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Bill Wurtz
Background information
OriginNew York City, New York, U.S.[q 1]
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • singer-songwriter
  • composer
  • YouTuber
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • piano
  • bass guitar
  • drums
Years active2002–present
Websitebillwurtz.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Genres
  • Music video
  • documentary
  • surreal comedy
Subscribers3.74 million[2]
Total views403.54 million[2]
100,000 subscribers2016
1,000,000 subscribers2017

Last updated: April 24, 2020

Bill Wurtz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and online video creator based in New York City. He is known for his distinctive musical and narrative style which includes deadpan delivery and singing paired with colorful surrealist, psychedelic, and non-sequitur graphics. Wurtz first published material on YouTube in 2013. He set up a website in 2014, presenting a catalog of music and videos he had created since 2002. Wurtz proceeded to upload edited versions of his videos on short-form video-sharing website Vine, where he enjoyed initial popularity. He experienced breakout success on YouTube with his animated documentaries, history of japan (2016), and history of the entire world, i guess (2017). He continues to work on music and video projects.

Notable projects and videos

Vine videos

Wurtz was first known for his presence on the short-form video-sharing website Vine,[3][4] where he first gained a following in 2014.[5] He began by taking short videos he had previously published to his website and re-editing them to fit Vine's six-second restriction.[5] Before transitioning fully to YouTube, Wurtz was uploading a video to Vine nearly every day.[6] On April 11, 2016, Wurtz won the Shorty Award for "Tech & Innovation: Weird" at the 8th Shorty Awards; during the awards ceremony attention was given to one of his Vine uploads i'm still a piece of garbage.[7] His acceptance speech for the award was notably curt, as he walked up to the mic, said "Thank you", and immediately walked off the stage.[8] He has stated in a video on his website that this was entirely intentional, having been directly inspired by an acceptance speech given by André 3000.[9]

history of japan

Despite some interest on Vine, Wurtz achieved wider popularity in 2016 with history of japan, a nine-minute YouTube video that outlines Japan's history.[10] The video covers key events of its history; "Buddhism, internal conflict, alliances with Britain, World Wars I and II, the dropping of atomic bombs and its post-war economic miracle are all covered."[11] It showcases Wurtz's quirky visual and comedic style through a mixture of fast-paced narration and animation, intercut with short musical jingles. The video was described as "an entertaining new approach to education".[12] It went viral on social media after its release on February 2, 2016, and under a week later, received over four million views by February 8.[11] It particularly received considerable attention on Tumblr[3] and Reddit.[10] As of April 17, 2020, the video boasts over 55 million views.

history of the entire world, i guess

External videos
video icon history of japan, YouTube video or download
video icon history of the entire world, i guess, YouTube video or download

Wurtz is best known for history of the entire world, i guess, a 20-minute follow-up to history of japan released on May 10, 2017.[13] Expanding greatly on the subject matter — the video took over 11 months to produce, including almost 3 months of research[6] — it briefly covers the topics of natural history and human civilization spanning from the Big Bang to the near future. It went viral after its release.[4][14] Writer German Lopez for the news website Vox praised the documentary for not heavily focusing on western and US history, and successfully covering other areas in world history which may be neglected in US schools, such as powers in China, Persia, and India.[15] It was the top video on the YouTube trending page on the day of its release, receiving 3.2 million views on its first day, and became the most upvoted YouTube link in Reddit history.[4] It was listed at eighth place on YouTube's list of the top 10 trending videos of 2017.[16] As of April 17, 2020, it has over 86 million views. It has been described as Wurtz's magnum opus.[5][17]

In February 2019, Wurtz uploaded "Wild Frolicking Adventures of Informational Education", a shorter video implicitly referencing his previous history documentaries. Wurtz haphazardly explains the capitals and iconography of countries before abruptly joking about the "vast spiritual emptiness of doing a video without a topic".[18]

Music videos

After finishing the history videos, music videos became a prominent part of Wurtz's creative output. Between August 21 and December 25, 2018, a total of nine songs with music videos were released. During this time period Wurtz worked under a two-week schedule, releasing a new song and music video every two weeks.[q 3] This was a breakthrough, since they previously could take up to 14 weeks to make.[q 4] He described the schedule as a "training exercise to increase the quality in ways I never would have found otherwise".[q 5] Wurtz is still actively making music videos and has opted to create a music video for every new song he releases, despite it slowing down his songwriting considerably.[q 6]

