How To Write An Extremely Cynical Love Song

    Bo Burnham breaks it down in this tune from his new show. Mainly, you should repeat stuff. Repeat stuff. Repeat stuff. Repeat stuff.

    This song, in which Bo Burnham ruthlessly mocks contemporary love songs by Justin Bieber and Usher, is from his new special what., which you can watch on Netflix or YouTube.

    Just be a little patient at the start, because he doesn't begin to play the song until the 30 second mark.

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    Here's the lyrics, so you can sing along:

    I love your hair, I love your name, I love the way you say it

    I love your heart and you're so smart, 'cause you gave away it

    I love your sis, love your dad, I love your mom

    But more than all of that I love the fact that you are dumb enough

    To not realize everything I've said has been said before

    In a thousand ways in a thousand songs, some with the same four chords

    But you'll still love it, let me finger you

    Oh girl, I hope you don't think it's rude

    When I tell you that I love you boo

    I also hope that you don't see through

    This cleverly constructed ruse

    Designed by a marketing team

    Cashing in on puberty and low self-esteem

    And girls' desperate need to feel loved

    America says we love a chorus

    But don't get complicated and bore us

    Though meaning might be missin'

    We need to know the words after just one listen so

    Repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff

    Repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff

    I love my baby and you know I couldn't live without her

    But now I need to make every girl think this song's about her

    Just to make sure that they spread it like the plague

    So I describe my dream girl as really really vague, like

    "I love your hands 'cause your fingerprints are like no other

    I love your eyes and their blueish brownish greenish color

    I love it when you smile, that you smile wide

    And I love how your torso has an arm on either side"

    Now, if you're my agent you might be thinking, "Oh no, sound the alarms

    You're not appealing to little girls that don't have arms"

    But they can't use iTunes, so fuck 'em (fuck 'em right in the face!)

    I'm in magazines full of model teens, so far above you

    So read them and hate yourself, and pay me to tell you I love you

    And the parents will always come along, because their little girl is in love

    And how could love be wrong? How could love be wrong? When you

    Repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff

    Repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff

    We know it's not right, we know it's not funny

    But we'll stop beating this dead horse when it stops spitting out money

    But until then, we will repeat stuff