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Pete Wentz on Next Fall Out Boy LP: No “Happy Fairy Tales”

7/11/08, 8:45 am EST

Last month, Pete Wentz told MTV News that the next Fall Out Boy album will be so riff-heavy, it might sound like AC/DC. The bassist confirms to Rolling Stone that he and singer-guitarist Patrick Stump are working on new tracks this summer the way they usually do: “Patrick’s obviously been writing all the music, and the words haven’t even really come in yet,” Wentz says. “I’ll go over to Patrick’s house and he’ll kind of just sit there and play songs, and I’ll be like, ‘Ah, that one’s awesome!’”

So will Wentz’s lyrics reflect his new status as a new husband and expectant father? “I think that it’s kind of blown out of control,” he says. “That people expect us to have a happy fairy tale record or something.” He notes that the band wanted to get started on new music sooner, but their cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” stood in the way. “I’m psyched to write new songs,” he says. “‘Beat It’ took off a little bit and that kind of stalled out our label and stuff like, ‘We gotta film a video for this.’ We weren’t in the right headspace to write songs before,” he adds. “We tried to before we went to Chile, and it makes a lot more sense now. We became good friends again, which is good.”

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rjacks3 | 7/11/2008, 9:56 am EST

who cares, fall out boy are just a pop group full of fluff and crap. i hope they break up and go away…and im from chicago

jgoch | 7/11/2008, 10:09 am EST

Who are they

Tiffany | 7/11/2008, 11:53 am EST

omg Ac/dc?

WTC?!?!

this sucks.

Denton | 7/11/2008, 12:05 pm EST

The fairy tale would be if this band rides off into the sunset to allow the rest of us to live happily ever after.

kayla | 7/11/2008, 1:07 pm EST

woah.
they are not a pop group;; they are rock. You really shouldnt talk about stuff you dont know about.

Charlie Miller | 7/11/2008, 1:10 pm EST

They’re the definition of a pop group.

Why wont they just die in a plane crash already?

The Graveyard | 7/11/2008, 1:17 pm EST

I have yet to meet a single person who likes Fall Out Boy. Who is buying all their records?? I’m guessing 13 year old girls, in that case they wont have a career 2 years from now.

Their cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart was the most nauseating thing I’ve ever heard.

Shiloh | 7/11/2008, 1:55 pm EST

Why are you writing about them if you dont like them…I’m pretty sure its not only 13 y.o girls buying their cds if they have been popular since 2005, try doing some math…

Unknown | 7/11/2008, 5:24 pm EST

If you don’t like them, don’t read the article or listen to the music.
Why do you have to be negative though? Listen to what you want.

adamson | 7/11/2008, 7:55 pm EST

Anyone that thinks that Fall Out Boy is rock music needs to learn the foundation of rock music.

The Fleeting Fox | 7/11/2008, 10:35 pm EST

I don’t really understand what’s so enjoyable about their music, I wish someone would explain to me what the draw is with them, because I think I’m missing something and I feel like I’m being left out… Like, are there some special hidden meanings to their lyrics or something?

saad | 7/12/2008, 3:23 am EST

fall out boy make harmless power pop records which are catchy as hell and have a bit (and only a wee bitA) of edge or meaning moreso than the average fluff. i admit i listen to them but i also admit that there are a millions groups better. they don’t claim to be great so can’t really hate.

Anonymous | 7/12/2008, 3:23 pm EST

If you people hate fall out boy sooooooo much, why the hell are you even reading this?

kaka35 | 7/12/2008, 5:59 pm EST

Fall Out Boy = kiddie pop.

Rico | 7/13/2008, 10:56 am EST

Bon Scott will rise from the grave and forever haunt Pete, Ashlee and their child to the next gen to the next gen till the end of time.

folkyourblues | 7/13/2008, 2:52 pm EST

Surely there career as talentless teeny boppers will have to be ending soon.

Sam | 7/13/2008, 6:07 pm EST

Oh please. AC/DC? Maybe if you’re under water and half deaf.

Stone Age | 7/13/2008, 6:10 pm EST

Sound like AC/DC?
Give me a fuckin’ break, yeah right.

Patrick Stump | 7/14/2008, 12:43 am EST

I get so tired of seeing Pete’s perfect jawline and windswept hair in magazines. When will it be my time to shine? I hate Pete and Ashley is going all Yoko on us. Help!

webegenies | 7/14/2008, 1:06 am EST

Pete Wentz. Ass Pirate.

sloppy | 7/14/2008, 1:18 am EST

fall out boy = horrible band

sloppy | 7/14/2008, 1:19 am EST

fall out boy = horrible band

me | 7/14/2008, 8:39 am EST

No, FOB sucks. Period.

