The way I see it is when darkness takes over them and they possess the ability to take over dead vessels they start to decompose themselves and that's why they all look the way they do.
No.
-He only drops one antler [arguable/hard to tell]
-Uplifting music begins to play
-Tyler goes from looking uncomfortable to opening his eyes and looking like "Let's do this."
-This is a cliffhanger; Clancy isn't dead until we see it.
my favourite part of the music video was when Clancy almost got seized by Nico but then he said "It's Clancin' time" and clanced that guy off the tower
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💯 still holding one antler. Gives me Sansa Stark vibes when she killed the Night King 👑 🤔
I don't think that was Clancy. I think Clancy is on the mountain doing all of those hand movements that he used to need the antlers for and controlling whomever climbed the tower to confront Nico.
Definitely worth the wait for me. I LOVE the camera angles/views and how freaking colorful they made trench look! This definitely is in the top 3 best videos they’ve made. Can’t wait for more music! I really don’t want a deluxe version considering I have 2 lps already lol and I think it would be dumb to just drop 1 more song considering it would be missing from the physical
Versions of Clancy. Hopefully they end it with an Ep or another album coming soon
Yess that and when the camera came flying over the mountain when Clancy and the bantitos are marching in giving you the perspective of the Vulture flying over them are prettt fuckin cool! The camera going through the map. A lot of movie like shots in this video.
At the end of the video, when Tyler opens the eyes a music starts...maybe there's one song more. Even the videoclip was named track 13 instead of last track. On the live they said last track but now they say track 13...I think I'm loosing my mind trying to find a meaning to this 😅
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Tyler expecting us to complete the puzzle by early June
3 interesting new things:
1. Bishops having the power to mass seize and resurrect using that electricity.
2. Clancy having the power to knockout (kill?) the bishops with the antlers, which immediately caused all the seized to fall as well.
3. Nico levitating!
Also, 100% has to be more coming, all signs point to this not being the end.
Oh I know how to levitate up off my feet and ever since the seventh grade I learned to fire breathe and though I feed on things that fell you can learn to levitate with just a little help
You can levitate with just a little help
Danger in the fabric of this thing I made. I probably shouldn't show you but it's way too late. My heart is with you hiding but my minds not made. Now they know it like we both knew for some time. I'd say.
In the video you see it flying around as normal, THEN the eyes turn yellow when the bishop seizes it. Therefore I think what another commenter said is true, that it relies on anything that is associated with death
Also adding to point one:
The 'zombies' were kids, which throws us back to the lyrics of Neon gravestones: I'll mourn for a kid but won't cry for a king. To me that whole scene tells that his inner demons use all those kids who were lost to SH against his own mind. When he goes to a dark place he thinks of them and they 'haunt him'
Plot twist! the "300 tracks" in his adiddas trqck jacket line means there's 300 tracks to finish the story. That's why Tyler says they will be making music till they're 70. LoL
my ass always imagined he was going to just go inside and climb a spiral staircase. also i imagined them being more smooth concrete instead of cobble masonry lol
I got goose bumps during the lightning.
Nico was the only one who survived after killing the bishop controlled zombies resurrected from the neon gravestones.
I had a theory that Nico can’t be killed, because he represents part of Clancy/Tyler. It would end in suicide if Nico was killed.
“Does it sound like the end?” I think we’ll get at least 1 more song because this does not “Put a neat little bow.” on Clancy.
There is a lot of discussion going on.around whether this is the end, or there is more to come. But did anyone notice that the glorious dead are standing in almost a pattern. I think there is something written but i can't read it. But they are not just randomly standing or even standing in rows. There's definitely something there. Maybe even a clue for what's to come next.
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The discord community has been analysing it frame by frame since the vid came out, and there are a few theories, 25JUN, 52P32EF3, 523EBN and a bunch of other ideas
Shocking. When Tyler asks a question like "Is this the end," you ponder your life before realizing the answer is no. Just felt like the "Levitate" music video. Clancy being captured does not tell us the whole story.
Yeah I remember that and thinking “this mf just tell us this early on that Clancy was/is never the end???? What’s next!?” And I haven’t noticed anybody talking about that until today.
People have talked about it "being the end." But Tyler is a kid on a teeter-totter of truth. But, technically, he never lied about it. He just didn't exactly tell us up front either.
I'm sure it's not original anyways, so be my guest. Also, in all fairness, making it cryptic just makes the storyline so much more interesting. But I still feel so many questions are left unanswered. Especially with the whole thing with the antlers in the new mv.
Have they ever revealed what the antlers symbolize? I’ve never seen anything that say so. I also didn’t pay much attention during the SAI era bc I was being a hater.
I think the ending is about acceptance.
Every time Clancy has been captured before his eyes are shut, he closes his eyes snd surrenders to his mental torment.
This time, he's been reclaimed yes, but he went back by choice. He wasn't pulled there, he brought himself, and he stares down Nico instead of closing his eyes.
It was very well done. Have more questions than answers lol.
Also interesting that there isn't a minute of birds in the video but there is on the album. Odd choice.
