Q: Have things changed since you went to No. But within that, still trying to do things to make it exciting. There’s only so many songs that we have, and so many ways that we can transition from one to the next. But, yeah, we try and change it as much as we can. So we can continue to be really excited about it. I think maybe now I realize sometimes we want to make it a little bit fresher and a little bit different just for us. I hope people aren’t getting bored of these, or completely over it.

And it’s a weird thing, as we travel and interact with artists more, I realize that it’s not an uncommon thing, when you play the same songs all the time, you start to feel like everybody feels the way you do, that you’ve heard these songs so many times. I feel like we’ve played these songs so many times now. Q: Are you making it a bigger show, accordingly?Ī: It’s a weird thing. I’m just excited that we get to continue to travel and play music and people still care. We’ve been working on it since January or something like that. It’s something we’ve been looking forward to for a long time, this summer tour. Q: It looks like everything on your tour is just about sold out.Ī: As far as I know, I think most of the tickets are sold. In a sign of their popularity: We had only 13 minutes to talk. Kennedy International Airport, waiting for a flight to London before starting their biggest summer tour yet, which plays Merriweather Post Pavilion on Friday and closes with shows at Madison Square Garden.ĭun spoke of adjustments to the band’s growing popularity and efforts to maintain its integrity. We spoke recently to Dun when the duo was at John F. “Blurryface” is still in the top 15 on the Billboard charts and won a Billboard Music Award for top rock album last month. Things ratcheted up for the duo - singer/keyboardist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun - when two singles off their 2015 album, “Blurryface,” topped the alternative charts and invaded the pop charts. As such, the band has tried to remain true to itself since its 2009 start in Columbus, Ohio, with music that blends electronica, emo, hip-hop and balladry with a strikingly visual stage show that often includes kabuki makeup and crowd surfing. The band Twenty One Pilots took its name from the Arthur Miller play “All My Sons,” in which a manufacturer knowingly ships faulty plane parts to the military to save money, leading to the deaths of 21 pilots.

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