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howieabel · 3 years ago

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“I Explain Some Things” from Residence on Earth - Pablo Neruda

You will ask: And where are the lilacs? And the metaphysics laced with poppies? And the rain that often beat his words filling them with holes and birds? I'll tell you everything that's happening with me. I lived in a neighborhood of Madrid, with church bells, with clocks, with trees. From there you could see the dry face of Castilla like an ocean of leather. My house was called the house of flowers, because everywhere geraniums were exploding: it was a beautiful house with dogs and little kids. Raúl, do you remember? Do you remember, Rafael? Federico, you remember, from under the earth, do you remember my house with balconies on which the light of June drowned flowers in your mouth? Hermano, hermano! Everything was great voices, salty goods, piles of throbbing bread, markets of my Argüelles neighborhood with its statue like a pale inkwell among the carp: oil flowed into the spoons, a loud pulse of feet and hands filled the streets, meters, liters, sharp essence of life, piled fish, texture of rooftops under a cold sun that wears out the weathervane, fine delirious ivory of the potatoes, tomatoes repeating all the way to the sea. And one morning everything was burning and one morning the fires were shooting out of the earth devouring beings, and ever since then fire, gunpowder ever since, and ever since then blood. Bandits with airplanes and with Moors, bandits with finger-rings and duchesses, bandits with black friars making blessings, kept coming from the sky to kill children, and through the streets the blood of the children ran simply, like children's blood. Jackals the jackal would reject, stones the dry thistle would bite then spit out, vipers the vipers would despise! Facing you I have seen the blood of Spain rise up to drown you in one single wave of pride and knives! Traitor generals: behold my dead house, behold Spain destroyed: yet instead of flowers from every dead house burning metal flows, yet from every hollow of Spain Spain flows, yet from every dead child rises a rifle with eyes, yet from every crime bullets are born that one day will find the target of your heart. You will ask why his poetry doesn't speak to us of dreams, of the leaves, of the great volcanoes of his native land? Come and see the blood in the streets, come and see the blood in the streets, come and see the blood in the streets!

“Explico algunas cosas” de Residencia en la tierra

Preguntaréis: Y dónde están las lilas? Y la metafísica cubierta de amapolas? Y la lluvia que a menudo golpeaba sus palabras llenándolas de agujeros y pájaros? Os voy a contar todo lo que me pasa. Yo vivía en un barrio de Madrid, con campanas, con relojes, con árboles. Desde allí se veía el rostro seco de Castilla como un océano de cuero. Mi casa era llamada la casa de las flores, porque por todas partes estallaban geranios: era una bella casa con perros y chiquillos. Raúl, te acuerdas? Te acuerdas, Rafael? Federico, te acuerdas debajo de la tierra, te acuerdas? de mi casa con balcones en donde la luz de junio ahogaba flores en tu boca? Hermano, hermano! Todo eran grandes voces; sal de mercaderías, aglomeraciones de pan palpitante, mercados de mi barrio de Argüelles con su estatua como un tintero pálido entre las merluzas: el aceite llegaba a las cucharas, un profundo latido de pies y manos llenaba las calles, metros, litros, esencia aguda de la vida, pescados hacinados, contextura de techos con sol frío en el cual la flecha se fatiga, delirante marfil fino de las patatas, tomates repetidos hasta el mar. Y una mañana todo estaba ardiendo y una mañana las hogueras salían de la tierra devorando seres, y desde entonces fuego, pólvora desde entonces, y desde entonces sangre. Bandidos con aviones y con moros, bandidos con sortijas y duquesas, banditos con frailes negros bendiciendo venían por el cielo a matar niños, y por las calles la sangre de los niños corría simplemente, como sangre de niños. Chacales que el chacal rechazaría, piedras que el cardo seco mordería escupiendo, víboras que las víboras odiaran! Frente a vosotros he visto la sangre de España levantarse para ahogaros en una sola ola de orgullo y de cuchillos! Generales traidores: mirad mi casa muerta, mirad España rota: pero de cada casa muerta sale metal ardiendo en vez de flores, pero de cada hueco de España sale España, pero de cada niño muerto sale un fusil con ojos, pero de cada crimen nacen balas que os hallarán un día el sitio del corazón. Preguntaréis por qué su poesía no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas, de los grandes volcanes de su país natal? Venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles!

