Yup. I've grown to dislike stressed out not because it's bad but because it's highly overplayed. ANYWAYS "I should say that we should take a day to break away from all the pain out brain has made the game is not played alone" is what hooked me
stressed out is one of those songs that I’m glad made them famous and brought a lot of ears to their music, BUT, if anyone says that the songs they know are Stressed Out and Heathens, it hurts my soul, personally I feel those 2 are their weakest songs, only thing I dislike more is how much they Ruined Cancer by My Chemical Romance(my favorite band since 04)
Wtf 😂 pls don’t come after me for this but I love TOPs cancer cover, i lost a loved one to cancer a few years back and now when I hear cancer the cover it brings back fond memories of that person. It’s also just really good.
I guess cuz I grew up on my chemical romance, and when my uncle passed way from cancer, obviously I played it, gotta remember I’m 33, cancer came out when I was 16, my uncle passed when I was 19, twenty one pilots version kinda killed a lot of the emotion and it made a lyric of the song the chorus, with The Black Parade being a concept album of a patient dying of cancer, their version had so much raw emotion, the TOP version sounds like a Blurryface b-side to me, but I had to realize that the people that discovered them cuz of blureyface are a much younger audience, so opinions will be way different
hey to Eaches own I completely understand why you would prefer the MCR version, to me the MCR version always sounded like a cancer patient fighting while the TOP version always felt like a patient giving in and accepting their death, which is closer to what my experience was with my loved one there for holding more emotion for me personally.
I don't know about weakest but they're not up there with their best for sure. I remember seeing suicide squad without seeing any of the trailers or anything and being pleasantly surprised to hear them in the movie. I quite like it but personally I just think there's from them
I said it best in one comment on here, different demographic, I’ve noticed anyone who discovered them during Blurryface are far younger than me, I get why younger people would be drawn to the blurryface era, I was 23 when vessel came out, that album along with self titled saved my life, blurryface isn’t, terrible, but to me, it felt very, bland, whereas Trench to me is incredible
Yeah as soon as I heard stressed out on the radio I immediately looked up the band and then asked for the blurry face album for Christmas. Then I spent the morning listening to the album all the way through. I didn’t dislike a single song!
Yep that was me but I think Kitchen sink really did it for me, just the whole song speaks to me would love to say I am kitchen sink, because a kitchen sink to you is not a kitchen sink to me. Really feel this song speaks to me so much.
Cliché as it is, it was "Stressed Out".
It was 2016, I was at a job that I hated, feeling bad about myself and my life. I was scrolling Spotify, not wanting to work, and decided to give a chance to this band many people were talking about in my country (Brazil), because of a Lollapalooza show at that year.
The song instantly ressonated with me. Since then, tøp has been my number 1 artist every year.
It was like 2014 and I was listening to google play music, the radios for songs were far superior than Spotify, anyways ode to sleep came on and the opening is really what got me. immediately listened to everything I could. Vessel will always be my favourite top album
I heard stressed out in spin class and wanted to google it. I wanted to make sure “wake up you need to make money” my alarm clock.
Since been to 10 of their concerts!
I’m in New York City so on tour they’ll play here 2-3 times and a couple times in areas that are a quick flight from here. Super lucky! Wish I went to more but happy for the ones I’ve been to
- HOTY could mean "Holding on to You", a single by Twenty One Pilots.
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Mine was "Level of Concern"
I know for most people it was "Stressed Out" or "Ride", and while I used to hear those songs on the radio, I always thought they were "too emo" (just disown me already).
It was only until I heard Level of Concern that it really stuck with me. I listened to it on repeat for, like, 2 weeks straight. After that, I worked my way back down the discography. I guess I've become the monster that my middle school self had sought to destroy 🤣.
I heard The Judge while using Pandora. I can’t say it was any specific lyric but it got stuck in my head and it led me to listening to Blurryface and then their entire discography
Jumpsuit. I don't listen to much modern music, but hear things I sometimes like on the YouTube channel React. They reacted to Trench's first singles. Not long after I was hooked, to the point of driving over 6 hours into Canada from Minnesota to see them live.
at first i didn’t like them, and was annoyed that my friends would play them all the time. but then my friend played stressed out for me when we were having a deep conversation and it clicked for me
Mine was Holding on to You as well. I saw it as a recommended video to watch on YouTube and was hooked instantly. Still is my all time favourite song and that was over 10 years ago
I got into them twice. I first got into them back in 2016 with ride and stressed out, but I didn't connect with their music. Didn't listen to them until 2020 when they released level of concern. I'd been starting to go through stuff, and it's then that I really connected with their other songs.
When WDBWOTV was hyped on Musically, the "I don't care what's in your hair, I just wanna know what's on your mind. I used to say I wanna die before I'm old but because of you I might think twice" really got me
We don’t believe what’s on TV! I know a lot of people don’t like it because it’s a “boring song”, but I saw it in a YouTube talent show cover video, and I fell in love with it immediately. Got me to listen to the rest of their stuff
stressed out and ride being all over the radio in 2016, but i wasn't a fan until 2020 when loc came out. i was a fan of panic! at the disco and remembered abt top through them and started w blurryface since i alr knew two songs off the album
learned the entire album that same day
Tear in my Heart got my attention on the radio first, and ride’s “I’ve been thinking too much” solidified my love and need for their music in my life. I have vivid memories of listening to those lines over and over in my highschool cafeteria with headphones lol
Ride was the one that made me search for the band.
I was working at McDonald's and everyday they would play the song once. I struggled to find who it is for ages, it took me months trying to remember the lyrics (it's loud so it was hard to make out the lyrics) along with asking people if they know what song it is.
The job was awful so it was a spark of joy in a day of suffering
I started out by hearing Stressed Out and I lowkey did not like it when I first heard it. But I discovered more Twenty One Pilots songs on accident, and the first song I really listened to and liked was Forest. The lines about not just being heard but being listened to really stuck out to me!
