Inspiration: Panic! At The Disco

In order for us to create a music video, we must first decide what we personally like and enjoy in music videos, before asking others.

In general, I find the music videos from Panic! At The Disco extraordinary in terms of conception and execution. They are very creative and offer a fresh take on the songs itself. Below are three of the most interesting: Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, Nine In The Afternoon, I Write Sins Not Tragedies, The Ballad Of Mona Lisa and This Is Gospel

Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, 2006
This video features people with fishtanks on their heads. According to one interpretation, the husband in the video feels unloved by his wife whom he knows has been unfaithful. Earlier, the woman had picked up a fish and put it in her fish tank, representing her sleeping with another man. This makes her depressed husband commit suicide.

Those who believe in the above interpretation say that the number of fish in a person's tank represents the number of people a person has slept with. This leads people to believe that the woman in the video has been promiscuous outside her marriage while her husband only has one fish in his tank. However, upon closer inspection, it can be seen that he has numerous fish in his tank as well, although only the one is brightly orange in color and easy to see. The orange fish representing his faithfulness to wife, and the other, harder to see fish, representing past and forgotten lovers.

I Write Sins Not Tragedies, 2006
This was the first video released by Panic! At The Disco. The video starts as the bride and the groom,  are about to be married. The brides family dress and behave formally, but are revealed later to have fallen asleep and have eyes painted on their eyelids. The grooms family are lower-class entertainers and carnival folk, and interrupt the wedding in a wild manner. The ringmaster acts as narrator by singing the song. After a complication that ruins the wedding, the ringmaster is revealed to be the groom's alter ego.

 
Nine In The Afternoon, 2008 
This video is such fun to watch. The bright, warm colours give a vibe of joy that perfectly compliments the song. The street parade looks like a combination of Freddie Mercury's get-up and the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"- generally, very much influenced by the Beatles. I love the general randomness of the video- a series of bizarre, but colourful events.  


Ballad Of Mona Lisa, 2011
The first single from their third album, The Ballad of Mona Lisa, details the procedures in displaying a body before a burial in the Victorian era. I cannot imagine how much time it must have taken to make everything and then film it- it is extraordinarily complex. What I also love is how it ties in with their first video "I Write Sins..."- the church, top hat, etc. 



This Is Gospel, 2013
Probably one of favorite music videos- using the rope as internal organs/problems is a fantastic idea. Also, the editing is very well done. I love portrayal of the process of death: hospital, embalming, burial and afterlife.