"Say Amen (Saturday Night)" is a song by American

pop rock Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock musi ...

solo project

Panic! at the Disco Panic! at the Disco was an American pop rock band formed in Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2004 by high school friends Ryan Ross (guitar) and Spencer Smith (musician), Spencer Smith (drums), who recruited classmates Brendon Urie (vocals and ...

from their sixth studio album, ''

Pray for the Wicked ''Pray for the Wicked'' is the sixth studio album by American pop rock solo project Panic! at the Disco. The album was released on June 22, 2018 on Fueled by Ramen in the United States. It is the follow-up to the band's fifth studio album, ''Deat ...

'' (2018). It was released as the lead single for the album on March 21, 2018. The song became Panic! at the Disco's first number one single on the ''Billboard''

Alternative Songs Alternative Airplay (formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks between 1988 and 2009, and Alternative Songs between 2009 and 2020) is a music chart published in the American magazine ''Billboard'' since September 10, 1988. It ranks the 40 most-play ...

chart in June 2018.

Release

"Say Amen (Saturday Night)" was released for

digital download Digital download may refer to: *Downloading, the processing of copying data to a computer from an external source *Digital distribution, a method of downloading software or audio-visual media as opposed to buying it at a traditional point of sale * ...

and

streaming Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a network for playback using a media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downl ...

on March 21, 2018, and was produced by Jake Sinclair and Imad Royal."Panic! At The Disco announce new album and unveil single 'Say Amen (Saturday Night)'"
''NME'', March 21, 2018. Retrieved on March 21, 2018. On the same day, the promotional single "(Fuck A) Silver Lining" was released. The song became Panic! at the Disco's first number one single on the ''Billboard''

chart in June 2018.

Sound and lyrics

"Say Amen (Saturday Night)" is a

song with influences of

hip hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip- ...

and

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...

with a "dizzying swirl of synth-strings and pitch-shifted vocal samples." The track "features one of Urie's strongest vocal performances to date." The song is known for Urie's famous A5 to B5 near the end. It is written in the key of

F-sharp minor F-sharp minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature has three sharps. Its relative major is A major and its parallel major is F-sharp major (or enharmonically G-flat major). ...

Music video

Directed by Daniel "Cloud" Campos, the music video for "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" premiered on March 21, 2018. Panic! at the Disco frontman

Brendon Urie Brendon Boyd Urie (born April 12, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is best known as the former lead vocalist and frontman of Panic! at the Disco, the only constant member throughout the band's 19-year run. Many of his ...

confirmed that the music video serves as a prequel to the band's 2013 music video, " This Is Gospel", from the band's fourth studio album '' Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!'' and the 2015 music video for " Emperor's New Clothes", from the band's fifth studio album ''

Death of a Bachelor Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shor ...

.'' The video begins with a news report explaining that an artifact has been stolen. It cuts to a mob of armed assassins breaking into Brendon Urie's home. Urie texts his girlfriend to delay her arrival, and defeats the burglars by various comical and/or morbid means, such as lassoing them into fans by the neck or driving knives into their faces. Urie's girlfriend then arrives, whereupon they hug their way to the bedroom. When she notices the artifact hanging on Urie's chest by a necklace, she beats him and kills him with a bat. She steals the key from Urie's body as heartbeats reminiscing "This Is Gospel" are heard.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 2018 singles Panic! at the Disco songs Songs critical of religion Songs written by Jake Sinclair (musician) Songs written by Lolo (singer) Songs written by Brendon Urie Songs written by Sam Hollander 2018 songs Fueled by Ramen singles Songs about nights