“How Did the Cosmos Deliver Me to 2021 and Liking Panic! at the Disco?”

It’s funny when lead singers just LOOK like the music they sing. I’d fully go so far, even, to say that we’re living in the age of that, with a couple hilarious examples being the doomed nerdiness of Harlem Shakes and the clumsy, misanthropic virility of Surfer Blood. 

Panic! at the Disco’s Brendon Urie slides into that slot with tickling facility, too, brandishing this kind of polished, pretty-boy face of smoothness and readiness for the limelight, that, also, upon a closer look, does contain some elements of pain and strife. It’s like an onion that peels off layers of deeper meaning and certitude, the longer you stand in its light. 

And, I mean, “High Hopes,” Urie’s newly ubiquitous [1] single from 2018’s Pray for the Wicked [2], is light-attracting stuff, all the way. It’s refreshingly not just about a girl he’s interested in, nothing against women or anything, and it also SOUNDS quintessentially Panic! at the Disco, with even a potent tinge of pain and frustration to spice the typical pop blend, not completely unlike what Death Cab for Cutie did with the cathartic “Little Bribes.” In terms of the lyrical matter, I notice that it’s very un-’90s: the self-deprecation is replaced with earnestness and an unabashed embrace of the American dream that most ’90s alternative rock sought to eschew or problematize. Indeed, again to Urie’s credit, it’s almost like people’s attention spans are so short these days, or are lives just disallow for any patient rumination to the point of the mandation of this sort of brevity, this quick-hitting hook, that races along faster the conscious sarcasm or snarky ad-busting could ever hope to. 

In general, too, I’d say, Panic! at the Disco is just a moniker that you’ve got to root for. They were Hot Topic darlings back when I was buying Head Automatica and Authority Zero CD’s there, for Christ’s sake, and that was certainly a vital concept, if not overall era, in music. In a way, and I doubt it was planned the whole time, but Urie is kind of ingenious for getting the ball rolling as a full band and then trimming it down to the lithe, light-on-its-feet solo material of “High Hopes” that potentiates these quick rhythms and celestial melodies and harmonies we get with the pervasive “High Hopes.” 

Also, just for the record, it’s officially the truth that nobody knows if Panic! at the Disco is putting out a whole new album this year. This is a very hard artist to predict, needless to say. Actually, Google answered by query thereof with a sentence fragment… I think I might have sent it into technical dysunction just by broaching such an intrinsically un-answerable question. 

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[1] Impressively, “High Hopes” has already reached a billion streams on Spotify. Somewhere Eminem is shockingly writing a really angry song about this situation.

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[2] According to Wikipedia Panic! at the Disco started out as a pop band but is now the solo project of Urie. 

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