{"id":6935,"date":"2022-06-01T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T04:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2024-10-14T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T01:56:25","slug":"nothing-to-declare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2022\/06\/01\/nothing-to-declare\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to declare&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Week 116.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only been six days.  WTF is happening?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m distracting myself from swearing about my <i>goddamnmotherfuckingcursed<\/i> car by fixating on the fact that good ol&#8217; <i>Panic! At the Disco<\/i> dropped a <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5_3jVR1PoLs\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Viva Las Vengeance by Panic! At the Disco\" rel=\"noopener\">new song<\/a><\/b> today and announced an album release date for August 19th. (<del>Here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s not some experimental concept album<\/del>.)  I&#8217;m kind of annoyed that this is more exciting to me than the new <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NMhYqka7MqU\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"In the Clousd by O.A.R.\" rel=\"noopener\">O.A.R. song<\/a><\/b> that dropped two weeks ago. (Maybe because I forgot to lick a toad before watching the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-QHb112kglQ\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"In the Clouds by O.A.R.\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a><\/b>.)  I didn&#8217;t lick a toad before the new <i>Panic!<\/i> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MiD_CP_Pios\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Viva Las Vengeance by Panic! At the Disco\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a><\/b> either, but I really don&#8217;t expect to understand any video he puts out, and the new one still tracks.<\/p>\n<p>On first listen, I only half registered the actual song because I was distracted by the overly dramatic inanity, but then I was jarred by a section that was unexpectedly familiar.  There is a lot about the song that sounds familiar, but I can&#8217;t pinpoint anything specific that it reminds me of.  Except the&#8230;bridge? (Grasping at straws on the terminology.)  <i>To me<\/i> it sounds startlingly like the chorus of <i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RwQggHbeSdA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Capetown by The Young Veins\" rel=\"noopener\">Capetown<\/a><\/i><\/b> by <i>The Young Veins<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As Brendon Urie repeats <i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5_3jVR1PoLs?t=125\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Viva Las Vengeance\" rel=\"noopener\">to nowhere&#8230;<\/a><\/b><\/i> half a dozen times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All I hear is Ryan Ross singing <i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RwQggHbeSdA?t=45\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Capetown by The Young Veins\" rel=\"noopener\">I saw you, I met you, I loved you, I left you&#8230;<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Intentional?  Accidental?  Just another <i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uxC1fPE1QEE\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pachelbel Rant\" rel=\"noopener\">every song sounds like Pachelbel&#8217;s Canon in D<\/a><\/b><\/i> situation?<\/p>\n<p>Ross did write almost all of their songs when <i>Panic!<\/i> was actually <i>A BAND<\/i> instead of one dude still carrying the name around.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever it is, we&#8217;re not going to go down <i>that<\/i> rabbit hole and all its implications.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just have <i>Capetown<\/i> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/an-ordinary-wednesday-night\/#capetown\" title=\"An ordinary Wednesday night...\">on the brain<\/a><\/b> a lot lately.  Parts of <i>that song<\/i> sound a lot like <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jSPpbOGnFgk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Be My Baby by the Ronnettes\" rel=\"noopener\">Be My Baby<\/a><\/i><\/b> by <i>The Ronnettes<\/i>.  Then again, that <b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mcQyvOwf2MV9PmSBvHRbWeZi0_DSrejCc&#038;si=du4jFhOzdLw3f0M6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Take a Vacation! by The Young Veins\" rel=\"noopener\">whole album<\/a><\/b> is meant to sound fifty years older than it really is.  (See: the bonus tracks that are all covers from that era of music.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway <del>here&#8217;s <i>Wonderwall<\/i><\/del> that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been thinking about all damn day.<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s either that or fuming over Joel&#8217;s busted A\/C and fan that WE JUST SHELLED OUT MONEY FOR LAST WEEK.  And we&#8217;re not going to talk about <i>THE NEWS<\/i>&#8230;<i>EVER<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Goddammit <del>Brendon<\/del> Joel.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>WHY ARE CASSETTES MAKING A COMEBACK?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2022pics\/vengeancecassette.png\" title=\"WHAT YEAR IS IT???\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Joel <i>does<\/i> have a tape deck&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not going to impact the <i>Last.fm<\/i> stats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><b>Top 10 Most Played Artists for May 2022&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> The Killers <b>&#8230;<\/b> 611 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> The Monkees <b>&#8230;<\/b> 576 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>3.)<\/b> Gavin DeGraw <b>&#8230;<\/b> 202 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>4.)<\/b> Brandon Flowers <b>&#8230;<\/b> 198 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>5.)<\/b> O.A.R. <b>&#8230;<\/b> 183 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>6.)<\/b> Splender <b>&#8230;<\/b> 130 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>7.)<\/b> Panic! At the Disco <b>&#8230;<\/b> 74 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>8.)<\/b> Ingram Hill <b>&#8230;<\/b> 59 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>9.)<\/b> Darren Criss <b>&#8230;<\/b> 50 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>10.)<\/b> Sara Bareilles <b>&#8230;<\/b> 50 plays<\/p>\n<p><b>Honorable mention:<\/b> The Fray, Train, Computer Games, Marc Roberge<\/p>\n<p>Total of <b>2,210<\/b> plays of <b>688<\/b> tracks from <b>84<\/b> albums by <b>14<\/b> artists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:375px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">\n<tr>\n<td col style=\"width:60px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/graphics\/headphones50.png\" title=\"now playing...\"><\/td>\n<td col style=\"width:315px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">Viva Las Vengeance<br \/>\nPanic! At the Disco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 1st. Week 116. It&#8217;s only been six days. WTF is happening? I&#8217;m distracting myself from swearing about my goddamnmotherfuckingcursed car by fixating on the fact that good ol&#8217; Panic! At the Disco dropped a new song today and announced an album release date for August 19th. (Here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s not some experimental concept album.) I&#8217;m kind of annoyed that this is more exciting to me than the new O.A.R. song that dropped two weeks&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2022\/06\/01\/nothing-to-declare\/\" class=\"readmore\">Keep reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing to declare&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2022pics\/vengeancecassette.png","fifu_image_alt":"WHAT YEAR IS IT???","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,135,209,29,204,229,111],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goddammit-joel","category-last-fm","category-life-in-a-global-pandemic","category-music","category-music-panic-at-the-disco","category-music-the-young-veins","category-some-things-are-only-funny-to-me","tag-215","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2022pics\/vengeancecassette.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12101,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/12101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}