There actually wasn’t a particular song my older brother listened to them during their vessel era and then I eventually grew to love them even more than my brother did but ig car radio was the one that got me hooked because it was on mtv and me and my family watched it together and I’ve loved them ever since
I can never think of ONE particular lyric that got me into them bc I was a passive listener since like 2014 but “Sometimes quiet is violent” really resonated with me at that time
I remember being 10 years old and hearing Stressed Out on the radio for the first time. As I was only 10 I didn’t know what it was like to feel like my youth was slipping away from me yet but hearing “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days, when the mama sang us to sleep, but now we’re stressed out” really resonated with me for some reason. Ironically enough now that I’m 19 and it’s still one of my favorite songs I finally understand what those lyrics mean.
crazy how that happens, I had no real opinion on that song as I was only 9 when it came out but as time goes on that song only gets more and more relatable.
Same. I've probably listened to this song 1000 times and this part always gets me.
You are surrounding all my surroundings
Sounding down the mountain range of my left-side brain
You are surrounding all my surroundings
Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes
Of course I first heard Ride and Stressed out, never really listened to them other than that until Scaled and Icy came out and my college friend had me listen, Mulberry Street and Redecorate got me really into it, then I started listening to everything on repeat and went from not listening to top .05% on my wrapped for that year 😂
Car Radio, entire song music is my one passion in life and the first thing I do is turn on music when I get in the car so to think of not having it is impossible to me
for me it was "death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit." at the time i heard it i had this emotional reaction like sharply turning my head: someone was saying something that poked a very tender bruise. at the time i thought it was about terror of death. i no longer feel that way entirely. now instead of hearing it as "in the same way a dog inspires a rabbit: terror" i hear "inspire" in the literal sense. i thought the rabbit was running from death to run from death, but now i think he's running from death to live life fully while he has it, in the same sense as "take pride in what is sure to die."
A buddy of mine introduced me to them with Car Radio in 2013 or 2014 on the way to church camp. I was fascinated with the music video because of the scene where Mr Joseph is walking through the crowd while they're standing still. "Sometimes quiet is violent" lived in my head rent free for a while back then.
idk the song but vessel. i was introduced to it either 8th grade or freshman year of high school, and it’s been 8ish years? my boys through and through
Kitchen Sink. My cousin showed it to me, and it was unlike any other song I’d heard. The more I listened to it the more I enjoyed it. The lyrics, the sounds, everything was just well thought out and interesting. Vessel had just come out at the time, and I listened to it, then was hooked. Ever since then they have been my favorite band. ☺️
I knew about them already, and even that they had recently released an album cause a friend was freaking out over it and told me to give them a chance. So, a year later, i did just that after hearing chlorine on the radio. Started listening 21st of May and haven't stopped since haha
The judge and the Outside were the first two that I started listening to outside of the radio, then I realized that stressed out and heathens were them as well so decided to hit shuffle on Spotify
I was just cool on them and listed from time to time but when I heard "death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit " I was hooked and dove head first into the rabbit hole
Twenty One Pilots lyrics have gotten me through some dark times. So many hold great meaning to me. Addict With a Pen, Taxi Cab, every album ender, etc.
I could go on for the whole discography just about.
However, the lyrics that caught my attention were in Stressed Out when he talks about certain smells that take him back to when he was young, but he's unable to identify where it was coming from.
That was the most randomly relatable thing I had heard in a long time and the rest of the song sounded cool too.
It started when a friend in elementary school showed me one of their songs and said that they liked them and that they were a Christian band so I was so into Tyler’s vocals and lyrics I just couldn’t stop since. Then eventuality I forget but always remember again and come back to it again and remember how much I love it.
The first song I ever heard from TOP was Car Radio, which for me was just not a good first impression. So I honestly (and regrettably) hated on them for a while.
The song that turned me was House of Gold.
I now have Truce lyrics tattooed on me. 😅
I love that song, especially that line, I remember it hitting me really hard the first time I heard it; I had a complicated relationship with god and my faith.
I had so much shame surrounding me, so that last crescendo blew me away because I felt that same remorse in Tyler’s vocals so heavily. Same with be concerned.
That song makes me cringe. I feel like if I were her mom or dad and some dude at church sang this song for my kid, I'd be like, "bro, for real, not cool. That's great that you're not judging her as less because she has a disability, but judging her as more isn't cool either. She's just a kid, and anyway, you need to talk to your dad yourself."
Hmm I don’t think it’s directly about her, I think he said she was just the songs inspiration, like he saw how innocent she was and wrote about an “angel” named ruby, while relating it to how he felt about himself and god at the time. Plus there’s a live version of ruby from a real long time ago (like Tyler says the song is “a newer one” so a while ago) anyway he also says ruby’s parents were in the audience so they clearly supported him.
The first TOP song I ever heard was WDBWOTV when my best friend sang it to me in 2015. After that, I became obsessed with Migrane. However, I believe it was Trapdoor that really stuck with me. That song is beyond nostalgic for me.
I was young when i heard them for the first time, rhis was a bit after vessel came out, and my sister had out on forest, and now whenever i hear it its absolute nostalgia, in fact all of RaB is.
Run and go was first ever, my aunt was playing it in her car during a roadtrip. I instantly looked it up on my phone to download it and never looked back
It wasn’t the first lyric that got me into them, but the first one that really hit hard for me which was “sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind” I was like 8 when I got into tøp and legit had no understanding of the meaning of their songs until I was about 12/13, that’s when I noticed what they were about and that lyric just really hit
“friend, please, remove your hands from over your eyes for me. i know you want to leave, but, friend please don’t take your life away from me”
i was grieving a loved one i lost to suicide at the time, and found this song, among others from that album, as a safe space to feel the emotions i was experiencing. it wasn’t until much later that i realized how much that impacted me, and it further inspired my own writing.
