Man every single one of the singles they've released for this album have been drastically different from the next. And that's kind of the case with every TOP album. Every song is so varied and different. It's like unwrapping Christmas gifts.
Omg this is so true though. Like josh is perfectly fine flipping some burgers whilst Tyler is GOING THROUGH IT. Like we could be so unaware of what other people are going through whilst they struggle alone and in silence
The paint around his neck representing his mental health effecting him again. Choking him. Trying to send him back to Dema or Dema slowly invading his thoughts again. The memories of a dark place suffocating him. "Ned" making an appearance again but this time as a form of food. Nourishment. His creativity. But it's stale and tasteless. Tossing it to the side and exchanging it for trivial things. Until it's staleness is replaced by a watered down product of what it used to be. Making it worse. Causing him to repeat the process and trying his luck or in any case trying to hope for something worth consuming. Edit: The lemonade stand signifies something he holds dear or something that aids him during his fits of depression (Yellow= The signature color of bandito's who free the trapped inhabitants of dema). Him consuming it could signify him taking his medication to suppress his sadness but it wears off and he's back suffocating. Been finally diving into the lore of this band and it's been a journey of self realization and coming to terms with my own struggles. This is a great track.
I think the individual buns are songs, he takes a sample of a few and tosses them. He exchanges one at the Bandito stand, eventually makes his way to Josh where he finds he has nothing to share and collaborate and add meat too. So he returns to the creativity store and start the cycle again. Josh is waiting, wondering when he will be back to work again. I want a Ned’s Breads shirt!
@Lionshawk Dude! Yes! I totally get that. It's almost like his creative process at work. He's going through different ideas to see of one sticks but tosses it. Trying to find a sound or song to share with Josh. And I second that! A NEDs bread shirt would be an instant buy. Lol.
I feel this so much. My own mental health journey is in a state where this song hit at exactly the right time. "Do you think that now's the time you should let go?" No, Tyler, I won't let go now either...back to the store. Def need a Ned's Bread shirt!
I disagree, mental health has always been something you cant "get over" and Clancy, who is always been depicted with the hand and neck coloring, has always been a more weathered but confident person over Tyler josephs character like going back to trench. Clancy is a strong and confident [person that has fought has demons and mostly won but this album is going to be a deep dive into Clancy's psyche. I feel like that ties back into why Clancy tried to bust Tyler Joseph out of jail in the trench days. I think that using my framework top has created a character that us as mental illness soldiers should strive for but he's not a god or hero Clancy took on his own struggles and overcame them but wears them as a badge of honor. The hand and neck markings don't define him but are still a part of him. Its a badge of honor, and sometimes he "overcompensates" himself while other times "backslides" to his own mental and personal issues, something i find much more relatable to my own struggles with mental health and going to therapy.
enjoying this song is such a miraculous experience for me because it reminds me of one essential truth: the fact that I fear relapse or the undoing of progress shows that I HAVE MADE progress in my life. fear of losing my recovery just means that I love being in recovery. if this song was released 7 years ago when I first started listening to twenty one pilots, I wouldn't have liked it because there was no relapse for me to have, I hadn't made any progress in the first place. I am so grateful to have this music to reflect with
This resonates with me so much! A lot of TOP songs make references to the cycles and fears surrounding recovery and relapse (e.g. Cut My Lip), but I don't think Tyler has ever been public with this information.
This is the most I've been affected by a ToP song since Blurryface dropped. I absolutely just love the emotion coming through this one while still maintaining the classic notes that they've always carried. STOKED for the album!!
Tyler’s voice hits my soul in a way that brings a rush of emotions in a normally emotionless existence. I feel his desperation and just want to give him a big reassuring hug. Great job directing, Josh!
When this came out I was homeless, on drugs, and then jail. I now have a house, job, and husband. This song and “Clover Cage - In the Moment” are the two songs that helped get rid of my depression. I just want to send love to everyone and I want everyone to know things will get better. We are in this together..I love you ❤️😊
Jesus, what a rollercoaster to go through in 7 days, proud of you for getting through it, that sounds rough but you deserve a pat on the back for pushing to the end
The switches between the storm and real life representing encroaching intrusive thoughts? Absolutely fantastic. I especially loved the touch of Tyler physically shaking his head to shake himself out of it, the amount of times I've caught myself trying to shake myself out of a spiral really made that one relatable.
Man this song really reminds me of my ex. We accidentally discovered 21 Pilots during a road trip to North Carolina. Now all of their songs make me think of her. For two years after our breakup I was drowning in depression. Even though she cheated I still can’t get her out of my head but I’m doing much better. If you read this, Emily, keep your line. I learned how to swim and got myself to solid ground.
I am in a similar boat. My ex and I discovered 21p in college together. He also cheated on me and became physically abusive at one point, and all the torment caused me to attempt $uicide. I'm proud of your recovery! And it only gets better. Mine was like 9 years ago and he rarely crosses my mind if ever. You'll get there too. Appreciate you for you.
@@DynamicMuffin I’m almost back to who I was before I met her. Down 70 pounds, up a badass motorcycle, and I’m starting classes to get my Bachelor’s in June. You’re an inspiration to have overcome such hardships. Hopefully you’re right and the thoughts about her will stop. I’m glad your attempt failed.
Clancy is dead My theory is that Tyler controlled Clancy and that's why it says he's clancy in the Overcompensate Preview, but in the video at the end the real clancy is shown dead and Tyler letting it go
@@isaacgab1194 Clancy isn’t dead. Clancy has learned the power that the Bishops use to control another body. With Keons and Trash. Likewise, Clancy used a persons body to control himself. Once Clancy was done, the body returned to its original person and state.
When this came out I was homeless, on drugs, and then jail. I now have a house, job, and husband. This song and “Clover Cage - In The Moment” are the two songs that helped get rid of my depression. I just want to send love to everyone and I want everyone to know things will get better. We are in this together..I love you 💕
This is the canonical continuation of Stressed Out in my head. A song about running from and dreading responsibilities, and this one talking about accountability and accepting the past and moving on, accepting that though the world is daunting, knowing you need help is a sign of strength not a sign of weakness. I love this song
The fact that the music video loops back to the beginning at the end is genius. Exactly how backsliding feels, you get so far and experience so much just to start it all again. edit: holy cow i have never gotten so many likes before thanks so much
And yet there is a slight difference, the man outside has moved so maybe the outside world is changing little by little while you repeat the same things over and over again
Many people are correlating the lyrics in backslide to Fall Away, which is totally true! But what I find even more interesting is the correlation between this song and ‘Drown’ by Tyler Joseph. One of the verses in Fall Away was taken from this song. This song speaks to a relationship between Tyler and God, where he miserably fails over and over again. Honestly the strongest line in the song to me is ‘don’t wanna do this anymore’, speaking so strongly of the back and fourth of failure we often face with our relationships. Furthermore, the song implicitly is about drowning, which is what Backslide speaks of I.e, ‘waters over my head’, ‘reach my hand above the tide’, ‘throw me a line’. Another interesting facet is that Backslide questions whether or not the person will let him drown, and Drown states “Will you wash me? Will you drown me, please?’ Just wanted to say this, as sometimes we get caught up in the lore, and Dema, and the era, but it can be nice to take things at face value and appreciate the art that goes into a song, and consider it as a single body of art that can work just as well outside of the overarching story. I say all of this just to encourage those who feel lost and broken to feel reassured. I encourage you and assure that God is ALWAYS with you, and Jesus will always keep you from drowning. If you don’t know him, I encourage you to seek him; if you have questions, feel free to ask me. Psalm 34:18 - The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit
I have to say I am encouraged by Tyler's spiritual journey seen through his music, and I hope that he really does find peace with God through Jesus if he has not already,
@@Ben-hn4nw agreed! It encourages me because I walked a journey through depression and God was my source! To me or seems like he has a strong relationship with God
Good news. Any scene you don’t physically see Tyler ride down the street is done in a studio with a screen behind him. So there was no actual littering.
@@parkerking6410 I thought the thing about tøp’s MVs is that they actually do travel to the locations for filming?? Jumpsuit was filmed in Iceland, right. Granted I’m no expert on these things but a fan can dream~ The chorus I can understand, he’s in complete darkness before the storm, I can see that as a likely greenroom- these outside shots? Yes it’s easy to get the moving background by filming from a trunk, but it’s hard to determine unless specified. I have no more thoughts left for this comment, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk
i am absolutely in shambles. ten years ago tyler was 25 writing songs for 15 year old me. now he’s 35… writing songs for 25 year old me. excuse me while i cry
Every new Twenty One Pilots album that gets released is like the soundtrack for that period of my life. I'm getting married this summer, so excited to have some new epic music to remember this time with
To anyone that needs to hear this. It’s okay to have your moments you still need to forgive yourself and push forwards there’s a balance between accepting you made mistakes and being a better person and don’t ever think there will be a time where you won’t have your moments. This world is huge and ever so quickly changing due to the mass amount of humans creating change make sure you stay true to yourself and not see yourself as a enemy but instead tell yourself “I messed up how do I make it better” it takes one act of kindness to show someone they can be kind too and inspire them. I was my own worst enemy and I still have my moments but I found kinship and based off the invisible string theory everyone can. My friend showed me 21 pilots after I said “I used to cry to car radio I have no clue why I never related with the songs” and then she played it. I’m 22 and I started sobbing I love that their music is a analogy for anyone’s life and relates on certain lines but every single line hit “I liked it better when my car had sound” “I liked it better when my brain was so full of itself that I couldn’t see the pain of the rest of the world” But then shuffling very quickly from that to “there are things we can do and from those things there are only 2 and there’s faith and there’s sleep and we need to pick one please because faith is to be awake and to be awake is for us to think and for us to think is for us to live and I will try to come across with every line like I am dying to tell you. That you need- to- think-“ Because there’s a difference between being happy living and surviving type living and living is thinking about positive things showing people kindness exists by simply being happy And surviving is living off of pure fear adrenaline instict. If a human isolates with no human contact for a certain amount of time they will start surviving because thinking isn’t a very out of nature thing to do. Is what that says to me anyways 🤷🏻♀️ I need the next song because I need 21 pilots to still be awake and to not sleep. There are too many people I’ve heard say “they saved my life” so they oweh it to themselves to finish what they started because I think they started a beautiful thing. And where is all this self doubt coming from? Loosing the ability to be relatable? Just because you had bigger numbers back then doesn’t mean you aren’t still inspiring millions of people that might just need y’all. 🫶🏻 my best friends shaped who I was and they both said y’all saved their lives. Please never forget that! People need y’all! So no. It’s not time to let go it’s time to hold onto hope harder than ever before and support the people that supported y’all for years and supported me thru making people live that changed my life and is helping me save more people from my version of “sleeping” even if it’s for a moment. Never stop creating music unless y’all want too for yourselves if you think your journey isn’t over it’s not. Not all those who wander are lost! Sometimes you gotta wander off the beaten path to get back on track ❤
@@Tsunaze59 I almost feel.. disgust (?)... that the closest people in my life don't get this point but some random text on my screen that is your username, and a guy thousands of miles away that makes music that they don't speak the language of-- Gets it. Edit: Living each day with yearn and hope that tomorrow will be better. Apparating strength, out of thin air, each day, to wake up just once more. Repeating that hopefulness, convincing ourselves there's a point to all this and we have yet to see it. "No point quitting now, try one more earth cycle around itself. The next cycle around the sun ought to be better, too". And it sometimes (even) is, and it often still doesn't matter, for this relapsing torture of a mindset might never stop. Or might it? Let's think about this tomorrow...
Nobody wants to go back to what one day was, all that torments your present, and when it finally seems that everything is going well there is always something that messes with your head again. And it makes you feel like a broken record repeating the same thing all over again.
Everytime i listen to Tyler sing the chorus to this song i feel like im prayibg to God but its coming out of his mouth im 32 and ive not listened to a song on repeat while i sleep for years
I am sitting here in full blown tears relating to this song so deeply on a personal level in my life and relationship and I cannot be more thankful for twenty one pilots to somehow always put my feelings into words and give it an upbeat tone and make it seem like what I'm going thru isn't that bad. While you're listening to them you are jumping bumping and jamming ... But getting a therapy session just singing out all your problems in a happy way. I am so in love with their music. ❤️ Thank you TOP for always being there for me
This clip feels like a "Post Mature" Stressed out clip. When you are young and have your problems, you miss childhood and gets stressed with how the world wasn`t what you wanted it yet you pursue your dreams, but this feels like you finally achieved your dream or got over that sad moment of your life...only to realize you still have problems, there are dreams that you couldn`t realize and your heads starts torturing you for it.
Love how TOP always find ways of exploring mental health issues, and this video in particular brought me back to the first time I listened to Stress Out
Any time a new song comes out, I wait till it's about 1.30am, lights off, headphones on, full volume. Everyone else asleep. The world is quiet. Forget about everything. Hit play and see what they've made...no feeling like it. Especially when the chorus hits 🥹😌
As a son of a therapist, this is the most well crafted song I've seen about mental health. The term backslide used in the song is referring to the process of mental backslide, which is defined as when someone either fractionally or fully reverts back into old behaviors due to being stressed out. I thought this was a perfect connection between Stressed Out and this song because, in the song stressed out that was his old days, and in this song he’s now in his present days and is reverting and trying to resist mental backslide. At the very end Josh is standing there flipping burgers, I feel as though this represented as Tyler was struggling with his thoughts (and still is) Josh is there waiting for him patiently, supporting him (this can be represented as he is a torchbearer); the way they had Josh directed this was for that very reason. I feel as though the buns represent how people may disregard fighting the mental backslide, we can see this by how Tyler throws away the empty burger bag in the beginning and at the end goes back to the store to get more of the burgers which are representing his efforts in trying to fight the mental backslide. Starting from the beginning Tyler says “Rate race” I feel like is referring to the people just trying to live and survive; he then says “Tendencies of repeat” which is showing his old tendencies creeping back in slowly by the repeat of past tendencies. A couple lyrics later Tyler says, “Cause I feel the pull, water’s over my head”, the pull is representing his tendencies and past behaviors pulling him back in, and the water over his head means that it’s a strong pull that is basically inescapable, a couple seconds later her says, “Reach my hand above the tide”, this is him saying that he’s trying to resist the mental backslide that is drowning his thoughts out. While it cuts to the storm (which is representing how he briefly went back into darkness of his thoughts, this can be seen as he shakes his head to snap back into reality), he can be heard saying, “I’ll take anything you have” and “If you could throw me a line” is his desperate need for relief of his thoughts taking over. The lemonade stand is personally my favorite part of the whole song because of it’s intricity; I’m going to take a shot in the dark and say the little is Tyler's old self, seeing as how the song is about mental backslide and the child represents his previous self conversing with his present self asking him, “Are you doing good?” and “Did you solve all of your problems?”, Tyler responds with, “Accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday”, meaning that he uncovered a new problem again. This may also be a shot in the dark but, the burger being traded with the lemon represents him trying to use his efforts to fight back the mental backslide. After all of this he says, “What happened to what I brushed under the rug”, is him telling his past self (supposedly) that he has been brushing his problems under a rug (in his heart) and not trying to do anything about it. In the last part of the song we can see Tyler points to us in the crowd asking, “Do you think that now’s the time” and “You should let go?” I feel this was Tyler connecting with his audience basically asking do you think now's the time you should quit trying to fight the backslide. Finally, the last part of the song can be seen Tyler dumping the soggy burgers out representing his failed attempts to overcome backslide, but then he goes back to the store and gets more burgers which recommends that he is starting over again (I think this a connection to the lyric in Next Semester where in the song he says, “Start fresh next semester” basically showing how many times he is trying to resist mental backslide and won’t stop). This is the best song in their album so far because of the message saying “You shouldn’t give up on resisting the backslide, and instead keep trying until you overcome it”. Overall, this whole song is a masterpiece |-/
As a soon to be therapist, I really appreciate this analysis. I agree with a lot of it. I also think there is a spiritual component of him reaching up to his higher power to help him and maybe asking "why haven't you left yet?" Could also be him speaking to the audience kind of like you said, asking why they are resistant. A lot of the work I do is around acceptance and accepting that, yes, you may have had a backslide, and you don't need to stay there. You can keep moving forward. Acceptance and change are two sides of the same coin and I feel that is very much represented in this song.
This song is an internal monologue of self doubt and perseverance. The buns are coping mechanisms that we attempt to use or disregard right away, because they aren’t helpful enough. At the start of the video we see him throwing away an empty bag and going into the store, which he does again at the end, showing that he’s been in this loop for awhile, “tendencies on repeat” and through the whole ride home he’s having a mental battle thinking I cant let myself go back to my old ways look at all the progress i’ve made i’m not that person anymore, “I don’t want to backslide to where i’ve started from, theres no chance i will shake this again” feeling like theres no way we can survive it. As we grow up and face the same lessons it can be incredibly humiliating, he’s asking himself when he says “do you think that nows the time you should let go? its over my head” he entertains the thought that hes better off dead at this point since hes still struggling so bad, and hes talking to himself when he says “I shouldve loved you better” and “I’ll take anything you have if you could throw me a line” desperate for relief. Then we see him as a child running the lemonade stand, asking himself if hes happy and gotten his life together and hes able to pause for a moment of self reflection and trades coping skills- the bun for a cup of lemonade- which represents something that he loved doing as a child. He heads back out and starts spiraling again, but regardless he doesn’t give up, “strength enough for one more time, reach my hand above the tide” We have to surrender to the storm and all we can do is out best to keep trying, every moment of every day to not succumb. He could give up in defeat that the buns were soggy and destroyed but he turns around and goes back to get more and try again despite it. And lastly we all need people in our circle like Josh who will patiently continue to flip burgers while we get our buns in order, so we can enjoy the bbq of life together. At least thats how I interpreted it. |-/
Thank you for writing the lyrics you write. They are still saving my life nearly ten years later. I love you so much for that. You’ll never even know how important your music is to me.
I genuinely hope he’s okay. Although his music is great many of his lyrics genuinely feel very dark. They have for years. Would hate to lose him young like we did with Chester Bennington. Hope he has plenty of people he trusts in his life is all. Yes, music can be used as a healthy way to cope, but it can also be a big cry for help. It’s hard to tell these days….