#Pablo Neruda

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banditomojado · 4 months ago

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An Ordinary Diamond 💎

Call it delusion, call it unhinged

Call it what you want

But I refuse to take credit

For phantasmic sins

I carry with me a vow

A cicatrix in black ink

A gold you once admired

Despite being holier than thou

I have flirted with malevolence

And paid a hefty price

For my wandering mind

Yet my gold maintains its prevalence

There is strength in your memory

Of that we have evidence

I suppose "maybes" and twisting it

Was the safe and sufficient remmedy

There is less blood on your hands

Of that there is no doubt

But blood there is still, I'm afraid

Despite your silk-stocking plans

Does it disturb you so, darling,

Being an ordinary diamond?

Remember, proximity to godhood

Is ultimately a wretched thing

So call it delusion, call it unhinged

I'm not your devil anymore

And god damnit, I want to live

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angelfoodcake08 · 3 years ago

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I am back with my hyperfixation! With vague story plots this time.

So, I've been rethinking over this & came up with a few ideas. Feel free to lend any ideas to the list if you'd like.

Opt 1: She [protag] is a hermit who lives in an abandoned mansion nobody wants to go to because they think it's haunted. She has a sort of ofrenda where she keeps a book filled with stories of her family stories, jokes, pictures, etc. That or she has a library of them. She was a small girl when she first saw Bruno from afar & was far too shy to ask him if he liked her, too.

Opt 2: She is a grown woman who once dated Bruno after years of being his friend pre- & post-ceremony. Sadly, he vanished without a trace which left [protag] heartbroken. In her anguish & confusion, she moved to a mansion built into the mountainside. It needed a lot of TLC from the time Bruno vanished & [protag]'s arrival there, but the ever adaptive woman suited her new home with all of her handcrafted &/or repaired refurbishments. She found a library of empty books & began writing things like poetry, stories, fairytales, even dabbled in some sketches.

Opt 3: she was a preteen/teenaged drifter of unknown origins & was unofficially adopted by the locals after they saw how thin & dirty the young woman looked. She meets Bruno in his corresponding youth & they hit it off instantly, laughing & joking on her breaks from her job(s).

Additional story elements that might be mixed in later:

Add. Opt. 1: she's the descendent of the bad men or banditos that took Abuelo Pedro from Abuela Alma before coming like nothing happened. She learned of their crimes as a teen & was rightfully appalled upon hearing the tale her male family members were cackling at over a few too many pints of some sort of alcohol. She either left after being disowned & stripped of her familial commodities (name, home, etc.) & sent out into the vast lands to fend for herself or ran away to hide where she could never be found by her 'family', reshaping herself with a whole new name, clothes & cosmetic aesthetics that her female family members had enforced upon her early on in her life, even going as far as to chop her knee-length braid into a curly, Shirley Temple type cut.

Add. Opt. 2: She's was a baby one family found drifting in the river where we see Luisa setting the bridge in place in the first song of the film, not too far from the first few buildings & the Encanto. Another version has a near pre-ceremony Bruno, Pepa, & Juilieta finding her & basically bringing her to Mama Alma who holds a village meeting to decide who would be the babe's caregiver(s) & new family after finding a note begging whoever found the little, light-skinned beauty to take her in as their own for one reason or the other.

Add. Opt. 2.2: she's the daughter of one of the men who took Pedro from Alma & her mother didn't want to risk another one of her children facing the life her older siblings grew into.

Add. Opt. 3: She was born to a local family of coffee bean farmers (???), fell hard for the younger Bruno, &, after he vanished & the town began turning against her with typical ridicules, fled to an abandoned dwelling built into the mountainside far from prying eyes. She finds books, a telescope, & a basic homey setup; sort of like a well-off person & their family up & left leaving everything behind including clothes she made into garbs of her own. As was the case in Opt 1 & 2, she removed the home to her liking.

