Twenty One Pilots

Number Four: He Was Inspired by the Greats. Nas, Tupac and Eminem are influences. He even wrote a song called "Let Nas Down," and Nas was featured on a remix.

All across the United States, people go through a time of struggle. Sometimes, the specific type of struggle is minor, and could be easily fixed, while on the contrary, some types of struggle is severe, and could cause life-threatening issues. Either way, these times of struggle affects a person or people emotionally, mentally, physically, and socially. However, even though these dark and depressing times are obviously not a good part of life, it inspires musical artists to write a song or multiple songs about their struggling times. Musical artists like Drake, XXXtentacion, Kendrick Lamar, Youngboy Never Broke Again, and Joyner Lucas tell about how they struggled through environments of hate, and poverty.

A popular music website says, "Heavydirtysoul": Like most songs on their newest album, Blurryface, it delves deep into Joseph's insecurities.”(Greene). Tyler Joseph sings not like most artists sing. A lot of music artists sing about whatever they can think about, but Tyler sings about the problems he has or what he is trying to face in this world. “When the song ­­a moody, downtempo banger that could almost be a Rihanna track ­­explodes from the PA at full concert volume, it's like a switch is flipped in some deep, primitive part of the singer's brain. Mouthing along to his sung-­rapped lyrics”(Greene). This is an explanation of how everybody feels like when listening to Twenty-one pilots. A lot or even most of the songs sung by Tyler talks about some of his life struggles. Another popular music website says,“The band’s genre is difficult to define, but best described as indie pop with a mix of rap and rock. Their style has been dubbed as “ukulele screamo” by the their fanbase, known as the Clique”(Genuis). A lot of twenty one pilot fans listen to Tyler and Josh because they want something different. Many teens and even adults want to be able to listen to new music. People don’t like just listen to one genre there entire life, or at least I know I don’t.

“While you’re doing fine, there’s some people and I who have a really rough time getting through this life, so excuse us while we sing to the sky.” The artist writes this in his third album Vessel. In this song called, “Screen,” he explains what is going on in his mind, in a way that only he can understand. Tyler Joseph acts as an artist/songwriter in the band Twenty One Pilots, with his best friend Josh Dun. With both members in the group being christian, many of his songs reference and contain messages about God. However, both Joseph and Dun explain that their reasoning for making music is “to make people think”, and also find joy in what they come to believe Tyler Joseph gives an individual the opportunity to question their emotions and

In this paper I will evaluate two songs that deal with depression and discuss their similarities and differences. The songs under evaluation are the early nineties hit Jeremy by Pearl Jam and the recent hit Adams Song by Blink 182.

poems, ballads, monologues, etc. They may take the form of actual spoken or sung sounds or of

The narrator explains that her family doesn’t think she is sharing her true emotions and they are really worried about her. She says, “Eight, they think I’m not addressing my emotional side, that I’m bottling up my emotions”(Jac 11.) This quote shows that Jac is choosing to hide her emotions instead of letting them out. Consequently, she is learning a lot about herself because in hard situations she chooses to be in denial. The narrator takes her emotions and places them deep in her heart, because that’s the way she chooses to cope in hard times. As a result of being in so much pain, she finds a paradise in music. Jac says “Music has swallowed me whole and everything is okay now”(18.) In this metaphor she suggests that in tough situations she turns to music because it acts as a safe haven for her. There is no screaming or fighting in the lyrics, it’s a safe place for her to go when she presses play. Jac is gradually understanding the rough patch she is going through, and it’s changing

Whenever a person turns on the news, they can always find out that something bad has happened or is happening in the world. Issues such as racism, sexism, and police brutality are problems that has happened in the past and are still a big issue in today’s society. Imagine if a random person is getting attacked on the street but they are unable to scream for help because they have no voice. Most people in today’s society, feel that when they are getting attacked by somebody being racist, sexist, getting attacked by the police, etc. that they have no “voice” to speak up and make a change on a situation. Songwriters uses their songs to voice their opinions on issues that effects their lives or the people around them.

Music and literature have the ability to draw you in and take you to a place that only the author knows. An example of this in music is when the artist sings about their life experiences in a way that only they understand. Poets do the same thing in their poems because they can show you how they see the world. Poets and songwriters are not much different, they write from their own perspectives. The song “Live Your Life” by T.I. and the poem “A Psalm Of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, they show the similarities and differences between each other, through their work.

What makes a great song? Is it the words or the verses? Is it how every line is beautifully rhymed? Is it how a song is wonderfully metaphorical? Is it the singer itself? It could be all that was mentioned, honestly. But not all songs have words and verses. Think about the classical songs we have - Bach, Mozart, Beethoven; not a single word can be heard from their composition but they're great. Think about the songs that are not rhymed at each line or not rhymed at all; but each word is perfectly laid in breathtaking musical pieces - and they're great. Not all songs are metaphorical. Some lyricists prefer being literal than figurative - which results to a song easier to comprehend for those who aren't familiar with deeper meanings behind

Murder: an unlawful taboo in nearly every society known to man. The first written book, the Bible, forbids such an act. “Thou shalt not murder” is the sixth of the ten commandments. Clearly murder is one of the most horrendous acts a person can commit. One life can affect hundreds, even millions. Twenty-one lives is unthinkable. However, one man knowingly took the lives of many men. In Arthur Miller’s All My Sons the reader gets a view of a not-so-average family in August of the year 1944; in the dramatic play the reader discovers the falling of a beloved son.

One could argue that the poem uses couples of words in each line as a way to express how nice it can be when two simple things are together. Since the poem shows how two simple words can be nice and uplifting when placed together, wouldn’t the same be true on a much greater scale for humans? Along with this, “Song” also has a pleasant flow throughout parts of it only to be broken a dark element suddenly. This is an exemplification of how love works in real life and how we have a desire for the pleasant flowing

Tyler experiments with parallelism in his lyrics to create rhythm and flow between verses and phrases. A melodic pattern resonates through Tyler’s manipulation of comparing and contrasting

“There's a certain mystique when I speak that you notice, cause it's sort of unique, cause you know it's me, my poetry is deep and I'm still mad at the way I flow to this beat!”-Eminem, Rap Poets. Eminem claims his rap lyrics are his poetry. This reveals the big question here; is rap poetry? Only you can answer that.

The songwriter (who goes by Hozier) supplements a blunt statement with a clear metaphor in his lyrics and an earthy, blues, and gospel sound in his music, which increases the intensity of his message. Hozier is certainly unique, and so is his message among the myriads of thematically shallow pop songs.