#scaled and icy

[n3on-graveston3s-calling]

You are 100% correct in this but also bc I think at first, the concept of the album went over a lot of people's heads. The whole concept was essentially how high functioning depression can look to someone on the outside-

The first song is literally Tyler reacting to "What if I lost everything I loved in my life?" and it's about that weird period of grief where you sit in denial and try to pretend that everything is fine, everything is okay- when it ISN'T.

Unlike previous albums where the music would fit the tone of the lyrics, SAI was about the "mask". Fake happiness. [ Also Propoganda from Dema but that's the lore side of things ]. Choker comes from the term "choking" in basketball. You have to make a decision, you have to do something, and if you mess up- you choked. That is what Choker is about- those times in life where you know that you could have stepped up, you could have done something more, but you didn't, and how that experience can haunt you.

The lyrics and music is fun and bubbly ( aside from No Chances, lmao ), until we hit Redecorate, which is the final song on the album and Tyler explains during an interview with Apple Music:

"I had a friend of mine whose son passed away and they would keep his room the same way that he had left it. I remember thinking how crazy powerful a story that is, and how it makes me wonder, like, ‘What will people do with my stuff?’ It can actually bring you back down to earth, make sure that you don't make any horrible decisions. I'm realizing now how difficult it is to talk about, but this song is really important to me. I love the messaging of it, and I hope that our fans hear what it is I'm trying to say in it. Because it is a bit delicate, but it's one of my favorite tracks and it's pretty powerful if you let it."

Twenty One Pilots' songs are geared to make you THINK. They've said this time and time again- their music is meant to make you think about different subjects and to hit deeper. And that's the beauty of it.

ill say it.

scaled and icy was good.

the haters are just wrong.

[babyblurryface]

blonde tyler.

[pantaloonwarrior]

[midweststorm]

i don’t bother anyone,

nervous when i stand.

[midweastindigo]

first and last lyrics of each twenty one pilots' albums self-titled, regional at best, vessel, blurryface, trench, scaled and icy, clancy

[hexavex788]

guh

[firstprnnce]

• DEAR CLANCY •

[my-chemical-mermaid]

Genres of Twenty One Pilots songs:

Depression and anxiety suck

Suicidal thoughts/ideation suck

Have I mentioned lately how much I love my wife?

Josh Dun exists and that's awesome

L O R E™️

I cope by externalizing my mental illness and personifying it

This one's just a meme

My family is important to me

The music industry and being famous are weird

My fans and the community I've built mean so much to me

Many people relate to my experiences with mental illness and I feel the weight and responsibility of that acutely

I have a complicated relationship with my religious upbringing

Yes it's the car motif again

[f0linasahl0]

it's me. im girls

[asyabluz]

[tylers-boutique]

Tyler Joseph in the Shy Away livestream video

[pantaloonwarrior]

[shirou-chan12]

Our little sunshine😄☀️

[yelyahgus]

Their most underrated era, i love you scaled and icy

[rainbowhoodlumart]

We know the music video was about the SAI era and it breaks my heart that they think it was a total miss, or that the industry did. Sai was one of my favorite albums and it deserves so much love.