Panic! at the Disco get racy and sexy in their new clip in homage to D'Angelo for synth-poppy hit, "Girls/Girls/Boys," the third single from Las Vegas emo band's just-released new fourth studio album, "Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!." The D'Angelo's legendary "Untitled (How Does it Feel?)" video is one of the most iconic music visuals of a generation, a clip, premiered in 2000, where it received widespread attention for its risqué shots of D'Angelo's nude, muscular body that redefined and eventually derailed the career of a soul prodigy.
"Girls/Girls/Boys," is a bizarre song about Panic! at the Disco ectomorphic frontman Brendon Urie coming between a bisexual girl and her girlfriend, at one point spouting It Gets Better platitudes ("Love is not a choice") and others both luring the subject ("Push another girl aside and just give in") and acknowledging her struggle ("You gotta save your reputation / They're close to finding out about your girlfriend"). Urie's electro-punk tune is diametrically opposed to D'Angelo's slow-jam croon and he certainly makes a committed go of re-creating it.
There is a surface-level display here of understanding the often complicated nature of queer relationships, but in a statement about the "Girls/Girls/Boys" video Urie comes off more like a fetishist than anything. Describing the video's very real homage to D'Angelo's "Untitled," Urie unveiled the inspiration behind "Girls/Girls/Boys" to Alternative Press: "'Girls/Girls/Boys' is such a racy song that it immediately made me think of one of the sexiest videos of all time, which also happens to be one of my favorites. Doing an homage to D'Angelo's classic 'Untitled (How Does It Feel)' video seemed like a perfect fit."
Directed by DJay Brawner, Panic! at the Disco's version is nearly an exact replica and stayed true to the classic D'Angelo video shot-for-shot as Urie kicks things off with a Miley Cyrus-in-"Wrecking Ball" close-up, standing on a pedestal in an all-black room, wearing just his birthday suit, the camera lingering down his ripped torso until the exact point when it must go back up - minus the undeniable frisson that made the original D'Angelo video so monumental. Urie smirks and gazes suggestively into the camera while softly singing the guitar-heavy pop song.
"Girls/Girls/Boys," is a bizarre song about Panic! at the Disco ectomorphic frontman Brendon Urie coming between a bisexual girl and her girlfriend, at one point spouting It Gets Better platitudes ("Love is not a choice") and others both luring the subject ("Push another girl aside and just give in") and acknowledging her struggle ("You gotta save your reputation / They're close to finding out about your girlfriend"). Urie's electro-punk tune is diametrically opposed to D'Angelo's slow-jam croon and he certainly makes a committed go of re-creating it.
There is a surface-level display here of understanding the often complicated nature of queer relationships, but in a statement about the "Girls/Girls/Boys" video Urie comes off more like a fetishist than anything. Describing the video's very real homage to D'Angelo's "Untitled," Urie unveiled the inspiration behind "Girls/Girls/Boys" to Alternative Press: "'Girls/Girls/Boys' is such a racy song that it immediately made me think of one of the sexiest videos of all time, which also happens to be one of my favorites. Doing an homage to D'Angelo's classic 'Untitled (How Does It Feel)' video seemed like a perfect fit."
Directed by DJay Brawner, Panic! at the Disco's version is nearly an exact replica and stayed true to the classic D'Angelo video shot-for-shot as Urie kicks things off with a Miley Cyrus-in-"Wrecking Ball" close-up, standing on a pedestal in an all-black room, wearing just his birthday suit, the camera lingering down his ripped torso until the exact point when it must go back up - minus the undeniable frisson that made the original D'Angelo video so monumental. Urie smirks and gazes suggestively into the camera while softly singing the guitar-heavy pop song.
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