Holding On To You please!!!!!!!!!!!

@willecervin9838

7 жыл бұрын

Jared Weeks yeeeeees

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

I share your enthusiasm.

@mistymomentchannel4007

7 жыл бұрын

Jared Weeks can you do that one next week and can you do Rudy please

@nmarshall5378

7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Sharp I heard somewhere that he's means he's holding onto God

@alexthealex8149

7 жыл бұрын

Jared Weeks yes plz do holding knto you

I'd never thought about this before, but for some reason this video make me realize that the chorus is really reminiscent of the story of Icharus. Icharus ended up flying too close to the sun, which might be why Tyler opens with the line "I am cold" as if he craves or wants to go the sun somehow. He is flying without hope because he doesn't really believe that he will make it, but also flying without fear because he isn't scared of the sun. Flying too close is what eventually makes him plummet and end up on the Isle of Flightless Birds.

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Very interesting. I need to go back and re-read the lyrics.

@joshuasumpter5336

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I definitely had never thought about it that way before, but I like the interpretation a lot.

@aadyasharma1859

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Sumpter that's a better way of looking at it

@mikentosh6898

5 жыл бұрын

On top of that, he new that it was wrong to do that, as Daedalus told him not to and to stop. Icarus decided to do what was wrong and ended up paying for it.

@cryptidballs

4 жыл бұрын

Joshua Sumpter lol icharus got cocky and his wings melted and his dad was not sad cause his son was dead but because he didn’t have insurance on his wings

okay how about Glowing Eyes?

@godinasenze5303

7 жыл бұрын

Charles Castillo yes

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Good one!

@ianwins8678

7 жыл бұрын

yes, glowing eyes, or forest

@mistymomentchannel4007

7 жыл бұрын

Charles Castillo that's good to

@Johnkik212

7 жыл бұрын

Yes glowing eyes or forest please or lovely

Ruby . Please do ruby

@hakongray

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Boman he wrote it for a girl with down' syndrome in his church. nothing more to it as far as i know

@guava9910

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, ruby is about a girl with down syndrome. it also associates strongly with god, thus the mention of angels. And when Tyler says he was waiting the week to see Ruby, he can't wait to see her at church on Sunday. also, the "tell our dad i'm sorry" is referring to Tyler telling ruby to tell god that Tyler is sorry when she goes to Heaven. because as a repetition to other songs, Tyler is struggling with his faith. also if this doesn't make sense, sorry i'm not the best writer. :)

@mistyeyed4885

7 жыл бұрын

How do you guys know. is there a video or something? this makes me so happy I know someone who is very important to me that has downs syndrome.

@requiemoflyds

7 жыл бұрын

A.Goner.Staying.Alive Yes there's a KZread video where he says that the first time he performs that song.

You were right the first time. It is from self-titled

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Dang it. lol

@retnugnahte

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePopSongProfessor still an amazing analysis. If you see this Professor 😂 did you do the final code and if so what colour was your final text?

Addict with a pen :)

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Pernille Nistrup I tried that

the pantaloon

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Pøwer Tø The Løcal Dreamer I tried

YES PLEASE DO HOLDING ON TO YOU...

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@KyroParis

7 жыл бұрын

Compilation Guy he's already done holding onto you

Darn it I'm supposed to be in class! BTW do trapdoor!

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Skip class. This video's cooler. lol jk

@superpig4589

7 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor Haha thanks for responding!

@mysticnighthawk7605

7 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor lol

@PIatopus

3 жыл бұрын

true true

6:49 I love lettuce birds (turn on the auto generated captions)

Thanks for watching, fam! What song should I do next week?

@jiro110

7 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor For Tøp tuesday, 'Johnny Boy'

@detergenthwachae

7 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor Holding On To You hahahhah

@vivianar5594

7 жыл бұрын

Please do "Before You Start Your day" (I don't think you've done that yet..??)

@superpig4589

7 жыл бұрын

Trapdoor!