Vamp13 | 7/14/2008, 12:45 pm EST

Fall out boy’s “take this to your grave” rocked. now they are freaking sell out outs. If pete wentz was so damn hot, fall out boy wouldn’t even be in Rolling stone.

noname | 7/14/2008, 1:19 pm EST

falloutboy is the best band ever y read about them if u hate them so much? bsides u dont hav to be so mean id luv them even if pete wasnt so good looking they have great music

norap | 7/14/2008, 1:41 pm EST

they are decent, people hating on them prob like rap lol

Holy Lord NO MORE FOB! | 7/14/2008, 1:48 pm EST

Pete Wentz is so freaking clueless…ac/dc? AC/DC? REALLY? More like Nickelback (who also suck by the way) Maybe…that is if the singer breaths through his nose when he sings…seriously they sound like a bunch of whiny 12 year olds with instruments. I seriously want to punch the TV every time I see Pete (I think i’m funny) Wentz.

johnb5554 | 7/14/2008, 2:01 pm EST

these guys are the worst band ever and I wish they would not continue to make any more horrible music

oh ya and | 7/14/2008, 2:28 pm EST

AC/DC haha yeah right.. this will be funny. posers

umm no | 7/14/2008, 2:30 pm EST

hey! “the graveyard” im a 13 year old girl and ide rather get killed and then die again then buy one of there records. so ya…and AC/DC haha yeah this’ll be funny

heather | 7/14/2008, 5:53 pm EST

their fans are not just 13 year old girls. i would know, i’m in their fanclub. i don’t understand why there are so many haters at all. i don’t hate on the music you listen to. and yes, i have listened to the foundation of rock. fall out boy is more of a pop punk band as opposed to straight rock. and i will admit, they’re songs have gone downhill since take this to your grave, but i will still always love them.

heather | 7/14/2008, 5:53 pm EST

their fans are not just 13 year old girls. i would know, i’m in their fanclub. i don’t understand why there are so many haters at all. i don’t hate on the music you listen to. and yes, i have listened to the foundation of rock. fall out boy is more of a pop punk band as opposed to straight rock. and i will admit, they’re songs have gone downhill since take this to your grave, but i will still always love them.

heather | 7/14/2008, 5:53 pm EST

their fans are not just 13 year old girls. i would know, i’m in their fanclub. i don’t understand why there are so many haters at all. i don’t hate on the music you listen to. and yes, i have listened to the foundation of rock. fall out boy is more of a pop punk band as opposed to straight rock. and i will admit, they’re songs have gone downhill since take this to your grave, but i will still always love them.

meghan trohman? | 7/14/2008, 6:21 pm EST

i found out of this from overcatskids. NOT SOME TEEN MAGOZINE. ha, im 13, but no teenie. i cant wait for more fall out boy. MY FAVORITE SONG IS NO WHERE NEAR thnks fr th mmrs.

its hand of god.

AND THEY ARE NOT PUNK. LSITEN TO HAND OF GOD. OR THE PROS N CONS OF BREATHING.

maeve | 7/14/2008, 7:01 pm EST

to all the fall out boy haters that are writing shit about them: FUCK YOU! why write terrible things about them here and break the hearts of fans everywhere! and that dumbass who’s trying to be patrick and saying that pete’s taking the spotlight, shut the fuck up because he never say something like that. just stop hating and leave fall out boy and the “fans that are only 13 year old girls (which is untrue)” alone.

team | 7/14/2008, 9:10 pm EST

UR ALL A BUNCH OF WANKERS!

PATRICK STUMP AND PETER WENTZ ARE 2 OF THE GREATEST SONG WRITERS OF OUR GENERATION AND IF YOU CANT UNDERSTAND THAT THEN YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MUSIC.

AND I’M FROM ROTHERHAM

TEAM

TD99 | 7/15/2008, 2:02 am EST

Wow… Imagine how awful a band has to be that a cover song gets in the way of the “writing process.”

Anon | 7/15/2008, 2:04 am EST

Calling members of Fall Out Boy the “greatest songwriters of our generation” shows just how narrow of a grasp you have on music as an art form and how low your standards are.

Anon | 7/15/2008, 2:05 am EST

Calling members of Fall Out Boy the “greatest songwriters of our generation” shows just how narrow of a grasp you have on music as an art form and how low your standards are.

Lauren | 7/15/2008, 4:41 am EST

for anyone here who just comes to put fall out boy down, your not really doing anything to them. they happen to actually be great songwriters, + i agree with whoever sent that. you should be able to respect all artists + their lyrics.

Martin | 7/15/2008, 8:43 am EST

Honestly, i never get why people read an article, then slate it, have you nothing better to do? Fall out boy are great song writers, everyone who listens to their music knows this, they may not be the greatest, but there freakin good.

