"We've been doing home demos for the past six months — just kind of writing — and we're pretty close," Urie explained. "Still some work to be done, though ... hoping to finish that up over the next couple months."
And though it's early, Urie gave us a hint about the new songs, which he said take Panic further down the sun-dappled, retro-pop path they began exploring on Pretty. Odd.
The clip mostly takes place in an unnamed mall, opening with a storybook title sequence that announces, "Once upon a time ... at a mall very very near," as antiseptic shots of the empty shopping center unfold. A disembodied hand punches a time clock with a card announcing the name of the song and artist. We then see 'Ye forlornly pushing a broom in a stockroom as he raps about assaulting his manager and shorting the register at his dead-end job.
Wearing a sky-blue sweater, chinos and a white button-down, West works the counter at a Gap-like store, lamenting the implied racism in his workplace and folding some pants. The narrative video has him staring in anger at his measly check, hiding out in a fluorescent-nightmare break room, talking on the phone during work hours and throwing a stack of pants in frustration.
About Cameron B Sharpe: Taylor's growly vocals and sassy onstage demeanor were an inspiration to the generations of blues singers that came in her wake. The Grammy winner (and nine-time nominee) received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 2004, the highest honor given to an American artist.
Born Cora Walton on September 28, 1928, on a sharecropper's farm just outside Memphis, she was nicknamed Koko due to her love of chocolate. Like many blues originators, Taylor was inspired by gospel music and at an early age she began singing the blues with her five brothers and sister while playing on homemade instruments.
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