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- "Sometimes quiet is violent. I find it's hard to hide it.
My pride is no longer inside. It's on my sleeve."
Twenty One Pilots. Awesome. Already super excited about this.
- I have no idea who this is. Okay. "Sometimes quiet is violent."
Okay, he just wants to put in a bunch of oxymorons in his intro.
- When it is quiet,
I think that's when your inner thoughts come out.
- Sometimes if you don't speak your mind,
then it just vents inside. And if you don't speak it,
you just get really frustrated, and then you blow up.
- She has a big personality,
and she's really prideful and stuff.
"I find it hard to hide it."
Like, keep it on the inside and be humble about it.
This person is going, like,
"Oh, I'm now gonna show my pridefulness.
And it's on my sleeve, so it's out there."
- "My skin will scream, reminding me of
who I killed inside my dream."
- This kinda sounds like that one song.
Ugh, what's it called? That "Car Radio" song?
- When I hear, "My skin will scream,"
I think sort of like skin crawling, like guilt.
- If you have these unconscious thoughts,
even if you don't want to have them,
it means you're capable of having them.
- He's been dreaming about
hurting this person or something like that.
- In his dream, I feel like he killed someone
that he knew personally or that he loved.
- "I hate this car that I'm driving. There's no hiding for me.
I'm forced to deal with what I feel."
- "There is no distraction to mask what is real.
I could pull the steering wheel."
- "I hate this car that I'm driving."
I feel like it's saying he hates the path that he's going to.
- There's something really hypnotic about driving.
You realize how easy it is
to just do one simple motion and end everything.
- I feel like he's at that suicidal point
where he wants to no longer exist.
But he doesn't know if he wants to deal with what he's feeling
or take the easy way out.
- Maybe now they're really aware of what's going wrong.
And "I could pull the steering wheel"
means "I could sort of swerve," I guess?
So maybe they're saying there is a way to change it.
But they're not sure if they're ready to.
- "I have these thoughts so often
I ought to replace that slot with what I once bought.
'Cause somebody stole my car radio,
and now I just sit in silence."
- It is "Car Radio." Okay, 'cause I know this rhyme.
He's in that quiet space now.
So now he actually does have to deal with what he's feeling,
because in the past, he would just listen to music.
- Now that somebody stole his radio,
there's no distractions from thinking about the situation.
- The reason that they have to confront everything in the car
is 'cause they're alone with their thoughts,
'cause they don't have a car radio anymore.
But I have no idea what the song is.
- "I ponder of something terrifying,
'cause this time there's no sound to hide behind."
- There's nothing to distract this person now,
since there's no radio.
- He has no music. There's no sound to hide behind.
He has to think of the terrifying thoughts.
- There is nothing else to think about
when you're just alone in silence.
And that's what the "quiet is violent" is about,
'cause there's no car radio, so everything's silent.
- It's kind of scaring him
how he has to deal with what he did in the past,
and I think it was having to do
with hurting someone that he cared about.
This is so relatable!
- "Oh dear, I don't know if we know why we're here.
Oh my, too deep. Please stop thinking.
I liked it better when my car had sound."
- The "Oh my, too deep" is like,
"Oh, I shouldn't be thinking about this.
This is getting weird or too real."
- Existential crisis is another major thing.
No one knows anything, and it's absolutely terrifying.
- "Why is the human race here, you guys?
I want to go back into the womb,
where everything was nice and protected
and I didn't know anything."
- "There's faith and there's sleep. We need to pick one, please,
because faith is to be awake, and to be awake is for us to think,
and for us to think is to be alive."
- Basically, if you sleep, you are dead.
That works out, because sleep is like practice stuff.
- He's saying to choose faith,
because I think faith is what makes you the most alive.
- If you're always in fear, you can never really live.
But once you're at peace with that fear,
you can finally live your life.
I feel so philosophical right now.
- "And I will try with every rhyme
to come across like I am dying,
to let you know you need to try to think."
- He's using the pain he's feeling to open the minds of others.
- If this was my last song,
if I was gonna die after writing this song,
this is what I have to say.
- "Even though I might be gone one way,
you need to carry this legacy on for me
and let yourself and others know that you need to think
and that thoughts aren't scary."
- He's gonna try with every single verse, every time he rhymes,
to show his pain and what he's going through
to let you know that you need to go through this too,
but you're not alone.
- "I ponder of something great.
My lungs will fill and then deflate.
They fill with fire, exhale desire.
I know it's dire, my time today."
- Is this Eminem, maybe?
- I'm assuming "desire" is the will to live.
- He gets more confident every time he takes a breath.
- He's gotten a lot more optimistic now.
So he's kind of realized that, as his lungs fill and deflate,
that's kinda what makes him human.
- He realizes at this state that,
oh, you only have so long to live.
Live your life the way you want to live your life,
not in fear of how other people want you to live your life.
- "I have these thoughts so often
I ought to replace that slot with what I once bought."
- "'Cause somebody stole my car radio,
and now I just sit in silence."
- He still thinks about replacing it, but he hasn't yet.
- Now he's kind of okay with the silence.
- He no longer is lying to himself--
in a sense, masking the truth.
He is forced to then think about life.
- I feel like it's almost wrapping it up.
Originally it was really negative,
and he didn't really know how to deal with all these feelings.
Puts on a different meaning, where it's like,
you don't need music. It's okay to deal with things.
- (Finebros) What do you think this song was about?
- So this guy has a problem, and it's gotten so bad
that he has to decide whether he wants to live or die.
- Having to face your feelings and your thoughts,
and sometimes you don't want to.
- Well, I saw an interview with them. And Tyler was like,
"Everyone thinks it's this really emotional, metaphorical song.
But someone stole my car radio and I'm emo."
- (Finebros) This song was inspired
by the artist's car radio being stolen
and realizing, without the music, their mind would wander.
So now the artist is encouraging people
to sit in silence and think more. What do you think about that?
- I still feel like--
I feel like I'm still at the beginning phase of this,
where I feel like I don't like to deal with things.
- I think it's a good message, that sometimes
you shouldn't just drown everything out with music,
'cause it's important to let your thoughts be heard.
- It's really good to just be alone with yourself sometimes
and to just be in your own head, in a place where it's safe.
- (Finebros) Do you know the song's artist and title?
- Nope.
- No.
- No, I have no idea.
- I really don't have any guess.
- No, but I'm guessing Eminem.
- I'm gonna assume "Car Radio."
I kept thinking it was My Chem, but I highly doubt it is.
- "Car Radio" by Twenty One Pilots.
- It's "Car Radio" by Twenty One Pilots!
- (Finebros) It's called "Car Radio" by Twenty One Pilots.
- (hysterically) Oh, that's the other thing I was thinking!
I was thinking, "I bet this is Twenty One Pilots."
Okay, whatever. We're good. Twenty One Pilots is a good band.
- Dang it.
I thought it was Eminem.
- Never heard of them.
- I've heard of 'em, but I don't know anything about 'em.
- Oh, I've heard of Twenty One Pilots.
Everyone's just like,
"Oh my god, Twenty One Pilots, have my children!"
- A lot of my friends, they listen to Twenty One Pilots.
And that's all they talk about.
I'm a bad friend. You guys about it a lot.
But I kind of ignore it.
But hey, look, it's your favorite band. (chuckles)
- Thanks for watching us break down "Car Radio"
on the React channel.
- If you're feeling that same fire in your lungs,
it probably means you need to subscribe or see a doctor.
- What song should we break down next time?
Let us know in the comments.
- Bye!
- Bye, guys! I know I should be driving home in silence,
but I'll probably just be blasting this song instead.
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