twenty one pilots

Heathens is fun enough my kids love it to death, stressed out is bad, ride is worse millennial whooooooop

they sound like something that would have been welcome on alternative radio in '98 or '99 to me

yeah theres some modern 311 vibes there for sure

I mostly remember 98-99 as a nadir for alternative radio?

exactly

oh yeah god "ride" is so fuckin hateful

this is the one that reminded me of sublime. but 311 works too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-0pbY9JeU

ride x-post

200 million views. stressed out is almost up to 700 million views.

it's v sublime

oh but i've never heard "heathens" before. this is fine! maybe they just need to calm down and do moody shit?

sublime is a good comp. i was thinking they could have been like an early opener on family values. crazy town without the nu metal or something.

the nu-metal was just replaced with edm.

this song is still like...compellingly awful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XVwY54h5k

Me and my 11-year-old son both like these dudes

lol i think i earnestly like "tear in my heart" now which is my own fault. catch me in this thread in september 2017 screaming "twenty one pilots are the truth"

post-crabcore

lmao i would expect nothing less xp

SERIOUS earworms that's all i know. cuz i get the pleasure of hearing them so much. their hooks in my head for days.

that resigned "yeh" after "wake up you need to make money" kinda gets me

searched ilx this morning to see if anyone had mentioned them, nothing.

You must have not been looking in the old "WORST SONGS" threads from like 2013 onwards.

We should all be glad that at least Fake Shark Real Zombie never really became a huge sensation.

feels inevitable in hindsight that a band that's the mid point of 00s mall emo and youtube eminem ukulele covers would make it this big

Turns out I accidentally saw these guys live at a festival two years ago because I confused the stage where the artist I actually wanted to be was. I don't find them awful but they make me feel old... I honestly don't understand how these guys became the 'rock' band of 2015/2016, the songs are catchy and all but is that all there is?

I actually wanted to *see

i think i have heard "Ride" 1,000 times already. didn't know rock was this big in 2016. KIIS FM plays it like every hour.

"I've been thinking too much"

this isn't rock tho

there was a thing on the nyer website about them - http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-slippery-appeal-of-the-biggest-new-band-in-america

that article was great

yeah jia tolentino's been doing some really good stuff for them imo

and i've said this before, but its crazy how much stuff they have on the nyer website that's not in the magazine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmv8aQKO6k0
the sudden reggae break in this one is baffling enough to almost be endearing

+1 for the jia tolentino article

Popular with high schoolers, as I learned when a friend's kid said they were his favorite band and had seen twice. I hid under the table rather than share my opinion.

*Mario voice*

"This-a band, she-a no so good"

Though in ilx terms I find them, and really a lot of stuff now interesting in the respect that kids totally raised in the post internet Pangaea where genres all sort of fell away into technologically produced hybrids ended up being being stuff that the popists hated, and really popular with young ppl

Coldplay with tattoos

the raps on the hits are terrible, just wanky stoned adolescent shit. not that that prevents it from being enjoyed among actual stoned adolescents but yeah.

i think literally the only band shirts i've seen on tweens/teens in the past year have been for these guys.

i still see the occasional kid in (judging by the font) a shirt for some metalcore band i've never heard of, but yeah, this is otm for me too.

this band is terrible but yes they would have fit in fine on late 90s alt radio. (with different production choices obv.) they're no len, though.

are they the flys then

i will demure because my knowledge of current radio is sadly limited to when my boss decides to torture us with the "today's hits" station. (christ on a crutch they still play the hell out of that wiz/puth song.)

Coldplay with tattoos

Coldplay sound like a very classicist pop/rock band to me. Like, it's easy to draw a direct line to them from the Beatles. This is some hyper-digital genre mash-up shit, which sounds good on paper, but the results don't do much for me. Pro-Tooled 311 seems closer to the mark to me.

reiterating what's been said upthread, but i'm a 6th grade teacher and these guys are absolutely huge with my students, when i let them pick music in my classroom this is always the consensus first pick.

i think literally the only band shirts i've seen on tweens/teens in the past year have been for these guys.

i still see the occasional kid in (judging by the font) a shirt for some metalcore band i've never heard of, but yeah, this is otm for me too.

is it pierce the veil? That's another big one.

i think the last one was asking alexandria. which is actually a band i've heard of. (but never actually heard.)

they are truly awful. Metalcore is the pits

Metalcore has its good and bad bands, just like every genre except black metal, which is 99% shit. Asking Alexandria are direct descendants of Mötley Crüe and Skid Row.

pierce the veil are great btw

Yeah, they really are. At their best they're almost a metalcore Mars Volta.

cool, i'll check them out. i've never actually heard them, just seen students at my school with the shirts or drawings in notebooks. I actually have no idea how "big" they are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9Kf0D5BTs

aiight maybe i've done the full heel turn, i love this song

"bandito" is so good, i nearly forgot

also i will halfheartedly defend most of blurryface at this point. i... like "ride" now?

here let me ruin vampire weekend for you *slowly turns up volume dial on twenty one pilots "ride"*

most 21 pilots superfans would tell you that blurryface is a mainstream concession and vessel is the real shit but i find vessel real juvenile still. some of the hooks are wonderful ("ode to sleep") but many of the almost-good songs are still like rube goldberg machines of bad decisions. what's worse than the rapping? nearly every time this band breaks out the ukulele

of course, trench is >>>>>>>>>>

even the uke tracks work

"shy away" is underwhelming, just feels like part of that small wave of major label pop rock bands who tried to sound like the strokes (neon trees etc.)

it's not bad but kinda forgettable and uninteresting which is the last thing this band should be. even when they've been horrible they were at least interestingly horrible making the worst musical decisions possible etc.

on the plus side: no rapping!

idk it’s a really well-written song imo. everything a hook

been stuck in my head for a week

I will rep for blurryface. Great songs, great visual aesthetic too. Saw them twice live in this time (w/ my teen kids) and the energy start to finish was impressive (band and crowd). Surging quasi pit filled most of the room. Many backflips were flipped. Show climaxes with Tyler on a 30 foot steel pillar above the crowd singing Car Radio.

i really like blurryface at this point. even lowlight “lane boy” has a sick dnb freak out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBRnnnZyFw

really good imo

it's good until the second half where it goes into half-time and then the outro rap is dreadful

god what a weird record

like in many ways it is deeply unweird, cf. "saturday" is just a groovy song about the weekend! until it consumes itself pixel by pixel

they largely make the weirdness work for them for this time instead of making you go "that is one of the worst musical decisions i've ever heard"

"bounce man," tho... i don't hate it but they gotta lock the uke in the closet

and his rapping too, though it's not quite as bad on this one as it's been in the past

"bounce man" isn't good but it's not like bafflingly in the way say the "guns for hands" bridge is or anything

i think dude's rapping majorly improved between blurryface and trench, so for the most part i think it's rad, another tool in the unexpectedly deep toolbox this band's working with. still a few lines that make you clutch your forehead and wish you didn't know what words are

in mood/songwriting/everything else this feels like a complete photonegative of trench and i'm really about bands that make these kind of hard right turns between records

"mulberry street" -> "formidable" is the part of the album i could credibly describe as sophistipop

it's mostly just i hate the sound of his rapping, he just sounds like a less technical eminem or something and it's not pleasant

his rapping is more pleasant than his singing

https://i.ibb.co/fQn4050/21pilots.png

no security or anything - just now on Rock Werchter (Belgian festival)

the grin when he walks back to the stage at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9UOzYPu24