Answers for your questions: Hes talking to the bishops during the bridge. The bishops have to grab his throat and break his hands in order to stop his escape plans and bring him to dema. (those are the parts of him painted black) He’s basically saying the only way he gives into the bishops and dema is if he’s not able to create music anymore. The place is called a trench. heavydirtysoul is before jumpsuit so the point when he said “time to wake up” and took the jacket out the truck was before the jumpsuit music video. A way to tell the timeline is always look at what tylers wearing because he changes multiple times throughout the videos. One thing some people didn’t mention is that josh is the leader of the banditos so he was one of the first to escape dema. His position in the story hasn’t really been talked about yet but I think he’s gonna turn out to be a big piece. Your analysis was pretty spot on especially when u were talking about the banditos not being able to help Tyler. One tip I have for you is to not rely completely on peoples analysis and try to figure it out yourself the story become much more personal when u have your own ideas for what’s happening.
Adding on to this. This might not be correct, but I've always interpreted him saying "Grab my throat and lift me in the air" and the "Tie me down and then break both my hands" as him saying that he can't be stopped as long as he can write music. As long as he can sing (hence the grab my throat) and write (hence the break both my hands).
thanks! that does clear up some of what I was missing...I didn't think it was a trench because it was at normal level...I thought trenches were below normal ground level...could be wrong tho!
TheThirdErnest yea a trench is just an excavation or ditch so It’s below groundlevel. In the mv the banditos were at groundlevel and Tyler was below in the trench.
so its TheThirdErnest doing a trilogy of a band that is 7 thirds, on their third album talking in the past so in third person for the third fam. my head hurts
When I watched the behind the scenes, I was like I dunno about that moss story...could any part of it be true? Then I watched the bts for Nico and the Niners 🤣😂 Now I'm questioning the House of Gold statement lol
So my interpretation: The red hooded guy is a bishop, but hes also bluryface, they are the same. In the bridge, he's talking to Nico, thats his bishops name, it's about fighting. Yeah i'll be there, i'll follow you but you have rip off my hands and grab my throat, so the things he needs to sinh and write music, where he has a lot of insecurities. Also you see his neck and his hands are black in this video as long as he has given up. as he runs away, the paint fades away. Love your breakdowns ern! Sorry for mistakes english is my secound language.
My interpretation is that each one has his very personal Bishop. Each one has that part of his brain filled with insecurity and sadness. The Bishop that lives inside Tyler's had is Blurryface a.k.a. Nico. And all the bishops are trying to drag everyone of us inside Dema, we have to stay in Trench together joining the Banditos to help each other defeat the Bishops, but even if you have all the help of the world you have to fight your own demons, your own bishop, on your own. At least, that's my interpretation. The Banditos can not physically help Tyler because the struggle, the fight that we see, is all in his mind.
My personal interpretation of who Tyler is speaking to in the part where he is saying "if you need anyone" is that he is speaking to his demons. A lot of us who struggle with anxiety, depression, insecurity, etc. have a very love hate relationship with our mental state because on one hand it keeps us from following our dreams and living our lives BUT it also protects us in a lot of ways. My anxiety is a warning bell telling me if I do something "risky" then something else bad is going to happen. I see the line of "I'll be right there" and "I'll stop my plans" as him talking to his depression because he feels enslaved by it. He will just listen to what it says and it doesn't matter if he made plans, he will cancel them and be reclusive. I'm not sure if a whole lot of that made sense but it is just my own personal interpretation. I'd love to hear others interpretations as well.
This makes a lot of sense. I think he is talking to Nico directly saying that he values the comfort that dema offers him. Because of the Nico and the Niners video we know that you wear a Jumpsuit in Dema and that is comforting to him. At the same time he knows that this comfort he gets from Dema is actually harming him and that is why he is trying to escape. That lyric is very paradoxical which I love and reminds me of in Neon Gravestones how he says "Promise me this. If I loose to myself you won't mourn a day and move on to someone else." That can be interpreted in two ways and I think that Tyler meant to do that. Anyway, back to the point, he is saying that he will go to Nico and surrender because it is what he has always done and what comforts him but he knows it is hurting him. He is in a battle against himself. The banditos with the petals which Nico can't see are what push Tyler over the edge and allow him to escape himself (Blurryface/Nico) which is better for him.
Nat Cat Yeah I’m pretty sure he’s talking to Nico but seeing as he’s a figurative manifestation of Tyler’s insecurities you’re basically right, the importance of the throat and hands which Earnest kind of touched on goes back to blurryface era where Tyler had the black paint on his hands and neck, the reason it’s there is because his hands are what he uses to play the instruments and his voice is obviously what he uses to sing. Idk if u noticed but when Nico made the black marks on his neck, they slowly faded across his entire neck until he starts to decide to run for it, and that’s when the black disappears, really cool symbolism and SUCH a great track!
Literally get chills during the bridge. The way I interpret it is the only way he's going to let his demons control him is by them keeping him from singing, ("you'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air") and playing instruments/creating music, ("you'll have to tie me down and then break both my hands."). Those two lines get me every time.
And no, he's not in a trench literally, but definitely in a metaphoric one. In the song Leave The City, he sings "in trench I'm not alone, these faces facing me". That's about him on stage, fans in the audience, in the trench below him. That's how I've always interpreted it and I think that's beautiful.
My only interpretation is that he continually concedes to the negative thoughts, most of the time against his best wishes, but will continue to fight and stay alive. Felt it in my youth, feel it when I'm old. Habitual thought patterns.
Ayy I got a shout out! Thanks so much man, can't wait for NatN, there is so much meaningful lore behind Trench, it amazes me how much effort Tyler put into it. Also the hands/neck thing: Tyler's hands and neck are the things he uses to create art which is his coping mechanism, so if the bishop wants to take him back to the city he'll have to destroy the things that allow him to cope. And: the ending scene from Heavydirtysoul takes place before Jumpsuit.
This is what I think the breakdown is about. Tyler is admitting to himself, even though I tried to escape, I can easily end up back in Dema. If they need me to be there though, they will have to make me by taking away my confidence in myself and bring back my insecurities about my writing and singing (the black). It's such a twisted thing because this part of the song can sound angelic, sweet and like it's someone wanting to be there for someone, but in reality it's haunting, sorrowful and and a lament about someone wanting to run away but admitting they have a weakness that can be exploited to bring them back. I think it may make more sense after NatN though, because the imagery there explains more about Dema, what the Bishops want, and how Tyler and the Banditos play a role in countering that.
There's so much here that it's hard to break down easily. Add to that the fact that the song (and maybe all tøp songs) is written in a way that can be interpreted differently by every single person. It's subjective 💯 For me, that bridge is a dichotomy. It's that struggle of trying to please everyone, saying "I'll be right there...if you need anyone", but it's killing him to be everything to everyone. Adding the visuals of breaking wrists and choking as a pretty clear indication of being unable to express yourself (taking away the most important means of communication). I've always seen it as being true to yourself even if you disappoint others. Then the music. Good God the music. The bass line in Trench is maybe my fav of all tøp. Just the dynamics alone for that one instrument. 🔥It's insane.
To me all this was symbolic of Tyler’s musical insecurities , Tyler was afraid how the follow up to Blurryface would be accepted on both a commercial and critical level after the massive success of BF(the connection with HeavyDirtySoul). I think him being afraid/hating the pressures of this new place was the uncertainty the new Album/singles would bring (pressure of following up, the Blurryface album haunting him). It is the literal “Blurryface” in the video being his insecurity and trying to bring him down in his safe space (trench) but he is surrounded by his friends/family/clique (banditos) who will always be there that give him hope and strength to help him escape from the anxiety/pressure and ultimately be his jumpsuit when the pressure/anxiety (Blurryface) attempts to take him back down.
About the bridge: When you struggle with mental disorders, you hate being in this situation but you love knowing your feelings enough, different of being "healthy" and never know wtf is going on. Even the "hate the pressure of new place" can apply to this: the pressure of being well when you don't how to do, this is terrible. So, Tyler is telling this to his demons, to Nico (the bishop). It's like, "you want me in Dema forever, keeping me here with this dark throughs and bad feelings? Okay, but this only will happen when you broke my hands and stop me from writing and creating". That's how he managed to survive in this world of Dema. And fun fact: Josh is the leader of the banditos, and even Jenna (Tyler's wife) is with them in the top of the mountain. The place where the video passed is the Trench. Is where the banditos live and fight against the Bishop's.
