The music video of the song Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots begins with a middle-aged man in a red beanie blue t-shirt and gray jeans He is riding a tricycle down a road in what appears to be a family-friendly suburban area where winter is approachingThe tricycle is old fashioned and has ribbons coming out of the handle bars The man has a backpack on his shoulders which is covered in doodles His hands and neck appear to be covered in a sort of dirt or ash and he wears a wistful expression on his face He has nail polish on some of his fingers After the setting is decided the man pulled up to a typical two story house with a small yard and a garage He gets of of his bike and knocks on the door where …show more content…
If we dug a little deeper we could infer that the black paint on his hands could symbolize stress pressure depression and an assortment of malities that plague us in our adult life The black on his neck symbolizes how those components seemed to strangle him like hands around a neck squeezing until there was no life left This evokes the feeling of wanting to be a child again and the need to de-stress which is done by expressing what they feel about the overwhelming pressure that is exerted on them as they grow up the lyrics say I wish I didnt have to rhyme every time I sang The word wish and the phrase we used to followed by a phrase related to childhood is present throughout the song as some of the many lines say Wish we could turn back time to the good ol days or We used to play pretend give each other different names
The entertaining music video and song by Twenty One Pilots titled as Stressed Out depicts the transition from being a child into adulthood The main theme of the song is the wish to become a child again since adults especially those that are just beginning their adult lives are loaded with stress and pressure from friends and family Other potential but more latent messages the song wants to transmit are the downturns of adulthood the upturns of childhood and the way responsibility grows more prominent as a persons age increases but during childhood carelessness is