Tyler Joseph has revealed that twenty one pilots’ upcoming music video for City Walls cost a whopping $1million to create.
In a recent interview on Radio 1’s New Music Show with Jack Saunders celebrating new single Drum Show, the frontman reveals that the song and video for City Walls – which is the opening track on the band’s new album Breach – will tell the end of the story of Dema, Clancy and Torchbearer, hence its extraordinary cost.
“So the first song on the record is called City Walls, and that’s gonna be the one that has the music video that kinda wraps up the whole story,” Tyler explains. “And it’s the biggest music video we’ve ever done, it’s the most money we’ve ever spent on a music video, it was five days of shooting, and so that first song on the record really is the soundbed for that final part of the story.”
After divulging its total cost of $1million, Tyler then reveals some of what’s going on in the video: “There were moments we had to recreate old music videos to bring into this music video, so I was wearing clothes that I had been hanging on to for almost a decade and I still fit in them – I was like, ‘That’s dope!’
“So recreating old music videos to fit in with this video was the thing that was probably the most expensive and the most difficult to do. But that’s gonna be the part that’s the most exciting: to see how all these old videos come in and tie in with this new video.”
Can’t wait! Before City Walls drops with Breach on September 12, watch the (presumably much less expensive) videos for album singles Drum Show and The Contract: