At the disco he is very talented and has a large vocal range. Brendon Urie. By Heyitzchristian February 15, 2019. Get a Brendon Urie mug for your.
Much has been written about Taylor Swift’s choice to share her new single “Me!” with Panic! at the Disco’s Brendon Urie (the two perform the song on tonight’s season finale of “The Voice”), but perhaps not as much attention has been paid to the tried-and-true formula that has helped land Panic! multiple hit songs: trumpets. Consider last year’s ubiquitous one-two punch of “High Hopes” and “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” as the most recent examples of effective use of horns, but the band’s love affair with trumpets goes back more than a decade to 2008’s “Nine in the Afternoon.”
It’s an element that has made the group’s sound stand out. Katherine Dacey, associate professor of liberal arts at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, explains that the trumpet serves two functions. “The first is novelty: in an industry dominated by digital sounds, any song that uses an acoustic instrument will stand out,” says Dacey. “The second is nostalgia: For Urie, the use of trumpet and strings is a throwback to the Beatles’ ‘Revolver’/’Sgt. Pepper’ era. By blending these older sounds with newer, digitally produced ones, Urie is bringing the Beatles’ songcraft into the 21st century.”