Sometimes ppl ask me why I watch reaction channels... Cuz I like to watch other ppl react to things that I love or I enjoy, watch the face expression on some parts or know their opinions musically talking or videoclip talking... THIS reaction right here gives me so much chills on my body... Dude! I fuching LOVE this reaction, I was smiling and having chills all the second half of the vid. Thank you to react to this trilogy and I know that you feel music on another level... That's one of the reason that I subscribe to you man. Take care! Hugs from Argentina!
My personal timeline is this: 1. Jumpsuit 2. Nico and the niners 3. Levitate 4. HeavyDirtySoul When you watch all four videos it goes like this (SPOILERS): -JUMPSUIT- All the events from Jumpsuit are one of Tyler's attempts for escaping from Dema, but he gets caught by Nico. -NICO AND THE NINERS- He's then returned to Dema, where he's saved by Josh and some banditos, to lead him to their camp. -LEVITATE- At their camp, everything is good except at the end of the MV, when Tyler's caught again by Nico, returning him to Dema. Important note, despite from the fact that he was with Josh and other supportive people, he's caught yet again, meaning that even with support and progress, we can always get caught by our insecurities or issues. -HEAVYDIRTYSOUL- Lastly, the events of HeavyDirtySoul occur, another escape attempt, Nico being the driver to that car. This is the last video chronologically because of the Jumpsuit that was in the trunk. Everything that happens during the videos is up to interpretation, subjective meanings, even this whole story could be a loop (this way, it doesn't matter when this story begins, just the results are important), but this is how I think everything happened :D
@@katstorm13 me too actually, as long as we don't see Tyler escaping completely from Dema and even go farther than Trench, it is a loop of attempts and captures.
I can’t wait to hear about your first tØP show when the live music scene is back. I saw Jumpsuit open the Bandito tour 9 times and the performance never ceased to amaze and hype me up! You have Tyler singling like an angel then screaming, Josh banging the drums like crazy so that you can feel it in your heart, while yellow petals fall from above onto the clique in the pit. Cant beat seeing the boys live... such a surreal experience!
I was reading through the comments and I have always had a different take on the lyrics(which might be wrong) but I always thought he was talking to his wife/friends/family when he says he'll be right there..like he wants to be there for them. And I saw the next line as a call back to the tear in my heart video when jenna literally grabs him by the throat and lifts him in the air to get blurryface out. He wants to be there but you might have to fight off the negativity, or insecurity...or he wants to be there for others but he needs to deal with his own issues. Break the darkness and he will do anything or be there for his loved ones. Just another take😉
Good lord man, you break things down and keep your viewers engaged with substance and solid interpretations. With TOP, lyrics and videos can have sooo many meanings to different people but I feel you really capture what the writer and directors are going for. Can’t wait for your next one in the series. Also, this band has so many videos on RUclips of all sorts of their songs. Take a look at “addict with a pen” from the live room. Emotional song that resonates with me. Keep up the reactions and your ALMOST TO 100K!!! Well deserved!
Ernest: “I can’t remember what this kind of place is called, like geographically” Me trying to say: Literally the name of the album. 😫 Also, Trench is an in-between, in the middle of the city and wherever freedom is. Maybe even those on top aren’t completely free yet, and must travel to wherever the theme of the next album is.
Fun fact These videos were all shot in Iceland. That's why the scenery is so beautiful and looks untouched by man. The perfect place for dema to be🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
@@TheThirdErnest that's the symbolism. It's not technically a Trench. It's some kind of gorge and a valley. But it's all in his head. So it IS in fact, handmade. It's our own thoughts our own insecurities and fears. And he feels like he's below ground. But that's also the point where hope comes in, because he isn't truly in a Trench. He's not underground. He can fight his way out
Your explanation on the soft verse about Tyler conceding to Dema was spot on. In addition to it, he's also saying that he isn't going to concede to Dema without putting up a fight as seen in the video and also in the lyrics ("I'll be right there, but you'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air").
thank you for this! and that bishop is nico btw. There are nine bishops that rule over the different parts of dema (most notably NIco and Keons). Nico is Tyler's bishop and Keons is Clancy's bishop,
What i really like about their music, no matter how many times you listen track you will find the new sounds, jumpsuit out nearly 2 year ago and only now i noticed the new sound in part where is bass coming in, that's just blowing my mind how layered their songs and how my brain discovers/separates tracks and find something new in thing i listened so long. These guys just band of my life.
Little bit of Blurryface lore here for you. The original Goner (theres a music video of it with Tyler playing the accordion) ends with the notes that Heavydritysoul begins with. The album version doesn't. This, to me, represents that the Blurryface album has always been a loop of emotions, just like mental health can go in a constant loop of determination and eventual remission but can go back to the hopelessness, but this time the remission was a longer term recovery, hence why Goner doesn't end on the same note and Trench began. I'd definitely recommend giving both versions a listen back to back (neither are long) so you can see the difference in the tone of the song
This whole video is one spicy affair in my interpretation... Uplifting music in the starting when he is trying to figure out the way to escape noticing some of them had already did.. or its just a place he has to be if he wants out of his insecurities.. that's what his banditos are for... Then the part where he says about break the hand and grab the throat because his hands write the very words which help followed by the throat which sings and helps him to escape him out of dema.. he will only give in when these two major tools will be taken away and then bishops will take over him...maybe his music helps us to escape too..😅 and then the black fading from his neck when yellow rose petals are in the air.. and then the part where he runs screaming in order to escape only falling down and getting dragged to the dema again.. until the next time...
«But you'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air» In this part I think he's talking about anxiety, just like that is how it feels, you can't breathe and always have thoughs about the world is gonna end or life at all. You can feel you without hope and see dark side in everything
Great reaction . And it starts from Heavydirtysoul , connected to this trilogy. So i would say that it's multi-universe of albums. Guy in red - Nico (physical form of Blurryface) , one of the bishops . When he touched Ty's neck and get him under his control (in blurryface album era Ty usually have this type of black colour on his neck and hand's ). The people up on the cliff are the banditos, wearing yellow tape, who are trying to save him ( represents his family and friends , that give him support to get out of this control), in the end of the video Nico get Tyler and take him to Dema ( thats more like concept of prison of your mind, depression and anxiety..). And this is just a beginning. Also after you say that you like the production, let you now that Tyler produced hole album by himself with one person Paul Meany (mutemath).
I’ve probably watched the Jumpsuit video 100 times, no joke!! The trilogy is a cycle-I’m still not sure how it’s meant to be interpreted, but I think of it as Dema being a place in Tyler’s mind. That’s how the videos can interchange with each other.
I have been watching all your Twenty One Pilots song breakdowns and I LOVE LOVE LOVE your insights and enthusiasm. Watching you experience these songs and videos for the first time just takes me back to that happy place for myself when I first discovered them and I can't stop smiling. Thank you for sharing! :)
Notification squad....it really do be a vibe I’m so hyped for you to follow the TØP series again, I am also quite a new fan of TØP and after 2 months you started reacting to TØP too, and that made me stick to your channel after some NF reactions. Keep your thoughts rolling man, your way of thinking is incredible✌🏻
I've been waiting for this! I love your breakdowns & reactions. You notice so much more than just the lyrics which is awesome, especially with a band like Twenty One Pilots where the little minute details matter.
17 seconds, no views, 1st like, twenty øne piløts: I. Am. Here! edit: The Bishop chasing Tyler is Nico aka Blurryface, when he put his hands on Tyler’s neck it turns black; 10:17 your theory is absolutely correct and Tyler is talking to Blurryface (his anxieties/depression)
You don't know how much I've re-watched your Twenty One Pilots reaction videos. I just love to see it again and again and your explanations are on point, even giving me new perspective on songs. Would really love it if you also react to Tyler's No Phun Intended tracks, I think you'll like those too!
my 2 cents: All the car scenes take place after HeavyDirtySoul (he's wearing the exact same outfit, buzzed hair) and he's sort of serving as narrator for the video. And at the very end he's walking off into Trench (into a whole new world, new uncertainties, new unknowns, a whole new cycle). So when he wakes up in Trench, his hair is long, and he's beaten up. He's been in Trench a very long time. Which makes even more sense when you watch Nico and the Niners.
