Panic At The Disco keen to shed emo tag

Panic At The Disco have claimed that their last album Pretty. Odd. helped them lose their emo tag.

Discussing their genre switch with BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, the group said: "With this new record our main goal was to make people open their eyes and view us as a band and not really as a specific trend."

Guitarist Ryan Ross told NME that the band are now focusing on writing material that they want to hear.

He explained: "Changing our sound and our image for the last album was risky, but it would have been riskier to fake something that we're not really interested in anymore and attempt to fool people into thinking that it's real.

"Kids are smart, and they can see if you believe in what you're doing or not. Writing a song trying to please someone else is dangerous, so we try not to think about anyone else while we're writing."

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