Style

Wurtz employs a lo-fi jazz-pop style in his music, incorporating elements of smooth jazz, funk and easy listening.[5][1] Overall, his music evokes malaise, self-deprecation, and a "blurring of the lines between irony, parody and honesty".[19] This is often paired comedically with dire circumstances or sobering undertones.[20]

Wurtz is entirely self-taught as a musician, and has not admitted to any formal training. He has professed a cautious approach to music theory, insisting that the sound and feeling of music should be prioritised over attempts to conform to theory.[21] A writer for the student newspaper The Haribinger identified the song i wanna be a movie star as example of Wurtz subverting typical approaches to composition, opting to use a mixture of unusual time signatures (primarily 18
8
) at the risk of sounding "either incomplete or too long". This is claimed as notable due the song instead managing to "feel completely natural" and "pop-ish", despite most pop music conforming to common time.[20]

Wurtz's videos are typically in a neon aesthetic,[22] and have been described as surreal[23] and psychedelic.[6][12] They often involve deadpan humour, dancing stick figures, neon lyrics on-screen, and vaporwave-like transitions.[5] Wurtz often follows similar patterns in his videos such as multi-layering,[6] including screenshots of built-in macOS applications such as TextEdit,[24] along with clip art images,[25] and showing himself playing "air drums", overlaying images where the drumheads would be.[26] He has stated that this basic style arose out of a necessity to publish content regularly, and evolved naturally.[6]: 0:35:27 From his first video up until early 2019, Wurtz created his videos using Final Cut Express 4, a program that was discontinued as far back as in 2011.[6] In 2019, he switched to the more modern software Final Cut Pro X.[q 7][q 8]

‘[Music] theory’ may be fun, but it's made of liquid and has a tendency to melt. The music comes first and then you figure out how to describe what happened, although fully describing it can never be done. One of the classical composers said ‘We will never understand music, but music understands us readily and instantly’.

Bill Wurtz, Interview from Bass Guitar magazine[21]

At Vidcon 2018, Wurtz answered a question about why his style is so different from other YouTube musicians. He explained that he doesn't watch any other creators on the platform. Instead, he simply does what he thinks is normal. "My secret is just live under a rock, and stay there," he said.[27] He states on his website that one of his most important goals is to "go my own way and deliver things that challenge and defy… expectations".[q 9] Wurtz has struggled with perfectionism, and is actively trying to overcome it by creating schedules and setting deadlines for himself.[6] In response to a fan question he explained that in the process of overcoming perfectionism he has "been forced to become an expert on carelessness".[q 10]

Furthermore, Wurtz is known for his unwillingness to run advertising on his content, or accept sponsorships, even though he admitted the pressure to do so is "enormous".[5][25] He has explained that advertisements make him "uncomfortable"[6] and that he thinks they "suck".[25] All of Wurtz's content is available for free on his website.[28] Wurtz receives direct fan support, which include crowdfunding on Patreon[4] streams on music streaming services, and merchandise sales.[25][6]: 0:44:15 However, he does not heavily promote any of these revenue streams.[6]

Website

While Wurtz has a larger audience on external platforms like YouTube, he is still the most active on his own website, billwurtz.com.[28] It was launched in 2014 but has been described as looking like it was made in the late 1990s due to its simple design.[25] Apart from containing all of his released songs and most of his videos dating back since 2002[5] the website also features many other types of content not available elsewhere. This includes a questions page, as well as an anagram page, where Wurtz allows fans to request words or phrases out of which he creates anagrams.[29] Additionally, Wurtz has posted audio clips of musical improvisation both with vocal and vocal with music usually being piano or keyboard,[30] jazz covers,[31] original instrumental tracks,[32] as well as vlog-style 'reality' videos depicting his creative process.[33][5]

