Viva Las Vengeance

the take

Viva Las Vengeance is an affront to the original vision of Panic! At the Disco and everything Brendon Urie originally stood for. No longer a band, P!ATD is reduced to a one-man-band led by the eccentric pop-star phenomenon known as Brendon Urie post Panic! split. VLV stands as the band’s last officially released album, and man is this a rough send off. The marketing for the album resembled that of older generations—Urie was on the front lines promoting it,