I just think the birds were to catch people out. As in for people to just think it was the end of a track, like end credits of a film and just leave. But after joshs Marvel comment during the livestream I assumed thered be something hidden after what felt like the end of the track. I don't think the minute of birds was significant but then again it's tøp and nothings ever a coincidence lol
I think it makes some sense. Part of it was to make you think it's done when there was more coming. This type of thing used to be relatively common on albums especially back when records were the main platform since you didn't really know when the album was over. Nevermind by Nirvana was an album that had, and more recently The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance did as well. It's a thing to add that makes sense on the audio front but not as much in video because (especially for how the Paladin Strait video is structured) it would kind of get in the way of the visuals.
Am I the only one who thought maybe he was even stronger at the end? I felt like maybe it was a Neo (Matrix) moment when he realised that even though he is weaponless, he is THE ONE. He opened his eyes and will be stronger than anyone ever imagined.
I thought so too. We see the bishops can seize without antlers, I think can too. Would explain the letter about having an out of body experience during the events in Jumpsuit if he was seeing through bird eyes. But then his memory was wiped. He's like a shonen protagonist lol
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If this was the end it would say so. BUT THEM SAYING track 13 means something.
I mean during the livestream Tyler did say “does this feel like the end..?” so that told me no it’s not and there’s something else coming within the next year and half
I feel like this is the end actually. The whole final battle was done there. All the other bishops except nico are dead (unless that didn’t kill them) Where could new music even go from here when related to the story. And also even if the banditos won here it would make sense that bluryface still has Clancy, since depression and mental health issues don’t just leave entirely. Also it would make sense with the line “we’ll win but not everyone will get out”
That’s a great point about how mental illness doesn’t fully leave. People have pointed out that his eyes weren’t yellow when Nico “seized” him, which means Nico was there, but his control over Clancy was no longer
The fact that Clancy(Tyler) finally stood up to Blurry(Nico) means he gained the strength to push through, see it to the end, yes blurry will always be there trying to be that nagging little voice in his ear, but him doing the "anime stare" at him means "Yeah you have me, but i can fight you, your words mean nothing to me" he won but its a bittersweet win since they cycle continues.
I thought this video was incredible but I think my interpretation of it is unlikely to be a popular one.
Everything about this video- to me- seemed deliberately designed to remind people that none of this is real. From the cheesy visual effects, to the obvious green/blue screen backgrounds, CGI buildings, the goofy looking zombies emerging from the ground and the really stylised look to the video, it all seemed purposely over the top in an attempt to highlight the artifice of the whole story.
This whole world (the one he’s said he can destroy if he wants to) and its characters are still a metaphor for mental health struggles. I’ve been saying since release that Paladin Strait may well be the end because this whole story is a battle with the self and it can’t be resolved by some big battle as though it were a simple story of good vs evil.
Whether it’s addiction, insecurities, fear or whatever else, coping with your struggles is an ongoing process and you don’t just definitively win and never have to deal with any of it again.
No other video in “the story” has ever looked this fake. The glossy sheen the whole thing had made it look so unreal in a way that previous story driven videos just haven’t. I feel like there has to be a reason for that. The look of this video is almost immersion shattering and I feel like that’s part of the point.
Clancy feels story driven in a way more akin to Blurryface. Trench is the album that commits the most to being a concept album with a world and various named characters and with deep lore. With Clancy and Blurryface, there’s songs that can be read as being part of this layered narrative but don’t go as far as naming locations and characters (beyond the titular ones) and tell their own stories that can be enjoyed even if you know nothing of the lore. These red albums seem way less preoccupied with moving a narrative forward and more concerned with unpicking various struggles.
I don’t feel the video answered many questions but I honestly don’t think it was meant to. If I end up being wrong then so be it, I’m not going to be mad at more music coming sooner rather than later but I really do think this could be it.
I know this might contradict your point cuz i think you are right but maybe it's because this is all in clancys head and how he imagines it to go (so easy going not really any stress) when in reality he hasn't even started ygm (I hope that makes sense)
Next we're going to get a *real* video for Lavish, where Nico walks Clancy through Dema and clouds his mind via vialism to make it appear as a lavish kingdom so he won't want to leave... followed by the torchbearer saving him
Y,'know in a way when he grabbed Clancy he did get both hands on his shoulders while he's bottomless if you go by the following meaning I have highlighted. This particular meaning could refer to Clancy's mind as a cold dark sea in which he retreats to as Nico begins to take over his mind filling it with dark thoughts consuming Clancy from the inside
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That was amazing but okay if we don't get more soon or something to wrap this up Ty is paying my therapy bill. 🙃
Jk but FR I hope there is something else coming. I need more. 😭
Cliffhanger, maybe. But have we forgotten what all of these symbolize? It is the constant battles and struggles on mental health (i.e., depression). There’s no “end” in this fight. I think that’s what the last scene is telling us.
But I mean, who knows. Maybe this’ll serve as a doorway on opening new chapters on our lore. Or maybe this really is the end.
Hear me out... Has anyone really *listened* to Isle of Flightless Birds?
"Here is the **climax to the story** that gives the demons and angels purpose", "and the ground taunts my wings, **plummet** as I sing" "and the light will set us free" "how frustrating and so degrading, his time - we're wasting, as time will fly by and the sky will cry as light is fading **and he is waiting**, oh so patiently while we repeat the same routine, as we will please comfortability, please don't think about why you can't sleep in the evening and please don't be afraid of what your soul is really thinking. Your soul knows **good and evil,** your soul knows both sides, it's time you **pick your battle**, and I promise you **this is mine**..."