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor Clear or Ruby

fall away!!!!!

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

twentyone joshstyler it's about Tyler falling from his faith and stopping believing in god

7:07 "They stopped thinking of the sky" No one looks up anymore cuz you might get a raindrop in your eye

It's interesting because I just made a connection between this song and ode to sleep. So he says in this one, we can take apart our very heart. And earlier he's talking about the ground taunting his wings and sinking. In ode to sleep he says, by the time I find it handy to rip my heart apart and start planning my crash landing. So it's kind of a repeating theme of crashing back to earth but also using self examination to break free of that. Going off the rest of that verse in ode to sleep in relation to IOFB kind of gives me more meaning to it. In that verse he also asks, "is this living free?" Which is paralleled in IOFB where he says the light will set us free after taking apart our hearts. So what I'm getting from ode to sleep is a sense of regret? Confusion? Like he finally starts to do the thing that he talked about in IOFB and now he's not sure if he can handle the fight that comes with it? In fact the whole stanza in IOFB explains the plot of the first stanza in OTS. I'd love your thoughts. If this makes any sense at all lol. The two stanzas: IOFB: If you decide to live by, what you think's wrong and what's right Believe me you'll begin to wish you were sleeping Your weeping will creep in your head and you'll cry But if we wake up every morning and decide what we believe We can take apart our very heart and the light will set us free OTS: I wake up fine and dandy but then by the time I find it handy To rip my heart apart and start Planning my crash landing I go up, up, up, up, up to the ceiling Then I feel my soul start leaving Like an old man's hair receding I'm pleading, please, oh please On my knees repeatedly asking Why it's got to be like this Is this living free? I don't wanna be the one be the one to have the sun's blood on my hands I'll tell the moon Take this weapon, forged in darkness Some see a pen, I see harpoon Edit: in fact the more I look at the lyrics to the two songs the more parallels I can see. I wonder if this just falls into Tyler's pattern of referencing himself and his own past songs/ideas or if it was done with purpose. I feel like he rarely does things without purpose. Okay anyways comment over haha. Thanks for this video! I never got too into this song back when I was first discovering self titled because there were just SO MANY good songs on the album that I couldn't process all of them. But it's one I've really been getting into as of late. So it's cool to see and think about.

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

This is really interesting. Thanks for mentioning. I definitely see the parallels you're talking about. I wonder if it's self-referencing or if maybe it's more him just coming back themes and coming back to the ways he thinks of those themes. Cars, trees, and things like that seem to be metaphors for him for certain things, and so he keeps coming back to them all the time. Really good stuff, Abbie!

If you decide to live by what you think's wrong and what's right Believe me, you'll begin to wish you were sleeping Your weeping will creep in your head and you'll cry But if we wake up every morning and decide what we believe We can take apart our very heart and the light will set us free I think you're interpretation of the song as a whole is great! regarding the lyrics above however, your interpretation kind of merges the first half of the lines and the second half. What Tyler is saying is that we can't just choose what we think is right and wrong. There's too much freedom in that and it's too unstable. We will undoubtedly break down from the inconsistencies. INSTEAD he urges us to choose NOT what is right and wrong, but instead what we believe. Likely urging us to find resolution in our purpose in the world so that we are not left clueless and suicidal because of it. Obviously, I'm not 100% sure because I'm not Tyler, but based off of my knowledge as an aspiring youth pastor, this is what makes sense based off of the structure of the lines, as well as the background of the singer. P.S. It may seem like I'm picking at hairs, but I really do think the difference here is very important. It changes the conclusion entirely.

Maybe before you start your day

YES!!! I havent even started the video but im so excited this is my fave song! THANKS!!! Now that i've watched it, I agree on your interpretation of the song and you also pointed out some things that I hadn't realized. Overall a great analysis of the song. My fave part is "Your soul knows good and evil, your soul knows both side, and it's time you pick your battle and I promise you this is mine". Not only lyrically, but musically this song is a master piece

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts and the suggestion!

