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Analysis Of The Song 'Stressed Out'

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Young children scamper around a pond skipping rocks while Wall Street businessmen stress over work. An extravagant tree house lofts high above the ground as a stack of paperwork accumulates on a stiff, cluttered desk. A mother serenades her child to rest while an entrepreneur neglects to make it home at night to put his child to bed. The progression of a carefree child into an anxiety filled adult now exists as a norm in our society. A song simply titled “Stressed Out,” by the duo of two twenty-seven-year-olds Tyler Joseph and Josh Dunn, Twenty-One Pilots, seamlessly depicts the reality of evolution from childhood to adulthood. Sometimes a song represents an emotion we all feel, yet due to other circumstances, we disregard the feelings.

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