{"id":2628,"date":"2016-01-21T18:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T02:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2016-01-21T18:53:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T02:53:11","slug":"writing-sins-and-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/writing-sins-and-tragedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Sins and Tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Stephanie Blair \r\nCopy Editor<\/pre>\n<p>In 2006, Panic! At the Disco\u2019s first album, \u201cA Fever You Can\u2019t Sweat Out,\u201d was released. Now, 10 years later and with only one original band member remaining, their fifth album has been released: \u201cDeath of a Bachelor\u201d (DoaB).<\/p>\n<p>As a long time fan, I immediately pre-ordered upon hearing the announcement of a new album. Their last release, \u201cToo Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die,\u201d was an integral part of my senior year of high school. To say that I had high expectations of DoaB would be an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>I had doubts after hearing some early releases, such as \u201cVictorious\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Threaten Me With A Good Time,\u201d but as a late-90s\/early-2000s kid, I always listen to an album all the way through in the order it was meant to be played in before I make any judgments.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I\u2019ve had a week to listen to it in and out of order at all different times of day, I can definitively say this:<br \/>\nI hate this album.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous records, the songs do not ease into each other and share a voice that is easily identifiable as the album\u2019s theme. In fact, most of the songs don\u2019t sound like they should come from the same artist, let alone the same record.<\/p>\n<p>There are some songs that sound like old Panic! \u2013 most notably, \u201cEmperor\u2019s New Clothes.\u201d Others have a pleasing, brass-heavy sound that I had hoped would permeate the album (examples include \u201cThe Good, the Bad and the Dirty\u201d and \u201cHallelujah\u201d), but that isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n<p>Most disappointingly, as a long time alternative fan, the majority of the tracks, including \u201cCrazy=Genius\u201d and \u201cVictorious,\u201d have vacuous lyrics with a distinct lack of the wit expected with the Panic! name and a scattered, disjointed style.<\/p>\n<p>So while there are tracks that I enjoy, overall I was disappointed. This is clearly Brendon Urie using the Panic! At the Disco hype to sell what is really his first solo album, now that all of the other founding members have left.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to like you, DoaB, I really did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, Panic! At the Disco\u2019s first album, \u201cA Fever You Can\u2019t Sweat Out,\u201d was released. Now, 10 years later and with only one original band member remaining, their fifth album has been released: \u201cDeath of a Bachelor\u201d (DoaB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}