The Good, The Bad And The Dirty

Album: Death Of A Bachelor (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • Panic! frontman Brendon Urie sings here of street brawls and taking on all comers on what is the most confrontational Death Of A Bachelor track. He told Billboard magazine that the cut originated as an exercise trying to "relate all the people" he'd met on the road, "trying to put them all in a song."

    Then Urie realized he is frequently praising people. "I don't get along with everybody and so I wanted to talk about that," he continued. "That just crept up on me because it didn't happen until I wrote the chorus. [I was like,] 'Ooh, that's kind of brutal, I like it.'"
  • The title is a play on the classic Clint Eastwood Western The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
  • By this time, Panic! was a Brendon Urie solo effort. Other than the horns, he played all the instruments himself.

    Urie wrote this song with Jake Sinclair and Lauren Pritchard; Sinclair also produced it.

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