"You're a regular decorated emergency!"
~Panic! At The Disco
When I saw Panic! At The Disco last night at a brothel-turned-concert-hall next door to the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, last night with several hundred other testosterone boys and harlequin girls, I was convinced that I was witnessing the band in the most optimum atmosphere for their post-bohemian-victorian-glam-rock. I was shocked when they opened a few minutes ahead of schedule, which may be normal in France but shocked me. It was clear they are still growing used to their fame and spread of their popularity; when the lead singer, Brendon Urie, opened his mouth to sing the first lines of the opening song, we could not even hear him in the audience because WE were singing so loudly. His face (which had been wearing the expression of a veteran rock star) lit up like a kid on Christmas morning as he realized that, though most of the audience didn’t speak his language as their first one, they still had managed to memorize all their songs, a fact I still don’t completely understand. He wears the robe of a rock star well, dressing in european-style black skinny jeans and a ruffly tux shirt, which he pulled up to reveal a washboard set of abs during "Lying is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off," a song about "really hot, really sweaty sex." The band clearly is still having fun with their new fame, and getting to see such a victorian-meets-bohemian-french-euro-hippie style band IN Europe was awfully cool. Props to Halloween concerts and Halloweenly-dressed band members, sexy songs and being the only one in the audience who not only speaks the same language as the band but is also in their age range.
Harlequin Girl,
Blair
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