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Pete Wentz Talks Fame, New Fall Out Boy Songs and One Hilarious Emo Gag

9/14/07, 3:18 pm EST

Earlier this week, Rolling Stone caught up with Pete Wentz during a stop in New York, hoping just to see what was brewing in the mind of the Fall Out Boy bassist. Among Wentz’s insights: Fame means watching where you put your fingers. “I can’t pick my nose at stoplights — which I do anyway,” he says. “That’s what window tints are for.” And while despite his growing stardom, he’s feeling pretty tame these days (“In a weird way, I’ve become domestic. I don’t feel the need for everybody to know everything about me”), he’s been somewhat inspired by the self-destructive impulses of the Lohans and Spears of the world. The band’s upcoming Young Wild Things tour takes its name from a classic kids’ book, but “There’s also a play on words of the young wild thing idea that everybody has with Hollywood and starlets right now.”

Also, Fall Out Boy are working on some “folky sounding” material for their next album. “We just wrote those songs in the back of the bus with an acoustic guitar. I’m not really sure what will happen with them,” Wentz says. “There’s one about some friends who ended up in crazy strip club in France, which is a cool song.” When the subject turned to emo, Wentz, amazingly, didn’t challenge us to a fight — in fact, he sounded pretty good-natured about it. “I get what people are saying with the eyeliner and the girl pants and this and that. Hopefully, [emo] is more than just a T-shirt slogan. Hopefully some of us bands are able to grow and become bigger than emo,” the bassist said. Wentz also talked about a visual gag we seriously hope that FOB will still put into play sometime: “For a long time, we talked about playing in front of a giant banner that said ‘EMO’.” If you’re emo, you might as well be in on the joke.”


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Alexia | 10/30/2008, 6:39 pm EST

i like MOST of FOB’s music & i know they aint emo, isnt hearing the word emo getting on any of your nerves yet? i have nothing against them but…

wow, you guys are cool. | 9/30/2008, 1:58 am EST

i love pete and i love fall out boy.i love their music and don’t care if you don’t.
but you know what i hate?
i really hate the complete dickheads who say “omg, i hate fall out boy because they’ve like changed and i totally used to love them but now they are stupid and become mainstream”.
Firstly, fall out boy have been around a while.
Do you actually expect them to play the same music forever?
were they always going to be those guys who played garage band music? no.
You say they are sellouts because they don’t play whats in there hearts, well i think that them changing just shows they are playing what they feel. Of course there music was going to change, they aren’t going to stay awkward teenagers with awkward teenager feelings forever, are they? it would be sad if they did actually. So if they kept playing that same old music forever then they would be lieing really, because they’d be playing music that meant nothing to them and only playing music about the old emotions they used to have to sound like they used to (which would be bad because, how bad would it be if all of their songs were about the same thing?). Bands will change as they grow up, seriously, pete wentz writes all the lyrics, so of course the lyrics are going to change from what they were 2003, because now he’s married and expecting a kid? and now the band has to deal with d-bags like you hating people, so hes probably going to write more songs about that and the life the band is currently living instead of the songs the band wrote on From Under The Cork Tree.
Change is exciting. You all sound like 80 year olds.
You people are so hypocritical, i seriously worry for you!
what the hell is with “crash their tour bus”, i’d like to crash the tour bus on your face you sick bastard.
And also, fob have helped those kids in uganda, what have you done with your excuse of a life?
I also think that a lot of people only listen to bands which they think are “cool”, fall out boy got onto the radio and everyone started liking the old and new albums so then the fakers stopped listening to it because it wasn’t alternative and “cool” anymore. They even stopped listening to the old stuff they loved because they didn’t want to be seen listening to a mainstream band. You people discust me. You only listen to music to be cool. You are fake posers right down to your core. You want to be alternative and be seen in a certain way. Your simply pathetic.
i LIKE OLD FALL OUT BOY a lot, but new fall out boy is good too. mainstream music, though sometime annoying is pretty fun right?
Fall out boy got the fame they deserved.
If you don’t like fall out boy then good for you, but don’t throw unrelated put downs about their appearance and unrelated things at them.
oh and to that guy who said pete was a talentless douche; as if you can talk, if you had even half the talent he has then we’d probably all know who you are right? your just a meaningless comment on a page. do something with your life then get back to me, okay?
oh and that “sammy” person, i know a good anger management number?
This is acutally the first comment i’ve ever made on a page like this, i usually ignore your bulldust, but you people seriously piss me off.
Stop being complete ESSHOLES!
I’ve got really carried away and dont care.
oh and btw, that guy called “Truth” & “you guys are lame…” good calls :]
people are entitled to like who they want, your hatred is going to achieve nothing but more hatred towards you.
xx

