Panic! at the Disco is finally releasing their new album: The Death of a Bachelor. The name comes from one of the songs in the album, an early release, along with Hallelujah, Victorious, and most recently, Emperor's New Clothes. The song "Death of a Bachelor" itself has an undeniably vintage style to it: a Sinatra-esque quality overlaid with electronic beats, creating a great start to an anxiously-awaited album. According to the vocalist Brendon Urie, it's "Sinatra meets Beyonce", and is definitely his favorite track of the whole album, displaying his prominent feelings about not truly forgetting the past, but choosing to focus instead on the future. The date of release for the entire album is January 15, 2016, and as their fifth and most-awaited album, many fans worldwide are counting down till this day.
The songs already released from this album are truly brilliant, and all display a completely different style of music: modern Sinatra (Death of a Bachelor), pop with a hint of gospel (Hallelujah), a party-anthem (Victorious), and a spooky a Halloween-styled song (Emperor's New Clothes). In their own differences, they are all catchy and show off Brenden Urie's unmatched vocal talent. I can tell already that this album is gonna be one to remember, and will easily top the charts above all previous Panic! at the Disco albums.
SHADY XV
Last year was Shady Record's 15th year anniversary, and to celebrate, they decided to release a 15th project: SHADY XV. As a hip hop/rap compilation of multiple artists from Shady Records, and a double album, it was released on November 24 last year featuring a disc of new material from artists like Slaughterhouse, Bad Meets Evil, D12 and Yelawolf and label-founder Eminem. The second disc is of the label's greatest hits, also featuring former Shady Records members. Two weeks before the album release, Eminem released a rap cypher, SHADY CVXPHER, also featuring Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse, to promote the album and their raw freestyling talent, and single "Guts over Fear" featuring Sia, to be used in the movie The Equalizer.
This album came as a slight disappointment to myself and all Shady fans, also dictated by an exponential fall in copies bought the month after it was released. The RIAA certified it gold on the chart (50,000 copies sold), inferior to the usual multi-platinum and diamond (10+ million copies sold) previous albums. The main disappointment that came to most was, for one, the loss of its usual daring originality and excitement. The rappers are getting older, not as young and cutting edge as they used to be, and are understandably having trouble writing something we haven't heard before. Secondly, the news of a double album was an exciting one, but when fans bought the disc set and realized that half the songs on it were just previous hits, they were rather disappointed. Granted, there were a number of great tracks, like "Detroit vs. Everybody", "Twisted", and extremely punny "Vegas" and "Shady XV", but not worth buying a hard copy for.
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