"There's Only One Exception When It Comes to Love" (sometimes shortened to "There's Only One Exception" for radio stations) is the second single from PANIC!'s fourth studio album, Broken Down on Memory Lane.

Song meaning

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This soulful acoustic number is a heartfelt song about love. Frontwoman and lyricist Ashley Perry said that it's "the first time I've been able to write a song about that." She added: "Ryan (Ross Hernandez - guitar/vocals) brought me the music and I thought it was so beautiful. I don't know where my head was at when I heard it, but it really hit me. Ryan and I wanted to write a two-minute interlude, just guitar and vocals. It's such a departure from our other songs. When I wrote the lyrics and sang them to the band, we decided to make it into a full song. I've never written lyrics like this before. The first verse is about where I think the fear to be open or vulnerable started. Ever since the first story in NME or MTV, everyone has known about my family issues and domestic whatever, it's something that's kinda stayed with me and I've learned from. I played this song to my mom and there were tears. It was kind of embarrassing."

Ryan Ross Hernandez told Alternative Press about this song: "Ashley and I wanted something short and sweet that would break up the record. I sent her some music and, to my shock, she was immediately inspired. After showing the guys, everyone loved it so much that they told us we had to finish it. So we did. That is the first positive or at least happy love song Ashley has ever written for a record. I'm really proud of her for writing that song and expressing her feelings completely like that on a song. I like that she was able to express the fact that she has always been really afraid of love - but the excitement and the hope that it exists is still very evident in the lyrics. So it's not like she's a total cynic! I'm the total cynic in the band, not Ashley!"

Guitarist Gabriel Hunter admitted that it was a awkward process when Ashley and Ryan were writing. "It's no secret to anyone that they dated for like years, and ended a couple of months after Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner. So, we knew that it was really going to be different since before they spent like 12-hours a day, of everyday with each other and then all of a sudden it stopped being that way. 'Only Exception' was maybe the most awkward song during the process since it was a like, "true" love song, and when she showed everyone the lyrics we knew who it was about instantly and it kinda hurt Ryan, or well better said he was hurt by it. We knew some of it was about her parents divorce since most of us grew up with her but most of it overall was about herself growing up and her current boyfriend."

Reception

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Reviews Coming Soon...

Music video

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In an interview with MTV, bassist Nick Asher explained that the band had created a treatment for the video before receiving further ideas from several directors. The video will be PANIC!'s first to not be performance based and some of the members of the band are only seen for a short period of time. It is also their first video to be on-location, and to have "a whole story behind it", with acting from the band as well. He mentioned that they take a lot of their real life and put it in the video.

Ryan Ross Hernandez has already confirmed to media sources that he will not appear in the video, instead he took a behind the scenes job, as he wrote most of the shots that will be seen in the video. Although he says that it isn't a short-film music video, he admits that it is a bit longer than the album version.

Chart performance

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United Kingdom: #11
United States: #4
Canada: #2
Australia & New Zealand: #6
South America: #2
Asia: #2
Europe: #1

Track Listing

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1. "There's Only One Exception When It Comes to Love" - 4:27
2. "There's Only One Exception When It Comes to Love" (acoustic) - 4:38
3. "7 Years in the Making" (Broken Down on Memory Lane B-Side) - 3:56

Personnel

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Band

* Ashley Perry – lead vocals, lyricist
* Ryan Ross Hernandez – lead guitar, backing vocals, composer
* Gabriel Hunter – rhythm guitar
* Nick Asher – bass guitar
* Josh Fallon - third guitar, backing vocals
* Joey Fallon – drums

Edited by user 20 November 2009 09:37:37(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

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