I think this song can be interpreted many ways, but the way I see it is that there's two sides of the song; Kiiara's side and Chester's side (the song's characters). Both could be dealing with mental health issues, and both seem to be at war with themselves.
Kiiara's character could possibly suffer from schizophrenia or intense paranoia or even severe anxiety. She portrays the less physical - but still as serious - side of mental health issues.
Chester's character seems to have anger issues, or something known as intermittent explosive disorder (IED). In the video, his character is shown to lash out and be physically violent, even if he's alone. He is seen screaming at himself and breaking glass over the table before leaving the house casually.
When he goes to the meeting where Kiiara is, he causes a fight with another participant and ends up storming out of the room to the men's room to calm down. When Kiiara sees this, she seems very calm or at least indifferent, unlike the rest of the group.
Then we see Chester, screaming (singing) at himself in the mirror. The words he says here are: "I drive myself crazy, thinking everything's about me." This could be expressing how he doesn't know why he is the way he is, and he overthinks it to the point of going 'crazy'. This happens shortly before we see him metaphorically attack himself.
Kiiara then quietly follows him to the bathroom, finds him sitting in a mess of broken mirror glass and clutching his head, and sits down next to him. Though before she enters, she hesitates and seems nervous; when she covers her face (which could be an example of overthinking and anxiousness.)
The video ends with Kiiara lightly touching Chester's arm, as if she's finally found someone that understands what it's like to be constantly 'at war' with yourself.
I think the entire title the chorus can be deciphered into the main theme.
"Why is everything so heavy?" - this could be people dealing with mental illnesses asking themselves "why does it have to be this way?" or "why does everything have to be so hard?"
@berrytea chster is screaming at himself because people with anxiety litteraly battle themselves. The general feeling is "everyone, including me, is against me. I am alone". Males and female react to anxiety (typicly) diffeantly. The male usually is becomes aggresive, even hyper vigalant. The Female tends to "bottle it up" until she emotionaly implodes. She becomes empty. These are of course generalisations and can change over time. The female that swallowed these negative emotions may suddenly explode and become agressive. The aggressive male may grow silent and non-reactive to the negative emotions until he implodes and drives himself to suicide....
@berrytea chster is screaming at himself because people with anxiety litteraly battle themselves. The general feeling is "everyone, including me, is against me. I am alone". Males and female react to anxiety (typicly) diffeantly. The male usually is becomes aggresive, even hyper vigalant. The Female tends to "bottle it up" until she emotionaly implodes. She becomes empty. These are of course generalisations and can change over time. The female that swallowed these negative emotions may suddenly explode and become agressive. The aggressive male may grow silent and non-reactive to the negative emotions until he implodes and drives himself to suicide.
I think this song can be interpreted many ways, but the way I see it is that there's two sides of the song; Kiiara's side and Chester's side (the song's characters). Both could be dealing with mental health issues, and both seem to be at war with themselves.
Kiiara's character could possibly suffer from schizophrenia or intense paranoia or even severe anxiety. She portrays the less physical - but still as serious - side of mental health issues.
Chester's character seems to have anger issues, or something known as intermittent explosive disorder (IED). In the video, his character is shown to lash out and be physically violent, even if he's alone. He is seen screaming at himself and breaking glass over the table before leaving the house casually.
When he goes to the meeting where Kiiara is, he causes a fight with another participant and ends up storming out of the room to the men's room to calm down. When Kiiara sees this, she seems very calm or at least indifferent, unlike the rest of the group.
Then we see Chester, screaming (singing) at himself in the mirror. The words he says here are: "I drive myself crazy, thinking everything's about me." This could be expressing how he doesn't know why he is the way he is, and he overthinks it to the point of going 'crazy'. This happens shortly before we see him metaphorically attack himself.
Kiiara then quietly follows him to the bathroom, finds him sitting in a mess of broken mirror glass and clutching his head, and sits down next to him. Though before she enters, she hesitates and seems nervous; when she covers her face (which could be an example of overthinking and anxiousness.)
The video ends with Kiiara lightly touching Chester's arm, as if she's finally found someone that understands what it's like to be constantly 'at war' with yourself.
I think the entire title the chorus can be deciphered into the main theme. "Why is everything so heavy?" - this could be people dealing with mental illnesses asking themselves "why does it have to be this way?" or "why does everything have to be so hard?"
@berrytea chster is screaming at himself because people with anxiety litteraly battle themselves. The general feeling is "everyone, including me, is against me. I am alone". Males and female react to anxiety (typicly) diffeantly. The male usually is becomes aggresive, even hyper vigalant. The Female tends to "bottle it up" until she emotionaly implodes. She becomes empty. These are of course generalisations and can change over time. The female that swallowed these negative emotions may suddenly explode and become agressive. The aggressive male may grow silent and non-reactive to the negative emotions until he implodes and drives himself to suicide....
@berrytea chster is screaming at himself because people with anxiety litteraly battle themselves. The general feeling is "everyone, including me, is against me. I am alone". Males and female react to anxiety (typicly) diffeantly. The male usually is becomes aggresive, even hyper vigalant. The Female tends to "bottle it up" until she emotionaly implodes. She becomes empty. These are of course generalisations and can change over time. The female that swallowed these negative emotions may suddenly explode and become agressive. The aggressive male may grow silent and non-reactive to the negative emotions until he implodes and drives himself to suicide.
@berrytea well you were right because he took his own life
@berrytea well you were right because he took his own life