Love the way Josh chose to put himself here. He knows Tyler is struggling, and he patiently waits for him. He is his role model, a 'torchbearer' who guides him in the right direction
Amazing point of view. He's not like a security guard, but still absolutely ready for any call (like in the ending of Jumpsuit, the "I'm here for you and I know you need help, just wait for me and the Banditos" vibe while looking from above).
The rain only exists in his head, but it still affects the outside world, as the burger buns are soggy at the end. I think this is symbolism for how mental illness affects how a person can function on the outside, even if the problem starts on the inside of the mind Also, I think the flowers on the tree are some sort of trigger, and sends Tyler into a bad mental state. I relate to that because seemingly innocuous things often can trigger my depressive thoughts, and like how the music video portrays it, it just darkens everything around me. When he says "it's over my head" I think is a submission to the hopelessness and helplessness that comes along with it As someone who is learning to grow and trying to get better, the fear of "backsliding" is so real, and this is my favorite song on the album so far. It's just so relatable for me "I don't wanna backslide to where I've started from There's no chance I will shake this again 'Cause I feel the pull, water's over my head Strength enough for onе more time Reach my hand abovе the tide I'll take anything you have" I relate this to my suicidal thoughts, and how if I return to how I was when my depressing thoughts were so heavy, there is "no chance " I'd be able to make it out again. And the chorus continues this with Tyler saying he can get out of the waters just "one more time" before drowning. The flashes of light, particularly in the chorus probably reference his attempt while standing in the road, as illustrated in Next Semester. It's like the thoughts trigger and he remembers where hew as at, and everything is dark a nd scary again. It's such a difficult place to be in . I wonder if the actual lyrics is "strength enough for all of one more time" (it would fit the rhyme scheme all of rhyming with above on the next line, don't even get me started on Tylers lyrical genius). He says something in between enough and for, but doesn't really enunciate it. If that lyric is the case I really worry about his metal state, because if he doesn't think he can conquer these feelings again I fear the worst could happen. As a song writer myself, sometimes I hid words a bit because they're really just for me, I wonder if it's a case of that " If you could throw me a line I should've loved you better Do you think that now's the time You should let go? It's over my head" I relate to this part, as it looks like Tyler is just begging anyone to give him anything to continue. I have been in that place of desperation searching for absolutely anything to hold on to. He is almost condemning the people around him for not helping him more, as they are letting him go, right as he needs their support and the water is getting back "over his head " The I should have loved you better line really hits home for me, as I recently got out of a relationship and it was all my fault, and the regret I have for that. She was really good for me, and I just wasn't what I needed to be, and it's my fault that the people I love runaway from me. My therapist thinks this is thought distortion but I'm not so sure. As someone who recently deconstructed and lost their faith, I also interpret this as a cry to god. At the peak of my depression, I was begging for any sign that a god was there looking out for me. "Do you think that now's the time you should let go? " represents the idea that god is letting him go. He didn't give me anything, and it just hurt to have that part of my life decimated. I don't know what kind of god who has the power to help someone in their darkest hours and just chooses not to. "Rat race, place to place, adding weight Tendencies on repeat, innit? Benefit from a shoe with no lace Take the seat with the crease in it" For me, this is where I'm at now. Running in the rat race of capitalism trying to find a job and get my life back together. Everything seems to stay the same, every day repeats itself. The line about the shoe with no lace and the seat with a crease to me represents accepting the fact that the world isn't optimal to live in, especially for people with mental illnesses, but we have to make do with what we have. "I don't mind if it's lonely I don't mind if it's fair I don't care, you control me Leading me anywhere" To me, this is just completely giving up one's autonomy. I have been at that point where I would just do anything, let anyone tell me what to do and then do that. In my head, nothing mattered, so doing anything, even self destructive things, was justified because I would just follow where the wind took me not caring about the consequences. Also the lyrics of not minding that life isn't fair and that he's lonely, is a way of accepting the current situation. Almost apathetic to it. At 1:55 Tyler briefly rides with no hands, perhaps symbolizing this sort of reckless behavior. I guess I'm just gonna go through all the lyrics, because this song just speaks to me. "Bad place, on a hundred-dollar bass Kinda wishin' that I never did "Saturday" "Is that a stain? You should change" Are you doin' good? Did you solve all of your problems?" Thanks for asking In a way, but accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday What happened to what I brushed under the rug? I used to be the champion of a world you can't see Now I'm drowning in logistics" I think the whole 2nd verse is about how popular the band became, and how with all this success, the thought patterns haven't really gotten better, the problems have just changed or morphed into new ones. This is so relatable to me, as I think whenever I solve some problems new ones always arise. The stain to me represents both mental illness and creative freedom, as some people want the band to change their style to become more popular. This speaks to me personally, as it's as if people around me expect me to change and behave as if I don't have any reason for behaving as I do. It's like they just don't get it. To me this is perfectly represented in the video as Tyler pays for his lemonade with a burger bun. He has the money for it, as shown at the end when he buys buns for a 2nd time. It doesn't really make sense, but in tyler's mind, the bun represents so much so it is more than a cash payment. At the beginning wee see Tyler throw away something in the same manner a t the end, suggesting that this isn't the first time the buns got soggy , nor will it b e the last. This push and pull of mental illness is all but routine. I wonder if the Saturday line is referring to that maybe Tyler thinks he sold out some creative integrity for a more traditional pop sound in Saturday. I think that is a constant theme from his songs, the push between what's popular and what Tyler wants to create. I love the ending so much, because Tyler realizes he needs to go back for new buns, and Josh isn't upset. He doesn't go away, he waits for him. I think this shows how if you can find a true friend, they will help weather the storm with you, no matter what it is, or how often it happens. He even checks his phone, which I presume is to c heck and see if Tyler messaged him, he didn't expect him to be gone that long I'm not sure, just thoughts from a depressed person
God is love. We all fall short and sin. Love is just and merciful. Because God is loving He must judge sin, we all stand judged. Because God is merciful He provided a way out from under the weight of the law and for us to be regenerated. If we trust Jesus shed His sinless blood, died and rose from the grave He forgives us of our sins and gives us a new heart that wants to look God as our Father genuinely and delight in Him, freeing us from being slaves to sin. The rest is our mind catching up with that reality and taking hold of His teaching and truth until He returns, or we die. We aren't saved or kept saved by obedience. We can only be lost through unbelief (trusting in our own righteousness, to be or remain saved) or blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (attributing clear works of God, healing/deliverance, to demons and Satan). Commandments aren't have to's, they are what we do because we actually want God's direction and It's what fulfills us. You can't be born again without the desire to honor God. (Works based salvation "Christians" and "lawless Christians" are both wrong.) We love because God first loved us. Jesus is God, the Son, "the first and the last", God along with God the Father "the Lord God", this title is mentioned with being tied to God in Isaiah 44:6-8, and that same is sent along with the Lord God's Spirit in Isaiah 48:11-16. Jesus further claims this title also in Revelation 1:8-17. Leave catholicism/orthodox/protestant churches that preach strife, or inform them.
it reminds me of forest!!!! “This is not what you're suppose to see Please, remember me? I am suppose to be King of a kingdom or swinging on a swing Something happened to my imagination This situation's becoming dire”
@@arminabro5164yeah you’re right! It also sounds like a parallel to what he says in bandito, “I created this world to feel some control, I can destroy it if I want”
@@ashton3757 yeah the trouble with some of their songs is that they're really helpful if you're in a dark place, but i imagine pretty triggering if you've made it out of that dark place
I love Scaled and Icy. And I think they do too. It marks where they are in time and life. My sign of a good band is growing and developing and changing, not just the same music that worked before. Isn't that what we love about TΦp? The music can't really be defined and changes even in the song?
@@K80Kat the album scaled and icy(SAI) was very different from anything they've done before and the reason for that is because sai is propaganda in the lore. people don't love a lot of the songs because of how different it is and also because it's the most simple sound they've put out, a lot of the songs are very "feel good" including saturday.
Can't tell you exactly why it strikes me.. but in Stressed Out he is "lower" because of the tricycle and he is wearing the red beanie, red backpack, and has red under his clothes. NOW in Backslide he is riding high with no red on his clothes, but he is using the red bicycle to get around. I am sure the symbolism goes much farther, but I wanted to add that to the conversation. (Not to mention the yellow stripes on the lemonade stand probably representing stopping by the banditos along his journey)
I feel like him being back on the bike in that neighbourhood is maybe symbolic of him "backsliding" into that dark headspace and time period. He's older now, the bike has changed shape but its the same red and the same struggles swept "under the rug" that are coming back
"Are you doin good? Did you solve all of your problems? Thanks for asking, in a way, but, Accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday" damn, that really hit me hard, exacty how i feel my anxiety rn
From an AP article in 2022 Tyler says, “I’m always feeling like I’m moving from one place to another, whether it is literally or figuratively, mentally and spiritually,” he continued. “And a lot of the time, when you feel like you are between those two places, it feels… uncharted. Not tame. Scary. Dark. But at least it’s not where you know you’re not supposed to be. That’s what Trench has become to me. Leaving this place, I knew I shouldn’t be anymore. But just because you leave, it doesn’t mean your problems are being solved - you have a whole new list of problems trying to survive.” He foreshadowed this lyric because it's part of growing up, and being that this is the "extension" of Stressed Out, you are feeling the exact thing he is speaking. I think it's your responsibility to take this moment, look back on all of the old problems you used to face and remember how you overcame them. To re-live those victories while you are down in the trenches. How did you deal with: The awkwardness of middle school. The painful rejection in High School. The shock of reality once you graduate. The dull monotony of adulthood. The pain of death and loss. The existential dread of a finite lifetime. You can overcome all of those little by little if you have a little faith in yourself and you remember to pull on your strength from previous adversity. Not only can you do it...but you've already done it before! Anxiety is gonna do its thing...but remember - you got this! Even if you think you're "faking it" - you are proof to yourself that you've made it this far. Just a little further...
