Vices & Virtues is the first album released after Ryan Ross and Jon Walker decided to depart from the band. The album itself is yet another reinvention of the band as a whole, illustrating Spencer Smith and Brendon Urie’s new vision for Panic! while still maintaining their dramatic flare. The album is a stark contrast from the band’s previous album Pretty. Odd. and is more like their first album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in that they are more similar aesthetically and musically.
Brendon Urie explained the inspiration behind the title of the album to SPIN:
I was looking at the lyrics, thinking, ‘What are the main themes here?’ They dealt with self-deprecation, pride, subversion, manipulation, but some good stuff too: self-expression, honesty. I was like, ‘Are these the seven deadly sins or something’? We did some research and ‘Vices and Virtues’ popped up. Aristotle has this Biblical list that’s tied in with themes of human behavior that we’ve been noticing in ourselves. This album is a study of our human behavior. It’s about our changes in self-esteem and the changes of growing up.'
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The best album by Panic! At The Disco is A Fever You Can't Sweat Out which is ranked number 1,071 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 2,316.
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1. | The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 86/100 (57 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
2. | I Write Sins Not Tragedies (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 86/100 (71 votes) Comments: 2 comments | |
3. | Time To Dance (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 85/100 (44 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
4. | Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 85/100 (41 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
5. | But It's Better If You Do (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 84/100 (41 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
6. | Build God, Then We'll Talk (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 84/100 (42 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
7. | There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 81/100 (36 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
8. | London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 81/100 (42 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
9. | Nine In The Afternoon (from the album Pretty. Odd.) | 81/100 (44 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
10. | Camisado (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 81/100 (37 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
11. | Northern Downpour (from the album Pretty. Odd.) | 80/100 (30 votes) Comments: 3 comments | |
12. | I Constantly Thank God For Esteban (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 79/100 (33 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
13. | The Ballad Of Mona Lisa (from the album Vices & Virtues) | 79/100 (13 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
14. | That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed) (from the album Pretty. Odd.) | 78/100 (32 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
15. | Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks (from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) | 77/100 (34 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
16. | Roaring 20s (from the album Pray For The Wicked) | 77/100 (10 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
17. | She Had The World (from the album Pretty. Odd.) | 77/100 (19 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
18. | We're So Starving (from the album Pretty. Odd.) | 77/100 (28 votes) Comments: 1 comment | |
19. | She's A Handsome Woman (from the album Pretty. Odd.) | 77/100 (27 votes) Comments: 0 comments | |
20. | Old Fashioned (from the album Pray For The Wicked) | 77/100 (9 votes) Comments: 1 comment |
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@MountandrewIn what world does Mad as Rabbits sound like The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage
Pretty. Odd. is kind of spectacular. I wish they were brave enough to follow that sound instead of retreating back into the comfort of pop-rock.
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I'm sorry. I couldn't never get through an entire song by them, let alone an album.
Not the best band, not the worst band...in other words, ok band.
'Members who like this artist also like: Gorillaz, Sufjan Stevens and Mastodon'
Somehow, this is simultaneously both the worst description and the best description you could possibly give for the band.
I like to think my chart had some part in this.
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Not bad at all. Pretty Odd is a very good album.
It's actually pretty good. I was skeptical about this band, but they've managed to entertain me quite a bit.
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Reduced to a duo of Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith, neither of whom were primary songwriters during the band’s early years, Panic at the Disco pick up the thread they started with their skewed Beatlesque sophomore set, Pretty. Odd., and turn Vices & Virtues into a curious little nesting doll of an album. Elements of the band’s energetic emo are here, but it’s only one bit on a record that follows the kitchen sink aesthetic of Pretty. Odd., one where the production is too restless to sit still for more than a couple of bars. The keystone here isn’t so much the ‘60s as it is ‘80s new wave with synths and echoed guitars uncannily recalling the glory days of 1983, but Panic at the Disco’s approach is distinctly modern, letting the past intermingle with the present so it all creates a Day-Glo digital collage. Often, the individual pieces of this patchwork pop are more captivating than the overall image, yet there’s still an undeniable appeal to Urie and Smith’s crazed earnest energy; they may not know where they’re going but they know all the different routes to get there.
