- (screams)
- How do they think of this? They're so creative.
- This one's even weirder than the last two.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (anchor) We're hearing reports that overnight,
an ancient Mayan artifact... - (gasps)
- Oh, "Say Amen"! Ah, are we reacting to Panic! again?!
- (anchor) ...an ancient Mayan artifact known
as the Devil's Key... - Devil's Key?
- What?
- Oh my god, what is this?
- I have no idea what this is, honestly.
♪ (ominous music) ♪ (bell ringing)
- Oh my gosh, this is scary. (gasps)
- (gasps) - Oh my god. Panic! at the Disco?
- Oh, Brendon Urie. Oh, this is his new music video!
- (screams)
I've been meaning to watch this!
♪ (suspenseful music) ♪ - Oh my god.
- I have no idea who this is.
- Who is that? I feel like I know this guy. Who is it?
- I'm so excited for this. Oh [bleep].
- Wait. - ♪ Been traveling in packs
that I can't carry anymore ♪
- Is this Panic! at the Disco?
- Why is he so charming? Gosh damn it, Brendon!
- I would go gay for Brendon Urie in a heartbeat for sure.
- ♪ And I can't change into a person I don't wanna be, so ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Oh, it's Saturday night ♪
- Oh! Oh [bleep]!
- Oh my gosh. Wait. What just happened?
- Oh my gosh. This is so violent!
- Yes! Gore, violence? I'm into it.
- Yes. - Oh, I love him.
- ♪ ...be who I couldn't say I'd ever been ♪
- Panic! at the Disco is one of my favorite bands.
- Oh my god. That's iconic.
- Okay. My Saturdays are usually boring.
(gasps) Wait! (laughs)
- Oh my god! The heck?
- ♪ I pray for the wicked on the weekend ♪
- Ah! I love it!
- (gasps) - It's very Kickass or Kingsman.
- He does not give a [bleep]. I love it.
- Oh my goodness.
- I was not expecting it to be this graphic.
- This is probably one of the goriest music videos
I've ever seen, to be honest.
- This would be the most fun video to film.
(doorbell rings)
- Hello. - ♪ Oh, it's Saturday night, yeah ♪
♪ It's Saturday ♪ ♪ Saturday ♪
- She didn't ask any ques-- (laughs) That's good.
- That-- oh! (laughs)
- That's the best part. - That's so good.
- ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Oh, it's Saturday night, yeah ♪
- Oh my gosh.
(police sirens blaring)
- (gasps) Wow. She ended up getting the key at the end.
- So good. Honestly, probably one of my favorites
that he's done. - It's a cool music video.
It's shot really well, and it's interesting and stuff.
But the fact that it's the prequel to a music video
that came out five, six years ago is insane!
- (FBE) So that was the music video for "Say Amen," the latest music video
by Panic! at the Disco! - I honestly just know them by name.
- I'm a huge fan of Panic! at the Disco.
- That's probably one of the longest-running bands
that I've loved. - (FBE) So you may have noticed
that this video is actually a prequel to two other videos
that they have released. - Oh, really?
- Whaat?! I did not know that.
- What music videos? We're gonna watch em. (claps)
- (FBE) So we're actually gonna show you the end
of this music video again along with two other videos
edited together so you can see how the trilogy comes together.
- Okay, that's so cool.
- Leave it to Panic! at the Disco to create a trilogy music video series.
- (police sirens blaring) - Ohh!
(sings along) ♪ This is gospel for the fallen ones ♪
♪ Locked away in permanent slumber ♪
- Oh, okay. I get it now. I've seen this music video.
- Cool. Here's wearing the same shirt.
- How do they think of this? They're so creative.
- He's so clever. I love him.
- (sings along) ♪ If you love me, let me go ♪
- Oh, okay. Now it's starting to sound more familiar.
- ♪ If you love me, let me go ♪
- Oh my god. Everything's just turning up here,
and I'm like, "It makes so much sense."
- ♪ ‘Cause these words are knives that often leave scars ♪
- I could listen to them all day.
- ♪ And truth be told, I never was yours ♪
- This music video blew me away when I was younger
just 'cause the choreography is so spot on to everything.
The pacing is phenomenal.
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
- No! Don't die.
- All right. Now the emperor's gonna get some new clothes.
- And then this goes to the one where he's the demon.
- It goes right into it. Perfect man! I love you, Brendon Urie.
- ♪ Welcome to the end... ♪ - Oh, I know this song.
- I really like this song, and I've never seen the music video.