Here’s how I personally interpret this masterpiece of a song/music video. It opens with Tyler at the Heavydirtysoul car, which we know is the junction between Blurryface and Trench, thematically. In Heavydirtysoul, we watched Tyler consciously decide that he was going to get out of the car that was running him out of control on a road to nowhere, symbolically choosing to take control of his depression/tendencies/whatever the struggle is. And, as we discover later, Tyler goes straight from the wreckage of the car to Dema (more on that later). When we get to the part where he wakes up in Trench, I think this is after one of many failed escape attempts from Dema. The rider in red is very likely one of the nine bishops that run Dema, maybe even Blurryface who we now know is really named Nicolas Bourbaki. Tyler apparently managed to escape the city limits and get to Trench, which is the only way out of Dema. We can see the other Banditos, or those who have already escaped and try to assist other captives in their escape, at the top of Trench doing their best to encourage him through, but like you said, that’s all they can do at this point - He has to fight the battle himself. With regard to the bridge section that you said you were confused about, I think you actually are right on the money. Especially when combined with the video, we can see that this portion of the song is somewhat defeated. He has been caught yet again while trying to escape and is resigning himself, at least for now, to his captor. This symbolizes the fact that, yet again, he hasn’t quite been able to break free of the depression or whatever he is dealing with. He’s even surrendered enough to his captor that he is actually telling him how to defeat him whenever he tries to escape again. “Grab my throat” - his throat being his voice that he uses to sing, “break both my hands”, the tools he uses to play his instruments. Basically, stop me from making music and you will defeat me forever. Thankfully we discover that Tyler is not ready to give up though, as the yellow flowers on the ground and falling from above break the spell that the bishop has over him (we even see the bishop’s horse get distressed by the yellow petals - the enemy knows that he risks losing his prisoner if those above are able to reach him with the yellow - yellow being encouragement, support, etc). As he snaps out of it, he makes one last desperate attempt to flee, and as you pointed out, the music masterfully follows the action, but he gets tripped up and is caught anyway. For whatever reason, it isn’t quite Tyler’s time to escape from these issues. That’s the theme of Trench really - it’s the middle of the story. It’s unresolved. He never does escape Dema during this record, as evidenced by the refrain in the last song, Leave the City: “In time, I will leave the city. For now, I will stay alive.” I imagine the next record will thematically tell the story of his ultimate escape. Anyway, I love the last shot of Josh watching helplessly as Tyler gets hauled back to Dema, unable to do anything for him right now, but working on a plan to break him out (as you’ll find out in the next video). Love your videos man. Your insights and perspectives make me fall in love with these songs all over again.
My interpretation and time-line opinion: My interpretation is pretty weird if I'm honest. First is Heavydirtysoul as established. People argue if it's Tyler being driven back to DEMA or escaping. I think he is being driven back. The person driving is hooded, like the one seen here. Tyler "escapes" the car, gets the hoodie from the trunk and begins his journey to the banditos (the end of the Jumpsuit music video). This is seen by his buzzed hair in the ending vs longer hair throughout. Then it goes into the others. This is just my interpretation, of course. Others are wanted :)
I think the whole thing is a loop. And ok wow this just dawned on me. At the end of HDS, he wakes up. Was he dreaming the events of that particular music video? Or the whole escape sequence until he gets snatched again. And not necessarily literal dreaming. Like that was too good to be true must have been a dream. Or for some people including myself, the last time we felt more mentally healthy was a long time ago. Maybe we dreamt it.
Aaand now this is hitting me on a personal level. (Tyler for the most part wants us to interpret the songs for ourselves anyway,) other than possibly hearing them in a store, Jumpsuit is only the 2nd song of theirs I've heard. So, they've been here the whole time. I was asleep. Time to wake up. They have caused me to really realize, my mental health isn't going to get better by sitting on the couch ignoring it. Well I guess I already know that, but they keep reminding me. Apathy is also a really sucky part of struggling with mental illness.
@@katstorm13 Yes, I also believe the entire thing is a loop. An endless loop of falling into negative thoughts and having to save yourself again and again, which is actually shown in the Nico and the Niners music video with his collection of yellow flowers, obviously from all his trips through the Trench of Jumpsuit.
Whoo! You promised & delivered haha (not that I had doubt). One awesome thing in Twenty One Pilots live shows is that during this song, they have the yellow flower petals fall over the people in the pit. It's awesome. Besides Josh throwing petals, two of the other banditos are Tyler's wife Jenna & Josh's wife Debby! I think they're trying to symbolize the Trench with this geography. I don't know the technical term for it either because I always in my mind said he's in Trench with us, fighting to get out. Great breakdown! Can't wait to see the others.
I’m so glad someone explained it to you! It’s SOOOOOOO much to figure out, and they had us all trying to decode cryptic messages before the album dropped. CRAY! We took fake yellow rose petals to shows (yes, same tour multiple times) and through them all over in the part of the song where the banditos threw them in the videos. For the most part people were cool with it, but there was one older man who looked like he was only there so his kid could go. He wasn’t thrilled, but I didn’t care!😂😂😂
Yaaaas. I’m so excited to see you do this. This is one of my favorite songs from them. I love the harder rock vibe. I don’t blame you at all for replaying the one part over and over. You’re right....we are right there oohing and ahhing over it with you. Haha.
Finally!!!! Thank you Ernest for giving this to us during such a shitty time. How am I supposed to go to sleep now though, knowing that there's more to come... Good job I don't have to go into work tomorrow, although I may have to wear sunglasses during my zoom meeting to hide the eye bags!
Great vid, Ernest! There are some great interpretations in the comments so I won’t repeat them but, I remember back in 2018 seeing a post that there were two tracks called Jumpsuit, Nico and the Niners. I remember thinking wtf kind of title to a song is that? Then you finally get to listen and you’re like whaaat - ahh now I get it. That’s the talent of twenty one pilots. They can make a masterpiece and call it Jumpsuit. A mundane word that Tyler added so much meaning too. That’s why I love this band so much.
According to their creative team, the order of the story is just like in the videos. Only weird think with Jumpsuit is that it ends with the beginning, all the car parts are right after HDS, then he puts on the jacket and ventures into Trench during the Jumpsuit video. Notice how only in the car shots his head is buzzed , his journey has been long enough that even his hair has grown. He has a couple cuts and stuff from being in the wild for so long. At the end of the video, Nico (the bishop, blurryface) captures him, while Josh watches.
My thoughts have always been when he says we've been here the whole time he's talking about being in dema while they were in hiatus for those couple of years writing trench and he's talking to the clique that it's time to wake up because they're back with more to the story with a new album
I think you were right about how at the end of the bridge of the song tyler starts to get more confident and the video cuts back and forth between him on top of the car and back into trench. You said he was remembering he had triumphed before and came out of that place. I never thought about that before and I was confused the first time I saw this video but it makes complete sense. And just like one of the other comments stated, the end of the video took place before what happend in the rest of the video so right after heavy dirty soul. Love your vids dude!
I'm still in the middle of the video so you might say this but I think it's really cool how you see that tyler giving in is what gives the bishop power. You can see this when he sees the flower and stops walking, the bishops horse stops and has really cool slowmo visuals of struggling to go forward but can't because the bishop doesn't have power over Tyler once he decides to stop.
Tyler is walking in the Trench...while the banditos are watching over him in the mountains. Most of the banditos in this video are his family and close friends, because they are his Jumpsuit and "cover him". His wife is next to Josh throwing rose petals, and if I remember correctly, his dad is next to her. Yellow was always Jenna's favorite color (Tyler's wife) so I think that helps in the representation of what the color symbolizes because she came into his life and helped him to escape his depression and anxiety and gave him a sense of hope, just as the color yellow does in this video.
My impression was, during the part of the song the implies giving up but the lyrics sound defiant - is he's talking about how different he acts from what he wants when he allows himself to go that route. When he's doing well, he's Johnny on the Spot for his friends and family - while, when he's depressed, the body may be willing, but the mind and heart refuse to budge. You need me? I'm doing well, I'll be right there. You need me? I'm drowning in my depression, so I wanna be there, but you're gonna have to come over here and break both my hands to get me to move on. You're gonna have to show him that tough love.
The phrase "you are sleep, time to wake up" i feel it's a reference to The breake they have to The music in 2017, and this video is the returns in 2018
Imagine being us fans when this first came out. I slept in and woke up to this...let's just say it was the most exciting music release for me. No one was expecting it & we were all listening/watching this video for the first time!! It's SOOOO good. whenever I see the music video it takes me back to when it first came out & I first heard it..major chills. 😭🙌🏻
I know its late but so from what i know is that, tyler got his bandito jacket from the Heavydirtysoul and continued walking for months or maybe years and woke up in the gorge. Afterwards after meeting the bishop, Blurryface aka Nico, he gets taken to dema, the city, which leads us to Nico and the niners music video and after getting help from josh and the rest of the banditos, we see that in Levitate how he gets the yellow on him again but only to be kidnapped by Nico again
You should check this out live, they started the concert with this and it was amazing AF. Also you should check out Heavy Dirty Soul live they did this last fall tour...amazing!!
