That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)
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| Single by Panic at the Disco from the album Pretty. Odd. |
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| Released |  May 2, 2008 May 26, 2008 |
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| Format | Digital download, CD single | ||||
| Recorded | 2007 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Label | Fueled by Ramen Decaydance |
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| Writer(s) | Panic at the Disco | ||||
| Producer | Rob Mathes | ||||
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"That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" is the third single from the second album by Panic at the Disco, Pretty. Odd. The song was the second song written by the band after they decided to scrap an album's worth of material, but was not played with "When the Day Met the Night" and "Nine in the Afternoon" at the various festivals Panic performed at during the summer of 2007.
The title of the album was already decided before the line, "Things are shaping up to be pretty odd." was written.[1]
The song was performed (as well as "She's a Handsome Woman", and "Mad as Rabbits") on every date of the European tour prior to the album's release.
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[edit] Music video
On February 10, 2008, MTV released an interview with Panic announcing "That Green Gentleman" as the second single from Pretty. Odd. They also stated that the music video will include the band at different ages in their lives.[2][3]
The video was recorded as part of a deal with Nokia, a deal comparable to that of Fall Out Boy's "Thnks fr th Mmrs" video, and The Academy Is...' "We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands". The video premiered exclusively on Nokiausa.com on May 2.
There are two scenes where a Nokia product is shown. In one the members of Panic at the Disco are seen jumping on a Nokia 5600 XpressMusic phone, and the other is of someone in a crowd using the Nokia 5600 XpressMusic phone to take a picture.
The video, directed by Alan Ferguson, begins with a young Ryan Ross (Cameron Boyce) opening Russian nesting dolls (matryoshka dolls). The dolls are seen singing and blinking their eyes. At the last doll, the members of Panic come out, run across the desk and jump off. In the behind the scenes it is seen that Ryan Ross' landing is not so smooth and band mate Brendon Urie catches him. They then land in a fantastical forest and find various musical instruments. After playing them for a while, they drop to their knees, and open up like Russian dolls themselves, and younger, eight-year-old versions of themselves come out.
There are also scenes involving the eight-year-old versions of Panic frolicking in the hills, while you see the older versions riding 1900's style bikes (at about 1:53 in the video, Jon falls from his), and also singing in a row boat. The video ends with the younger Panic members hopping into a life-sized Russian doll, getting rolled down a hill, and then opening once more, to be elderly versions of Panic, while the current Panic look on in amazement before they row down the river toward the sunset. The ending with the elderly versions of the members of the band has been subject to interpretation, but the general assumption as to the meaning of the sequence is that although the band has changed, they've changed in a good way, and will stay good until the very end.
[edit] Track listing
[edit] UK promotional single
- "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" (Album Version) - 3:15
[edit] CD 1
- "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)"
- "She Had the World (Alternate version)"
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