i like P!ATD, but this is funny and pretty much right
it's from the journal on EveryTime I Die's website. Not to say i don't like Panic! at the Disco (they are catchy), but damn that's funny.
March 22, 2006
While its normally not a preoccupation of mine to get involved in web dramatics, there is a certain extent to which you'll allow yourself to be contorted by the prejudices of a "journalist" looking to make a name for himself before you try to regain your original dimensions. In an article titled "every time i die call panic! At the disco 'lowest common denominator' ", on chartattack.com, "journalist" Shehzaad Jiwani, dissected a painfully boring 45 minute inquiry and reassembled it into a painfully trite ?and seemingly embittered diatribe about the state of music today. Granted, I do not LIKE panic! At the disco's music or their ungrateful vaulting ambition (which, in retrospect, may be attributed to this very mode of boxing promoter journalism, since I do not know them PERSONALLY), but that statement of them being the lowest common denominator was a misquote. I spoke of my distaste for their attempt to INHERIT the fans that Fall Out Boy had been working years to aggregate, knowing that those kids were already locked in place. I said they, in a sense, used THOSE KIDS as a lowest common denominator. They took a fanbase already firmly affixed by a dedicated band, and are using them as a springboard to attain further commercial success. No matter what your band is, no matter what your profession, this is a trajectory for success which NO ONE with a single ounce of pride in what they do will admire.
Secondly, I LOVE the killers. I don't care what you say. That whole cd is just plain infectious. Upon closer scrutiny, you'll find that I was angry with panic! At the disco for egregiously trying to usurp the killers as being the most famous band from las vegas, which in my OPINION, they will never do.
Thirdly, and most importantly, I did not confess that I "wanted to go home". The licensing the journalist took in updating my prerogative derived immediately after our nearly fatal van accident and making it a current state of affairs made me sound like the ingrates I had just a few sentences prior denounced. Touring is the biggest part of my life, and at sometimes, that IS unfortunate. When you wake up on the ceiling of your van in the dead of winter on a desolate stretch of highway, NOTHING that lead up to that moment is worth it. that is the adverse part. Selling records, making friends, playing festivals, these are all the propitious times, ones which I do not take for granted or denounce.
All in all, what must be understood when reading interviews with members of ANY band is that vibe does not translate to the page. This "journalist" took my lighthearted approach to interviews (which no one can say they were impervious to if they have ever read an every time I die interview) and created a combative forum. I do not, nor does any member of our band, DISLIKE fall out boy OR my chemical romance. Jordan and mike have even actually paid to see panic! At the disco, so i speak only for myself concerning their treacheries. There are gratuitous omissions of fact from this entire interview, as well as flagrant manipulation of my opinions. After all, I went on a 20 minute rant about the pitiful lyrics of Hawthorne Heights. Where was any mention of that?!
Look closely, Keith buckley
March 22, 2006
While its normally not a preoccupation of mine to get involved in web dramatics, there is a certain extent to which you'll allow yourself to be contorted by the prejudices of a "journalist" looking to make a name for himself before you try to regain your original dimensions. In an article titled "every time i die call panic! At the disco 'lowest common denominator' ", on chartattack.com, "journalist" Shehzaad Jiwani, dissected a painfully boring 45 minute inquiry and reassembled it into a painfully trite ?and seemingly embittered diatribe about the state of music today. Granted, I do not LIKE panic! At the disco's music or their ungrateful vaulting ambition (which, in retrospect, may be attributed to this very mode of boxing promoter journalism, since I do not know them PERSONALLY), but that statement of them being the lowest common denominator was a misquote. I spoke of my distaste for their attempt to INHERIT the fans that Fall Out Boy had been working years to aggregate, knowing that those kids were already locked in place. I said they, in a sense, used THOSE KIDS as a lowest common denominator. They took a fanbase already firmly affixed by a dedicated band, and are using them as a springboard to attain further commercial success. No matter what your band is, no matter what your profession, this is a trajectory for success which NO ONE with a single ounce of pride in what they do will admire.
Secondly, I LOVE the killers. I don't care what you say. That whole cd is just plain infectious. Upon closer scrutiny, you'll find that I was angry with panic! At the disco for egregiously trying to usurp the killers as being the most famous band from las vegas, which in my OPINION, they will never do.
Thirdly, and most importantly, I did not confess that I "wanted to go home". The licensing the journalist took in updating my prerogative derived immediately after our nearly fatal van accident and making it a current state of affairs made me sound like the ingrates I had just a few sentences prior denounced. Touring is the biggest part of my life, and at sometimes, that IS unfortunate. When you wake up on the ceiling of your van in the dead of winter on a desolate stretch of highway, NOTHING that lead up to that moment is worth it. that is the adverse part. Selling records, making friends, playing festivals, these are all the propitious times, ones which I do not take for granted or denounce.
All in all, what must be understood when reading interviews with members of ANY band is that vibe does not translate to the page. This "journalist" took my lighthearted approach to interviews (which no one can say they were impervious to if they have ever read an every time I die interview) and created a combative forum. I do not, nor does any member of our band, DISLIKE fall out boy OR my chemical romance. Jordan and mike have even actually paid to see panic! At the disco, so i speak only for myself concerning their treacheries. There are gratuitous omissions of fact from this entire interview, as well as flagrant manipulation of my opinions. After all, I went on a 20 minute rant about the pitiful lyrics of Hawthorne Heights. Where was any mention of that?!
Look closely, Keith buckley