Thank you for reading, have a cute gif of Bruno. 😊

#encanto bruno #encanto brainrot #fanfic

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meatyliver · 4 years ago

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Ok, since i got up today and whenever i had time in classes i was listening to the scaled and icy lyric videos. here is my opinion on them!

disclaimer- i am in no ways a professional musician, or a super-in depth reviewer. i am doing this for fun, and to share my opinion with others. i am not trying to criticize the band twenty øne piløts nor am i trying to dismiss anyone else’s opinion.

track 1- good day

one of my favorites from this album, it sounds like the beginning of a musical? kind of. it sounds really happy, but some of the lyrics are kind of dark- and i live for that verbal irony shit in music. my favorite verse is “lost my job my wife and child, homie just sued me.” as far as this song goes it’s a lot more ‘pop’ than what i am used to with the regular tøp music style, but in my humble opinion it sounds awesome and i like that tøp is experimenting with different styles of music.

track 2- choker

good beat at the beginning, i really like the music video. i don’t have as much to say about this one because i’ve already listened to it a lot. i like the rap for this one- “like a little splinter buried in your skin, someone else can carve it out but when you’ve got the pin, it hurts a little less and you can even push it further in, when you body’s screaming out trust you mind’s listening.”

track 3- shy away

this one i also listened to a lot. it’s got really good vocals music wise, and it’s got cool guitar!! i don’t have a favorite lyric for this.

track 4- the outside

funky beat, i like the chorus because the guitar sounds cool in it. my favorite lyric is “kids will try to take my vibes” the rap is also a bop about sharks, summer, and vibing.

track 5- Saturday

unfortunately this is my least favorite track because it sounds like it will be very over played. i still like it though. i like the lyric “catch me floating circles in my fish bowl”. i also think “might get loud on friday” is a nod to the livestream on 5-21-21. i also like that it is a little ocean themed, or like a reoccurring motif. the phone call with tyler and jenna as a bridge (i think) is a nice touch.

track 6- never take it

i like this one because it tells a clearer story that i don’t have to dig deep and analyze to understand. this song also reminds me a lot of the song “here comes the end” by gerard way. my favorite lyric is “why cure disease of confusion when your the treatment facility?” and “the summer i watched the tube i saw enough, taught myself to play guitar tearing it up and my advice on those too things that i picked up you better educate yourself but never too much.” all in all this song has good vibes. and an epic guitar solo!

track 7- Mulberry street

one of my favorites. i like the piano tune at the beginning. it just makes me happy and has a nice sound. the bridge sounds sadder than the rest of it but i think it links the song to other tøp songs that sound sad aswell. my favorite lyric is “i might be cynical towards you, i’m just worried that my loyalty will bore you.”

track 8- formidable

this song is about josh? i think i don’t know all the details of the lore. it’s a nice song and i think it links josh to how he acted in the choker music video.

track 9- bounce man

this has such a fun tune!!! i think it’s about josh running away. my favorite lyric is “i don’t know if you’ve got your phone, cause this went straight to voicemail.” people are seeing josh on the news and it might have some correlation to the choker music video. it has lyrics about playing one last song, and josh is in the band with tyler. this song is really good but very sad. it sounds a little nostalgic.

track 10- no chances

awesome bass. awesome rap. awesome synth. i saw someone comment on the video that it sounds like a translation between the album trench and scaled and icy. i like the metaphors and it just sounds great. it could be about the banditos trying to rescue someone? i like that is another song that tells a somewhat clear story. i don’t have a favorite lyric for this one but i like their rap songs because it’s like poetry but also sounds good and has meaning behind it. i think the chanting “we come for you no chances” might be the bishops.

track 11- redecorate

the final track, it sounds similar to neon gravestones at the beginning. the first lyric is “taking inventory of my his life” i saw a theory that this points to tyler being controlled. i like the chorus, it sounds nice. my favorite verse is “blankets over mirrors she tends to like it. she’s not afraid of her reflection but of what she might see behind it. she had plans to change her name, yeah. just not the traditional way, yeah. haunted by a couple big mistakes, she covers all the dents with the way she decorates then one night she got cold with no blankets on her bed, so she ripped them off the mirror .. etc” there’s a ton of crossed out words in the lyric video which could hint to more things.

overall this album is great. there is a lot of lore and stuff that i don’t know to much about so take my theory’s and opinions with a grain of salt. this was for fun and i had a good time doing this. idk if you can comment in tumblr but if you have any more theory’s feel free to share them with me.

if you do not accept my opinion on things please do not interact with this post :-)

feel free to clarify things or make a post about your thoughts of the songs.

have a wonderful day everyone and if you read this all the way through ily💕

#twenty øne piløts #twenty one pilots #tyler joseph #josh dun #scaled and icy #trench #tøp lyrics #tøp song

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neonthema · 6 years ago

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we pray for you to come back

the wayward souls cast aside

not in fear scattered and hidden

repeating what is forbidden

"is up, is up, is up!"

blood dried on lips cut

we pray for you to die in life

we pray

so you don't have to.

