First Reaction to Twenty One Pilots - Clancy

[@PanRybeusz]

here before rereaction

[@NumberOneRatedSaIesman1997]

what

[@duckduckgoose8049]

@@NumberOneRatedSaIesman1997 Brad is doing a re-reaction to the album and said in a short recently that he's grown to love the album.

[@realbigflopa]

i cant wait for the rereview

[@pk251]

idk man, we'll see

[@rasyasejati]

check his updated score in aoty, he gave this album a fair, very very good and fair score.

[@JonathanLopez-xn7lm]

Honestly I prefer when brad reviews an album without chat. The chat tries so hard.

[@grimmdlestuff]

I wholeheartedly agree with this for any music reactor. Chat can be very distracting and sidetracks the reactor too much.

[@shinocide]

seriously

[@aaronperez4875]

Not even bro, if he was truly authentic about how the quality of the music he’s listening to sounded with his audience than he wouldn’t be trying to negatively review the album based off chat spamming Ls. He even said it himself that chat was inclining his judgement because you can tell he was ticked off. The chat doesn’t try to hard, Brad tries to hard.

[@thick4628]

every youtuber than basically becomes a stremer and clips parts for videos makes the content worse imo, like the older content was more entertaining, thats why i dont even pop up nowadays, just being honest

[@MvsG18]

Yall so dumb, the chat was the only thing fun to see this whole record, so boring

[@fridaypilot]

brad, im sorry.... you'll never be the 22nd pilot. give it up brad

[@Zaethian]

🌽🌽

[@Jackenough]

Fun fact, 2pac stands for “2 pimp a Clancy”

[@hrtbmn]

lololol

[@williamd2989]

We're ascending beyond the Fantano comment sections

[@JAM_HK416]

If that was the album's title he would've- Wait, wrong comment section

[@callejerosdata1188]

at the end brad is going to be revealed as blurryface mark my words

[@Jumsut_]

Bradley and the Niners

[@dorianthekilljoy4092]

nah we know he was clancy the whole time, review was payed off by dema after they wiped his memory

[@AVileKenøsiS]

That would be amazing

[@pesto77]

he cares what you think

[@trenchcoatsandtea]

The way I actually just spit reading this

[@marshallgrey2159]

you have scaled and icy a 6, but this is a 3?! you're insane man

[@vouk9349]

he updated the rating on albumoftheyear and his rating for scaled and icy is now a 4/10

[@pajsp]

NO WAY HE LIKES SAI MORE THEN THIS!!!!!!! I mean sai is great but clancy is deffinitly better

[@vouk9349]

@@pajsp yeah, he also updated his Vessel rating from a 4/10 to a 2/10

[@francoaranda6499]

Clancy is now an 8/10

[@CirclingTheDead]

I’m so glad he gave Clancy a 10/10

[@pk251]

yea thank god 😅

[@jamesw5287]

sammme!!! album of the yearrrr

[@crabbybilly7220]

yes me too! super glad (i'm delusional)

[@Power_Rifle]

​@@jamesw5287 nope

[@jamesw5287]

@@Power_Rifle tbf I was kidding. But it likely will be my AOTY regardless . i love this album

[@ThatOneDrummerGuy]

“Lavish just feels like complete nonsense” Yes, Brad, that’s exactly what they went for.

[@_theo1784]

I really miss Brad pre-recording reactions, espacially with such big albums. He seemed a lot more focused on the music and didn‘t get distracted by the chat so much.

[@BonBonthe2nd]

Sir, a 21st pilot has hit the Brad Taste In Music stream.

[@Hahaha-px5ep]

DAD GUM THEY GONE HIT THE BRAD TASTE

[@ij3359]

I don’t understand a few of the major critiques of this album from you: “it is not Trench 2”, “it is disconnected”, “it is not heavy on the lore”. The question is: what would you want them to do? 1. Make a straight up copy of Trench sound, sprinkle in more lore and then send it? This would make no sense: the core point of tøp is that their music constantly changes. Making an album with the same ideas and sound would mark the stagnation of the band. This is not optimal and this would make this album boring. 2. I was kinda seeing the whole “it is disconnected” theme when the album first dropped. However, then I read a comment on reddit and it all started making sense. This album is Clancy’s story. It is about his struggles, about him backsliding and then snapping back, about him battling his addictions (Vignette) about him learning important life lessons (Oldies Station), about him finding the one and only who can help him swim the paladin strait. That is what this album is about. 3. And the whole lore stuff also works in this context. Escaping the DEMA is about learning how to deal with insecurities, with mental problems, and that’s what Clancy is succeeding in at the end! He finally has the courage to swim the paladin strait after reliving the most important points of his life, now seeing he has people who actually can help him get through all this. Clancy escaped DEMA. That album is beautiful man, still, I’m open to others’ opinions on this album.

[@calebrafus7493]

This album is beautiful. I can't lie, it was marketed completely wrong, and it wasn't what we expected. I didn't expect a trench part 2, but I expected it to be as lore heavy or as epic. For example, Trench has Jumpsuit/Levitate, Bandito, Leave The City. Stuff that makes the album feel alive. Still a fantastic album.

