Similar texts: Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies.

Another band part of the Fueled by Ramen record label and ranking a very high similarity to Paramore on Last.fm is American pop punk band Panic! At The Disco. 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' was the lead single from debut album 'A Fever you Can't Sweat Out' and is to date their most famous song.

The opening shots of the video set up some of the visual themes and motifs. The plot of the video is somewhat illustrative of the lyrics, taking place at a wedding where the bride is concealing her promiscuity from nobody except her groom. The lyrics tell us that everyone is aware of her adulterous habits as they state

"'What a beautiful wedding, what a beautiful wedding' says a bridesmaid to a waiter. 'Oh yes, but what a shame, what a shame the poor grooms bride is a whore.'",

interlinking the song title referring to sinning and sins being created rather than tragedies, although to discover the woman you were about to marry is known as a whore can be seen as a tragedy. This is also reflected in the costume choice of  lead singer Brendan Urie: the circus ringmaster. Many people consider weddings to be like a circus as all members of the families involved are present, even those seen as "odd". When people haven't seen each other in years lies are told as to who is the more successful, especially among gatherings of relations. Consequently this could be hinting that weddings are comparable to the freak shows of old as people are acting not like their normal selves, as they have a mask on to the rest of the world. The idea of people wearing masks can be stretched further to imply that all of society wear masks in order to cover up their "inner freak".

Visually whilst this is being sung (and performed in cutaways) the scene taking place is an old fashioned wedding is taking, made evident by the quill pen in an ink pot behind a priest conducting the ceremony. The introduction of the priest is also the introduction of the religious motif observable throughout if the link was not made with the title. The wedding seems at first to be a traditional church wedding performed "in the eyes of the Lord", though the cameras focus on lips throughout detracts from the innocence of a white wedding (white being symbolic of innocence) and refers back to the adultery in question about the bride. The colours black and white feature prominently in the video as they symbolise both the light and the dark within someone.