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stay alive

#↑ living #vialism #dema #demaverse #bandito #banditosona #poetry

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vialism · 6 years ago

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Hi I’ve got a question I need a level head to help me out with and you’re always good with that so: why does tøp who have a large teen/young adult female fan base get so much flak for it? It’s not like tøp is making music that specifically caters to young adult women alone so why do people hate on them for having so many older teen/young adult female fans? Even tyler made fun of it in an interview where he said no one would be interested in them unless they were a 17 year old girl like ? Help

The tea is that the architecture of the patriarchy and especially the media patriarchy disadvantages and trivializes the voices and preferences of teen girls in literally every possible way. The bottom line is that people in any other demographic other than young women (and young gnc and/or queer people who make communities with those young women) don’t understand why teen girls create fan communities, how those communities work, or why those communities are important spaces for the girls in question.

So like the answer is, as it often is in questions like this, misogyny. From which Tyler and Josh are not exempt. From which we are not exempt, tbh. I’ve talked about this in regard to a lot of aspects of the fandom before but like yeah, the answer is that while some parts of online female-dominant fan culture can be toxic and unpleasant, the reason it’s stigmatized is because people choose to latch onto that particular narrow aspect of the culture instead of everything that’s actually beautiful, productive, creative, supportive, healthy, and enriching about it.

As far as Tyler himself making fun about it, for one thing, that was awhile ago, and I don’t know Tyler personally, but from old videos and from what I do know about his upbringing I have a lot of thoughts about how he had to wrestle through his Man Ego a little bit at the beginning of the project in order to accept that he was doing something that girls were latching onto in broader numbers than guys, which, like, i’m not tryna call him out for that at all, we were all raised with misogyny running through our blood whether internalized or not. Them’s just the facts. I also think it’s worth noting that at least in the early days, one of the reasons Tyler seemed so validated and proud when he saw/interacted with hardcore male fans might not be straight up eyeroll bias but at least in part because he, as a guy, knew and understood that he was creating something vulnerable and soft that threatened/undermined the narrative of rigid and unmovable masculine strength that he had been raised (in sports, in church) to understand as law. So when he saw that his project and his poetry was helping other young men to open themselves up to the world and relinquish that harmful persona a little, it might have meant (might still mean) something specific to him that even WE can’t understand.

I mean, that’s verging a little too much on “crediting the white man for the simple act of not being a dickwad” thing, but like, that’s the topic at hand. Like I won’t deny that even in the last couple years Tyler has done and said things that make my feminist eyeballs roll back into my skull, but that’s just him being a lil dumbass who still has some stuff to learn. Which describes literally every single person in my life including myself.

Like the rest of us, Tyler has grown up and learned things (let’s not pretend that Jenna and Debby and even folks like Ashley and Jesse haven’t made both the boys significantly more open minded since the era of that 17 year old girl comment). He really is a man now (30 in two days what the fuck) and I think he’s finally graduated from seeing his fans as peers to seeing us more as little siblings if that makes sense. And while that might cause other artists to infantilize us, I think it’s honestly prompted Tyler to become both more protective, and more reflective and cautious about how he views and treats us. I think we can thank that kind of reflection and responsibility for the pride flag, for the diversity in the music videos, for the tour photos of same sex couples, etc. Even his demeanor with is has changed. A big part of the Trench era and the Bandito motif has been the process of Tyler getting to know us better, understand us better, humanize his fanbase more as a whole. And, like, that means a lot.

