Pretty. Odd. Tracklist
Panic!’s second studio album, Pretty. Odd., is a reinvention of the bands' sounds and image as a whole. This album takes a major detour from their previous album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, as it encompasses country-folk and whimsical sounds in place of Beatles-influenced pop rock. The stage shows during the Pretty. Odd. era featured flowers and a hippie vibe compared to Fever’s emo circus aesthetic.
Pretty. Odd., while a classic album for Panic! fans, received mixed reviews from critics and didn’t do as well commercially compared to platinum-selling Fever.
It was the first and only album to feature bassist Jon Walker after bassist Brent Wilson’s departure after the Fever era. It was also the last album that featured guitarist Ryan Ross before him and Jon Walker both left the band in 2009.
“Pretty. Odd.” Q&A
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Translations
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What have grammar experts said about the punctuation changes that occurred?
In an interview with MTV, Geraldine Woods, the author of Webster’s New World Punctuation: Simplified and Applied commented on Panic!’s sudden change in punctuation.
Regarding the periods in Pretty. Odd., Woods mused:
It seems like [Panic have] put some thought into the changes … they’re not just changes for changes' sake […] Pretty. Odd. works because it conjures up images of something that is both pretty and odd, which is interesting […] And it’s grammatically interesting, because without the period, the word ‘pretty’ would be modifying the word ‘odd.’ So it takes on a completely different context."
On the abandonment of Panic!’s quintessential exclamation mark, Woods remarked:
Exclamation points are used to convey emotion, to increase the immediacy of what you’re saying. They instill a sense of emergency and urgency,“ Woods said. "To change that, especially for a rock band, seems kind of odd to me. There’s certainly a reduced sense of ‘panic’ in Panic at the Disco now.”
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How did the title, Pretty. Odd., come about?
According to Ryan Ross:
It just happened one night. We were working on a new song, and we weren’t even talking about album titles, but it was just something I wrote down, and I brought it up to the guys[…] Like, Pretty. Odd. And then they all liked it, and that was a couple of months ago, so we just kept it since then.
