Myhala Herrold — I think we need to bring back booing. Ft. Myhala
Summary
Myhala Herrold wants everyone to start booing again. Not random booing, she clarifies to Kareem, but as a critical response to art that deserves it. Film festivals, movie theaters, performance art. Right now people just sit through bad work and then praise things that should've been booed. The problem? Nobody wants to be that guy doing it alone. Myhala admits she wants collective booing so she feels comfortable joining in, since her solo boos aren't loud enough. They practice different booing styles, from scary ghost boos to "Boo, you stink" variations. When Kareem asks if birthdays should be exempt from booing, Myhala shoots him down immediately. He questions his own interjection, she boos him for it, and he admits it felt good. Point proven.
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So, what's your take? I think we need to bring back booing.
100%. Agree.
Yeah. It's a—it's a harmless form of shaming.
Well, but I think it's also important to be like critical. It's not just like random booing. Critical of art, first of all.
So, are you saying that we're only booing like someone on stage or like if you were to come in here with a Bluetooth speaker and everyone would go boo? I think they would all be like, "Yay!" because my taste in music is excellent. They wouldn't.
No. I agree. If I come on with a boom box and I'm blasting my a boom box and it would be a boom box.
That's a really OG phrase. You would want the whole train car to be like "Boo."
Well, not necessarily, but I would understand if they did. And that would be like, "Oh, I'm being disrespectful to the space and other people don't like it. Let me be like a citizen of the world and be respectful and I'll like turn my boom box level down."
So, what other instances would this be happening? At film festivals.
Oh, so like if we don't like the movie, we boo it. Yeah, in a movie theater, any sort of performance art.
Right now, what happens instead? People just sit through it.
They just are like— You know what I mean? And then there's reviews and there's people are praising things that needed to be booed.
Nobody wants to be that guy. I do.
You want to boo someone? I want us all to boo so that I feel comfortable to boo because I don't do it loud enough.
You don't want to boo alone. But I do like this. Boo, boo.
I don't know if I can get myself to do it. I can boo something in my mind. Boo. Boo it out loud.
I don't want to boo it out loud. Boo.
No, that's more of a scary boo. That's more of like a boo.
Okay. What about boo? Oh, that's—
No, that's also dude. It's not Halloween. Boo. You stink.
Boo. You stink. Get off the train. Yeah.
Any days where people are exempt from being booed? I don't think so.
On their birthday. Boo.
Yeah. Boo. That introjection.
Question.
How's that make you feel? Oh, good.
Okay.
Well, now you won't do it again. Yeah. Boo.