When I listened to the singles and saw Jumpsuit's music video for the first time, my first thought was: "I KNOW this has some weird meaning, but I don't know it yet". And, well, a couple days after that, I found out, I don't even remember how anymore, a very weird site. http://dmaorg.info. I read it and I got pretty creeped out at first. Basically, it was telling me to keep silent about what I just found out, for the sake of the others' survival. And in a very desperate way. I decided to search that up on Old Uncle Google and found this mega thread on Reddit. Apparently, I was 3 months late and the whole clique fandom knew about this, already. Let me tell you, I instantly regretted for being inactive on Reddit these couple months.
But yeah, somehow the fandom managed to find this on the site. A site full of letters from someone called Clancy and a fuck ton of pictures and gifs that have been updated since April. Many people have covered this, so I'll be quick about it.
To start off, according to my research and to a couple YouTubers, the updates were directly linked with the eye closing, which officially announced their hiatus and the end of the Blurryface era (here and here. Just scroll to the left until you the profile/cover pic of the new era pops up). It is quite difficult to explain it, but once you finish watching those videos, you'll get it.
But what intrigued me the most were Clancy's letters. Specially the first one, which is basically that character describing a moment that pretty much matches up with Jumpsuit's music video. On those letters, Clancy talks about a place named Dema, which looks like a place where a group called "The Bishops" have absolute power. Interestingly enough, Josh Dun once said that "Tyler was cutting down ties with Dema", but what's Dema? I'll tell you: A "Tower of Silence". In some ancient religions, there were these towers where the dead bodies, which were considered to be impure, were put in the center of that same tower in order to be eaten by birds, and then they would take the body out once it was only bones. Silence. That't the main word here. Tyler was breaking down ties with silence. Something even more interesting is this map, which apparently shows one of these Towers of Silence (but can also be interpreted as the map of a city called Dema. Or both). In the center of it, you can find nine circles, similar to the ones you see in Blurryface's cover. Well, those circles have some weird names on top of them, right? Well, guess what!
Interesting, right? You can see that all of the non-sleepers songs (for more information about the sleepers and non-sleepers of Blurryface, check out my review of that same album) play a role here, with part of their lyrics there. But the order is not right... Well, there's a way to fix that! In one of Clancy's letters, you can read "West wall is blocked. East is up", as well as in the main website (the letters that are not in lowercase form the whole sentence read up "EAST IS UP" once put together). If you flip it the order of the sleepers in order to put Tear in My Heart, which was on the left, on top, then you get the right order! Voilá!
At last, I also want to headline how ironic it is that they put a photo of an isle full of flightless birds! Get it? The song, the pic? Heh. Not so funny when you realize those birds basically eat whoever's on the tower of silence, huh? Poor guy... But yeah, I won't continue to explain this. Search it for yourself. The mega thread and the playlist I gave you explains everything to you in a good (but sometimes way too fan-girly) way. Oh, I add this video here to that list.
My big question is: Considering all of this, how will the new album sound like? And how will be this new era in general?
Well, to start off, let me just say Jumpsuit is probably one of my favourite songs by them, maybe even my favourite (but it's way too soon to decided that, to be honest). A perfect bassline, with a genre of music I never thought they would pull out. And they did it in a way that it still sounded like twenty one pilots but in a very different and unique way (just for the record, Brad Taste of Music, a music critic YouTuber who pretty much hated twenty one pilots a lot, gave this single a 9/10). And I have high hopes that they will dig up this genre during a big part of the record, because it fits very well the backstory Tyler's trying to get into. And I'm excited for that, because, holy shit. What a song. What a music video (my favourite of the year alongside with Watsky's Love Letters)! But I am also excited because of Nico And The Niners, which reminds me a bit of Message Man, but way more well-produced (which is saying a lot, Message Man is one of my favourite twenty one pilots songs). It was a Reggae Rap song with lyrics way better than their usual stuff (unpopular opinion: I don't usually find twenty one pilots' lyrics THAT good, even though Blurryface has some really nice lyrics. But songs like Car Radio are quite ehhhh when it comes to lyrics), even when it comes to transitions between, for example, the weird distorted and slowed down voices and the brief rap verse. Plus, I think twenty one pilots picked their main singles for Trench perfectly! Jumpsuit and Nico And The Niners are a perfect combination! I am excited to see more of the energy they pulled up in songs similar to Jumpsuit and also for more extremely well-mixed and produced tracks like Nico And The Niners on the album!
But it's not just about the lyrics! The way they've been advertising their record is genius, and it gives us a fuck ton of clues of how the album will be in terms of lyrics. I am very interested in Clancy's story and Dema's universe, and as well with its meaning, which I think has something to do with Tyler (using the semi-biographical character Clancy, which, by the way, is the name of Tyler's boyhood neighbourhood) trying to run away from the success he's been having, and I think the villains are the music industry itself, personified as an evil organization with absolute power within Dema (which, as I said before, can also be a city). I expect a lot of critics to the musical industry of nowadays on this album, because that's what I think this is about. Why do I think this is about music industry, though? To start off, both Tyler and Josh have always been quite skeptical in terms of their own success (even though there are times when they show otherwise). Three big examples of that are the lyrics of Fairly Local (where he talks at some point about his style of lyricism, which is mostly depressive and about his own demons, even when their record label wanted them to take a happier route on their fourth album. He even admitted that "this song will never be on the radio" on the chorus, because it is not what the music industry wants and he knows that so well), Message Man (where he briefly talks about all the fans he has gained out of nowhere who claim to know Tyler because of the work he puts in public, and asks fans not to confuse "the message man" with "the message, man") and his Stressed Out performance in Clevenand, OH on 8th June 2016 (the original song, the song performed on that show and Tyler talking about that incident. This action showed how insecure Tyler can get because of both musical industry and maisntream fame, even if it was a sudden action. I found ironic and sad to see a song about one of Tyler's insecurities being one of his insecurities). Also, still to prove a point, in one of Clancy's letters, the character says: "the perplexities of the Dema horizon didn't occur to me until my ninth year". twenty one pilots are now nine years old (they formed in 2009), so I think this is a metaphor of Tyler admitting he only truly saw the true likes of nowadays' music industry nine years after forming the band. But you make of that whatever you wish to, really. But I think it is a good topic for an album. And I do think that the instrumental would fit pretty well this kind of lyrics and story.
To end this post, I'd like to talk a theory of mine with very, very tiny chances of actually being true: I think Tyler and Josh are planning to make a movie with Clancy's story and Dema's universe. Kinda similar to what Melanie Martinez wants to do for her upcoming album (releasing both a movie and an album on the same day) except that the movie would come a couple months after the album and except it wouldn't suck (unlike Melanie Martinez's, who I truly believe will fail miserably with her idea, since she has kinda fallen into the abyss when it comes to popularity. It's been months since I saw the press mentioning her even once). Why do I have this opinion? Look at Jumpsuit's music video. It has a truly cinematographic point of view, artistically (with, once again, the instrumentals fixing it pretty well), and twenty one pilots surely spent a very, very, very fat load of money to shoot it, because they shot the music video in Iceland, and then, the director of it is Andrew Donoho, a cinematic director known for directing movies like Heavy Water and Treehouse. I truly believe the future release of a movie might actually be something worth considering, and I am not the only absolute crazy-boy who thinks that way! There are tons of fans who agree, or at least want to, out there.
So yeah. I am intensely excited for the release of this album. I think it has high chances and hopes of being their best so far by far. And you? What about you? Are you excited for the duo's fifth studio album? Why? Tell me in the comments below, I promise I'll reply soon!
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