Now after seeing the damaging effects at creating the specialist caused, the heavenly sky elicit a much different emotional reaction is somehow tormenting a tragic reminder of the outside world. Bo has kept himself from imprisoned in this room after a few moments, appears in frame first as a dark leumi shadow over the projection, the scene than cuts to a wider,

perspective, showing the entire room. We see bo It is still holding a microphone with the blue sky behind him, its clear that does not actually daytime still night, which can I can the inside out motif. We ve observed, throughout this stretch the film the lines between day and night, the outside and inside are blurred in of each other, reflecting both disoriented sense. Reality in the foreground of this new shot is the suffocating clutter of equipment. his tall stands and other lighting and sound units crowd. The scene to the point of visual claustrophobia feels very much like a vision.

Representation of both agoraphobia, the feeling of being trapped, surrounded, suffocated, the feeling that things are closing in on him, a feeling of no way out. So I ve been working on this ah special for a year now, as Bobby to speak its clear that he's attempting to give us another monologue. Obtaining us on the progress of the special we seem to these monologues so far, one at the beginning, just as he was setting out to make the special and one exactly in the middle of the special just before us thirtieth birthday, when we review

it he's been working on it for six months, which is how long he originally intended to work on it. Bo here reveals that has now been a calendar year. A full six months passes original deadline. The visual cues of the hopeful blue sky, the disarray of the cluttered room had both physical appearance are all symbolic indications of the toll this journey has taken on him are once energized and jovial protagonist who sarcastically set out to heal the world with his comedy special is now down bad to the point that he can't even finish his monologue. So I've been working on. But becomes frustrated, enraged. Dropping the mike and aggressively walking toward the camera intentionally knocking various equipment to the good on his way, but was reached and alarming breaking point, which is made even clearer as inside hard cuts to its next scene,

We see both on the left side of the screen holding a microphone enshrouded in darkness and the exact center of the frame is his camera pointed directly toward us. The audience we realise this is yet another call back at the beginning of the film to bo's very first monologue in front of the mirror with his camera by his side. We also noticed that the oven clock behind bo is unset and thus is flashing. Twelve o'clock over and over. This is a callback to the clock striking midnight, both thirtieth birthday during the second update, monologue, the clock being unset seems to be yet another reflection of bo's, alarming mental decline and his complete loss of the things that ground us in daily life, such as knowing

at the time it is bo once again tries to give us an update, but the only thing he can muster to say is: I am not do well bo immediately begin, sobbing bowing his head and putting his face in his hands. If you look closely, you can actually see that beau's face really is puffy from crying and that a single tear falls down his right cheek. There is no attempt to deflect the emotion behind a joke or a song as the kind of straightforward admission that when finally verbalized immediately triggers a flood of built up emotions, it's an absolutely gut wrenching scene, the emotional

collapse. That's been slowly building over the course of the special, but there is a camera next to bo, and this camera is perfectly centered in the frame, its red recording my design. It's a reminder that this is unavoidably a performance review. This of whether the emotion comes from a real place or not, the scene was captured with intent, but had to set up the camera, adjust the lighting check, the framing and more in order to create narrative continuity. He also intentionally chose to call back to the beginning of the film by mirroring the same monologue scene. We saw after this on comedy as both continues to sob the shopping even more cinematic unintentional, as the camera begins to see at least zoom in on itself, just like it did at the beginning of the film, if it wasn't clear already, but was calling attention to the idea of performance by forcing us to reckon with the presence of a camera in this otherwise intimate vulnerable scene like he's done consistently throughout inside he's, forcing us to question the

audrey's between reality and performance. Never letting us get to immerse are emotionally invested in the story without a reminder that is actively and purposefully, manipulating our motions to create a compelling story and film, and if this grey area between reality performance, the boughs been exploring all special long, partly because the modern omnipresence of cameras forces us to all perform all the time. Yeah, I'm a different person at home, yeah, I'm a different person. My friends yeah I'm a different person, my family, I dont, think ones real I think I think, they're all real. I think the way we hope to be seen by the world is maybe a real or version of ourselves than how we really are. I do think that I do, which is why I think people, which is why you to be so interesting specifically, and why social media so interesting, because it is this weird- and it's become very recently like this.