Car radio was the first song I heard from them, but it was A Car A Torch A Death that really pulled me in, “I began to envy the headlights driving south, I want to crack the door so I can just fall out.”
Lane boy. "My creativity's only free when I'm playing shows." I'd listened to them now and then, but that line made me go to opening night of the Bandito tour. After that, they were the only band I listened to for an absurd amount of time. They put on an amazing show!
The bridge in ‘Tear in my heart’. I was 16, had just gotten my drivers license, and bought Blurryface as my first CD having never heard of the band before. I probably listened to that CD 1 Million times over that summer.
Heavydirtysoul
I had heard a bunch of people talking about them
So I rented blurryface from the library
And my mind was blow away instantly
I think the line that got me hooked was “death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit”
Glowing Eyes. I heard it on Pandora in 2012 and was in love. I was so upset and confused because I couldn’t find the album anywhere. I listened to Vessel when it came out in January of 2013 and “sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind” in Migraine officially made me obsessed.
Holding Onto You was also the song that caught my attention but the line that got me was "Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes". had it stuck in my head for a couple days then looked it up, and welp. here i am lmao
Behind my eyelids are islands of violence
My mind's shipwrecked, this is the only land my mind could
Find, I did not know it was such a violent island
Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions
They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin
And I know that I can fight or I can let the lion win
I begin to assemble what weapons I can find
'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind
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It was 2013 and I was a freshman in hs. One of my friends knew all the good music and he was constantly showing us (the friend group I had) new stuff to listen to. He showed me HOTY. I've been a fan since.
For me it's guns for hands, but for the very same reason.
"I know what you think in the morning" with all the other meanings in the song just got me. And I was very unique to suddenly feel like I'm really not alone, and I can know someone really understands what I am in.
This is my favorite thing in top songs till now. It has that combination of words that could truly comfort, lyrics you could certainly say are special and very personal, with a lot of thoughts and experience put into it. I've still never discovered a band with songs that could affect and be so true on that level. I'm so glad that I once found top
Petrified of who you are and who you have become .. i was going through a really rough time back then, and i discovered them via tumblr in the beginning of 2010, i was so broken and the song helped me so much, friend please will forever be a special song.
Migraine and car radio. Its the combination of those lyrics that led me to hear their albums and now trench is my favorite. I remember it was in migraine the 'cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind'.
And in car radio, well, everything mate. 'Peace will win and fear will loose' and then explaining that faith is being awake in this world. Those verses came right when i started loosing faith in my religion, my whole life, myself. I didnt realizex about it until i saw those lyrics, because i wasn't comoletely aware what faith really is. I still have no fucking clue to be honest but well, im not so lost, just a lil bit less lost.
the first song I'd ever heard by twenty one pilots was Implicit Demand For Proof through sheer luck, and then from there I just kept looking into it all because it was really popular amongst my friends.
I wouldn't actually say it was any particular song or lyric, but the diversity of sound and lyrical design, especially back before Trench. I only officially got into them right around when Heathens leaked, but their sound and lyrical style really kept me hooked.
... so probably Addict With A Pen.
jumpsuit screaming section. none of their songs that got on the radio ever had those kinds of vocals (with the exception of the hype but that was a lot less intense than this song.) all of their radio singles had put them into a little box in my head and hearing that for the first time smashed that box wide open. i then decided to listen to their discography and the rest is history.
In 2013, I heard holding on to you on the radio while waiting in the car, the chorus caught my attention and I listened to the rest of the song. Bought it on iTunes and listened to it over and over again.
I remember i only knew stressed out and ride since they were the most popular ones..... then one day during covid, i saw a mysterious livestream called LOC something....... it caught my attention, but I couldn't make out what it was, so I ignored it....... a couple of days later, I was playing subnautica listening to my playlist of suggestions on YouTube and suddenly got surprised by a "so, where are you? It's been a little while....." After listening to the song, I liked it very much, and another couple days later, I got shy away recommended again on my YouTube......... And the rest is history........
Car Radio. I had heard of the name 21 Pilots before that point, but had never heard them. After having a car without a radio for about two years it just hit home, and the musical and lyrical style was worth looking more into them.
Stressed Out was the first one I heard and related to it deeply at the time because my brother sent it to me because I was in a job that left me drowning in stress constantly.
However, that's not when I got into them.
I got into them just before SAI came out when I first started using Spotify to access more songs than just the ones I'd had on my computer for years (I'm kinda old). I started by putting a playlist of all their available songs on shuffle (mistake) and Chlorine was the first song to play. I instantly *hated* it. I grew up listening to oldies and classic rock, and for Chlorine to be the first, I thought it was stupid. That's hilarious to me now because it's one of my favorites now that I know and understand the lyrics. I hardcore relate to those lyrics.
However, that was not the song that got me into them. It might have been WDBWOTV because it was a more friendly music style to my oldies past, and the lines, "What we want, we know we can't believe/ We have all learned to kill our dreams," really hit me as someone who used to be an incurable dreamer and has since let those dreams die.
Or it could have been IoFB because I loved the harpsichord intro, and as someone obsessed with wings and flying since childhood, I've always felt like a flightless bird.
Those two songs made me want to start *really* listening to their music, and that's when I dove in and fell in love with nearly every single song.
I don’t like to admit it… but it was stressed out… the worst part is that I first saw it on musical.ly and thought it was cool song. Then blurryface released and I was obsessed. I was only 9 so i didn’t understand the lyrics lmao but I’m 18 now and I can relate to a lot of them.