Final note uh;; I know I kind of Went Into This but I think it’s important to demonstrate that you can be thoughtful and think critically about the people you idolize without feeling the impulse to unstan them? Like I think as young women and gender minorities it is rlly important that we maintain responsibility for our own behavior and opinions within fan spaces but that at the same time we don’t take call-out culture and internet platforms as an opportunity to try to tear someone down based on a few missteps. And uh, in light of like, a few blogs over the summer who went out with a bang on the claim that tøp are nazis, I just want to open the door for us to actually consider things like this without ringing a fucking five alarm bell and then self destructing in tears and flames.

#this wen't So Far away from your original question.#i apOLOgize #i'm gonna answer your other ask separately bc it's kinda a different question #anywhomstve imma tag this discourse just in case evnen though that word used unironically makes me want to gouge out my eyeballs #discourse #*gouges eyeballs*#Anonymous

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claflinsmile · 6 years ago

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//Not TØP related// This is the first time that I read poetry and I've never believed it would be so magical and helpful. Lately I kinda hate how the things are going in my house and I'm glad I bought this book. Now I'm feeling understood and less alone as I usually felt. I wish I had this book when I was in Ireland, it would've been perfect. I remember the Irish landscape and I miss it so much, this book reminds me that month I've spent there. Thanks to my bunny Donnie for staying quiet in the pic for 0.02 seconds . . . {Random tags} . . . #alenstoseebehindthesky #ashleydun #poetry #poet #secretmidnightpress #jessecale #books #nature #life #love #joshuadun #joshdun #tylerjoseph #twentyonepilots #tøp #skeletonclique #clique #cliqueart #trench #topclique #banditotour #bandito #joshler #tylerandjosh #italianclique #twentyonepilotsart #ireland #likeforlikes #followforfollow #firstpost https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvWU4LIw1-/?igshid=10cvw87k1zmlk

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topweeklyupdate · 6 years ago

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TØP Weekly Update #69: Proud of Our Boys (11/2/18)

Technically, not a lot happened this week. Also, everything happened. Does that make any sense? I don’t know, everything’s been a blur since Tyler Joseph wore a pride flag on a Halloween show in the capital of the United States. Let’s cover that and more in this week’s Update!

This Week’s TØPics:

The Bandito Tour Continues

Tyler Visits the Live Lounge- Or, Rather, It Visits Him

The Best Interview of the Trench Era, Conducted by Fans

“My Blood” Moving Slowly but Steady Up the Charts

Major News and Announcements:

No new music, no new tour announcements, but plenty of other things going on this week.

Mark is helping to keep our lanes nicely watered, as he returned to giving us weekly doses of video content for the tour starting almost immediately after the release of last week’s Update. The first episode covers the planning for the tour, Tyler and Josh receiving the first physical copies of Trench, Josh’s unique method of opening CD cases, and Josh getting a nice head injury after falling off his riser during a rehearsal. Plus, there’s a pretty nice piano interpolation of “Morph” to kick the whole thing off. The second goes more into the depths of planning and staging the show, giving a glimpse of just how much of a diva Tyler Joseph is when it comes to getting every aspect of the tour right. It doesn’t exactly put him in the nicest light- he calls the prototype clip that drops his “Stressed Out” beanie “garbage”, clearly expects the crew to be as intimately familiar with his music as he is, and pushes pretty hard to get the transitions faster and faster. But hey, that approach worked to produce a great show, and Tyler makes sure to thank the crew in every Trees Speech.

I was wavering between whether to include the content from the BBC Live Lounge sessions here or in the Shenanigans section, but considering that we got three HD video performances and a high quality recording of a new cover, I’m gonna tie it in here. In-between the stops in Washington and Atlanta, Tyler flew back to Columbus solo to record a session for the world-famous Live Lounge from Newport Music Hall (because of course Tyler was that extra). Sitting at a gorgeous shiny piano and wearing an outfit that looks like a flannel traffic cone (in a good way, honest), Tyler played some stripped-down covers of “My Blood” and “Ride”, using brand-new vocal interpolations for both of those songs that are just incredible. Live Lounge is most renowned for its covers, and Tyler delivered there as well with his version of Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan’s classic “9 Crimes”. It’s an incredible rendition of a gorgeous song, and the fact that Tyler mentioned the track way back on “Drown” when “9 Crimes” was a brand-new song makes it land as even more heavy. The real kicker came just this morning, when Live Lounge revealed that they recorded one more song: we have our first high quality performance of “Neon Gravestones”. I still haven’t fully recovered, mate.