it that's. What kind of I see from young bloggers connecting with their audience it's kind of an understanding that its it it's an honest performance. Honest lie about it and that's him m is much more true than if the camera, where sighed the window filming a person that didn't know they were being felt that There is clear the truth you bring that's the real truth Matters now is what is your performed truth? Other people cause your private truth is dead. Now, there's no price, moment anywhere. We all know that, like the cia is like looking at his throat webcams, that version of self as is going away, so it's like who is the EU that you presented a world which is increasing? becoming the you that you're being most of the time Wasn't the case I mean that the thing in the fifties that you may be brought to the gesine, during the euro. The centennial celebration or something you know in public that this sort of public performance,

herself, as is everywhere now. I think this quote helps us to reckon with our feelings about bo breaking down in front of the mirror camera by his side. The performance itself might inherently be a kind of lie. It is, after all, constructed and because bose recording himself his weeping is technically acting, but his boat just articulated. There's an understanding that it's an honest performance and honest lie, as an and we feel the emotional truth about performance within the context of his art, which is why this so powerful, despite the fact that both intentionally drawing our attention to its performative aspects could actually be org. that the scene is that much more tragic because of the camera reminder, innovation is an omnipresence of cameras in our modern world, capturing our most intimate and vulnerable moments

It's also a reminder that both quote unquote audience for the past year has been the dark judgmental intimidating abyss of the camera's lens. I totally totally get why actors are insane like. Of course, you know: big movies are like yea they're overpaid they're over it, but it's like there is something like psychically violating and insane about being in front of a camera. It's just like the eye of god and the devil staring at you like immortalizing you and taking your soul. That is just like it's just it's just naked as inside continues. We get the full expression of what being in front of a camera, for the here has done to both spirit. As we continue to see the camera ominously zoom into itself would begin to hear the sound bow interacting with alive audience. The juxtaposition of these sounds with the visual or the cameras lens once again binding.

rather the modern, dynamic, a performer in camera, audience and screen, just as it did at the start of the film once the camera zooms far enough into itself or screen transformed into a black. we're where we quite literally see ourselves in its reflection. While hearing the prerecorded sounds of alive audience, we enter because One with the immortalizing soul sucking abyss, the eye of god and the devil both audience of no one

Everyone knows this last year, as in other times, but just knowing a feeling of hallucinates a theatre, sized live audience thinking as far support throughout the last year. During these statements, still seeing the cameras lends both actual audience creating tragic irony reinforcing the excruciating, loneliness and isolation bows endured the past year recall that inside began with,

joking about his lack of an actual audience when he triggered prerecorded can laughter during the song comedy is a light source of meadow humor part of it. Acknowledgement of the unusual circumstances, a filming especial in his room alone during a global pandemic, overtime this dynamic eroded both psyche now near the end of the film. Both mental health has collapsed to the point of actually hallucinating alive audience. We saw these symptoms of this when bow shortness and delirious imagine Small nightclub audience when telling his joke about the outside world. Turning into a coal mine for digital content, in line with those accelerating mental decline, his life audience hallucination has grown more extreme, as a small nightclub has climactic transformed into a madison.

square garden. Sized arena gave me give me but begins to perform the opening moments of all eyes. On me, promotional climax, up the entire fill the song that unifies and addresses all of its major theme. Visually, we transition from the solid back inside of the cameras led to an extreme close up of both face engulfed in blue light is almost as if with cross through the threshold of the camera becoming

one with it, which is, of course, the reality of viewing a record of performance were seeing what the camera sees the The first thing we see after this transition is a close up of both eyes is no coincidence, as we go from either the camera to the eyes of its subject. Each the windows into their respective souls says if those trying its very best to destroy the insurmountable wall between us, trying to bring us together is key. It is possible to achieve some small semblance of genuine connection in emotional russification. Boastings, the opening their get your fucking hands up, get on out of your seat. This is a cliche live concert, staple a performer, encouraging audience participation. Yet another attempt by boat to engage with us to elicit some reaction of the other side of the coin, was land, but we also recognise that get your hands up is a command that police say to a suspect. It's what a criminal. Says to summon the robbing or taking hostage in either case. Forcible surrender is the aim, and this is where we

