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Stressed Out By Twenty One Pilots: Song Analysis
The song “Stressed Out” sung by Twenty One Pilots is another song that should be played in the film. This song could play in any short story told in June’s perspective, but it relates the most with a scene found in the short story “Two Kinds”. Throughout the entire song, “Stressed Out” gives off a feeling of longing and want; wishing for things they do not seem to have: “I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard / I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words / I wish I found some chords in an order that is new / I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang”. The same can be said for June and her mother. Suyuan, June’s mother, wants her daughter to suddenly become a prodigy; testing her constantly to see if anything

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