#art is dead

[money-and-dandellions]

Entertainers like to seem complicated

But we're not complicated

I can explain it pretty easily

Have you ever been to a birthday party for children?

And one of the children

Won't stop screaming

'Cause he's just a little attention attractor

(//source: 'Art Is Dead' by Bo Burnham//)

#bo burnham #art is dead #When he grows upTo be a comic or actorHe'll be rewardedFor never maturingFor never understanding or learningThat every day #Can't be about himThere's other peopleYou selfish asshole #I must be psychoticI must be dementedTo think that I'm worthyOf all this attentionOf all of this money #you worked really hard for #I slept in late while you worked at the drug store #My drug's attention #I am an addictBut I get paid to indulge in my habitIt's all an illusionI'm wearing make-upI'm wearing make-up #im fine

[edandstede]

never gonna see them get married never gonna see what happens to that shack never gonna hear stede say i love you out loud in those exact words never gonna see them kiss or laugh or look at each other again. it hurts so fucking much that this beautiful breath of fresh air has been stomped out after having its second season chopped and butchered already. the cast and crew and all creatives involved as well as us fans deserved so much better and i just. i can’t even see the point in investing in anything new anymore. if this hit can’t get the treatment it deserves literally what hope is there

#art is dead #quill to paper

[suckersakaria]

remus lupin listens to bo burnham when hes angry at his artist boyfriend and also society I dont make the rules

#remus x sirius #remus lupin #sirus x remus #sirius black #artist sirius #bo burnham #art is dead #marauders shitpost #marauders fandom #dead gay wizards #harry potter marauders #dead gay wizards from the 70s #marauders #marauders era #the marauders #wolfstar

[rachbtw]

#grunge #grunge blog #aesthetic #alternative #tumblr grunge #art #art is dead #dark #pale #emo #inspo #words #coke zero

[kornelias]

You say the ocean's rising like I give a shit

You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did

You're not gonna slow it, Heaven knows you tried

Got it? Good, now get inside

Bo Burnham — All eyes on me | Inside

Instagram: _idealart

#artists on tumblr #artwork #art #fanart #digital art #digital illustration #artistsupport #art commisions #digital artist #portrait #bo burnham #bo burnam inside #bo burnham fanart #Bo Burnham fan #Bo Burnham art #eyes #all eyes on me #inside #inside outtakes #art is dead #bo burnham what #bo burnham make happy #comedy #musical comedy #standup #standup comedy #idealanaart #stand up

[ricep0pp]

i will never ever be over how people laughed at art is dead when bo burnham first performed it. it has never ever made any sense to me how is that song comedic in any way it just sounds like hes in pain and im :(

#bo burnham #art is dead

[a-mimic-and-a-jester]

I am an artist, please god forgive me

I am an artist, please don't revere me

I am an artist, please don't respect me

I am an artist, feel free to correct me

A self-centered artist

Self-obsessed artist

I am an artist

I am an artist

But I'm just a kid

I'm just a kid

I'm just a kid, kid

and maybe I'll grow out of it

#this song omg #its always makes me wanna cry #bo burnham #art is dead #art #music

[misskitka27]

TOTALLY not having a mental breakdown right now because most of Bo Burnham’s songs are currently off of spotify…

#bo burnham #songs #comedy #art is dead #channel 5 #spotify #music

[umahumahumah]

Hey guys guess who's going to murder someone tonight

#IM GONNA KILL THIS MOTHERFUCKER WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU #ONE OF THE FIRST RESULTS?? #art is dead #if one of you did this i hope you burn #anti ai

[stressballl]

Bo burnham changing all his socials pfp to a rising ocean and deleting all his non inside songs off his Spotify and all his insta posts is my last straw

#bo burnham #Robert burnham #inside #what. #art is dead #music #sad #boohoo #mrburnham #1.17.24 #jan 17 2024

[madame-helen]

#meme #memes #public art #art is dead #art

[loadingbraincells]

all of bo burnhams music before inside is getting taken off all steaming platforms???? LITERALLY SOBBING HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO JAM TO HITS LIKE ‘oh Bo’ AND ‘words words words’?!?!

#bo burnham #words words words #art is dead #what. #FUCK YOU COMEDY CENTRAL #noah rants

[metvmorqhoses]

Nononono waitttt what do you mean about Good Omens season 2?? Why didn't you like it?

I personally thought it was better than season 1 - better paced. There wasn't a single boring moment. And sure, the plot maybe had fewer stakes, but seeing as this was a bridge season between season 1 (the of Good Omens book) and hopefully season 3 (the book that never came out, “668” or something like that), I thought it was good. Warm & fuzzy.

I need to know your opinion now

As abashed as I am to have to respond to such enthusiasm with, well... the very opposite of enthusiasm, please at least know that I consider the truth the best thing I have to offer in general and in regard to that unfortunate (yet somehow still-untouchable?) mess the second season of Good Omens has proven itself to be in particular, so accept it as some sort of well-intended even if perhaps unwanted gift.

This is probably the most unpopular opinion one can have on Tumblr right now, so I'll go straight to the point: Gaiman managed to ruin Good Omens (perhaps he isn't able to write it by himself, perhaps he got carried away with fan service, who knows), once one of the most delightful, witty, engaging, profound books/shows existent, changing its register and raison d'être in order to turn it into, per great popular request, the same lame simple plotless cheesy cookie-cutter gay romance without rime and reason apparently every single piece of media is deforming itself into lately.

