A Review of Vessel; When Music Takes A Hint From Therapy
Twenty One Pilots, which first gained popularity around mid-2010, brings something truly original and fresh to the face of Alternative Rock/Punk Rock. Twenty One Pilots has managed to grow a fanbase that is comparable to well known bands such as Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco. The band is well known for their introspective qualities and complex lyrics, such as those from Vessel, their third album.
Twenty One Pilot’s Vessel, gives the listener a sensation similar to that of going through a therapy session. Like therapy, Vessel digs into difficult emotions, identifies and addresses these emotions, and makes the listener fully feel them. It’s equivalent to the part of therapy where a therapist would say something along the lines of “Yes, these thoughts and feelings are scary.They are real. They hurt. And at the moment they seem terrifying”. It’s a painfully honest process. After that, there comes comfort and relief, the part where a therapist says “It’s okay to feel these things. It’s okay to be sad and lonely and scared. We’ll get through this. These feelings are …show more content…
The comparison of “suicide days” to bad weather is ingenious. The lyrics bring to mind the image of someone checking the weather report and saying “ Whelp, looks like I’m going to be suicidal today, again”, which is a reality for many people with depression. This concept not only applies to depression but to any mental illness; “Hmm, it seems to be that I am having an anxiety attack”. Like the weather, mental illness is a series of both sunny “good” days and bad “rainy” days. This part of the song is the initial and honest part of therapy, which validates one’s emotional reality.The electronic beat that accompanies this song starts off as more of a background to the lyrics than anything else. The lyrics do all the heavy lifting for the
Twenty One Pilots, which first gained popularity around mid-2010, brings something truly original and fresh to the face of Alternative Rock/Punk Rock. Twenty One Pilots has managed to grow a fanbase that is comparable to well known bands such as Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco. The band is well known for their introspective qualities and complex lyrics, such as those from Vessel, their third album.
Twenty One Pilot’s Vessel, gives the listener a sensation similar to that of going through a therapy session. Like therapy, Vessel digs into difficult emotions, identifies and addresses these emotions, and makes the listener fully feel them. It’s equivalent to the part of therapy where a therapist would say something along the lines of “Yes, these thoughts and feelings are scary.They are real. They hurt. And at the moment they seem terrifying”. It’s a painfully honest process. After that, there comes comfort and relief, the part where a therapist says “It’s okay to feel these things. It’s okay to be sad and lonely and scared. We’ll get through this. These feelings are …show more content…
The comparison of “suicide days” to bad weather is ingenious. The lyrics bring to mind the image of someone checking the weather report and saying “ Whelp, looks like I’m going to be suicidal today, again”, which is a reality for many people with depression. This concept not only applies to depression but to any mental illness; “Hmm, it seems to be that I am having an anxiety attack”. Like the weather, mental illness is a series of both sunny “good” days and bad “rainy” days. This part of the song is the initial and honest part of therapy, which validates one’s emotional reality.The electronic beat that accompanies this song starts off as more of a background to the lyrics than anything else. The lyrics do all the heavy lifting for the