panic at the disco began creating their new album after their first album, "a fever you can't sweat out". while on tour for about two years, they had no new songs to perform. in january 2007 the band went into "hibernation" in a cabin (just outside the strip), as they began writing new songs for the next six months hoping for a second album to be released during fall 2007. on july 7, 2007 they played the song "it's true love" live during their first performance since going into writing. later that night however, the band decided that they did not like the music had written and scrapped all the songs they had written (which was about 3/4 of an album, as they were almost done recording).