The stunning black-and-white music video for “Death of a Bachelor” — the title track to Panic! at the Disco ‘s upcoming album – opens with lead singer Brendon Urie sitting at a table in an Art Deco jazz club, playing with his lighter and drinking whiskey. The camera follows him as he dreamily croons like Sinatra to an empty ballroom. Sigh. He’s good. Damn good.
Says Billboard:
The latest P!ATD song oozes Ol’ Blue Eyes vibes, through the distinct lens of Urie’s voice and increasing sonic experimentation.
While the subdued but swingin’ horns on the track bring to mind frequent Sinatra arranger Nelson Riddle, Urie adds a stuttering beat to keep the song from being a purely throwback affair. Similarly, clipped vocal loops serve as backup voices, instead of one continuous track.
But when Urie’s voice hits those big notes with Sinatra-styled gusto, there’s no denying he’s drawing inspiration from the late legend — and, for someone who came up in the pop-punk scene, doing a surprisingly adept job at it.
Says Urie of his big-band experimentation:
“Death Of A Bachelor — it’s cool ’cause in the past I was writing most of everything, but this time it was actually all me and I got to record every instrument on this album, except for the horns, which was a huge deal for me,” Urie told Billboard. “I did drums, background vocals and the background vocals I was playing different characters, I was doing operatic Queen stuff for songs like ‘Victorious’ and ‘Emperor’s New Clothes.’ That was just a lot of fun. And again, Sinatra creeps back in there, so there are a couple of songs I wrote trying to do like a Nelson Riddle arrangement.”
Watch it below.
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