Car Seat Headrest's Twin Fantasy: Young Love and Romanticization

My first attempt at delving into a video essay for the cult classic indie rock album Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest.
This video analyzes Twin Fantasy as if it were a fictional story, even if I do discuss some meta elements, as it's kind of hard to properly discuss an album so outwardly personal and meta without touching on those pieces. Do not think anything I say here is some deep psycho-analysis of Will Toledo or the person he was with, I'm analyzing the ALBUM. Thank you.

[@quoteth]

Hi there! If you're reading this, thanks for checking this video out. I just wanted to take some time to mention the editing style, which might seem a little choppy. I promise it's all purposeful, but if you have any constructive criticism about this video, please leave it down here in the comments, thanks!

[@quoteth]

ALSO CORRECTION HE WAS 19 NOT 17

[@jokoreynolds5863]

so proud of you for making this, makes me wish gay people were real

[@quoteth]

Okay - [this comment has been removed for violating community guidelines]

[@anusername8350]

I really wish I could break out into the physical world :( the real struggle of gay teenage hood

[@ryounyan]

True true

[@probablyahuman1]

ikr

[@AstolfoIsHot]

@@anusername8350 you could say your... inseparable from the impossible or you want gravity to stop for you or even that your soul yearns for a fugitive from the laws of nature. perchance. (ik im a year late)

[@semioticsfountain]

"those are you got some nice shoulders" is my favorite lyric ever

[@rosetheblackcat]

I'D LIKE TO PUT MY ARMS AROUND THEM

[@user-ik7vm1kt6q]

the terrible audio quality of the video itself really immerses me in the csh atmosphere

[@rowan-priince1860]

This album got me through my first love breaking up with me when I was 17. I’d never felt so seen by an album before.

[@quoteth]

It's definitely a very real, heartfelt, and often painful snapshot of those feelings and I'll always love it for that

[@sofiacerasoli]

it’s doing the same for me right now

[@Deftoneswhore]

Same bro😭🫶🏻

[@lslaaaa]

This is probably one of the only albums that has made me genuinely cry and rethink thinks. I think it’s such a beautiful take on young romance and heavy romanticism and idealism. This album has changed me as a person in the most literal sense

[@cantidolordofblackflames]

holy shit this analysis is so good. i don't think i've seen anyone so accurately show how messy of a song bodys is, especially with how the song sounds so much like something out of the climax of a romance film. also i like how you hit the nail on the head on why famous prophets hits so hard, and i didn't see how dysfunctional cute thing really is too before this vid. this was a really good watch, and i also like how you ordered everything to show exactly the narrative seen in mtm. especially since at first it seems like a romantic type of album but when you go through it again you can see bits and pieces already of how dysfunctional it actually is in the former songs. thank you for this vid.

[@quoteth]

AA THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT!! I'm glad you got something out of my analysis!!

[@REY.3727]

​@@quotethyes we all got good things out of it, excellent analysis!

[@Artist-Lover]

Why is Will Toledo so talented, it makes me jealous

[@hahaha4625]

I have no symphathy for any human that doesn't feel immense anguish from twin fantasy for missing out on their life. I would not care if they burned and feel bad

[@warbles4874]

This is an incredible analysis of my favorite album ever. Deserves a lot more attention.

[@quoteth]

Appreciated! Hoping it'll take off a bit more when I end up doing a revised version with better audio

[@endergamer.mp4]

Man, I didn't know this album was this deep. I normally never pay attention to the lyrics mostly because I can't really understand what they're saying. I just really liked the instrumentation and how the vocals sound quite angsty. I love albums like these, make me feel emotions I've never felt and probably won't feel in my life. One of the best albums I've listened to.

[@Mosstrades]

this analysis gets very well to what i got from the album, which is awesome. god it just really just gets me. every single one of us who went through intense codependent young love will listen to this album and go "nobody on earth relates more to this shit than me" and we are all correct

[@holysoup2954]

i was expecting this to have way more views. such an incredible album that makes me want to go lie down in a bathtub with my toaster. and your video definitely does it justice. cant wait to see more from you 💝💖

[@quoteth]

Thank you!! I'm sure it's in part due to the recording quality lol, but glad you enjoyed it despite that!

[@birdjetb177]

this is the first video ive seen on tf that contextualized cute thing so well! i love the song but i was always a bit curious why it landed where it did on the track list. super sick video!

[@stupidedgykid9563]

Yes I knew it was Will apologizing for Bodies but the realization that the "I am love" was him trying to do whatever he could to keep his lover interested in him, hence the sleeping next to them naked

[@finnzwemer957]

i sat in my college's library and literally started crying over this your description was absolutely beautiful and cracked open something in me that's been cooped up in my brain for awhile

[@quoteth]

This is an incredibly high honor

[@connortuttle3510]

I love this video. This is incredible. Twin Fantasy is really an album that stuck out to me and came to me in the best possible time of my life. Due to the time in which it came to me, i never really looked far into the lyrics. Now, with this incredible video, I finally understand it. Thank you very much for making this video, it is possibly one of the best video essays I have ever seen on such a topic, and I am stoked for the Monomania video.

