My Views On "Heathens"

Heya guys! Sup!?

I have been listening to this song titled "Heathens" by 21 pilots for quite sometime now and lets just say that I'm addicted to it hahaha. I have been singing the song for awhile, and something just triggers me to write about it. I was actually curious about the lyrics and lucky for you guys, I'll go in depth about it for today, I just felt like talking about the song. Well first things first, let us all know what Heathens means..

If you don't know about the song, then maybe you should give it a listen 1st. It might help going through to what am going to tell you later. Do pay attention to the lyrics...

21 pilots is an awesome band. They released Heathens in 2016 as part of the Suicide Squad soundtrack. Yeah, lagu tuu laaa haaa, Believe it or not, I never did get to watch the movie in the cinemas because workloads!! O_O ughh...
Okay moving on to the analysis..

The song is actually about the singer, Tyler Joseph's friends and how he wants his listener to treat them, but even more specifically it seems to be about how Tyler Joseph wants Christians to reach out and witness to people who aren't Christians. Yeah betul laa, kinda like berdakwah for Christians to none believers aka his friends aka The Heathens

He sings in his song " All my friends are Heathens take it slow, wait for them to ask you who you know ". It means he wants Christians to be careful about telling strangers about Jesus (PBUH) and instead to develop a relationship with them first. When singing about his friends, Joseph explains that they will never know the psychopath, murderer, freakshow sitting next to us, and this is because people hide their problems. They don't just opened up to strangers. Well duh! None of us do.

Hmmmmmm,... okay laa.. Well maybe some of us kot..

I know some people who do.. moving on.

and if Christians don't know the half of the abuse, how are they going to be able to effectively meets these people needs? Joseph also says that his friends don't deal with outsiders very well and that they can smell your intentions which begs the next question..

Why would Joseph friends listen to a Christian that they don't even know especially when it comes to big topics like eternity, afterlife and their own personal problems? Kinda out of place isn't it?

Thankfully, the solution comes in the chorus when Joseph sings " Take it slow, and wait for them to ask you who you know " and frankly people will only ask you who you know if they understand that you care about them. Macam peribahasa dulu-dulu, " no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care " It does also means he wants Christian listeners to be more careful around hurting people and to be wary of sounding like a Salesman when they promised that they can solve a person's life biggest problem especially since Joseph friends don't seem to respond very well to that kind of an approach.

But do you know whats the best part about the song? Joseph actually accept the listener into his group acknowledging the humble or ideal listener's willingness to take it slow and to admit to his or her own struggles.

Last part dalam lagu tu, Joseph sings " I tried to warn you just to stay away and now they are outside ready to bust, it looks like you might be one of us " The thing outside could be everybody's personal struggles or they could be Christians who want to take the time to know Joseph's friends. Either way, Heathens tells us the story of at least 1 person who is willing to take the time to know people and asks the rest of us to be willing to take it slow too.

Informative isn't it? Well at least now you know. I knew it has something to do with people with personal problems and of course religion-related, after all they were talking about the Heathens to begin with.