March 25th: The release of Panic at the Disco's follow-up to 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Their new CD, Pretty.Odd. is Panic at the Disco's transition to simpler songs. While their first album was an energetic interpretation of such genres as big band and techno for a modern and emo-sound-craving generation, their new album is inspired by such bands as The Beach Boys and The Beatles. They want to make timeless songs, and who can blame them?
Panic At the Disco is an interesting band. If you are a 16-year-old, myspace addict girl they are the cream of the crop. Four good looking guys who have a sound that makes you just want to dance. But the rest of the world seems a little immune to them. Just another pop sensation in the heart of their fifteen minutes of fame.
I disagree.
That is Fall Out Boy. Fall Out Boy is a single-pumping machine that knows how to twist words to teenage angst perfection. Don't get me wrong. I am a big fan of Fall Out Boy, specifically Pete Wentz's lyrics and Patrick Stumps melodies but ten years from now, they will just be what Foreigner was to the eighties.
I believe Panic At the Disco to be the band that will shape the next ten years of music. My Chemical Romance is up there with their inspired newer album The Black Parade but Panic at the Disco has one thing they do not: an unlimited musical style. 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was so original, so inspired (mostly by the works of Chuck Palahniuk, specifically invisible monsters) that no one can keep Panic in a box.
Okay, one thing you'll learn about my blogs is I have basically ADD. I just have too much to say, most of which goes out the window with a few confuzzled tidbits that make their way onto the page.
But now I would like to speak for a brief second about the Beatles. BOLD STATEMENT OF THE DAY (POSSIBLY IGNORANT): all great music that has come out of music for the last forty years has been catapulted by the Beatles. Experimental bands like them who take what someone else has done and perfect it, mix it and turn into its own entity are completely rare. I'm not talking about 1964 Beatles. I'm not saying "I want to hold your hand" is responsible for Nirvana. I am saying The White Album, Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper's. These albums made music what it is now. And it always will, but never will there be a new sound that is anything but a sub-genre or an unneccessary twist (I quote grindcore or indie hip-hop) until someone new enters the game. Someone who will turn the music industry around.
Panic! Meet the Press!
Yes, I think Panic is this band. Or I should say will become this band.
Once again,I'll explain using Johnny Depp for examples sake.
Johnny Depp entered the world of movies as a heartthrob. 21 Jump Street was just meh. Cry Baby doesn't seem to be too impressive. But Johnny Depp didn't want to just be a cutie on the cover of bubble gum pop magazines. Along came Edward Scissorhands, along came Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and now he's been a pirate, a murderous barber, a famous playwright, a Stephen King based neurotic writer and too many more to name. He escaped his bubble, due to his persistence to be more and his willingness to do what it takes to survive in the world of music. He becomes his characters and makes them his own, I challenge anyone to say who could replace Johnny Depp in any movie. Reader's digest version: Johnny Depp transcended his image to become one the greatest actors of all time.
In other ways too. As a sex icon. The man's gonna be fifty soon, and every teenage girl still thinks he's quite the guy. He's gone from pretty boy, to hunk, to sexiest man alive. And he's a flippin' pirate.
Back to Panic: The way I see it, Panic at the Disco will transcend their images as pop-punk's forerunners and pretty boys (they are forerunners due to what they bring to the genre as far as innovation)and be the greatest band to ever come out of Las Vegas, Nevada (Although, honestly, now that I think about it, The Killers may be tough competition). I gain part of my theory from Pretty.Odd. The single is radio-friendly but is a very mature composition, as are such songs as When the Day Met the Night and Mad as Rabbits. If people think this band is just too pop to mean anything, remember someone's probably said that about the Beatles circa 1964. This band has the fun, they have the sound, they have the talent, the following, the persistance to create ripples the size of the ocean and eyes the size of the moon.
NEW MUSIC VIDEO: NINE IN THE AFTERNOON
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WHEN THE DAY MET THE NIGHT
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