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Birth name | Christopher John Baran |
Born | Melville, New York, U.S. | February 13, 1990
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Years active | 2006–present |
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Christopher John Baran is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is a founding member of Woolf and the Wondershow and cowriter, creator, and producer of their Los Angeles future theater musical CAGES in which he plays the lead character Woolf. He has produced and written songs for Panic! At The Disco, Melanie Martinez, Carly Rae Jepsen, Mika, Britney Spears, COIN, Andrew McMahon, One OK Rock, Bea Miller, Pentatonix, Simple Plan, Pixie Lott, and Nelly. He was a founding member of the band Push Play.
Baran is originally from Melville, New York, where he attended St. Anthony's High School. He took an early interest in music, learning several instruments and beginning his first band at 11, Kaution. [1]
In September 2006, Baran joined Steve Scarola, Nick DeTurris and Derek Ries to form Push Play. Baran was lead vocalist, keyboard player, and rhythm guitarist for the Long Island-based band. [1] [2]
Their debut album, Deserted, was released in December 2007. The album rose into the top 100 album sales on iTunes, peaking at No. 38. The band signed with Creative Artists Agency's Jason Morey, the agent for Miley Cyrus. The band opened for Cyrus at the MGM Grand-Foxwoods to start their 2008 tour, putting a portion of the proceeds for some of their 2008 shows to charities "Friends of the Arts" and the "Education and Assistance Corporation." [1] [3] [4] [5]
Push Play received a record deal from Wind-Up Records in 2008. Their album, Found , was produced by Matt Squire. "Midnight Romeo", their single from the album, hit No. 37 on the mainstream Top 40 radio chart. [1] [2]
After their 2009 tour promoting Found, the band took time off. Baran acknowledges that the final tour hit a "terrible rough patch" outside the Northeast, and he later claimed that he did not enjoy touring. Baran moved to Los Angeles—where he still resides—and pursued production by interning with Matt Squire, and writing his own music. In February 2010, Baran announced the dissolution of the band on the Push Play MySpace page. [1] [2] [3] [6] [7] [8]
Baran went on to sign with Pulse Recording for his writing and production work in 2011. In 2013, Baran met producer Max Martin, who brought Baran on to his recording company, MXM. Baran is co-signed with both Pulse and MXM. [9]
Baran has worked with a number of artists, including Panic! at the Disco, Melanie Martinez, Carly Rae Jepsen, Mika, Britney Spears, COIN, Andrew McMahon, One OK Rock, Bea Miller, Pentatonix, Simple Plan and Nelly. His songs have also appeared on the TV series Empire , with his song "Do it" featuring Becky G. Baran has worked as a writer and producer with Pixie Lott over multiple albums going back to 2011, including providing vocals on the song "Till the Sun Comes Up." [9] [10]
Baran's work has received a number of awards. He wrote and produced Panic! at the Disco's "Victorious," which climbed to number one on Apple Music and No. 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 in fall 2015. The song is part of the Grammy-nominated album, Death of a Bachelor , which became the number one album on the Billboard 200 in January 2016. Baran co-wrote and co-produced the songs "Emotion" and "Let's Get Lost" on Carly Rae Jepsen's E-MO-TION album, which Billboard.com rated one of the top 25 albums of the year. Baran also co-wrote and produced Melanie Martinez's "Pity Party," which became a Gold single from the RIAA in 2016. [9] [11] [12] [13]
Baran's current project is Woolf and the Wondershow, with composer Benjamin Romans, which began releasing music in 2015. The duo's work is a music, film, and performance piece that tells a story of love in a fantastical New York City setting over multiple songs. Their debut EP, We Need to Talk, was released in June 2016. [2] [9] [14] [15] [16] [17]