Clandestine | 7/15/2008, 12:16 pm EST

I think it’s funny though. Haters just make them more famous. It just makes them bigger and well known. Even though it makes no sense to read something when you hate it so much and know what you are going to read and wate your life trying to hurt them with your words they will probaly never read and make them bigger and more famous for hating on them. And for every hate comment you’ll probaly get a bunch of true fans that support them to bash on you. So why waste your life on something you hate when you could be doing something more important than helping a band grow. I think my theory makes sense so just go away and leave stuff you hate alone.

Lauren:) | 7/15/2008, 6:46 pm EST

DUDE i hate wen ppl read crap on bands they dont lyk! if u dont lyk fob y do u read this shit and then rite complete crap!!!! OK fob’s music has been a little on the downside since take this to ur grave and some songs on from under the cork tree. but the lyrics are freaking awesome!!! They arent the best band of 08 but they are still a good. the are no green day or linkin park but its fob and for every one person that doesnt lyk them and rites crapola there will be 5 to say shit to u ppl!!!!!

Rachael | 7/15/2008, 9:20 pm EST

Seriously, and this is essentially to Anon, Patrick and Pete are the Elton John and Bernie Taupin of our generation. How is that for having a “small grasp on music as an art form?”

And if you actually listened to the music, you would realize that it’s not just fluff and crap. And Patrick’s voice is better than the “real music” you guys listen to, probably consisting of Disturbed and old AC/DC.
Stop hating. You sound pathetic.

lia | 7/15/2008, 9:30 pm EST

Half of the people who are hating on them have probably only heard the songs on the radio, which pale in comparison to other material on the records. If you are going to say something sucks, listen to more than what the radio offers and you might like it. If not, then just go listen to what you like and stop being bitches.

#1 FOB Fan | 7/15/2008, 10:27 pm EST

Why are you hating on Fall Out Boy so much? They are trying to help people in Africa. Any band that does that I think is great. We don’t dis the music you listen to. Fall Out Boy has been and will be a great band for many years, so everyone that hate’s Fall Out Boy so much can all rub your face in dirt and get over it. And I am in their fan club, too.

tayluhh | 7/16/2008, 11:11 pm EST

” Calling members of Fall Out Boy the “greatest songwriters of our generation” shows just how narrow of a grasp you have on music as an art form and how low your standards are. ”

honestly, i’m a big fan of fall out boy, but i can’t help but agree with this ^^^^^

LexiLollygag™ | 7/22/2008, 7:17 pm EST

ahahahah,
i cant wait.
i love fall out boy more than anyone else ever could.

xholdaloverclose | 7/23/2008, 10:01 pm EST

Fall Out Boy has been my favorite band for four years and I’ve been in their fan club for three years. Their music isn’t just fluff and crap. If you trully listen to the lyrics you could tell there’s more meaning behind the words. They are all talented boys and they deserve the fame they have earned. They aren’t one of those bands that rise out of nowhere and play an arena tour a few months later. The boys have worked their way up and didnt play there first arena tour until 2006 when they were around way before that. Saying hateful things about them aren’t going to make them break up and stop being a band and it shouldn’t even effect the haters because no one is forcing them to listen to them, buy their cds and merch, or go to their shows. Their die hards will always be there and they still have fans and even the teenyboppers. You guys need to grow up and mature a little. It doesn’t matter if their fans are 13 or 27. I was a fan when i was 13 and now I’m 17 and I’m going to stick with them.

ummm, | 7/26/2008, 8:53 pm EST

everyone needs to chill out. i was a hxc fob fan a few years back, but not so much anymore. but they’re still one of my favorite bands, nonetheless, so don’t hate. they never did anything to you. you don’t have to listen if you don’t want to.

ilovepatrick | 7/27/2008, 1:45 pm EST

why are you even reading about fall out boy if you hate them so much? what you have nothing better to do then piss ppl off? thats pathetic get a life…

fob | 7/28/2008, 11:00 pm EST

they’re my 2nd fav band and i really think they are cool. i don’t get why people say there song writing got worst after take this to your grave, after take this to your grave they had there best cd infinity on high and they’re first live album LIVE IN PHOENIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Olivia Overcast | 7/30/2008, 12:08 am EST

Okay listen, their whole fan base is not just 13 year old girls. I’ve been listening to Fall Out Boy since I was 9 or 10 years old. I’m 13 now, but that doesn’t make me a teenie-bopper. I don’t know why you’re going to hate on them and read this if you don’t even like them. It must just mean you have no life, or you don’t know what music is. Fall Out Boy has some of the most incredible lyrics and music out there. If you actually sat down and listened to the full Infinity on High CD, maybe you could critizize, but most of the people hating only heard Arms Race or Thnks fr the Mmrs. Seriously, back your shit up before you go hating on something, when you shouldn’t even be reading this in the first place. I’m an Overcast Kid as well, and that’s where I foundt he article. These boys are what honestly got me into this kind of music, and hearing something like AC/DC might be interesting, and for all anyone knows, extremely good. You can say they can’t pull it off until they do or they fail. Peter might have turned into a jerk-off, and I might have lost a bit of respect for him, but his lyrics are amazing. And Patrick Stump is an amazing singer. Joe Trohman has a hell of a lot of energy on stage. Andy Hurley may be quiet, but has ideas and is full of spirit. I’ve seen them four times live, and I’d never take them back, because it got more amazing everytime. Seriously, LEAVE FALL OUT BOY ALONE. Thanks.

