• Portuguese Translation

I believe that you can’t control who you are. It’s something that I’ve experienced myself, that girls do love girls and boys. Girls are just more sexual in nature, much more so than guys. A lot of times people want to label something just to make themselves feel comfortable. They wanna call this person gay or this person straight. I have had similar experience with homosexuality, with bisexuality, and that’s something I feel comfortable talking about. It’s not something anyone should have to hide, and that goes along with the message of the song, that it’s important to know who you are, to be able to be proud of that, and have the courage behind your convictions. People can say whatever they want; it doesn’t matter unless you let it affect you. That’s an important lesson I had to learn with the band.

—Brendon Urie via NPR

We actually wrote this one in New York, the same time as we were writing ‘Nicotine.’ This one came about, Dallon had a bass part that I was really fond of, and he recorded it and I started just producing around it. I had this bass part that I had recorded for me, and I started just adding drums and I found the synth. And we started talking about, ‘love is not a choice’ was, like, the first official theme of it. We both are familiar with girls that love girls and boys. […] And that, for whatever reason, was just a sexy idea, we were like, ‘that’s really cool.’ […] To me it kinda sounds like a Cure song in a way, there’s a weird synth in the beginning that I think The Cure, it’s very Cure-esque. […] I think that’s one of the more suggestive songs, it’s pretty suggestive, pretty sexual.

—Brendon Urie via Rock Sound

During the Death of a Bachelor tour, a group of fans cut out paper hearts in rainbow colors and passed them out to concert-goers. They then held these hearts up to the flashlights on their phones, covering the arena with rainbow lights as a way to show support for the LGBTQ+ community.