FOB ROCKS!!! :D | 4/20/2008, 9:45 pm EST

Fall out boy is the best band ever!!!

angel | 4/2/2008, 9:52 pm EST

i just love fall out boy and ummmm……….. you pete wentz lol and mac and cheese

The Jackyl | 3/18/2008, 4:39 pm EST

“if fall out boy was so lame, they would not be getting so much airwaves
and awards and stuff……”

Popularity has nothing to do with quality. Fall Out Boy’s music is simple, non offensive, and easily digestible by the average radio listener. Therefore, it sells well.

“Bands of this era knows this and is adjusting to modern trends”

That’s known as “selling out”. Real musicians play what they feel, not what the media tells them to play.

gzpz1 | 3/15/2008, 4:53 pm EST

and one more thing: if fall out boy was so lame, then why would they have so many fans who like them so much?
anyone who keeps making fun of Pete and the other fob guys will have to answer this question. if not, then haters, just fuck off!

gzpz1 | 3/15/2008, 4:50 pm EST

The band:Fall out boy is so cool.
i listen to their songs whenever i get the chance.
so fall out boy haters i say to them, fuck off!

Back-Off! | 1/14/2008, 8:25 pm EST

Patrick has the best voice I’ve ever heard.I highly doubt any of you haters could even write a song if you’re life depended on it. And If you think that they’re doing it wrong then get out there and do it yourself.

Alix | 1/1/2008, 10:39 pm EST

what the hell is up with all the haters….just because you don’t like the music or the people doesn’t mean that you should come on here and post all the shit about true music….if you don’t like them then don’t say shit about keep it to youself because i don’t think people wanna…fall out boy and their music is awesome….and patrick is hott>3

mikhail | 11/27/2007, 3:04 pm EST

firstly those who are hating, why dont you all get a fucking life….
so what if you dont like fall out boy
is your opinion everyones…..
if fall out boy was so lame, they would not be getting so much airwaves
and awards and stuff…… this music is what the new generation likes. Bands of this era knows this and is adjusting to modern trends

sandy | 10/8/2007, 8:23 pm EST

peater wentz ilove you me encantas jijiji esta guapisimo y cuando lei tu biografia algunas cosas asi como lo de suicido ami tambien me a pasado y me daban ganas de hacerlo suicidarme

you guys are lame.. | 10/4/2007, 3:03 pm EST

I agree with truth. all you little pricks who sit around and leave comments on sites like these saying things about how there’s no good music anymore, grow up. its your fucking opinion, not ours. obviously not everyone liked nirvana, or any other band from back then, but that never mean’t music needed to be saved. Everyone entitled to like whoever they want, and play what kind of music they want, and there’s nothing you can do about it. if you really cared about music, you would have accepted that by now.
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stfu. with the exception of fall out boy and panic! at the disco, 90% of my favorite bands are indie and not well-known so they’ve never even made it to the radio. and i dont care, i have an MP3 player. its the 21st century and we dont need to depend on a radio. and you have music retardation for not accepting that everyone has their own tastes. if music was all metal, then what would the kids who like emo music listen to? the kids who like rap? and that goes for any music genre. dont be so fucking bias, self-centered, and ignorant. if anyone’s ruining music it’s small-minded listeners like you, and that will never get you anywhere in life.

mel,wentz. | 9/30/2007, 10:16 am EST

so so so hot!

I fucking love.

subscribe | 9/30/2007, 10:14 am EST

Yes, a tour bus crash! I fucking hope that shit really happens. These shit fucks have been polluting the airwaves for long enough. Fucking retarded ass emotional no talent punk bitches. I can’t believe radio stations used to play Nirvana, Soundgarden, STP, Radiohead, Meat Puppets and other great shit. Why don’t we hear Oceansize, Elbow, Beta Band, Trail of Dead, Guided by Voices, Low, VAST or anybody with an ounce of talent or originality? I’ve come to except the fact that there is a thing called MUSICAL RETARDATION, and that 90% of the population has it. Thank god for MP3 players.

update | 9/30/2007, 10:12 am EST

what a doink.

mel | 9/30/2007, 10:10 am EST

so so so hot!

