So you know, apologies.
But throughout the special, there is truth woven into each of Burnhams jokes.
And nothing sums up this frustration and acknowledgement better than That Funny Feeling.
Bo Burnham in the video for “That Funny Feeling.“Bo Burnham/Youtube
[The election] was definitely really scary for me.
It felt the most amount of anxiety Ive felt in a long time about it, she says.
The whole song is really about contradictory ideas.
And at the same time, theres been a rise in tradwife culture, she says.
Theres this sense of preemptive nostalgia, she says.
Theres something about this thats comforting, even though its devastating.
And theres somebody that feels familiar, even though Ive never heard it before.
McRae has been releasing annual rewrites of the song since 2021, each with updated lyrics containing world events.
In fact, shes already working on releasing her next version.
This is the anthem that we want.
Its not sugar coating it, and not telling us that its going to be okay.
Its saying its actually going to be worse.
Are you going to find a way to live through that anyway?
It has such a lasting impact because its so raw and so real.
With every single thing that happens, I get that funny feeling and I think about this song.
Rather, Burnham begins a small bridge, one that seems to continue even after the camera stops filming.
Hey, what can you say?
Music has always been the way people engage politically.
The anti-war movement and the Civil Rights movement were driven by music, she says.
These negative things that we experience, theyre always bound to happen.