Questions page

Bill Wurtz maintains a section on this website to answer anonymously submitted questions. His answers to questions is considered an aspect of Wurtz's creative output; the style of his answers have been described as "verging on the poetic"[25] and "earnest, if somewhat loopy-sounding".[5] The first question was posted on May 10, 2015,[q 11] and has since been usually updated daily.[q 12] One answer addresses a question concerning Wurtz's personality, which has been identified as an example interaction on the questions page:[25]

10.9.18  7:48 pm   how the heck are you so gosh darn wacky      i'm just trying to be reasonable[q 13]

Reality page

Wurtz continuously keeps an audio journal, frequently recording himself explaining his creative thoughts, frustrations, and breakthroughs. About three to four years after the recording date he proceeds to go through the old recordings, taking the highlights and editing them into short clips, as well as adding video elements like text and screenshots.[citation needed] The clips are published under the 'reality' section on Wurtz's website.[33] Wurtz started turning his audio recordings into reality videos after finishing his history of japan project in early 2016. He proceeded to take three months off all other work to edit audio entries recorded between 2010 and 2016, turning them into reality videos.[q 14] The earliest available reality video is based on an audio recording from November 16, 2010, and as of August 2019, a total of 251 reality videos have been released. Wurtz has confirmed that he is planning to create "1000s more" in the future.[q 15] Wurtz has justified the reality project by stating that it is "a way of coaxing [himself] into success at a mountain-movingly hard project" and that it keeps him "calm and organized". He also expressed that "first hand documentary materials should surely be of very high value".[q 16]

Collaborations

Wurtz is known as a solo artist, usually playing all the instruments in his songs himself. In the past, Wurtz rarely publicly recorded with other musicians. However, he has expressed a desire to start collaborating more,[q 17] stating that he "has become insanely sick of himself" and that he is "desperate to collaborate with as many people as possible".[q 18]

On March 11, 2019, Wurtz appeared on drums in a video by the cover band Scary Pockets (a band of Jack Conte and Ryan Lerman). They performed a funk cover of the song "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League.[34][35] On April 1, 2019, he played drums on another Scary Pockets cover, this time of the song "You Get What You Give" by New Radicals.[36]

Awards

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2016 Shorty Awards Tech & Innovation: Best in Weird Bill Wurtz Won[7]

Discography

Music videos

Since May 2014 Wurtz has published numerous full-length music videos, following the same format of his shorter videos. He made them available on his YouTube channel:

List of songs with a music video, showing year released.
[View counts accurate as of February 2020]
Year Name Views
(millions)
2014 "new canaan"[37] 0.6
"i like"[38] 0.7
"hey jodie foster"[39] 0.1
2015 "i'm crazy / it's raining"[40] 1.1
"you're free to do whatever you want to"[41] 1.6
"i don't wanna go to school"[42] 7.6
2016 "alphabet shuffle"[43] 6.1
2017 "i wanna be a movie star"[44] 3.5
"outside"[45] 5.0
2018 "La de da de da de da de day oh"[46] 9.7
"and the day goes on"[47] 5.5
"hello sexy pants"[48] 2.5
"hallelujah"[49] 1.4
"i'm Best Friends with my Own Front Door"[50] 1.9
"Mount St. Helens is about to Blow Up"[51] 5.0
"the Moon is made of Cheese (but i can't taste it)"[52] 2.0
"When I Get Older"[53] 1.6
"long long long journey"[54] 1.7
"Slow Down"[55] 1.4
"christmas isn't real"[56] 1.6
"i just did a bad thing"[57] 4.2
2019 "at the airport terminal"[58] 1.6
"might quit"[59] 5.2

Other songs

Wurtz has published many other full-length songs not accompanied by music videos. They are all available on his website,[60] and some are also available on streaming services. Songs include:

2009

  • "the song song" (released August 10, 2009)[61]

2010

  • "dance the" (July 12, 2010)[62]
  • "2010" (September 7, 2010)[63]
  • "eat bread (feel sure)" (September 13, 2010)[64]
  • "the trees" (October 14, 2010)[65]
  • "i'm about to graduate from school" (November 7, 2010)[66]
  • "fever" (November 11, 2010)[67]
  • "dream of evil" (November 24, 2010)[68]