[@maris_molotov]

Been listening for about half a year now and I gotta say, these criticisms have made more and more sense to me as time has gone on. I loved this album when it first came and it's just gone down and down and down. It's incredibly odd for this album to seemingly go out of its way to include songs that have nothing to do with the world lore considering the way it was marketed. Trench included lots of deep emotional songs about the mental state of Clancy while still actually feeling like a trip through another world, while this one has a song about Ohio. (I saw them live - I'm a fan, I swear - and they transitioned Jumpsuit into Midwest Indigo and there are few things that have ever made me sadder.) The release of The Line last night, a song that I enjoyed considerably more than most of Clancy, reaffirmed my feelings that Clancy just isn't that good at executing its emotional cores. The hook on Snap Back and the verses on Paladin Strait are boosted for seemingly no reason and to me it comes off as Tyler really struggling to sell his emotional investment. I also just... don't like... the production, I guess. You can say "It's not trying to be Trench 2 it's trying to be its own thing!" but that just doesn't change that it's got no big instrumental moments that make me feel in the same way the outros to Morph, Cut My Lip, and Bandito did. The outro to Backslide and that one silly instrument on Vignette feel like they're trying to convey something but I feel nothing. I like that one riff on Navigating but I can't give it points when it never evolves throughout that song. The only part of the album where I really like the instruments is on overcompensate, the craving, the outro to Paladin Strait, and Routines in the Night. I'm just kinda disappointed. I do agree when Brad says this is Blurryface 2. And even Blurryface had a lot of catchy bridges, while half the songs here forget to have a bridge or are extremely blatant like Vignette's or confusing like ATRoFD. Overcompensate is still one of their top 5 songs though. Could've just stuck with that tbh.

[@ij3359]

@maris_molotov I kinda agree on the fact this album is a lot less volumetric when it comes to instrumentals. The Hype, Legend and Neon Gravestones are probably my most favourite tracks out of all of their discography, The Hype’s instrumental version feels like a completely different and unique experience. However, emotion and lyric -wise, I think this album did a great job! The whole album feels like a constant fear of “backsliding” and I feel like it executes it perfectly! Constant rollercoaster of emotions here feel really suitable. And yeah, some songs do feel out of place, Routines (which, don’t get me wrong, I fucking adore) and Midwest Indigo COULD be left out and the album would not lose any substance concept-wise. But I don’t agree with the Blurryface comparison. IMO, not only does Clancy go for a completely different approach in terms of its sound, but it is also much more mature in every possible direction: instrumentally, lyrically and vocally. And the production has skyrocketed in terms of quality since then. Everything sounds so much better. But of course, all of this is debatable. So yeah, Clancy isn’t really perfect, but I think it’s an extremely solid album And, funnily enough, Overcompensate is probably my least favourite song off of Clancy. I really like the opening, but don’t vibe with the verses. And btw, The Line is fucking sick, it’s giving off Trench vibes and Tyler’s vocals there are magnificent! Really hope their future work will take a similar approach.

[@ToadTWE]

Honestly, this album was a wild ride for me. So many bangers off this album. I also liked the tonal shift between the two cravings. Overall, even though you didn’t like it, Brad, this album was a bop for me at least

[@gregaze]

It was for most of us. I think its just Brad

[@junaspalms]

yeah this album makes me 😴💤🛏

[@JLiL4949]

I freaking love it ❤

[@phantomprism7659]

​​@@junaspalmsoh please. If anything is a sleeper it's that awful tortured poet's garbage

[@junaspalms]

@@phantomprism7659 🩴 ?? 😂

[@weavophile1971]

Brad immediately stopping his head-nod once the chorus of Navigating hits will never not be funny

[@brendarivera2139]

me

[@space_1073]

everyone felt that

[@Dire-vc1jo]

TOTALLYYYY

[@hawtdawg877]

I honestly start laughing cuz that's exactly how I felt

[@Amascut]

Shocked tbh. I’m not a huge TOP fan or anything, but I absolutely love that track and really like the chorus. It’s got a fun syncopation on the “I’m navigating” and the heavier sound and melody is great.

[@wavehellhole]

This is why reviewing albums live with chat is a bad idea. Just review the music instead of letting chat piss you off.

[@satelliteimagerymusic]

Agreed

[@Daedroh]

Brad acting like he won’t be a Bandito at the final battle but we all know he’ll be the first to start swinging

[@BigWeinerMan1]

facts

[@SebastianLoza-w1d]

brad is working with the bishops

[@pizzacrescent1080]

To anyone reading this or didn't see my pinned comment on the stream. It is okay to enjoy this album, don't let Brad or anyone in this community take away that enjoyment just because they didn't like it. To anyone that dislikes this album, please be respectful towards those who do like it, we want to reduce toxicity and mocking people who likes Twenty One Pilots or this album is not productive and neither is attacking people who dislike them. As a side note, to anyone who likes the album, please do not go after Brad or anyone that doesn’t like it. That’s also not healthy and it hurts the discussion surrounding TOP’s works. I just wanted to try promoting healthy discussion, I’m not saying you shouldn’t criticize the album.

[@CreedOfUnity]

Be the change you want to see. I like it. Picasso

[@v7001.ver4]

to anyone reading this, be respectful to people that don't like this album, not liking things is ok and you can have healthy arguments about it!

[@pizzacrescent1080]

@@v7001.ver4 Oh yeah, I probably should have included that too, thanks for adding on to it.

[@mark3933]

Thank you for saying that! I personally love the album but I'm good if people feel differently

[@asdflkjh-r2g]

I don't see how someone not liking an album can take away from your enjoyment?? Music is objective. Crybaby was an album I listened to as a kid so it has a special place in my heart, and to this day I still love the vibe and sound. Brad's opinion (a much more brutal opinion than in this video mind you) didn't take that away from me! If hearing someone critique a song is that disheartening I think you need to step away from the topic for a little bit and realize people can have different opinions to you and it's okay. If this stream felt like a personal attack in anyway that's concerning... it's never that deep I don't condone harassing or insulting people who enjoy the song but nowhere did Brad do that

[@sunny.litty353]

The Paladin Strait music video is absolutely impeccable, too bad TØP is no longer 'deserving of your time'.