[@davidarchives7872]

Quick correction for the very beginning of the video: Will was 19 in 2011!

[@quoteth]

Yeah, somehow missed despite saying he was 17 so many times in the vid lol 😭 still haunts me every time I think about it. I think I just had the "17 year old ghost" line from NYM stuck in my head or something lol

[@CleverWhatever]

I may be only 15 right now, but holy FUCK I am relating to how you explained this too well.

[@Dyslexiccosmic]

When the blue letters spelling love showed it was like a puzzle i didn’t know I was solving both in real life and in the song and the places they connect.

[@valkyrie2832]

Twin Fantasy is my favorite album of all time, and I knew a lot about the meaning of it. But this still gave me new perspectives to it and honestly makes me love the album even more. Thank you so much for making this, I’m definitely going to watch your other videos!

[@chloegolden3366]

this video is insanely good your analysis is so insightful :O

[@soggydoggy13]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! you did such a good job analyzing everything and i love it, especially because twin fantasy is one of my favorite albums and i love seeing people talk about it

[@mikamika2056]

Amazing video with a short and sweet analysis of the album. Subscribed.

[@easterneuropeandaughterofcain]

i had a full on breakdown like 10 mins prior to finding this video. i loved it (the video); everything is explained so so so so well and you did an amazing job at presenting the songs while maintaining the disastrous heartbreak that this album entails and also the messiness of it all.. amazing video, you have a calming voice. hugs i love ur conent.

[@yungbxstxrd9556]

Cant wait for the face to face video!

[@d1z501]

cant believe this video only has 17k views, shit deserves so much more, great job man

[@davidarchives7872]

This is a great analysis! You deserve a lot more views, my man. Twin Fantasy is such an amazing album and the way Will managed to really capture all these different feelings is incredible, I feel like I'll never get tired of hearing people talk about it

[@luthva]

this video is great, it really captures the meaning and feeling of Twin Fantasy

[@theratfromnycxx9377]

This is the best analysis ive ever seen.

[@h1nat4z]

twin fantasy is such an amazingly intricate and real album that tears you apart yet puts you together in a way where you come out of it with more of an understanding about things and i absolutely adore that. this analysis is amazing dude

[@alexisga7462]

Great video! You should do one on Monomania! It serves as a sequel to Twin Fantasy and the relationship it talks about.

[@quoteth]

Check my channel lol, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised

[@alexisga7462]

@@quoteth nice

[@bunLuna]

aaa i loved this, my friend who's really into csh wanted me to watch this and i'm glad i did, i never listened to them much but i'm definitely going to give it another go now.

[@quoteth]

hi jackson friend

[@pchelostasik69]

Thank you for this analysis! I've enjoyed every second of it, thank you. Twin fantasy is my favourite album so far and your video is a masterpiece, I love it.

[@quoteth]

Appreciated! It's in my top 3 favorite albums at least.

[@batfluttershy]

this was beautiful and also made me realize just how much i relate to this album

[@spacecadet_01]

haha this album hits so hard. it put what i felt into words and understood more about myself, great video man.

[@toyszz5250]

What an incredible analysis of this album. I'm currently going through so many of these emotions, and I can't relate more to these songs. I'm obsessed, and this video makes me hope I can look back to this obsession and look back on my teenage years. Live Laugh Will Toledo

[@david0754]

Great video dissecting one of my favorite albums,keep it up this video was great.

[@quoteth]

Appreciated!!

[@lemonycactus8687]

This is an amazing analysis, it puts into words every feeling I have when I listen to this album. I look forward to an analysis of Face to Face!

[@quoteth]

Hopefully coming later this month!!

[@gracenoted]

im watching this so high and it's like the most beautiful thing ever i lub car seat headrest

[@taner873]

this was the greatest youtube video i ever watched

[@peafers]

i wish i could put into better words how much this moved me, i realised during my watch, how much this album i can relate to a relationship that never quite happened, but i was always longing for it

[@nilladrawsstuff]

I love twin fantasy. It may be angsty and pathetic, but it definitely has helped me through some shit

[@emiliocordero590]

Loved the analysis and your storytelling. If anyone is seeing this look at the sun and touch some grass, life is not always a fantasy (love can be sometimes).

[@detri5634]

The vine boom around 10:30 killed me LMAO

[@P3ACH0.]

This album lives in my soul idek if I can live a day without incorporating it in my speech and mind and the way I perceive my life as a whole

[@Ernie257]

This makes me love twin fantasy even more

[@willowmello7856]

SO GOOD!!

[@quoteth]

THANK YOU

[@camapel]

This was genuinely incredible man, I've always loved this album (2018 version) but didn't realize how perfectly executed of a concept album it is. I fucking love concept albums, you have given me an entire new appreciation for this album. I do have a bit of a question tho, I can understand why you would return to the 2011 version for the lyrics because it probably paints a better picture of the concept since wills feelings were more relevant since they were sooner. However, do you actually listen to the 2011 version? Personally, I just can't, it sounds like utter shit lol, I'm a huge audiophile, and another reason I adore the 2018 version is the mixing, it sounds truly incredible on a proper sound system, especially the interchanging part in sober to death.

