Music Review

Blurryface is the fourth and newest album from Twenty One Pilots. The album came out earlier in the year 2015 and consists of fourteen new songs, including hits like "Tear in My Heart" and "Stressed Out." This album follows their break through album Vessel, and Blurryface is also the first Twenty One Pilots album to be Number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The debut was powered from pure album sales, selling 134,000 copies within the first week it was released. While many fans and music critics don't know what genre to classify Twenty One Pilots as, the songs on this album fall mostly under the Alternative genre; however, there are a few songs that could probably be classified as Indie Pop. The music on this album kind of contradicts itself. The music for each song is happy sounding and upbeat, but there is a similar deeper meaning in every song. The overall idea is that Blurryface is an unknown character. When asked, the lead singer Tyler Joseph says that Blurryface is supposed to symbolize the insecurities that we keep hidden, and he says that Blurryface could be sad or angry and drag you down. A lot of the music in the album is reflective of this theme, which is why I believe it to be contradictory. The only downfall to this album, or so it seems, is that one will either love it or hate it. I just so happen to be one of the people who love this album and every album by Twenty One Pilots.