[@twovulagaming]

im scared to know what fantano thinks edit: well damn, no more tøp reviews i guess :/

[@im_man27]

he’s gonna give it a 4 or 5 im calling it now

[@Sillyhillybillymilly]

Lowkey i think he’ll give it a 6 . No reason I just do

[@lightdarkequivalent7143]

Midwest Indigo - 0:01 seconds in Stream Chat: TRASH

[@twovulagaming]

@@lightdarkequivalent7143 stream chat is a hive-mind that have no opinions of their own most of the time

[@2002TMG]

Oh he’s not gonna like it lol, or he’s gonna be mixed about it

[@fernandoramosgomez521]

I miss when Brad actually looked the lyrics on Genius and gave his interpretation of the lyrics, he was so more focused on the music itself than the fucking chat We tried to save his channel for all the copyright thing for this? what a shame

[@celebrityskin115]

god you top fans are insufferable

[@plaintive8953]

31:45 That guy is speaking facts tho. Speaking as someone who has been following Brad since the original Blurryface reactions, I really do think the live reactions impact his enjoyment on some level. Even though Editing-Brad felt a lot more level-headed than Reaction-Brad, an initial reaction fueled by an annoyance at chat isn't going to just disappear over the course of 12 hours. I would have much preferred if he listened to this without an audience

[@pitydisease]

🙂↕️

[@sammieslaterjr.8982]

There's no money in a level-headed off-camera evaluation anymore. Brad's quality as a reviewer started to nosedive as soon as he switched to this stream-based format, and although the entertainment value has skyrocketed, I pretty much no longer come to him for reputable music takes untainted by the whims of a live audience (except maybe his year end lists where he's had time to sit with the albums.) This culture of being reactionary above all else is really harmful towards having and exercising media literacy. (p.s. I don't really mess with this album that much either, I think it's just okay, I'm commenting on the greater issue instead of trying to defend 21P or anything)

[@plaintive8953]

@@sammieslaterjr.8982 I get what you're saying, but I personally still think Brad is a pretty good reviewer when he and the chat are both excited for the music they are listening to. Hell, it's even fun sometimes when it's a particularly bad project and both of them are fueling the memes. But when you go into a group as critically divisive as twenty one pilots are, the negativity in the chat is going to stick out more, and they're going to fuel one another. I don't think Brad is greedy or a complete drone to his chat, but I do think he should pick his battles better when it comes to reacting live and pre-recording, because I would have respected this reaction a lot more if he was focused on the music rather than joking with the chat for the entire second half of the album

[@sammieslaterjr.8982]

@@plaintive8953 I didn't mean to imply that he was being greedy, he's doing this for a living and you gotta do what you gotta do for better or worse. I'm not a fan of the format, but I respect his efforts.

[@sammieslaterjr.8982]

@@plaintive8953 also yeah he's far from being an objectively unfair or baseless critical eye still

[@EllaGP22]

Waiting for the Paladin Strait music video where it’s revealed that Nico was actually Brad all along

[@maciejojewski1755]

George Russel spotted

[@wild.angelo]

Everyone talking about the cliffhanger and Brad just saying "This feel's conclusive". Love it

[@ΘοδωρήςΠαλημέρης]

Tbf it does feel conclusive. If this song was in a language I didn't understand and somebody told me "that's the last song of the album" I would really find it a great fit for an album closer.

[@orangemonks894]

@@ΘοδωρήςΠαλημέρηςa creepy voice???

[@yaboyegreja7750]

​@@orangemonks894why you talking like a creepy voice isn't conclusive? Just because it's a dark finisher it doesn't make it an imediate huge clifhanger like when thanos apeared in the avengers. Plus it feels more of a bittersweet ending rather than creepy

[@horse9000]

I liked it! Tyler joseph finally learned how to rap in a way that doesn’t sound like he’s frantically trying to cram as many words into a sentence as possible and it really improved the 21 pilots experience for me

[@LilDebCake]

This video and the fallout after made me unsubscribe from Brad. The most over the top unfair criticism I’ve ever seen from a music reviewer. Barely a review here. The navigating chorus complaint, Midwest indigo instrumental crying, and the insane ways he just says the singing and instrumentals are terrible with no basis or real critique. Full on hating and his reactions after are entitled smartass and gross. Not even that big a fan of the album. Sad bro

[@fernandoramosgomez521]

39:54 "Maybe I'm missing something" I dunno, like THE ENTIRE FUCKING ALBUM

[@Jake-yq7vd]

@@fernandoramosgomez521 he fucking said that

[@jaspervandersteene9077]

With al due respect. I didn't like this review video. Not because you didn't like the album, I actually like it when people disagree with me. I'm just missing substance. This feels more like a sassy reaction video and not like a substanced critics review

[@PotatoKing86]

Real

[@illiseanise]

Brads never gonna recover from this

[@pollynlyubenova8365]

Lol cus this album doesn't deserve his full attention. It's simply bad.

[@argkitsune]

Calling this a sequel to Blurryface was uncalled for, Brad. It's spot-on, but still.

[@pk251]

Blurryface: The Paul Meany Version

[@Pizhdak]

Blurryface but with no religion or radio references

[@devamie33]

Blurryface is my favorite album so I actually like that about it. I’ve been listening since Vessel for reference

[@ZestyBarnacle69]

HAHAHAHHA fr

[@georgeandfriendsadventures5073]

Blurryface if it didn’t age like milk

[@ifureaddisugay]

I get why you dislike it. I also think this album being branded as a 'sequel' to trench was disingenuous. With that said, this is basically blurrface if it was actually good and i think its on the same level as trench for completely different reasons.

[@Matty-pn9fy]

A lot of people are saying this and I agree completely. I was expecting the griminess of trench, but it seems like blurryface through the scaled and icy production style, and then some odd trench here and there.