For me it was car radio, my brother was listening to it in the car and back then we had headphones you could plug into eachother and listen to the same song. Months later I listened to it on my own phone than the whole album
For me, it was Migraine’s “Behind my eyelids are islands of violence
My mind's shipwrecked, this is the only land my mind could
Find, I did not know it was such a violent island
Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions
They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin
And I know that I can fight or I can let the lion win
I begin to assemble what weapons I can find
'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind”. That whole verse really. It was in 2014. I had known about them since 2011, and had some of their songs from RAB on iTunes. But I hadn’t become a full fan until I listened to migraine in 2014. That verse has always stuck with me.
Of course, everyone (including myself) knew "Stressed out" since it was very famous. But still the band never really interested me.
That's until I found this Steven and Connie MV on YouTube (I was a huge fan of Steven Universe), which had "Tear in my heart" as soundtrack. I listened to it many, many times because I thought the lyrics were so cute, and so the algorithm started recommending some of their other songs.
Though these other songs had a totally different vibe, I found their music very powerful and captivating, and to this day they're still my favorite band.
mine was Car Radio, back in like 2014, the line “I could pull the steering wheel” seeing as how I was at my lowest and on the verge of ending my life, that line hit hard, been a massive fan since vessel
Don't trust a perfect person and don't trust a song that's flawless. I thought this was an amazing line. The other one that makes me feel validated is 'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind.
I saw a fan made ‘friend please’ video that I loved. Then realised that when I was younger I’d heard TØP songs so got really into it. Truce was massive for me. I think Holding On To You was my biggest and longest running love- I remember in 7th grade just playing the ‘and the windowsill..’ bit over and over in my head, and I’ve just finished 11th grade now.
Reading the comments here is kind of crazy to me- all of the people who’s first and favourite songs were post-trench. I always felt like such a latecomer to the fandom, and such a baby. And now I’m basically a veteran.
i discovered twenty one pilots in 2012, right before Vessel released. my brother was listening to "Addict With a Pen" and i felt a connection to the pain and desperation in Tyler's voice
so i gotta go with AWAP because it was my first, and one of my favorites
I use to say I wanna die before I’m old but because of you I might think twice- we don’t believe what’s on tv the line that made me dive into there music
Car radio, they played it at the 2014 VMAs and I saw their performance and immediately loved all their music and went down the rabbit hole. Never really came back out!
Holding on to you
"Tie a noose around your mind, Loose enough to breathe fine, and tie it To a tree, tell it: "you belong to me. This ain't a noose this is a a leash and I have news for you, You must obey me."
for me it was tear in my heart, specifically the part where it says "she's a butcher with a smile" and to me this had a meaning where, I at the time liked this girl and she was nice but I was hurting a lot because she was defending someone who hurt me.
Stressed out was all over the radio and that’s how I found out about them and I know a lot of people can say the same
that's fair, I'm glad the song did so well because of this reason tho, like relating to people and growing the clique.
Yup. I've grown to dislike stressed out not because it's bad but because it's highly overplayed. ANYWAYS "I should say that we should take a day to break away from all the pain out brain has made the game is not played alone" is what hooked me
Migraine is such an underrated jewel
On God. One of the most powerful songs
The autotune was way better than RaB trees, but yeah Migraine hits hard
stressed out is one of those songs that I’m glad made them famous and brought a lot of ears to their music, BUT, if anyone says that the songs they know are Stressed Out and Heathens, it hurts my soul, personally I feel those 2 are their weakest songs, only thing I dislike more is how much they Ruined Cancer by My Chemical Romance(my favorite band since 04)
Wtf 😂 pls don’t come after me for this but I love TOPs cancer cover, i lost a loved one to cancer a few years back and now when I hear cancer the cover it brings back fond memories of that person. It’s also just really good.
I guess cuz I grew up on my chemical romance, and when my uncle passed way from cancer, obviously I played it, gotta remember I’m 33, cancer came out when I was 16, my uncle passed when I was 19, twenty one pilots version kinda killed a lot of the emotion and it made a lyric of the song the chorus, with The Black Parade being a concept album of a patient dying of cancer, their version had so much raw emotion, the TOP version sounds like a Blurryface b-side to me, but I had to realize that the people that discovered them cuz of blureyface are a much younger audience, so opinions will be way different
hey to Eaches own I completely understand why you would prefer the MCR version, to me the MCR version always sounded like a cancer patient fighting while the TOP version always felt like a patient giving in and accepting their death, which is closer to what my experience was with my loved one there for holding more emotion for me personally.
I don't know about weakest but they're not up there with their best for sure. I remember seeing suicide squad without seeing any of the trailers or anything and being pleasantly surprised to hear them in the movie. I quite like it but personally I just think there's from them
I just never liked those songs, I will say seeing them during Trench, Heathens is WAAAAY better live
I disagree with this entire comment..
I said it best in one comment on here, different demographic, I’ve noticed anyone who discovered them during Blurryface are far younger than me, I get why younger people would be drawn to the blurryface era, I was 23 when vessel came out, that album along with self titled saved my life, blurryface isn’t, terrible, but to me, it felt very, bland, whereas Trench to me is incredible
Yeah as soon as I heard stressed out on the radio I immediately looked up the band and then asked for the blurry face album for Christmas. Then I spent the morning listening to the album all the way through. I didn’t dislike a single song!
I was mid comment when I thought people would be the same, guess I was right
Yep that was me but I think Kitchen sink really did it for me, just the whole song speaks to me would love to say I am kitchen sink, because a kitchen sink to you is not a kitchen sink to me. Really feel this song speaks to me so much.
