How The Internet Fell Out of Love With Brendon Urie

[Music] I wish I could say I did not have a personal stake in this video because unfortunately Panic at the Disco is a very personal subject for me as lame as it sounds in the present day that band fundamentally changed my life I remember when I first heard them I was in elementary school when I Write Sins Not Tragedies came on the radio and my dad always really liked it and I remember in the sixth grade when I got an iPod touch I was able to check out the album that the song had come from a fever You Can't Sweat out and let me tell you I was hooked to this day it's probably still my favorite album of all time and I'd argue one of the most impressive debut albums for any band in the 2000s from there I went all of the natural places that a person in my demographic could go Fall Out Boy My Chemical Romance Warped Tour Hot Topic chunky bracelets Tumblr that was all my vibe for a long time probably too long of a time I'm looking back I of course find the majority of it to be incredibly goddamn cringe but nonetheless it was a trajectory that would not have happened had I not discovered this band because I was so young when I discovered panic I didn't see them live in concert until the vices in virtues era I saw them in Central Park in 2011. Pete Wentz was there but not with Fallout Boy it was weird since then I've seen them several more times and each time the band had different members on stage like how the Wiggles had a different Yellow Wiggle for a while and then they went back to the original yellow wiggle and then The Wiggles all became different it was like that but everyone had bad haircuts and it was still commonplace to describe them as metrosexual as we'll get into Panic at the Disco has taken on a lot of different iterations over the years it started as one thing and became something completely different but at the center of it all is one man one man who went from an emo heartthrob to a Vine star to a quirky Broadway lead with a Taylor Swift song credit under his belt to the internet's punching bag and unfortunately there is no person more qualified to talk about this chaos Arc than me and for those of you who are just as deep in the Panic the Disco lore as I am and you want to know just how qualified I am for a video like this well well one more quick thing before we jump into it please follow me on Twitter because my old account got suspended or blue sky if you have an invite or threads which is the same at as my Instagram um I'm hoping that one of these emerges as the potential Victor in all of this because I'm so tired of having to keep track of three apps and whichever one does win I'll stick with that one and then I can direct you all there in the meantime I'm gonna keep doing this annoying Carousel when I direct you to all of them depending on what you have and I'm eventually gonna get around to making a link tree so this can all just be in one place anyway hey we're Panic at the Disco welcome to AOL music session Panic at the Disco was an American pop rock band from Las Vegas Nevada formed in 2004 by childhood friends Ryan Ross Spencer Smith Brent Wilson who was later replaced by bassist John Walker and of course Brendan Yuri they released their debut album a fever You Can't Sweat Out Back In 2005 and I talked about it a little bit but it's a certified pop punk classic of course there's I Write Sins which is the song that everyone knows but the whole album is really quirky and also full of this raw guttural emotion it has this fun little circus freak Show theme and has the best components of their own unique sound and like divine inspiration from Fall Out Boy it put the band on the map rather quickly after the successive fever we only got one more album with this core four their sophomore album was called pretty odd and it definitely lives up to its title it's far of a departure from a fever You Can't Sweat out as you can possibly get it's very cerebral it's very heavily inspired by the music of the 60s it sort of has a Beatles or Beach Boys tone in particular and is definitely beloved by a lot of panic fans but not exactly by the band itself the album only had one big commercially viable hit which is nine in the afternoon which I believe is also the first song of theirs that was featured on Guitar Hero or rock band which led to this awkward interview if I'm not mistaken I hate well that's weird because we covered one on guitar [Music] kind of a sensitive subject now yeah yeah I'm just kidding there's just been problems anyway pretty odd became a literal diverging point for the four members of the band the band's guitarist and Lyricist Ryan Ross and bassist John Walker wanted to go in this direction for their sound permanently whereas drummer Spencer Smith and Brendon Urie didn't necessarily want to go back to their pop punk roots with fever but rather wanted to find a different way to progress their sound forward and so the band split Ryan and John formed a side project called the Young veins and Brendan and Spencer kept the Panic of the Disco moniker for their third album vices and virtues was panic's first Venture as a Duo Spencer and Brendan headed up the project and recruited guitarist Ian Crawford and bassist Dallin weeks for live touring performances vices is good it definitely tries to build on the vibe of fever but instead of a circus freak Show Vibe I get more of Noir meets steampunk their songs I really love on it like let's kill tonight hurricane always in Nearly Witches and songs I'm not as big a fan of like trademist Stakes over the calendar overall though it's a solid album I like it and most Panic fans like it the tour for vices and virtues ended in 2012 and Brendan Spencer and Dallin recorded the band's fourth studio album too weird to live too rare to die but shortly after the Project's recording Spencer left the band due to health issues leaving Brendan and Dallin as the only remaining members and this is where the train starts to fall off the tracks just a little bit while the trio recorded the project together this was the first time the marketing and overall concept was very Brendan Centric which is evident by the album art where he is the only one present