[@kevinlowen2648]

I never understood why people think that it would sound like Trench. Tyler himself even stated that this album would be more like Redecorate from Scaled and Icy. Maybe the problem was that people took 'welcome back to trench' wrong. This band never did the same again. They always sound a little different from album to album. Ibwould suggest to just listen to it again, with an open mind, because Clancy is a banger.

[@ifureaddisugay]

@@kevinlowen2648 album sounds nothing like redecorate, not even tone wise. Cope harder

[@kevinlowen2648]

@@ifureaddisugay I never said it does. It's the direction Tyler pointed to when he was asked about it

[@zephyr6783]

its weird that everyone's hating on bradley for hating a tøp album, when he negatively reacted to pretty much all of their discography everyone was cool and thought it was funny, what changed?

[@Milkyway101]

Personally for me this just feels sorta lazy in a way? I think doing it on stream wasn't the best idea, but in general just seemed like because it wasn't dark like trench that he immediately dismissed the album.

[@HerBenevolence21]

​@@Milkyway101 I agree I liked brad in the first place because even if he hated my most beloved album I still laugh from the funny and unhinged edits now the edits gone because he does the reactions live

[@JJ-tk7xf]

​@@Milkyway101it was literally marketed as Trench part 2, though, so I don't think it's unfair to be unimpressed and disappointed when the album we got was not that.

[@jamesw5287]

Maybe it's because it just felt he really wasnt giving those songs a proper first listen before critiquing them? Talking over, mocking them midway, getting angrier and angrier. Either way he didnt like it in the end after multiple listens and thats fine.

[@countyfactswailuigi]

This album is better than Scaled and Icy, Blurryface, and Vessel. That's what has changed.

[@BedsheetGhost_]

if this album was called scaled and icy you would have given it a 10

[@brandona1140]

Scaled and clancy

[@neolbioldey]

I can't even imagine what that means

[@divehalfway]

the fact that it literally says "Welcome back to Trench" at the beginning certainly didn't help the project at all lol Edit: y'all, whether or not they specifically meant simply the "place" rather than their prior album, it doesn't change my opinion of the album as a whole. I'm not thinking of that *singular* line 5-6 songs in. Just found it a little odd, considering they *had* to know that a good amount of listeners would interpret that line in both ways.

[@2002TMG]

Yeah haha it literally sells the vibe that it’s the direct continuation of Trench and the rest of it was just misleading, re listening to it on its own as its own thing I think it’s good, not bad but the advertisement of being something and then not being it does bring some mixed feelings cause of that and leads it to not being well received by others too which I honestly don it blame

[@countyfactswailuigi]

Yeah I don't really get that. This album was its own thing, and it excelled at that.

[@aaronperez4875]

Eh, that’s honestly just nit picking.

[@peterumathum4903]

Just feels like them blatantly going "oh they really liked this one, let's just tell them this is somehow related to it and they'll eat it up"

[@countyfactswailuigi]

@@peterumathum4903 Makes it feel like they're lacking confidence. Which is weird. Aren't they confident with what they put out? I think it's a solid 9.5. Do they?

[@pizzacrescent1080]

I honestly enjoyed this album. Sure I don't listen to much music nor do I have high expectations, but I still found it pleasant to listen to regardless. Although there were some parts that I think that could have been done better, the instrumentals and vibes got me hooked. The guitars and drums especially, the high points are amazing.

[@Sillyhillybillymilly]

The clique ain’t gonna like this one

[@mmf-rules]

Indeed, we didn't

[@rightlyexiled]

No we don’t ☠️

[@pk251]

i liked it Edit: Thought we were talking about the album 💀

[@ribztercabz2222]

this is just classic brad

[@rightlyexiled]

@@ribztercabz2222 he seemed harsher then usual on this 1

[@Nanjeroni]

The fact that Routines was almost not on the album is wild.

[@countyfactswailuigi]

A top 3 song.

[@aykay1468]

A top 13 song.

[@fallenangel2060]

A top 23 song

[@マリア-たん]

A top 33 song.

[@dantemeza1]

A top 43 song

[@ElliYeetYT]

We have a momentous occasion everyone. Brad after loving Trench has just returned as a Twenty One Pilots Critiquer again with the double streak. What a legend. Edit: in response to Brad’s recent community post blacklisting TOP, What I meant was a goofy joke. I’m not a twenty pilots fan nor am I a troll. I just made a dumb ironic joke with no harmful intentions.

[@seeyouspaceraccoon]

sad that you even have to apologize for a joke, both from the perspective of brad and the people behind his channel can't take the criticism to the point where they have to blacklist it and where the stans got insufferable about it. Don't get me wrong I think the stans are out of line but also when you put a music review out there's always going to be backlash from the following the artist has, if you can't handle it then you really shouldn't be making public reviews on music?

[@littleferrhis]

I can’t believe no one notices this album is a timeloop. If you have this album loop. Right after the hello Clancy it rolls straight into Overcompensate in a nearly seamless transition. Sort of like a 1984 esque, “you thought you escaped, but really you played right into my trap” style thing.

[@ZenLord]

Woah… you are so right

[@ajlee2168]

L O R E

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

That’s bullshit lmao, just because the ending is silent does not mean it perfectly loops. Nonagon Infinity loops, this album doesn’t.

[@dublinjake]

I don't agree, there's no real indication that the album loops beyond a sudden end silence and I don't think Overcompensate would make a great deal of sense as a continuation of what we get at the end of Paladin Strait. What's more noteworthy is that the "So few, so proud, so emotional" echoes "the few, the proud and the emotional" from Fairly Local, the first single of the Blurryface album cycle. In that sense it is absolutely a loop - Clancy has in some way fallen into Nico's trap in an attempt to put an end to this.

