With an undeniable stickiness to its chorus, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” became the second single off “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” and allowed the band to uncork some serious Cirque du Soleil energy.

Let’s start with an obvious statement: Brendon Urie is a theatrical son of a gun, a trait that often translates to highly entertaining Panic! At The Disco music videos. Now here’s something less obvious: one of the players in the video later appeared on U.S. Masterchef.

For the purposes of our show, 2005 was a watershed moment for emo. There was everything that came before, and there was everything that came after. This was the year we both attended our freshman year of high school, and it also happened to be the year “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” and Fall Out Boy’s “From Under The Cork Tree” was released, two humongous albums often referred to by emo veterans during interviews (due to a mix of admiration and jealousy, perhaps).

With an undeniable stickiness to its chorus, “I Write Sins” became the second single off “Fever” and allowed the band to bring some Las Vegas/Cirque du Soleil energy to the impending video.

The video, maybe obviously, depicts a wedding, though the groom was not played by a member of the band. Below is a snippet from a thorough write-up on the video by Kerrang!

Daniel Isaac McGuffey, who plays the groom here, was a former intern for director Shane Drake, who said, “I feel bad for Daniel, because now people are constantly stopping him and asking him if he’s in Panic! At The Disco, and he gets all this fan mail written by little girls who think he’s in the band. It really got annoying, and so to get away from it all, he took a job working at the Cheesecake Factory or someplace like that.” McGuffey was a competitor on the fifth season of U.S. MasterChef.

One can only hope to guess what was written in that fan mail as compared to any mail sent in from McGuffey’s time on MasterChef. Nonetheless, we are grateful for his efforts, both culinary and otherwise.

You can check out this week’s breakdown on the “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” music video below. Thanks for being here, everybody.

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