Performances, Interviews, and Other Shenanigans:

Touring continues to keep us well fed. As I mentioned in the opening, Tyler grabbed an offered pride flag during “Holding On To You”, which deeply affected the entire Clique, especially our LGBTQ+ family. So many kids in that community struggle with depression and lean hard on this band’s music to get through; this clear and pure gesture of support, while small, simply means the world.

Outside of that show, there were plenty of other great moments from the tour this week. You can tell Tyler’s been tinkering with the format as he’s been getting feedback from the audience response. Despite how dedicated Tyler was to getting back to the stage for the end of “Pet Cheetah”, the big drop now starts while Tyler is still on the skybridge above the pit’s head, which makes way more sense. The ending of “My Blood” seems to be reduced to just getting the audience to fight to be louder than the other side rather than try to harmonize different bits. And Josh keeps writing city-personalized messages on his chest that he shows off to the crowd as he walks across the bridge, dramatically removing his jacket like something out of Magic Mike.

Also, Tyler tossed a frisbee in Boston and the boys discovered finger guns in Philly. Those were pretty cute moments, gotta share ‘em if you missed ‘em.

Interviews continue as the tour travels the nation. KISS FM Cleveland kept the tradition of B.S. first meeting stories alive with a deep dive into Josh’s talent as a painter, though that’s really the only thing you need to watch that interview for. Boston station ALT 92.9 does a little better, though he mistakenly attributes the backflip to Tyler and asks when Josh will get out from behind those drums... To his credit, the interviewer asks about how Jim is accommodated on the tour (unsurprisingly, the crew fights over who gets to look after him) and what Tyler learned from co-producing Trench with Paul.

The best interviews, however, have all been in the form of fan meet-and-greet conferences that have been finding their way online. There’s just something to the energy of these interviews that is so much better than the awkward and rushed ones in cramped green rooms hosted by radio station interns who obviously just Googled a few facts before they’re rushed in. These fans truly care about their band, and their questions were thoughtful and about so much more than just trivia.

The best of these, I think, is from St. Louis’s 105.7, a station that’s always had pretty good relations with the band.

Tyler has tried to be more intentional about seeing the places they go on tour outside of the venues, with the mindset that he wants to have better stories to tell his kids (oh my God, please help me...). His favorite place that he’s visited? Hobbiton in New Zealand. I love these nerds.

Tyler and Josh talk about the origins of that gorilla suit that shows up in the “Ode to Sleep” video.

They talk about how one of the more difficult aspects of touring early on before “making it” was eating healthily enough to sustain regular shows when they were broke and the only places that were open to eat late at night after shows were Taco Bells.

Tyler tells a truly heart-wrenching story of being at his parents’ house and seeing his two baby nieces playing with (and vomiting on) the keyboard that taught him to play music and opened up the world for him. The obvious emotion in his voice as he talks about learning the “Pachelbel Canon” from staring at the keys for hours and the clear joy he felt at getting to share this private moment with Jenna... I still haven’t recovered.

When one fan asks how she might learn to overcome creative blocks in her career of graphic design, Tyler gives a really technical explanation of how he got past blocks when writing “Neon Gravestones” and “Pet Cheetah” before taking those lessons and extracting how they might broadly be used to help any artist “shock the system” by breaking habits.

Tyler says that he anticipates that “Legend” will be pretty tough to perform live. He further states that a lot of songs don’t emotionally affect him much because he has to worry about achieving the technical aspects of his performance. That said, “Neon Gravestones” has been really emotional for him, and “Holding On To You” is so driven into him now that he actually can think about what he’s saying.

Tyler views the two-man nature of the band as a challenge rather than a crutch to excuse the use of backing tracks due to how hard they have to work to keep audience attention. Tyler does appreciate the dynamic of having a bunch of people collaborate for music (as shown by the cover medleys), and he is not vehemently against the idea of adding members in the future. He’s just very happy about the way things are with just him and Josh.

