"Stressed Out" - Twenty One Pilots
by Emma Demski
1. "Blurryface" the character
2. Tyler Joseph is the protagonist of this song as well as the only writer on the album "Blurryface"
2.1. Speaks to earlier idea of "authenticity". What is more authentic than writing an entire album to which only you have written the lyrics?
3. Mental Health
4. Societal Stress
5. Represents Tyler Joseph's insecurities/demons
6. The need to find a job and have a career that will ensure you make enough money
7. He talks about the similarities between his brother and himself specifically
8. Tyler's anxiety told through the character "Blurryface"
9. Music Video
10. No actors used. Real family members. Authentic?
11. Seems to represent the joy of childhood. They are shown visiting eachothers homes on Big Wheel bikes and drinking caprisuns.
12. "I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink But now I'm insecure and I care what people think."
13. Speaks a lot of self-perception. A larger theme expressed throughout the album but can be seen here often.
14. Refers to "they" in reference to people putting pressure on him to make money, not a defined "they"
15. Insecurity with one's self and their place within their own perception and the world at large.
16. Top 40 song = not authentic. Tyler Joseph writing all the lyrics to every song= authenic. Which one triumphs?
17. Childhood Nostalgia/False perspective of the world
18. "Millennial Issues"
19. Poetic Lyrics
20. Has a wider message but because it was a top 40 song, it was overlooked
21. Mentions student loans
22. Settling for a less than ideal job
23. Waking up from childhood dreaming
24. Upbeat music, detached from lyrical content
25. Better understood in the context of the entire album, releasing singles is not something the band focuses heavily on
26. "We" - conveys issues that are not personal but societal
27. "Wake up you need to make money"
28. Yearns for the past
29. Society as a whole
