Brenden Urie is like a human thrift shop. Before you go all weird saying that’s an insult hang back a second. Should you listen to Panic at the Disco (or or new) you don’t get a sense of the the imagery their video work portrays.
I can happily listen to A Fever You Cant Sweat Out, and aside from the ‘Interludes’ not really get an old world sense, yet video or stage show is full of a bygone era. Trinkets and bits of rick rack that are strangely macabre’, yet not. A top hat wearing Urie becomes master of ceremonies at a near burlesque show, kinda.
Teetering on the edge leaving you just a bit confused and a little nervous, a perfect combination to which at face value is pop music pure and simple. There are no barking messages there are no rally cries. Pop songs plain and simple based solely on the human condition.
The visual aspect is whats most enchanting. From that of Pretty.Odd.”, ‘That Green Gentleman” to even the more current “Ballad of Mona Lisa”, that thrift shop dusty attic look is still really evident.
And not this, a 6 minute sampler of the upcoming ‘Vices and Virtues”. Huckster extraordinaire there has been more foreplay on this album than even Sting could tolerate. Enough already let the thing fly! Well, it will March 22nd.
Til then, watch this semi symbolic brow furrowing huh? type video fresh from Brenden Uries Grandmothers hope chest…