2011

  • "murder your demon" (January 14, 2011)[69]
  • "how am i spost" (May 22, 2011)[70]
  • "Home Again" (May 23, 2011)[71]
  • "no place like home" (June 16, 2011)[72]
  • "do the thing" (June 20, 2011)[73]
  • "i love you" (June 20, 2011)[74]
  • "go to the store" (June 24, 2011)[75]
  • "(what) Love Is" (July 11, 2011)[76]
  • "Do What You Want To Do" (July 15, 2011)[77]
  • "All U Need Is Love" (August 2, 2011)[78]
  • "the world" (September 2, 2011)[79]
  • "Home" (September 9, 2011)[80]
  • "I Guess I've Got to Listen to Bob Marley" (September 23, 2011)[81]
  • "Stupid Song" (September 26, 2011)[82]

2014

  • "textin on my iphone" (February 12, 2014)[83]
  • "rabbit snakes" (February 26, 2014)[84]
  • "the future song" (March 5, 2014)[85]
  • "icy james" (March 12, 2014)[86]
  • "we could just get high" (March 19, 2014)[87]
  • "i'm in bryant park" (March 26, 2014)[88]
  • "tuesday" (April 2, 2014)[89]
  • "It's Gonna Be Alright" (April 23, 2014)[90]
  • "write a song on the count of 3" (May 28, 2014)[91]
  • "i'm confused (i love you)" (June 4, 2014)[92]
  • "this is a song for my next album" (June 11, 2014)[93]
  • "goo soup" (July 9, 2014)[94]
  • "i wanna sail you away" (July 23, 2014)[95]
  • "i can play" (September 3, 2014)[96]
  • "the road" (September 17, 2014)[97]

2017

  • "in california" (May 30, 2017)[98]
  • "i love you" (June 6, 2017)[99]
  • "got to know what's going on" (June 20, 2017)[100]

Furthermore, Wurtz has published a myriad of shorter songs (or jingles) on his website ranging from a couple of seconds to up to a minute in length.[60]

Notes

  1. ^ While commentators have assigned genres to Bill Wurtz's music,[1] Wurtz has expressed no interest in these attempts, stating '[I] don't respect genre names'.[q 2]