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Released | September 27, 2005[1] | ||
Recorded | June–September 2005 at SOMD! Studios, College Park, Maryland, and Darn! Studios, Lewisville, Texas | ||
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Length | 39:42 | ||
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Producer | Matt Squire | ||
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A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the debut studio album by American rock band Panic! at the Disco. Produced by Matt Squire, the album was released on September 27, 2005, on Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen. The group formed in Las Vegas in 2004 and began posting demos online, which caught the attention of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. Wentz signed the group to his own imprint label, Decaydance, without them having ever performed live. It is the only album released during original bassist Brent Wilson's time in the band, but the exact nature of his involvement in the writing and recording process became a source of contention upon his dismissal from the group in mid-2006.
The album was recorded on a small budget at SOMD! Studios in College Park, Maryland over several weeks in June 2005. The group had only graduated from high school one month before. With lyrics written by lead guitarist/backing vocalist Ryan Ross, the record covers social issues and topics such as sanctity of marriage, adultery, mental health, alcoholism and prostitution are woven throughout the album. The album is divided into halves stylistically; the first half is primarily pop punk with elements of electronic, while the second employs more traditional instrumentation, with influences of baroque pop.
Upon its release, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out became a commercial success. Its second single, 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies', became a top 10 hit in the United States. It helped bolster sales to 1.8 million in the US by 2011, making it the group's best-selling release.[2] Despite its sales, the album polarized music critics, with many praising the album's catchiness and others questioning its originality. The band promoted the record with stints on the Nintendo Fusion Tour before its first headlining tour, the Nothing Rhymes With Circus Tour. In late 2015, its certification was upgraded to RIAA double platinum for 2 million shipments.[3]
~Brendon Urie of Panic at the Disco
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Background[edit]
The band was formed in 2004, at this time named Pet Salamander, in the suburban area of Summerlin, Las Vegas, by childhood friends Ryan Ross on guitar and Spencer Smith on drums. Both teens attended Bishop Gorman High School and they began playing music together in ninth grade. They invited their friend Brent Wilson from nearby Palo Verde High School to join on bass guitar, and Wilson invited his classmate Brendon Urie to try out on guitar.[4] They soon began rehearsing in Smith's grandmother's living room.[5] Urie grew up in a Mormon family in Las Vegas and early on skipped rehearsals to go to church.[6] Ross initially was the lead vocalist for the group, but on hearing Urie singing backing vocals during an early rehearsal, they unanimously decided to move him to lead.[7] They initially worked purely as a Blink-182 cover band.[8]
The monotonous nature of local Las Vegas bands influenced them to be different and creative, and they soon began recording experimental demos. Ross and Urie soon began to record on their laptops the demos they had been developing and posted three early demos ('Time to Dance', 'Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks' and 'Camisado') on PureVolume.[4] On a whim, they sent a link to Fall Out Boy bass guitarist Pete Wentz via a LiveJournal account, and around this time they changed the name of the band to Panic at the Disco. Wentz, who was in Los Angeles at the time with the rest of Fall Out Boy working on their first major-label album, From Under the Cork Tree, drove to Las Vegas to meet the band.[9] On hearing 'two to three' songs during band practice, Wentz was impressed and immediately wanted the band to sign to his Fueled by Ramen imprint label Decaydance Records, which made them the first on the new label, which the group did around December 2004. Around this time they had put an exclamation point at the end of Panic as a joke, and as they said in an interview years later, it stuck with them and became the official name of the band.[7] As news broke that Wentz had signed Panic! (who had yet to perform a single live show), fans on the Internet began to criticize the group.[10]