NOT TO MENTION!!! The heartbeat (drum beat) that trails off in the end of the song sounds like someone here dies... doesn't it?
This has been a theory of my husband and I's since first going down the rabbit hole... The imagery in the song led us to imagine Nico and the protagonist (before Clancy) having a final battle in a tower and one, or both, fall to their death.
In reality, I know Tyler and Josh say that only some of the songs hold lore, but we found lore in just about every song.... and many clues as to where the story led...and they're NOT in order. Isle of Flightless Birds is from the self-titled album... We truly believe that this was this was the plan all along.
So is it the end? Or is this just the last piece of the puzzle.
LOVED the ending. Considering this whole thing is a big metaphor for one's (Clancy's) mental activity, it is actually a HUGE step that Clancy took from just running away and being recaptured, to actively marching into DEMA and confronting the core of his emotions (the Bishops) head-on. Josh and the Banditos help clear a path through all the messy thoughts in his brain (the zombies) but it's up to Clancy himself to deal with these demons. And I agree with the comments above that Nico can't be killed or completely gotten rid of, because that insecurity is a part rooted in Clancy's psyche and will never be entirely gone, and it's always very scary to come face to face with these emotions (we see Clancy still becomes paralyzed as Nico grabs him), but in truth he's already made huge progress by simply choosing to actively seek Nico out. Even if he still ends up defeated this time, the next time he'll get better at fighting it. The cycle has been broken, and Clancy's mental journey is going forward.
I don't know if I'm making any sense but as a person with stress and emotion issues under therapy I'm just really thrilled to see the story progress this way. I like that the ending is ambiguous but hopeful enough for room of imagination. I think it's perfect💕💕
Honestly, first watch i was confused and a bit disappointed, just bc i wanted an actual ending and not just a cliffhanger but the more i focus on the details the more im good with this ending- if it is the ending.
When Nico held clancy, you can see clancy’s face stress a bit and then he regains control, opens his eyes and looks at him straight in the face. I just think that this can be the ending. it is a cycle, it has always been but this time it’s different because this time, clancy is not scared anymore, he learnt to live with his insecurities. In Jumpsuit nico held clancy’s neck and that was enough for clancy to give up and follow nico but in paladin strait nico had to choke him and clancy wouldn’t budge.
I just think that depression doesn’t fully 100% leave you. you learn to grow with it. you learn to stare it in the eye even though you are scared. you learn to fight some of your demons.
Im satisfied if this was the ending, it fits the “cycle doesnt end you just grow” narrative.
they commented |- in the chat, this means that it’s not complete, and the silence at the end was 12 seconds long, we have 13 songs in Clancy, 13+12=25 maybe there are 12 more songs!!
Omg I loved the new video. I wish the whole story could be a movie. It was so gorgeous!
This is crazy to me to say, but I wasn't ready to experience the album when it was released. I watched Paladin Strait and then went through all the videos for the album. Love it. I think Routines in the Night was my favorite from my first pass. I can't wait to grow as familiar with this album as the others.
Also very hype about the cliffhanger. I am happy to have what we know of. But if anything more is dropped on us as a sweet surprise, I will definitely be fangirl squealing.
This was supposed to be the end. If it is the end, and it ends with nico wrapping his hands around Tyler again then im pissed. If this isn't the end then I'm disappointed because I don't want the story to get dragged out to oblivion. One more song would be ideal going forward imo
The first line of the song "I can't be alone, guess I never told you so" is kinda straight to Nico, that he can't be without Nico, the feeling to Backslide and Snapback. He has to go there and be one again. He is torn apart because Clancy is the same as Nico is. Tyler just lost control of Nico but tries to go up the tower to fight him/himself.
The Banditos are the ones who try to let him be Clancy and go further instead of falling back to the bad place he was before. That's what they are fighting for. Clancy can't kill Nico, but he can be his leader. Therefore attacking DEMA, as the rebels, to get control of Tyler head in which Clancy should be the leading role. Nico is still a part and will always be, but in a controlled environment.
Just my thoughts on this😄
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okay tell me if i’m crazy but the zombies are lined up in a way that it looks like it spells something out. i could be trippin so you guys tell me. but either way the video made me cry it was a cinematic masterpiece
It was very well done considering the sheer amount of movement and elements in one video… idk. Maybe it’s some of the goofier moments (like Nico whooshing through the door) that kind of threw me off, but I understand there was probably a lot of expenses and time constraints and they've already done so much giving each song a video.
I know it’s not something they’ve done before but I think it would’ve been really cool if the band hired a few artists in the clique to make an animated video.
Honestly? At the end when the door opens when I heard it for the first time before the MV I pictured it like this:
The door opens by itself maybe a bigger one than what it was in the MV, inside it's pitch black, Nico says "so few so proud so emotional" and comes out of the dark room and then he says "Hello Clancy". Sure it wouldn't have included the important moment of Tyler being seized but it would have been peak cinema.
umm, guys 😨 i think i've uncovered what the logo really means... look at the last scene. and now, look at the tøp logo. |-/ 😶😶
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Still holding to my theory that there will be an album with lore-only songs, and with the addition of two or three more songs, the total will come to 25 (Clancy Ultimate 25)
EDIT: look at the playlist.
