Panic! Needs to Go Back to the Disco

Finally I agree with Panic! At the Disco, or at least partically. Panic! is not emo, emo died a slow and painful death at the beginning of this century. It is an insult to defining bands like Rites of Spring, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral and Jimmy Eat World to even try to throw a piece of shit band like Panic! in the same genre.

Emo rock was not created, it just happened. Bands decided to start singing about their vernability and emotions but the fact that they made amazing music out of it doesn’t make them pussy’s as a lot of people like to label emo. Then soon like everything else it caught on and was made into something it wasn’t. Emo isn’t dyed black hair swept to the side, or girls slitting their wrists. Emo is a type of music, not a lifestyle.

Of course bands like Panic! don’t know much about music and probably haven’t even heard of Mineral so they have no right calling a genre that no longer exists “bullshit.” What’s bullshit is bands selling an image and not a sound. Brendon Urie seems to think that making his voice sound like he’s going through puberty and dressing up like he is in the circus is real music. Unfortunately our soceity is more about a facade and a look than it is about a sound. Kids are no longer interested in amazing musicians but are focused which band most embodies their teenage angst in the outfits they wear on stage.

As many people know its really hard for me to accept where music is heading and its bands like Panic! that really piss me off. The music world is turning into overproduced bands who are selling an image and I hate it and it’s only going to get worse. Most of my music nazi friends still have hope but I find it hard when bands like Panic!, Cobra Starship and MyChem are the tastemakers to teenagers. Don’t get me wrong there is still amazing music out there and it isn’t going anywhere but it’s getting further away from the mainstream. I now can very rarely find any album on the top 100 that I think is actually created by a worthy band.

I was once a teenager and I too listened to emo, trying to deal with the stupid shit that I actually thought mattered back then. However, I listened to Dashboard because I could relate to what he was saying, not because he went on stage wearing makeup.

Panic has been pigeonholed by the press into the genre of emo and I understand that this could very well bother them. But why diss the genre, why not diss the media? Oh I know because they want more press and want more money. If Panic! was actually an outspoken, amazingly unique band they wouldn’t need to cover their asses and they would actually target the media, instead of target emo like every other journalist does.