Nylon interviewed Pete Wentz:
Plus, the idea of making a pure throwback record left Wentz with a bad taste in his mouth. “Whenever artists that I love, filmmakers and bands that I love, say that something is a ‘return to form,’ I’m like, ughhhh. He’s a multi-millionaire, how is he going to make speed metal?” Wentz says. “People think they want that, but if we do it, you won’t like it. And it’ll feel inauthentic.”
But to Wentz, who often speaks in pop-culture references (and has been watching The Last of Us), making more pop-oriented music felt like reaching quarantine in a zombie apocalypse. “We figured out how to exist somehow, but we’re like, mmm, kind of existing.” The band still had an appetite to do more, like on 2018’s Mania, a heavily programmed, hip-hop–influenced album that some fans feel veered too far into pop, but it gave the band a chance to flex new creative muscles. “It was me goofing around with what you could do to mangle sound waves,” Stump says. “And that was really fun, but we did that, so I didn’t want to just go back and do it again.”
Fall Out Boy have announced some European tour dates.
Read More “Fall Out Boy Announce Europe Dates” Fall Out Boy have announced a new tour. Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Four Years Strong, The Academy Is…, Royal & The Serpent, Games We Play, Daisy Grenade, and CARR will be playing select shows.
Read More “Fall Out Boy Announce New Tour” Some fan-shot footage from Fall Out Boy’s Chicago show at the Metro was uploaded to YouTube.
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I sent over some questions to Open the Portal, the directors of Fall Out Boy’s “Love from the Other Side” video, and you can find that, along with some behind the scenes photos from the video shoot below.
Read More “Open the Portal — Directors of Fall Out Boy’s “Love from the Other Side” Video” Fall Out Boy have announced a show at the Metro in Chicago on Wednesday, January the 25th.
Read More “Fall Out Boy Announce Chicago Show” It looks like the next song released from Fall Out Boy’s upcoming album will be “Heartbreak Feels So Good” after a new seashell was found from clues on Twitter. Based on the note, it’s probable for January 25th.
Read More “Another Fall Out Boy Seashell Found” Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy talked with NME:
The lead single may have that classic Fall Out Boy energy but, according to Stump, “it’s not a throwback record”.
“I didn’t want to go back to a specific style, but I wanted to imagine what would it have sounded like if we had made a record right after ‘Folie à Deux’ [Fall Out Boy’s divisive 2009 album] instead of taking a break for a few years,” said Stump. “It was like exploring the multiverse. It was an experiment in seeing what we would have done.”
And:
Stump then told NME that it took a “while” for the band to agree on the vision for ‘So Much (For) Stardust’ with producer Neal Avron [who’d previously worked on 2005’s ‘From Under The Cork Tree’, 2007’s ‘Infinity On High’ and 2008’s ‘Folie à Deux’] acting as the “catalyst”.
“He was a little hesitant because he doesn’t really produce records anymore,” explained Stump. “He’s gone onto bigger and better things. Pete was a little hesitant as well because he didn’t want to do a throwback record, but I asked him to trust me. Neal has this ability to get the best out of us, so I really fought for him to be involved. He finally said yes, Pete said yes and as soon as that happened, it was like swimming for a fish; it just happened so naturally.”
And with Kerrang:
I probably can’t talk about it yet, but it was the first song we wrote – it was written long before we got Neal onboard, long before COVID-19, and there’s a couple of things in there that I think people would be very surprised to hear lyrically. Pete was talking about the state of the world, and it seems like he landed very surreptitiously on what was about to happen (laughs). So there’s something magical to me about the way that happened. There’s a little bit at the end that directly references COVID, that was added after the fact, but the rest of it was all just Pete thinking about the world and, well, it’s been a weird bunch of years, hasn’t it?
Fall Out Boy are on the latest episode of Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show.
Fall Out Boy performed “Love From the Other Side” on Kimmel.
Read More “Fall Out Boy Perform on Kimmel” Joe has announced he’s taking a break from Fall Out Boy, but will return.
Fall Out Boy will release So Much (For) Stardust on March 24th via Fueled by Ramen. Today they’ve shared the video for “Love from the Otherside” and pre-orders are now up.
Read More “Fall Out Boy Announce New Album” Fall Out Boy will release “Love From the Other Side” on January 18th.
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