"What a wonderful caricature of intimacy" sings Brenden Urie caustically, and that pretty much sums up what I've heard of the band: caustic, and not afraid to use coarse language to make their point. Knowing that about them, the title "Build God, Then We'll Talk" hardly sounds like it would be one of their cleaner songs.
If you're queasy or uncomfortable with some of the abuses happening in our society, you'll want to avoid this song. And the rest of this review, for that matter, since I quote the song and give the unpleasant story. (Panic! at the Disco is sometimes incorrectly classified as emo from the emotional element of their songs.)
Nonetheless, this song gets an incredibly disgusting image across without a word of coarse language. The song follows a seedy motel and one room's occupants over a night. A lawyer makes the most of a "virgin" soon to be working at his office, meeting her for "'Strictly business,' as he said to the Mrs." The girl later bumps into a cop who offers to ignore her drugs if she'll… indulge him, too.
Not a pleasant image, and it's certainly compounded by a colorful image produced by shifting a popular song from The Sound of Music. "(There are no…) raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses—it's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses at the color of the sheets before all the stains." The point? If intimacy is supposed to be for love's sake, why is it happening like this?
Many people who hate the style of music (or lyrics) of Panic! at the Disco will agree that Brenden Urie has an appealing voice. They are very much a punk pop band, with a somewhat techno form of rock. A lot of it is beat, but that varies even within the song.
If you don't mind the genre or message, it's actually a surprisingly good song. But avoid the music video.
Music: 4/5
Vocal(s): 5/5
Overall: 8/10
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