foreign I like most of this album although I feel like parts of it are a little unfocused and it definitely marks a transition in terms of their sound where electronic production is more of the dominant aesthetic here and it's probably some of their most commercially viable music up until this point in time which is fine all bands go through changes this seemed like a natural progression of things for the most part the band had also gone through many transitions with its actual members that for the first time there were a couple of mumbles of like why doesn't Brendon Urie just go solo although that criticism didn't really pick up until a little later on it's also worth noting that around this time Brennan himself was rather beloved and adored by fans some of which weren't all that familiar with the older days of panic many people became aware of him for two reasons during this particular stretch of his career one because this is Gospel became a really big hit it's a song I Really Love and most people tend to really enjoy and it had two pretty viral music videos which you know added to its reach the other was because Brendan Yuri like a lot of celebrities at this point around 2013 ended up joining Vine Vine was an app where you could share six second videos it was around when I was in high school and then it died but at the time it was a rather influential tool for celebrities as they could use it to post silly downtime videos and Brendan seemed to always be pretty charming and Goofy and his videos got a lot of hits [Music] a lot of Brendan's Good Fortune then carried into the band's next album death of a bachelor but by this point there was definitely quite a bit of speculation as to when Brendon Urie would drop the delusion that he was still in a band especially because it seemed pretty definite that Spencer wasn't going to return plus Dallin reverted to being just a touring member rather than a more prominent creative Force actually making the music my biggest guess as to why death of a bachelor wasn't a solo project was because Panic the Disco had gone through so many changes in terms of members aesthetic and style that it didn't necessarily matter who was in the band for all intents and purpose every album so far was made by a slightly different band anyway and you know going solo is a big career move maybe he just thought it would be a more profitable venture to stick with the same name and branding and Despite All Odds it kind of worked because death of a bachelor is a pretty solid album certainly better than too weird to live too where to die in my opinion and probably the last of panic's albums that were definitely good sure some of it is a little corny some of it doesn't sound like old Panic whatever that means but all of that melts away when you consider the sheer magnitude of how much the song la devotee [ __ ] foreign [Music] keeps chugging out albums with various levels of identity crises Brendan himself is becoming a bigger and bigger star he performed at the Kennedy Center Honors for Billy Joel he wrote music for SpongeBob the musical in 2017 it was announced that he would star in Cyndi Lauper's Tony award-winning Broadway musical Kinky Boots where he played one of the lead roles Charlie price and in 2019 he was featured on Taylor Swift's worst song Brendan Yuri was all of a sudden a pretty palatable and successful star himself with a solo act masquerading as a band and despite all potential inclination not to do so he continued performing as Panic at the Disco through the later part of the decade and I mean I guess he had no reason to not continue doing this because it hadn't harmed him in any way commercially he was putting out music and people were still listening to it and he had a number of side projects that he could go back to if he ever got bored but in the music industry all it takes is one slip up one critical misstep that gives everyone an excuse to label you as cringe and say they had a bad feeling about you all along and for Brendan Yuri the worst was yet to come I can't play the actual song for copyright because of the [ __ ] [ __ ] at YouTube but you know how it goes it's like had to have hopes for a living that [ __ ] yeah that song that's what I'm talking about I wish I could play it for you but I [ __ ] can't okay let's back up a teeny bit here in 2018 Panic the Disco released an album called Pray For The Wicked I'm gonna be honest I don't think I've ever gotten fully through this album I didn't like what I heard of it very much but one of the songs in that project called High Hopes got picked up by the campaign of then Presidential hopeful Pete Buddha judge the least cool presidential candidate that could possibly pick up your song and on top of that they created an incredibly cringy dance for his staffers to perform while on the campaign Trail oh no it's the next day and my outfit continuities ruined anyway I want to tell a quick story about my personal experience with this song because in 2020 I was in college I was in my senior year and I went to journalism school and for My Capstone I got to produce a 30-minute special on the Iowa caucus that year so me and Brian and a bunch of other college students headed out to Iowa to cover the election event so I attended quite a few Pete Buddha judge rallies in which I heard this song I Saw the staffers do the dance okay whatever a little cringe but we move on we got bigger fish to fry fast forward to the night of the Iowa caucus election and I don't know if anybody remembers this because a lot happened right after it but the Iowa caucus basically didn't happen because they had used this new app to report the results and it didn't work and everything was broken and the Buddha judge campaign basically prematurely took credit for a victory even though the results had been super inconclusive because people were like did Bernie win did Pete win and basically that resulted in me and a couple other college kids having to Huff it in a car to the Pete Buda judge Campaign Headquarters where he was going to come out and do this victory speech where we weren't at because we didn't think he was going to win and we had to basically break into the Pete Buddha judge gym where this this