References

Bill Wurtz's questions page

  1. ^ Wurtz, Bill (September 14, 2017). "If I came to new york would I be in close proximity to where you spend a lot of your time?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved July 15, 2019. yes
  2. ^ Wurtz, Bill (June 14, 2016). "is there a genre of music you don't feel confident you could actually pull off, like if someone was all "bill i am paying you 400 bucks to make a heavy metal song" or so, or do you think you could tackle pretty much anything?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved August 3, 2019. i don't respect genre names, and that's one of the reasons i absolutely never record songs for hire
  3. ^ Wurtz, Bill (November 3, 2018). "I am humbly grateful for your uploads every two weeks, even surprising me ahead of schedule; honestly, I wasn't expecting long, long, long, journey until Thursday or Friday. This one has been my morning alarm and have given me wings each time I listen to it [...]". billwurtz.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019. i would probably call it the 2-week song schedule
  4. ^ Wurtz, Bill (October 19, 2018). "why did you have to do fewer clips and takes. Just because of the 14-day schedule?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019. yes. to put it in perspective, "la de da" was done in 14 weeks
  5. ^ Wurtz, Bill (October 14, 2018). "it's ok if you don't finish the video by Tuesday [...] we (the fans) get brand new content from you bi-weekly, which feels great, remembering that it used to take 8–10 weeks to get a single music video. but what about you bill?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019. that's not true [...] this is a training exercise to increase the quality in ways i never would have found otherwise [...] it's the biggest breakthrough i've had since the 5-day schedule in early 2014
  6. ^ Wurtz, Bill (June 11, 2019). "[...] keeping up with making the videos to go with the music is going to slow down the whole songwriting process, yes? [...]". billwurtz.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019. [...] ah but have you considered if you had the same passionate drive i do for videos
  7. ^ Wurtz, Bill (August 18, 2019). "Why haven't you made a video for 5 months?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved August 19, 2019. [...] it occured to me that now might actually be the most fine time to go ahead and do what is known as the 'finalcut transition', which long story short means i have to entirely abandon the primary video editing software i have used for the last 5 years. [...]
  8. ^ Wurtz, Bill (January 2, 2018). "Will you upgrade to final cut 10?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved August 19, 2019. i wouldn't consider that an upgrade, that would be more like switching to something entirely new. but i am still probably going to do it
  9. ^ Wurtz, Bill (April 18, 2016). "Why not take requests for Patrons that pay more than $25? A custom song for those who want it, and it pays for the electricity". billwurtz.com. Retrieved March 12, 2019. one of the most important things i aim to do is go my own way, and deliver things that challenge and defy the expectations. if that is not what you are interested in, then you should not be supporting me
  10. ^ Wurtz, Bill (October 17, 2018). "i'm not sure if you're a perfectionist or a bit anything goes. which is it?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019. i have a deeply rooted and incapacitating perfection problem, and in the process of overcoming it i have been forced to become an expert on carelessness. [...]
  11. ^ Wurtz, Bill (May 10, 2015). "where has the fun gone (at bottom of page)". i will check
  12. ^ Wurtz, Bill (June 30, 2019). "do you answer these questions as they come or is there enough that you have to divide them into answerable chunks?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved July 19, 2019. usually 1 answer session per day
  13. ^ Wurtz, Bill (October 9, 2018). "how the heck are you so gosh darn wacky". billwurtz.com. Retrieved September 5, 2019. i'm just trying to be reasonable
  14. ^ Wurtz, Bill (March 14, 2019). "have you been recording 'reality' material and are therefore three years behind?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved August 17, 2019. it's been a part of my life for at least 8 years. none of it was ever edited/produced until 2016 when i took 3 months off of all other content to only produce reality content 2010–2016. since then, i have never been able to find a way to produce it in any sizeable quantity without it taking away devastating amounts of time from the production of other content (videos/songs, etc). in addition, i wouldn't want the production to be fully up to date, because one of the things that makes the reality section more compelling is the fact that it is edited years later when i know how the story is going to turn out. so i can make much stronger use of foreshadowing that way
  15. ^ Wurtz, Bill (August 22, 2019). "Are you ever going to do more reality videos?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved August 23, 2019. 1000s more
  16. ^ Wurtz, Bill (April 7, 2019). "what made you want to start doing the audio journal reality things?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved August 17, 2019. as a way of coaxing myself into success at a mountain-movingly hard project. in other words, if i do actually succeed in moving a mountain, the first hand documentary materials should surely be of very high value. [...]
  17. ^ Wurtz, Bill (October 17, 2018). "Hey Bill ever thought of collaborating on a song with someone else". billwurtz.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019. i never thought about it before but i am thinking about it now
  18. ^ Wurtz, Bill (March 11, 2019). "Can we expect more collaborations like the one with scary pockets? Maybe opening up the door for the Bill Wurtz "real" big band?". billwurtz.com. Retrieved March 12, 2019. suddenly within the past year i've become insanely sick of myself. and i am now desperate to collaborate with as many people as possible

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  63. ^ "2010".
  64. ^ "eat bread (feel sure)".
  65. ^ "the trees".
  66. ^ "i'm about to graduate from school".
  67. ^ "fever".
  68. ^ "dream of evil".
  69. ^ "murder your demon".
  70. ^ "how am i spost".
  71. ^ "Home Again".
  72. ^ "no place like home".
  73. ^ "do the thing".
  74. ^ "i love you".
  75. ^ "go to the store".
  76. ^ "(what) love is".
  77. ^ "do what you want to do".
  78. ^ "all u need is love".
  79. ^ "the world".
  80. ^ "home".
  81. ^ "bob marley".
  82. ^ "stupid song".
  83. ^ "textin on my iphone".
  84. ^ "rabbit snakes".
  85. ^ "the future song".
  86. ^ "icy james".
  87. ^ "we could just get high".
  88. ^ "bryant park".
  89. ^ "tuesday".
  90. ^ "it's gonna be alright".
  91. ^ "write a song on the count of 3".
  92. ^ "i'm confused".
  93. ^ "this is a song for my next album".
  94. ^ "goo soup".
  95. ^ "i wanna sail you away".
  96. ^ "i can play".
  97. ^ "the road".
  98. ^ "in california".
  99. ^ "i love you (2017 version)".
  100. ^ "got to know what's going on".