Meanwhile, Wentz began to publicize the band wherever possible, from wearing 'Panic! at the Disco' T-shirts onstage to mentioning them in interviews. Wentz gave a quick mention to the band during a press junket on the day before the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards: 'I've got a couple of bands coming out soon on Decaydance, one being this band called Panic! at the Disco,' Wentz said. 'Their record is going to be your next favorite record. It's called A Fever You Can't Sweat Out — get it before your little brother does.'[10] At the time of their signing, all of the band members were still in high school, with the exception of Ross, who was forced to leave the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[4]
Recording and production[edit]
After completing high school, the group members boarded a van and drove from Las Vegas to College Park, Maryland to record the album. Fueled by Ramen wanted the band to go into the studio earlier in the year, but Ross was attending college at UNLV and the others were still in high school. Urie graduated in May 2005 and the band pushed recording back to June; Smith and Wilson completed school online during production.[4] They picked producer Matt Squire based on his production on several independent albums the group liked. The label had hoped they would pick Mike Green, who had worked with Paramore on All We Know Is Falling. 'I think Crush Management and Fueled by Ramen were like, 'Who is this dude?' said Squire.[11]
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was created in only 'three and a half weeks' — including mixing and mastering — on a budget of $11,000.[11] The group entered the studio with half of the songs completed; the others were crafted in pre-production.[7] Recording was stressful. 'We were in the studio for 14 hours a day for five weeks; we might have started losing our minds a little bit,' Ross recalled humorously in a 2006 interview.[12] The band lived in a one-bedroom basement studio apartment during the production, with all sleeping in bunk beds. 'Everyone got on everybody's nerves,' said Ross. 'Someone would write a new part for a song and someone else would say they didn't like it just because you ate their cereal that morning.'[12] Urie's voice was blown after tracking the album. Squire remembered that most of the album's choruses and high harmonies were recorded in one session.[11] By the end of production, the band had not had a day off and were exhausted. After its completion, 'We had two weeks to come home and learn how to be a band,' Ross said.[4]
In the fallout of Wilson's firing from the band in May 2006 due to 'lack of responsibility' and 'not progressing musically with the band', the remaining members also alleged that Wilson did not participate in the writing and recording of the album, with Urie and Ross writing bass parts that were simplified so that Wilson could play them live, and Urie recording them in the studio.[13] Wilson denied their statement, insisting that he was present in the studio every day, participating in writing, and teaching Urie how to play certain parts. He also sued the band for 25% of royalties from the album's sales, as stipulated in the original contract.[14]
Composition[edit]
—Urie on the album's songs[11]
'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out' has been described as pop punk,[15][16]emo,[17][18]emo pop,[19]electropunk,[20]dance-punk,[21]baroque pop,[15][22] and alternative rock.[23] The album is split in two stylistically, with the first half of the record using electronic instruments such as synthesizers and drum machines while the second employs traditional instruments such as the accordion and organ. They are separated by an intermission as a link between the two halves, beginning with techno-style dance beats before switching to a piano interlude. Squire recalled that the band had an 'identity crisis' upon writing new songs. The more dance-infused tracks were crafted during the group's time in Vegas, but the band members found themselves writing more straightforward rock tracks when they entered the studio. The band did not want to include the rock songs, but Squire got them to agree to it one day over lunch. 'I took them out to lunch and said, 'Why don’t we tell the story of that creative evolution as the theme of the album?', he later recalled.[11]
'London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines' takes a preliminary aim at webzines' criticism.[11] | |
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The ambitious quality of the album's content was representative of the band's desire to 'do whatever we wanted,' according to Urie.[24] The band was heavily inspired by music groups Third Eye Blind, Counting Crows, Arcade Fire and the Decemberists during rehearsals, and also by Danny Elfman and Jon Brion film scores.[10] Urie specifically cited the Beatles, Queen, the Smiths, Name Taken, and the Keane song 'Everybody's Changing' as influences on the album. He remarked, 'We took all of those biggest influences, listening to them from our parents and mashed them together.'[24]
