SYNESTHETES +++ SELF.DESCRIBED**

Brendon Urie

Singer · 1987- · chromesthesia

The Panic! at the Disco frontman has described songs arriving as colors, circling words, and shapes, and has recounted albums in specific palettes.

Brendon Urie has described his synesthesia in interviews over several years, most vividly to Rolling Stone in 2018: hearing a song can mean seeing colors, a tornado of circling words he picks one out of, or shapes, a song as a square in perfect order, or a pyramid turning into a rhombus. His account is notable for its breadth; the experiences shift form, and he ties them to emotional state rather than a fixed code.

He has also described whole records in color. Death of a Bachelor, in his telling, lived in bright yellows and reds with soft Sixties pastels and dark, popping teals, a palette description specific enough to hand to a designer.

Urie’s case sits comfortably in the self-described tier: repeated firsthand accounts across years, given in his own words, with the idiosyncratic specificity that genuine reports tend to carry.