Clancy is quickly becoming my favorite album. I can already see myself gaming/working out/going about my day with this in the background, especially backslide
This feels like a response to the fans who were wishing Tyler would go back to his previous struggles because they liked the music better then. EDIT: just to clarify those "fans" are wrong and horrible for saying that, but it is a thing that happened.
I do really hope that's not something that affects their music. I feel like so much od the fan base are young people going through hard times, and ofc there's nothing wrong with that, but they cling to Trench and earlier because it was sadder which is more "relatable." But it doesn't have to be - there's nothing wrong with music that's celebrating good things or talking about things getting better. It's no less real - imo it's even more real, because the sad stuff comes from the lies we tell ourselves or believe from others about life.
@@BlizzarusTrench and the previous albums were actually just good, there's no denying there superiority over Scaled and Icy and there singles since. Their beats and verses now just sound generic and uninspired, it's clear they're running out of ideas or creative energy compared to 2018 and prior
@@friffznWhat are you talking about. There’s still so much stuff processed in TOP‘s lyrics. Just remember songs like redecorate or shy away. Just search for the back storys to these songs. TOP may be doing another style of music, but that’s what they did with every music video
@@keithdfox2I don’t know I disagree with this. I think they make music to be interpreted and if you really look into the lyrics they have Christian meaning but he doesn’t want to be in peoples face with it.
"'Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,' declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty." Jeremiah 2:19 NIV Praying you guys understand what this song and most of their songs are actually about
![twenty one pilots: Stressed Out [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](/img/n.gif)
Josh you should direct.
Josh: let’s throw water, leaves and debris at Tyler
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
Revenge for all his burnt/destroyed drums lmaooo
Revenge!
REAL
Underrated comment
josh: bro what takes you so long?
tyler: you wouldn't believe me
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
"It might seem crazy what I'm boutta say"
Jajajajajajaja
@@Najeeb10003 🤖
youuu… are taking soooo long… san franciscooo~
From a little tricycle to a bike, Tyler has grown up so much! 👍
He’s taking time on his ride.
next album he comes on a unicycle
I hope he rides a motorcycle eventually
@@qroadside lmao
Lmao 😂😂 now thats funny 😂@qroadside
Man every single one of the singles they've released for this album have been drastically different from the next. And that's kind of the case with every TOP album. Every song is so varied and different. It's like unwrapping Christmas gifts.
Definitely agree with this. Very well said. I have no idea what to expect for the rest of the album but it’s gonna be good.
It really is 😂 love them ❤
I love the depiction of Tyler going through his cycle and storms while Josh patiently waits, dependably flipping the burger!
Omg this is so true though. Like josh is perfectly fine flipping some burgers whilst Tyler is GOING THROUGH IT. Like we could be so unaware of what other people are going through whilst they struggle alone and in silence
Oooo yeah Tyler is actually “cycling”!!
He’s waiting for his fren 🥹
Very dependable yes
I love that Josh is not annoyed that it takes Tyler so long and is just fine with it
"Cause I feel the pull" - Backslide 2024
"I can feel the pull begin" -Fall away 2009
I was thinking of why that sounded familiar
Fall Away 2009*
if you look at the wikipedia page for backsliding, it says “also known as falling away” in the first line. the parallels are intentional
fall away 2009*
@@samgraef3028 thanks for catching the typo😭😭 didn't even notice that
I don't think you understand how I needed this song.
"If you could throw me a line"
Same.
The paint around his neck representing his mental health effecting him again. Choking him. Trying to send him back to Dema or Dema slowly invading his thoughts again. The memories of a dark place suffocating him. "Ned" making an appearance again but this time as a form of food. Nourishment. His creativity. But it's stale and tasteless. Tossing it to the side and exchanging it for trivial things. Until it's staleness is replaced by a watered down product of what it used to be. Making it worse. Causing him to repeat the process and trying his luck or in any case trying to hope for something worth consuming.
Edit: The lemonade stand signifies something he holds dear or something that aids him during his fits of depression (Yellow= The signature color of bandito's who free the trapped inhabitants of dema). Him consuming it could signify him taking his medication to suppress his sadness but it wears off and he's back suffocating. Been finally diving into the lore of this band and it's been a journey of self realization and coming to terms with my own struggles. This is a great track.
I think the individual buns are songs, he takes a sample of a few and tosses them. He exchanges one at the Bandito stand, eventually makes his way to Josh where he finds he has nothing to share and collaborate and add meat too. So he returns to the creativity store and start the cycle again. Josh is waiting, wondering when he will be back to work again. I want a Ned’s Breads shirt!
@Lionshawk Dude! Yes! I totally get that. It's almost like his creative process at work. He's going through different ideas to see of one sticks but tosses it. Trying to find a sound or song to share with Josh. And I second that! A NEDs bread shirt would be an instant buy. Lol.
both interpretations here are beautiful. and i third that- we need ned’s breads merch
I feel this so much. My own mental health journey is in a state where this song hit at exactly the right time. "Do you think that now's the time you should let go?" No, Tyler, I won't let go now either...back to the store. Def need a Ned's Bread shirt!
I disagree, mental health has always been something you cant "get over" and Clancy, who is always been depicted with the hand and neck coloring, has always been a more weathered but confident person over Tyler josephs character like going back to trench. Clancy is a strong and confident [person that has fought has demons and mostly won but this album is going to be a deep dive into Clancy's psyche. I feel like that ties back into why Clancy tried to bust Tyler Joseph out of jail in the trench days. I think that using my framework top has created a character that us as mental illness soldiers should strive for but he's not a god or hero Clancy took on his own struggles and overcame them but wears them as a badge of honor. The hand and neck markings don't define him but are still a part of him. Its a badge of honor, and sometimes he "overcompensates" himself while other times "backslides" to his own mental and personal issues, something i find much more relatable to my own struggles with mental health and going to therapy.
music to my ears
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!.
Literally
you are everywhere
And video clip for my eyes
was about to type same thing now I'm typing this instead well done
This was an excuse for josh to just throw a bunch of leaves and debris at Tyler LMAOOO ❤
That’s what I’m thinking about HAHHAHA
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
thats literally what I thought 😭
Fairly local pay back
Yes he was getting his revenge from everything he has been put through over the years
enjoying this song is such a miraculous experience for me because it reminds me of one essential truth: the fact that I fear relapse or the undoing of progress shows that I HAVE MADE progress in my life. fear of losing my recovery just means that I love being in recovery. if this song was released 7 years ago when I first started listening to twenty one pilots, I wouldn't have liked it because there was no relapse for me to have, I hadn't made any progress in the first place. I am so grateful to have this music to reflect with
man same here, exactly the relapse and stuff is biggest fear. One more time i am not coming back out of it i feel.
same.
This resonates with me so much! A lot of TOP songs make references to the cycles and fears surrounding recovery and relapse (e.g. Cut My Lip), but I don't think Tyler has ever been public with this information.
In recovery as well I love you
We love you fren 🦋🩵
This is the most I've been affected by a ToP song since Blurryface dropped. I absolutely just love the emotion coming through this one while still maintaining the classic notes that they've always carried. STOKED for the album!!
Same here stroked to this album
The role Josh decided to give himself in this video says a lot about his beautiful soul. Very nice video Josh! :)
what it says, that he likes to cook burguers?
@@gfg51 that he is a patient person maybe
he just wants to grill, for gods sake
Bicycle too small for him.
@@gfg51 that he doesnt look for the attention and praise just humbly put himself in the background even tho he’s in charge of how the video would go
Tyler’s voice hits my soul in a way that brings a rush of emotions in a normally emotionless existence. I feel his desperation and just want to give him a big reassuring hug.
Great job directing, Josh!
When this came out I was homeless, on drugs, and then jail. I now have a house, job, and husband. This song and “Clover Cage - In the Moment” are the two songs that helped get rid of my depression. I just want to send love to everyone and I want everyone to know things will get better. We are in this together..I love you ❤️😊
Jesus, what a rollercoaster to go through in 7 days, proud of you for getting through it, that sounds rough but you deserve a pat on the back for pushing to the end
Dir. Josh Dun
Our life goals are finally complete.
As long as will Smith is in it
Who would’ve thought we’d hear him sing and see him direct too!