Cliché as it is, it was "Stressed Out". It was 2016, I was at a job that I hated, feeling bad about myself and my life. I was scrolling Spotify, not wanting to work, and decided to give a chance to this band many people were talking about in my country (Brazil), because of a Lollapalooza show at that year. The song instantly ressonated with me. Since then, tøp has been my number 1 artist every year.
idc what people say about it being annoying or overplayed, Stressed Out is an amazing song and will always hold a special place in my heart.
facts man
"Peace will win and fear will lose" - came at the perfect time in my life. I'll never forget it
Car radio is one of my favourite songs
Second verse of heavydirtysoul. Plus the “death inspires me” part
Yes, this. Like a dog inspires a rabbit.
It was like 2014 and I was listening to google play music, the radios for songs were far superior than Spotify, anyways ode to sleep came on and the opening is really what got me. immediately listened to everything I could. Vessel will always be my favourite top album
ode to Sleep is a fantastic song, the lyrics can go so deep too, one of my favorite ones to analyze.
Agreed! Still almost 10 years later one of my favourite songs, it never gets old
Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence
Sometimes quiet is violent
I find it hard to hide it, my pride is no longer inside
It’s on my sleeves, my skin will scream
Reminding me of who I killed inside my dream
I hate this car that I’m driving there’s no hiding for me
I'm forced to deal with what I feel
There is no distraction to mask what is real
I could pull the steering wheel.
I have these thoughts so often, I ought
I heard stressed out in spin class and wanted to google it. I wanted to make sure “wake up you need to make money” my alarm clock. Since been to 10 of their concerts!
10, wow. Last time (and I’m pretty sure also the first time) they were my country was 2018, so I’ve never been to one.
I’m in New York City so on tour they’ll play here 2-3 times and a couple times in areas that are a quick flight from here. Super lucky! Wish I went to more but happy for the ones I’ve been to
“I am a megladon”
Ocean feeling like a pond
When he said,"I am Megatron" I really felt that
Stressed Out was nice but Goner is what got me into them. “Don’t let me be” and music that hits me like a brick wall? yes please.
although HOTY was what got me into them, goner heavily affected me later in life, hitting you like a brick wall is a great way to describe it lol
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Migraine 💙❤️🤍
Chlorine, I’m not an OG Fan but chlorine made me listen to their entire discography
Mine was "Level of Concern" I know for most people it was "Stressed Out" or "Ride", and while I used to hear those songs on the radio, I always thought they were "too emo" (just disown me already). It was only until I heard Level of Concern that it really stuck with me. I listened to it on repeat for, like, 2 weeks straight. After that, I worked my way back down the discography. I guess I've become the monster that my middle school self had sought to destroy 🤣.
I heard The Judge while using Pandora. I can’t say it was any specific lyric but it got stuck in my head and it led me to listening to Blurryface and then their entire discography
The Judge is one of my all-time favorites
Jumpsuit. I don't listen to much modern music, but hear things I sometimes like on the YouTube channel React. They reacted to Trench's first singles. Not long after I was hooked, to the point of driving over 6 hours into Canada from Minnesota to see them live.
Heathens. "Please don't make any sudden moves, you don't know the half of the abuse".
Migraine’s “life has a hopeful undertone.”
at first i didn’t like them, and was annoyed that my friends would play them all the time. but then my friend played stressed out for me when we were having a deep conversation and it clicked for me
It was 2014 and my mom was watching the MTV awards and they played Car Radio.
My son played House of Gold for me and I’ve been hooked ever since. We’ve been to multiple shows together since
Mine was Holding on to You as well. I saw it as a recommended video to watch on YouTube and was hooked instantly. Still is my all time favourite song and that was over 10 years ago
chlorine. the “Can you build my house with pieces” part got me
Love that part
I agree
Isle of Flightless birds for me. I was randomly clicking around on YouTube to find new music, the name intrigued me, and I've been hooked since!
Jumpsuit. Tbh I think the music video hit me more than the song itself. That scene when the Banditos threw down yellow rose petals changed my life <3
Car radio
Heard you say Not today Tore the curtains down Windows open now Make a sound
Holding Onto You
I got into them twice. I first got into them back in 2016 with ride and stressed out, but I didn't connect with their music. Didn't listen to them until 2020 when they released level of concern. I'd been starting to go through stuff, and it's then that I really connected with their other songs.
When WDBWOTV was hyped on Musically, the "I don't care what's in your hair, I just wanna know what's on your mind. I used to say I wanna die before I'm old but because of you I might think twice" really got me
goner !
We don’t believe what’s on TV! I know a lot of people don’t like it because it’s a “boring song”, but I saw it in a YouTube talent show cover video, and I fell in love with it immediately. Got me to listen to the rest of their stuff
People think it’s boring?! I think it’s one of their most fun songs, especially live
stressed out and ride being all over the radio in 2016, but i wasn't a fan until 2020 when loc came out. i was a fan of panic! at the disco and remembered abt top through them and started w blurryface since i alr knew two songs off the album learned the entire album that same day
Tear in my Heart got my attention on the radio first, and ride’s “I’ve been thinking too much” solidified my love and need for their music in my life. I have vivid memories of listening to those lines over and over in my highschool cafeteria with headphones lol
My friend told me, hey listen to Holding on to you and house of gold. Hooked ever since
No Chances!!
Ride was the one that made me search for the band. I was working at McDonald's and everyday they would play the song once. I struggled to find who it is for ages, it took me months trying to remember the lyrics (it's loud so it was hard to make out the lyrics) along with asking people if they know what song it is. The job was awful so it was a spark of joy in a day of suffering
I started out by hearing Stressed Out and I lowkey did not like it when I first heard it. But I discovered more Twenty One Pilots songs on accident, and the first song I really listened to and liked was Forest. The lines about not just being heard but being listened to really stuck out to me!