Please do Air catcher and message man!! Those r the only two songs I am needing help on understanding then I'll have my tøp playlist complete.

@willecervin9838

7 жыл бұрын

Omgosh 51 in message man he is telling peppar like the professor not to "mess with the message, man" because he Thinks people should think for themselves

@willecervin9838

7 жыл бұрын

People*

@omgosh5112

7 жыл бұрын

ackmania thank you.

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Omgosh 51 message man is about how he doesn't want people to theorize the wrong things about his songs

@bobnavonvictorsteyn9017

6 жыл бұрын

Omgosh 51 Air catcher is about fear of being in a relationship - it is represented by the lack of a parachute while falling

Isle of flightless birds is my favorite song of all time, thank you so much for explaining it! There were a couple of things you pointed out that I never caught :)

Holding onto you! :)

Please do Clear!

@twentyeeughpilots4994

7 жыл бұрын

Noor Muhtaseb omg yes!!

@rebekahpurple4682

7 жыл бұрын

yesyesyes

@tpaddict7820

7 жыл бұрын

Noor Muhtaseb omg yesss!!!!

do holding onto you thats my second favorite song and i can't believe you haven't done it yet

Do kitchen sink plz

@nickheilman4166

7 жыл бұрын

Sean Tan kitchen sink is about finding a way to stay alive because no one knows your demons so you have to create your own reason to live. If you create something you have to stay alive to tell people why you made it otherwise it'll just disappear.

@smhuwu

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Heilman That's just what the one line is about in the song, there's a lot more to cover with that song

@alisonfool

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Heilman to add on, the whole theme of the kitchen sink is a story Tyler has that involves him and a kitchen sink that no one else knows. He says this gives him purpose because when he questions what he's worth or why he should continue he thinks about how no one else knows this story and therefore, creating the beginning of a purpose for him.

@timothywalker113

6 жыл бұрын

Yes please do it!

@himboghost629

4 жыл бұрын

You don't know what that means

Can you do it for Glowing Eyes? Love your channel🙂

@eviedrwhofan6451

7 жыл бұрын

Also dodos are flightless I think

@delaneymelrose1326

7 жыл бұрын

HE NEEDS TO DO GLOWING EYES

@ChummyCoot

7 жыл бұрын

Evie Drwhofan Dodos are extinct

can you do glowing eyes pls?¿

@twentyeeughpilots4994

7 жыл бұрын

Eliza Pancakes nice username and profile pic

@rainnshelton735

7 жыл бұрын

Eliza Pancakes It looks like Glowing Eyes is gonna be after Holding on to You

@psomas92

7 жыл бұрын

Eliza Pancakes yes please do glowing eyes! It's the only song I don't understand from TOP

Okay I know I’m a year late but I just recently read The Delusion by Laura Gallier that pretty much is exactly what this song is about, how you explained it a “cosmic invisible war”. SUCH a good book and such a good song!

Hey, just browsing through your archives, this is one of my fav songs from twenty one pilots so I thought I had a look. I read this present darkness a while ago, and I found this concept really interesting.

I'm new, just found this channel while trying to figure out some meaning of Trench, and I'm absolutely hooked. I'm so excited to watch someone as passionate as me -not that I'm some TOP super fan. I just don't have many people around me who I can really enjoy this with.

really appreciate your channel dude thank you so much for what you do

This is so great. Thanks for analysing this one! Really interesting I knew the lyrics were deep but so morally intellectual it's so cool to hear 😯🙌 as you explained truly words to live by ☺️

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Please, do "clear". It's so underrated. It would be also cool if you made a vid about "be concerned"

Awe 🙂❤️He said he cared about us.

