Buzznet Interview transcript

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Part One: I'm Younger Now
Ryan: Well, I mean, I guess if you mean like going from being in a really popular band to not being in one, is that what you...?

Interviewer: Yeah, just kind of like starting over.

Ryan: I mean, I dunno. At least so far it's been really exciting. There was a lot...at least a long period of time in Panic where I wasn't really excited about it anymore. Even though this is in some ways starting over, like touring in a van and all that stuff again, at least it's like we're really proud of what we're doing and excited to be doing it.


Interviewer: That’s cool.

Jon: We feel young again.

Interviewer: You feel young again?

Jon: Definitely.

Ryan: I was getting old, now...like Bob Dylan said: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."


Part Two: Sexting
Jon: I don't know. I don't--there's a lot of songs on the record that don't sound like they were a throwback, so to speak

Unknown band member: I think the lyrics seem modern, modern lyrics.

All: Yeah.

Interviewer: That's true.

Jon: More relevant to today's times.

Ryan: To today's young teenager.

J: Yeah that's...there’s a song about texting. Sexting.

Interviewer: No there’s not!

Laughter

Ryan: Don't tell him what the song's about!

Interviewer: Well, I didn’t get that one!

Ryan: It's a secret track, you've got to play it backwards. Take a Vacation backwards is actually...

Jon: Sexting

Ryan: Says...I can't even actually say it, it's so profound.

Interviewer: Profane.

Jon: Profoundly profane.


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transcript by corbae