Panic! Primer: part 3

Nov 08, 2010 17:57

Continues from part 1 and part 2,

Part 3:

And then there were two.

Panic! at the Disco/The Young Veins

I. Panic-->!<-- at the Disco

That's right -- !'s back! This is because Panic likes fucking with us and making sure we can never find all of their songs under the same artist label on our iPods /o\. Or, as Brendon and Spencer put it, "IDK, we just liked it."



Well LOOK WHO IT IS.



Why yes, Spencer is getting hotter with every passing day. Brendon remains 17.



Panic 2.0 -- or, if you count Brent, 3.0 -- adopt the clean cut White Collar aesthetic.




...with a side of disheveled, because it's not a band if you don't spend some time rolling on the ground with your buddies.

Panic! look suave on the outset, at least. Privately, Brendon and Spencer have become CLARK KENT AND LOIS LANE.


This is not a photoshoot, I repeat, this is not a photoshoot. They just ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE THIS. FOR FUN.

After Jon and Ryan left, Panic! went on their pre-scheduled summer tour with Blink-182, with Ian Crawford and Dallon Weekes as temporary replacements.




On the left, Ian, who is an ex-member of The Cab and also Shane's baby cousin. On the right, Dallon, who is a married Mormon who has his own indie band (The Brobecks), so basically an AU of Brendon.

Just before the tour, Panic! released a single called "New Perspective" for a movie soundtrack (Jennifer's Body) -- on the VERY SAME DAY that Jon and Ryan announced the name of their new band and released their first single as well. Was this a total bitch move on someone's part? Or was this beautiful synchronicity just like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams dying on the same day, one of the most romantic coincidental dates in history?

At the very least, comparing New Perspective to Change really HAMMERS IN just what the boys meant when they talked about "musical differences". They're basically the same genre, but... forty years apart.

In November, Panic! did a few shows in Brazil and Chile, where two downpour-related things happened: 1. Brendon TEARED UP during "Northern Downpour", which was the bands's favorite band song, about love, all of them singing together, and here they were in South America for the first time and their other halves missing ;__;

and 2. it actually rained.


Thank you, God.

Brendon and Spencer basically spend most of 2010 being married boyfriends. I mean, okay, they don't live together anymore, but that's not stopping the heart eyes.



Spencer is so proud of his husband.



Honey, stop it, not in public!



*happy sigh*



SERIOUSLY guys be ANY MORE IN LOVE

They also go on various couples nights out, like helping friends shoot music videos -- Pete Wentz, Butch Walker, Shane Valdez.



"Brendon, dear, this is why all those S&M fics write me as the top."

Brendon even made Spencer a YouTube birthday video. With his DOGS.

...And oh yeah, and they also, you know, write songs. OR SO THEY TELL US. We have yet to hear actual proof (come on, album!), but in July Spencer reported that they'd finished laying down almost all the tracks, and Pete said he'd listened to 17 new Panic songs.




Panic! at the studio! Thank you for the photos, Shane.



Because you know you wanted another look at Brendon's spread thighs.

Most recently, Panic! have done some festival shows, in Poland, China, and a private event at Cannes, once again with Ian and Dallon as replacements.


Brendon's ass says hi! o/

And Brendon has recorded a cover of Little Shop of Horror's Skid Row.

Oh yeah, and there was ONE MORE THING but I will save it for the end. Basically, Panic! at the Disco can currently be summed up as:



&MARRIED BOYFRIENDS ON A HONEYMOON IN LOVE;

As we wait for Panic! to release some new music, let's see what's going on with:

II. The Young Veins



Aaaaaaand these are The Young Veins.



From left to right: Jon, Nick White (keyboard), Ryan, Nick Murray (drums), Andy Soukal (bass)

Jon and Ryan had written most of the TYV songs in various hotel rooms around the world while on tour with Panic, never intending for them to be released in a different ensemble, but so crumbled the cookie. They were signed to a different record label (according to Pete, it was their choice), and spent some time in the studio, recording their album with various friends who helped them out, including Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet (the OC theme song band).

In March, they played their very first show.



Young Veins share a mic!

They played a few shows, went on a short tour with Foxy Shazam, and in the beginning of this last June, after streaming all the songs on their website a few days before, their album Take a Vacation! was released. GUYS. -->!<-- LOOK WHO'S BACK AGAIN TOO.



YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. Science/Math anthropomorfic is so last year.

You know who else ships it?


Hahaha Brendon, you could not sound more PC if you TRIED. But at least he made the effort ♥.

