In Chlorine, one runs for one's life, withdraw, lives different lives, has to step away, how some things feel like poison and purity.
As a fan, my heart exploded also because Tyler has imprinted that origin story in the song.
The first thing I'm going to do is point again at a friend, and recommend that you listen to my friend @poptivict talk about color, because she's invested literal thousands of hours watching footage, interviews, videos, etc. to understand TOP and color.
The song's about internal process, so yeah. That's excellent. Also, all of us screamed "SCREEN!" at the same time, which you can all cross reference if you feel like it.
And then, the roof collapses. Tyler falls into the first space, now wrecked with the debris of the collapsed roof.
Look at the lamps at the house show: yellow and green. Trench colors. Good guy colors, according to the lighting rubric. Not just via Lua, but also via interviews with Tyler Shapard: lightingandsoundamerica.com/reprint/Twenty…
Incidentially, Lua's video about orange might be a cool thing to go look at right now:
(HI, I STARTED PLAYING DRUMS TWO MONTHS AGO. I'M HAVING FEELS.)
Yeah, they might be talking behind your head
Your exterior world can step off instead
It might take some friends and a warmer shirt
But you don't get thick skin without getting burnt
Every new layer is another layer. Warmer shirts. Protection.
Specifically as another song about this war with process as a public creator, and how being self-conscious/ambitious/doing things in public wrecks you if you're not careful to guard your own creativity.
Why do I kneel to these concepts?
Tempted by control,
Controlled by temptation.
"Stay Low," they say.
"Stay Low."
And then Tyler bursts up onto his feet.
The Hazmats aren't protecting their occupants. They're inherently toxic.
Well, I think I've already said it above, but as a piece The Hype -- the song and all the things connected to it -- is an act of artistic vulnerability on a scale you don't see very often because it directly confronts the paradox of public art.
That's the living core of the thing: a project, labored over together, made of trust.
Twenty One Pilots is just these two guys who are best friends making what they love.
And they're gonna try real fucking hard to make it good.
And they're gonna do it even if we don't show up.