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Panic! At The Disco:
DEATH OF A BACHELOR Kateleigh Mills @kateleighSuz Reporter
Panic! at the Disco released “Death of a Bachelor” on Jan. 15, 2016 after the lead singer, Brendon Urie, was the musical guest on New Year’s Eve Game Night. The album has traces of the edgy pop sounds that brought Panic! at the Disco to the music scene back in 2005 with their first album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.” However, the new album has traces of Sinatra-inspired tones and a more empowering message than any of P!ATD’s earlier works. Urie is now the only remaining member of the original band. Former members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left P!ATD after the band’s second album release, “Pretty. Odd.” Spencer Smith left in 2015. Urie said that he gets more candid with each album that is written, but “Death of a Bachelor” has more confessional undertones because the album has a lot to do with his personal past. “It’s just really cool to look back and be like, ‘wow, that’s so weird. I never thought I’d be where I’m at today. It’s kind of a throwback to it,” Urie said. Urie said that some of the inspiration for the songs have to do with his marriage in 2013 to his wife, Sarah Orzechowski. Urie also told Entertainment Tonight that the album’s name was a throw out to his wife. “Death of a Bachelor” has already made history for the band by becoming the first album on the Billboard 200
Death of a Bachelor is Panic! At the Disco’s fifth studio album. Photo courtesy of Panic! At the Disco.
chart, beating out Adele’s “25” album
distance. The cover art was done by
glance into what I was going through,”
at second place, and Justin Bieber’s
Nicole Guice, who was asked to do an
Urie said.
“Purpose” in third. According to Bill-
‘illograph,’ or where she drew a sketch
board, the album sold 169,000 in pure
over a picture.
album sales. The album’s art has also been getting
The album’s scenery was what Urie
Panic! at the Disco will be touring with Weezer starting in The Woodlands, TX on June 10, which will be
was looking at when he wrote the
known as “Summer Tour 2016.” The
a little of attention from fans. The scen-
album, which is the depiction of the
tour will be in Oklahoma City at the
ery on the album cover has Urie lying
morning after a good party.
Zoo Amphitheater on July 16.
unconscious on top of a roof with a retro car in a pool and two chairs in the
“I wanted to show people exactly what I saw. Maybe that’ll give them a