Take a Vacation! is... okay look, I'M WARMING UP TO IT. But there are people who love it a lot! It's, uh, definitely more complex than it appears on the first listen. It's very (very) (very) '60, and Ryan does vocals on all the songs but two, which are Jon's. MORE IMPORTANTLY, they look really fucking happy. And pretty. And happy:







And really extraordinarily pretty.


Ryan's VEST. Jon Walker, look at you.

TYV supporting cast includes All Of Ryan's Hipster Friends, including the aforementioned Alex Greenwald, and Z Berg, guitarist/vocalist of The Like and Ryan's girlfriend:



Z onstage with TYV LOOK HOW PRESH.



TYV on a rooftop show in NYC. They forbade Ryan to drink because they were afraid he would fall off the roof. LOL Ryan.

Over the summer TYV toured in the US, opening for Rooney in tiny venues, back to playing in tiny venues which they never really got to experience in Panic, back in a van instead of a bus. These days they are presumably writing and waiting to go on tour again. Ryan's in LA with his hipster friends. Jon's in Chicago, and just a month ago he got engaged to the girl whose prom he left all those years ago to go to bail Panic! out when one day their bassist just disappeared.
To sum up TYV:


Happy hipsters with tambourines!

Wait, what was that ONE MORE THING you promised?

OH RIGHT. Well, despite the "no really totally amicable we swear" way the band ended, and the fact that Spencer tweeted Ryan a happy birthday after the split, and Panic!'s polite endorsement of Take A Vacation!, the boys never really talked to each other for the past year. Ryan aptly described it as "like breaking up with a girlfriend" -- OF COURSE HE DID -- in that you can't immediately become friends again the next day.

Well, ONE YEAR LATER:



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE CONTACT
OKAY SURE, IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE A GRANDPA TAKING HIS GRANDKID OUT TO BRUNCH AT HOOTERS,
BUT THE FACT REMAINS, we have proof of ACTUAL IRL INTERACTION. Baby steps, guys. Next time we might even get Spencer...

OH WAIT:

@zackdft Chillen in LA having dinner with @brendonuriesays @thespencersmith & @thisisryanross .. Amazing Mexican food! 5:16 AM Sep 22nd via Twitter for iPhone
So there was that too.

It's like when that character you loved left the show for his spinoff, and you were all brokenhearted and HOW WILL BUFFY GO ON while Angel is off living his hipstery life in LA, and then there were occasional CROSSOVERS which were even MORE heartbreaking, but in the end they all got together to save the world.

And okay, on a more serious note: it is really fucking hard to try and pimp a fandom where the band's broken up, I realize this. RPF can allow for amazing freedom, but it's unpredictable that way -- angst happens, there's nothing you can really do about it. But when it was good, it was amazing, and honestly --you can like the band or not, you can like the real people or not, and you can like their music or not, but the fic, oh my god, the fic. The journey of these four boys from their baby highschool days and to success has been the inspiration for some truly incredible fanworks. The pimping of which is what this whole freaking post is for to begin with. In any case, most of the fic was -- and still is -- either pre-split or AU.

I was hoping for a wittier segue than "and now for more pretty pictures of the individual boys",
but I think I'm just going to have to settle for
AND NOW FOR MORE PRETTY PICTURES OF THE INDIVIDUAL BOYS:

beginning with



bb!Spencer Smith, guys. His smiiiile :D



bb!Spencer was (and is, though having a married boyfriend has mellowed him out) also known far and wide for his bitchface





his hips



and his love of designer shoes (of which he has hundreds)



SPENCER SMITH



LOOK WHO YOU GREW UP TO BE (omg back)



His HAIR



Seriously, every square on
kink_bingo. Even the ones you weren't sure existed.



"You know what they say about drummers... they know how to keep a beat." (--actual quote from early Panic shows. This is the reputation they gave him when he was NINETEEN. And then they talked about how Brendon was a virgin. I could not make this up if I tried.)



HAPPY DRUMMER PRETTY

Jonny Walker!


This is hardly ever brought up in fic, but Jon is also actually a really skilled musician too! When he joined the band, Brendon explained that Brent hadn't been dedicated enough, but also -- with this kind of beautiful bluntness -- that unlike him, they wanted Jon because Jon was a real musician, who played guitar and bass and piano and drums. Brendon kind of loves Jon Walker a lot.



Oh, Jon. Sometimes you look like such a dear, lovable little stoner.



