Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

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"Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
Single by Panic! at the Disco
from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Released	August 7, 2006
Format	CD, Enhanced CD, 7" vinyl
Recorded	2005 SOMD! Studios College Park, Maryland Dang! Studios Lewisville, Texas
Genre	Alternative rock, emo, dance-punk
Length	3:20 2:57 (Radio Edit)
Label	Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen
Producer	Matt Squire
Panic! at the Disco singles chronology
"But It's Better If You Do" (2006) "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" (2006) "Build God, Then We'll Talk" (2007)

"Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" is a single by rock band Panic! at the Disco, from the album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Released on August 7, 2006, it is the third commercially released single from that album and fourth overall ("The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" was only released promotionally). The song is sometimes referred to by the shortened title "Lying Is the Most Fun" for radio.^{[citation needed]}

The song's title was taken from a line of dialog in the 2004 film Closer (based on a 1997 play of the same name). The line, spoken by Natalie Portman's character, Alice, is "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off, but it's better if you do." "But It's Better If You Do", another song by Panic at the Disco, was released as a single prior to "Lying is the Most Fun".

In the U.S., the song peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart,^[1] number 96 on the Pop 100,^[2] and number 4 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.^[3]

The song also reached number 39 on the UK Singles Chart,^[4] number 26 on the ARIA Charts,^[5] and number 33 in New Zealand.^[6]

This song was included in the video game Saints Row 2.

Contents 1 Music video 2 Track listings 2.1 UK CD/Digital August 2006 2.2 UK Enhanced CD - August 2006 2.3 UK 7" Picture Disc - August 2006 2.4 WMI CD/Digital - January 2007 3 References

[edit] Music video

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The music video was directed by Travis Kopach and filmed on June 19, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. The video was premiered on MTV2 on July 14, 2006. It features people with fish tanks on their heads. The video only shows the band in one scene (the paramedics are the band members), because the band felt that their looks were distracting from their music.

The music video starts out with a woman walking on a sidewalk. Oddly she has a fish tank on her head and all the people around her also have a fish tank. The fish in the tank represent the amount of people an individual has slept with. She quickly runs into a puddle and follows it to find a fish flapping around. She recognizes the fish as her own and keeps on walking until she sees her husband lying on the floor. Then the woman heads over to a group of people to discover them gathered around a man whose tank broke and he is dying now. She starts seeing this flashbacks, and in them she has a significantly smaller amount of fish in her tank, meaning that she did not sleep with as many people during the period of her flashback. We are left to presume the man had committed suicide because of her infidelity. So the woman then faints of shock and collapses, smashing her fish tank. The band arrives in two ambulances (labeled Receiving Hospital) and takes them away in bathtubs. The band then carries the two across a beach and throws them into the ocean. There the woman holds the man. As they reunite again and fall in love. There have been many theories about the video the most widely accepted being that the water represents love. And so when they lose their love they die and are taken to a place full of love, the sea (or Heaven).

The band includes a 15 second intro instead of starting the vocals right at the beginning.

The band has reported on Steven's Untitled Rock Show that they chose this plot for the video because they felt it was very different from the other treatments they were being offered from other directors.

[edit] Track listings

[edit] UK CD/Digital August 2006

1. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
2. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" (Live from Astoria)

[edit] UK Enhanced CD - August 2006

1. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
2. "Build God, Then We'll Talk" (Live from Astoria)
3. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" (Video)
4. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" (Live Video from Astoria)

[edit] UK 7" Picture Disc - August 2006

1. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
2. "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" (Live from Astoria)

[edit] WMI CD/Digital - January 2007

1. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" (Radio Edit)
2. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" (Album Version)
3. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" (Live from Astoria)
4. "Build God, Then We'll Talk" (Live from Astoria)

[edit] References

v • d • e Panic! at the Disco Brendon Urie • Spencer Smith Brent Wilson • Ryan Ross • Jon Walker Studio albums A Fever You Can't Sweat Out · Pretty. Odd. Live albums ...Live in Chicago EPs Live Session EP Singles "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" · "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" · "But It's Better If You Do" · "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" · "Build God, Then We'll Talk" · "Nine in the Afternoon" · "Mad as Rabbits" · "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" · "Northern Downpour" · "New Perspective" Related Discography · The Young Veins