In 2019, Baran and partner Benjamin Romans, continuing as Woolf and the Wondershow, began performing their future theater show CAGES in a converted warehouse in The Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. Baran and Romans co-wrote the music and lyrics. During the show, Baran performs live on stage as main character Woolf, while Romans performs the live score. The warehouse has been outfitted with a top-of-the-line sound system, 1920s theater seats, and a custom-made scent diffuser. [18] CAGES has been noted as an innovative experience that blends Broadway, pop music and film. As described by Forbes, CAGES “is one part Les Mis, another part Kanye West, a dash of Broadway here, and a sprinkle of cinema there - all mixed together in an entirely new kind of immersive blender complete with earth-shattering sound.” [19]
Group | Song | Album | Role |
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Panic! at the Disco | "Victorious" | Death of a Bachelor | Writer, producer [9] |
Empire Cast | "Do It" featuring Becky G & Raquel Castro | Empire: the Complete Season 2 | Writer [9] |
"Mimosa" featuring Jamila Velazquez, Raquel Castro & Yani Marin | Writer | ||
Chicago | "If This Is Goodbye" | Born for This Moment | Writer, producer, programmer, vocalist |
"You've Got to Believe" | |||
Carly Rae Jepsen | "E•MO•TION" | E•MO•TION | Writer, producer [9] |
"Let's Get Lost" | Writer, producer [9] | ||
"Love Again" | Writer, producer | ||
"Store" | E•MO•TION: Side B | ||
"Everything He Needs" | Dedicated | ||
"Let's Be Friends" | Dedicated Side B | ||
"Always on My Mind" | |||
"It's Not Christmas Till Somebody Cries" | N/A | Writer, producer | |
Melanie Martinez | "Pity Party" | Cry Baby | Writer, producer [9] [20] |
"Cake" | Writer, producer [9] [20] | ||
"DEATH" | PORTALS | Producer, guitar, programming, synthesizer | |
"VOID" | Engineer | ||
"TUNNEL VISION" | Producer, programming, synthesizer | ||
"FAERIE SOIRÉE" | Producer | ||
"LIGHT SHOWER" | Engineer | ||
"SPIDER WEB" | Producer | ||
"LEECHES" | Producer, programming, synthesizer | ||
"BATTLE OF THE LARYNX" | Producer, guitar, programming, synthesizer | ||
"THE CONTORTIONIST" | Writer, producer, programming, synthesizer | ||
"MOON CYCLE" | Writer, producer, programming, synthesizer | ||
"NYMPHOLOGY" | Writer, producer, guitar, programming, synthesizer | ||
"EVIL" | Writer, producer, guitar, programming, synthesizer | ||
"WOMB" | Producer, programming, synthesizer | ||
"POWDER" | Writer, producer | ||
"PLUTO" | Writer, producer | ||
"Haunted" | N/A | Writer, producer | |
"I Scream" | |||
"Bouncy House" | |||
Britney Spears | "DYFO" | Sessions for Spears' 2016 album Glory | Writer, producer |
Coco Morier | |||
RINNA | "Atarasii Atasirasisa" | Atarasii Atasirasa | Writer |
Hilary Duff | "Rebel Hearts" | Breathe In. Breathe Out. | Writer, producer |
Dua Lipa | "Drunken Kiss" | Sessions for Lipa's 2017 album Dua Lipa | Writer, producer |
"21 Grams" | |||
K.Flay | "Only the Dark" | Solutions | Writer, producer |
Bea Miller | "Dracula" | Not an Apology | Writer, producer [9] |
COIN | "Talk Too Much" | How Will You Know If You Never Try | Writer [9] |
"Cemetery" | Dreamland | Writer, producer | |
MIKA | "Promiseland" | No Place in Heaven | Writer [9] |
Pentatonix | "Cracked" | Pentatonix | Writer [9] |
Simple Plan | "I Don't Wanna Go to Bed" featuring Nelly | Taking One for the Team | Writer [9] |
Who Is Fancy | "Seven Minutes in Heaven" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Betty Who | "Mama Say" | The Valley | Writer, producer |
Push Play | "Starlight Addiction" | Deserted | Writer |
"Plastique" | |||
"Situation" | |||
"Dreamers" | |||
"Do It Deadly" | |||
"Far from Beautiful" | |||
"The Life" | |||
"Stop Staring" | |||
"Here Without You" | |||
"Time to Shine" | |||
"There She Goes Again" | |||
"Watch It Burn" | Found | ||
"Midnight Romeo" | |||
"Heart Attack" | |||
"Taking It Back" | |||
"My Everything" | |||
"Covergirl" | |||
"This Is Us Breaking Up (Better Off)" | |||