Its Will Smiths bike, on loan just for the video@blakeyoder6488
I hope he sings
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!
The switches between the storm and real life representing encroaching intrusive thoughts? Absolutely fantastic. I especially loved the touch of Tyler physically shaking his head to shake himself out of it, the amount of times I've caught myself trying to shake myself out of a spiral really made that one relatable.
This might end up being my favorite TOP album with the way it's going so far.
Yup, banger after banger so far. :,)
This is so good that I wish I had friends to gush about how amazing ToP and thier new album is.
You have the whole clique on your side here 😁
His name's Clancy and he cares what we think.
YES
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
His name's Clancy and he doesn't care, we control him
I think he should of put that plastic cup on recycling not the road
Clancyface 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how josh waits so patiently for Tyler to arrive that really is a best friend right there
Man this song really reminds me of my ex. We accidentally discovered 21 Pilots during a road trip to North Carolina. Now all of their songs make me think of her. For two years after our breakup I was drowning in depression. Even though she cheated I still can’t get her out of my head but I’m doing much better.
If you read this, Emily, keep your line. I learned how to swim and got myself to solid ground.
I am in a similar boat. My ex and I discovered 21p in college together. He also cheated on me and became physically abusive at one point, and all the torment caused me to attempt $uicide. I'm proud of your recovery! And it only gets better. Mine was like 9 years ago and he rarely crosses my mind if ever. You'll get there too. Appreciate you for you.
@@DynamicMuffin I’m almost back to who I was before I met her. Down 70 pounds, up a badass motorcycle, and I’m starting classes to get my Bachelor’s in June.
You’re an inspiration to have overcome such hardships. Hopefully you’re right and the thoughts about her will stop. I’m glad your attempt failed.
Who’s excited for Clancy to come out
👇
Meeee
the callback to stressed out was so perfectly executed.
I was thinking that. Great minds think alike
True. Lyrically, a call back to Fall Away though.
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
I hear blurry in the background of some of the verses too
@@FriedRiceIsGood-sh6io I am about to report you for spamming everyone's replies
CLANCY ON THE BIKE
Yeaaah! We got Clancy on that trike!!
Clancy is dead
My theory is that Tyler controlled Clancy and that's why it says he's clancy in the Overcompensate Preview, but in the video at the end the real clancy is shown dead and Tyler letting it go
@@isaacgab1194 Clancy isn’t dead. Clancy has learned the power that the Bishops use to control another body. With Keons and Trash. Likewise, Clancy used a persons body to control himself. Once Clancy was done, the body returned to its original person and state.
Clancy on da bike, where will he go?
im taking my time on my ride
When this came out I was homeless, on drugs, and then jail. I now have a house, job, and husband. This song and “Clover Cage - In The Moment” are the two songs that helped get rid of my depression. I just want to send love to everyone and I want everyone to know things will get better. We are in this together..I love you 💕
This is the canonical continuation of Stressed Out in my head. A song about running from and dreading responsibilities, and this one talking about accountability and accepting the past and moving on, accepting that though the world is daunting, knowing you need help is a sign of strength not a sign of weakness. I love this song
The fact that the music video loops back to the beginning at the end is genius. Exactly how backsliding feels, you get so far and experience so much just to start it all again.
edit: holy cow i have never gotten so many likes before thanks so much
And yet there is a slight difference, the man outside has moved so maybe the outside world is changing little by little while you repeat the same things over and over again
im not even think about this, holy crap how i miss that bro
and kinda supports the theory people have that he will replace keons
The store clerk watching him coming back to buy the same thing again and again: 😐
THATS A BIG BRAIN!
"DIRECTED BY JOSH DUN" AAAHHH SO PROUD JOSH
Many people are correlating the lyrics in backslide to Fall Away, which is totally true! But what I find even more interesting is the correlation between this song and ‘Drown’ by Tyler Joseph. One of the verses in Fall Away was taken from this song. This song speaks to a relationship between Tyler and God, where he miserably fails over and over again. Honestly the strongest line in the song to me is ‘don’t wanna do this anymore’, speaking so strongly of the back and fourth of failure we often face with our relationships. Furthermore, the song implicitly is about drowning, which is what Backslide speaks of I.e, ‘waters over my head’, ‘reach my hand above the tide’, ‘throw me a line’.
Another interesting facet is that Backslide questions whether or not the person will let him drown, and Drown states “Will you wash me? Will you drown me, please?’
Just wanted to say this, as sometimes we get caught up in the lore, and Dema, and the era, but it can be nice to take things at face value and appreciate the art that goes into a song, and consider it as a single body of art that can work just as well outside of the overarching story. I say all of this just to encourage those who feel lost and broken to feel reassured. I encourage you and assure that God is ALWAYS with you, and Jesus will always keep you from drowning. If you don’t know him, I encourage you to seek him; if you have questions, feel free to ask me.
Psalm 34:18 - The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit
So good! I love it! That’s how I interpreted it too!
My perception of this song as well 🙏🏽
I do like this but I honestly interpreted it more as a song to their fans and how he’s worried he’s becoming too mainstream
I have to say I am encouraged by Tyler's spiritual journey seen through his music, and I hope that he really does find peace with God through Jesus if he has not already,
@@Ben-hn4nw agreed! It encourages me because I walked a journey through depression and God was my source! To me or seems like he has a strong relationship with God
Me encanta, no puedo dejar de escuchar una y otra vez 💛
Tyler is a threat to the environment
As much as it’s likely cleaned after/during filming, I had a similar thought when he threw the plastic lemonade cup on the street😭
Bro that's all I could think of through this damn video lmao
Good news. Any scene you don’t physically see Tyler ride down the street is done in a studio with a screen behind him. So there was no actual littering.
@@parkerking6410 I thought the thing about tøp’s MVs is that they actually do travel to the locations for filming?? Jumpsuit was filmed in Iceland, right. Granted I’m no expert on these things but a fan can dream~
The chorus I can understand, he’s in complete darkness before the storm, I can see that as a likely greenroom- these outside shots? Yes it’s easy to get the moving background by filming from a trunk, but it’s hard to determine unless specified.
I have no more thoughts left for this comment, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk
LMFAO
I can see everyone singing this chorus together, really loud, in a concert.
I can feel it
I can’t wait for that moment
first thing that came to my mind! this chorus needs to be screamed at concerts.
Cannot wait for that!!!!
THIS! The euphoria thats gonna come from it, I need it.
JOSH SHOULD ALWAYS DIRECT FROM NOW ON.
ALWAYS.
PERIOD.
"Now I'm drowning in logistics" hit me so hard, and idk why
i am absolutely in shambles. ten years ago tyler was 25 writing songs for 15 year old me. now he’s 35… writing songs for 25 year old me. excuse me while i cry
Me too dude 😭 started listening in 2012 and I’m also crying
21 inspires me.. My parents said if i get 5K likes on my vid They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging..
Your excuse and I already join you.😢
He's writing songs for my 41 yr old mom self and my kiddo loves them too
me tooo 😭
Every new Twenty One Pilots album that gets released is like the soundtrack for that period of my life. I'm getting married this summer, so excited to have some new epic music to remember this time with
I’m glad to see a fellow reformed twenty one pilots fan
I just gained a whole new respect for you realizing that you’re a tøp fan😂
Me too redeemed zoomer me too!
SAME
After 4 years I’m finally going back to Puerto Rico and Clancy
is dropping 3 days before it happens so i know how you feel
Люблю вас парни, всегда вовремя выпускаете песни, когда мне очень тяжело в жизни. Спасибо за ваше творчество ❤
To anyone that needs to hear this. It’s okay to have your moments you still need to forgive yourself and push forwards there’s a balance between accepting you made mistakes and being a better person and don’t ever think there will be a time where you won’t have your moments. This world is huge and ever so quickly changing due to the mass amount of humans creating change make sure you stay true to yourself and not see yourself as a enemy but instead tell yourself “I messed up how do I make it better” it takes one act of kindness to show someone they can be kind too and inspire them. I was my own worst enemy and I still have my moments but I found kinship and based off the invisible string theory everyone can. My friend showed me 21 pilots after I said “I used to cry to car radio I have no clue why I never related with the songs” and then she played it. I’m 22 and I started sobbing I love that their music is a analogy for anyone’s life and relates on certain lines but every single line hit
“I liked it better when my car had sound”
“I liked it better when my brain was so full of itself that I couldn’t see the pain of the rest of the world”
But then shuffling very quickly from that to “there are things we can do and from those things there are only 2 and there’s faith and there’s sleep and we need to pick one please because faith is to be awake and to be awake is for us to think and for us to think is for us to live and I will try to come across with every line like I am dying to tell you. That you need- to- think-“
Because there’s a difference between being happy living and surviving type living
and living is thinking about positive things showing people kindness exists by simply being happy
And surviving is living off of pure fear adrenaline instict.
If a human isolates with no human contact for a certain amount of time they will start surviving because thinking isn’t a very out of nature thing to do.
