Panic!’s insistence on melodrama and literary flourish, shaped in part by the influence of Wentz and other labelmates, was easy to parody. Rock purists weren’t the only ones who rolled their eyes at the wordy song titles and self-conscious lyrics. But 15 years and a few band-member departures later, Fever still holds up as an audacious and unlikely classic-a polarizing product of its time that has continued to resonate with young listeners well after the glory days of emo and pop-punk. A lot has changed since the mid-aughts, when the airwaves were ruled by bands such as Paramore and My Chemical Romance, which sublimated young heartbreak into screeching ballads and whimsical stage plays alike. ![]() The debut album they released the next year, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, vibrated with the same anxiety that accompanied their cyber Cinderella story. “Pete had only heard, like, two to three songs, and all of a sudden we were expected to go and write a whole record.” “There was a lot of pressure,” the lead guitarist and main lyricist, Ryan Ross, later told MTV News. ![]() In the blur that followed Wentz’s listening to their demos and deciding to sign them, Panic! at the Disco became a bona fide pop-punk quartet before they had performed a single show. (Nigel Crane / Redfern)īefore TikTok, SoundCloud, or even YouTube existed, four gawky teenagers from suburban Las Vegas found success by posting their music to an unlikely platform: the Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s LiveJournal page. Wide-eyed and brokenhearted, the greasy-haired Nevada teens of Panic! at the Disco channeled their woes into elaborate, vaudevillian theatrics.
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