[@eVCANN]

lol what? That would work with any song. Definitely not a loop

[@sheldonbayer]

All OG Brad fans are freaking out right now

[@mudgepeeman3508]

Yeah im noticing that but I don't get it, is a bunch of OG people in his community fans of 21 pilots ?

[@sheldonbayer]

@@mudgepeeman3508 I think like 2018 ish when Brad did the TOP reviews it attracted a lot of TOP fans to his channel, and a lot of them became fans of the channel. Me personally I found him when he released his neotheater review

[@HerBenevolence21]

​@@sheldonbayer because even if he hated my most beloved album I still laugh from the funny and unhinged edits he did back then now the edits gone because he does the reactions live

[@theghost00]

@@mudgepeeman3508Not an OG fan, but found Brad because of his TØP reactions. Can laugh if someone clowns on something I like. 😂

[@jadenthemusicfreak]

Pretty much yeah I found his channel in late 2018, Gorillaz The Now Now reaction was my first video. Eventually I started getting into the TØP content not long after.

[@JustaNotherguy-pd7pw]

I thought some songs were good but it felt kinda underwhelming to me and the chat spamming “L” and otherwise being weird throughout the stream just made me think you should turn off chat for album reactions in the future. It’s just not worth it. EDIT: because the comments are getting toxic and outright hateful. To the upset TØP fans leaving disgusting comments, grow up. Your opinions are not fact and pretending they are helps no one and certainly doesn’t make people like TØP or the album any more. To the people that *politely* disagree, thank you. I cannot stress how refreshing it is to see actual comments in the sea of hatred.

[@Ausvwidabix2blorange]

finally found a good comment while scrolling through “Newest”

[@diabetesbagel]

For those of you who came here after his re-ranking of Clancy, he gave it a 8/10, a deserved improvement

[@thatariii]

where did he do the re-ranking ??

[@gasolinekiss]

If it was called clarence you would've given it a 10

[@SFT49]

lol 5/10 for Next Semester is ridiculous.

[@gavinpoplawski9301]

“Blurryface 2” is such a good way of describing this album’s sound and I’m loving it

[@pk251]

Best part about that description besides it being accurate, is that it doesn’t imply it’s bad, it’s literally blurryface but good

[@meadows2034]

@@pk251blurry face was great

[@2002TMG]

And it actually fits cause Clancy has the Blurryface paint lol

[@LittleWeevil]

Honestly to me it feels like Scaled and Icy with a trench flavour on top. I enjoyed it, but it is absolutely not a proper follow up to trench.

[@ANTIV15T]

as a longtime twenty one pilots fan i don’t hear it at all

[@paralyzedspirit]

too late bradley i already formed an opinion on this album, better luck next time!

[@cree.mp3]

i love midwest indigo purely on the basis that it sounds a phoenix b-side lmao

[@DerDelay]

omg i was thinking the exact same thing and it’s probably my favorite on the album (don’t like the rest all that much unfortunately)

[@nataIieatbest]

yes exactlyyty

[@NovembersEnd]

I'm pessimistic by nature, but damn, your negativity towards this album was a bit soul-draining even for me. Luckily "future Brad" showed up here and there to reign it in a little, but still... "past Brad" came off like an angry drunk. To put it simply, I don't think you're as much of TOP fan as you think you are. 🤷

[@neolbioldey]

He's more of a TØP fan than he thinks he is

[@dcruzjr06]

Word, as disappointed as brad is in the album I am just as disappointed in him

[@guerin13]

i understand your point about not liking a serious topic on top of a upbeat song, but i think it matches perfectly, because it is not a sad song, its an encouraging song, to reach out to your friends, to make sure they are safe, it perfectly matches the message in my opinion

[@tabascocrow4369]

Brad returning to his roots.. unfairly hating on tøp. we are so back.

[@minkeymouce]

I think his critiques are spot on, but I agree that the overall scores for the tracks themselves are too low.

[@ivy.growing]

he gave his honest opinions. if you think it's "unfairly hating" you're just afraid of criticism and that says a whole lot more about you than it does Brad

[@cgollimusic]

@@ivy.growing Hey hero, I saw another fire in another comment for you to put out.

[@msgoodpu55]

@@cgollimusic i mean did you read his community note? y’all are weird asf

[@tabascocrow4369]

@@ivy.growing I meant “unfairly hating” as a joke, I don’t actually believe it. I said “we are so back.” To kinda signal that I wasn’t being serious. Still, it sucks that the backlash to Brad’s opinion has affected him so. People trying to crucify him for sharing his genuine opinion is sad.

[@owenisweirdo]

I was expecting a lore focused album but it ended up just being a regular album

[@svprcrm7189]

didn't he say this one would be the most lore focused? but only 2 songs were... the last album of the story

[@killthepandas.]

they have lore??

[@TheDani3225]

​@@svprcrm7189no he said the opposite

[@jetpbastos]

are you serious?

[@svprcrm7189]

@@TheDani3225 look at the link he did say that

[@taynaranieri]

''the proctologist in the song is not the only one seeing ass'' I SIMPLY DIED RIGHT THERE LMAO

[@marquinhodoido5]

bro MIGHT be blurryface

[@kendallkw]

all the songs he doesnt like because the instrumental is suffocating is exactly why i like top so i knew when he didnt like a song for that reason i would love it LMAO. also hard agree on navigatings chorus. the rest of the song sounds so good then the chorus kills it

[@LizaDavid]

Can’t agree with y’all on the chorus of Navigating because I think it SLAPS, however, I do 100% agree with you about the suffocating instrumentals! I LOVE Twenty One Pilots because of them! They have a vibe in those songs that you wanna blast in your car and just scream! I also adore how Twenty One Pilots couples serious topics with lighthearted/energetic music.