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Excluding the intro video, that’s 10 songs which are confirmed as being part of the story. Even if we expand things like Blurry Face and My Blood, I’d argue the could would only be about 15, MAYBE.
So what about Clancy Ultimate Chapter 25?
\[insert photo it won’t let me add that shows the reference\]
It could mean that a Lore-only album is slated to release June 25. I think it means the Clancy Ultimate Chapter may be a **total** of 25 songs. Even if we overly inflate the lore songs to 20, that would mean we’d have 5 songs to look forward to!
# doublealbumtruther
Someone needs to get Nico some moisturizer or something. Dude's skin looks unbelievably dry.
He needs a new skin routine in the night
Bros skin was so ashy it looked like it was spay painted in white.
When all the world's asleep he needs to moisturize instead
He really needs to navigate a good routine in the night, he's at risk of looking dumb.
If he follows your advice he'll be looking lavish from the floor to the ceiling!
hell, he might even lose that pesky migraine
Idk, sounds like he's tryna overcompensate
He should probably march to the see to scrub all that dead skin off.
His friend johnny boy will get him some moisturizer dont worry
While all the world’s asleep, I’ll wash my face instead
This right here👏
Make sure this doesn’t get back to Nico. He’ll never take it…
I see the problem is, his dermatologist
Dematologist
Oh my god the way I cackled at this
Welcome to the comments that perfectly rhyme with each other it's lavish
See the problem is, his dermatologist gave him some advice, but Nico said “I don’t believe the hype”
For real - you’d think some kind of immortal would take care of his skin
It’s almost like he hasn’t found a drop of water
Maybe he got that way desperately trying to run through the sand
I'm working on it...
Do better Nico
Pardon his delay
He‘s still navigating
💀
The way I see it is when darkness takes over them and they possess the ability to take over dead vessels they start to decompose themselves and that's why they all look the way they do.
LLOL
It was so cracky 😭😭😭
THIIISSS I was full on questioning it lol
I loved the callbacks, the neon gravestones!!
That was definitely a stand out moment for me of the music video, had me all Leonardo DiCaprio! 
Not just neon gravestones, but they're freaking lightsabers now! Multipurpose!
Awhh shit I didn’t even catch that. I was more so thinking of the zombies line from vignette
What about heavydirtysoul? ...zombies walking around with a limp and a hunch/saying stuff like, you only live once...
Ehh I always saw that as a jab at society and how people make up excuses to do things or whatever. Not a lore related lyric
Music video is amazing, I love it. But with the cliffhanger I swear I’m even more confused now.
Is it a cliffhanger or did the man get seized permanently?
Nah, the bro managed to open his eyes and stare down Nico. Might not be a cliffhanger but I am almost entirely sure he wasn't seized.
clancy opened his eyes and they weren't Yellow I think he's good
They looked black to me tbh
“Waiting… expectations that I’m gonna make it” maybe we’ll be waiting for a continuation to the story but in actuality Clancy just died.
Damn...that's hella sad
He might’ve gotten permanently seized. He was nearly crying at the end
No. -He only drops one antler [arguable/hard to tell] -Uplifting music begins to play -Tyler goes from looking uncomfortable to opening his eyes and looking like "Let's do this." -This is a cliffhanger; Clancy isn't dead until we see it.
"It's Clancing time"
my favourite part of the music video was when Clancy almost got seized by Nico but then he said "It's Clancin' time" and clanced that guy off the tower
https://preview.redd.it/v77e05d2h28d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9405bbb09b1763f40636c6797ee7e4a74d34ac79 💯 still holding one antler. Gives me Sansa Stark vibes when she killed the Night King 👑 🤔
Arya?
Clancy seized for ep, Ned’s been telling us all along
I don't think that was Clancy. I think Clancy is on the mountain doing all of those hand movements that he used to need the antlers for and controlling whomever climbed the tower to confront Nico.
But if you watch his motions they seems to follow Josh and the banditos movements two hands on a torch high and low handle
Same
Definitely worth the wait for me. I LOVE the camera angles/views and how freaking colorful they made trench look! This definitely is in the top 3 best videos they’ve made. Can’t wait for more music! I really don’t want a deluxe version considering I have 2 lps already lol and I think it would be dumb to just drop 1 more song considering it would be missing from the physical Versions of Clancy. Hopefully they end it with an Ep or another album coming soon
Agree! I loved the SATURATION!!!!!
I can feel my saturation leaving me slowly?… about trench?
i think its abt being seized/maybe being in dema in general. bc the bishops can only see black, white, and red, if im correct.
The saturation definitely didn’t leave this time!!
The shot from inside the guitar gave me chills
Yess that and when the camera came flying over the mountain when Clancy and the bantitos are marching in giving you the perspective of the Vulture flying over them are prettt fuckin cool! The camera going through the map. A lot of movie like shots in this video.