Oh my gosh, finally someone who goes back and listens to the breakdown just as much as me. (And smiles at how good it is, lol)😂😂😂 Also, gosh, you mentioned a few things I hadn't ever thought about, haha.😄😊
"Jumpsuit. From the full length album Trench" That was the exact moment when we knew about the album after 2 years of touring and one entire year of completely disappearing.
It's really awesome how much you wanted to learn about the whole story line. Much respect to you ♡ lots of fans could really care less about the true story line of it all.
Now this virus needs to go away and hopefully they go back on tour again and you get to see them live and post your reaction of the whole concert ♡ you will love it. Been to 4 of them now. The last emotional roadshow concert. The 1st Bandito Concert. Been too the hometown show. Then another one in Cincinnati. They put on one heck of a show.
In heavydirtysoul music video he defeated Blurryface in the night, but in the next morning we see him going back again inside the car. Here he escapes dema but also in the end he is taken back again. So both of the music videos have the same idea, which is battling with your demons is a cycle that happens every day, and by him taking the jacket (which is sign of hope for him) from the car kinda prove my point that the two videos are the concept after all.
And that part where he's running and it picks back up, I completely feel the same way as you. I don't care how many times you play it, ITS SO GOOD. Also never thought about that him on the car is the him that already defeated the battle. Wow it makes so much more sense now. Love hearing your perspective
This is probably somewhere else in the comments, I'm too lazy to find it tbh, but Nico is the bishop trying to get Tyler (each of the bishops has a name) and if I'm not mistaken Nico is also blurryface hence his "blurry face". Before the album came out dmaorg.info (dmaorg.info/found/15398642_14/clancy.html) was a very influential site that had a lot of information from Clancy. He talked a lot about Dema and the Bishops. There should definitely be archives or reddit feeds talking more about it somewhere. I can't speak too much on it because I was in a different country without internet at the time. But it definitely would help, although I would read it after watching the videos. As some other people have mentioned it is better to go into the video and make your own stories/assumptions and then fill the gaps/figure it out with the top lore that is around. Also, I have been binge-watching your twenty one pilots reactions since the beginning of quarantine--and you've been keeping me so entertained!! I finally have subscribed because I can't wait to see more! (:
I love the lyrics “I’ll be right there, but you’ll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air, I’ll stop my plans, but i’ll have to tie me down and then break both my hands, if you need anyone . I love how in Blurryface Era , he had the black paint and hands, and now he mentions them like he’s giving up. Like he was insecure. And i feel like it has to be a callback, like Car radio in Levitate .
Last moments he put the jacket and start walking the road, you'll notice that there are yellow lines in the road which stop, implying how he's wearing his jumpsuit and wandering off to not safe and hopeful places. Masterfully done
When he talks about the hands and the throat, it means that in order for him to really give in to Dema Nico will have to slaughter his hands and his throat because that’s the only way for Tyler to cope with the negative thoughts and depression itself. If someone has a better explanation go ahead lol
Please tell me you checked out the website too! There are so much to the story. So much torture these boys gave his fans until he finally released this song. also that Bishop's name is Nico. You'll learn about him in the Nico and Niners. And they picked that place for a reason. It's a Trench.
The black paint on his neck represents that he is controlled by bishop/Nico in the moment, by the blurryface, that means that it's not Tyler. It's something that controlles his, his bad thoughts and anxiety. Also thats why previous album is called Blurryface, because blurryface is Nico, one of the niners, that controlles Tyler. Sorry for my poor english.
I cannot wait until they have more shows because you have to see them. Jumpsuit live is one of the best experiences. It’s so much more hyped in person like oh my god it’s amazing
Banditos on top.. while Tyler is at the bottom of the trench "I could take the high road but I know that I'm going low" 🤣🤣 Every time ernest mentioned that I couldn't stop myself from singing that line😉
I always interpreted the ending bridge part as him speaking with death. "If you need anyone, I'll be right there" could be him saying if death would take anyone, he'd prefer it be him. But he wont die easily or without trying to make it through, hence him saying he'd need his hands broken as a physical representation of absolute mental and emotional defeat to surrender. Might be wrong but i like seeing it that way
This video takes on such a different tone knowing the back story. The scene in the bridge where the Bishop finds him, marks him, and drags him back to the Darkness. Bruh. And the yellow flower and petals. Bruh. And Tyler's face when he breaks free from the darkness and bolts! In the end his nerve is steeled. After being caught, and then being encouraged by others that face the Darkness, too, he takes off. Bruuuuh.
I've been a huge fan for years and I still don't know exactly what everything means because I sometimes just prefer to go with what I think it means, and not what other people tell me. For me, the bridge represents that feeling when you're doing something you don't want to do or that you know it's going to hurt you, but you keep doing it; or when someone forces you to do something and you've been doing it for a long time but then you *can't* do it anymore... So you resign yourself, and you do it, because it's what you've been taught/what you've learned to do (toxic behaviours)/what people expect from you. "If you need anyone" could be directed to him when he's at his darkest, when he gives in to his fixations that ultimately hurt him... He says he'll do them willingly, but that it'll cost something (tie me down and break my hands) meaning it will not be easy because he will fight teeth and bone. Basically, it's a fight between Tyler and Tyler, and he's just there waiting to see who will win. I don't know if this is what it's intended to represent but it's what feels right to me.
Answers for your questions:
Hes talking to the bishops during the bridge. The bishops have to grab his throat and break his hands in order to stop his escape plans and bring him to dema. (those are the parts of him painted black) He’s basically saying the only way he gives into the bishops and dema is if he’s not able to create music anymore.
The place is called a trench.
heavydirtysoul is before jumpsuit so the point when he said “time to wake up” and took the jacket out the truck was before the jumpsuit music video. A way to tell the timeline is always look at what tylers wearing because he changes multiple times throughout the videos.
One thing some people didn’t mention is that josh is the leader of the banditos so he was one of the first to escape dema. His position in the story hasn’t really been talked about yet but I think he’s gonna turn out to be a big piece.
Your analysis was pretty spot on especially when u were talking about the banditos not being able to help Tyler.
One tip I have for you is to not rely completely on peoples analysis and try to figure it out yourself the story become much more personal when u have your own ideas for what’s happening.
Adding on to this. This might not be correct, but I've always interpreted him saying "Grab my throat and lift me in the air" and the "Tie me down and then break both my hands" as him saying that he can't be stopped as long as he can write music. As long as he can sing (hence the grab my throat) and write (hence the break both my hands).
Chihiro Fujisaki yea that’s what I was getting at when I said not able to create music. You said it perfectly.
thanks! that does clear up some of what I was missing...I didn't think it was a trench because it was at normal level...I thought trenches were below normal ground level...could be wrong tho!
TheThirdErnest yea a trench is just an excavation or ditch so It’s below groundlevel. In the mv the banditos were at groundlevel and Tyler was below in the trench.
This is also the reason you see the black around his neck fade when he has this realization before he starts running.
TheThirdErnest doing a trilogy on twenty one pilots. Now that’s a lot of thirds.
Twenty one third trilogies
THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE!!
21 is also a trilogy of 7....... there is another 3rd
not to blow all our minds here but its also their third album together and signed with fueled by ramen
so its TheThirdErnest doing a trilogy of a band that is 7 thirds, on their third album talking in the past so in third person for the third fam. my head hurts
Can you imagine the cliques reaction to when Tyler told us to wake up?
Spoiler alert: we woke up
I cried at work lol
Fun fact, this was filmed in Iceland, and so was NF's "The Search".
When I watched the behind the scenes, I was like I dunno about that moss story...could any part of it be true? Then I watched the bts for Nico and the Niners 🤣😂 Now I'm questioning the House of Gold statement lol
I did discover there is issue with tourists walking where they aren't supposed to is negatively impacting it though.
Yeah the thing with the moss is a real thing
This video was filmed in the Ukraine.
@@Dema_DontControlUs nope, just Natn
“Wait, I wasn’t even watching the video” lol I get the same feels too!
thats what happens when the song is too good lol
Btw, in the song, if he breaks his hands he cant write music, and if he hurts his throat he cant sing
@@TheThirdErnest ^^^look above please
So my interpretation:
The red hooded guy is a bishop, but hes also bluryface, they are the same.