The album's writing is strongly influenced by Chuck Palahniuk's work. The song title 'The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage' is a quote from his book Survivor. 'Time to Dance' tells the story of Invisible Monsters, and includes quotes such as 'Give me envy, give me malice, give me your attention'. Other references and quotes can be found throughout the album, such as 'Just for the record, the weather today is..' (Diary). Wentz served as an advisor to the group on lyrical content: 'he was always there to help out with a line here, a line there,' said Urie. The group noticed that bands in the pop punk scene, such as Fall Out Boy and Name Taken, were using long song titles. The band decided to take this a step farther, creating increasingly long titles partially as an inside joke.[11] The song 'I Constantly Thank God for Esteban' was a reference to an infomercial for Esteban Guitars the group found humorous.[11]
Commercial performance[edit]
Sales of the album began relatively slow. It debuted at No. 112 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and later peaked at number 4. The album sold over two million copies in the United States.[11] It spent 88 weeks on the Billboard 200.[25]
Reception[edit]
Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [26] |
Drowned in Sound | 6/10[27] |
Entertainment Weekly | B[28] |
Mojo | [29] |
MusicOMH | [30] |
Pitchfork | 1.5/10[31] |
PopMatters | 4/10[32] |
Rolling Stone | [33] |
The Skinny | [34] |
Stylus Magazine | D[35] |
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out divided music critics at the time of its release. Billboard, ten years after its release, deemed it 'one of the most polarizing albums of our time'.[11] Cory D. Byrom of Pitchfork was perhaps the most negative, criticizing the state of contemporary emo and bemoaning the album's apparent lack of 'sincerity, creativity, or originality'.[31] Johnny Loftus of AllMusic was similarly negative, writing, 'This is a band in love with making a record — making a statement — but there's nothing unique inside, neither in their formula nor the vaunted and sticky production.'[26] Lauren Gitlin of Rolling Stone complimented the album's sound, commenting, 'What makes Panic different (and excellent) is their use of dance-floor synths and roboto drums, which redeems the album's whininess.'[33]Kerrang! was positive, awarding the record four out of five stars.[36]Rolling Stone also gave a positive review, with three and a half stars out of five.[33] Webzines like Gigwise and Sputnikmusic also gave positive reviews.[37][38]
The hit single, 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies', received massive airplay and Panic! at the Disco won 'Video of the Year' on the annual MTV Video Music Awards in 2006, beating fellow nominees Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Shakira and Red Hot Chili Peppers. In September 2011, 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' won MTV's Best Music Video of the 2000s[39] as well as Best Music Video of All Time based on online voting.
Accolades[edit]
Rolling Stone listed it among the '40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time' in 2016, with James Montgomery dubbing it a 'genre-defying blueprint' and commenting 'it's difficult to argue that it's not a snapshot of where 'emo' was at in 2005, right down to the sentence-long song titles.'[40]
Year | Publication | Country | Rank | List |
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2012 | Rock Sound | United Kingdom | 16 | 101 Modern Classics[41] |
2016 | Kerrang! | 16 | The 50 Best Rock Albums of the 2000s[42] | |
Rolling Stone | United States | 39 | 40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time[40] |
Deluxe edition re-issue[edit]
On November 14, 2006, the album was re-released in a 'deluxe' edition (Limited Edition Collectible Deluxe Box), packaged in a cigar box-shaped box set. The box set was limited to 25,000 copies.[citation needed] It included the original album on CD, a live concert titled Live in Denver on DVD, picture cards for each song with lyrics printed on individual cards, 2006 tour program, poster of the band, live photo shots, a phenakistoscope, circus-styled mask, fake newspaper article and a blank notebook. The Live in Denver DVD was filmed in Denver on July 22, 2006.[43]
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by Ryan Ross; all music composed by Ross, Brendon Urie, Spencer Smith.