Is what that says to me anyways 🤷🏻♀️
I need the next song because I need 21 pilots to still be awake and to not sleep. There are too many people I’ve heard say “they saved my life” so they oweh it to themselves to finish what they started because I think they started a beautiful thing. And where is all this self doubt coming from? Loosing the ability to be relatable? Just because you had bigger numbers back then doesn’t mean you aren’t still inspiring millions of people that might just need y’all. 🫶🏻 my best friends shaped who I was and they both said y’all saved their lives. Please never forget that! People need y’all! So no. It’s not time to let go it’s time to hold onto hope harder than ever before and support the people that supported y’all for years and supported me thru making people live that changed my life and is helping me save more people from my version of “sleeping” even if it’s for a moment. Never stop creating music unless y’all want too for yourselves if you think your journey isn’t over it’s not. Not all those who wander are lost! Sometimes you gotta wander off the beaten path to get back on track ❤
"Strength enough for one more time"
that hit home.
yes.
|-/ stay alive ✌🏽
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
Coupled with the fact that it is an infinite loop and that he thinks that way on each one
@@Tsunaze59 I almost feel.. disgust (?)... that the closest people in my life don't get this point but some random text on my screen that is your username, and a guy thousands of miles away that makes music that they don't speak the language of-- Gets it.
Edit:
Living each day with yearn and hope that tomorrow will be better. Apparating strength, out of thin air, each day, to wake up just once more. Repeating that hopefulness, convincing ourselves there's a point to all this and we have yet to see it. "No point quitting now, try one more earth cycle around itself. The next cycle around the sun ought to be better, too". And it sometimes (even) is, and it often still doesn't matter, for this relapsing torture of a mindset might never stop. Or might it? Let's think about this tomorrow...
josh dun hitting us with the good cinematography
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!
Not bots on tøp too😭
Nobody wants to go back to what one day was, all that torments your present, and when it finally seems that everything is going well there is always something that messes with your head again.
And it makes you feel like a broken record repeating the same thing all over again.
I think Josh at the end perfectly shows that your friends don't always know the storm that your riding through.
Josh cooked! Literally and figuratively
YEAAAH HE DID
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
AND WE ATE!❤
HE ATE!
This made me giggle too bad
we need Jim Dun Bubble Gum SO BAD- enough Feastables, give us this!!
I love how these guys have stayed genuine and make their own videos. Great direction, great music, great people!
TURNING BACK TIME TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Wish we could 😉
When our mama sang us to sleep
@@yourgamersource123 but now we’re stressed out
@@yourgamersource123
but now we're stressed out
@@cook_adoodledoo We used to play pretend
Tyler: How about you direct this time?
Josh: Alright, but only if I get to grill a burger in the video
Beats pushing a container of chlorine, dragging a boat or playing the drums.. 😂
He's directing, he gets to do whatever he wants... he chooses to grill a burger.
@@Zodiacman16 let him cook
Everytime i listen to Tyler sing the chorus to this song i feel like im prayibg to God but its coming out of his mouth im 32 and ive not listened to a song on repeat while i sleep for years
I am sitting here in full blown tears relating to this song so deeply on a personal level in my life and relationship and I cannot be more thankful for twenty one pilots to somehow always put my feelings into words and give it an upbeat tone and make it seem like what I'm going thru isn't that bad. While you're listening to them you are jumping bumping and jamming ... But getting a therapy session just singing out all your problems in a happy way. I am so in love with their music. ❤️ Thank you TOP for always being there for me
This clip feels like a "Post Mature" Stressed out clip. When you are young and have your problems, you miss childhood and gets stressed with how the world wasn`t what you wanted it yet you pursue your dreams, but this feels like you finally achieved your dream or got over that sad moment of your life...only to realize you still have problems, there are dreams that you couldn`t realize and your heads starts torturing you for it.
this was so well put!
Are you going through that rn? I am.
Love how TOP always find ways of exploring mental health issues, and this video in particular brought me back to the first time I listened to Stress Out
@@foster_fish yeah
Hence the tendency to ‘backslide’ to how you dealt with those issues, except you’ve come out on the other end before, you can catch yourself
I can already sense my summer hitting different with this album..
Wait but this is so true, this summer feels like it's gonna hit different >:)
Any time a new song comes out, I wait till it's about 1.30am, lights off, headphones on, full volume. Everyone else asleep. The world is quiet. Forget about everything. Hit play and see what they've made...no feeling like it. Especially when the chorus hits 🥹😌
Love the vibes of this song. As always 21 pilots making masterpieces
As a son of a therapist, this is the most well crafted song I've seen about mental health. The term backslide used in the song is referring to the process of mental backslide, which is defined as when someone either fractionally or fully reverts back into old behaviors due to being stressed out. I thought this was a perfect connection between Stressed Out and this song because, in the song stressed out that was his old days, and in this song he’s now in his present days and is reverting and trying to resist mental backslide. At the very end Josh is standing there flipping burgers, I feel as though this represented as Tyler was struggling with his thoughts (and still is) Josh is there waiting for him patiently, supporting him (this can be represented as he is a torchbearer); the way they had Josh directed this was for that very reason. I feel as though the buns represent how people may disregard fighting the mental backslide, we can see this by how Tyler throws away the empty burger bag in the beginning and at the end goes back to the store to get more of the burgers which are representing his efforts in trying to fight the mental backslide. Starting from the beginning Tyler says “Rate race” I feel like is referring to the people just trying to live and survive; he then says “Tendencies of repeat” which is showing his old tendencies creeping back in slowly by the repeat of past tendencies. A couple lyrics later Tyler says, “Cause I feel the pull, water’s over my head”, the pull is representing his tendencies and past behaviors pulling him back in, and the water over his head means that it’s a strong pull that is basically inescapable, a couple seconds later her says, “Reach my hand above the tide”, this is him saying that he’s trying to resist the mental backslide that is drowning his thoughts out. While it cuts to the storm (which is representing how he briefly went back into darkness of his thoughts, this can be seen as he shakes his head to snap back into reality), he can be heard saying, “I’ll take anything you have” and “If you could throw me a line” is his desperate need for relief of his thoughts taking over. The lemonade stand is personally my favorite part of the whole song because of it’s intricity; I’m going to take a shot in the dark and say the little is Tyler's old self, seeing as how the song is about mental backslide and the child represents his previous self conversing with his present self asking him, “Are you doing good?” and “Did you solve all of your problems?”, Tyler responds with, “Accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday”, meaning that he uncovered a new problem again. This may also be a shot in the dark but, the burger being traded with the lemon represents him trying to use his efforts to fight back the mental backslide. After all of this he says, “What happened to what I brushed under the rug”, is him telling his past self (supposedly) that he has been brushing his problems under a rug (in his heart) and not trying to do anything about it. In the last part of the song we can see Tyler points to us in the crowd asking, “Do you think that now’s the time” and “You should let go?” I feel this was Tyler connecting with his audience basically asking do you think now's the time you should quit trying to fight the backslide. Finally, the last part of the song can be seen Tyler dumping the soggy burgers out representing his failed attempts to overcome backslide, but then he goes back to the store and gets more burgers which recommends that he is starting over again (I think this a connection to the lyric in Next Semester where in the song he says, “Start fresh next semester” basically showing how many times he is trying to resist mental backslide and won’t stop). This is the best song in their album so far because of the message saying “You shouldn’t give up on resisting the backslide, and instead keep trying until you overcome it”. Overall, this whole song is a masterpiece |-/
That’s literally what I was about to say! … Nah frl good analysis îd like to think everything you sais is right, the song is just too good
As a soon to be therapist, I really appreciate this analysis. I agree with a lot of it. I also think there is a spiritual component of him reaching up to his higher power to help him and maybe asking "why haven't you left yet?" Could also be him speaking to the audience kind of like you said, asking why they are resistant. A lot of the work I do is around acceptance and accepting that, yes, you may have had a backslide, and you don't need to stay there. You can keep moving forward. Acceptance and change are two sides of the same coin and I feel that is very much represented in this song.
😮
Nah it's about drugs
This have to go right to the Genius website
This song is an internal monologue of self doubt and perseverance. The buns are coping mechanisms that we attempt to use or disregard right away, because they aren’t helpful enough. At the start of the video we see him throwing away an empty bag and going into the store, which he does again at the end, showing that he’s been in this loop for awhile, “tendencies on repeat” and through the whole ride home he’s having a mental battle thinking I cant let myself go back to my old ways look at all the progress i’ve made i’m not that person anymore, “I don’t want to backslide to where i’ve started from, theres no chance i will shake this again” feeling like theres no way we can survive it. As we grow up and face the same lessons it can be incredibly humiliating, he’s asking himself when he says “do you think that nows the time you should let go? its over my head” he entertains the thought that hes better off dead at this point since hes still struggling so bad, and hes talking to himself when he says “I shouldve loved you better” and “I’ll take anything you have if you could throw me a line” desperate for relief. Then we see him as a child running the lemonade stand, asking himself if hes happy and gotten his life together and hes able to pause for a moment of self reflection and trades coping skills- the bun for a cup of lemonade- which represents something that he loved doing as a child. He heads back out and starts spiraling again, but regardless he doesn’t give up, “strength enough for one more time, reach my hand above the tide” We have to surrender to the storm and all we can do is out best to keep trying, every moment of every day to not succumb. He could give up in defeat that the buns were soggy and destroyed but he turns around and goes back to get more and try again despite it. And lastly we all need people in our circle like Josh who will patiently continue to flip burgers while we get our buns in order, so we can enjoy the bbq of life together. At least thats how I interpreted it. |-/
Damn! 🤯 |-/
I love this!! ❤🧡 |-/
This is amazing bro! 🤝
The best interpretation I’ve read today, love it!