[@kendallkw]

@@LizaDavid honestly navigating has grown on me a lot since coming out, but yes the instrumental being suffocating is my fav thing like i love listening and hearing new stuff i hadnt noticed in the audio, also totally love how deep they are :)

[@dannymcgervey2151]

Brad taste in Clancy

[@warddprod]

huge w on the backslide take

[@countyfactswailuigi]

I love Backslide.

[@user-rm1jp6hf5h]

HUGE W ?!?!?!?!?!! *The worst, most annoying and ear piercing beat drop ever*

[@countyfactswailuigi]

@@user-rm1jp6hf5h Lol what beat drop? Do you mean the well-crafted chorus that has no beat drop?

[@user-rm1jp6hf5h]

@@countyfactswailuigi if you don't know what I mean by Huge W, I'd say you're blissfully ignorant.

[@retorikhal]

​@@user-rm1jp6hf5hbrad taste tourists aint never heard of no mori calliope

[@JaimieWFYT]

After the singles, Brad took the goofy part of the album too seriously, and then when the serious songs came in he stopped caring.

[@jackboller124]

Yep pretty much. Seems like Brad turned his brain off because there is plenty of similarities between the sound of this album and Trench and he's acting disgusted and insulted for some reason lmao

[@ssmaamam]

​@@jackboller124Nsh this album isn't nearly as well crafted as Trench. They may have sonic similarities but the tonal consistency just isn't there and the balance of lore and actual music just isn't there

[@greasenob4821]

@@jackboller124 this album is nowhere near trench bro

[@jackboller124]

@@greasenob4821 I didn't mean to imply that Clancy is on par with Trench, it isn't. But it's definitely not anything close to Blurry face level quality like Brad and fans are saying

[@neolbioldey]

That's what happens when the album doesn't prove that it deserves your attention

[@josh-jr1lv]

If this was called To Be Clancy you'd give it a 10

[@SebastianLoza-w1d]

to pimp a clancyfly

[@belladonnabeth3090]

Although I strongly disagree with the takes, I did appreciate the breaks in the stream recorded separately where you articulate your views in a rational way

[@FlasKamel]

Shoutout Brad, always appreciated how genuine you are

[@izar1670]

I enjoyed it, but I appreciate that you're not flexing your opinion around other people's thoughts and aren't scared to show your raw thoughts.

[@spongbong0]

i have the same thoughts

[@natfrog]

It seemed to me he based his opinion on what the chat was saying, and they all went into it not even wanting to like it. just so cringe.

[@izar1670]

@@natfrog hes not going to like it because of how toxic people are towards him when it comes to twenty one pilots. he shouldve reacted to it off-stream.

[@neolbioldey]

​@@izar1670true. He said he is just gonna stop reviewing tøp but personally I think he should he should just do it off stream

[@jenbaminw]

I think this album is impressively mature considering how offensively cringey their entire body of work is. The band seems tired of this Dema storyline and is clearly trying to get their fans to move on and grow up with them (Oldies Station is clearly Tyler telling the fans it's okay to get older and let go). Tyler also said it would be their most "straightforward" album and I think the end result is a really moving, diverse album that reflects the crossroads the band is at (and Tyler, who seems to be content with where he is but is haunted by lingering mental illness and the realization that he's aging). I also think you had to be really into the album rollout to get behind what Clancy is going for. Most of the hyping up came from fans who were eager for an end to the story, but the band really downplayed that angle. You can really hear the narrative fatigue in some of these songs. Tyler straight up ended all the speculation by dumping out a lore video, which made it so that the only narrative implication Clancy had to fulfill was "Clancy and Nico finally fight", which does happen. This time, though, the band has their own sound and weren't bending the music to fit the themes of the lore or the aesthetic of the "era" they created. All that is to say that this is the best TOP has ever been because it's the least confined they've ever been. This is them just making music to make music (Lavish and Backslide excellently document Tyler's disillusionment with stardom and the accompanying conformity) and it sounds really, really, really great. A perfect response to the bland artificiality of SAI.

[@IcyPilots]

I’m not even gonna hide it, Josh ABSOLUTELY carried Tyler on this album. Josh really put in the work to make some creative, fun, and energetic drumbeats on this album and Tyler just wasted those beats with some of the writing throughout this album. This album seriously ONCE AGAIN left me feeling utterly disappointed. I seriously love this band with my whole heart but they are making it so hard to defend them nowadays. Tyler is a GRAMMY AWARD WINNING songwriter yet for some reason it feels like he’s not putting in the same energy as when he was on his come up or even when they gave us Trench. I really was ecstatic about where the band would take us in this next project but I guess they really weren’t joking when they said they said "don’t believe the hype". It really does feel like Tyler believes that they are too big to fail, and once again Josh really put in the effort to make sure that his parts in this album sounded great and he’s still putting in the same effort as when he first came into the band. As a fan of this band for well over a decade, this one is a 6/10 for me.

[@gonerboner5284]

nah man i think tyler is constanly scared about even their hardcore fans leaving just bc the band dont sound like it used to and it shows sooo strong in this era so theres no way he thinks they are ,,too big to fall,, at least its more like trying too hard but idk dude for me it still is what top have always been and to be fair brad beyond trench low-key hated every other of their albums so theres no need to defend anyone lmao just dont be insecure about what you like and let brad be hater cause im here for him to spit the truth 🗣

[@ZenLord]

I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID HERE. Like I was so disappointed with these tracks, but all I know is Josh fucking carried

[@IcyPilots]

@@ZenLord might as well have named the album Torchbearer instead lol💀

[@tikken4526]

Tyler is currently crying in his pj's, writing a disstrack about Brad on his barritone ukulele

[@yeseniadelatorre676]

I always appreciate your opinion Brad!! Thanks for reacting to the album no matter what!

