Catching Up With Twenty One Pilots
b'Not all bands hit it out of the park right away\\u2026they need a few albums and a couple of long tours before things start to fall into place\\u2026\\n\\nTake the Red Hot Chili Peppers, for example\\u2026their career really didn\\u2019t start to blossom until their fourth album\\u2026same thing with Muse\\u2014at least in North America\\u2026they might have been playing arenas in Europe\\u2026but when it came to their fourth album, they were still playing clubs on this side of the Atlantic\\u2026\\n\\nSame thing with R.E.M...they had a strong cult following through four records before they were able to cross over into mainstream consciousness\\u2026\\n\\nAnd for The Black Keys?...it took until albums number six for them to have their big breakthrough\\u2026\\n\\nThese success stories underscore the need for patience and foresight on behalf of record labels, managers, and everyone else associated with the welfare of a particular artist\\u2026if you honestly see potential, then you gotta play the long game, one that may stretch out over years\\u2026\\n\\nAnd then you gotta look at things from the artist\\u2019s perspective\\u2026is the band prepared to live through some lean and dark times on their way to some kind of success?...\\n\\nThis brings me to Twenty One Pilots\\u2026they blew up with the \\u201cBlurryface\\u201d album in 2015\\u2026but before that were six years of really hard slogging when almost no one knew who they were\\u2026let\\u2019s get caught up on that part of their story, shall we?...\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'