In the bridge, he's talking to Nico, thats his bishops name, it's about fighting. Yeah i'll be there, i'll follow you but you have rip off my hands and grab my throat, so the things he needs to sinh and write music, where he has a lot of insecurities. Also you see his neck and his hands are black in this video as long as he has given up. as he runs away, the paint fades away.
Love your breakdowns ern!
Sorry for mistakes english is my secound language.
thats a good interpretation! and most people have that same one so I feel like its valid
I agree with you
i think blurryface is different, but yeah
My interpretation is that each one has his very personal Bishop. Each one has that part of his brain filled with insecurity and sadness. The Bishop that lives inside Tyler's had is Blurryface a.k.a. Nico. And all the bishops are trying to drag everyone of us inside Dema, we have to stay in Trench together joining the Banditos to help each other defeat the Bishops, but even if you have all the help of the world you have to fight your own demons, your own bishop, on your own. At least, that's my interpretation. The Banditos can not physically help Tyler because the struggle, the fight that we see, is all in his mind.
I also feel like trench is a fictional story but also e big metaphor for life and the struggle of fighting especially for tyler.
My personal interpretation of who Tyler is speaking to in the part where he is saying "if you need anyone" is that he is speaking to his demons. A lot of us who struggle with anxiety, depression, insecurity, etc. have a very love hate relationship with our mental state because on one hand it keeps us from following our dreams and living our lives BUT it also protects us in a lot of ways. My anxiety is a warning bell telling me if I do something "risky" then something else bad is going to happen. I see the line of "I'll be right there" and "I'll stop my plans" as him talking to his depression because he feels enslaved by it. He will just listen to what it says and it doesn't matter if he made plans, he will cancel them and be reclusive.
I'm not sure if a whole lot of that made sense but it is just my own personal interpretation. I'd love to hear others interpretations as well.
This makes a lot of sense. I think he is talking to Nico directly saying that he values the comfort that dema offers him. Because of the Nico and the Niners video we know that you wear a Jumpsuit in Dema and that is comforting to him. At the same time he knows that this comfort he gets from Dema is actually harming him and that is why he is trying to escape. That lyric is very paradoxical which I love and reminds me of in Neon Gravestones how he says "Promise me this. If I loose to myself you won't mourn a day and move on to someone else." That can be interpreted in two ways and I think that Tyler meant to do that. Anyway, back to the point, he is saying that he will go to Nico and surrender because it is what he has always done and what comforts him but he knows it is hurting him. He is in a battle against himself. The banditos with the petals which Nico can't see are what push Tyler over the edge and allow him to escape himself (Blurryface/Nico) which is better for him.
That really makes more sense when you bring in that the anxiety can have some kind of drawing or protecting quality.
Nat Cat Yeah I’m pretty sure he’s talking to Nico but seeing as he’s a figurative manifestation of Tyler’s insecurities you’re basically right, the importance of the throat and hands which Earnest kind of touched on goes back to blurryface era where Tyler had the black paint on his hands and neck, the reason it’s there is because his hands are what he uses to play the instruments and his voice is obviously what he uses to sing. Idk if u noticed but when Nico made the black marks on his neck, they slowly faded across his entire neck until he starts to decide to run for it, and that’s when the black disappears, really cool symbolism and SUCH a great track!
I like this interpretation a lot! anxiety can def be an internal warning...just have to learn how to hone it and not let it take over
Literally get chills during the bridge. The way I interpret it is the only way he's going to let his demons control him is by them keeping him from singing, ("you'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air") and playing instruments/creating music, ("you'll have to tie me down and then break both my hands."). Those two lines get me every time.
Man I hadn't thought of that😅
And no, he's not in a trench literally, but definitely in a metaphoric one. In the song Leave The City, he sings "in trench I'm not alone, these faces facing me". That's about him on stage, fans in the audience, in the trench below him. That's how I've always interpreted it and I think that's beautiful.
My only interpretation is that he continually concedes to the negative thoughts, most of the time against his best wishes, but will continue to fight and stay alive. Felt it in my youth, feel it when I'm old. Habitual thought patterns.
Ayy I got a shout out! Thanks so much man, can't wait for NatN, there is so much meaningful lore behind Trench, it amazes me how much effort Tyler put into it.
Also the hands/neck thing: Tyler's hands and neck are the things he uses to create art which is his coping mechanism, so if the bishop wants to take him back to the city he'll have to destroy the things that allow him to cope.
And: the ending scene from Heavydirtysoul takes place before Jumpsuit.
This is what I think the breakdown is about. Tyler is admitting to himself, even though I tried to escape, I can easily end up back in Dema. If they need me to be there though, they will have to make me by taking away my confidence in myself and bring back my insecurities about my writing and singing (the black). It's such a twisted thing because this part of the song can sound angelic, sweet and like it's someone wanting to be there for someone, but in reality it's haunting, sorrowful and and a lament about someone wanting to run away but admitting they have a weakness that can be exploited to bring them back.
I think it may make more sense after NatN though, because the imagery there explains more about Dema, what the Bishops want, and how Tyler and the Banditos play a role in countering that.
@@MyHatBites yeah that's pretty much it, there are lots of layers to every lyric this guy pens.
George Linford I immediately came to the comments to see if you watched this haha. Good info brother💯
@@OriginalBabyBoi thank you :)
appreciate you writing my guy def helps me understand the world a little better
There's so much here that it's hard to break down easily. Add to that the fact that the song (and maybe all tøp songs) is written in a way that can be interpreted differently by every single person. It's subjective 💯
For me, that bridge is a dichotomy. It's that struggle of trying to please everyone, saying "I'll be right there...if you need anyone", but it's killing him to be everything to everyone. Adding the visuals of breaking wrists and choking as a pretty clear indication of being unable to express yourself (taking away the most important means of communication). I've always seen it as being true to yourself even if you disappoint others.
Then the music. Good God the music. The bass line in Trench is maybe my fav of all tøp. Just the dynamics alone for that one instrument. 🔥It's insane.
RUclips: thethirdernest has upl...
Me: Already liked the video baby
To me all this was symbolic of Tyler’s musical insecurities , Tyler was afraid how the follow up to Blurryface would be accepted on both a commercial and critical level after the massive success of BF(the connection with HeavyDirtySoul). I think him being afraid/hating the pressures of this new place was the uncertainty the new Album/singles would bring (pressure of following up, the Blurryface album haunting him). It is the literal “Blurryface” in the video being his insecurity and trying to bring him down in his safe space (trench) but he is surrounded by his friends/family/clique (banditos) who will always be there that give him hope and strength to help him escape from the anxiety/pressure and ultimately be his jumpsuit when the pressure/anxiety (Blurryface) attempts to take him back down.
About the bridge:
When you struggle with mental disorders, you hate being in this situation but you love knowing your feelings enough, different of being "healthy" and never know wtf is going on. Even the "hate the pressure of new place" can apply to this: the pressure of being well when you don't how to do, this is terrible. So, Tyler is telling this to his demons, to Nico (the bishop). It's like, "you want me in Dema forever, keeping me here with this dark throughs and bad feelings? Okay, but this only will happen when you broke my hands and stop me from writing and creating". That's how he managed to survive in this world of Dema.
And fun fact: Josh is the leader of the banditos, and even Jenna (Tyler's wife) is with them in the top of the mountain.
The place where the video passed is the Trench. Is where the banditos live and fight against the Bishop's.
Sometimes ppl ask me why I watch reaction channels... Cuz I like to watch other ppl react to things that I love or I enjoy, watch the face expression on some parts or know their opinions musically talking or videoclip talking... THIS reaction right here gives me so much chills on my body... Dude! I fuching LOVE this reaction, I was smiling and having chills all the second half of the vid. Thank you to react to this trilogy and I know that you feel music on another level... That's one of the reason that I subscribe to you man. Take care! Hugs from Argentina!
I discover things I didn't pick up on even after multiple viewings myself.
My personal timeline is this:
1. Jumpsuit
2. Nico and the niners
3. Levitate
4. HeavyDirtySoul
When you watch all four videos it goes like this (SPOILERS):
-JUMPSUIT-
All the events from Jumpsuit are one of Tyler's attempts for escaping from Dema, but he gets caught by Nico.
-NICO AND THE NINERS-
He's then returned to Dema, where he's saved by Josh and some banditos, to lead him to their camp.
