![]() There have been times where all I want to do is walk offstage. But there are so many times where I get up onstage and I feel the world is about to pressurize me into nothing. And we emit this idea of a couple guys who don’t care about what anyone thinks, and we’re so confident. “Believe me, I know that Josh and I seem very confident when we get up onstage. “The idea of creating something, making a song and having the courage to show someone that song is a form of defeating that insecurity,” Joseph explained (AP 323). You don’t need us to tell you that for Joseph, the titular character of twenty one pilots’ fourth album “represents everything that I’m insecure about.” Despite the nostalgia-soaked vibe of breakout track “ Stressed Out,” the song was actually written by Joseph to face his demons. “ I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink/But now I'm insecure and I care what people think ” “Stressed Out” ( Blurryface, 2015) ![]() That’s a dramatic way of trying to describe our fans, but for the first time ever, I had an album to write an answer to them, to kind of put up against their expectations and what they were wanting.” The other thing I learned is that there are people out there who would die for me that I don’t even know. ![]() That was one of the more disheartening things I carried into this record. “I assumed they were all trying to say something with their writing when really, they were trying to crank out the next big hit. ![]() “It was amazing how calculated and contrived a lot of bands I thought I would respect were,” Joseph told Alternative Press before the release of Blurryface (AP 323). “ Lane Boy” is a not-so-subtle clapback at people pushing them to chase radio success, but also deals with the sudden responsibility of talking directly to a fanbase. “ All these songs I'm hearing are so heartless/Don't trust a perfect person and don't trust a song that's flawless ” “ Lane Boy” ( Blurryface, 2015)įollowing the success of their Fueled By Ramen debut, Vessel, twenty one pilots suddenly found themselves out of America’s basements and with an ever-growing fanbase. That’s when you know that you’re growing as a person, when you really feel that when you’re writing the song.” I was thinking specifics, talking about losing my wife, and meant it – I glazed over the lyric in the song, but I felt every bit of that while writing. “I know it sounds morbid, but I was there. “There’s certain topics in songs that really make you feel alive, and man, that was one of them,” he told Alternative Press ( AP 400). The jubilant opener to the band’s sixth album might be full of color, but the lyrics actually see Joseph thinking about the death of his loved ones. You probably know the band’s name comes from Arthur Miller’s iconic 1947 play All My Sons and that the title for 2021’s Scaled And Icy is both an anagram for Clancy Is Dead (a character from the narrative surrounding Trench ) and a play on "Scaled Back And Isolated," due to its creation during the COVID-19 pandemic.īelow, we shine a light on 10 hidden meanings in twenty one pilots' lyrics that you probably weren’t so clued up on… “I can feel my saturation leaving me slowly/Broke the news on mom's vacation” “ Good Day” ( Scaled And Icy, 2021) They’ve also littered their output with references to literature, film and their own work. His lyrics are veiled and shrouded in imagery, yet somehow, we always form a connection with his vocals.Īcross twenty one pilots’ six albums, the band have offered understanding and a comforting hand in the dark as they’ve used their music to work through giddy highs and crippling lows. Raw, vulnerable and poetic, Tyler Joseph’s words tackle everything from turbulent mental health and shuddering self-doubt to the media’s obsession with suicide, the power that comes from creativity and what it would be like to raise a pet cheetah called Jason Statham. Read more: Every twenty one pilots album ranked
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