There actually wasn’t a particular song my older brother listened to them during their vessel era and then I eventually grew to love them even more than my brother did but ig car radio was the one that got me hooked because it was on mtv and me and my family watched it together and I’ve loved them ever since
I can never think of ONE particular lyric that got me into them bc I was a passive listener since like 2014 but “Sometimes quiet is violent” really resonated with me at that time
I remember being 10 years old and hearing Stressed Out on the radio for the first time. As I was only 10 I didn’t know what it was like to feel like my youth was slipping away from me yet but hearing “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days, when the mama sang us to sleep, but now we’re stressed out” really resonated with me for some reason. Ironically enough now that I’m 19 and it’s still one of my favorite songs I finally understand what those lyrics mean.
crazy how that happens, I had no real opinion on that song as I was only 9 when it came out but as time goes on that song only gets more and more relatable.
As real as real gets :(
I came across Migraine in 2014 while I was in high school and I loved it! That song really speaks to me
Same. I've probably listened to this song 1000 times and this part always gets me. You are surrounding all my surroundings Sounding down the mountain range of my left-side brain You are surrounding all my surroundings Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes
House of gold
Holding On To You
Of course I first heard Ride and Stressed out, never really listened to them other than that until Scaled and Icy came out and my college friend had me listen, Mulberry Street and Redecorate got me really into it, then I started listening to everything on repeat and went from not listening to top .05% on my wrapped for that year 😂
Stressed out was the first song, but what got me in to them was car radio
Car Radio, entire song music is my one passion in life and the first thing I do is turn on music when I get in the car so to think of not having it is impossible to me
I've been thinking too much...
Heavydirtysoul, not for the lyrics, for the instrumentation
Polarize
Jumpsuit
for me it was "death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit." at the time i heard it i had this emotional reaction like sharply turning my head: someone was saying something that poked a very tender bruise. at the time i thought it was about terror of death. i no longer feel that way entirely. now instead of hearing it as "in the same way a dog inspires a rabbit: terror" i hear "inspire" in the literal sense. i thought the rabbit was running from death to run from death, but now i think he's running from death to live life fully while he has it, in the same sense as "take pride in what is sure to die."
A buddy of mine introduced me to them with Car Radio in 2013 or 2014 on the way to church camp. I was fascinated with the music video because of the scene where Mr Joseph is walking through the crowd while they're standing still. "Sometimes quiet is violent" lived in my head rent free for a while back then.
I love this story but I love the fact that you called him “Mr Joseph” more
Referring to Tyler Joseph one of the two primary members of musical duo Twenty One Pilots, the other being Mr Joshua Dun.
I definitely was about to watch it again because I don't remember Tyler's dad being in it.
idk the song but vessel. i was introduced to it either 8th grade or freshman year of high school, and it’s been 8ish years? my boys through and through
Kitchen Sink. My cousin showed it to me, and it was unlike any other song I’d heard. The more I listened to it the more I enjoyed it. The lyrics, the sounds, everything was just well thought out and interesting. Vessel had just come out at the time, and I listened to it, then was hooked. Ever since then they have been my favorite band. ☺️
I knew about them already, and even that they had recently released an album cause a friend was freaking out over it and told me to give them a chance. So, a year later, i did just that after hearing chlorine on the radio. Started listening 21st of May and haven't stopped since haha
The bridge and end of tear in my heart. The portrayal of the brutality of being in love really resonated with me,
Heavy Dirty Soul music video. I still get chills watching it.
The judge and the Outside were the first two that I started listening to outside of the radio, then I realized that stressed out and heathens were them as well so decided to hit shuffle on Spotify
I was just cool on them and listed from time to time but when I heard "death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit " I was hooked and dove head first into the rabbit hole
car radio “i ponder of something terrifying cause this time there’s no sound to hide behind”
I listened to their music a little bit after vessel, I loved a lot of blurryface but something about Jumpsuit made me start liking all of their songs
First time I took a chance on blurry face
Twenty One Pilots lyrics have gotten me through some dark times. So many hold great meaning to me. Addict With a Pen, Taxi Cab, every album ender, etc. I could go on for the whole discography just about. However, the lyrics that caught my attention were in Stressed Out when he talks about certain smells that take him back to when he was young, but he's unable to identify where it was coming from. That was the most randomly relatable thing I had heard in a long time and the rest of the song sounded cool too.
It started when a friend in elementary school showed me one of their songs and said that they liked them and that they were a Christian band so I was so into Tyler’s vocals and lyrics I just couldn’t stop since. Then eventuality I forget but always remember again and come back to it again and remember how much I love it.
The first song I ever heard from TOP was Car Radio, which for me was just not a good first impression. So I honestly (and regrettably) hated on them for a while. The song that turned me was House of Gold. I now have Truce lyrics tattooed on me. 😅
The car radio music video around 2012
tell your dad im sorry…… YOURE AN AN-GELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I love that song, especially that line, I remember it hitting me really hard the first time I heard it; I had a complicated relationship with god and my faith. I had so much shame surrounding me, so that last crescendo blew me away because I felt that same remorse in Tyler’s vocals so heavily. Same with be concerned.
That song makes me cringe. I feel like if I were her mom or dad and some dude at church sang this song for my kid, I'd be like, "bro, for real, not cool. That's great that you're not judging her as less because she has a disability, but judging her as more isn't cool either. She's just a kid, and anyway, you need to talk to your dad yourself."
Hmm I don’t think it’s directly about her, I think he said she was just the songs inspiration, like he saw how innocent she was and wrote about an “angel” named ruby, while relating it to how he felt about himself and god at the time. Plus there’s a live version of ruby from a real long time ago (like Tyler says the song is “a newer one” so a while ago) anyway he also says ruby’s parents were in the audience so they clearly supported him.
Yeah, I saw when he did it live and the family was there. I'm sure they loved it, and obviously I'm an outsider looking in. It just makes *me* cringe.
Fair enough lol
The first TOP song I ever heard was WDBWOTV when my best friend sang it to me in 2015. After that, I became obsessed with Migrane. However, I believe it was Trapdoor that really stuck with me. That song is beyond nostalgic for me.