"See My Soul" | |||
"Barely Legal" | |||
"Away, Away" | |||
"Where I Belong" | |||
"Start Again" | |||
"Dreamers" | |||
"Hush" | |||
"Dear Santa" | Dear Santa | ||
"Christmas Rock" | |||
"Stay Here This Christmas" | |||
"Dance with Me" | N/A | ||
"Get Down" | |||
"Pillow Talk" | |||
"Start Again" (with Emily Osment) | |||
CJ Baran | "BOOMerang" | N/A | Writer, producer [21] |
"Chasin' Me" | Writer, producer | ||
"Wallflower" | |||
"She's a Cougar" | |||
"Fuck You!" | |||
"Sext Me" | |||
"When I'm Rich" | |||
"Feels so Good Without You" | |||
"Girls' Night Out" | |||
"Double Dip" | |||
"Drink You Up" | |||
"Hurricane" | |||
"Last Night" | |||
"Locked Up" | |||
"Sometimes" | |||
"Stuck in a Rut" | |||
"Tease" | |||
Just like You | "You're A... (Bitch)" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Amy Pearson | "Read My Mind" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Future Boy | "Step by Step" | Volume 1 | Writer |
"Technicolor" | N/A | Writer, producer | |
"Endless Summer" | |||
"Shy Girl" | |||
Sage the Gemini | N/A | N/A | Writer, producer |
Alli Simpson | "Why I'm Single" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Notice Me" | |||
"Guilty" | |||
"Roll 'Em Up" featuring Jack & Jack | |||
Big Time Rush | "Windows Down" | Elevate | Programmer |
Hot Chelle Rae | "Kids" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Stalking Gia | "I'm Not Crazy" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Allstar Weekend | "James (Never Change)" | All the Way | Writer, producer |
"Yeah 3X" | Punk Goes Pop, Vol. 4 | Producer | |
The Rosso Sisters | "How You Write a Love Song" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Elyar Fox | "Shut Up and Kiss" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Kayslee Collins | "Avalanche" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Hollywood Ending | "You" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Kiesza | "Headlights" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Lemar | "Feels Right" | Time to Grow | Writer |
"Nocturnal" | N/A | ||
Days Difference | "Can't Go Back" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Hung up on You" | |||
Anna Nalick | "I've Been There" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Keli Price | "Something Good" | N/A | Producer |
Meadowland | "Mr. Right" | Turning Back the Clocks | Writer, producer |
Tich | "Posh Boy" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Storybook" | |||
Pixie Lott | "Till the Sun Comes Out" | Young Foolish Happy | Writer, producer [9] |
"Everybody Hurts Sometimes" | |||
"Don't Let Me Fall in Love Again" | N/A | Writer, producer | |
chloe mk | "Come This Far" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Allie X | "Champagne + Saint Germain" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Mars Argo | "Angry" | TBA | Producer |
"I Can Only Be Me" | |||
Auryn | "Them Girls" | Ghost Town | Writer, producer |
Cody Simpson | "Surfboard" | Surfer's Paradise | Writer, producer [9] |
"If You Left Him for Me" | Writer, producer [9] | ||
"Better Be Mine" | Writer, producer | ||
Jack & Jack | "Over Getting Over" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Bridgit Mendler | "Deeper Shade of Us" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Natasha Bedingfield | "Unsaid" | N/A | Writer, producer |
CuckooLander | "Another Life" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Sabrina Carpenter | "Looking at Me" | Singular: Act II | Programmer, background vocalist |
"Not Dead Yet" | N/A | Writer, producer | |
Amanda Fondell | "Trails" | Because I Am | Writer, producer |
Lea Michele | "Gone Tonight" | Louder | Writer, producer [9] |
Julia Michaels | "Running Right Back" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Talkin' 'Bout Us" | |||
"Me and You" | |||
Jukebox the Ghost | "Stay the Night" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Everybody's Lonely" | Off to the Races | ||
The Royal Concept | "Fashion" | Smile EP | Writer, producer [9] |
The Cab | "These Are the Lies" | Lock Me Up EP | Writer, producer [9] |