get to observe how bo is suddenly and cleverly threading together. Many of insights themes and storing lines in the sun is this line, cause back to the pivotal song. Look who's inside again, specifically, if a nod to the line come out with your hands up, we ve got you surrounded, which were interpreted as calling attention to the idea of a captive performer italy into the ubiquity of performance in the modern world, while also a direct reference to bo performing inside his house. Creating this special were performance was once reserved dedicated spaces like a stage film set, like all of us. Both has invited the camera into his home. He let the outside inside and now he surrounded full blown agoraphobia held captive They perform it now and all eyes on me. Bo attempts to reverse the dynamics, he's telling the camera and, by extension, us to get our hands to surrender to pay attention and actually engage with his performance.

he's trying his best to get some reaction from the dark, ominous blink stare of the cameras. Let this leads to the title refrain all eyes on me all eyes on me. Oh here, vocalize is the threat of eyes that was introduced visually with our entrance. To the eye of the camera and now his own eyes, and this extreme close up. Given the specials universal threat of performance in the age Internet all eyes on me feels like an anthem, refrain for the attention economy, but it also continuation of both sincere desire to be seen to be really seen to be felt to break the hopelessly indestructible barrier of recorded performance and really connect with us. This is a contrast to the boat we met at the beginning of the film. The one who began the song comedy expressing is real. dense and insecurity about centering itself, unsure whether creating a comedy special that would put attention on him was what the world needed at this time. The boat we see We are now seeing all eyes on me demanding our attention is showing

Besides these initial securities in his loosened, aided dissociated state. He stop resisting and is fully giving in to his knee for attention. This theme giving in is central to all eyes on me. It is developed as the song continues the thing is: it's almost total for this book. In my eye, to be scared, don't be shy. The book continues singing are you feeling nervous. Are you having fun, as he thinks, he's lines bow still an extreme close up turns his eyes and looks directly into the camera. creating the illusion of I contact through on the most intimate and timid,

really powerful shots of the entire special boas trying so hard to connect with us with the audience with anyone and from our vantage point as audience member, we actually feel a connection yet on boughs, and we have to keep in mind that is looking into the dark, a bit of a cameras, let which, in this context, feels extremely tragic he's. Giving this thing is everything the camera just sits there, indifferent giving him nothing was, as will see momentarily, will harvest violent resentment. In this way, both lyric seamen part addressed to himself ass. He stares at himself in the black mirror of the lens. he's having fun making the special while also extremely anxious, because of it still the illusion of eye contact, give impression that bo is also addressing these questions directly to us questions as seem to both relate to our experience, watching this special and towards general feelings about the current moment were living in

A re enjoying the special were also a little bit nervous that both might kill himself or re entertained by the mountains of content of the digital age, while also experiencing an existential crisis because of it. It's a dichotomy that feels like a thematic continuation of that funny feeling and its general interrogation of the strange duality of the current moment, overly stimulated yet paralyzing. We anxious the dichotomy continues its almost over. It's just begun this to build on that funny feeling and its climactic outgrow about the beginning of the end of the world as it relates to both exe in making this special. He might be almost done with it, but that just means will no longer have an excuse to hide from the world, thus beginning another site: Love anxiety were her. Look for a reason to hide again both makes a proactive attempt to comfort us and himself singing. Don't over think this. Look in my I dont. Be scared. Don't be shy, come on in the war

There's five, both sues our worries, acknowledging the illusion of by contact the fact that he says look in my eye, not eyes seems to confirm or suspicion. That is referring to the cameras I or lends the sole sucking eye of god devil. The phrase come on in the waters. Fine is an idiot traditionally used to ways literally just some one to get into a pool our ocean referring to the waters temperature figuratively. It encourages someone to start or do something they ve been resistant to o, makes clever use of both of these meetings. Literally it's another reference to climate change and rising sea levels. The ocean at our door, which is the magically bound to the beginning of the figuratively the general invitation to give in to stop resisting to surrender, which is the magically bound to his commands of putting our hands up getting out of our seat we are to follow him into the water. But where is that? Where exactly are we