This song gives me the chills every time I listen to it

Clifford has gotten much better at talking to the camera

Hey clifford, I found self titled through isle of flightless birds, and it's one of my favourite songs from twenty one pilots because it's wonderful and amazing, it's a great song for me, plus I agree with you in the video man, great video and I hope to see more videos, you're doing great. Stay alive and it must be tonight. I-/

Thanks for being so awesome and making videos like this.

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

thank you so much for doing this song! This song means so much to me because it was how i met my bf. i have fallen in love with your channel and you are now, like, my favorite youtuber!!

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Dang! That's awesome. Thanks so much!

Your videos are just so great! All of Tyler's lyrics are so insightful and deep. Every TØP song is so beautiful! I just can't even...... Anyways I recently did a presentation about my interpretation of their song slowtown so I decided to request it.

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Trinity Cristina it's about not wanting to grow up basically

So happy you did this one!

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

This was so cool!

dude, good job with this song, it was a great explanation.

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Uh one thing is that the line “ no hope no fear” is referring to the feeling of apathy which is fairly common among people with depression. No hope referring to feeling no positive and no fear referring to feeling no negative. Hence feeling nothing

This opened my eyes

This was one of the greatest explanations ever!!

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

thank u for doing this song aghshsh i love isle of flightless birds so much

The thumbnail is just amazing

I LOVE ISLE OF FLIGHTLESS BIRDS!!!!!!!!

Holding On To You Truce Really want to see those two

You were right the first time, Isle of Flightless Birds is on their self-titled album :)

This is *certainly* one of Twenty Øne Piløts' best songs

Can you do forest, glowing eyes, or holding on to you

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Excuse me Can you plz leave forest is about purgatory, holding onto you is about trying to stay with god, glowing eyes is about how he is depressed and how getting away from depression is hard

I immediately thought of Antarctica, isle of flightless bird, literally an island only inhabited by penguins, flightless birds.

thank you for doing this one!!

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Glowing eyes!!!!!!!!! PLEASE

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Tëššå it's about wanting to stay depressed because leaving depression is hard

my favourite flightless bird is the inaccessible island rail its smol and lives on a island that is really hard to get to

That thumbnail is gold😂😂

oh wow grooveshark mention. That really takes me back

I've always imagined like really big creepy dark birds (maybe big vultures?) That for some reason aren't able to fly and so are just hoping around and trying to fly and flap their wings to no success and just kind of of hop and peck around

I don't know if you did this one yet, but Air Catcher would be really cool. it might be easy for others to understand, but its kind of confusing to me XD

holding on to you, forest and glowing eyes :)

@delaneymelrose1326

7 жыл бұрын

chelsea sherburne I legit just commented all three of those😂 those are my favs

@chelseasherburne

7 жыл бұрын

Excuse me Can you plz leave same!!

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

chelsea sherburne holding onto you is about staying with god, forest is about purgatory and glowing eyes is about not wanting to leave depression

I love you videos! Would you please do The Pantaloon?

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

That would be a really good one to do, and it's consistently one of the higher voted ones, so hopefully soon!

3:47 is when he gets in to it

Holding on to you !!!!!

Please do "whisper" even though it's from no phun intended, I am confused on what's it is about :)

I love trying to read the books in the background. I didn't recognize many of them but I did see The Princess Bride and The Giver

Yes, please do Holding on To you!!!!!

you deserve much more subscribers man.

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Nina! Be sure to share and tell your friends! You can help me. :)

@ninanedic2158

7 жыл бұрын

+The Pop Song Professor i will :)

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Could you do glowing eyes or air Catcher?

Do TB Saga

@aadyasharma1859

7 жыл бұрын

josiah chestnut YES! That one is so deep! I still haven't figured it out...

@eytanlevine2802

4 жыл бұрын

Haha did not think this song was going to go in the comment

the texting is very good... and, I really really love tonin pilots! they are my favorite band! (tonin!? really?!)

thank youuu !

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Holding onto you!!

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Sarah Cormican it's about wanting to stay with god

I read both of those books!

