Panic! At the Disco has been at the top of the charts on Rhapsody for several months. I have been slightly ignoring them because I only have enough love in my heart for one pop punk band right now and that's My Chemical Romance (because, they went to art school and are from New Jersey, if you must know. Also, please have symmetrical choreography at my funeral. please).

Anyway, I have been obsessed about meta-rock ever since Cake's "Rock&Roll Lifestyle" and I think the genre is reaching fever pitch because today while listening to Panic! I was actually shocked to hear the chorus of "London Beckoned Songs about Money Written By Machines" (which gets zero points for sense or funny, see label owner Fall Out Boy's titles for pointers on that) and actually hear: this:

(Bridge)
Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of
A. Indifference and
B. Disinterest in what the critics say

(Chorus)
Well we're just a wet dream for the webzines,
Make us it
Make us hip
Make us scene
Or Shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word we wrote

This is the second song on this band's DEBUT?! I mean, didn't it take classic rockers and prog rock at least...two albums to become jaded self-obsessed autorockers? Is there anything more boring than songwriters writing songs for/about rock critics? Did he just say "wet dream for the webzines" and why does he keep saying it over any over again? Is "Make us scene" a clever pun or just sad?

Oh god, does writing on this blog make me someone who they're so actively disinterested in that they b) wrote a song anticipating my criticism of it? Should I write a review anticipating hating the next pop punk band to come out before they even do?