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This Is Gospel Analysis

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Panic! At the Disco’s “This is Gospel” portrays society’s emphasis on homogeneity as an oppressive force for its individuals and the band is telling their audience to fight against it. In this video, we see the lead singer, Brendon Urie, struggling to fight being treated by a group of doctors. Urie’s resistance represents the individual’s nonconformity towards society’s expectations. When one of the doctors is about to cut him open, Urie takes off the oxygen mask and starts opposing a resistance to them, struggling to be released. He is being treated, “fixed”, without his consent. Urie is not willing to go under this transformation he pulls up a fight, he battles for freedom, but ultimately the doctors overpowered him. They physically restrain him and put him under. This physical restraint expresses the restriction society puts on people to live up to its standards and expectations. These limitations are, for some, as suffocating and confining as straps over one’s body tying it down to a gurney. Said standards …show more content…

The singer is shown dressed in a suit with folded hands over his chest. The suit and the position of his hands are foreshadowing the next scene, when he’s put in what appears to be a coffin. This is further represented by the emphasis on a change on his physical appearance: in the video, they change his dirty plain clothes for a suit, they comb his hair, and they apply makeup to his face. Now, it’s not only his soul that has undergone through a modification, but also his exterior. The pressure to conform to the uniformity goes beyond your essence, beyond what or who you are, it also includes how you look and how you express yourself. Given that exterior looks tends to be an extension of your personality and who you are, these changes are another form of oppression towards the non-normative members of society who are being pushed to fit the

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