My favourite ❤️

I stan legends I love the depth of their songs

Could you do Before you start your day?

i remember these days

I agree with everything you said and you actually broughtup somethings I didn't notice in the song yet. I've actually thought as the us being flightless birds as a different interpretation. I think your interpretation may be better bt I've always thought about it in the way that whenever you ask someone the first thing they think when they think bird they will probably say flying. So, even though there are flightless birds I think he may sort of be saying that they are different from the norm and they are lacking this fundamental thing people think is just natural for them to have. So, I was just thinking it may just be a way of saying we're different but I like your explanation better.

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting explanation. Thanks for sharing!

Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker.... is... is that The End of the Spear... HUH. I wasn't expecting you to have those books.

What about Forest? That is one of my favorites, and definitely one worth explaining because of the complexities and length of the song.

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Eslyea Britt it's about purgatory

The Run and Go!

I always thought he was talking about dodos, because they evolved on an island without predators so they lost their ability to fly and feel danger.

This is a bit lengthy but I wanted to share a bit of my interpretation as well... there was one line that you interpreted that was a little bit different than I always had: "If you decide to live by what you think is wrong and what's right, believe me you'll begin to wish you were sleeping, your weeping will creep in your head and you'll cry" I always thought about this part that if you try to "decide to live by what you think is wrong and what's right," then you'll end up finding that just living through your perspective of morals and your own good deeds isn't what is actually important. You may be living what seems right to you, but it will always seem like it's not enough. I've always kind of thought that since they are Christians, that this tied into the "You can never be a good enough person to earn the way to righteousness" But "if you wake up every morning, and decide what you believe" then you won't have to pick your own definition of "rights and wrongs," and what you believe will show you the way. I have that and the rest of that lyric as the lock screen on my phone to remind me every morning when I wake up that I have to decide what I believe every single day :) thanks if you read this whole long thing!

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, I get it. Like trying to live a perfect life and failing? That's not a bad interpretation either.

@alyssas.3841

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think the thing that makes me think through my interpretation is because he says "but," like as if to say that the first thing will RESULT in "wishing you were sleeping" and "your weeping creeping into your head". I dunno, that's how I take it. I had never thought of it in the way you explained it, so I enjoyed that :) Thanks

I know this is technically not twenty one pilots, but could you do Drown by Tyler Joseph?

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe we need to start Tyler Joseph Tuesdays...

@jayleneisner9232

6 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor yessss

Yessssss!!!

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

:)

holding onto YOU!!

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

Invisibilly it's about wanting to stay with god

Could you do Air Catcher please? I feel like that song has a really good and deep meaning, but I just can't get it!

Please do Air Catcher or Kitchen Sink

The pantaloon please

@drumisfum8284

7 жыл бұрын

DubbingForDummies I tried

@jayleneisner9232

6 жыл бұрын

DubbingForDummies ur profile pic looks constapated😂😂😂😂😂

you know how you did the livestream figuring out the best tøp song? you should do that but with albums like do that with self titled. also song battle sunday but self titled vs regional

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

That would be great! I'm also thinking of doing it with Imagine Dragons.

Can you please do Glowing Eyes? That would be pretty cool! (:

oh and the run and go!

Can you please explain either run and go,lovely,screen or holding on to you??

PLSSSS DO POLARIZE AND A CAR A TORCH A DEATH NEXT BTW I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL AND TOP!!!!!!!!!

Holding On To You please

Omg I have that booookk!!! 😱 it’s a really interesting book

Ok I'm so hyped for a forest one!

@marg2775

7 жыл бұрын

when ur supposed to be doing homework but u see one of Pop Professors videos

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

When you're supposed to be doing your actual job, but you're the Pop Song Professor and need to make more videos... I know how you feel.

Is there a possibility you could do "Drown" by Tyler Joseph?

Turkeys, Chickens, Peacocks, Flamingos, Dodos, Emus, and Moas to name a few

You are Fantastic

@ThePopSongProfessor

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!