-LEVITATE-
At their camp, everything is good except at the end of the MV, when Tyler's caught again by Nico, returning him to Dema. Important note, despite from the fact that he was with Josh and other supportive people, he's caught yet again, meaning that even with support and progress, we can always get caught by our insecurities or issues.
-HEAVYDIRTYSOUL-
Lastly, the events of HeavyDirtySoul occur, another escape attempt, Nico being the driver to that car. This is the last video chronologically because of the Jumpsuit that was in the trunk.
Everything that happens during the videos is up to interpretation, subjective meanings, even this whole story could be a loop (this way, it doesn't matter when this story begins, just the results are important), but this is how I think everything happened :D
My thought is it's a loop.
No first obviously comes Heavy dirty soul sonxe its ebd and beginning of one era.
@@katstorm13 me too actually, as long as we don't see Tyler escaping completely from Dema and even go farther than Trench, it is a loop of attempts and captures.
I can’t wait to hear about your first tØP show when the live music scene is back. I saw Jumpsuit open the Bandito tour 9 times and the performance never ceased to amaze and hype me up! You have Tyler singling like an angel then screaming, Josh banging the drums like crazy so that you can feel it in your heart, while yellow petals fall from above onto the clique in the pit. Cant beat seeing the boys live... such a surreal experience!
I’m just hoping an NF - TØP collab till the day I die.
Harmertz yeah it’s real music to the day we die, ain’t that the slogan nathan?
@@ax6527 I see what you did there... 😂 Intro III
Syahmi Dhiyaul M 😉
Harmertz omg same that would be amazing
They have the same managers so it really is within the realm of possibility.
I was reading through the comments and I have always had a different take on the lyrics(which might be wrong) but I always thought he was talking to his wife/friends/family when he says he'll be right there..like he wants to be there for them. And I saw the next line as a call back to the tear in my heart video when jenna literally grabs him by the throat and lifts him in the air to get blurryface out. He wants to be there but you might have to fight off the negativity, or insecurity...or he wants to be there for others but he needs to deal with his own issues. Break the darkness and he will do anything or be there for his loved ones.
Just another take😉
Exactly how I interpreted that too
Beautiful
Good lord man, you break things down and keep your viewers engaged with substance and solid interpretations. With TOP, lyrics and videos can have sooo many meanings to different people but I feel you really capture what the writer and directors are going for. Can’t wait for your next one in the series. Also, this band has so many videos on RUclips of all sorts of their songs. Take a look at “addict with a pen” from the live room. Emotional song that resonates with me. Keep up the reactions and your ALMOST TO 100K!!! Well deserved!
Ernest:
“I can’t remember what this kind of place is called, like geographically”
Me trying to say:
Literally the name of the album. 😫
Also, Trench is an in-between, in the middle of the city and wherever freedom is. Maybe even those on top aren’t completely free yet, and must travel to wherever the theme of the next album is.
lmao I thought a trench had to be manmade and dug below the surface..
Fun fact These videos were all shot in Iceland. That's why the scenery is so beautiful and looks untouched by man. The perfect place for dema to be🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
What no.
@@TheThirdErnest that's the symbolism. It's not technically a Trench. It's some kind of gorge and a valley. But it's all in his head. So it IS in fact, handmade. It's our own thoughts our own insecurities and fears. And he feels like he's below ground. But that's also the point where hope comes in, because he isn't truly in a Trench. He's not underground. He can fight his way out
@@punchit1562 NatN was filmed in Ukraine.
The Trench Trilogy of TØP
ROLL IT
Your explanation on the soft verse about Tyler conceding to Dema was spot on. In addition to it, he's also saying that he isn't going to concede to Dema without putting up a fight as seen in the video and also in the lyrics ("I'll be right there, but you'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air").
thank you for this! and that bishop is nico btw. There are nine bishops that rule over the different parts of dema (most notably NIco and Keons). Nico is Tyler's bishop and Keons is Clancy's bishop,
Also Nico and Blurryface are the same person that is why Nico is wearing the mask (Blurryface haha get it his face is literally blurry)
8:50 what u mean man that’s a trench
What i really like about their music, no matter how many times you listen track you will find the new sounds, jumpsuit out nearly 2 year ago and only now i noticed the new sound in part where is bass coming in, that's just blowing my mind how layered their songs and how my brain discovers/separates tracks and find something new in thing i listened so long. These guys just band of my life.
Finally I've been waiting for this for so long! Thank you!
Little bit of Blurryface lore here for you.
The original Goner (theres a music video of it with Tyler playing the accordion) ends with the notes that Heavydritysoul begins with. The album version doesn't.
This, to me, represents that the Blurryface album has always been a loop of emotions, just like mental health can go in a constant loop of determination and eventual remission but can go back to the hopelessness, but this time the remission was a longer term recovery, hence why Goner doesn't end on the same note and Trench began.
I'd definitely recommend giving both versions a listen back to back (neither are long) so you can see the difference in the tone of the song
This whole video is one spicy affair in my interpretation... Uplifting music in the starting when he is trying to figure out the way to escape noticing some of them had already did.. or its just a place he has to be if he wants out of his insecurities.. that's what his banditos are for... Then the part where he says about break the hand and grab the throat because his hands write the very words which help followed by the throat which sings and helps him to escape him out of dema.. he will only give in when these two major tools will be taken away and then bishops will take over him...maybe his music helps us to escape too..😅 and then the black fading from his neck when yellow rose petals are in the air.. and then the part where he runs screaming in order to escape only falling down and getting dragged to the dema again.. until the next time...
«But you'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air»
In this part I think he's talking about anxiety, just like that is how it feels, you can't breathe and always have thoughs about the world is gonna end or life at all. You can feel you without hope and see dark side in everything
OH GOD you have to see Clancy's letters
Yes!
That'll send him down an endless hole... Which would be AWESOME!
Can anyone link me to them? I've never read them I don't think.
YES
But I also think its nice to find a site that wrote them 'cause its hard to undestand sometimes
Great reaction . And it starts from Heavydirtysoul , connected to this trilogy. So i would say that it's multi-universe of albums.
Guy in red - Nico (physical form of Blurryface) , one of the bishops . When he touched Ty's neck and get him under his control (in blurryface album era Ty usually have this type of black colour on his neck and hand's ).
The people up on the cliff are the banditos, wearing yellow tape, who are trying to save him ( represents his family and friends , that give him support to get out of this control), in the end of the video Nico get Tyler and take him to Dema ( thats more like concept of prison of your mind, depression and anxiety..). And this is just a beginning.
Also after you say that you like the production, let you now that Tyler produced hole album by himself with one person Paul Meany (mutemath).
I’ve probably watched the Jumpsuit video 100 times, no joke!! The trilogy is a cycle-I’m still not sure how it’s meant to be interpreted, but I think of it as Dema being a place in Tyler’s mind. That’s how the videos can interchange with each other.
In my opinion the whole 4 is a loop. After Levitate, back to HDS
I have been watching all your Twenty One Pilots song breakdowns and I LOVE LOVE LOVE your insights and enthusiasm. Watching you experience these songs and videos for the first time just takes me back to that happy place for myself when I first discovered them and I can't stop smiling. Thank you for sharing! :)
Notification squad....it really do be a vibe
I’m so hyped for you to follow the TØP series again, I am also quite a new fan of TØP and after 2 months you started reacting to TØP too, and that made me stick to your channel after some NF reactions.
Keep your thoughts rolling man, your way of thinking is incredible✌🏻
IT REALLY DO BE A VIBE
I've been waiting for this! I love your breakdowns & reactions. You notice so much more than just the lyrics which is awesome, especially with a band like Twenty One Pilots where the little minute details matter.
17 seconds, no views, 1st like, twenty øne piløts: I. Am. Here! edit: The Bishop chasing Tyler is Nico aka Blurryface, when he put his hands on Tyler’s neck it turns black; 10:17 your theory is absolutely correct and Tyler is talking to Blurryface (his anxieties/depression)
You don't know how much I've re-watched your Twenty One Pilots reaction videos. I just love to see it again and again and your explanations are on point, even giving me new perspective on songs.
Would really love it if you also react to Tyler's No Phun Intended tracks, I think you'll like those too!
my 2 cents: All the car scenes take place after HeavyDirtySoul (he's wearing the exact same outfit, buzzed hair) and he's sort of serving as narrator for the video. And at the very end he's walking off into Trench (into a whole new world, new uncertainties, new unknowns, a whole new cycle). So when he wakes up in Trench, his hair is long, and he's beaten up. He's been in Trench a very long time. Which makes even more sense when you watch Nico and the Niners.
