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“Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time” was released on New Year’s Eve 2015 as an instant download for those who had already pre-ordered Death of a Bachelor from digital music retailers.
The song tells the story of a drunken night out. The singer wakes up with no idea where he is or what happened during the wild night. He concludes that the wild stories that come out of the night are the best part and shouldn’t be used as warnings, therefore ‘don’t threaten with a good time’.
As track two on Death of a Bachelor , it takes place after track one, “Victorious”, about a celebration with friends and presumably tells of the morning after.
Urie told Radio.com that he wanted to sing about parties he’d been to in real life:
“I wanted to write a party song just strictly about parties that I’ve been to, things I’ve seen… how crazy that’s been. You can’t threaten me with a good time. If you think I’m going to be scared of insanity at a party then you thought wrong ‘cause I’m in. I’m one hundred percent in.
In regards to the interpolation of the B-52s' “Rock Lobster” guitar riff in the song, Urie went on to explain how his love for that song traced back to his childhood, and he had been waiting to get the publishing rights to use it in one of his songs.
When I was a kid, the first time I heard B-52s, I was like, this is a party….That song encapsulated a party to me. I had that sample as a place-holder, not thinking I’d be able to use it or get publishing rights to it in any way and finally they had heard it through my management and they said, ‘Yeah, that’s cool, you can use it.’ That was amazing because I had plans to replace it.“
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