I’ve finally found a way to connect my concert addiction to my business studies with one of my current favorite songs. It’s a song by the band twenty one pilots called “Stressed Out”. I’ve embedded the official music video for your listening and viewing pleasure:

This song is about the members of twenty one pilots (Tyler and Josh) wanting to “turn back time, to the good ‘ol days” when music was their passion, and not something they’re relying on to pay their bills.

There’s a couple of reasons why I like this song so much:

1. I don’t know whether it was planned or a coincidence, but this single got leaked the week of spring 2015 finals. So having a song about stress to sing at the top of my lungs was awesome.
2. It’s catchy!
3. They’ve got some really clever lines such as “Out of student loans and treehouse homes we all would take the latter.”
4. It’s relatable; whether we admit it or not, we all miss the days of playing pretend while our moms took care of everything

With having less than a year until I’ll be starting my first full-time job I’ve felt some stress over the fact that I need to wake up and figure out how I’ll make money just like Tyler and Josh. Just like they say in the song, our fears do not shrink when we get older. We start to care what people think. We want to make choices that make our family and friends proud of us. I think I’m on the right track, but I’m not afraid to admit that I’m human and I’m stressed out.

For now, I’ll be blasting this song in my car and appreciating these grown men who ride tricycles and drink juice boxes.

Twenty one pilots, “Stressed Out”