[@jayeenas]

experienced the same rage as when I saw your vessel review when I was 14 thank you Brad taste in music everything feels right in the world

[@justjuniorjaw]

Routines in the Night is my fav here, coz it's just a vibe.

[@pyr096]

I follow this man exactly for this lmao. I love TOPS, but I find brads reviews funny 😂

[@gonerboner5284]

almost pissed myslef when brad was givin a speech with a speed up snap back video in the background

[@kiwizzweez]

Tbh this rating sucks, was gonna give benefit of the doubt but your just picky ngl

[@Purplepentapus_]

This album would be much less of an offense if it wasnt promoted as the end to the Dema story. If most of these songs were on their own standalone album then yes, they would still be very weak songs, but it wouldnt feel like running downstairs on christmas morning as a kid, just to find boxes full of socks. If they had pitched it as a low key side project to try some new things and not the concepts to a decade long story

[@pakooooos]

I WAS NEVER TOLD WHAT LAWS THERE ARE 🗣🔥‼️💯

[@serendipity696]

I feel so bad that music critics have the brains that they have. They’re cursed with not being able to enjoy 90% of music

[@BarberJBrown]

One thing I will say, I love brads honesty. I have been a huge fan of twenty one pilots for years, I will say having said that. Most times on the first listen I won’t always like the songs right away and then over time they keep growing on me. Lavish is already that song for me.

[@halflifemusicofficial]

What really hit me was while watching the livestream after like the second song Tyler mentioned that only 3 of the songs were significantly related to the lore, which this album was supposed be like the big revelation and the finally to this epic that Tyler has been showing us since the beginning. While I don’t think the album is bad, it was very disappointing and didn’t live up to what I was expecting in my head.

[@Amascut]

Painfully it’s not even that the SONGS are related to lore, but the videos.

[@halflifemusicofficial]

@@Amascut Paladin straight is related to the lore but yeah you’re right. 1/13 is just sad

[@jamesw5287]

@@halflifemusicofficial tbf Routines, Backslide, and Next Semester have interesting easter eggs to the story. DIRECTLY related to lore? only 3/13 MVs, but implied connections? Even lyrically, its more like 7/13 (Vignette has a lot of lyrics that could be interpreted as Clancy's journey). But like, every album only ever had 2-3 songs that were directly related to lore in the MVs, this is no different? Trench was the same (Jumpsuit, Nico and the Niners, Levitate). Heck, Blurryface only really had HeavyDirtySoul as lore related.

[@phantomprism7659]

​@@jamesw5287but who cares about music videos... I want the songs themselves to feel related to the lore.

[@jamesw5287]

@@phantomprism7659 They do... Vignette has implications. Backslide does too. But even then, many of the songs of the previous albums arent explicitly lore based either, inlcuding trench, so idk what you're really hoping for here? Its the same level of lore heavy as before

[@GreenManT19]

You lost me as soon as you said Vignette was dogshit.

[@jesusofsuburbia3080]

it's a bad song

[@bblunder]

too many effects for a song trying to have a "good" vocal

[@carparked]

I think one thing for sure, the marketing sold us on a fiery rebellion. What we got is a very melancholic reflection on their music and careers. Wildly bad marketing for a pretty good album. I’m loving it personally but it really threw me off at first

[@smidlem1117]

i always saw it as immolating the lore and expectations fans placed on the band. would line up with the metatext surrounding scaled and icy too

[@ancorites969]

amazing how it's been 9 years since blurryface and twenty one pilots fans haven't changed at all

[@wockymocky3691]

Holdup 9 years? 👴

[@crushy93]

I was so disappointed by this album. Liked the singles, but the rest just sounds so boring to me, all very same-y and everything after the singles just combined into one boring song for me. Sad. Really hoped they would come back to Trench-era with this one, ESPECIALLY cause it says "welcome back to trench" at the start. Massive letdown :/

[@aarons0z992]

I agree with the welcome back to trench part but they've never Made two similar sounding albums, if anything it's always different, and forgetting about comparing it to trench definitely helped me enjoy it a lot more with every listen

[@AsmallShark2001]

Had breakfast to the stream, and now im having dinner to the vod 😎 today was a brad day

[@Ty-mu7gl]

Honestly, after going through the tracks and the videos, and especially after their livestream, it feels like they actively tried to mislead us. The trailer said the story would conclude here, but then Tyler said something like, “Does it sound like it's over?” in an interview a few days ago. The visuals and lyrics clearly have other priorities besides the Dema universe, too. I think we're gonna get a lot more clarity on what their true plan is when the video for Paladin Strait comes out.

[@eggznbakeyy]

as a TØP fan that is enjoying the new record, i love coming back to see brad’s take. i disagree with him completely, but i really enjoy watching him because not only is he organized with his thoughts, but also goofy with his deliveries as well. and for that i love his videos

[@vicho5960]

hating on Navigating is wild

[@connieee5089]

right ??

[@wherewego6960]

He and Tyler must be the same person, then.

[@jewelsxmoonlight1014]

ikr ?? literally my favorite song on the album

[@MisterRawgers]

The dude is a troll, he knows what he’s doing

[@ballarichakraborty8031]

True 😭

[@kwytz821]

As a fan, I appreciate Brad's viewpoint of each song supposed to have been a part of a greater whole, both for the album and for the story of the album. This is something I hadn't kept in mind during my listens, as I took them more for an individual project per song, rather than a whole. Great vid, despite my favorites being flame-toasted :(

[@Schmitty34]

Backslide is, in the lore DEMA related, but as a believer in Christ its the feeling of holding out and not wanting to fall back to sinful ways. Honestly most of these songs makes many Christian points its awesome. I can see why if someone doesn't relate to not like the song but the poetry for me is incredible.