- ♪ Done my time and served my sentence ♪
♪ Dress me up and watch me die ♪
- Oh my gosh. (gasps) Ugh! That is so gross!
- ♪ I'm taking back the crown ♪ - Ooh.
- Oh my gosh. He's so talented.
- Oh my gosh. This is so dark.
- ♪ The crown ♪ ♪ So close I can... ♪
- This one's even weirder than the last two.
- He's so weird, and I love it.
- (sings along) ♪ Oh yeah ♪
- Is he a gargoyle/devil now?
- So I'm guessing Brendon Urie sold his soul to the devil
or got the key?
- Did he turn into the devil? Oh my gosh.
Oh! Well, he stole the key, the Devil's Key. (gasps)
(explosion booms) It all makes sense now!
- I wanna know the whole story arc now.
What is the Devil's Key? Why did he go to hell?
What's gonna happen after this? What happened before this?
- (FBE) So as we mentioned earlier, the new music video
serves as a prequel to 2015's "The Emperor's New Clothes"
and 2013's "This is Gospel" music video.
So this means that the trilogy has been going on
for about five years now. - That is insane.
For you have to have that planned out so far ahead,
it's like, "My gosh. You knew about this before we even knew
you were gonna make the video." - You know what's crazy
is no one really knew at the time, you know?
And now we're getting more to the story,
and it goes right into it, and it's a prequel. I love it!
- (FBE) Do you think that the band has been planning to do this
since 2013, or do you think that as new ideas came up,
they just decided to make prequels and sequels
to their other music videos? - Yeah, I don't think they intended
to do that in the beginning. But then along the way,
they decided to just add onto it. - Maybe the idea was initially there,
like kind of tossed around, and then just based
on how their earlier music videos went,
they said, you know, why don't we just run with it?
- I'm gonna go with the idealization of them
and be like, they had this planned from the beginning.
- People can be spontaneous to make those things,
but how effortlessly it looked and how smooth everything was,
you had to have been planning this for a while.
- It's easy to kind of make the prequel,
'cause they're like, "Oh, well, we can make it look
like it was a story the whole time."
But honestly, they're so creative, I wouldn't really put it past them
to think that far in advance.
- It's so cool, because he can do literally whatever he wants
at any point that he wants.
He can go back and tell any story in any order,
and it's just putting something out there.
And if he has a reason to tell more of the beginning
or more of the end, he can keep it going.
- (FBE) So Panic! at the Disco's been making music since 2004,
almost 15 years now. - Yeah. I remember listening
to them when I was in fifth grade.
- The first song I ever heard was "Nine in the Afternoon."
And it just-- I don't know, I feel so old now,
because I was so little.
- I remember me and my friends sitting there and her showing me
their first album in elementary school in fifth grade.
And I'm just like, this is so crazy
to think that it's been this long.
- (FBE) So what is it about Panic!'s music that has allowed them
to stay relevant for almost a decade and a half?
- Honestly, in my opinion, one of the greatest male vocalists
I could ever think of. His range and just his look.
He looks so classy.
- They have that "it" factor. They have that ability
to make a song that grabs you and holds you for a long time,
'cause they have sustainability.
- The songs have adapted, you know, from being super emo
to adapting to modern times to keep it relevant
and that's what artists have to do to stay relevant.
- Every time that they've changed going from the emo
to the Beatles vibe to this is now pop rock.
I really appreciate that it is still similar to their older stuff
and it still has the same sound to where the fans can continue
to like it no matter how it changes.
- (FBE) So finally, do you think this trilogy marks the end
of the narrative in these music videos or do you think Panic! will continue
to add to this series as more music is released?
- I definitely feel like a trilogy is good as a trilogy.
- I hope that they continue. They could explain more.
- I hope they continue to add to it.
I just think it's fun.
- The idea of a trilogy is just so poignant,
you know what I mean?
So I could see them cutting it off,
but I also could see them extending it past the trilogy as well.
- I hope and pray that this continues.
I need this to be Star Wars where there's a new video
every year or something like-- I just can't wait.
- I sure they hope they do, 'cause these are cool.
I love this idea.
I will be on my deathbed. I will literally be like,
"Play Panic! at the Disco at my funeral."
- I wanna see 65-year-old Brendon Urie playing
10 years before this one, and it just keeps going back
farther and farther with him doing more stunts.
So many different artistic directions could happen in so many different ways
and it would fit into this narrative.
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- Hi, guys. JC here, producer here at FBE.
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