"Bezos I" is a song by American musical comedian

Bo Burnham Robert Pickering Burnham (born August 21, 1990) is an American stand-up comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker, and YouTuber. Burnham's work combines elements of filmmaking with Comedy music, music, Sketch comedy, sketch, and stand-up comedy, co ...

, appearing as the seventh song in his 2021 special '' Bo Burnham: Inside'' and its soundtrack of the same name. The song satirically describes

Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( ;; and Robinson (2010), p. 7. ; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and clou ...

, and later became a viral song on

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Composition

"Bezos I" lyrically contains a single chorus and verse. The former repeats the occupation, birth year, and name of

, and the latter disingenuously praises Bezos' efforts and wealth. A synthesizer solo and a scream follow this, ending the song in under a minute.

Reception

The song garnered widespread usage on the video-based social media

, being used to soundtrack various poor working conditions of

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...

employees. The song saw its highest popularity on July 20, 2021, the day of Bezos'

space flight Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such a ...

. Through the day and July 21, "Bezos I" and its sequel "Bezos II" were collectively streamed 1.7 million times, a rise of 21%. This led to the song appearing on several charts globally.

Sequels

Burnham has released several sequels to "Bezos I". "Bezos II" is featured later in ''Bo Burnham: Inside'', while "Bezos III" and "Bezos IV" each appear in the special's outtakes and album's deluxe version.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. *

– vocals, instruments, composer * John Greenham –

mastering engineer Mastering is a form of audio post production which is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the Audio mixing (recorded music), final mix to a data storage device called a master recording, the source ...

* Mike Malchicoff –

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Charts

Certifications

References

{{Bo Burnham 2021 songs Comedy songs Novelty songs Jeff Bezos Songs about real people Songs about business people Songs written by Bo Burnham