Panic! Frontman Bares Chest to Make Peace With Dresden Doll Fans

debaser · #1 10-06-2006, 12:47 PM

Panic! Frontman Bares Chest to Make Peace With Dresden Doll Fans

We’ve been catching up on this Panic! at the Disco/ Dresden Dolls controversy and feeling like a timeline or some notecards would be helpful. It seems that during this summer’s Panic! at the Disco tour, the Dresden Dolls, who opened for Panic!, had some serious problems with both group’s respective fans loathing each other. We can’t really see flocks of gum-smacking mall-rats digging the Dresden Dolls’ wacky show. And they didn’t.
In this epic blog entry, Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer describes her frustration and suggests a solution involving the boys from Panic!, some silent-movie-style video footage and the Dresden Dolls’ new single “Backstabber.”
After watching the results of this collaboration, we guess the point is to make fun of the feud between the bands’ fans by pretending to kill each other? It doesn’t totally work and some serious backstory is necessary but listen, you get to gaze upon the bare chest of Panic! frontman Brendon Urie and we know thousands of those Dresden Dolls haters out there will enjoy that ****.

*lovehearts* · #2 10-06-2006, 12:49 PM

i just got this on myspace

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While on tour together this summer, The Dresden Dolls teamed up with headliners Panic! At The Disco to film a video for The Dolls newest single, "Backstabber."

Midway through the tour, DD's Amanda Palmer had a revelation, "Why not make a video with these guys? They're here, they're bored like we are, they're hilarious." She shared in her online blog. "We aren't making a 'real' video for our next single,' She proclaimed. "'What's more real than this?' We keep asking. Nothing."

"It..s not something that..s going to be an official release to go to MTV, it..s just that we were on tour with them and they came up with this idea to kind of do a funny thing." Panic! At The Disco..s drummer, Spencer Smith, recently told online publication, Undercover. "It was just something that we were having fun doing at the time while being on tour and just something I guess for the fans of either of our bands to kinda see. It..s just a fun bonus thing."
"People are just arrogant and ignorant." Panic! frontman Brendon Urie told dose.ca midway into the tour regarding inspiration for the video. "We're actually going to make a movie with the Dresden Dolls about that one thing [the fans fighting] to kind of poke fun at our fans for not being nice to each other."

Call it what you will -- the tour is over, the smoke has cleared, the video is done, and it's time for you to see...
The Dresden Dolls vs. Panic! At the Disco! Click HERE to see it!

Cheers,
Bill H.

*Be patient if it doesn't play right away as it was just uploaded and is getting a lot of hits so it may take a coupla tries to work

debaser · #3 10-06-2006, 12:51 PM

i saw this tour last summer but left as soon as the dresden dolls walked off the stage.

i was suprised at the panic fans who knew the dresden dolls songs and got right into their set.

but panic! are a horrible band, they need to be stopped.

raging6ull · #4 10-06-2006, 12:51 PM

They're both cack anyway.

*lovehearts* · #5 10-06-2006, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by bryan

i was suprised at the panic fans who knew the dresden dolls songs and got right into their set.

why?