Bo Burnham is usually classified as a comedian, but he’s just as easily categorized as a musician, one in the tradition of Tom Lehrer with a tad of Kurt Weill thrown in. (Song of the Day featured his songs about Jeff Bezos last month.) Listen to how accurately he skewers what we’ve done to ourselves with the technological tool you’re using right now.
The tune, like the Bezos songs, is part of Burnham’s highly praised one-man Netflix special, “Inside,” about spending the pandemic year alone in his house and the effects it had on him.
