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

Infobox Single
Name = Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off


Artist = Panic at the Disco
from 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 = Emo Pop Punk Post-Hardcore
Length = 3:20 (2:57 radio version)
Label = Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance
Producer = Matt Squire
Chart position = * #26 (Australia)
* #33 (New Zealand)
* #39 (United Kingdom)
* #104 (U.S.)
Last single = "But It's Better If You Do" (2006)
This single = "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" (2006)
Next single = "Build God, Then We'll Talk" (2007)

"Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" is the fourth 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 fourth single overall, but third commercial single ("The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" was not commercially released as a single). The song is sometimes referred to by the shortened title "Lying Is the Most Fun" for radio.

The song's title originates from a line in the 1997 play "Closer", written by Patrick Marber. The line was originally spoken by the character Alice who, in the debut performance, was portrayed by English actress Liza Walker. It was also repeated in the 2004 film of the same name, spoken by the same elusive character Alice, this time portrayed by Natalie Portman. The prior Panic at the Disco single "But It's Better If You Do" takes its name from the line after "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" in both the play and the film.

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.

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 places it into her tank and stares at it. 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. The woman has flashbacks to reveal that the man is her husband. In these flashbacks, 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. She then attempts suicide by pouring out her own tank and collapsing. 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.

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

The single has received wide rotation on radio but the music video failed to chart on TRL.

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.

Track listings

UK CD/Digital August 2006

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

UK Enhanced CD - August 2006

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

UK 7" Picture Disc - August 2006

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

WMI CD/Digital - January 2007

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

External links

*YouTube|8AZxUtZ2ZgI|"Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" music video