The first time I heard twenty one pilots I was listening to another fueled by ramen signed band on YouTube. I kept seeing the holding onto you video on the side so I decided to check it out. To be honest that first time I listened to them I didn’t really give them a second thought because I pretty much disliked all rap at the time so I didn’t think I would like them. A couple weeks later, me and a friend of mine were talking about bands and she asked me if I ever heard of twenty one pilots. I told her I had listened to a couple if their songs and she told me that I should listen to more of their songs. So when I was home I decided to give them another chance and I am so glad that I did. I don’t remember when it happened but I got completely hooked on their songs. I listened to barely anything else. I’ve been a fan since about February or March 2013 and they are my favorite band and mean so much to me. Power to the local dreamer |-/ I’ve got to say, Twenty One Pilots has gotten so far since I started listening to them. I feel almost like a proud mother, I hear them on the radio, see them on Tv. I remember when I could say their names and not a soul would know who they were. How I came to know Twenty One Pilots was that fact I was looking for new music. The first song I heard them was ‘Ode to Sleep’ on the Regional at Best album. I started listening and the more I listened I realized how much I could relate to the lyrics. By that time their music meant a lot to me. A few friends and I started to spread the word. In a few months a lot of our school and friends would love them almost as much as I did! I started to find Twenty One Pilot blogs on tumblr and I realized that they meant a lot to others all over the country! I got to know the band almost as if I knew them personally and that made me love them even more! I saw what Tyler’s lyrics were doing to others including myself. Their songs have literally gotten me through everything, from school, to family problems, even my depression. I was at a one of their concerts once and every one was so nice and so friendly. When Tyler began to say some emotional things we all began to hug and cry and I didn’t even know them! I just wanted to say that Twenty One Pilots does so much for everyone that listens to their music and especially me personally. Their fanbase is so supportive, amazing and I have made so man friends through the love of their music. Twenty One Pilots has saved my life again and again. I hope to meet them one day and thank them personally, but I guess this will have to do until then. Sorry for the rant, I love you guys, we all love you guys. Thank you for showing me that I am not alone and please keep doing what you are doing. — artsynude The first time I heard Twenty One Pilots was when I went to the 104.5 festival a couple months ago. I had originally went there to hear Paramore play but they went on a couple acts before them. I loved their live show, it was one of the best I had ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot). Tyler and Josh both put in so much passion into their performances and that is what makes them brilliant. Later that night, I started actually listening to their songs and listening to the lyrics. The lyrics hit a nerve for me. I started crying while I was listening to Vessel because it was the first time where I actually felt like I could relate to something. Those songs perfectly describe what I have been dealing with and listening to them made me realize that I’m not the only one who has these feelings. Twenty One Pilots are now my favorite band and I listen to their songs everyday. After I started listening to them, I started to feel better about myself and this whole situation is getting better and I would like to thank Tyler and Josh for giving me a reason to be here. The Gold in Silence The band Twenty One Pilots has a song called “Car Radio.” One day my brother-in-law and I were talking about this song, and I still sometimes think about what he said. The song is all about how we hide from silence. We run from it, choosing any type of distraction to hide from silence. For in silence we have to face things. Our fears are there, our guilt is there, our thoughts are there. In silence we suddenly have to face all those questions—questions that are deep. Why do we run? Why do we want to be more zombie than human? Twenty One Pilots makes a very interesting point in this song when it is said “faith is to be awake, and to be awake is for us to think, and for us to think is to be alive.” We are choosing sleep and a “life” without life. In the silence we face our monsters (within and without), our regrets, our bloody hands. We hide behind the sound, too scared to face all of this. I am so incredibly guilty of this. All day I was guilty of this, hiding behind movies, music, anything so I didn’t actually have to think or feel lonely or feel guilty. But, dear friends, there is a reason why the Bible says “let him sit alone in silence” and ”be still and know that I am God.” God speaks to us in the silence. In the silence we do have to face our fears, our guilt, our questions and doubts. But when we face them, we grow. And as we are seeking, we are finding. As we ask these questions, God provides the answers. He cleanses us and removes our fears. Now, I plead with you and myself as Twenty One Pilots does. “And I will try with every rhyme to come across like I am dying to let you know you need to try to think.” I became a “pilot” after looking up the lyrics for Holding onto You. Astounded by the fact that someone new had a song with some heart in it on the radio, I posted the bridge lyrics on Facebook (being the daring, original, creative person that I am). This got the attention of my old friend Amanda who proceeded to bombard me with how awesome twenty one pilots is. At her insistence I downloaded Vessel and began to listen to it straight through. That is until I heard Car Radio. I listened to that one song at least a dozen times. Never had I heard a song so perfectly capture someone’s heart. Their frustrations, confusions, depressions, and rage. As an individual who will over analyze every possible scenario to points of destruction, Car Radio resonated within me in a way I did not think possible. It captures what the late, great F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “We write so that the people who read will know they are not alone with what they feel.” (paraphrasing) After actually listening to the rest of album and just being blown away at the best piece of art I have ever heard, I went back to Amanda to thank her and to share in twenty one pilots. She said they had an earlier album and after immediately downloading twenty one pilots I found myself again blown away by Addict With a Pen. I was not as personally touched as I had been after listening to Car Radio, but I was certain that these guys, in an age of overproduction and auto tune, were artists in the truest sense. A duo to be acknowledged and respected regardless of taste and preferences.
