Twenty One Pilots: Song Analysis

Blurryface Twenty One Pilots is a band that was started in Columbus, Ohio. The duo-band is made up of the artists, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. They are yet to be labeled a genre, but most people think of them as “Schizophrenic Pop”(Rike). Twenty One Pilots released their newest album, Blurryface, in May 2015. All of the songs on the Blurryface album are poetry based and tend to follow a theme of having insecurities and fighting depression. The album as a whole is about a person who goes by “Blurryface”; this person tends to be self-conscious and insecure, but shows all of these emotions of love, hate, anger, and anxiety. Joseph and Dun wanted Blurryface to represent “clarity of this internal struggle” and to help “see the battle that we are …show more content…
The” Blurryface” album’s song tend to build off of each other in the phases of depression and losing hope. Stressed out is about transitioning to adulthood, then Car Radio shows how important coping mechanisms are; finally, onto Holding on To You meaning trying to figure out who you used to be before depression. The first poem is Stressed out by Twenty One Pilots that focuses on the transition from childhood to adulthood while incorporating a type of deep depression inside of growing up. The lines show that being a child is so much less stressful then becoming an adult. Within the lines, “We would be build a rocket ship and then we’d fly it far away” shows how limitless possibilities a child can have or imagine that they can have. The rocket ship represents how far away you can get from responsibilities. Then the lines will shift to “out of student and treehouse homes we we all wold take the latter” meaning that instead of paying bills and worrying, they would rather be playing games. Like the meaning towards the rocket ship, the treehouse still shows how you are always trying to stay away from responsibilities by getting as far off the ground as possible. Then, one verse is about a type of smell that seems to reprieve