When Panic! at the Disco wrote “New Perspective,” they had no idea it’d wind up on the soundtrack for the Diablo Cody-penned horror flick Jennifer’s Body starring current RS cover girl Megan Fox. “I had this really lucid dream — it was so vivid I wanted to write it down before I forgot about it,” lead singer Brendan Urie tells Rolling Stone. “I was never the best at explaining anything, so it wound up being random [lines] that ended up as the first verse.” (Check out Urie playing the song here.)

Urie and drummer Spencer Smith — the remains of Panic after the quartet split in two earlier this summer — hammered out the rest of the song in a few days at home in Las Vegas. Then Fox approached the band about being on the Jennifer’s Body soundtrack and the band agreed — but with some hesitation: would their song actually work in the film?

“They basically told us it’s about a possessed girl that eats boys. We didn’t know if the song was going to fit since it’s so happy-sounding,” Urie says. But after catching a screening, the duo was impressed at how well “New Perspective” fit. (Spoiler: the song plays during a scene where the male protagonist is getting ready to take his girlfriend to the prom.) Read the full article »

There is a lyric in Panic! at the Disco’s “New Perspective” — the first single off the “Jennifer’s Body” soundtrack — that’s edited out of the radio version (and the accompanying music video), but if you’re a fan of the band, you know line we’re talking about: it’s the one where frontman Brendon Urie pleads with the subject of his song to cut all the foreplay and just, well, make with the sexual favors.

It’s a rather, uh, straightforward lyric, one that seems somewhat out of place with the rest of Panic’s flowery canon … so, when MTV News sat down with Urie recently, I had to ask what the inspiration was for the line. As it turns out, at least part of it was a tribute to Megan Fox, who stars in “Jennifer’s Body” as a very sexy succubus.

“I guess that lyric is kind of the through line for the movie, because the movie has a lot of sexual … not even innuendo, just like … blatant sexuality. No beating around the bush — it’s just right there, so it kind of fits,” Urie laughed. “That song was written about a dream I had, I wrote the verse down and we worked on the rest of the song together, and that line … well, it’s about a dream.” Read the full article »

NBC is set to release the first original soundtrack for its series Heroes on March 18th. Among the artists who have contributed new music to the project are Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, former Prince collaborators Wendy & Lisa, and Panic! at the Disco.