Japanese edition pre-gap hidden tracks | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'Time to Dance' (demo) | 4:16 |
2. | 'Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks' (demo) | 3:56 |
3. | 'Camisado' (demo) | 3:50 |
Total length: | 11:59 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'Introduction' (instrumental) | 0:37 |
2. | 'The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage' | 2:54 |
3. | 'London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines' | 3:23 |
4. | 'Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks' | 3:23 |
5. | 'Camisado' | 3:11 |
6. | 'Time to Dance' | 3:22 |
7. | 'Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off' | 3:20 |
8. | 'Intermission' (instrumental) | 2:35 |
9. | 'But It's Better If You Do' | 3:25 |
10. | 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' | 3:06 |
11. | 'I Constantly Thank God for Esteban' | 3:30 |
12. | 'There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet' | 3:16 |
13. | 'Build God, Then We'll Talk' | 3:40 |
Total length: | 39:42 |
Japanese edition bonus track | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
14. | 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' (live in Denver) | 3:11 |
Total length: | 42:57 |
Japanese edition enhanced material | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' (music video) | 3:06 |
2. | 'But It's Better If You Do' (music video) | 3:36 |
3. | 'Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off' (music video) | 3:16 |
Deluxe edition bonus DVD | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'Live in Denver' | 72:10 |
Personnel[edit]
Credits for A Fever You Can't Sweat Out adapted from AllMusic.[44]
Panic! at the Disco
Additional musicians
| Production
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Charts[edit]
Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[45] | 11 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[46] | 37 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[47] | 43 |
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[48] | 19 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[49] | 41 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[50] | 98 |
Irish Albums (IRMA)[51] | 59 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[52] | 37 |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[53] | 7 |
Scottish Albums (OCC)[54] | 16 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[55] | 26 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[56] | 63 |
UK Albums (OCC)[57] | 17 |
US Billboard 200[58] | 4 |
Certifications[edit]
Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[59] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Canada (Music Canada)[60] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[61] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[63] | Platinum | 402,983[62] |
United States (RIAA)[64] | 3× Platinum | 3,000,000 |
*sales figures based on certification alone |
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External links[edit]
- A Fever You Can't Sweat Out at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
- A Fever You Can't Sweat Out at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
Named after a line from Name Taken’s “Panic,” Panic! at the Disco was formed by drummer Spencer Smith, bassist Brent Wilson, guitarist Ryan Ross, and vocalist Brendon Urie, and founded in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. While crafting pop-influenced songs with theatrical themes, quirky techno beats, and perceptive lyrics, they received some much-deserved attention.
They became the first group signed on Pete Wentz’s (bassist in Fall Out Boy) record label, Decaydance Records (now DCD2 Records). Their hit song that started it all, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” remains one of their top two top forty songs along with “Hallelujah.”
3ds max 2016 vray download. They have released six studio albums: A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, Pretty. Odd., Vices & Virtues, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, Death of a Bachelor, and now their most recent album Pray for the Wicked. These last two albums were actually solo projects from Brendon Urie, since all the other members of the band had already left the group before their release dates; in 2006, bassist Brent Wilson was fired due to his “lack of responsibility and the fact that he wasn’t progressing musically with the band.” And in 2009, guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker left the band to “embark on a musical excursion of their own,” forming The Young Veins. Dallon Weekes, who joined the band as a bassist and songwriter in 2009, had become a touring member only by the time Death of a Bachelor was released and later left the band completely in order to focus on his own music. Weekes was replaced by Nicole Row, the first female member of the band.
Along with the release of Pretty. Odd., the group revealed a new logo for their name, which excluded the use of the renowned exclamation point. Guitarist Ryan Ross explained how it was becoming a nuisance.
At least for me, it got a little bit annoying to try to write that every time you’re typing the name. It was never part of the name to us…People started writing it, and then it ended up in more and more things like that, so there it was. When we started doing new promo stuff for this album, we just told everyone not to use it anymore.
However, the new logo didn’t last very long. The following year in 2009, drummer Spencer Smith wrote about their upcoming single, “New Perspective,” on the group’s website. Smith signed the note as “Spencer of Panic! at The Disco,” signifying the return of the exclamation point.
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In regards to why they brought it back, Smith said:
For me and Brendon, there were aspects of our first album that did sort of go away on Pretty. Odd. that we’d like to bring back to our band. There was some theatricality and some different styles of music, and we want to make a record that is drawing from both our previous albums. And it just seemed like it would be a fun thing for our fans. Hopefully, there’s less of a big deal [made] about it coming back than there was about it going away. It seems like a new chapter, so having that as part of the band seemed like something we could bring back.
For over a decade, the band, and its innovatively artistic music videos, have received many accolades. The band has received two Video of the Year awards: one (for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”) at the 2006 VMAs, and another (for “Emperor’s New Clothes”) via the 2015 Rock Sounds Readers Poll. The latter also won Best Music Video at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards, while “Hallelujah” received Song of the Year at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards. This is in addition to countless nominations and international awards. Urie also won an award for Best Vocalist at the 2014 Alternative Press Music Awards. Four years later, he won the Best Artist award at The Rock Sound Awards 2018.