[@quoteth]

On occasion, yes! But I more often listen to the 2018 version for the exact same reason. I just view the 2011 version as an amazing companion piece to the updated version, and for this video specifically, I used the 2011 version because in order to really understand the 2018 version's lyrics, you kind of need to analyze the 2011 version imo. I'm really really glad I could give you a whole new appreciation of the album though!! It completely deserves all the praise it gets.

[@spinyjr]

I feel completely the opposite. I discovered the 2011 version in 2015 around a time when I was going through a lot of the same emotions and experiences this album talks about. It really felt like something truly new and something only possible through the internet and this new era of self released music. it wasn't another album made by someone in there late 20s or 30s to appeal to teens, It was an album made by someone experiencing youth in the first person, in the present tense. The 2017 version to me feels like a cover album. It's not bad but doesn't feel like the same album at all to me. Makes me sad because the original is one of my favorite albums of all time. overall I think its a much more powerful work of art that gets overshadowed by the remake.

[@aloal3486]

It was honestly perfect. Every aspect of it.

[@abrilcaserocanyigueral4467]

omg yeah u're right!!!😍

[@quinkontheinterwebs]

this is amazing

[@mustafabaray]

great video, keep it up.

[@oliver1820]

I have never really took the time to analyze the lyrics I've been listening to all this time. This is beautifully said in so many ways that I can't even think about. I think after watching this video I'll be listening to these songs differently and thinking about different things than before. Like, I didn't even think the songs were related!! I just thought the repeated verses were just catchy or something to will LMAO. Amazing vid and I'll definitely be watching your other vids. subed! Criticisms: Tbh I loved everything, the only thing is maybe invest in a better mic! or change ur mic settings or something.

[@quoteth]

I'm so glad I could paint it in a new perspective for you! I'm aware the mic isn't the best quality 😭 I'm fresh out of HS, gap year, no job, so it might be a bit before I can improve that, but I'm making do with what I can for now. So thankful you could enjoy this video despite it though! And as for the P.S.c I blurred out the name simply because it's omitted as well in the lyric books of the new physical releases of the 2011 version like the vinyl or the CD. I kinda did it for the same reason as that removal was for, I didn't really find it necessary to attach the actual person Will wrote this about to the art and my analysis of it, that's all!!

[@vicrattlehead9412]

amazing video

[@doily1525]

omg it pains me that i find twin fantasy so relatable rn especially when my ex is the one who introduced me to this silly will toledo guy

[@p1xelat3d]

Literally art

[@ryounyan]

Great video

[@kooboota]

cool vid !

[@oggymation3875]

this video is fantanstic keep it up

[@quoteth]

appreciate it!!!

[@jacobsonboi]

it aiint lowk because ive cried to this

[@HERTZZBR]

the transition to famous prophets is so cool

[@Humasexuality]

Keep it up

[@diegomonsterenergy862]

I really am excited for your review on the 2018 remake, I'm not very good about media analysis but when comparing the two it felt to me that the 2018 version was made from the perspective of a more mature and emotionally wise Will looking back on his experience with a greater understanding of what he went through. But it also feels more detached despite the firmer grasp on the concept of his emotions and memories. I really really like to 2018 version of the album, especially famous prophets (stars)

[@quoteth]

I totally agree with you about the more mature perspective!!! That video is coming this month, so!!

[@diegomonsterenergy862]

@@quoteth YIPEE!!

[@Evanmnm]

In a twin fantasy kinda relationship for the 3rd time, do I a) end things b) lose my sense of sanity and self worth as I appeal to a person who hasn’t loved me in months?

[@Evanmnm]

I think imma go with the latter, I’m gay im not smart

[@Evanmnm]

Oh he cheated on me - that’s nice

[@olhala5644]

Limerence is fucked

[@adowi139]

Is it weird that I can see the usage of the Evangelion font? Anyway loved it

[@quoteth]

I think it is a v similar font

[@shadybat3183]

name a happy carseat headrest song (impossible challenge)

[@quoteth]

bodys kind of is, in like a fleeting, being able to momentarily shed yourself of all the pain and anxiety that weighs you down

[@shadybat3183]

@@quoteth my fault u right

[@shadybat3183]

i love car eat headrest

[@Linnytic]

♡♡

[@alexisga7462]

You should make a face to face video!

[@kjbrandman]

this has so few views what the hell!!!

[@quoteth]

Probably partly due to my not so amazing microphone quality lol, but I appreciate you checking it out!

[@willowmello7856]

AHHH

[@EannaWithAFada]

Such a good album they should make real music some day

[@smile--]

So its not about incest?

[@probablyahuman1]

guys I know this is crazy but ngl I thought this album was kinda gay

[@buhal5181]

Joker reference at 1:50?

[@fagdecease]

sorry, but your interpretation of the album is totally wrong. twin fantasy is actually an concept album about anne frank.

[@quoteth]

yoooour semen stained over yourrr graaaveee