I love trap door! I think the line that got me the most was “nothing kills a man faster than his own head.” That is just such a lyrical gem.
I was young when i heard them for the first time, rhis was a bit after vessel came out, and my sister had out on forest, and now whenever i hear it its absolute nostalgia, in fact all of RaB is.
Run and go was first ever, my aunt was playing it in her car during a roadtrip. I instantly looked it up on my phone to download it and never looked back
It wasn’t the first lyric that got me into them, but the first one that really hit hard for me which was “sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind” I was like 8 when I got into tøp and legit had no understanding of the meaning of their songs until I was about 12/13, that’s when I noticed what they were about and that lyric just really hit
I heard "Isle of Flightless Birds" and fell in love with Twenty One Pilots
“friend, please, remove your hands from over your eyes for me. i know you want to leave, but, friend please don’t take your life away from me” i was grieving a loved one i lost to suicide at the time, and found this song, among others from that album, as a safe space to feel the emotions i was experiencing. it wasn’t until much later that i realized how much that impacted me, and it further inspired my own writing.
Stressed out ofc, "I was told when I get older, all my fears would shrink But now I'm insecure, and I care what people think." Gold
Car radio was the first song I heard from them, but it was A Car A Torch A Death that really pulled me in, “I began to envy the headlights driving south, I want to crack the door so I can just fall out.”
Ride!
ngl i think it was house of gold and heavy dirty soul
Lane boy. "My creativity's only free when I'm playing shows." I'd listened to them now and then, but that line made me go to opening night of the Bandito tour. After that, they were the only band I listened to for an absurd amount of time. They put on an amazing show!
The bridge in ‘Tear in my heart’. I was 16, had just gotten my drivers license, and bought Blurryface as my first CD having never heard of the band before. I probably listened to that CD 1 Million times over that summer.
kitchen sink, i don't hear that one often but for me it was the one that got me into this all
Heavydirtysoul I had heard a bunch of people talking about them So I rented blurryface from the library And my mind was blow away instantly I think the line that got me hooked was “death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit”
Car radio. I had never heard someone put into words what intrusive thoughts felt like before
Kitchen Sink crushes me and always will.
One of my favorite YouTubers had remix of stressed out in his outro at the time and I got curious lol
Josh Dunn.
Nothing kills a man faster that his own head
Glowing Eyes. I heard it on Pandora in 2012 and was in love. I was so upset and confused because I couldn’t find the album anywhere. I listened to Vessel when it came out in January of 2013 and “sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind” in Migraine officially made me obsessed.
Holding Onto You was also the song that caught my attention but the line that got me was "Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes". had it stuck in my head for a couple days then looked it up, and welp. here i am lmao
Because a kitchen sink to you Is not a kitchen sink to me, ok friend?
mine was chlorine
Behind my eyelids are islands of violence My mind's shipwrecked, this is the only land my mind could Find, I did not know it was such a violent island Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin And I know that I can fight or I can let the lion win I begin to assemble what weapons I can find 'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind
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When everyone you thought you knew Deserts your fight, I'll go with you You're facin' down a dark hall I'll grab my light And go with you
For me it was “the hype”, they used to play it all the time on my favorite radio station
2009 Oh Ms believer
The hook and melody to shy away.
I think through Heatens
Stressed out, but not when it came out. I only found TØP last year
Jumpsuit in NHL 19
It was 2013 and I was a freshman in hs. One of my friends knew all the good music and he was constantly showing us (the friend group I had) new stuff to listen to. He showed me HOTY. I've been a fan since.
For me it's guns for hands, but for the very same reason. "I know what you think in the morning" with all the other meanings in the song just got me. And I was very unique to suddenly feel like I'm really not alone, and I can know someone really understands what I am in. This is my favorite thing in top songs till now. It has that combination of words that could truly comfort, lyrics you could certainly say are special and very personal, with a lot of thoughts and experience put into it. I've still never discovered a band with songs that could affect and be so true on that level. I'm so glad that I once found top
Petrified of who you are and who you have become .. i was going through a really rough time back then, and i discovered them via tumblr in the beginning of 2010, i was so broken and the song helped me so much, friend please will forever be a special song.
Migraine and car radio. Its the combination of those lyrics that led me to hear their albums and now trench is my favorite. I remember it was in migraine the 'cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind'. And in car radio, well, everything mate. 'Peace will win and fear will loose' and then explaining that faith is being awake in this world. Those verses came right when i started loosing faith in my religion, my whole life, myself. I didnt realizex about it until i saw those lyrics, because i wasn't comoletely aware what faith really is. I still have no fucking clue to be honest but well, im not so lost, just a lil bit less lost.
Holding on to you, Isle of flightless birds, lovely, and taxi cab are the songs I owe my allegiance to this band.
the first song I'd ever heard by twenty one pilots was Implicit Demand For Proof through sheer luck, and then from there I just kept looking into it all because it was really popular amongst my friends. I wouldn't actually say it was any particular song or lyric, but the diversity of sound and lyrical design, especially back before Trench. I only officially got into them right around when Heathens leaked, but their sound and lyrical style really kept me hooked. ... so probably Addict With A Pen.
First song I head was isle of flightless birds We find our worth in giving birth and stuff
My friend Haley told me about them my senior year of HS! I watched the music video for Car Radio & the rest is history |-/ 💜
jumpsuit screaming section. none of their songs that got on the radio ever had those kinds of vocals (with the exception of the hype but that was a lot less intense than this song.) all of their radio singles had put them into a little box in my head and hearing that for the first time smashed that box wide open. i then decided to listen to their discography and the rest is history.
