Girls don’t want flowers- what they really want is someone to pull an all nighter with; watching TØP music videos from start to finish, and then discussing the lore and theories behind them. Is that too much to ask for?
Regional at Best is so special because it feels so exactly like what it is, which is an album made by a young person, younger than I am now, who'd given up everything else to make this dream work and probably had no idea what the hell he was going to do if it didn't. Keep working a normal job? Go back to college? What do you do if the dream doesn't work, when you're an early-20-something who (like all early-20-somethings) has precisely nothing else figured out? What do you do if everyone's right and the art isn't worth it?
Then your bandmates leave. But actually, it turns out perfect anyway, because you end up with this other guy who also has precisely nothing else figured out and no plan B except to be in this very band with you. How rare and precious of a thing that is, to meet someone who believes in your art just as much as you do. At least if you fail you fail together, right?
I think RAB feels like the end of summer and growing pains because it exists in that same itchy, anxious space as your last summer before you graduate high school/college, when it begins hitting you that there will never be a summer like this again because next year you're supposed to be grown up. But the truth is you never figured out how to grow up and you never figured out how to stop dreaming. So many people have to learn that lesson for various reasons, but Tyler and Josh never did because they believed in it so much that I think it truly never could've failed. Even if they never got as big as they did w/ Blurryface, I think they never could've failed because they are for the dreamers.
Self-titled is complicated and beautiful and core to everything else they would do after, but RAB is the beating heart of what tøp was always meant to be imo. It's embracing the fear of getting older because you have no other choice, while acknowledging you're still a little afraid of the dark. It's a night light for the grown-ups who are still scared of long dark hallways they can't see the end of (and work email chains). You turn 23 and discover you probably don't actually want to die as much as you used to, and also that you still think pokémon cards are fucking rad, and both of those things are okay. And maybe you'll never get out of this goddamn town but it never hurts to dream
i would kill to hear all the alternate lyrics and music for every single album. i would kill to hear the scrapped music that tyler couldnt quite figure out to his liking. i NEED to hear some of the newer demos that didnt get used
[Video ID: Animated video of a drawing of the character Clancy from the fictional universe created by the band Twenty One Pilots, the video has a distorted version of the song “Vignette” as background music and an effect on top that makes it look like a shaky recording of a footage from an old CRT monitor; the lyrics for Vignette are synced to the song and can be read bellow in yellow text. The video starts with an unfocused shaky camera which then focuses on a bust shot of Clancy, who can be seen wearing the mask and outfit from the music video for the song “Overcompensate”, these being a gray balaclava mask with a burgundy stripe around the middle and a black jacket with red duck tape in each shoulder. His black stained hands are covering his face while leaving room between the fingers to see the eyes, which are looking directly at the viewer and glowing an unnatural and bright yellow hue; this glow becomes brighter and dimmer during different times of the video. Around his left eye, circles a yellow halo of straight lines becoming ever so slightly bigger and smaller throughout the video. The video ends with the camera unfocusing and the whole scene becoming blurry once again. End of ID]
This is my attempt at reaching the right audience and gaining more tøp moots. I need more clique friends. I wanna see all your goofy art, and tour content. I wanna discuss theories and just connect in this fandom!
Following everyone who likes/reposts this in hopes they’ll continue doing the same! <3
i had the longest art block so i asked for prompts on twitter. the first one i got was rab!joshler holding hands. aaand this is actually my first clique art (and i hope it's not the last)