WOOOO I HAVE BEEN SOOO READY FOR THIS BRO!!!!
Here’s how I personally interpret this masterpiece of a song/music video.
It opens with Tyler at the Heavydirtysoul car, which we know is the junction between Blurryface and Trench, thematically. In Heavydirtysoul, we watched Tyler consciously decide that he was going to get out of the car that was running him out of control on a road to nowhere, symbolically choosing to take control of his depression/tendencies/whatever the struggle is. And, as we discover later, Tyler goes straight from the wreckage of the car to Dema (more on that later).
When we get to the part where he wakes up in Trench, I think this is after one of many failed escape attempts from Dema. The rider in red is very likely one of the nine bishops that run Dema, maybe even Blurryface who we now know is really named Nicolas Bourbaki. Tyler apparently managed to escape the city limits and get to Trench, which is the only way out of Dema. We can see the other Banditos, or those who have already escaped and try to assist other captives in their escape, at the top of Trench doing their best to encourage him through, but like you said, that’s all they can do at this point - He has to fight the battle himself.
With regard to the bridge section that you said you were confused about, I think you actually are right on the money. Especially when combined with the video, we can see that this portion of the song is somewhat defeated. He has been caught yet again while trying to escape and is resigning himself, at least for now, to his captor. This symbolizes the fact that, yet again, he hasn’t quite been able to break free of the depression or whatever he is dealing with. He’s even surrendered enough to his captor that he is actually telling him how to defeat him whenever he tries to escape again. “Grab my throat” - his throat being his voice that he uses to sing, “break both my hands”, the tools he uses to play his instruments. Basically, stop me from making music and you will defeat me forever. Thankfully we discover that Tyler is not ready to give up though, as the yellow flowers on the ground and falling from above break the spell that the bishop has over him (we even see the bishop’s horse get distressed by the yellow petals - the enemy knows that he risks losing his prisoner if those above are able to reach him with the yellow - yellow being encouragement, support, etc). As he snaps out of it, he makes one last desperate attempt to flee, and as you pointed out, the music masterfully follows the action, but he gets tripped up and is caught anyway. For whatever reason, it isn’t quite Tyler’s time to escape from these issues. That’s the theme of Trench really - it’s the middle of the story. It’s unresolved. He never does escape Dema during this record, as evidenced by the refrain in the last song, Leave the City: “In time, I will leave the city. For now, I will stay alive.” I imagine the next record will thematically tell the story of his ultimate escape. Anyway, I love the last shot of Josh watching helplessly as Tyler gets hauled back to Dema, unable to do anything for him right now, but working on a plan to break him out (as you’ll find out in the next video).
Love your videos man. Your insights and perspectives make me fall in love with these songs all over again.
I absolutely LOVE that as he runs away from the bishop, the black on his neck goes away as his confidence grows.
My interpretation and time-line opinion: My interpretation is pretty weird if I'm honest. First is Heavydirtysoul as established. People argue if it's Tyler being driven back to DEMA or escaping. I think he is being driven back. The person driving is hooded, like the one seen here. Tyler "escapes" the car, gets the hoodie from the trunk and begins his journey to the banditos (the end of the Jumpsuit music video). This is seen by his buzzed hair in the ending vs longer hair throughout. Then it goes into the others. This is just my interpretation, of course. Others are wanted :)
I think the whole thing is a loop. And ok wow this just dawned on me. At the end of HDS, he wakes up. Was he dreaming the events of that particular music video? Or the whole escape sequence until he gets snatched again. And not necessarily literal dreaming. Like that was too good to be true must have been a dream. Or for some people including myself, the last time we felt more mentally healthy was a long time ago. Maybe we dreamt it.
Aaand now this is hitting me on a personal level. (Tyler for the most part wants us to interpret the songs for ourselves anyway,) other than possibly hearing them in a store, Jumpsuit is only the 2nd song of theirs I've heard. So, they've been here the whole time. I was asleep. Time to wake up. They have caused me to really realize, my mental health isn't going to get better by sitting on the couch ignoring it. Well I guess I already know that, but they keep reminding me. Apathy is also a really sucky part of struggling with mental illness.
He escaped and in jumpsuit he goes back
@@Nezumi99 and then at the end of Levitate....
@@katstorm13 Yes, I also believe the entire thing is a loop. An endless loop of falling into negative thoughts and having to save yourself again and again, which is actually shown in the Nico and the Niners music video with his collection of yellow flowers, obviously from all his trips through the Trench of Jumpsuit.
Whoo! You promised & delivered haha (not that I had doubt). One awesome thing in Twenty One Pilots live shows is that during this song, they have the yellow flower petals fall over the people in the pit. It's awesome.
Besides Josh throwing petals, two of the other banditos are Tyler's wife Jenna & Josh's wife Debby!
I think they're trying to symbolize the Trench with this geography. I don't know the technical term for it either because I always in my mind said he's in Trench with us, fighting to get out. Great breakdown! Can't wait to see the others.
I’m so glad someone explained it to you! It’s SOOOOOOO much to figure out, and they had us all trying to decode cryptic messages before the album dropped. CRAY!
We took fake yellow rose petals to shows (yes, same tour multiple times) and through them all over in the part of the song where the banditos threw them in the videos. For the most part people were cool with it, but there was one older man who looked like he was only there so his kid could go. He wasn’t thrilled, but I didn’t care!😂😂😂
God yes another video, thank you pal. Love ya
Paul Meany and Tyler make a powerhouse musical combo. Trench is so good!
Yaaaas. I’m so excited to see you do this. This is one of my favorite songs from them. I love the harder rock vibe. I don’t blame you at all for replaying the one part over and over. You’re right....we are right there oohing and ahhing over it with you. Haha.
Finally!!!! Thank you Ernest for giving this to us during such a shitty time. How am I supposed to go to sleep now though, knowing that there's more to come... Good job I don't have to go into work tomorrow, although I may have to wear sunglasses during my zoom meeting to hide the eye bags!
Great vid, Ernest! There are some great interpretations in the comments so I won’t repeat them but, I remember back in 2018 seeing a post that there were two tracks called Jumpsuit, Nico and the Niners. I remember thinking wtf kind of title to a song is that? Then you finally get to listen and you’re like whaaat - ahh now I get it. That’s the talent of twenty one pilots. They can make a masterpiece and call it Jumpsuit. A mundane word that Tyler added so much meaning too. That’s why I love this band so much.
This was the opening song for their last tour...talk about setting the tone for a phenomenal concert!! Can't wait for you to see them live, fam!
Jumpsuit live is amazing! Highly recommend watching even if it's off cam.
According to their creative team, the order of the story is just like in the videos. Only weird think with Jumpsuit is that it ends with the beginning, all the car parts are right after HDS, then he puts on the jacket and ventures into Trench during the Jumpsuit video. Notice how only in the car shots his head is buzzed , his journey has been long enough that even his hair has grown. He has a couple cuts and stuff from being in the wild for so long. At the end of the video, Nico (the bishop, blurryface) captures him, while Josh watches.
The way jumpsuit morphs to levitate 😫🙌🏽
My thoughts have always been when he says we've been here the whole time he's talking about being in dema while they were in hiatus for those couple of years writing trench and he's talking to the clique that it's time to wake up because they're back with more to the story with a new album
I think you were right about how at the end of the bridge of the song tyler starts to get more confident and the video cuts back and forth between him on top of the car and back into trench. You said he was remembering he had triumphed before and came out of that place. I never thought about that before and I was confused the first time I saw this video but it makes complete sense. And just like one of the other comments stated, the end of the video took place before what happend in the rest of the video so right after heavy dirty soul. Love your vids dude!
I'm still in the middle of the video so you might say this but I think it's really cool how you see that tyler giving in is what gives the bishop power. You can see this when he sees the flower and stops walking, the bishops horse stops and has really cool slowmo visuals of struggling to go forward but can't because the bishop doesn't have power over Tyler once he decides to stop.
Tyler is walking in the Trench...while the banditos are watching over him in the mountains. Most of the banditos in this video are his family and close friends, because they are his Jumpsuit and "cover him". His wife is next to Josh throwing rose petals, and if I remember correctly, his dad is next to her. Yellow was always Jenna's favorite color (Tyler's wife) so I think that helps in the representation of what the color symbolizes because she came into his life and helped him to escape his depression and anxiety and gave him a sense of hope, just as the color yellow does in this video.