boasting ambiguous, refrain, full of overlapping repetition, the basis america's we're going to go where everybody knows this. My referred the universal knowledge at the beginning of the end, a place where, like minded people form a community for the end of the world, is likely that the place here is side, treating the outside world the non digital world like a theatrical space in which one stages records conner for the much more real, much more vital digital space as the physical world burns and floods or engage with it like a dangerous coal, mine, this interpretation falls in line with the motif of surrender and giving in all special

longbill, has been wrestling with a rapid migration into the digital interior world or quite aware of its appeal. He also show genuine fear and suspicion of it, but now at sea, He surrendering to its call fully to his agoraphobia or fear of the outside extended lyric and include one of its overlapping repetitions. The refrain becomes we're going to go. Everybody knows everybody. This also seems to fit in reputation of retreating into an exclusively digital interior world of the internet. A place everyone knows everyone a place that transcend the limitations of physical proximity or anyone in the world and information about them is just a click away, but there's also, possibility that both might be referencing. A well known song here recall, referred bo. Do this a number of times throw inside whether that be content nod to queens? I want to break free Unpaid interns nod to sixteen tonnes based ones not to obsession or thirty's, not to queens radio, gaga amy

example we not only found strong musical resemblances between the size, but the lyrical and thematic content reflected each other as well now. Every time I hear the refrain, we're going to go where everybody knows everybody, I can't help it think of one of the most iconic theme, songs and television, his We were everybody knows your name for the show, cheers cheers took place in Boston, underground bar a communal refuge for a group of four it's a regular gathered their daily after work, listen to the songs, opening keeping in mind all eyes on these themes of anxiety and desire for communal escape. Making your way in the world today takes everything you ve taken. From all your worries show would help along Would you like to be a it's a shared struggle and a desire to go somewhere for escape to be nearly identical to all eyes on me.

Ass. The sun explodes into its harmony, rich, refrain, which both might be essentially nodding to in his own, refrain we're going to go where everybody knows. Everybody this desire to go all our troubles. Are the same fuels thematically akin to both desire to go where everybody knows where everybody shares the same troubles, he does Well, this is, admittedly, the most questionable reference song in terms of being an intentional, not bow to me there too familiar not to point out now beyond possible reference. There's a third reading, a boat refrain when we include all of its repetition,

going to go where everybody knows. Everybody knows everybody all. This could simply be the repetition of a phrase to fill out the melody the visuals during this part point to the fact. That the repetitions, maybe more than mere lyrical filler during this section two additional shots are both face are laid on top of the original close upshot established at the beginning of the song. The translucent see all three shots. Allow them to be seen simultaneously throughout this refrain, resulting in a fluid water like texture, this is to establish all eyes on me as the visual climax, opposed association and de realisation detached out of body experience here. Particular aided by name in that funny feeling, thus repetitions of going to go where everybody knows. Everybody knows everybody, my being central lyrical reflection, abode dissociated state as the lyrical echoes of three everybody's mirrors, the three bodies, or both we see on screen. In any case, the visual motif of dissociation is very clear

this point, and it's here that we can pause to reflect on how this motif is also communicated musically, as you ve likely noticed. Both voice sounds a bit unnapped throughout all eyes on me as because, both as applied to his voice and audio affect call format, shifting format, shifting all There is the specific frequencies of a sound that contribute to its tone, and does this without altering the pitch. For example, I can use format, shifting on my voice to make it sound deeper or I can make it sound higher for all eyes on me, it appears both lowered his voice to semi tones via format. Shifting for comparison curses isolated vocals as they appear in the song, Are you feeling nervous? Are you having fun? most all over. It shows now we can do better. Reverse engineering and raise the format to semi tonnes, cancelling out the effect and leaving us with something close to his original voice.

I you feeling is real things. Almost over it's just the symbolic implications of this vocal affect further expressed both totalled the association. The voice is his, but the vocal effect creates detachment, it's him, but it also not We also have to consider the implicit cultural associations, with his vocal choice as digitally related low voices. Are a troop of movie monsters and villains? It's because of this that all eyes on me as a bit unnerving, almost disturbing At the same time, the song is also oddly soothing. Part of this comes from the songs ex, as both literally sues our worries and invites us to join him in the water, but this equality, is also communicated musically through its melody as bow unit. This is something called the penta tonic scale. In contrast with the word, western standard, major scale, which contains seven notes.

