But It's Better If You Do
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| Single by Panic at the Disco from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
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| Released | May 16, 2006 (UK) July 5, 2006 (U.S.) |
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| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | Dang! Studios (Lewisville, Texas) | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 3:25 | ||||
| Label | Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance | ||||
| Producer | Matt Squire | ||||
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"But It's Better If You Do" is the third single by Panic at the Disco, from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005).
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[edit] Song information
Written by Ryan Ross and released on May 4, 2006 as a CD single, "But It's Better If You Do" is the third single to be released by Panic at the Disco, and the second with an accompanying video.
"It's a song about being in a strip club but not actually liking being in there. So I wanted it to be about the sort of complex inner-monologue," he said. "It's not completely fiction, though. It's based on a scenario when I was going through a breakup with a girl. Because in reality, I don't like strip clubs. I think they're kinda perverted," says Ryan Ross. Ross went on to say, "When I wrote it, I never thought about it being played in strip clubs. But I guess it would be kind of a change from what they usually play in there," he said. "It would be a surreal experience, for sure. I think the tempo is too fast, though. So maybe someone would have to do a chopped and screwed version or something."[3]
[edit] Title
The title is a quote from the movie Closer. In the movie, the character portrayed by Natalie Portman says, "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off... but it's better if you do". "Lying is the Most Fun a Girl can have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" is also the title of another song by Panic at the Disco.
[edit] Lyrics
Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
As she sheds her skin on stage
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
The strip joint veteran sits two away
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, but I'm afraid that I
Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, that's right, well, I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, that's right, well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Praying for love and paying in naivety
Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh
[edit] Music video
At the beginning of the song's music video, the song playing in the background is "Intermission", the song preceding "But It's Better If You Do" on the A Fever You Can't Sweat Out CD.
The music video begins with a black-and-white introduction of the band's lead singer, Brendon Urie, arguing with his "wife". She is worried about him always singing at "the park"; he says he doesn't go to "illegal strip joints", but he goes anyway. The music video continues with the song in the overview of the strip joint. Urie performs onstage with the other members of Panic and a Las Vegas showgirls dance group. Urie sees a woman who seems to be unusually interested in him. They retreat to a private room. The two begin to kiss and Urie removes his mask. The woman likewise removes her mask to reveal that she was in fact his "wife". A quick slap to Urie's face and his wife turns to leave. As she gains headway, however, the police bust into the club and arrest her. Urie brawls with the chief, but is apprehended. They both are put into a police car, smile menacingly at one and another, and the scene fades in the same black-and-white color as the intro.
The video for "But It's Better If You Do" debuted on Total Request Live daily countdown on June 29, 2006 at #8.
[edit] Track listing
UK CD/Digital - May 2006
- But It's Better If You Do
- I Write Sins Not Tragedies (91X Acoustic Session)
UK 7" Poster Bag - May 2006
- A. But It's Better If You Do
- B. The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage (Tommie Sunshine Brooklyn Fire Remix)
UK 7" Colored Vinyl - May 2006
- A. But It's Better If You Do
- B. I Write Sins Not Tragedies (iTunes Session)
WMI CD - October 2006
- But It's Better If You Do
- I Write Sins Not Tragedies (91X Acoustic Session)
WMI CD/Digital - September 2006
- But It's Better If You Do
- I Write Sins Not Tragedies (91X Acoustic Session)
- Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off (Live in Denver)
[edit] Chart performance
Following release in the USA, the single debuted at number 4 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, before dropping to number 8 on the chart dated September 23, 2006. It peaked at number 81 on the Pop 100 chart, and number 74 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart.
[edit] References
- ^ Panic! At The Disco - But It's Better If You Do: Charts. ARIA. Retrieved on October 10, 2006.
- ^ Panic! At The Disco - But It's Better If You Do: Charts. Music Square. Retrieved on July 26, 2006.
- ^ Panic! At The Disco May Have Written Next Stripper Anthem. MTV. Retrieved on November 02, 2007.