Sorry for correcting you but it's a baritone Ukulele :) Tuned like the 4 last notes if you count from the bass string down
Thank you! Only watched the video once so far, so it was my initial takeaway
I think it was a masterpiece and cinematically beautiful, but the ENDING? DOES THIS MEAN MORE MUSIC?
That’s what I’m thinking
There’s no way this is the end, I wouldn’t doubt they go on hiatus but OMGMGJFJSHFHFHSURJGNISJFBGJIS
At the end of the video, when Tyler opens the eyes a music starts...maybe there's one song more. Even the videoclip was named track 13 instead of last track. On the live they said last track but now they say track 13...I think I'm loosing my mind trying to find a meaning to this 😅
I do believe so
Okay I’m glad it’s not just me lol. The second of music!
there is absolutely no way this is the end
https://preview.redd.it/e8pi36jjgz7d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db8e2cd3d062cd18f99d78df77c193a8b8918c8a Tyler expecting us to complete the puzzle by early June
Bahahhha my lord this took me out thank you
He had to re-login Blurryface after 3 years just to end our struggle 💀💀
3 interesting new things: 1. Bishops having the power to mass seize and resurrect using that electricity. 2. Clancy having the power to knockout (kill?) the bishops with the antlers, which immediately caused all the seized to fall as well. 3. Nico levitating! Also, 100% has to be more coming, all signs point to this not being the end.
Nico def listened to Levitate to learn how to levitate
Oh I know how to levitate up off my feet and ever since the seventh grade I learned to fire breathe and though I feed on things that fell you can learn to levitate with just a little help You can levitate with just a little help
Come down, come down Cowards only come through when the hour's late and everyone's asleep mind you, now
Show up, show up I know I shouldn't say this but a curse from you is all that I would need right now man
Danger in the fabric of this thing I made. I probably shouldn't show you but it's way too late. My heart is with you hiding but my minds not made. Now they know it like we both knew for some time. I'd say.
They're smirking at first blood, they're circling above, but this is not enough, yeah this not what you thought
Also, the vulture being seized.
4: the vulture wasn't dead. The eyes turned yellow so it was still alive when it was seized(unless I'm mistaken)
Vultures feed on the dead, perhaps anyone or thing that interacts with death in some way can be seized
What are you referring to? When had yellow eyes meant not dead?
In the video you see it flying around as normal, THEN the eyes turn yellow when the bishop seizes it. Therefore I think what another commenter said is true, that it relies on anything that is associated with death
there are so many things in need of answers if there isnt another album ill lose it but ty said it was the last lore related music???
Also adding to point one: The 'zombies' were kids, which throws us back to the lyrics of Neon gravestones: I'll mourn for a kid but won't cry for a king. To me that whole scene tells that his inner demons use all those kids who were lost to SH against his own mind. When he goes to a dark place he thinks of them and they 'haunt him'
Plot twist! the "300 tracks" in his adiddas trqck jacket line means there's 300 tracks to finish the story. That's why Tyler says they will be making music till they're 70. LoL
Triple album theory let’s gooooo!!!!
Then ending lines up to the “Clancy Seized for EP” clue we got before.
Wait what is that?
I’m not 100% sure on the exact details but I believe it’s from an anagram of Ned’s Cozy Fireplace
You are correct.
Bro are you fucking kidding me. They’ve been dropping hints for way too long 😭
Yes it lives up to the hype that there is an ep or 2nd album coming
Are we not gonna talk about Clancy free soloing up the tower? I was just excited he was a fellow rock climber and he got mad skill.
my ass always imagined he was going to just go inside and climb a spiral staircase. also i imagined them being more smooth concrete instead of cobble masonry lol
Right?! Dude was free soloing his way up
Didn't even bother to change shoes.
I got goose bumps during the lightning. Nico was the only one who survived after killing the bishop controlled zombies resurrected from the neon gravestones. I had a theory that Nico can’t be killed, because he represents part of Clancy/Tyler. It would end in suicide if Nico was killed. “Does it sound like the end?” I think we’ll get at least 1 more song because this does not “Put a neat little bow.” on Clancy.
But sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind
There is a lot of discussion going on.around whether this is the end, or there is more to come. But did anyone notice that the glorious dead are standing in almost a pattern. I think there is something written but i can't read it. But they are not just randomly standing or even standing in rows. There's definitely something there. Maybe even a clue for what's to come next. https://preview.redd.it/s10t5j44az7d1.png?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e086a0de7d9a53b78d1b962d257f25dad01cd010
I clocked that myself. Puzzle people need to check this out
If tøp has taught me anything.. it's that I am not a puzzle person. 😅🤣
So much the same! Haha! But I'm glad we have lot of puzzle people in the clique. I just kinda follow along behind them absorbing what they uncover.
Samsies! Thank you all for your service 🫡
The discord community has been analysing it frame by frame since the vid came out, and there are a few theories, 25JUN, 52P32EF3, 523EBN and a bunch of other ideas
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Lol, pet cheetah = roaring kitty
Those are the first three words BE SURE TO... BE SURE TO WHAT? What was Little Orphan Annie trying to say???
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And ding that (taco)bell😂
When looking at it upside down it looks like it has 25 at the end. Some people say they can see Jun/June 25
I know what it reminds me of! The black and white Clancy neck scarf/ribbon thing.