and a tonic scale uses just five notes, eliminate The two notes that create harsh dissonance is like the minor second and try tone without the possibility of these kinds of harsh distances, the five no de tonic scale, has a very soothing pleasant. Feel oh, almost exclusively uses the penta tawny scale and is vulnerability melody for all eyes on me, The soothing melody son by both haunting lowered voice, a list it's an emotional reaction that is somehow both comforting and unsettling, and this I will take this dichotomy is also supported by the blue color that dominates the visuals of this are as blue. Is this equally associated with sadness and melancholy, but also serenity and calm of water combined with both. dissociation. It's almost as

foreseeing and hearing a personification of mental illness or depression itself, inviting bow inviting all of us to surrender to give up the existential fight to sink into the blissful waters of nihilism, to stop carrying the The world's problems stay inside Joy, the warm blanket numbing detachment, yeah

second generation of the chorus drums and piano kick into the mix, and we hear the explosion of a live concert audience the visuals transition from the intimate close ups of three overlapping bows to a wide shot of the entire, both stand singing in the centre and a huge real time projection of him fills the entire while behind him. It seems too. we take a large arena stage often enormous real time. Rejection screens are utilised so that those far from a stage can see the performer thing to bow in real time, continues the deliberate visual motif of dissociation or highlighting Tragic irony of his situation alone in his room, hello the naming all of this. Indeed, if this were an actual cancer, we would be getting out of our seats. We would be putting our hands up The fact that we don't do this while watching from home on a screen, feels like a deliberate indictment of the limitation of digital interactions. However hard we might try to stimulate uniquely physical human experiences. It's just not the same.

visuals of all eyes on me intentionally highlights this limitation limitation that has plagued by the entire special in this second generation of the chorus we get an additional line, repeated twice heads down, pray for me, heads down now pray for me. This injects a religious component into this performance spectacle as both putting your hands up. and standing up and sitting down our common rituals and church services highlighting the communal, spiritual experience of life music, which is again tragically absent, verbose performance capture, digitally but notably both says pray for me, not us on one hand. This could continue his unrestrained indulgence and adoration and worship as performer feelings he resisted at the beginning of the special or perhaps it's a boat,

Mental health is actually reached a point of desperation and is pleased for prayer are genuine, as he feels like. Divine intervention might be the only way he can make it through more on this right after the break. This website is brought you by at last year, when we work together impossible things are so impossible. In fact they become possible. That's why seventy five percent of fortune five hundred companies work together using at last seen team collaboration software like jira, confluence and trello, the tackle their biggest challenges with a little imagination. A whole lot of collaboration, the possibilities really do become endless at last, in for projects impossible alone, learn more at at lassie and dotcom. That's a t, L, a s s! I a n dhaka. Welcome back to dissect, before the break we reach the end of all eyes on me, second chorus, where we heard both request for prayer if, after this course that the song breaks down

both shares a confessional story with his imaginary audience. Importantly, he began this by asking. If we want to hear a quarter quote funny story once again explicitly develop this special long exploration of funny. The five years ago, when the forming the stage, just not a great place, to have the quit didn't perform for five years spent that reveals that he quit performing, live, harmony five years ago because use having severe panic attacks on stage the audience, unable to tell the difference between sincerity and tragic irony laughs at this revelation. Well, we ve export both front

history with performers. Things anxiety throughout our analysis is season. We should reckon At this moment, it inside as extremely pivotal, is the first public acknowledgement of it in his arm and fittingly. He reveals this while back on this age while enduring what itself feels like a song, long panic attack this formula. I'll during their emotional climax. The film is thus a unifying culminating. Only in the personal narrative thread that runs through inside recall. This thread began with insides opening moments when both walked inside the same door. He walked out of at the end of two thousand sixteenth, make happy which signalled his retreat from public performance. Well, that was a more subtle acknowledgement of the personal narrative that runs through inside the thread was more

vertically introduced when we saw a slightly horrified by watching a projection of himself performing my whole family, his performance origin story. Since that moment, we ve seen both struggle with performance throughout the second half of the film, which has now culminated into a full blown dissociated panic attack here on all eyes on me, where he also directly acknowledges make happy in a subsequent hiatus from performance. With this context in mind, let's revisit, may copies finale appropriately title can't handle this were both first articulated his love hate relationship with performing in front of an audience, the truth is not biggest. Problems do not want to leave you, but I want to stay myself. I want to give you the night out that you deserve, but I want to say what I think not care what you