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

It’s not just a specific Christian thing, backsliding is a universal concept for people falling back into their old ways

[@Schmitty34]

@@christopherlyndsay8611 Backsliding (Backslider) was coined Biblically Proverbs 14:14 (It being written however means it was most likely used beforehand, but nevertheless is very popular in the Christian Community). Today it's now used everywhere, but the obvious nods to him picking up bread, and not wanting to backslide, realizing he lost and going back for more is the word of God. Take a seat with the crease in it, Luke 8:11. Sinking under water and it going over his head, Peter sinking in the storm and "reaching out" (throw me one more line) to Jesus and then coming back to security. Yes, I probably shouldn't have just written a paragraph but this song (in my non professional opinion) had God written all over it. However it relates to you is subjective, and if you made it this far thanks for listening to my TED talk.

[@deepstrokes]

trench actually had that twenty one pilots style that everyone expected from them but improved and honed, everything since has just been quirky for the sake of quirky. I literally cant fathom how this happened with their sound. TLDR: Balls the Album

[@Nathaniel-nb8du]

As a tøp fan, I agree with Bradly on this one. Here are several critiques I have on this album, considering it was advertised as a sequel to Trench: 1. It doesn't sound like it took three years to make. A lot of the writing here sounds rushed, and it doesn't help that the music videos were quickly made to release with the album. Don't get me wrong, that's a lot of work they did, and I appreciate the intention, but it would have been smarter to follow up a conceptual album like Trench with few, but well made music videos that continue the Trench/Clancy storyline. 2. Clancy lacks a direction both sonically and thematically. Trench is a great album, because it tells a compelling story from beginning to end. The journey from Jumpsuit to Leave the City is one where every song earns its place. Every song felt like a character beat that built up to a climax that was earned. I was surprised that the first three songs on Clancy are singles, simply because they feel so wildly different from one another. They feel like three different stories instead of working together as one. 3. While I think Scaled and Icy is still their worst album musically speaking, I have to give it credit in that it still felt consistent with the lore and storyline. You can hear the underlying nervousness stifled under the artificial stereo-friendly pop hits pumped out on it. With Clancy however, I was struggling to piece together the overarching story, until Paladin Straight, a conclusion that I like, but don't know how I got there. There's a famous saying that it is the journey that counts, not the destination, and that's what I felt was missing on this record. I admit I haven't followed the lore for this new album cycle much. Maybe that would help tie the songs together, but at this point I'm just hungry for some well-written songs.

[@FalconsWarrior]

brad’s content was so much better back in 2018 when he actually gave the music a fair shot

[@paparicky5416]

when nico says "hello clancy" at the very end and brad said "ok" that could have been the whole video

[@Aryan-eo4hb]

We sliding w Brad, we all know 21 pilots are associated w Boeing

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

Interestingly, the story that the name “twenty one pilots” came from is basically exactly what Boeing is doing right now

[@Aryan-eo4hb]

@@PhoenixRiseinFlame I had no idea about this gotta look it up

[@alexlivings1523]

I’ll respectfully disagree. Album is fire

[@TheGreatChad88]

The New video for paladin strait is absolutely perfect. I wish you would make a video on it. It is everything the community wanted and more

[@cultfollowing8935]

Aren’t these the guys that are responsible for your career? Lmao

[@akionlizard]

Oop-

[@LizaDavid]

Brad got real quiet after this. 👀

[@Pizhdak]

What kind of reasoning is that 🤣 He started by giving opinions on their music, he continues doing it to this day.

[@GooseLukeBruh]

@@Pizhdak well not anymore 😬 (he said hes gonna stop doing top reviews)

[@Kansas2700]

If it was called 2 pimp a clancy , you would've given it a 10 SMH

[@superwildejellyfish]

Brad calls one of my favourites on the album terrible (Midwest Indigo), we are SO BACK 🤩🤩🤩 But seriously though, this was a great video Brad! Sorry to see some fans have done a 180 on your content due to this being “the album you MUST like” and all that bs, while back in the day you’d be even harsher yet we’d all be chill. Been chill since day one 😎, I understand if you won’t cover pilots again but just know I massively appreciate all of the pilots content you’ve made over the years ❤️, literally found you through your first Trench reaction after all haha!

[@surfboy87]

Brad always hates my favorites LMAO 😭

[@CouragelessOne]

I wish you were the face of the fanbase

[@noahlowemusic]

for my mental health i ain't watching this, but love ya brad

[@googleisshit1965]

Omg lol

[@Wigger248]

Risk of feeling dumb was my favorite song in the album and don’t get the criticism of the song having an inappropriate beat for the subject matter.

[@liyahl0v3]

As a diehard Twenty One Pilots fan who has been subscribed since Brad’s original TØP reaction…I don’t see anything wrong with this reaction. While I can respectfully disagree with some of Brad’s opinions here, I can appreciate that he has his own opinion of these songs. Pretty disappointed in my fellow clikkies rn.

[@jeridivina7841]

i deadass kept refreshing the site to see if you reacted

[@MenchieExtrakt]

Will brad change his views now that the fantano review is out?

[@corticotropic]

as someone who has absolutely no stake in this band and has never listened to their music (besides stressed out which imo doesnt count) - i liked your barbeque chip review in the middle of the video. also people need to chill about people not liking a song/album/etc. not everyone is going to like everything. music taste is subjective!

[@soepsoep6445]

I'm so glad that this is Brad's new favorite album

[@MrRobot-J]

Yeah I know he wouldn't like it. For me it's a solid 8/10

[@ddog1066]

Lots of whiny children in this comment section, good god.