I need a couple more minutes with you off the back of this. ZL: Ladies and gentlemen! In case you were wondering, Tyler Joseph knows exactly how good his band is! Don't go anywhere bro. I'd like to get this mixed and done in a couple days.” And he goes, “Oh cool! Are you recording a classic or writing an original?” I just texted - I said, “ Both!” I was like, “Yo, a Christmas song is coming down the pipe. Really been testing that because, you know, having the studio in the house, wanting to turn stuff around so quick. Let's go, let's go!” Really been testing my label and other people that are used to having months to prepare for a release. Which a lot of the stuff that I've been doing does, where it's just like, “Hey. I gave him a heads up because this all happened really fast. TJ: You know, actually, I texted the guy that I have mix all my stuff. So if you’re ever wondering if I was leaning into those Christmas attributes or not, that says it all. I mean, if you listen to the end of the track, at the very end you can even hear me fly in a “ho ho ho” at the very end. And I knew that I could either reinvent the wheel or I could try to lean into those assets that we're so used to, whether it's some of those jingle bell things. TJ: There's definitely a few components that make a Christmas song what a Christmas song is. You're not thinking about that when you're making a twenty one pilots album, like, “How's it going to measure up to my peers or the music that's come before me?” But with Christmas songs you can't help but think about the classics. Ad you don't think about that when you're making your own music.

I always think that there's an unspoken pressure because you think about the Christmas classics. It's funny, whenever new artists come through, you realize.

TJ: And then, I don't know if it was just the combination of working on that song at a piano while accidentally staring at Christmas decorations first going up, and that combined with being a dad for the first time - experiencing Christmas through a little girl's perspective. I told my mom and my mother-in-law - everyone who ever asked me, “Hey, would you ever write a Christmas song?” - I've always told them, “No way. I was looking up, “Oh, it’s a Christmas song.” I guess I committed to. I would put on this song - just some changes - and at the same time, I started putting up decorations. If you just joined us, I was just asking him about the origin of this beautiful, wonderful kind of Christmas moment right here. Zane Lowe: We’re live on apple music radio right now with Tyler Joseph from twenty one pilots.

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