Unpaid Intern

Unpaid Intern

Bo Burnham

“Unpaid Intern” is the sixth track in Bo Burnham’s Netflix Special, “Inside”.
This song plays to a jazz tune in black and white, and immediately after the short song, Burnham appears in a talking-head position similar to various reaction YouTubers, “reacting” to and explaining the 45-second song that just played, he says:

Um, so the idea with this song was basically that there are so many songs in the past about… About working-class jobs, but not a lot about the labor exploitation of the modern world, so that was the idea here.

As the video he’s reacting to comes to an end, he finds himself now reacting to the video of himself reacting to the song, which he then reacts to, before experiencing it looping again and calling the whole thing off.