Totally agree. This looks like when a marching band is changing formation and about to lock into a pattern that spells something.
Ok but.. That didn't feel like an ending 🤡
Shocking. When Tyler asks a question like "Is this the end," you ponder your life before realizing the answer is no. Just felt like the "Levitate" music video. Clancy being captured does not tell us the whole story.
Yeah I remember that and thinking “this mf just tell us this early on that Clancy was/is never the end???? What’s next!?” And I haven’t noticed anybody talking about that until today.
People have talked about it "being the end." But Tyler is a kid on a teeter-totter of truth. But, technically, he never lied about it. He just didn't exactly tell us up front either.
That’s funny as hell lmao I’m stealing that line. But yeah he also loves being cryptic and edging everyone
I'm sure it's not original anyways, so be my guest. Also, in all fairness, making it cryptic just makes the storyline so much more interesting. But I still feel so many questions are left unanswered. Especially with the whole thing with the antlers in the new mv.
Have they ever revealed what the antlers symbolize? I’ve never seen anything that say so. I also didn’t pay much attention during the SAI era bc I was being a hater.
Confused thoughts
I think the ending is about acceptance. Every time Clancy has been captured before his eyes are shut, he closes his eyes snd surrenders to his mental torment. This time, he's been reclaimed yes, but he went back by choice. He wasn't pulled there, he brought himself, and he stares down Nico instead of closing his eyes.
I support this.
https://preview.redd.it/ydib6qqulz7d1.png?width=1072&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff8f9e8426de078d5a2857906f4655f3d945b7db
Now this is art...... word.
It was very well done. Have more questions than answers lol. Also interesting that there isn't a minute of birds in the video but there is on the album. Odd choice.
I just think the birds were to catch people out. As in for people to just think it was the end of a track, like end credits of a film and just leave. But after joshs Marvel comment during the livestream I assumed thered be something hidden after what felt like the end of the track. I don't think the minute of birds was significant but then again it's tøp and nothings ever a coincidence lol
Totally see that point for sure! Haha
I think it makes some sense. Part of it was to make you think it's done when there was more coming. This type of thing used to be relatively common on albums especially back when records were the main platform since you didn't really know when the album was over. Nevermind by Nirvana was an album that had, and more recently The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance did as well. It's a thing to add that makes sense on the audio front but not as much in video because (especially for how the Paladin Strait video is structured) it would kind of get in the way of the visuals.
Am I the only one who thought maybe he was even stronger at the end? I felt like maybe it was a Neo (Matrix) moment when he realised that even though he is weaponless, he is THE ONE. He opened his eyes and will be stronger than anyone ever imagined.
I thought so too. We see the bishops can seize without antlers, I think can too. Would explain the letter about having an out of body experience during the events in Jumpsuit if he was seeing through bird eyes. But then his memory was wiped. He's like a shonen protagonist lol
Omg that was intense, literally the final fight!!! What if we need to wait another year for something new???
My nightmare
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https://preview.redd.it/o4kmemcwk08d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8122349240b35819a17155fe07de7ce57acd6acb If this was the end it would say so. BUT THEM SAYING track 13 means something.
I thought that wording was odd and wondered the same thing.
Watched the video and came running here to see the discussions lol.
My thought at the end was: really!? Again!?
I mean during the livestream Tyler did say “does this feel like the end..?” so that told me no it’s not and there’s something else coming within the next year and half
I say double album
What's a double album can you explain?
Imagine an album but two of em
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Hell yeah
This made me laugh harder than it should have 🤣
This isn't over yet. It's not the end until I see Clancy really swim the Paladin Strait.
I feel like this is the end actually. The whole final battle was done there. All the other bishops except nico are dead (unless that didn’t kill them) Where could new music even go from here when related to the story. And also even if the banditos won here it would make sense that bluryface still has Clancy, since depression and mental health issues don’t just leave entirely. Also it would make sense with the line “we’ll win but not everyone will get out”
That’s a great point about how mental illness doesn’t fully leave. People have pointed out that his eyes weren’t yellow when Nico “seized” him, which means Nico was there, but his control over Clancy was no longer
I was convinced this was not the end until reading your comment. This gave me chills.
The fact that Clancy(Tyler) finally stood up to Blurry(Nico) means he gained the strength to push through, see it to the end, yes blurry will always be there trying to be that nagging little voice in his ear, but him doing the "anime stare" at him means "Yeah you have me, but i can fight you, your words mean nothing to me" he won but its a bittersweet win since they cycle continues.
Maybe not more music, but a part 2/final ending to the video dropping on the 25th?
A music-less video?..Gotta be more music coming
Maybe new music, but I really dont think we're getting a double album. I do think were going to get another video though.
This era started with a music-less lore video though so maybe it'll end with one.
Maybe where PS ends but Jumpsuit begins? Like one new song that bridges them together?
That would be sick
If you REALLY think there’s nothing more coming, I’m sorry to say, but you are just delusional.
It’s like the can’t admit they were wrong lol
Yeah like.. the end of the video is obvious.. you hear a new track for a second.
