Twenty One Pilots
Vessel (Fueled By Ramen)
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Whitney Whitney told us about her love for a Twenty One Pilots gem...
Whitney Whitney: I’m going to take it back to 2013. I’m an awkward middle schooler trying my best to be the one “alt girl” in a small town in Connecticut. I heard the song "Car Radio" by Twenty One Pilots one day, and my life instantly changed. I’d never heard such a chaotic, magnetic, and deeply introspective song. I then put the whole album Vessel on repeat and remember literally crying, feeling like no other music could ever compare. It blasted through the house day and night, which absolutely annoyed my family. Naturally, the next step was taking to Twitter and Instagram to start fan pages. I started posting daily and slowly learning all the lore possible about the band. I learned every lyric of every rap, every riff, every drum hit on Vessel. The album was my entire personality.
I’d go so far as to say that this album is the reason I’m making the music I’m releasing today. I had written songs before 2013, but after this (obsessive) discovery, I knew with everything in me that I wanted to make music as groundbreaking and daring as Vessel. Though it took many years of people saying “no, it’s too different,” “it’s not pop enough,” “you have to fit the mold,” etc., I am finally releasing the album I feel, in my own unique way, is my Vessel. I still go back and listen to it here and there, it always hits the same, and I’m brought right back to that emotional state of discovery and inspiration.
Whitney Whitney's "A Man Written By a Woman" is out now.
Photo by Samantha Monendo
