Brendon Urie (P!ATD) geniet van commentaar

Brendon Urie says Panic! at the Disco’s latest album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die, has “exceeded all my expectations, to be honest.” But you won’t find him grousing about those who aren’t on board, either.

“What I love is getting polarized opinions,” Urie tells Billboard. “I don’t want a middle ground like, ‘Yeah, all right.’ We got a lot of love and a lot of hate. I love that. I want you to love what we’ve done or hate it with a passion.” And Urie promises, he means it. “There’s random comments you read, like ‘This dude is a joke’ or that call me a whiny little bitch or whatever. That kind of stuff is fun to me. I love that stuff. Bring it on, man.”

The good seems to be outweighing the bad, however. Too Weird to Live…debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 last October, equalling the career high of 2008’s Pretty. Odd. It’s launched the singles “Miss Jackson,” “This is Gospel” and “Girls/Girls/Boys,” and Urie says the reception on the road has been strong. “We’re happy to be playing the new stuff and seeing the reaction,” he says. “The live shows have been phenomenal. You think people want to hear the old stuff, but it’s been the opposite — people want to hear the new stuff.”