"The song is about a battle in yourself an inner struggle in oneself. Not showing too much emotion, there’s this Mona Lisa smile masking what’s going on in that person’s head," he explained.
For us, you look at the painting, and you can’t tell what this person is thinking. “That whole thing with Mona Lisa was the idea that there is this character. In a 2011 interview, Urie regarded the name and theme of the song as neither male nor female. The painting inspired Panic!, which pulls their style from the nostalgic romanticism of the Elizabethan and Victorian eras. The song's title is an allusion to Mona Lisa, the famous Renaissance-era oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Urie said "It was a new start when Spencer Smith and I started writing, so it was gonna end up sounding different, sonically." The music has been described as a combination of buzzsaw riffs, punchy percussion and literate, multi-layered lyrics.
Musically, the song is similar to those produced for the band's debut album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005) however, Urie explained in a 2011 interview that the song represented more of a new beginning. Urie notes that the move was "a huge part of growing up." It's all growing pains." The song was also inspired by Urie's move from Las Vegas, Nevada, where he's lived his entire life, to Santa Monica, California with Panic! drummer Spencer Smith. "But it's really about what I've been going through, an inner-struggle within myself, and fighting the dualities of my personality - the side that fucks everything up and destroys everything and the other side that tries to pick up the slack. "On the surface it can seem like just the story of drama between a guy and a girl," explains Urie. Other ideas beat it out or whatever reason it was.” He wrote the song dealing with his own personal convictions and struggles. "That ended up being a really good intro to the whole process." "I showed the band a couple times," said Urie, "but it just fell to the wayside, we never did anything with it. Odd., and it was just sitting in my laptop collecting figurative dust on my hard drive, not really doing much," said Urie. "A few of the ideas - like "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", specifically - was from an idea I had probably four years ago, before we even started touring on Pretty. Odd., it proved to be an inspiration for the production of Vices & Virtues. As a song written before the band even began recording their second album, Pretty. Photography courtesy of Colin Young-Wolff for Artists Den Entertainment."The Ballad of Mona Lisa", written by lead singer Brendon Urie, was one of the first tracks composed for the band's third album, Vices & Virtues. It is one of the few remaining original theaters left in the city, and is designated a Historic Cultural Monument. The Mayan has also served as a location for many feature films, such as “The Bodyguard,” “Night at The Roxbury,” “Save the Tiger,” “Be Cool,” and “The Replacement Killers.” Today, the Mayan continues to be deeply ingrained in music, pop culture, and entertainment in Los Angeles. Though it shut its doors as a theater for musicals, the building was preserved, and The Mayan officially reopened on Februas a nightclub in the underground music scene. The ornate decorations of the building celebrate that of the Mayan Revival, a popular architectural style during the 1920s and 1930s.
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The Mayan Theater, located in the heart of the historic theater district of Downtown Los Angeles, is a landmark former movie palace built in 1927. The band’s album, Death Of A Bachelor, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 2016, with hit singles “Hallelujah” and “Victorious.” In 2018, the band released their sixth album, Pray for the Wicked, produced by Jake Sinclair. The band released two more albums, Vices & Virtues in 2011, and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! in 2013 that both charted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. The band has played numerous festivals including Bamboozle and Warped Tour, and toured with popular alternative bands such as Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is, and more. Their first singles “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “The Only Difference…” charted on the Billboard Hot 100, launching them into mainstream stardom. In 2005, the band released their first album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, which went double-platinum in the US. Panic! At The Disco, alternative punk band from Las Vegas, fronted by vocalist Brendon Urie, has been around for more than a decade now.
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