WOW
Thank you for writing the lyrics you write. They are still saving my life nearly ten years later. I love you so much for that. You’ll never even know how important your music is to me.
Лучшая песня среди других синглов с альбома! Эх еще месяц ждать
If you're reading this, I'm glad we're getting to experience this together. Keep your head up. It gets better.
What a sweet lil message 🥰🥰
Absolutely a certified hood bike classic
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!..
@@Najeeb10003subbed, chase your dreams.
It’s good?
@@keatonkline9403it's a bot
@@Najeeb10003 you dont need one, an old phone is enough
Genius ! Just by the structure of the song alone, is amazing😮.
I remember " stressed out " when he rode bicycle 🔥🔥
We back man ❤️🔥
GIVE IT UP FOR JOSH DUN THE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!.
WOOOHOOO 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Not the bots coming to tøp 😭😭
@@Najeeb10003are u begging or is this for real I met subscribe if you’re not begging so are u?
NOW WE SHOULD WAIT FOR THE SONG BY HIM
The few, the proud, and the emotional
WAIT IS THAT WHAT FPE STANDS FOR!!?? WHY HAVE JUST REALIZED THIS WTF
@@itssmemesit has a lot of those, but yes that one is one of them and so is now “food petrol etc”
It is also Failed Perimeter Escape in dmaorg documents
yea havent seen that since the SAI live stream lol
Oh you bulletproof and black like a funeral
I genuinely hope he’s okay. Although his music is great many of his lyrics genuinely feel very dark. They have for years. Would hate to lose him young like we did with Chester Bennington. Hope he has plenty of people he trusts in his life is all. Yes, music can be used as a healthy way to cope, but it can also be a big cry for help. It’s hard to tell these days….
nobody doing it like them, incredible
Love the way Josh chose to put himself here. He knows Tyler is struggling, and he patiently waits for him. He is his role model, a 'torchbearer' who guides him in the right direction
Amazing point of view. He's not like a security guard, but still absolutely ready for any call (like in the ending of Jumpsuit, the "I'm here for you and I know you need help, just wait for me and the Banditos" vibe while looking from above).
i think it is 10/10
I'm 14 and this is deep
@@hano5277 wow so ironic much sarcastic very snide wow
@@hatempiremillennial ass
DIRECTED BY JOSH DUN WHAT A POWERFUL SENTENCE
DIRECTED BY JOSH DUN WHAT A POWERFUL LINE
The rain only exists in his head, but it still affects the outside world, as the burger buns are soggy at the end. I think this is symbolism for how mental illness affects how a person can function on the outside, even if the problem starts on the inside of the mind
Also, I think the flowers on the tree are some sort of trigger, and sends Tyler into a bad mental state. I relate to that because seemingly innocuous things often can trigger my depressive thoughts, and like how the music video portrays it, it just darkens everything around me. When he says "it's over my head" I think is a submission to the hopelessness and helplessness that comes along with it
As someone who is learning to grow and trying to get better, the fear of "backsliding" is so real, and this is my favorite song on the album so far. It's just so relatable for me
"I don't wanna backslide to where I've started from
There's no chance I will shake this again
'Cause I feel the pull, water's over my head
Strength enough for onе more time
Reach my hand abovе the tide
I'll take anything you have"
I relate this to my suicidal thoughts, and how if I return to how I was when my depressing thoughts were so heavy, there is "no chance " I'd be able to make it out again. And the chorus continues this with Tyler saying he can get out of the waters just "one more time" before drowning. The flashes of light, particularly in the chorus probably reference his attempt while standing in the road, as illustrated in Next Semester. It's like the thoughts trigger and he remembers where hew as at, and everything is dark a nd scary again. It's such a difficult place to be in . I wonder if the actual lyrics is "strength enough for all of one more time" (it would fit the rhyme scheme all of rhyming with above on the next line, don't even get me started on Tylers lyrical genius). He says something in between enough and for, but doesn't really enunciate it. If that lyric is the case I really worry about his metal state, because if he doesn't think he can conquer these feelings again I fear the worst could happen. As a song writer myself, sometimes I hid words a bit because they're really just for me, I wonder if it's a case of that
" If you could throw me a line
I should've loved you better
Do you think that now's the time
You should let go?
It's over my head"
I relate to this part, as it looks like Tyler is just begging anyone to give him anything to continue. I have been in that place of desperation searching for absolutely anything to hold on to. He is almost condemning the people around him for not helping him more, as they are letting him go, right as he needs their support and the water is getting back "over his head "
The I should have loved you better line really hits home for me, as I recently got out of a relationship and it was all my fault, and the regret I have for that. She was really good for me, and I just wasn't what I needed to be, and it's my fault that the people I love runaway from me. My therapist thinks this is thought distortion but I'm not so sure.
As someone who recently deconstructed and lost their faith, I also interpret this as a cry to god. At the peak of my depression, I was begging for any sign that a god was there looking out for me. "Do you think that now's the time you should let go? " represents the idea that god is letting him go. He didn't give me anything, and it just hurt to have that part of my life decimated. I don't know what kind of god who has the power to help someone in their darkest hours and just chooses not to.
"Rat race, place to place, adding weight
Tendencies on repeat, innit?
Benefit from a shoe with no lace
Take the seat with the crease in it"
For me, this is where I'm at now. Running in the rat race of capitalism trying to find a job and get my life back together. Everything seems to stay the same, every day repeats itself. The line about the shoe with no lace and the seat with a crease to me represents accepting the fact that the world isn't optimal to live in, especially for people with mental illnesses, but we have to make do with what we have.
"I don't mind if it's lonely
I don't mind if it's fair
I don't care, you control me
Leading me anywhere"
To me, this is just completely giving up one's autonomy. I have been at that point where I would just do anything, let anyone tell me what to do and then do that. In my head, nothing mattered, so doing anything, even self destructive things, was justified because I would just follow where the wind took me not caring about the consequences. Also the lyrics of not minding that life isn't fair and that he's lonely, is a way of accepting the current situation. Almost apathetic to it. At 1:55 Tyler briefly rides with no hands, perhaps symbolizing this sort of reckless behavior.
I guess I'm just gonna go through all the lyrics, because this song just speaks to me.
"Bad place, on a hundred-dollar bass
Kinda wishin' that I never did "Saturday"
"Is that a stain? You should change"
Are you doin' good?
Did you solve all of your problems?"
Thanks for asking
In a way, but accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday
What happened to what I brushed under the rug?
I used to be the champion of a world you can't see
Now I'm drowning in logistics"
I think the whole 2nd verse is about how popular the band became, and how with all this success, the thought patterns haven't really gotten better, the problems have just changed or morphed into new ones. This is so relatable to me, as I think whenever I solve some problems new ones always arise. The stain to me represents both mental illness and creative freedom, as some people want the band to change their style to become more popular. This speaks to me personally, as it's as if people around me expect me to change and behave as if I don't have any reason for behaving as I do. It's like they just don't get it. To me this is perfectly represented in the video as Tyler pays for his lemonade with a burger bun. He has the money for it, as shown at the end when he buys buns for a 2nd time. It doesn't really make sense, but in tyler's mind, the bun represents so much so it is more than a cash payment. At the beginning wee see Tyler throw away something in the same manner a t the end, suggesting that this isn't the first time the buns got soggy , nor will it b e the last. This push and pull of mental illness is all but routine. I wonder if the Saturday line is referring to that maybe Tyler thinks he sold out some creative integrity for a more traditional pop sound in Saturday. I think that is a constant theme from his songs, the push between what's popular and what Tyler wants to create.
I love the ending so much, because Tyler realizes he needs to go back for new buns, and Josh isn't upset. He doesn't go away, he waits for him. I think this shows how if you can find a true friend, they will help weather the storm with you, no matter what it is, or how often it happens. He even checks his phone, which I presume is to c heck and see if Tyler messaged him, he didn't expect him to be gone that long
I'm not sure, just thoughts from a depressed person
I'm so glad they are back
The boys are back on their bikes
My parents said if I hit 2k they'd buy me a professional camera begging you guys literally begging !!!
@@Najeeb10003create something and see if people dig it.
Cannot wait to see the behind the scenes of this, specifically when Tyler was rained on and thrown leaves😆
you know josh was so excited for that
Exactly my response. I'm expecting to see Josh, Debbie, Jenna and the girls throwing leaves at him
i feel the focus on the Blossoming trees is to show that a backslide can be triggered by a certain time of the year
I love that the kid has Ned eyes. This song has me listening on repeat. Do you think You could throw me a line? Wow.
The cycle
The references
The lore
IM SO HAPPY TO BE ALIVE FOR THIS THANK YOU
Happy you’re here, Ms. Emily. Thx for being alive and Our Kind.
