• Best Panic At The Disco Songs Nightcore
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Is the star of his own ongoing, over the top, show-stopping broadway production. At least, that's essentially been the overarching conceptual tone of his band since at least 2011's - and that tone definitely informs his sixth studio album, 2018's. It's a conceptual notion that also made 2016's surprisingly affecting -goes-emo-crooner masterpiece such an unexpected joy. In many ways, feels like a companion album to its predecessor, informed as much by '90s R&B and hip-hop as it is 's love of driving, hooky pop/rock.

Produced once again by, it's a bombastically overstuffed production, full of pounding marching-band beats, tidal-wave synths, horns that punch at bright angles, and a DJ's penchant for twisting and reconfiguring arrangements with Thanos-like disregard for human physics. Throughout it all, paints himself with Michelangelo-esque strokes as a flamboyant cross between, and, singing 'I'm a moon-walker, I'm like M.J. Up in the clouds' on 'Dancing's Not a Crime.'

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He also has the same obsessions: religious iconography, the lure of Los Angeles, and the constant struggle between social concern and personal interest. As he sings on the anthemic 'Say Amen (Saturday Night),' 'And if I try to change my life one more day, there would be nobody else to save/And I can't change into a person I don't wanna be, so/Oh, it's Saturday night.' The rest of the album pulses with an equal level of throw-your-hands-in-the-air energy, as soars through the arrangements, his voice as highly resonant and stage-ready as ever.

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Admittedly, his embrace of slick pop aesthetics, swagger, and cheeky turns of phrase can be a bit much on first listen. But that being said, when it's backed with a strong hook and just a modicum of earnest emotion, as on the sanguine club jam 'Hey Look Ma, I Made It,' it's hard to deny.