think about it? A part of me loves me. Have your pardon me pardon me for years. I don't think I can handle this right now. Bo articulates the dilemma that plagued him seemingly his entire career. I d economists tunnel or with his audience as a creative person. He needs and wants her attention, but also causes of extreme anxiety to the point of panic attacks. Now this listen clip again and this time focus on how and when bow manipulates his voice about it a part of me loves the part of me hates your pardon me pardon me for years. I don't think, did you catch it? uses the same format, shift effect on his voice, that we hear throughout all eyes on me when he says he loves neither the audience he raises his voice. Perhaps too

eliza childlike need for attention when he says he hates and fears the audience he lowered his voice, Exactly like all eyes on me, some I think the anxiety panic resentment he feels while performing this symbol. musical metallic linked to can't handle. This begins to reveal more of the subtle brilliance of all eyes on me. Indeed, if we noticed colors during the majority of can't handle this. We realised that it uses the same blue color that dominates all eyes on me and if we think back to the same, but watches my whole family on the projector We also realise that the same blue color dominates that seen as well is the hue of the light emitting from the projector, but the video from my we're family itself is almost entirely blue bows wearing a blue shirt, though behind him is solid. Blue and a blue ellie delight emits from his keyboard now. Let us also recall what we heard during the my whole family projection see allow Oh droning, synthesizer playing a four note sequence,

the call the distance part, the reduction of the same cords played in the introduction of my whole family. the very song, but was watching himself perform during the scene, creating a musical motivate link between the two. Now it's compare this with what we hear and all eyes on me. First, like the projector seen, the song features allow droning sent playing afore note sequence will not direct. No two don't match the overall ominous feeling is emotionally akin to the projector. Seen unlike that scene, we can actually trace them sequence of all eyes on me back to my whole family. This time the source is the songs,

Horace remit The rhythm? Here's, the cord sequence bell, plays during this chorus, Now, let me play just the route or base notes of each court. Now, let's play this on a low droning, synth now, it's actually full quarter over talk

We can now compare this to what we share and all eyes on me. It's the same exact court sequence transposed half step down. So do you see where both doing here, always on me encompasses the entirety of both performance career musically, the fao. nation of the song is built for the foundation of his career, my whole family, while the voice, modulation and expressed. Of exciting is an extension of make copies can't handle this, which, for a time marked the end of his performance career. Meanwhile blue color that dominates my whole family can't handle this. The projector scene and all eyes eliza me binds, is thrown together visually. so understanding this understand the all encompassing panoply scope that all eyes and me symbolizes in regards to both performance career

we listened to the rest of his funny story, with a deeper understanding, its tragic irony:

I quit didn't perform for five years or spent that time. While myself, you know what the better the winters wednesday, while, though the start I've been writing the review.

Says hiatus from performing in his efforts to improve his mental health, actually worked negatively yet another acknowledgement of the end of big happy. They are bow wow, out of the room. He said now and was greeted by his girlfriend and dog before going inside his house, but was lee in the stage to focus on himself and his family to as says here and all eyes on me- improve himself mentally. What's unclear what exact The boat was doing behind the scenes to improve his mental health. He did stay away from performance for years, as we discuss in the first episode of the series boat turned a creative work behind the scenes riding in directing his first feature, film eighth grade dry, in comedy specials for chris rock and draw car michael among other ventures, and his all eyes on me story. Bo revealed this time away from the stage worked and improved so much that he felt he was ready to perform again- and this was true but

ben, occasionally popping in at the largo nightclub, allay to test new material and even had an official show book for April of twenty twenty, notably bo describes this time away from the stage by saying I ve been hiding from the world and I need to re enter. In other words, he was inside and needs to go back outside He then brings a story full circle. By saying, then the funniest thing happened, ironically, referencing very unfairly global pandemic that shut the world down enforced everyone inside a rare interview and late. Twenty twenty, though, discuss his experience with the pain. I and mention this need to get back outside its also just like a very psychic time. It's a very. I found it to be very interior psych in that that's tough. For me, I mean that's just like that's, that's not totally easy to deal with

