3/5/2023 0 Comments Twenty one pilots the hypeTYLER: Well, Rivendell isn’t here, but we did go to Hobbiton a few years ago and it was one of the coolest things that we were able to do ever on tour. 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!!” I didn’t know how to decompress that and to have an outlet for it-I was forced to learn how to play the piano.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. “I was perfectly fine before music, and then something happened where I just felt a buildup of some sort. “I never would have turned to music if I didn’t feel like I need to change or cope with something,” he told Beats 1. “Surrounded and up against a wall,” he sings on the disco-ish “My Blood,” “I’ll shred ’em all and go with you.” Whoever he might be talking to (his fans, his wife, his friends), you get the sense the words double as a promise to himself. What continues to resonate is Joseph’s ability to turn his personal pain into shared experience, his inner dialogue into public art. If Blurryface was, as Tyler Joseph told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe, a “mirror” for his insecurities, Trench is a place where he could go to regain control-or, as he puts it on the tender, album-closing “Leave the City”: “But this year/though I’m far from home/In trench I’m not alone.” Recorded primarily in the band’s Columbus, Ohio, studio during a yearlong public silence, their fifth album Trench picks up where the band left off in both sound and subject, exploring rugged emotional terrain in a style by turns cathartic and cryptic. Having vaulted to new heights with 2015’s Blurryface, followed by nearly two solid years of touring, twenty one pilots were in need of a break.
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