Hey Look Ma, I Made It

This song follows Panic! frontman Brendon Urie as he navigates the waters of fame and of a fickle and often predatory music industry: I'm a hooker sellin' songs And my pimp's a record label But these are merely the downsides of his dream. In the chorus, he reflects on his good fortune: Hey look ma, I made it Everything's comin' up aces

The video features a playful puppet version of singer Brendon Urie, charting his ascent to stardom and descent into the gutter. Asked by Q Magazine how much it is based on his own life, he replied, "Maybe half. The dominatrix stuff - that's not real. The girls, the cocaine, that's real. But not excessively. Coke was never my thing. Weed was always more comforting."

Urie wrote the lyric with Sam Hollander, a songwriter who has stayed out of the spotlight. Hollander was trying to imagine what Urie has to deal with in his role of superstar lead singer. "Brendon had written a chorus, and I got a call to mess around with some verse ideas," Hollander told Songfacts. "What I love about that is it's obviously dripping in theatricality - it's just so over-the-top. When I heard what Brendon wrote in that chorus, it felt like this was an introduction to a brand new era of the band, so I was just trying to summon some imagery in those verses to play off of that and fuel the fire."