Panic! At the Disco

Plays: Northern Downpour
This is completely focused on pre-split panic, not because their later music is bad but because I just don't have much to say about it. And I'm a Ryan fangirl first and foremost :) He's my favorite trainwreck!
What is Panic?
In 2004, Ryan Ross was a loser who'd been kicked out of his dad's house for purposely failing out of college to become a rock star. He started out covering Blink-182 songs with his friend spencer on drums or writing angsty songs about his abusive alcoholic father and cheating girlfriends. At some point he realized he was "terrible at singing", so Brent Wilson, the bassist, recruited a nerdy mormon kid named Brendon Urie to be the voice for his songs. Together the 4 formed Panic. He promoted their music by posting photos of his ass on livejournal for emo girls to drool over, and posting his demos in Fall Out Boy fan groups. By some stroke of luck, Pete Wentz, fob bassist, took notice of his fanboy behavior and listened to his songs. Soon after that he came to watch them play and, well, they must have done something right, because Panic, who had like 3 songs and had never played a concert, was signed to his label in 2005.
Nowadays most people know Panic as Brendon's project, that's pretty much unrecognizable from their original creative vision. Over the years members were slowly picked off. Brent was kicked out early on because his drug problem made him unreliable. He was replaced with Jon Walker. Then Ryan and Jon left after prolongued arguments over the band's creative direction, forming a side project called The Yound Veins. This quickly failed (though their (one) album is really good!) preceding Ryan's prolongued troubles with drug addiction, alcoholism, and harassment from fans and haters alike. Spencer was the last to go, partially because the pressures of touring and exposure to other members' unhealthy habits were interfering with his addiction recovery. As of 2024 Panic has been laid to rest by Brendon after releasing several pop albums that I don't really like (but I loved them in middle school so they have a special place in my heart). Ryan, after a period of understandable radio silence, comes out of hiding once in a while to perform at small venues with friends from his Panic days, like Z Berg of The Like (who are really good and you should listen to them!!) and Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet. He claims he's "working on new music", but he's been saying that for 6 years so I'll believe it when I see it. Here is an interesting interview with him from 2019, where he talks about sobriety, getting his ego checked, and finding his musical footing again after a pretty rocky 10 years. Jon walker also releases his own music, my favorite songs of his are Only my Mind and The Way it Was.
Silly quotes
"no, i'm taller than him now." - ryan ross, 2006(?)
"i don't." - ryan ross, 2010(?)
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