Panic At The Disco is the new generation's My Chemical Romance

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I don't think My Chemical Romance are supposed to be bad, but they certainly are completely retarded, regardless!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59doMCC6IkM

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is My Chemical Romance supposed to be bad? I never really viewed them so much emo as much as theatrical arena horror-punk.

Nitpicking! At the Message Board

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

bro i totally already did the 'at the message board' joke

plus, i thought there was more-than-slight ilm consensus on MCR?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Cultural comment:

The Killers lash out at emo groups
http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/23458

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Which one in the picture is the bass player that got kicked out? Or is that a different band?

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

They're all the same band.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

but they're not! one band does one little thingie, another does a different little thingie

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's how they fool you. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - alien fashioncore - did not match any documents.

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Cute Is What We Aim For is this generation's Panic! At The Disco.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Color me impressed; this thread didn't even need googlers to become gut-bustingly hilarious.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

PS I think I might gradually be coming around to the "this band is so bizarrely, enthusiastically stupid that it's sort of endearing" point of view (which is very different from ironic appreciation, for reasons which exist but are impossible to properly articulate).

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

The singer is a Mormon.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

get a brain morman

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

get a brain mer-man
http://wiw.org/~corey/lj/mer-man.gif

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

new mcr drops 10/24. fuck yes

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

Picnic! At The Blanket

For the sake of humanity, will 4 plucky young myspacers please pick up their fenders and start this band?

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I hear these guys I remember that once upon a time I really liked the Smithereens. And then I feel vaguely greasy for a while, on top of the feeling real old. I don't mind catchy pretentious rock, cuz I have to honor my inner 14-year-old, but there's something about the way the Panic! at the Disco kid crams way too many words into each line that just bugs me. I think my friends who were in bands in high school were more self-aware about their pretensions, which was more tolerable, for whatever reason (although hanging out at basement parties taping friends playing four straight hours of Velvets covers on acoustic guitar and bongos got old in a hurry, irony or no).

Plus there's something about the neotenous aspect of bands like Panic! that seems seamy to me; never has the objectification of pop stars seemed so obvious. They look so pretty and young in all their photos (the haircuts really don't help); there's something really vulnerable about their mien that makes me want to protect them even as I mock them to my friends (cuz make no mistake, those haircuts are endlessly mockable).

― ozymandias G desiderata (othiym23), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, these are the type of kids that get thrown into white vans and resurface 20 years later as veterans of the porn industry.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

So Pitchfork, god knows why, decided to review the single the other day -- it's only been out for, what, 8 months now? So bummed; for a second I thought for sure we were gonna get an early critical reassessment, but instead we get a 1.5 star rating and some sort of half-coherent rant about misogyny. Well-played, clerks.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

This is a good meme, if a wee bit unoriginal.

6.5/10

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Panic! You! Black! Emperor!

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody remembers Godspeed You! Black Emperor anymore, young padawan.

2/10

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

You spelled Paganini wrong.

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey, sup Dave. Why is the harmless and transient pseudo-misogyny of adolescent incompetence so much worse than the deep-seated attitudes that permeate hip-hop? Also, this is a fun song; why do you hate fun?

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is Freak*on*ica by Girls Against Boys the secretly most influential rock album of the late 90s?

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bernard: I would respond to yr question by asking why is Panic's mysogyny (or the misogyny in RAWK in general) (see my Hinder write-up on Friday woo) any less "harmless and transient" than hip-hop's. Also, run-on horseshit about poise and rationality doesn't do a damn thing for me. Also, fuck top hats.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also, fuck top hats.

Hrm. Maybe we should just agree to disagree.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

But I do think that "emo" misogyny tends to be of the "argh I don't understand girls WHY ARE THEY SO CONFUSING" variety (which begins to fade with the development of social skills), rather than the "HEY DERE BITCHES" sort found in rock and rap.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

yes it's fucking pathetic. "hey dere bitches" is kinda cunty, but being a cunt >>>> being pathetic loser.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

well yeah, I'd rather be a cunt than a loser, but sometimes you want to listen to losers! and at least these guys seem to tend towards the "gets genuinely excited during games of Super Smash Brothers, to the point of physical violence" rather than the "takes pictures of self looking sad in the mirror" end of the loser spectrum.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

What makes "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" more misogynist than every other song where a woman cheats on a man? (Surely you'd agree that someone can write a song about this without it being misogynist?) Is it just the word "whore" or that the groom is willing to judge her on the basis of an overheard rumour (this is fleshed out way more in the video)? Top hats and Clockwork Orange-ish costumes = classic BTW.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

All extra-musical factors. What were you reviewing exactly?

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey David, didn't notice you were the author.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

(Mind you, I can see the sexism in the "But It's Better If You Do" video.)

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

(This is an interesting discussion, though. I'm simply stating that --- independent of your value judgment of the music per se --- you didn't review the music as such. Someone who hasn't heard the song would have no idea what it sounds like. "Oh, y'know, it sounds misogynistic and they wear top hats.")

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

slash and marc bolan looked awesome in top hats! proven fact!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Duke Ellington as well!

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c9/180px-Duke_Ellington_hat.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

tru dat! just look at him!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I got the top hat thing wrong.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

As for Turangalila's complaints:

1) I don't mention top hats in my write up (which you would've known if you read my write up) (and clicked on the SCOOP BACK American Apparrel ad right above it)
2) The guitars sound like gossamyr turds plummeting through a fetid atmosphere of compressed drums and subsumed bass plucks.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say you mentioned top hats. I read your review, which read more like a sociopolitical commentary than a music review. Now, 2) would have been better.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

And the misogyny line, BTW, in case you don't want to give the editorial staff more coke money, is this: "The only difference between misogyny in run-of-the-mill rock songs, misogyny in hip-hop, and misogyny in run-of-the-mill emo songs is how far the singer's balls have dropped."

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Could someone please submit 2) as a pitch to the New Times for me, plz?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, my initial reason for posting about this was what Turangalila pointed out, that the social commentary is not in addition to, but at the expense of actually mentioning the music. The fact that I find that social commentary kind of weird and questionable is just the sweet sweet icing on my cake of bitching.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm getting real sicka that SCOOP BACK ad)
(xxxxxpost)

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

My review of David Raposa's writing skills:
David Raposa is not wearing shoes.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, because I'm writing about what I wear!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

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