because I'm just like I'm, the guy that you know is already kind of shut in in his head, and now that I would like encouraged by the government to be in my own head that feels like I'm, not the ideal. I think it was just even this year I was like yo. I need to go out more. I need to engage with the world more, I need to like be outside and in the end I and then so, there's just a kind of a sick irony that has as both says here, there's a sick or tragic irony to being forced inside precisely when he was mentally ready to go back outside an additional. project layer is added, as we watch bo reveal. This irony will having what feels like a panic attack on a make believe stage inside his home hallucinating an arena sized audience indeed, while live audience, gave bo anxiety to the point of panic attacks on actual stage a beau has learned over the past year, forcibly stuck inside

is, that is performing anxiety is actually worse without an audience, it's worse, without people without communal human interaction, despite those five years, a mental improvement, but once again finds himself back at rock bottom as a direct result of performance. Thus, both quoting quote funny story here on all eyes on me, is the peak of the tragic ire that's dominated inside second half demoralising revelation made all the more crushing by the music and visuals, encompassing both entire committee career, a career trying to be funny inevitably results in him feeling funny. It's almost all, it's just me. Look after them. No story revealed in the middle of all eyes on me. This repetition of the opening verse feels very much like both

disassociate itself talking to him one on stage part of him, his nervous, while performing part of him, is having fun part of him he comforted knowing this particular performance is almost over. A part of him knows that the end of this performance, only begin the inevitable dreaded anxiety cycle all over again. He then once again attempted vince himself to stop resisting the unavoidable collapse and fine bliss and surrendering which this time round seems to work leading into what could be argued is the musical climb the entire special you guys got both fully submits for the part of himself, at once, nothing more than to surrender. He begins. You say,

oceans. Rising, like I give a shit. The thing is, we know both does give a shit he's reference climate change a number of times throughout the special and is most Bert references were just heard on the previous song that funny feeling, as both own mental health declines, he's fighting it harder and harder to care about the catastrophes of the outside world when his own Media interior world is itself a catastrophe. Broadly speaking, both here there seems to be tapping into a larger phenomenon, dubbed empathy burner or compassion fatigue, which is fear emotional exhaustion cause. When quote a person, expanding much of their energy, emotional, physical, mental, to care for others to the point that they themselves feel exhausted. Unquote, studies that living through the past few years, with its global pandemic, numerous social uprisings, a tumultuous presidential election, frequent mass shootings, an invasion of ukraine, economic guns, certainty and much more has resulted in

widespread, numbness, desensitization and decline and empathy. This is only ass. Her by the distribution of information on social media were received. So much of everything all the time scrolling through a timeline of tragedy after tragedy after trash how can we possibly emotionally invest in every horrible thing we see on a daily basis, both on compassion fatigue continues with the line you say the whole world's ending honey. It already did you're, not gonna slow it. Heaven knows you. Try This feels like a direct continuation and amplification at the end of that funny feeling, or both things about the unavoidable end of the world in the near future, both depression voices himself into fatalistic apathy, giving into the all too attractive temptation of ridding yourself of the burden of carrying caring for problems using create caring for people that don't seem to care you caring for a world, you don't even want to be a part of any more the idea,

not being able to slow. The world's impending annihilation seems to capture the smallness. One can feel as an individual attempting to shoulder the weight of the world's problems, feeling helpless to make a meaningful positive impact on your own inner limited time on this planet. This is particularly true when it comes two issues like climate change or the fate of the globe, the literal future of humanity depends on you and while we understand the importance of taking on these kinds of responsibilities, when your struggle, with their own mental health or simply the ongoing effort, it takes to sustain a life that responsibility on top of everything else can feel crushing and thus, despite understanding, it's no sustainable way to live boast. We call to unshackled herself from the burden of carrying to indulge in the freedom of indifference is incredibly entice,

