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Collected Item: “Twenty One Pilots one of the first to release a song during lockdown, “Level of Concern”, to help relieve anxiety”

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Twenty One Pilots one of the first to release a song during lockdown, “Level of Concern”, to help relieve anxiety

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Twenty One Pilots song “Level of Concern”

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I think this item is really interesting, and it does fill an archival silence, about musicians and what they did in lockdown- if they stopped producing music, if they were even more eager to, etc. I first heard this song in the lockdown, and it made me feel like I was connected to the band- he was singing about the same things I was experiencing, I realized everyone was going through similar things in quarantine. I had never thought about what musicians and singers were doing, for some reason I thought their lives didn’t change much, but they did. I thought it was really cool Twenty One Pilots saw that people were down, stressed, etc. and wanted to relieve some stress with a song about the pandemic.

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#TwentyOnePilots, #LevelOfConcern, #SingersInThePandemic, #music

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loOWKm8GW6A

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Twenty One Pilots

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2020-04-09
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