Trivia / Panic! at the Disco

• The Cast Showoff: Dallon Weekes actually designed the cover art for Vices & Virtues and is a pretty skilled artist. This isn't quite a straight example, though, since it's rarely mentioned.
• Career Resurrection: Panic! certainly never lost its fans, but none of its songs came close to matching the massive popular success of "I Write Sins". Only "Hallelujah" even briefly brushed the Top 40... that was, until "High Hopes" caught on at radio and surpassed "I Write Sins"'s peak on the Billboard Hot 100, over a decade (and six albums) later. Following that with Brendon's duet with Taylor Swift on "Me!", Panic! not only returned to the forefront of pop music but arguably was more popular in 2019 than it was in 2006.
• Creative Differences: Why the band split.
  • Managed to happen to The Young Veins as well due to the differences between Ryan and Jon. The band sprung up, pushed out an album, and were gone before Vices and Virtues was even released. Probably related is the fact that Take a Vacation flopped even more than Pretty. Odd. did.
• Creator Backlash:
  • During the Pretty. Odd. era, the band stated that the "emo" scene was "bullshit", and dropped their previous circus and vaudeville costumes, and most of the first album from live performances, with the exception of their successful singles. Meanwhile, they played the entirety of their new album every show. Naturally, this didn't make most fans happy.
  • Since Ryan's departure, the situation is reversed. The band now plays a generally even amount of songs from all of their albums except Pretty. Odd., which only gets "Nine in the Afternoon".
  • Brendon's been making it known by means of verbal cues and body language during his shows that he's getting tired of "I Write Sins Not Tragedies". Then he just outright said it.
  • As of 2018, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" and "Nine in the Afternoon" are the only songs from either of their first two albums to be performed live anymore.
• Doing It for the Art: A fan told Brendon on Twitter that they are unable to buy a song from iTunes. Brendon told them to◊ just rip it from YouTube.
• Fandom Nod:
  • My Milk fic brings all the girls to the 'net.... The milk fic is an infamous P!ATD Slash Fic. Read it here.
  • Dallon has also made a Vine where he responds to a fan asking if 'Brallon' is real. He Googles a revealing picture of Brendon, in a mankini of all things, and considers it.
• False Credit: After the departure of bassist Brent Wilson, the remaining band members alleged that he did not actually perform on the band's debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, with his parts being composed by vocalist Brendon Urie and lead guitarist Ryan Ross, with Urie recording the bass parts on the album. Wilson denied these claims.
• Hostility On Set: Dallon got more and more frustrated with the band late in his tenure, due to Brendon's security guard bullying him and his wife, along with other incidents such as being hit with an airsoft pellet on stage and "having to pretend to be OK with it to keep his job".
• The Pete Best: Brent Wilson to Jon Walker.
  • Either that or The Garfunkel, anyway. Spencer has alleged in an interview that Brendon did all the bass for Fever, and Brent did literally nothing. Unfortunately, there appears to be no record online of the outcome of Brent's royalty lawsuit, which would assumedly give us the answer to if that's true or not.
• Promoted Fan Boy:
  • The guys were huge fans of Fall Out Boy, and followed Pete's livejournal before sending him a sample of their music and ultimately getting signed to his label. Brendon has also been featured on Fall Out Boy songs multiple times.
  • They also started out as a blink-182 cover band.
• Reality Subtext:
  • "This is Gospel" was written by Brendon as being about Spencer's drug addiction. Knowing this can turn it into a bit of a Tear Jerker, especially because Brendon admitted to crying while recording it.
  • Post-split, Brendon would get notably emotional while performing "Northern Downpour", the one song notable for Ryan having partial lead vocals. It's a probable reason for why the band doesn't perform it live anymore.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The band played a song called "(It's) True Love" during live performances, but it was never recorded professionally.
  • Brendon was considering performing under his own name after Spencer left, but eventually decided to keep the band going essentially as a solo act.
  • Between Fever and Pretty. Odd., the band had attempted to create a concept album called Cricket and Clover in a cabin in Mount Charleston, Nevada. Described as a modern day fairy-tale and the beginning of a series of albums, producer Rob Mathes described it as sounding "really bizarre" and more akin to a film score than an album. Most of the tracks have never been released. Only two songs are known to have been written for the album: "Folkin Around" off Pretty. Odd. and "Nearly Witches" off of Vices and Virtues. A demo for the latter already had been released as part of Fall Out Boy's Welcome To The Administration mixtape under the fake band name The Paul Revere Jumpsuit Apparatus, with completely different lyrics that had been rewritten following Ryan Ross's departure from the band.

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