Victory party was being held I was so stressed we didn't get a conclusive result the whole night I was crying I had to rewrite my whole show it was a disaster and that night I heard High Hopes so many goddamn times waiting for this man to come out on stage and take credit for an election that he probably did not win so I'm okay if I never hear High Hopes ever again for as long as I live anyway this was in a lot of ways the beginning of the end for Brendan even though he didn't really do anything in this case but the virality of High Hopes really put a spotlight on what the most hardcore Panic fans have known for a long time this is not a band anymore this was Brendon Urie putting out mediocre cookie cutter elevator music so generic that a Democratic presidential candidate can find a way to make it even less cool a feat so dramatic when you consider that this is what their music used to sound like [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so high hopes was harmless if a little cringe but this isn't the most serious situation that has happened in Brendon urie's ongoing Fall From Grace in 2020 once High Hopes gate had kind of dissipated Breezy week's wife of former Panic at the Disco bass player Dallin weeks accused the band's bodyguard Zach Hall of sexual harassment following this Revelation a number of users on Twitter began to accuse Brendan himself of a similar kind of harassment although it's worth noting that a number of these accusations were made in tweets that have since been deleted around this time a clip also serviced of Brendan giving some questionable stage banter and definitely in the earlier times that I've seen Panic live this was pretty much par for the course in every show we leave you with this thought [Applause] if I see you after the show I'm gonna [ __ ] you and I don't care if you want it and more care if you don't want it because then I really want it dude [Applause] bro in another controversial moment Yuri made a comment saying quote I wish I was born black so I could wear the clothes that I wear without getting made fun of he is also seen mouthing the n-word in an Old Vine [Music] he also reportedly said a transphobic slur which he later apologized for Brennan also eventually did fire the security guard that was accused of this harassment but it seems that Dallin weeks still Harbors some hard feelings changing the caption of an old photo on Instagram of his hand after an airsoft injury to hashtag TBT when I got shot with an airsoft gun on stage in the middle of playing a song and I had to pretend it was funny so that I could keep my job Brendan had initially commented on that same photo when it was posted saying got you good got him good you did Brendan got him good you did so Brendan is the closest to cancellation that he has ever gotten but the story doesn't end there still under the name Panic at the Disco for some God forsaken reason he releases the band's final album for now Vivo Las Vengeance now this is also an album that I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to all the way through mostly because it's bad but also as a hardcore former Panic fan in their Glory Days it just makes me really depressed but the thing is that up until this point no one ever contested that Brendan Yuri could sing he is vocally very talented but with the release of evil last Vengeance and the corresponding tour dates it became clear that in some way or another Brendon Urie has been straining his voice to the point where in some situations it actually sounds unrecognizable [Music] there are hundreds of Clips like this floating around on the internet right now and I'm not a professionally trained singer but I've listened to videos of professionally trained singers explaining what's going wrong here and basically he's straining the [ __ ] out of his voice to the point that it's causing actual damage to his vocal cords and if you listen to a lot of his more recent live performances it just sounds really awful which is so almost uncanny valley because his voice up until this point has been very good it's just kind of sad to see so basically all of Viva lost Vengeance got panned by critics and it was clear that Brendan needed a break I mean he pretty much did a tour for every single Panic album that has been released and that can obviously get very you know draining in a lot of ways both mentally and on your voice Brendan went kind of quiet after all these allegations came to light and also the poor reception to view the Lost Vengeance and then in January of 2023 he posted on Instagram that the emo pop band that began in 2004 Panic at the Disco was ending its run after seven albums and nearly two decades of making music in this same Instagram post he also announced that his wife Sarah was pregnant with their first child and that he was going to basically put the chapter of his life of panic the Disco to an end to focus his energy on his family and when this announcement came out I weirdly enough didn't feel anything which is interesting considering that this band has meant a lot to me over the years but by the time this announcement came around it didn't feel like it was the same band at all I mean obviously it wasn't the only constant throughout these two decades was Brendan which is impressive in its own right but at the same time I can't help but feel like something that started out really special became washed out and corporate and broken and tainted just like like everything else and I'm kind of tired of that happening I hate when a good thing exists and everyone enjoys it and derives some kind of really important meaning out of it for themselves and then it just gets ruined by external forces of evil or capitalism or whatever it just kind of sucks ultimately I am still grateful for panic at the disco's existence I hold fever as an album in my heart quite fondly and I probably always will I hope Ryan Ross is doing well and I hope most of all that now you understand why the internet fell out of love with Brendon Urie see what I did there I said the thing I said the thing that's all for me you guys and I'll see you next time foreign [Music]

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Published: Fri Jul 07 2023