Jasmine Thompson | "Right Where We Belong" | N/A | Writer, producer |
The Vamps | "Lovestruck" | Meet the Vamps | Writer, producer |
Coco McQueen | "Let's Get French" | N/A | Writer, producer |
The Tide | "Rest of Us" | Young Love | Writer, producer |
Andrew McMahon | "So Close" | Zombies on Broadway | Writer, producer [9] [22] [23] |
Austin Mahone | "Say Somethin'" | N/A | Additional drums, synthesizer |
Aston Merrygold | "Distraction" | Precious | Writer, producer |
Lazy Weekends | "Back of My Car" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Caught Up" featuring Charlee | Vocalist | ||
"Beg" | Writer | ||
Woolf and the Wondershow | "We Need to Talk" | We Need to Talk | Writer, producer |
"Cages" | |||
"Cloaked" | |||
"Drinking About You" | |||
"Vandal" | |||
"Masquerade" | |||
"Talking to the Mirror" | |||
"Somebody's Somebody" | CAGES (Original Cast Recording) | Writer, producer | |
"Colour of Love" | |||
"All That's Left" | |||
"A Love Song" | |||
"A Mathematical Probability" | |||
"A Nocturnal Tragedy" | |||
"A Trespassing" | |||
"An Emotional Prophet" | |||
"An Emotional Terrorist" | |||
"Anger" | |||
"Catacombs" | |||
"Close" | |||
"Crash the Wedding" | |||
"Death in the Afternoon" | |||
"Don't Shoot the Messenger" | |||
"Drink This, or Forever Wonder What Could Have Been" | |||
"No Monster Could Sound That Beautiful" | |||
"Emotional Correction Facility" | |||
"Enter the Tavern" | |||
"Feel!" | |||
"Finale" | |||
"Fugitive" | |||
"Hauntings of the Past" | |||
"History of the World" | |||
"How Does It Feel to Feel?" | |||
"I Blame Time" | |||
"I Used To" | |||
"It Was as If Time Had Stopped" | |||
"Lighthouse" | |||
"Limbs" | |||
"Lust" | |||
"Martyr" | |||
"Masquerade" | |||
"Matrimonial Procession" | |||
"More Than This" | |||
"No One Wept" | |||
"Overture" | |||
"Prelude" | |||
"Read Your Worst Thoughts" | |||
"Rhapsody in a Cage" | |||
"Sea of Sadness" | |||
"Shadows" | |||
"She's Alive, but Dead Inside" | |||
"Strange" | |||
"The Ash Is Full of Regret" | |||
"The Boy with the Red Heart" | |||
"The Chemist" | |||
"The Execution" | |||
"The Fear That Follows" | |||
"The Judgement" | |||
"The Tree of Forgotten Memories" | |||
"The Trip" | |||
"Trial" | |||
"Weight of the World" | |||
"Welcome to Anhedonia" | |||
"What Good Is a Story Without Conflict?" | |||
"Words I Couldn't Say" | |||
"You Must Face Your Inner Demon" | |||
Cyndi Wang | "Pi Ni De Lei Zheng Zai Lu Shang (Neverland)" | CYNDILOVES2SING Ai。 | Writer |
R5 | "We're Alright" | Sometime Last Night | Writer, producer |
Maty Noyes | "Not Today" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Shadow" | |||
Jess Kent | "Girl" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Baker Grace | "Sad Summer" | N/A | Writer, producer |
ONE OK ROCK | "One Way Ticket" | Ambitions | Writer, producer [9] |
"Grow Old Die Young" | Eye of the Storm | ||
"When They Turn the Lights On" | Luxury Disease | Writer, producer | |
Aly & AJ | "Attack of Panic" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Joan of Arc on the Dance Floor" | |||
Off Bloom | "What We Do" | In Bloom | Writer, producer |
"Are You Feeling It Too?" | Writer | ||
Carmen DeLeón | "Wonderful" | N/A | Writer, producer |
James the Human | "News Satellite" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Baby Storme | "This City Is a Graveyard" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Sunglasses at Night" | Forever Halloween | ||
"Goosebumps" | |||
Kailee Morgue | "Medusa" | Medusa | Writer, producer |
"Discovery" | |||
Kailee Morgue & Hayley Kiyoko | "Headcase" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Ansel Elgort | "Thief" | N/A | Writer [9] [24] |
Liáng Jiā Jié | "Ài Shàng Nǐ De Ài" | Green Roses | Writer |
Nina Nesbitt | "History" | TBA | Writer, producer |
Max George | "Better on Me" | N/A | Writer |
End of the World | "One More Night" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Hollow" featuring DNCE | Chameleon | ||
"Rollerskates" | |||
Mob Rich | "Buggin" | Why No Why | Writer, producer |