Lord Ivanovich IV | 9/26/2007, 11:43 am EST

Evanescence ROXXxx
lol
amy s the best one

ballon | 9/22/2007, 2:44 pm EST

you all are nuts cause pete is the sexiest guy on Earth.And I LOVE YOU AND ONLY YOU

ballon | 9/22/2007, 2:44 pm EST

you all are nuts cause pete is the sexiest guy on Earth.And I LOVE YOU AND ONLY YOU

hey pete | 9/20/2007, 7:39 am EST

hey pete u r so HOT

hey pete | 9/20/2007, 7:39 am EST

hey pete u r so HOT

Bukowski | 9/18/2007, 10:34 am EST

OMG, you’re as sharp as a saw blade, baby!!!

Omg! Lol! | 9/18/2007, 9:19 am EST

OMG! Their friends ended up in a STRIP CLUB??!! Lol! That is SO wild and crazy! I bet they even drank a BEER and got a LAP DANCE!!! If that’s not song writing material, idk what is lol. AND a giant EMO banner!!!? Wow, these guys are real renegades. Some real loose cannons. Kieth Richards is shooting heroin into the vein under his cock, then doing a line off a hooker’s tits, but they have an EMO banner! What’s next!!!? Matching outfits!!? Lock up your daughters, fall out boy is on the loose.

Adrienne | 9/18/2007, 1:12 am EST

I agree with fobfan!! Fall out boy ROCKS!!! They play Great Music and have an Amazing sound!!! Obviously if they weren’t doing something right they wouldn’t be where they are today!!! FOB 4 LIFE!!!!!!!

Bukowski | 9/17/2007, 9:23 pm EST

That’s highly immature
That’s highly immature
That’s highly immature
That’s highly immature

Wwh, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

Truth | 9/17/2007, 8:44 pm EST

The maturity of the so-called “people” who want to “save” music is astounding. How about you grow the fuck up. You know what you sound like when you bitch and moan about bands like fall out boy, well, you sound like the EMO PIECES OF SHIT that you hate so much. Fucking idiots. Stop complaining like little bitches and go masturbate by yourselves to your zepplin and nirvana, and just leave normal society alone. God damn, makes me want slap a bitch.

mike | 9/17/2007, 7:27 pm EST

I agree with the below post…
KEEP ROCKIN

fobfan | 9/17/2007, 7:26 pm EST

I think fall out boy is great.
All bands change their sound and whatever they do will be amazing.
the guys in this band have their heads screwed on right.
LOVE YOU GUYS

Anonymous | 9/17/2007, 6:12 pm EST

That guy looks like the head of a dick with knob-rot. And I’ve heard three year olds rock out better than these testicularly challenged pussies.

stephanie and ari | 9/17/2007, 5:19 pm EST

if fall out boy come out with a folk album stephanie and i will break up. and she will go out with eric.
TICHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

Anonymous | 9/17/2007, 5:00 pm EST

Someone needs to punch these little twats in the ovaries. Now, I know you’re thinking “but they’re boys, and they don’t have…” but shut the fuck up and land a solid blow to the ovaries.

Russ | 9/17/2007, 4:05 pm EST

pete’s more successful than all of us put together……he’s obviously doing something right.

j | 9/17/2007, 3:50 pm EST

You guys are posting this ON Rolling Stone. These types of bands are the epitome of what Rolling Stone is about…

Jay | 9/17/2007, 3:14 pm EST

You might not like the band and what they have to say, but there’s absolutely no need to wish a tour bus crash on them. That’s completely unnecessary and highly immature. Don’t listen to the music and don’t click on anything to do with them. That way you can stay away from the turd.

Tory | 9/17/2007, 3:04 pm EST

You pete wentz, are a pathetic waste of human life. Your band has been polluting the airwaves for TOO DAMN LONG. Honestly? I don’t see why you emo ass posers aren’t dead yet due to the amount of people who just want to FUCKING WIPE YOU OFF THE AIR. Not only can you NOT SING but WHAT THE FUCK is up with your GOD DAMN lyrics? What happened to the shit that they used to play that’s good?! I agree that we are suffering from a HUGE ASS case of MUSIC RETARDATION.

