Panic at the Disco talk Pretty. Odd.

With the Pretty. Odd. release date rapidly approaching, Panic at the Disco‘s sophomore album is getting a TON of buzz.. And they’re all in sharing-and-caring mode, so we get fed bits of info as the days go by. The latest words from the mouths of PATD? Stop freaking out about the whole “departure” thing.

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Echoing what other online outlets have been saying, MTV News sized up the album as “probably the most Beatles-esque album to come down the pipe in a decade, recalling mid- to late-period Fab Four tunes (“Tomorrow Never Knows,” “Lovely Rita,” “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!,” and “Rocky Raccoon” are just a few that spring to mind ) in both songwriting and scope.

… oh, fantastic. Beatles songs I’ve never heard of. Is this why some of you have your proverbial panties in a bunch? Because they’re not even referring to your mom’s fav Beatles songs?

Look my babies, if Nine in the Afternoon is any indication, then I will take those changes. I’ll take them and squeeze them and love them and dance around my room on a Sunday morning* with them. I’m not an incredibly critical music-listener. I won’t weep for lost synth beats or hurl Patterned vests at the stage or snarl at song titles that take less than a breath to spit out. I just look for music to move me. And the first single DID, so I have hope for the rest of the album. And as Alyssef stated, “they can’t keep beating the same dead horse forever, no good artist has.” Et tu?

I will, however, allow you to mourn over ONE (and only one) possibly abandoned element– vote here.

*2pm.