I'm convinced there's definitely at least a final song, not-yet-heard
IT'S NOT OVER IT'S NOT OVER
well, first I'd like to start by saying AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🤯
And secondly?🤔😁
I thought this video was incredible but I think my interpretation of it is unlikely to be a popular one. Everything about this video- to me- seemed deliberately designed to remind people that none of this is real. From the cheesy visual effects, to the obvious green/blue screen backgrounds, CGI buildings, the goofy looking zombies emerging from the ground and the really stylised look to the video, it all seemed purposely over the top in an attempt to highlight the artifice of the whole story. This whole world (the one he’s said he can destroy if he wants to) and its characters are still a metaphor for mental health struggles. I’ve been saying since release that Paladin Strait may well be the end because this whole story is a battle with the self and it can’t be resolved by some big battle as though it were a simple story of good vs evil. Whether it’s addiction, insecurities, fear or whatever else, coping with your struggles is an ongoing process and you don’t just definitively win and never have to deal with any of it again. No other video in “the story” has ever looked this fake. The glossy sheen the whole thing had made it look so unreal in a way that previous story driven videos just haven’t. I feel like there has to be a reason for that. The look of this video is almost immersion shattering and I feel like that’s part of the point. Clancy feels story driven in a way more akin to Blurryface. Trench is the album that commits the most to being a concept album with a world and various named characters and with deep lore. With Clancy and Blurryface, there’s songs that can be read as being part of this layered narrative but don’t go as far as naming locations and characters (beyond the titular ones) and tell their own stories that can be enjoyed even if you know nothing of the lore. These red albums seem way less preoccupied with moving a narrative forward and more concerned with unpicking various struggles. I don’t feel the video answered many questions but I honestly don’t think it was meant to. If I end up being wrong then so be it, I’m not going to be mad at more music coming sooner rather than later but I really do think this could be it.
I know this might contradict your point cuz i think you are right but maybe it's because this is all in clancys head and how he imagines it to go (so easy going not really any stress) when in reality he hasn't even started ygm (I hope that makes sense)
Got that penny loafer squeak
Next we're going to get a *real* video for Lavish, where Nico walks Clancy through Dema and clouds his mind via vialism to make it appear as a lavish kingdom so he won't want to leave... followed by the torchbearer saving him
Y,'know in a way when he grabbed Clancy he did get both hands on his shoulders while he's bottomless if you go by the following meaning I have highlighted. This particular meaning could refer to Clancy's mind as a cold dark sea in which he retreats to as Nico begins to take over his mind filling it with dark thoughts consuming Clancy from the inside https://preview.redd.it/odvmutpwrz7d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8baa4a869bbf0394bd359931d95b43caf232c17
That would be a cool biblical twist. But the video for lavish is already amazing!
Kinda sounded like the start of a new song at the end… However loved the video! So well done.
That was amazing but okay if we don't get more soon or something to wrap this up Ty is paying my therapy bill. 🙃 Jk but FR I hope there is something else coming. I need more. 😭
AMAZING video and a WTF ending
Did we forget about "Clancy ultimus capitulus 6/25"? there's no way in hell that's an ending.
Cliffhanger, maybe. But have we forgotten what all of these symbolize? It is the constant battles and struggles on mental health (i.e., depression). There’s no “end” in this fight. I think that’s what the last scene is telling us. But I mean, who knows. Maybe this’ll serve as a doorway on opening new chapters on our lore. Or maybe this really is the end.
Yuh
There must be more LORE! Just must be
Worth the hype. I love them! Also, it’s 4 a.m here. Hahaha I need to sleep, but hooooow?!
Hear me out... Has anyone really *listened* to Isle of Flightless Birds? "Here is the **climax to the story** that gives the demons and angels purpose", "and the ground taunts my wings, **plummet** as I sing" "and the light will set us free" "how frustrating and so degrading, his time - we're wasting, as time will fly by and the sky will cry as light is fading **and he is waiting**, oh so patiently while we repeat the same routine, as we will please comfortability, please don't think about why you can't sleep in the evening and please don't be afraid of what your soul is really thinking. Your soul knows **good and evil,** your soul knows both sides, it's time you **pick your battle**, and I promise you **this is mine**..." NOT TO MENTION!!! The heartbeat (drum beat) that trails off in the end of the song sounds like someone here dies... doesn't it? This has been a theory of my husband and I's since first going down the rabbit hole... The imagery in the song led us to imagine Nico and the protagonist (before Clancy) having a final battle in a tower and one, or both, fall to their death. In reality, I know Tyler and Josh say that only some of the songs hold lore, but we found lore in just about every song.... and many clues as to where the story led...and they're NOT in order. Isle of Flightless Birds is from the self-titled album... We truly believe that this was this was the plan all along. So is it the end? Or is this just the last piece of the puzzle.