Thank you for staying
I love you all, thank you for staying alive
Not happy for cycle
“I used to be a champion of a world you can’t see” I love this line!! It’s so good!!
God is love.
We all fall short and sin.
Love is just and merciful.
Because God is loving He must judge sin, we all stand judged.
Because God is merciful He provided a way out from under the weight of the law and for us to be regenerated.
If we trust Jesus shed His sinless blood, died and rose from the grave He forgives us of our sins and gives us a new heart that wants to look God as our Father genuinely and delight in Him, freeing us from being slaves to sin.
The rest is our mind catching up with that reality and taking hold of His teaching and truth until He returns, or we die.
We aren't saved or kept saved by obedience. We can only be lost through unbelief (trusting in our own righteousness, to be or remain saved) or blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (attributing clear works of God, healing/deliverance, to demons and Satan).
Commandments aren't have to's, they are what we do because we actually want God's direction and It's what fulfills us.
You can't be born again without the desire to honor God. (Works based salvation "Christians" and "lawless Christians" are both wrong.)
We love because God first loved us.
Jesus is God, the Son, "the first and the last", God along with God the Father "the Lord God", this title is mentioned with being tied to God in Isaiah 44:6-8, and that same is sent along with the Lord God's Spirit in Isaiah 48:11-16.
Jesus further claims this title also in Revelation 1:8-17.
Leave catholicism/orthodox/protestant churches that preach strife, or inform them.
it reminds me of forest!!!! “This is not what you're suppose to see
Please, remember me? I am suppose to be
King of a kingdom or swinging on a swing
Something happened to my imagination
This situation's becoming dire”
@@arminabro5164yeah you’re right! It also sounds like a parallel to what he says in bandito, “I created this world to feel some control, I can destroy it if I want”
He means he was and is supposed to be a champion for Christ! Kingdom minded!
Maybe referencing the world around dema?
Man I remember in 2017 I used to listen to TØP and now I like them even more! ❤️😭 One of my favorite duos
i’m actually sobbing this makes me so happy this is so beautiful it’s such a throwback
I don't wanna get ahead of myself and say this is my favorite of the Clancy singles... but this is my favorite of the Clancy singles
Definitely my favourite it's just so different
They all are but this one makes me emotional as hell. I hate going back to dark places
@@ashton3757 21 pilots is like the light in a dark tunnel
@@ashton3757 yeah the trouble with some of their songs is that they're really helpful if you're in a dark place, but i imagine pretty triggering if you've made it out of that dark place
Overcompensate was great but when next semester came out it topped overcompensate out by a lot, and it happened again with backslide
The Saturday line 💔💔 SAI, they could never make me hate you
Fr
I love Scaled and Icy. And I think they do too. It marks where they are in time and life. My sign of a good band is growing and developing and changing, not just the same music that worked before. Isn't that what we love about TΦp? The music can't really be defined and changes even in the song?
@@origamikiddo2625 Yup!! That's one thing I loved about SAI. It showed us how versatile tøp are as a band by giving us sounds we weren't expecting
I'm not up to date on the album lores other than the summary video they put out. why would do they not like Saturday?
@@K80Kat the album scaled and icy(SAI) was very different from anything they've done before and the reason for that is because sai is propaganda in the lore. people don't love a lot of the songs because of how different it is and also because it's the most simple sound they've put out, a lot of the songs are very "feel good" including saturday.
First time hearing & watching.... Just finished joint, goosebumps fading,
.....processing, all I know for certain is this song is something special.
Not me playing this song in my head when I ride my bike and pretending I'm Tyler 🙈
Can't tell you exactly why it strikes me.. but in Stressed Out he is "lower" because of the tricycle and he is wearing the red beanie, red backpack, and has red under his clothes. NOW in Backslide he is riding high with no red on his clothes, but he is using the red bicycle to get around.
I am sure the symbolism goes much farther, but I wanted to add that to the conversation.
(Not to mention the yellow stripes on the lemonade stand probably representing stopping by the banditos along his journey)
I feel like him being back on the bike in that neighbourhood is maybe symbolic of him "backsliding" into that dark headspace and time period. He's older now, the bike has changed shape but its the same red and the same struggles swept "under the rug" that are coming back
"I'm higher when I'm heavy"
"Are you doin good? Did you solve all of your problems? Thanks for asking, in a way, but, Accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday" damn, that really hit me hard, exacty how i feel my anxiety rn
The same 😢
Hang in there.. you are not alone ❤
To the two of you guys, and to anyone who needs to hear this, you are loved
Yes. Makes me want to throw my phone, lol
From an AP article in 2022 Tyler says, “I’m always feeling like I’m moving from one place to another, whether it is literally or figuratively, mentally and spiritually,” he continued. “And a lot of the time, when you feel like you are between those two places, it feels… uncharted. Not tame. Scary. Dark. But at least it’s not where you know you’re not supposed to be. That’s what Trench has become to me. Leaving this place, I knew I shouldn’t be anymore. But just because you leave, it doesn’t mean your problems are being solved - you have a whole new list of problems trying to survive.”
He foreshadowed this lyric because it's part of growing up, and being that this is the "extension" of Stressed Out, you are feeling the exact thing he is speaking.
I think it's your responsibility to take this moment, look back on all of the old problems you used to face and remember how you overcame them. To re-live those victories while you are down in the trenches. How did you deal with: The awkwardness of middle school. The painful rejection in High School. The shock of reality once you graduate. The dull monotony of adulthood. The pain of death and loss. The existential dread of a finite lifetime. You can overcome all of those little by little if you have a little faith in yourself and you remember to pull on your strength from previous adversity. Not only can you do it...but you've already done it before! Anxiety is gonna do its thing...but remember - you got this! Even if you think you're "faking it" - you are proof to yourself that you've made it this far. Just a little further...
With 3 singles so far, i can confidently say this is the best. Looking forward to all the boys have coming up.
Clancy is quickly becoming my favorite album. I can already see myself gaming/working out/going about my day with this in the background, especially backslide
The chorus is INSANE
It made me cry, don't really know why
It hit home honestly
Can’t wait to sing it with you all 🥹🥲
insane is one way id put it i guess.,,
@@donteatleavez What's the other way/s?
This feels like a response to the fans who were wishing Tyler would go back to his previous struggles because they liked the music better then.
EDIT: just to clarify those "fans" are wrong and horrible for saying that, but it is a thing that happened.
I do really hope that's not something that affects their music. I feel like so much od the fan base are young people going through hard times, and ofc there's nothing wrong with that, but they cling to Trench and earlier because it was sadder which is more "relatable." But it doesn't have to be - there's nothing wrong with music that's celebrating good things or talking about things getting better. It's no less real - imo it's even more real, because the sad stuff comes from the lies we tell ourselves or believe from others about life.
@@BlizzarusTrench and the previous albums were actually just good, there's no denying there superiority over Scaled and Icy and there singles since. Their beats and verses now just sound generic and uninspired, it's clear they're running out of ideas or creative energy compared to 2018 and prior
@@friffznWhat are you talking about. There’s still so much stuff processed in TOP‘s lyrics. Just remember songs like redecorate or shy away. Just search for the back storys to these songs.
TOP may be doing another style of music, but that’s what they did with every music video
@@Blizzarusamazing take
@Lenny-ue8hk you read my mind
The way he sings "it's over my head"🫠
The chorus to this song feels so good to sing out loud ❤️🔊
I feel like this was a mix of everything they’ve done, throwback to stressed out throwback to chlorine throwback to redecorate. I love it so much.
Yo where did you hear the throwback to redecorate?
i didn’t quite see the redecorate throwback but there was definitely a throwback to the other songs and also fall away!
Saturday, Fall Away, and Mulberry Street Too!
When I was listening to the song, it reminded me pf Redecorate. Not really a throwback, but if that's what OP means, then sure.
yeess I thought the same!! Chlorine, Stressed out and Choker!!... just for starters...
lemonade stand boy deserves awards for his performance
The way he graciously accepting the bun as a payment? Pro moves
Is it me or do his eyes make him look like a young Tyler?
@@beckylaw123my first thought was that its a deepfake with Tyler's childhood face
@@gabby3406there is a sign underneath the “Lemonade 75c” that says “or one hamburger bun”
That’s what I’m saying! He was so great!
each track has been so fun and fresh
Es increíble lo que se puede hacer con un puñado de hojas y un poco de agua. Grande Joshua!
Clancy is 3/3 so far
All hits, no misses
So agree
overcompensate is a little miss for me, but this and next semester is good
Facts
I'm pretty sure it's 4/4 👀
you right
I love how tylers lyrics can be interpreted in so many ways.
It's called being lukewarm
Sameeee
🔥🔥🔥
@@keithdfox2I don’t know I disagree with this. I think they make music to be interpreted and if you really look into the lyrics they have Christian meaning but he doesn’t want to be in peoples face with it.
i can’t get this music video out of my brain omg. one of their best songs so far.
That swung 16th triplet bass drum pattern is nasty!!
the way tyler writes songs.. i love how he always does a build up towards the middle/end, i love this band sm
"'Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,' declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty."
Jeremiah 2:19 NIV
Praying you guys understand what this song and most of their songs are actually about