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

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Released
  
August 7, 2006

Genre
  
Pop punk, electropunk

Format
  
CD, 7"

Recorded
  
2005 SOMD! Studios College Park, Maryland Dang! Studios Lewisville, Texas

Length
  
3:20 (album version) 2:57 (radio edit)

Label
  
Decaydance, Fueled by Ramen

"Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off", often shortened to "Lying Is the Most Fun...", is a single by American 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 impacted radio on October 17, 2006. The song is sometimes referred to by the shortened title "Lying Is the Most Fun" for radio.

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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 United States, the song peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, number 96 on the Pop 100, and number 4 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

The song also reached number 39 on the UK Singles Chart, in the process becoming the longest un-bracketed title of a song to enter the UK Top 40. While it also reached number 26 on the ARIA Charts and number 33 in New Zealand.

Music video

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.

Panic! at the Disco has stated that the music video is simply a '50s period short film and the man (Daniel Gomez) and woman (Molly D'Amour) are a couple, but not necessarily married.

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

The band explained on Steven's Untitled Rock Show that they chose Kopach for the video because they felt his treatment was the most unconventional of the ones they had been offered.

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)

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)

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)

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)

References

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