You’re in Middle Earth now, so did you make it happen? It’s incredible, I can’t believe that that’s a thing.ĬDM: Tyler, you told someone in an interview last week that one place you really wanted to visit is Rivendell. TWENTY ONE PILOTS - TYLER JOSEPH: No, I’ve seen screenshots of it though. What follows below is a truncated combination of both conversations for ease of reading.ĬOUP DE MAIN: Very important first question - did you watch the music video starring Jason Statham in cheetah print briefs (a la ‘Pet Cheetah’) that we told you about back in October?
Over the course of the fourteen-track album, the journey through this world is tumultuous, there’s ups and downs, but as he realises in the closing track ‘Leave The City’, “In Trench I’m not alone,” and he’s not alone, but joined by Josh Dun, every step of the way.Ĭoup De Main spoke to Twenty One Pilots in London last year, as well as in New Zealand on the final leg of the Bandito World Tour before Christmas. On their latest release ‘Trench’ (which debuted at #1 in the New Zealand and Australian charts), Tyler Joseph invites listeners into the innermost thoughts of his brain more than ever before through the world of Trench - with songs like ‘Smithereens’ and ‘Legend’ honouring two very important people in his life, to songs like ’Neon Gravestones’, which reflects upon on the glorification of suicide in today’s world. It’s the band’s third time headlining Spark Arena in the space of the last three years, and their ongoing return to what is often considered the other side of the world for some touring artists, is not only testament to their hardworking ethic but also the universality of the songs they create. They manage about a minute in silence, concocting witty remarks via their pens, before they’re exchanging notes like high schoolers cheating in a test - Dun cackles when he reads Joseph’s fourth point, “Doesn’t get nearly as pissed as I do when people spell his name with two 'N's.” He confirms, “It’s true!!” And in that regard he is encouraging the addressee for the most part to exercise perseverance and optimism in order to get through.Twenty One Pilots’ Joshua Dun and Tyler Joseph are stifling laughter backstage in a lounge at Auckland’s Spark Arena, as they work individually on their handwritten contributions to their Coup De Main zine - Dun’s, a captioned look into his beloved Golden Retriever Jim’s thoughts, and Joseph’s, a list of qualities that he admires in Dun. So ultimately it can argued that this song is an exercise in self-humility. For whether Tyler Johnson is speaking to his younger self or about his current situation, what he is espousing is a sentiment of not getting caught up in his own thoughts, regardless of whether they originate from internal or external pressures. Also there is also obviously an angle of the song that speaks to dealing with negativity and challenges. Let certain forces, as in “the hype”, overtake his mindframe.īut as mentioned before, there is another theme operating in this song concurrently, where the Twenty One Pilots are rather advising themselves not to “believe the hype”. This is due to the fact that they perceive hype men as being potentially dangerous. That is to say that such people are already their fans or just may be caught up in a particular moment. So they cannot rely on such individuals for a genuine assessment of say the quality of their music. In other words, the singer is outspokenly wary of letting himself get gassed up by others. And what he is saying this time around is basically not to States “don’t believe the hype” can be interpreted once again as him talking to Track also. That is to say that the part of the chorus in which the singer And the chorus can be partially applied to this side of the
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