Ian St. Ian | 9/17/2007, 1:41 pm EST

What a sack of shit. No, sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. It’s to insulting to sacks of real shit.

Bukowski | 9/17/2007, 12:25 pm EST

You might wanna take a look a look and my handiwork over at the “Brit” site under “Bukowski” and “supersonic” I think you should get a couple of good laughs!
Later On

Bukowski | 9/17/2007, 12:23 pm EST

Sam the Man,
You’re an absolute genius with the cuss words!!!

“I fuckin’ hope that shit really happens”
“shit fucks”
“no talent punk bitches”
“turd nugget” and last but not least . . .
“What the fuck has happened to music?”
Hat’s off to you, my friend!
Keep up the good work. Peace

Sammy | 9/17/2007, 12:09 pm EST

Yes, a tour bus crash! I fucking hope that shit really happens. These shit fucks have been polluting the airwaves for long enough. Fucking retarded ass emotional no talent punk bitches. I can’t believe radio stations used to play Nirvana, Soundgarden, STP, Radiohead, Meat Puppets and other great shit. Why don’t we hear Oceansize, Elbow, Beta Band, Trail of Dead, Guided by Voices, Low, VAST or anybody with an ounce of talent or originality? I’ve come to except the fact that there is a thing called MUSICAL RETARDATION, and that 90% of the population has it. Thank god for MP3 players.

SS | 9/17/2007, 8:49 am EST

Yeah. He looks just like the kid that me and friends used to toss in the dumpster after school every day.
Sorry, Kevin, it’s too bad about your incarceration for stabbing your stabbing your 76 year old grandmother 77 times.

Bukowski | 9/17/2007, 8:23 am EST

Or perhaps a Falling Safe will Fall on Fall Out Boy!

Bukowski | 9/17/2007, 8:21 am EST

That’s why you gotta rock the classics, man. Find the few new bands that are good and dig them. But these kidz don’t know what the fuck they’re doing and they’re never gonna figure it out. Maybe their fuckin’ tour bus will crash into semi truck full of gasoline!

Sammy | 9/17/2007, 7:53 am EST

Why is it that when it comes to publicity for this band, we always see this turd nugget and not the lead singer? Oh ya, he’s a fat little emo pudge boy that dosn’t look very hot in his girls jeans. What the fuck has happened to MUSIC? God save us all.

supersonic | 9/15/2007, 10:58 pm EST

nickol and taylor,
this has nothing to do with girls, because if it did, I woudn’t be fazed by this kid. It has to do with the end of great rock music and the signing and marketing of shit like Fall Out Boy.

Bob Dylan | 9/15/2007, 9:40 pm EST

Who’s the chick in the toque? She’s kinda cute.

taylor | 9/15/2007, 7:26 pm EST

i agree wit nickol ………… jus cause yall dont have girls after u dont mean yall have to dis him !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

nickol | 9/15/2007, 7:23 pm EST

all yall haters of pete wentz need to get one things A LIFE and a garentee yall are jus jealous cause yall dont have girls after u

RACHAEL AND JORDAN! | 9/15/2007, 3:23 pm EST

i dont know what yall are talking about, he has SO much talent, and plus him and zac efron are like the hottest guys alive! i dont care what yall say. =]

I LOVE PETE WENTZ!

supersonic | 9/15/2007, 5:20 am EST

talentless douche

bitterness leads | 9/15/2007, 1:59 am EST

what a dinky dicked doink

he's a fucker | 9/15/2007, 1:11 am EST

he’s a fucker

supersonic | 9/15/2007, 12:52 am EST

What a ding dang donkey’s dong

Supersonic | 9/14/2007, 10:39 pm EST

what a doink.

Supersonic | 9/14/2007, 8:44 pm EST

What a fuckin’ dink.

Seth | 9/14/2007, 6:21 pm EST

“There’s one about some friends who ended up in crazy strip club in France, which is a cool song.”

What a deep guy.

Update | 9/14/2007, 6:11 pm EST

Falling Safe Falls On Fall Out Boy

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