I do not always find Jon hot, but THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE TIMES



Yes, this is, in fact, Jon Walker. Early TYV days, hi.



More clean shaven Jon! He is like a very odd cartoon.

But if you miss the beard, don't worry, the scruff comes back:






Also neck porn.

And because this is Jon Walker who is made of kittens and puppies,


Jon and Marley, one of the many pets he tweets about.

Moving on to... the strange and wonderful evolution of Ryan Ross:




BB!RYAN. IN HIS ROSE VEST. Look at him, oh my god. Someone explain to me why people didn't like the rose vest, please, because I DON'T GET IT.




SERIOUSLY THIS BOY.



Or maybe pixie. SMILING TO BE OUT IN THE SUN.



8D







bb!tattooed Ryan (I have already mentioned that
kink_bingo thing...)



Dickensian orphan!Ryan!



Stark Sands!Ryan



Hippie cowboy!Ryan



Cleavage and jewelry!Ryan



Post-cabin Ryan. Look how WELL-FED and sated he is!



Pretty Odd!Ryan



(
marina says: debauched.)



God, Ryan Ross...



I do not even know.



No seriously.



He's like an alien who landed on this planet and is just slowly trying to figure things out.



For the millionth time: "Thank you, Shane."






WTF is he even wearing? He does not deserve that Best Boyfriend trophy.



Oh, Ryro. Have I mentioned he bought a house with a moat? A MOAT. With a DRAWBRIDGE. And then he parked the Young Veins trailer outside and managed to get it stolen. He will always be the most ridiculous.

And oh, one of my all time favorites:


=) =) =)
( in case you didn't click earlier)

And finally:



bb!Brendon!



With Zack the bodyguard/bandsitter. He was such a tiny tiny boy <3











SO TINY



...and then he grew up.



HIS SMIIILE :D



He got a tattoo around the same time as Ryan, piano keys on his arm because music is his ~life, and then later he added flowers around it.





Because we know this band loves flowers. They make him feel all tingly.



Dimples! :D And also, he plays this whole a bunch of instruments.







Brendon plays the tambourine with his HEAD okay.







Yes, he's got some very talented fingers. And lips.



Which he uses to sing. And other things.



Like eat! ...okay, okay. AND OTHER THINGS.



Yeah, he does.



Man, sometimes Brendon needs a drink just to get over how hot he is.



And he has fabulous dork glasses! Also his FACE. He makes the weirdest faces which I won't link to here because they kind of freak me out, but MAN that boy's facial muscles are flexible.



This is secretary!Brendon in every office AU ever.



Brendon was the one who inherited Pete in the divorce. His ACTUALLY HAS property of WENTZ printed on his tag. (Okay, the real 'property of' is in the contract.)




He's also bouncy! Like this other dude here. NGL, I have this whole AU in my mind of these two being BFFS.



But Brendon's, like, really bouncy.



Really bouncy.



I dare you to not be utterly charmed by this. omg BABIES.



But seriously, seriously, Brendon Urie. HIS SMILE.

--I was going to end there and then I found this picture and
minglingcrab told me it wouldn't be too much to add (god knows I've passed 'too much' long ago) so just because:


EYELASHES.

And then. I know you might be tired but I have some leftover pics so LET ME SPAM YOU WITH THEM.



Baaaabies! Brendon in girl jeans. Ryan resting artfully on his umbrella cane. Spencer in his favorite pink.



So precious. ♥ Body language ♥.



He literally cannot stop touching Ryan.



RANDOMLY. In the middle of an interview. (This one, where they are prickly (Ryan, Jon) and giggly (Brendon, Spencer) and all round ridiculous. Honestly I think Panic are really bad interviewees, but they manage to be awkward in a really endearing way.)



LOLOL, I can just imagine them, brand new to this whole swag thing. "And you have to pretend you like it." "Uh... right. We'll totally... pretend."



Making music! With hats and hoodies. They're like a real band and everything.



Every single
kink_bingo square.



So tiny they fit under the armspan of a SINGLE HUMAN BEING. Also I appreciate the sweaty towels very much. Brendon looks well-fucked like he had a really good show :D!



Ryan gets Jon as a gift for his sixteenth birthday. Wait, why is that so familiar.



Ryan's HUGE COAT and HOBBIT SCARF and GREEN STRIPED PANTS, all of them looking like they're in on this private joke and just waiting for the camera to shut down. IDK, guys.



Just.



I mean...



...Panic at the Disco.

And now,

RECS!
and other media resources, but most importantly RECS
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