In 2015, Smith also left the band, leaving only Urie. They released ‘Vices & Virtues’ in 2011 and in 2013, ‘Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die’ was released. Panic! at the Disco, however, continued, with the band now a duo. “Though the four of us have made music together in the past,” it read, “We’ve creatively evolved in different directions which has compromised what each of us wants to personally achieve.” The news was announced via a statement released onto social media platform MySpace. Odd.’, the band was halved when both Walker and Ross quit. In the year following the release of ‘Pretty. Odd.’ The album had a distinctively different sound to their first and wasn’t able to match its commercial success. In 2008, they released their second album, ‘Pretty. The remaining members found a new bassist in Jon Walker, who joined them for their first US tour. Rumors had circulated that the band had decided to fire Wilson for financial gain, but they deny this. Wilson, however, refuted this, and told MTV, “I was kicked out of the band…It was 100% percent a surprise to me.” He added, “There had been no previous conversations about anyone leaving.” In a statement, they stated that it was “A decision we all came to as a band.” In 2006, while their debut album was finding popularity, the band parted ways with Brent Wilson. “That’s the song that got me to this point…That was the one that took me around the world.”Īnother track on their debut album, ‘Time To Dance’, was the first song that Urie wrote for the band. Speaking about the song later, Urie credited it with much of his success. ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’, the leading single from the album, reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, maintaining a place in the chart for 37 weeks. The band’s first album, ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’ reached number 13 on the album sales chart. They were the record label’s first signing. Panic! at the Disco were offered the chance to sign to Wentz’s label, Fueled by Ramen. Seeing it all before it happened was so odd at the time.” “He had a really raw electric talent…It was a weird thing watching someone who was so naturally good at what they do that they don’t actually know it and the world doesn’t know it. “He had never been in a real studio,” Wentz explained of the encounter with the young Urie.
Wentz provided one member of Panic! at the Disco, Urie, with his first studio experience, when he invited him to provide backing vocals for ‘7 Minutes in Heaven’, one of Fall Out Boy’s tracks.