Eventually we begun a conversation about how horrible to music was and that todays “pop” music sucks. “Except Twenty One Pilots, they are cool” “Uh, who’s that?” “Here,” He reached for the laptop and signed in to his iTunes, “Listen to this song, it’ll change your life.” So I sat, and listened, said they were cool, he moved on to another band, I went home, slept, and carried out my life. February 2012 Again, I’m going to skip a lot of details about a relationship, a heartbreak, a breakup. My boyfriend of a year and six months and I broke up. It was bad.) Not even a week later, my “friends” who had supported me and made me feel happy again, turned on me. First just two of them. Spreading rumors about me, making awful tweets and facebook statuses about me, completely ignoring me at school, and making everyone around me hate me. I started to get anxiety attacks at school. I would cry all the time and I didn’t trust anyone. I turned to tumblr to vent. But even that wasn’t safe anymore. After Valentines day I logged on to tumblr to see a message on tumblr, “Nobody likes you”. At first I ignored it. And walked away. A few minutes later, another came, then another, and another. Every time I refreshed the page there would be more. Coming faster than I could read them. Some I answered, some ignored. An hour passed and there had been around 50 messages all over my blog. Each on getting worse and worse. The last one, “the world would be a lot better place if you would just drop dead”. Again, I will skip a lot of small details, but know that everything got a lot worse from there. The depression that had been hiding in the back of my head had crawled and consumed everything. Every thought was invaded and every thing I was familiar with became transparent. Somehow I remained on tumblr through this whole event. And that’s where Twenty One Pilots came back into my life. I turned on that same first song, this time clearly listening to every silly line about a boy having his car radio stolen from him. And I was hooked. I wrapped myself around thoughts of marching to the sea, praising sleep, google ing what a ‘pantaloon’ was, wanting a house of gold, pondering about a kitchen sink, and of course, becoming an addict with a pen. Twenty One Pilots was my therapy. Every time I felt the scary thoughts crawling around in my head, I turned on Addict With A Pen, Save, etc.. The lyrics racked in my brain, bouncing around the depression. I had something to look forward to every day. And I smiled when I saw Tyler and Josh tweet something absolutely hilarious. I was happy. I was healthy. I was alive.I even got my hands on a ticket to their first sold out LC show that April. The show where they announced their deal with Fueled By Ramen. Today is August 17th 2013. Five shows, meeting Tyler and Josh twice, a new school, telling all my new friends about TOP, meeting new amazing people from the fan base, an amazing boyfriend, and 600 tumblr followers later, I AM ALIVE. Not only am I alive, but I will stay alive. I really cannot express how important this band is to me. How these lyrics have helped me build my confidence, believe and trust in people again and be able to sing as loud as I would like. I know my story isn’t very unusual, bullying has become such a huge presents in all our lives, but I still talk about it. Everyone needs a pilot. Something or someone to get them through something so difficult. I recommend this band to anyone who needs help. You will get through this, you will be ok, and you will have an entire fan base to stand by your side. You will stay alive. concert-addiction.tumblr.com suchsmall-pilots.tumblr.com sopha_doph Thank you so much for the opportunity to spread my story, and others. Thank you for being not only a fan of my favorite band, but a friend. Thank you, thank you, thank you. From the moment I heard "Holding onto You" on the radio I knew I was hooked on twenty one pilots. I know it's cliche but their lyrics really speak to me. As a young person, I know what it's like to be at war with your mind and to feel completely lost. These songs make me feel like I'm not alone, like I still have hope. It might seem silly to think that one band can have such an impact on my life but I know that as long as Tyler and Josh are still making music, I will be just fine. Thank you both so much. Keep it street, xoxo. "And I will say that we should take a day to break away from all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone. And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it and keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone." My friend Emma first introduced me to the awesome that is Twenty One Pilots. They were having a concert in Santa Ana, and she was trying to get people to go with her. When I first heard their music I thought it was strange and I didn’t really get it, but I did like it. I hadn’t been to many concerts so thought it would be a fun experience. I began to listen to more and more of their music in preparation and I was getting really excited for the concert even though I’d only known about the band for a few weeks. That night in Santa Ana was honestly one of the best experiences I have ever had. The room was just buzzing with excitement and Tyler and Josh’s passion was contagious. I will never forget what Tyler said during the show. He talked about how there was no other place in the world he’d rather be, and I believed him. Then he asked the crowd who was happy to be there and be alive and the room erupted in cheers. It was a really cool thing. Tyler told everyone to remember that, that if things ever got dark, we could think back to this huge crowd of people all happy to be alive, and know we had been a part of it. It was my freshman year at college and I wasn’t really having the best of times and something about that night just made something click inside me. I don’t know exactly how to explain it, but the music and the experience just made me realize that there was so much possibility out there I guess? Anyway a few weeks later Twenty One Pilots had added San Diego to their tour so we went to see them again. By this time I had all their songs memorized and I felt like I belonged to it. After the show we got to meet them and talk a little bit. In my excitement before going to their San Diego show, I’d drawn this Car Radio/Twenty One Pilots symbol fan art thing and I took it with me. It was this really cool feeling to have them look interested by this thing I’d drawn. They signed my drawing and it is definitely my favorite wall decoration. Honestly I have never been so completely taken by music before. I love that their songs don’t follow any sort of blue print. They’re strange and unusual and that’s what makes them feel real. All of Twenty One Pilots songs have this undeniable truth to them that can be unique to each individual who interprets them. The more I listen to their songs, the more I fall in love with them. I am very excited to see them again in September! I can never decide what genre of music is my favorite, but I think whatever the music is that Tyler and Josh make, that’s my favorite. |
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