The Twenty One Pilots Universe: Dema's Propaganda in 'Scaled And Icy' Explained

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Published 2021-04-14
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"Is Scaled And Icy Propoganda?"
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Tick Tick - WEISH
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All Comments (21)
  • @joshtodd3467
    trench is like when your friends say you're a family, SAI is like when your work says you're a family
  • @_kunal_k
    Sometimes I really wonder if The Clique just over theorizes the songs and albums and Tyler and Josh just decide to go with it
  • The line "Don't trust a song that's flawless" makes a lot more sense. We can say those new happy, more commercial sounding songs from Scaled and Icy are "flawless" and we shouldn't trust them.
  • @ludophobi4986
    Finally, the legend is back, just like Twenty One Pilots
  • @space_1073
    SAI is seeming like its gonna be their brightest/happiest album thematically, but the with the darkest implications beyond even BlurryFace. Very cool.
  • @beans2752
    I have a feeling the album after this is gonna be insane
  • “Force a sponsor and start a concert, a complete diversion, start a mob, and you can be quite certain, we’ll win but not everyone will get out” Nico and the Niners
  • @browut644
    Thing is, blue dragons are seen as protective beings, so i think trash the dragon is actualy someone trying to save Tyler and Josh instead of hurt them. Thats why hes been named trash, because Dema doesnt like him.
  • Tyler saying "don't trust a song that's flawless" in the live concert makes so much sense. The new album looks 'flawless' but he's hinting that we can't trust dema. Like he said, it's propaganda.
  • @hashtags_YT
    Another thing is that "Clancy is dead" means much more than simply that our messenger is dead since Clancy represents the logical side of Tyler's brain, it could be seen as Tyler finally snapping after all the back and forth, and if we are to speculate, it can also be seen as Tyler breaking from his regular everyday routine (being taken from and to DEMA), which fits with the song.
  • I love how we always arise to lead the clique into the new twenty one pilots era
  • @nos5915
    A friend pointed out that Trash breathes yellow fire, so maybe it will be what breaks down the walls of Dema
  • @20bndk05
    NO WAY KING NALBIS IS BACK WITH THE NEW INTERESTING TOP THING
  • @kVa5ir
    I think the album is gonna start very poppy and very sugary, sounding commercial. There will be hints of darkness sprinkled throughout the album, culminating in a final song that will completely diverge from the tone of the album.
  • Yesterday I was literally wondering whether you were gonna upload or not. There was no way you would leave that like that.
  • @xuliaaana
    I just love Twenty One Pilots more and more each day. How genius are they!?!?!?
  • Dude this is ironic, i joined the clique some months ago and wanted to get everything clancy and the trench universe before the new album comes out, and i started watching your vids yesterday and was like "damn this channel is good, he is so good at explaining" then now you are back with a new vid :) you have my sub
  • @bo1932
    its very interesting how trench's style invokes a sense of home, of belonging, of welcoming, and while the SAI stuff is meant to look appealing, it absolutely turns me away from it. i look at the colors and fonts, and it immediately gives me bad vibes. vibes of fake happiness, of this weird uncomfortableness. ive always thought of it as feeling "orange" but that doesnt make lots of sense to most. its like,,,, a feeling where the sound of peoples voices and the feeling of literally anything touching me makes me so violently uncomfortable, and then i cant do anythjng about it. its just there. it doesnt go away. i cant really put it into words, its kind of complicated, but thats how SAI feels
  • @julissadc9227
    ouu I just remembered that the level of concern lyric video was made in an apple macintosh, and now their ads look like the ones for apple macintosh...and like the video says Christmas saves the year is nostalgic....so yea everything they've released has been nostalgic, vintage,