Stressed Out By Twenty One Pilots: A Song Analysis

Stress causes havoc on my soul, whether I am able to control it or not. There are different ways I relieve stress, such as speaking to someone, listening to music, exercising and etc. I discovered “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots, when I was patiently waiting for the red light to turn green and it began playing in the background of my sister and I’s conversation. The song impacts me greatly because stress, enjoys to strategically weed its way into my daily life. This song made me realize that even if I cannot return back to the younger years that I am still able to count on the people that stand by and motivate me, my parents. Listening to “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots makes me visualize a heavy object with the label stress lingering above, waiting to crush me. Twenty One Pilots states, “Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days, when our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.” Whenever I listen to that portion of the song I become rigid and tense, wanting to sprint out of my house to an unknown destination as quickly as possible. Especially since I am not able to run into the living room where I can depend on my parents to comfort and resolve the situation with me. Just having my mother’s presence was enough to make me feel better. To overcome stress is …show more content…
In the song it says, “Wake up, you need to make money,” speaks to me. To balance going to school in the mornings and a night shift job full time is challenging. To fantasize about our future, our career, anything that doesn’t obtain the dreadful stages needed to get there, is a mere dream. I have already accumulate a great deal of stress towards the courses I am taking to receive my diploma but to remove it won’t benefit me. Deciding whether certain stress inducing environments are going to help or hinder me grow as a person is