Josh once again gets very open about his struggles with anxiety, particularly speaking in front of people, tracing it back to how he would even ask teachers to give him alternatives to giving presentations because it scared him so much. He’s come so far since the Vessel days where he just wouldn’t talk in most interviews at all, and I’m so proud of him.

Tyler is against the “Magellan” method of trying any and all new foods, preferring stuff he knows will satisfy his hunger (he mentions that’s been difficult to stick with now that he’s married to Jenna).

Tyler says that you can tell which of his songs started with lyrics before composing the music based on which have rapped lyrics. The raps are almost always poetry that he’s tried to incorporate into a song- otherwise, he almost always starts with the melody.

Another great conference-style interview comes on behalf of Philly radio station 104.5, whose fans also gave some great questions:

As tactfully as possible, Tyler passes on a question about what event specifically motivated him to write about “Neon Gravestones”, saying that he could not do so without violating the respect that he hopes underlines the message of that song.

Tyler tells a pretty rough story about a time when he was working at a restaurant to support the band and school, only to lose weeks of wages to a traffic ticket. It’s a scene that will definitely be in the band biopic in thirty years, but it’s also just a very thoughtful reflection on Tyler’s part about how unfair a feeling it can be to realize that our labor and time are so commodified.

Tyler used to be real annoyed that Josh didn’t like Russel Crowe as an actor, mainly because he admitted that he didn’t have a good reason for it (Tyler Robert Joseph always has a reason). Josh deciding one day that he’d like Russel Crowe because not doing so aggravated Tyler seems like a pretty neat microcosm of their entire personal and professional relationship.

Tyler and Josh haven’t noticed any bands “copying” them, no matter what music press looking for an easy descriptor might say because all they have to copy is “freedom to write whatever kind of song they want”.

Josh keeps himself grounded by searching “21 pilots” on Twitter. Tyler agrees, but also points out that their relationships to their families also play a big role (“our respective families, to clarify”).

Finally, on social media, Tyler keeps hopping on social media to troll fans and his own band account. I hate him so much.

Chart Performance:

Things continue to be a little quiet for Twenty One Pilots on the US charts. The tracks from Trench are slowly sliding off the Hot Rock Chart, with “My Blood” being the only track to gain traction in any region- radio. With that said, however, “My Blood” also managed to sneak onto the very bottom spot of the Hot Pop chart, suggesting that we are approaching a potential crossover moment. We’ll have to wait and see if that happens. (I can only assume until then that Tyler’s having to ignore a lot of phone calls about a radio edit that cuts that slow first verse to keep the general listener’s attention; watch for that.)

Upcoming Shows:

(Can you believe that all of Tyler’s meticulous planning for the marketing and promotion of this album cycle has been totally supplanted by Josh’s cute dog?)

On topic, there’s another host of important shows this week, so let’s get into it!

Show 13: State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA (11/2)

Capacity: 21,000

After visiting his hometown with Josh yesterday, Tyler rejoins the touring crew today to play a show for the folks in Atlanta at the newly-renamed State Farm Arena. This is bound to be a special one: though the band has headlined the huge Music Midtown festival in the city, this is their first ever arena show in this major metropolitan market. It’s sure to be a real special show.

Show 14: Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL (11/3)

Capacity: 21,500

The band’s next stop is at a more familiar ground. The band played Amalie during the last arena leg. Twenty One Pilots actually has a pretty extensive history of playing shows in Tampa stretching all the way back to college shows from before they were signed. Tyler has some relatives in the Florida area, so expect some more cute moments from this show.

Show 15: BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL (11/4)

Capacity: 22,300

The touring crew continues their journey south to the outskirts of Miami. Again, they’ve played BB&T before, but if there’s one thing this band has proven time and time again, it’s that they’re not ones to ever get complacent.

Show 16: Toyota Center, Houston, TX (11/6)

Capacity: 19,3000

It might surprise you to learn that the band has never played an arena show in Houston, despite the city being one of the biggest metropolitan centers in the United States. That oversight will be corrected on Tuesday with a show at the NBA Rockets’ home venue.

Show 17: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX (11/7)

Capacity: 21,000

The last show before our next Update will be held in Dallas. Once again, this marks the second show Twenty One Pilots will have played in the space. Texas will continue to get plenty of love after this show, but we’ll get into that more next week!

Power to the local dreamer!

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