The dramatic loss of... artistic quality this show suffered is appalling and even more appalling is the fact I seem to be one of the very few on this green earth to have even noticed? Did I perhaps read too much in the show before? I don't think so, it was indeed a masterpiece. I saw many die-hard fans of the series beyond puzzled at this last season too, straining themselves to try and make sense of it with wild theories, justifying them with the simple fact that Neil Gaiman is a genius and surely this hot mess must mean something, right? I wasn't aware the world was mostly populated by hysterically besotted people hailing Neil Gaiman's alleged greatness from dawn til dusk without contextualized merit, and the discovery didn't particularly excite me, to be quite honest. I think a healthy amount of fairness in the critique of any artist should always be the norm, but I digress.

I'll try to keep it as brief and matter-of-factly as possible, especially since some time has passed and the fumes of my rage aren't as scorching or as precise as they used to be lol

In a word, this season was subpar. Not only did it lack that original witty, ineffable meaningfulness, that intrinsic and very human sense of wonder and protectiveness towards life and its profound sense the original show brimmed with, but even from the most basic literary point of view, it literally lacked a plot worthy of this name, a story, characters that felt complex and real instead of caricatures who tried and reenact themselves, and in general what should have been, quite simply, good writing.

More than Good Omens' long-awaited season 2, this felt more like a high-budget filler fanfiction created by someone who didn't know what they were doing with story and characters most of the time, but who sure as hell wanted to please the audience to disastrous lengths.

The very first thing that irked me beyond belief, and it literally started from minute one, was the immediate, more or less subtle, change in acting from both Michael and David. Michael stressed it way more, with, in my opinion, quite tragic results, thing that from the start immediately allowed me to guess where they were going with their (already established as extremely complex) relationship, entirely turning the vibe from sophisticated allegory of Divine Comedy kind of love (love for your enemy, love for your friend, love in all its form and in its entirety) to banal romantic comedy-level gay drama, downgrading what Crowley and Aziraphale shared (the subtle abysses of it!) into the most boring and obvious of soap operas, obviously forcing them to act out of character in order to compensate (was any flash-back meaningful to their character or the story? Was there a writing reason behind any of them beyond writing for the sake of filling screen-time?).

Some relationships deserve to be left alone, alone in their subtlety and ambiguousness or you'll inevitably ruin them. Not everyone must kiss on screen, no matter how much the audience screams and throws up for it. This little woke drama completely ruined and eclipsed everything else those two characters were for each other, turning them from cosmic and devastatingly loyal best friends to petty and dumb lovers that need two plot devices (the messy pointless and quite frankly offensive representation-wise lesbians from across the street they literally met five minutes prior) to tell them they actually have feeling for each other and should share them. After literal millennia of this relationship, relationship that has its own inner workings and reasons, we needed the plot-lesbians to subvert the order of things and spur Crowley into action, obviously obtaining disastrous and lame results? Are we witnessing the interaction of immortal beings or five-year-olds? The only way I can genuinely make sense of this dumbness is considering those two female "characters" (that feel anything but real people) no more than that, characters, golems, put there by Metatron via the power of the Book of Life (again, so many Chekhov's guns with no use whatsoever in this season) in order to separate Az and Crowley using the only thing that could succeed in doing it - an ill placed declaration of love.

But even this doesn't match the true être of what Good Omens originally was nor comes full circle with the ineffable mystery season 1 ended with. It genuinely feels like Gaiman changed the whole rhyme and reason of the story, vibes, meaning, register, just to meet the modern needs of a category that is sadly phagocytizes everything else in both life and fiction. And I find it a true pity - and a bore.

And even leaving aside this personal boredom of mine at a non-existent plot that consisted in 1) a big mystery that promised cosmic repercussions (season 1 ended with the after-nonapocalyptic world that was slightly changed just because two enemies had loved each other and life too much not to oppose god's plan - fact that was probably god's plan all along), mystery that was actually no mystery at all (two random, from the original story's perspective, previous minor characters in literally ten supernatural minutes fell in love and run away together) and that meant virtually nothing in the grand scheme of things, but serving as a plot device so that the other two minor new characters could intrude into the protagonists' relationship so they could finally have the excuse to jump literary genre and kiss & queer tragedy the story away 2) an endless series of symbols, facts, episodes and characters that constantly seemed to hint at something but that in reality resulted in nothing story-wise (also, the change of heart in God's personality, first the witty and almighty trickster for the greater good, now the divine bully??), even leaving all this aside, I'm mostly disappointed the quality of the writing plummeted so inesorabily one of my comfort show turned into the symbol of an artistic era I'm utterly distraught to have to witness - the era of crowd-pleasers and un-imagination.

As for this being a filler season, writing in such an unresolved way (basic and predictable plot, colourless characters, cliché romance, hours of happenings that don't mean a thing in the current story) is unacceptable and a failure, even if you are a famous writer. You cannot waste hours of the audience's time going nowhere shielded by the sole future promise of sense. Writing doesn't work that way, and I'm sincerely appalled to see people noticing it and deciding to excuse it with a "surely next season everything will look genius!". It doesn't work this way. The faults were too many, they can't possibly be all resolved next season. This product wasn't great, even if your faves kissed and your little fanfictions came true.

The sad thing is, Good Omens used to be a work of art, not the next consumeristic piece of fiction to satisfy woke needs.

#I don't want to sound harsh but this was a true let down #one of the many this year #art is dead #good omens #sofoulandfairaday #asks/replies #one and one thousand stories lis told

[kkshowtunes]

i’ll never amount to anything (will wood) and art is dead (bo burnham) should switch artists for a day

#bo burnhan #will wood #art is dead #wwattw #william woodiam #doodlebug says things

[s1xseasonsandamov1e]

so people think you’re funny? how do we get those people’s money?

#art is dead

[burnem]

Do you put old Bo Burnham songs like Art is Dead in Capcut and slightly lower the pitch to get a vague idea of what it would sound like if he sang it nowadays and softly cry about it...

...or are you normal?

#bo burnham #bo burnham inside #make happy #what #art is dead