Au/Ra | "Bite Marks" | Soundtrack to an Existential Crisis | Writer, producer |
"plz don't waste my youth" | N/A | Writer, producer | |
Royalties Cast | "This Is a Theme Song" featuring Darren Criss & Kether Donohue | Royalties: Season 1 (Music from the Original Quibi Series) | Writer, producer |
"Just That Good" featuring Rufus Wainwright | |||
"I Am so Much Better Than You at Everything" featuring Darren Criss | Producer | ||
"Make You Come True" featuring Jordan Fisher | Writer, producer | ||
"I Hate That I Need You" featuring Darren Criss, Jennifer Coolidge & NIve | Writer, producer | ||
Russell Dickerson | "Southern Symphony" | Southern Symphony | Writer |
Darren Criss | "fukn around" | Masquerade | Writer, producer |
"i can't dance" | |||
"for a night like this" | |||
"let's" | |||
"walk of shame" | Producer | ||
"I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero)" | A Very Darren Crissmas | Producer | |
Super Spreader | "Vaccinate Me!" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Dani Baran | "Voices in My Head" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Le Twins | "Ra Ta Ta" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Krystian Wang | "lucifer" | KRYSTIAN | Producer |
CUDDLES | "Nothing to Wear" | N/A | Writer, producer |
"I'm like That" | N/A | Writer, producer | |
Sheppard | "Lost as You" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Bonnie McKee & Eden xo | "Finish Line" | N/A | Writer, producer |
bludnymph | "The Things I Do for Love" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Caity Baser | "I'm a Problem" | N/A | Writer, producer, background vocals, bass guitar, programmer |
Noga Erez | "Come Back Home" | N/A | Writer, producer |
Cimorelli | "Dynamite" | CimFam | Producer |
"Price Tag" | |||
"What Makes You Beautiful" | |||
"Skyscraper" | |||
"All I Want for Christmas" | |||
Additional songs | "Attractive" (CJ Baran, Celina Berman & Nader Ashway) | N/A | Writer, producer |
"Blue" (CJ Baran, Tim Myers, Kathryn Ostenberg & Skyler Stonestreet) | |||
"Dagger" (CJ Baran, Kathryn Ostenberg & Skyler Stonestreet) | |||
"Digital Girl" (CJ Baran & Kevin Kessee) | |||
"I Broke My Heart" (CJ Baran, Kara DioGuardi & Skyler Stonestreet) | |||
"Like They Used To" (CJ Baran, Cara Salimando & Paula Winger) | |||
"Live for the Night" (CJ Baran, Chantal Kreviazuk & Tebey) | |||
"Love on the Dancefloor" (CJ Baran, Nick Clow, Luciana & James Bourne) | |||
"Lucid Dreams" (CJ Baran, Dana Parish & Andrew Hollander) | |||
"Made My Own" (CJ Baran, Nathaneal Boone & Justin Tranter) | |||
"Make Your Troubles Mine" (CJ Baran, Andrew Frampton & Molly Morgenstern) | |||
"Never Been Done Before" (CJ Baran & Lindy Robbins) | |||
"No Strings Attached" (CJ Baran, FRND & Lindy Robbins) | |||
"Ready for the Storm" (CJ Baran, Marty James, ALDAE & Ryota Kawamura) | |||
"Roots" (CJ Baran, Melissa Peirce & Anne Preven) | |||
"So-Called Bad Decisions" (CJ Baran, Madame Buttons & Neil Mason) | |||
"Someone to Break" (CJ Baran, Kathryn Ostenberg & Skyler Stonestreet) | |||
"Stop the Fever" (CJ Baran, Dana Parish & Phil Bentley) | |||
"The Great Divider" (CJ Baran, Kathryn Ostenberg & Skyler Stonestreet) | |||
"Wedding Gown" (CJ Baran, Kathryn Ostenberg & Skyler Stonestreet) | |||
"When It Snows" (CJ Baran, Felicia Barton, Ryland Blackinton & Anne Preven) |
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"Hallelujah" is a song by American solo project Panic! at the Disco. It was released as a single on April 19, 2015 through Fueled by Ramen as the first single from their fifth studio album Death of a Bachelor. "Hallelujah" debuted at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 selling over 71,000 copies, becoming the band's second top-40 hit single and the first in nine years since "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" was released in 2006. It is the first single not to include drummer Spencer Smith and bassist Dallon Weekes, thus making "Hallelujah" Panic! at the Disco's first single as a solo project.
