You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Panic at the Disco is the Grammy-nominated project of Brendan Urie,
who originally started it as a band in 2004 with his high school friends from Las Vegas.
In the 18 years since, Panic at the Disco has won American Music Awards,
MTV Video Music Awards, iHeartRadio Music Awards, and more.
In August 2022, Brendan put out the seventh Panic at the Disco album, Viva Las Vengeance.
The title track hit number one on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart.
In this episode,
Brendan tells the story of how he and Grammy-nominated producer Jake Sinclair and Oscar-nominated songwriter Mike Fiola all got together to make the song Viva Las Vengeance.
I grew up musical.
My mom played organ for the church, sang in the choir.
My dad as well.
We both played guitar.
So music was always around.
I had to come in and be the loud, younger child and ask for drums.
And the parents were like, yeah, just get all your energy out.
I am Brendan Urie.
And I have a band called Panic at the Disco.