My impression was, during the part of the song the implies giving up but the lyrics sound defiant - is he's talking about how different he acts from what he wants when he allows himself to go that route. When he's doing well, he's Johnny on the Spot for his friends and family - while, when he's depressed, the body may be willing, but the mind and heart refuse to budge. You need me? I'm doing well, I'll be right there. You need me? I'm drowning in my depression, so I wanna be there, but you're gonna have to come over here and break both my hands to get me to move on. You're gonna have to show him that tough love.
The phrase "you are sleep, time to wake up" i feel it's a reference to The breake they have to The music in 2017, and this video is the returns in 2018
Imagine being us fans when this first came out. I slept in and woke up to this...let's just say it was the most exciting music release for me. No one was expecting it & we were all listening/watching this video for the first time!! It's SOOOO good. whenever I see the music video it takes me back to when it first came out & I first heard it..major chills. 😭🙌🏻
I know its late but so from what i know is that, tyler got his bandito jacket from the Heavydirtysoul and continued walking for months or maybe years and woke up in the gorge. Afterwards after meeting the bishop, Blurryface aka Nico, he gets taken to dema, the city, which leads us to Nico and the niners music video and after getting help from josh and the rest of the banditos, we see that in Levitate how he gets the yellow on him again but only to be kidnapped by Nico again
I was waiting for that 🤩
You should check this out live, they started the concert with this and it was amazing AF. Also you should check out Heavy Dirty Soul live they did this last fall tour...amazing!!
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This is the first one in Tampa, I was at this show and it was insane
Heavy dirty soul is amazing live! Even if someone has to watch it live on video lol
Oooh I've been waiting for this ever since I found your channel, but don't get me wrong, I enjoy all your content! Keep it up! 👍🏻
It's about time u got to these boys again
so excited to see you finally get to these videos
Oh my gosh, finally someone who goes back and listens to the breakdown just as much as me. (And smiles at how good it is, lol)😂😂😂
Also, gosh, you mentioned a few things I hadn't ever thought about, haha.😄😊
"Jumpsuit. From the full length album Trench" That was the exact moment when we knew about the album after 2 years of touring and one entire year of completely disappearing.
Prove me wrong! Jumpsuit was one of the best songs of last decade!!
RUclips, fix your broken copyright
soooooo stupid and one sided
Been waiting for this one!!
Omg I am SO glad you are doing mor TOP! 🥰
Love seeing the TOP videos pop up on my feed! The breakdowns are real no matter what vid, can't wait to see the yellow tape someday lol
It's really awesome how much you wanted to learn about the whole story line. Much respect to you ♡ lots of fans could really care less about the true story line of it all.
Now this virus needs to go away and hopefully they go back on tour again and you get to see them live and post your reaction of the whole concert ♡ you will love it. Been to 4 of them now. The last emotional roadshow concert. The 1st Bandito Concert. Been too the hometown show. Then another one in Cincinnati. They put on one heck of a show.
Your reactions and breakdowns are amazing!! Can't waait for the next video.
In heavydirtysoul music video he defeated Blurryface in the night, but in the next morning we see him going back again inside the car. Here he escapes dema but also in the end he is taken back again. So both of the music videos have the same idea, which is battling with your demons is a cycle that happens every day, and by him taking the jacket (which is sign of hope for him) from the car kinda prove my point that the two videos are the concept after all.
And that part where he's running and it picks back up, I completely feel the same way as you. I don't care how many times you play it, ITS SO GOOD. Also never thought about that him on the car is the him that already defeated the battle. Wow it makes so much more sense now. Love hearing your perspective
This is probably somewhere else in the comments, I'm too lazy to find it tbh, but Nico is the bishop trying to get Tyler (each of the bishops has a name) and if I'm not mistaken Nico is also blurryface hence his "blurry face".
Before the album came out dmaorg.info (dmaorg.info/found/15398642_14/clancy.html) was a very influential site that had a lot of information from Clancy. He talked a lot about Dema and the Bishops. There should definitely be archives or reddit feeds talking more about it somewhere. I can't speak too much on it because I was in a different country without internet at the time. But it definitely would help, although I would read it after watching the videos. As some other people have mentioned it is better to go into the video and make your own stories/assumptions and then fill the gaps/figure it out with the top lore that is around.
Also, I have been binge-watching your twenty one pilots reactions since the beginning of quarantine--and you've been keeping me so entertained!! I finally have subscribed because I can't wait to see more! (:
Your channel is unique and outstanding! Keep it going 💯🔥
Early video today, I appreciate it, I can finally go to bed before 2 am 😂
I love the lyrics “I’ll be right there, but you’ll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air, I’ll stop my plans, but i’ll have to tie me down and then break both my hands, if you need anyone . I love how in Blurryface Era , he had the black paint and hands, and now he mentions them like he’s giving up. Like he was insecure. And i feel like it has to be a callback, like Car radio in Levitate .
niicee more tøp! appreciate what you do man, keep it up.
First time I watched the boys live was in 2018 when The Bandito Tour kicked off and they opened with 'Jumpsuit' and it was amazing!
Last moments he put the jacket and start walking the road, you'll notice that there are yellow lines in the road which stop, implying how he's wearing his jumpsuit and wandering off to not safe and hopeful places. Masterfully done
When he talks about the hands and the throat, it means that in order for him
to really give in to Dema Nico will have to slaughter his hands and his throat because that’s the only way for Tyler to cope with the negative thoughts and depression itself. If someone has a better explanation go ahead lol
Because he writes lyrics with his hands and sings with his throat i guess you can say
TROUBLEMAKER1st _ exactly
TROUBLEMAKER1st _ i forgot to write that lol I was distracted watching the video
@@carlosguevara7663 the rest is great though great explanation dude
Please tell me you checked out the website too! There are so much to the story. So much torture these boys gave his fans until he finally released this song. also that Bishop's name is Nico. You'll learn about him in the Nico and Niners. And they picked that place for a reason. It's a Trench.
The ending with the jacket represents the transition from blurryface era to trench.
The black paint on his neck represents that he is controlled by bishop/Nico in the moment, by the blurryface, that means that it's not Tyler. It's something that controlles his, his bad thoughts and anxiety. Also thats why previous album is called Blurryface, because blurryface is Nico, one of the niners, that controlles Tyler.
Sorry for my poor english.
I cannot wait until they have more shows because you have to see them. Jumpsuit live is one of the best experiences. It’s so much more hyped in person like oh my god it’s amazing
Alright, back on the TØP!
FINALLY! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR EVER!!!
FINALLY!! 🔥 I am Pumped!
Banditos on top.. while Tyler is at the bottom of the trench
"I could take the high road but I know that I'm going low" 🤣🤣
Every time ernest mentioned that I couldn't stop myself from singing that line😉
You all have to watch the Beyond the Video for Jumpsuit. Josh is HILARIOUS.
I always interpreted the ending bridge part as him speaking with death.
"If you need anyone, I'll be right there" could be him saying if death would take anyone, he'd prefer it be him. But he wont die easily or without trying to make it through, hence him saying he'd need his hands broken as a physical representation of absolute mental and emotional defeat to surrender. Might be wrong but i like seeing it that way
This video takes on such a different tone knowing the back story. The scene in the bridge where the Bishop finds him, marks him, and drags him back to the Darkness. Bruh. And the yellow flower and petals. Bruh. And Tyler's face when he breaks free from the darkness and bolts! In the end his nerve is steeled. After being caught, and then being encouraged by others that face the Darkness, too, he takes off. Bruuuuh.
Im re-appreciating this masterpiece of an album because of this lol. I feel like Jumpsuit just came out and I'm EXCITED ABOUT EVERYTHING
I've been a huge fan for years and I still don't know exactly what everything means because I sometimes just prefer to go with what I think it means, and not what other people tell me. For me, the bridge represents that feeling when you're doing something you don't want to do or that you know it's going to hurt you, but you keep doing it; or when someone forces you to do something and you've been doing it for a long time but then you *can't* do it anymore... So you resign yourself, and you do it, because it's what you've been taught/what you've learned to do (toxic behaviours)/what people expect from you. "If you need anyone" could be directed to him when he's at his darkest, when he gives in to his fixations that ultimately hurt him... He says he'll do them willingly, but that it'll cost something (tie me down and break my hands) meaning it will not be easy because he will fight teeth and bone. Basically, it's a fight between Tyler and Tyler, and he's just there waiting to see who will win.
I don't know if this is what it's intended to represent but it's what feels right to me.