![]() ![]() Then I got even more trashed and pitched it to the label." As luck would have it, Drake had a friend of a friend who was in the Lucent Dossier Experience, and that was that. It's perfect.' And they were totally sold. They all sort of looked at me, so I said, 'Look, it's got stilts, brides crying and infidelity. And Brendon plays the part of the groom's subconscious. Drake told MTV: "The whole idea came to me like a lightning bolt, and I turned to the band and said, 'Here it is: We're going to do a wedding where the bride's side is made up of creepy, face-painted people, and the groom's side is all carnival vaudeville freaks. The idea came out of what would have been a drinking session between the band and director Shane Drake had the band been old enough to drink. These circus performers are members of the Lucent Dossier Experience, a surreal, avant-garde troupe of musicians and acrobats beloved by the kind of dudes that spend £300 on a leather top hat with big-ass rings on it. But kudos to Wentz for going, 'You know what’ll make loads of people millions of dollars? Five dudes dressed like Victorians, one of whom plays the fucking accordion, who have never played a show before!' Whatever happened subsequently, they have one of the jammiest origin stories in music, getting signed to Pete Wentz’s Decaydance label before ever playing a live show on the strength of two songs posted to his LiveJournal. The full ins and outs of what happened are really long and involve a lot of one person saying one thing and another saying another, with some ambiguity over whether some former members played on certain records or didn’t, and credit for the origin stories behind some songs a bit in-betweensy in terms of people, like the Ryan/Brendan/“Eric” tale above. ![]() ![]() They’ve had a fairly tumultuous history, with Urie now the sole surviving founding member. The erstwhile rest of Panic! are behind Urie. There are other literary references on on A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage comes from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Survivor. What I write are not sins I write tragedies." Coupland has taken inspiration in the other direction – his novel Girlfriend In A Coma takes its name from a Smiths song. I am thinking of the people in my universe and distilling for each of these people the one flaw in their character that will be their downfall – the flaw that will be their undoing. In his novel Shampoo Planet, the lead character Tyler writes, "I am writing a list of tragic character flaws on my dollar bills with a felt pen. The actual title comes from a book by Douglas Coupland, best known for his books Generation X and Microserfs. A reasonable amount of people think this song is called Closing The God Damn Door. Yeah, that bit should be ' closing the god damn door'. Also worth noting: look at how pleasant Brendon Urie’s face is. Worth noting: Urie opens a door here, significant in a video in which closing goddamn doors is repeatedly requested. And that just broke my heart.” Kind of seems like Eric is the dick in that story, tbh, and chucking words like 'whore' around is probably uncalled for. And I was slow at making a move because I was just so nervous. However, a few years ago, Urie wrote a bit about the song that seemed like part of it had come from his life: “I had this friend, Eric-we were really good friends and he knew I was really into this girl and she and I had been talking for a while. The seeds of this song supposedly come from a breakup that lyricist Ryan Ross went through, and him subsequently thinking how much worse it could have been if the relationship had gone further before all going wrong. 'Whore' isn’t a nice way to refer to someone. The same happens with 'god damn' – they opted for silence over recording a 'gosh darn' version. Urie’s mouth isn’t shown mouthing the word 'whore', pre-empting the inevitable censorship from music stations. ![]() There’s something odd about this lot that it takes a little while to properly put your finger on. ![]()
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