Brendon Urie: The Worst Mormon

Brendon Urie: The Worst Mormon Brendon Boyd Urie, who grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, was unlike most of his family. His mother and father, Grace and Boyd Urie, had raised him and his four other siblings differently than most parents in America do. He was raised to be a Mormon. However, he knew for a long time that wasn’t the life he wanted to live. When he was 17 years old he told his parents that he wanted to pursue music as a career, and that he didn’t believe in their lifestyle. This resulted in them kicking Brendon out of their home. He went from barely making ends meet to becoming superstar in a little over a decade. His hard work and dedication is what makes him stand out among most celebrities nowadays.
From an early age Urie knew that pursuing music and performing as a career was something he desperately wanted to achieve. However, being brought up as a Mormon prevented him from doing so. Once he finally told his parents the truth about who he was, and how he didn’t agree with their beliefs, he was kicked out of their home. His most recent album Death of a Bachelor, has one particular song that has to do with him breaking free from the beliefs of a religion that he no longer believed in. “Hallelujah” is the name of this song, and the lyrics that confirm this are: “Tied up in pretty young things. In a state of emergency who was I trying to be?”
The meaning behind these lyrics is that he was tied up in the beautiful things he was being told about by his parents, and he was young so he didn’t know any better. The second line is him reflecting on his younger former self, and asking himself who was he trying to be. He wonders why he was trying to be the person his parents wanted him to be instead of himself. That is one of the many admirable things about Brendon Urie. Despite knowing the consequences of his actions, he went through with it anyway, and his decision paid off in the