Boost! - Dan Bull

In the past, the internet

Didn’t have video yet

Then there came a website

Called YouTube to make it right

240p was the size of a video

And the audio was mono, not stereo

You could not upload a song

Longer than ten minutes long

Then we got a data boost

New features were introduced

Quality increased from 240 pixels in 360

And YouTube added an option to watch videos in 3GP

Hey, hey!

Netflix, Ustream, Roku and let’s not forget Apple TV

Another data boost

As we got used to browsing audiovisually

Eee, eee

Suddenly, we’re in the realm of HD

A whole new level of quality

720p and we went from 4:3

Black bars on the side to full widescreen

With faster data plans and broadband

It’s like your holding a whole cinema in your hand

I hope you brought your 3D specs

So, you can see what’s coming up next, huh

720p was clearly never sufficient

So, boost to 1080, improve your vision of the screen

As the videos streams

Automatic subtitles transcribe your speech

Vevo, ThumbsUp and HTML5

I can’t imagine the size of the disk drives, it’s like

Bandwidth gets bigger every minute

We need another data boost just so we can keep up with it

The scene’s a sea, we’re swimming deep within it

Singers, streamers, comedians, memers, Keems

It seems we’re keen to reach the limit

It’s our forte

Everything that came before was foreplay

But of course were going to raise the rate to 4K

With more frames

Enabling smoother views of your games

YouTubers are huge news for the new youth

Old media bequeathing the future and leaving it to you

I think you know by now what we need to do: boost

Now, it’s natural that we are

Becoming compatible with VR, caviar

Running in 8K colour space capable of displaying HDR

360 degrees, it must seen for it to be believed

It must be heard, just like the word, «Skrt skrt!»

I don’t know what that even means

All I know is everything is getting more excessive

Every morning, I see something that is ever more impressive

All my messages amassing even faster than I get 'em

The progression is so fast that I cannot even get a breath in

What do you think of the fact

I’m bringing the track back from the beginning of rap?

Fresh as cinnamon baps and in the middle of that

Dan’s reminiscing about video stats

Still managing to kill it with brilliant facts

He really is fast