#polarize

[lunaatmosphere]

deny, deny, denial

Cliquetober day 14 - DENIAL

[dasloddl]

get along girls, you share a birthday now

edit, April 23rd: made this on march 10th and now they changed the release date, the lore implications of the may 17 date made so much sense :/// that won’t stop me from posting this because I thought it was really funny

edit, May 7th: so there's listening events now starting on the 18th? make it make sense boys, you could've just released it on the 17th for everyone

clancy will still have this as an honorary birthday in my heart

[inkbagel]

I don’t know where you are

[im-literally-so-dun]

oh, so I'm back to looping polarize. I see how it is

[we-made-it-this-far-kid]

Thinking about “ I wanted to be a better brother, better son” and “I am Clancy, prodigal son, done running, came up with Josh Dun”

[mndlesspneless]

somethings clicking SOMETHINGS CLICKING

[allys-fairlylocal]

have we as a society discussed how polarize and vignette are the same

[the-hometown-boy]

ᵈᵒᵐⁱⁿᵍᵒ ᵉⁿ ᶠᵘᵉᵍᵒ

[basnatural]

Celebrating the announcement of Clancy…I did a thing with misheard lyrics 😂😂😂

[optionalblue]

help me polar ice help me polar ice

[365plus1]

I’m polarized

[im-literally-so-dun]

if Polarize makes it on the Clancy World Tour setlist I will combust

[wethinkweknow-you]

domingo en fuego

[demaparbat-hp]

hi dema!!

If youre still doing the song asks 13 and 29! Also I just listened to Next Semester by TOP and I fell in love with it. Now I’m in a TOP listening rabbit whole

Hi, Diornies! I'm so happy (and proud) to have thrown you down the TØP rabbit hole! Have you listened to Trees, Guns For Hands, Polarize or Fairly Local yet? Those last two songs are insanely Zuko coded, I think you'd enjoy them ❤️

Now, on to the asks!

13: One of your favorite 80’s songs

Some of them want to use you / Some of them want to get used by you / Some of them want to abuse you / Some of them want to be abused

—Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics (1983)

I made a whole list for this ask! I love Queen and almost all of the eighties' and nineties' classic songs, so this was an extremely hard choice to make.

In the end, I chose Sweet Dreams which, even though it's not my favorite (I don't think I even have a favorite in the first place), is still incredibly epic. I'll recommend Tainted Love by Soft Cell, too. Just because I can.

29: A song that you remember from your childhood

All my life / I prayed for someone like you / And I thank God / That I / That I finally found you

All my life / I prayed for someone like you / And I hope that you feel the same way too / I pray that you do love me too

—All My Life by K-Ci & Jojo

If there's anything I need to thank my parents for, is raising me with a Backstreet Boys-based Playlist. Boyz II Men, Roxette, Chicago, Céline Dion—I grew up singing along to their songs and learned how to speak English by translating their lyrics.

I love BSB to this day, and wanted so bad to recommend one of their songs in this ask, but in the end I chose not to. All My Life is beautiful, and every time I listen to it feels like the first time. It's a classic for me, and a comfort song.

[chaotic-theatrical-weaver]

Ready set go rank your top ten TØP songs and why (purely audio)

Have them featuring images I’ve drawn where applicable! (This is totally not me wanting to be asked about the characters.)

“Polarize”: I’m super morality-oriented, and oh, if that pull isn’t something that resonates in my soul. “I wanted to be a better brother, better son…” YEAH. Go listen to Abbey Glover’s and Tessa Violet’s versions.

“Fall Away”: Same reasons as above. Also has a super pretty piano part (even if rapping while arpeggiating is not feasible)! “ ‘Cause I will save face for name’s sake, abuse grace, take aim to obtain a new name in a newer place, but my name is lame, I can’t walk and I ain’t the same, and my name became a new destiny to the grave.”

“Doubt”: It’s the perfect companion track for “Polarize”!

“Trapdoor”: I can actually play this one on piano, and lyrically, it sounds like if you took a bunch of Arthur Miller characters (specifically, Reverend Hale, Joe Keller, and Willy Loman) and made them fuse with each other. (Fun fact: All My Sons was baby’s first Miller play!)

“Goner”: This one is more hopeful than many would think. I love the bridge and the ending’s implication of a resolution! Even if Blurryface doesn’t disappear fully, it’s the assertion of control over him that matters.

“The Craving”: This is where you’d be seeing more art of the four/two/it's complicated people above if I had more time. "Say enough, say enough / Did I let her know, let her know / If I found my body in chains / I'd lay down and wait / 'Cause it's the fear of the unknown / That cripples every step we take / And I'd just hate to put this on her / But I swear that I will give / More than I take away / Mmm, the craving / Now I see intentions don't mean much"?! IT'S SO THEM. I can also play that on my ukulele!

"The Judge": "I don't know if this one is about me or the devil." As our beloved @artist-issues put it, Tyler's admission that he's as worthy of condemnation there is just...really vulnerable and honest and it flies in the face of everything the world teaches us. To me, it's like reading "I'm not the dragon. I'm not the princess either" and then getting later to "Okay, so I'm the dragon." Plenty of little girls dream of being princesses. All of us dream of being "good people," or at least "good enough" that we're basically the same. Not only are we not what we dreamed, we're the antithesis to that, but there is thankfully God's grace so that we don't always have to be. This song is the grasp for that. And you know I would be drawing the four/two/it's complicated people again for this one.

"Car Radio": I love those second-verse lines about faith and sleep and choosing our sides in this battle for our souls. Do I need to say any more?

"The Line": STRINGS! PIANO! My best friend got into TØP because of this one after quite some time of me being wild about it on my own. She had to bug me (affectionate) for a few days about hearing it and when I finally did? OH THE EDITS I WOULD MAKE TO THE FOUR/TWO/IT'S COMPLICATED PEOPLE I DREW.

"Mulberry Street": It's so Little Fires Everywhere-coded. "Keep your bliss / There's nothing wrong with this"? "Move out of our way / We're pushing sideways / Keep sidewalk under your feet"? Okay, Elena Richardson, pakialamera extraordinare. And the plinkity plink plink of the piano. How could I ignore that?