You got it, for all eyes on me sinks back into its refrain. O things got it good now get inside. At this point, the special we understand the multi layered implication of inside it's a command day and doors shut away from the problems of the outside world. It's a command to livestock. inside the much more real, much more vital digital space of the internet is the command to submit to depression, seductive passes to sink deeper inside of once it's a command to indulge in the narcissistic sentiment of all eyes on me. Me me prioritizing and absurd to find yourself. The world be damned musically boat. Does something and crime

interesting during this section, as he applies something called a harmonised or to his voice this- allows you to sing a single pitch, as you normally would, and the harmony are automatically generate artificial, synthetically created harmonies as if multiple singers were backing you up, but because these are computer generated. The effect has a metallic digitize sound, like a choir made up of robots once isolate both vocals during this section spoken here. This affect more clearly gotta. Go about getting. Everybody knows though, utilizing a multi voice effect precisely at the songs climax feels in actually symbolic of his dissociated out of body state, just as We see multiple visuals abode generated digitally. So too do we hear multiple bows generated digitally. This

layer contributes to the rising climax of all eyes. On me, as bo becomes increasingly unhinged indeed its during this section of the song that we notice a visual detailed that for warns us abode upcoming physical collapse, the large per day, in a bow on the wall behind him is created by a second camera in the room being run through a projector on. right hand side of this protection. We can see the cameras, men, free and battery life icons. The memory, dictators show two numbers: nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and twenty nine fifty nine or twenty nine minutes, and fifty nine seconds Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine indicates that the memory card is full. While twenty nine minutes and fifty nine seconds is the maximum like that, a dsl, our camera can record video, in other words, time's up bo, has reached max capacity and is ready to burst. As for

battery life icon during the majority of the video the battery displays full, but during this final refrain section, it suddenly completely empty and blinking directly above both head, indicating that it like bo himself. was shut down at any moment, talk to you didn't go here, only snaps the build up fresh, action and anxiety and exhaustion caused by performing for the lifeless unresponsive soul. Sucking eye of the camera for over a year results in a full on meltdown. He screams violently at the camera at us at the world. He then walks toward us toward the camera,

It picks us and it up singing the final chorus, all dancing around the room, filming himself, notably the hand that holding the camera is above his head. Both got his fucking hands up theoretically, forcing us to do this yeah it's during this moment of the film. Never more aware than ever of our complete passiveness as an audience member experiencing bows chaotic point of view on screen, while sitting comfortably on a couch or less in bed bo is so desperately trying to inject some life. Some simple, it's a meaningful reciprocity in this digital transaction. This new way we interface with each other, he's putting up his best fight, but the wall of recorded performance, the barrier between cameron screen performer, an audience proves to be insurmountable. It is not long until both finally

access to the floor, camera in hand drowning in the sound of enthused, disembodied roars from his imaginary audience, both physical collapse were holding. The camera is incredibly significant, as we discussed length during the series. The camp it's symbol of performance represents both in time career journey as a performer, while also representing the ubiquity of performance in the modern internet driven world. Indeed, if inside has a villain, its most, certainly the camera, the ominous soul sucker. all seeing black void of an eye, but has been battling all special long and at this point after bows biggest confrontation with the camera, it seems the camera has one leaving bo collapsed on the floor, physically,

mentally broken. If that seen in the movie, where it appears that the protagonist is dead, the villain got the best of them. That both case the show is Like good narrative, climax all eyes on me, weaves, together all the story. Central themes into one critical, culminating scene is the p, goes dissociation and a gore phobia has been developing since the beginning of inside is the p give both anxiety and existential dread about the world outside with his Urging crises are climate change, late stage, capitalism, covert, gun violence, economic inequality system, racism and polarizing politics the peak of those anxiety and existential tried about the world inside with its can Jim crises of the digital, flattening at the human experience. The unchecked influence of big tat, the big

the performance and loss of interior already dehumanization over stimulation, desensitization the decline of empathy and genuine human connection. All these themes explore throughout inside come to a head and all eyes on me and the rest is what feels like a religious experience with mental illness. the taunting heavy drones and its oddly complimentary soothing harmonies all eyes on me. Vividly captures the all too real temptation to concede an end for a generation born into and continually ravaged by, so many coinciding pressures and anxieties and looming catastrophes, The all too real temptation to say fuck it to appease depressions carter, submerged yourself into its pacifying waters, to take shelter and the warmth of your bed to lose yourself in your phone to stop trying to extra,

some glimpse of meaning from a meaningless world, accept defeat and stay inside forever.