Urie: Oh man, it's wild now, especially looking out. McIntyre: What kind of reaction do you get these days when you play it live? It was just in that things were like, "I don't know if radio is going to play this song." We were like, "Well, they're playing five different songs, so we got to pick one, right?" We just picked one. Was there a single the label was trying to push harder than “Sins?” McIntyre: You just mentioned they wanted something more electronic. We said, "No, we want to do this song." It's just really cool, a testament to the fans and the love that we shared with everybody. It was a big risk to take, and it wasn't the single everybody was talking about. That was really a lot of people's first time hearing Panic! At The Disco, so that was a benchmark for us. I thank everyone before we play it for giving us a chance. Pete from Fall Out Boy gave us that start and got our foot in the door, but that song, it carried us everywhere for quite a while, really. McIntyre: How did that song change your career and your life? McIntyre: Is it one of your favorites from that album? It sounded so different to us when we were writing it, so that was a big factor into why we decided to go in that direction. Maybe the appeal of fitting as many words as possible into three and a half minutes is some of the appeal to some people. It's just a weird instance where that song did what it did because it starts off with a cello sample, which is really bizarre. Honestly, it's so weird, because at that time, I remember we had been talking about using a bunch of different instruments. “Sins” has been certified four-times platinum for sales and streams over four million, and its accompanying parent album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, is still performing well to this day, and earlier in the year it was finally certified double platinum, over ten years since it was first released. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time in their career earlier this year with their latest effort, Death Of A Bachelor. In fact, the group has never slowed down, and in 2016 they hit a new high. While it has been a decade since the band’s biggest hit reached its peak, that doesn’t mean it’s been all downhill from there. That success could have spelled disaster for the group’s legacy, but instead, it has turned them into one of the biggest and most beloved alternative groups on the planet. 7, giving the group their first and only top 10 hit to this day. It was 10 years ago to the week that “Sins” peaked on the Hot 100 singles chart at No. Panic! At The Disco is a perfect example of the former, as their first smash, the exceptionally odd and inexplicably catchy “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” made them stars, and it is now celebrating a very special milestone. For many new bands, charting one massive hit, internationally-recognized can either be the beginning of a long and successful career, or it can put them down in history as a one-hit wonder, forever giving their careers a connotation that not many acts are happy with.
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