When do we get to compare 00s emo and 90s gangsta rap for lyrical cliches? There are so many guns, hospitals and pills in this album, it's the first thing I think of. Panic! here are catchy but not too distinguishable from what Fall Out Boy was doing at the time, aside from mild dance elements that provide additional hooks. The media savvy approach some songs take (Webzines! Photo ops!) expose a self-consciousness that is a bit unbecoming for a band so young and so not-famous-yet. The dance-meets-rock-meets-wordiness thing was done to death in the mid nineties during the Britpop era. Despite being from Vegas, Panic are too young, with the strip joint in "But It's Better if You Do" sounding like something gleamed from the movie Striptease rather than real experiences.
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