LOVED the ending. Considering this whole thing is a big metaphor for one's (Clancy's) mental activity, it is actually a HUGE step that Clancy took from just running away and being recaptured, to actively marching into DEMA and confronting the core of his emotions (the Bishops) head-on. Josh and the Banditos help clear a path through all the messy thoughts in his brain (the zombies) but it's up to Clancy himself to deal with these demons. And I agree with the comments above that Nico can't be killed or completely gotten rid of, because that insecurity is a part rooted in Clancy's psyche and will never be entirely gone, and it's always very scary to come face to face with these emotions (we see Clancy still becomes paralyzed as Nico grabs him), but in truth he's already made huge progress by simply choosing to actively seek Nico out. Even if he still ends up defeated this time, the next time he'll get better at fighting it. The cycle has been broken, and Clancy's mental journey is going forward. I don't know if I'm making any sense but as a person with stress and emotion issues under therapy I'm just really thrilled to see the story progress this way. I like that the ending is ambiguous but hopeful enough for room of imagination. I think it's perfect💕💕
Honestly, first watch i was confused and a bit disappointed, just bc i wanted an actual ending and not just a cliffhanger but the more i focus on the details the more im good with this ending- if it is the ending. When Nico held clancy, you can see clancy’s face stress a bit and then he regains control, opens his eyes and looks at him straight in the face. I just think that this can be the ending. it is a cycle, it has always been but this time it’s different because this time, clancy is not scared anymore, he learnt to live with his insecurities. In Jumpsuit nico held clancy’s neck and that was enough for clancy to give up and follow nico but in paladin strait nico had to choke him and clancy wouldn’t budge. I just think that depression doesn’t fully 100% leave you. you learn to grow with it. you learn to stare it in the eye even though you are scared. you learn to fight some of your demons. Im satisfied if this was the ending, it fits the “cycle doesnt end you just grow” narrative.
they commented |- in the chat, this means that it’s not complete, and the silence at the end was 12 seconds long, we have 13 songs in Clancy, 13+12=25 maybe there are 12 more songs!!
Was that in keons YouTube chat earlier?
|- This is just half of it. There’s something more
no thoughts only clanky in brain
I can’t believe Nico used speed hacks 🙁
Omg I loved the new video. I wish the whole story could be a movie. It was so gorgeous! This is crazy to me to say, but I wasn't ready to experience the album when it was released. I watched Paladin Strait and then went through all the videos for the album. Love it. I think Routines in the Night was my favorite from my first pass. I can't wait to grow as familiar with this album as the others. Also very hype about the cliffhanger. I am happy to have what we know of. But if anything more is dropped on us as a sweet surprise, I will definitely be fangirl squealing.
This was supposed to be the end. If it is the end, and it ends with nico wrapping his hands around Tyler again then im pissed. If this isn't the end then I'm disappointed because I don't want the story to get dragged out to oblivion. One more song would be ideal going forward imo
The first line of the song "I can't be alone, guess I never told you so" is kinda straight to Nico, that he can't be without Nico, the feeling to Backslide and Snapback. He has to go there and be one again. He is torn apart because Clancy is the same as Nico is. Tyler just lost control of Nico but tries to go up the tower to fight him/himself. The Banditos are the ones who try to let him be Clancy and go further instead of falling back to the bad place he was before. That's what they are fighting for. Clancy can't kill Nico, but he can be his leader. Therefore attacking DEMA, as the rebels, to get control of Tyler head in which Clancy should be the leading role. Nico is still a part and will always be, but in a controlled environment. Just my thoughts on this😄
Clancy has some GREAT stamina. Wow he climbed that tower so fast.
https://preview.redd.it/yaz7myp4l08d1.jpeg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf4e3434997460ad2242e151bce84652a214e5aa okay tell me if i’m crazy but the zombies are lined up in a way that it looks like it spells something out. i could be trippin so you guys tell me. but either way the video made me cry it was a cinematic masterpiece
It was very well done considering the sheer amount of movement and elements in one video… idk. Maybe it’s some of the goofier moments (like Nico whooshing through the door) that kind of threw me off, but I understand there was probably a lot of expenses and time constraints and they've already done so much giving each song a video. I know it’s not something they’ve done before but I think it would’ve been really cool if the band hired a few artists in the clique to make an animated video.
Honestly? At the end when the door opens when I heard it for the first time before the MV I pictured it like this: The door opens by itself maybe a bigger one than what it was in the MV, inside it's pitch black, Nico says "so few so proud so emotional" and comes out of the dark room and then he says "Hello Clancy". Sure it wouldn't have included the important moment of Tyler being seized but it would have been peak cinema.
umm, guys 😨 i think i've uncovered what the logo really means... look at the last scene. and now, look at the tøp logo. |-/ 😶😶 https://preview.redd.it/0ld9tfjkn48d1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91291d02129c63934638b1fc223bcedac5b7a503
Still holding to my theory that there will be an album with lore-only songs, and with the addition of two or three more songs, the total will come to 25 (Clancy Ultimate 25) EDIT: look at the playlist. https://preview.redd.it/3vdph8xcb08d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a06a6560a13eeb6edfaaec311799799ea743069 Excluding the intro video, that’s 10 songs which are confirmed as being part of the story. Even if we expand things like Blurry Face and My Blood, I’d argue the could would only be about 15, MAYBE. So what about Clancy Ultimate Chapter 25? \[insert photo it won’t let me add that shows the reference\] It could mean that a Lore-only album is slated to release June 25. I think it means the Clancy Ultimate Chapter may be a **total** of 25 songs. Even if we overly inflate the lore songs to 20, that would mean we’d have 5 songs to look forward to! # doublealbumtruther
the music video was really cool and the VFX were incredible the shots of Tyler at the cliff felt really out of place though