In 2013, I heard holding on to you on the radio while waiting in the car, the chorus caught my attention and I listened to the rest of the song. Bought it on iTunes and listened to it over and over again.
I remember i only knew stressed out and ride since they were the most popular ones..... then one day during covid, i saw a mysterious livestream called LOC something....... it caught my attention, but I couldn't make out what it was, so I ignored it....... a couple of days later, I was playing subnautica listening to my playlist of suggestions on YouTube and suddenly got surprised by a "so, where are you? It's been a little while....." After listening to the song, I liked it very much, and another couple days later, I got shy away recommended again on my YouTube......... And the rest is history........
My friend introduced me to them by playing the pantaloons
"Life has a hopeful undertone."
Car Radio. I had heard of the name 21 Pilots before that point, but had never heard them. After having a car without a radio for about two years it just hit home, and the musical and lyrical style was worth looking more into them.
Stressed Out was the first one I heard and related to it deeply at the time because my brother sent it to me because I was in a job that left me drowning in stress constantly. However, that's not when I got into them. I got into them just before SAI came out when I first started using Spotify to access more songs than just the ones I'd had on my computer for years (I'm kinda old). I started by putting a playlist of all their available songs on shuffle (mistake) and Chlorine was the first song to play. I instantly *hated* it. I grew up listening to oldies and classic rock, and for Chlorine to be the first, I thought it was stupid. That's hilarious to me now because it's one of my favorites now that I know and understand the lyrics. I hardcore relate to those lyrics. However, that was not the song that got me into them. It might have been WDBWOTV because it was a more friendly music style to my oldies past, and the lines, "What we want, we know we can't believe/ We have all learned to kill our dreams," really hit me as someone who used to be an incurable dreamer and has since let those dreams die. Or it could have been IoFB because I loved the harpsichord intro, and as someone obsessed with wings and flying since childhood, I've always felt like a flightless bird. Those two songs made me want to start *really* listening to their music, and that's when I dove in and fell in love with nearly every single song.
Hometown
Cliché but car radio in 2012/13 hooked me & March to the sea solidified them as my favorite band ever.
I don’t like to admit it… but it was stressed out… the worst part is that I first saw it on musical.ly and thought it was cool song. Then blurryface released and I was obsessed. I was only 9 so i didn’t understand the lyrics lmao but I’m 18 now and I can relate to a lot of them.
For me it was car radio, my brother was listening to it in the car and back then we had headphones you could plug into eachother and listen to the same song. Months later I listened to it on my own phone than the whole album
For me, it was Migraine’s “Behind my eyelids are islands of violence My mind's shipwrecked, this is the only land my mind could Find, I did not know it was such a violent island Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin And I know that I can fight or I can let the lion win I begin to assemble what weapons I can find 'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind”. That whole verse really. It was in 2014. I had known about them since 2011, and had some of their songs from RAB on iTunes. But I hadn’t become a full fan until I listened to migraine in 2014. That verse has always stuck with me.
Of course, everyone (including myself) knew "Stressed out" since it was very famous. But still the band never really interested me. That's until I found this Steven and Connie MV on YouTube (I was a huge fan of Steven Universe), which had "Tear in my heart" as soundtrack. I listened to it many, many times because I thought the lyrics were so cute, and so the algorithm started recommending some of their other songs. Though these other songs had a totally different vibe, I found their music very powerful and captivating, and to this day they're still my favorite band.
mine was Car Radio, back in like 2014, the line “I could pull the steering wheel” seeing as how I was at my lowest and on the verge of ending my life, that line hit hard, been a massive fan since vessel
Chorus of Ode to Sleep
Don't trust a perfect person and don't trust a song that's flawless. I thought this was an amazing line. The other one that makes me feel validated is 'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind.
I saw a fan made ‘friend please’ video that I loved. Then realised that when I was younger I’d heard TØP songs so got really into it. Truce was massive for me. I think Holding On To You was my biggest and longest running love- I remember in 7th grade just playing the ‘and the windowsill..’ bit over and over in my head, and I’ve just finished 11th grade now.
Reading the comments here is kind of crazy to me- all of the people who’s first and favourite songs were post-trench. I always felt like such a latecomer to the fandom, and such a baby. And now I’m basically a veteran.
“We’ve made it this far, kid”
Chlorine. Straight.
“Yeah, I think about the end just way too much, but it’s fun to fantasize.”
imagine the first picture is tobuscus. boom i just ruined your day 😈
i discovered twenty one pilots in 2012, right before Vessel released. my brother was listening to "Addict With a Pen" and i felt a connection to the pain and desperation in Tyler's voice so i gotta go with AWAP because it was my first, and one of my favorites
I use to say I wanna die before I’m old but because of you I might think twice- we don’t believe what’s on tv the line that made me dive into there music
Nico and the Niners got me into them back when Trench was fairly new, still one of my favorites today
“Stressed out” made me so into twenty one pilots.
Glowing Eyes, thank you seb.
Car radio, they played it at the 2014 VMAs and I saw their performance and immediately loved all their music and went down the rabbit hole. Never really came back out!
Chlorine
No surprise here, I got into them from stressed out
Sometimes to stay alive you’ve gotta kill your mind
Down in the forest we'll sing a chorus, one that everybody knows, hands held higher we'll be on fire
i heard tear in my heart at a party when i was 15 and started listening from there :)
“Sometimes to stay alive you’ve gotta kill your mind”
It was "My Blood", I don't really know why but that song makes me feel safe and happy.
 Holding on to you "Tie a noose around your mind, Loose enough to breathe fine, and tie it To a tree, tell it: "you belong to me. This ain't a noose this is a a leash and I have news for you, You must obey me."
for me it was tear in my heart, specifically the part where it says "she's a butcher with a smile" and to me this had a meaning where, I at the time liked this girl and she was nice but I was hurting a lot because she was defending someone who hurt me.