Death of a Bachelor is the fifth studio album by Panic! at the Disco, and their first as a solo project, released on January 15, 2016 on Fueled by Ramen and DCD2. It is the follow-up to the band's fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (2013), with the entire album written and recorded by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Brendon Urie, who collaborated with other writers including Jake Sinclair, Morgan Kibby, Lolo, and Sam Hollander. It is the band's first album to not feature drummer Spencer Smith and also follows bassist Dallon Weekes' departure from the official line-up, subsequently becoming a touring member once again.
"Victorious" is a song by American solo project Panic! at the Disco released as the second single from the band's fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor, on September 29, 2015 by Fueled by Ramen and DCD2. The song was written by Brendon Urie, CJ Baran, Mike Viola, White Sea, Jake Sinclair, Alex DeLeon, and Rivers Cuomo and was produced by Sinclair with additional production by Suzy Shinn. A music video for the song was released on YouTube on November 13, 2015. It was the final song released during Dallon Weekes's tenure in the band, though it was never confirmed if he played bass on the single. Notably, "Victorious" was the band's first single in almost 10 years to chart on Billboard Pop Songs chart, since 2006's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies".
The Death of a Bachelor Tour was a concert tour by Panic! at the Disco, in support of the group's fifth studio album Death of a Bachelor (2016). The tour began in Uncasville at the Mohegan Sun Arena on February 24, 2017, and concluded on April 15, 2017, in Sunrise at the BB&T Center. Adding gross estimates from those concerts yet to be reported, the overall box office take was about $17 million when the tour closed. About 350,000 fans saw the Death of a Bachelor Tour during its run.
"Cut to the Feeling" is a song recorded by Canadian singer and songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, from the Canadian-French animated film Ballerina (2016). It was released as a single on May 26, 2017, to promote the film's release under the title Leap! in the United States. The song was written by Jepsen, Simon Wilcox, and Nolan Lambroza, and produced by Lambroza. The song serves as the theme song for the MTV reality series Siesta Key.
Pray for the Wicked is the sixth studio album by American pop rock solo project Panic! at the Disco. The album was released on June 22, 2018 on Fueled by Ramen in the US and WEA internationally. It is the follow-up to the band's fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor (2016). The album was produced by Jake Sinclair and promoted by the singles "Say Amen ", "High Hopes" and "Hey Look Ma, I Made It", with "(Fuck A) Silver Lining", "Dancing's Not a Crime" and "King of the Clouds" as promotional singles. It received generally positive reviews upon release, with many critics noting Urie's Broadway influences following his performance in Kinky Boots.
Dedicated is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on May 17, 2019, by 604 Records in Canada, and School Boy and Interscope Records in the United States. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Party for One", "Now That I Found You", "No Drug Like Me", "Julien", and "Too Much". To support the album Jepsen embarked on The Dedicated Tour with dates in Europe, North America and Asia. A companion album, Dedicated Side B, featuring outtakes from Dedicated, was released just over a year later on May 21, 2020.
"Me!" is a song by Taylor Swift featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco, released on April 26, 2019, as the lead single from Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, by Republic Records. Written by Urie, Swift, and Joel Little, and produced by the latter two, "Me!" is an upbeat bubblegum pop and synth-pop track driven by a marching band drumline. It is about embracing one's individuality, self-affirmation, and self-love.
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