OVERCASTKID♥FOB4EVVA | 7/31/2008, 3:44 pm EST

Ohmigawsh

Quit hating on Fall Out Boy. I swear, nothing can compare to that rush you get when listening to Fall Out Boy. Their music is so amazing and if you are actually going to go and read this you must have some sort of yearning to learn more about them. “Haters”, just admit it that you secretly sit in your bedroom closet at night mouthing the words of “G.I.N.A.S.F.S” to your iPod. You know the truth, Fall Out Boy RoxUrSox.

There’s mine for the day.

Dominiquewa | 7/31/2008, 8:27 pm EST

OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT!!!!

YOU FUCKING FALL OUT BOY HATERS SUCK!!!

YOU DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT THEM!!!

THEY HAVE GREAT LYRICS AND SONGS!! ANDY HURLEY, JOE TROHMAN, PATRICK STUMP, AND PETE WENTZ ARE AWESOME!

THEY’RE A GRETA BAND FROM CHICAGO!!!!

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU READ THIS IF YOU HATE THEM!?!?!

ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID!!!!??

AND THEY AREN’T FULL OF FLUFF!!! YOU STUPID WHORE!!!! AND I DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE A GUY YOU’RE STILL A WHORE!!!

LISTEN TO FROM UNDER THE CORK TREE!! IT’S ABOUT HEART BREAK AND SHIT AND “7 Minute in Heaven” THE FUCKING TITLE HAS THE DRUG THAT PETE TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF WITH.

OH AND THEY’RE NOT FUCKING POSERS!!!!!! THEY REALLY DO FEEL THAT WAY!!!

PETE TRIED TO FUCKING KILL HIMSELF SO SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU STUPID BITCH!!

DON’T TALK WHEN YOU DON’T FUCKING KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY’RE NOT A POP GROUP YOU STUPID SHIT!!!!! THEY’RE FUCKING LIKE UGH!! NOT A FUCKING POP GROUP!!

PATRICKS’S VOICE DOES NOT SUCK!! YOU SUCK!!

AND IT’S NOT WHINY LIKE YOU YOU STUPID WHINY PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!

SO SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU STUPID ASSHOLE HATERS!!

GO DO THE WORLD A FAVOR!

JUMP OFF A CLIFF!!!

Hollehheartsfob | 8/1/2008, 8:58 am EST

YAY!
New album!
*Dances*
It better come soon!!!
Ooh I hope it comes before I go see them in October.
THEN I CAN BUY IT AND THEY CAN SIGN MY COPY xD

peyton | 8/8/2008, 7:05 am EST

to be honest this is a little pathetic, i begun listening to fall out boy back when i was fourteen and that was in 2003

if you really don’t like something leave it alone because chances are it doesn’t like you back sweety

and really if you got the chance to meet these guys and you actually listened to them you’d change your opinion. they have a lot to say and they’re inspiring a generation.

personally i think you should wake up they are diverse people they’re great friends with paul wall and they all have ties to the HXC scene

seriously talk to them or at least listen what they have to say, patrick is really friendly and pete is actually really down to earth and they will talk to you

robyn | 8/18/2008, 12:20 am EST

ok so true FOB fans aren’t affected when people talk sh*t about FOB, and people who really hate FOB are gonna keep hating them no matter what fans say.
i happen to be a huge fan and have spent a lot of my time defending them. but, some people don’t like them, and are gonna spend their time dissing them. that’s just how it is.
so everybody, CHILL THE F*CK OUT….

heybeccaxxx | 8/23/2008, 9:37 am EST

Yay! I’m so excited. I’ve been waiting for so long to hear anything about a new Fall Out Boy album, and I finally got to read about it. Yessssss *air punch* :]

Anonymous | 8/24/2008, 7:23 pm EST

FOB are the best band ever how can u not like um! and pete wentz is so cute :)
1 thing WHY ARE YOU FOB HATER EVEN LOOKING UP FOB ON THE INTERNET ANYWAY YOU MUST HAVE SOME INTEREST IN THEM! If you have sucha bad taste in music you cant see what music is good or not you seiosuly need to get ur heads checked.
Go get a life FOB haters and no one gives a DAMN what u think so FUCK OFF!
oh n i am 15 years old

W/e | 9/25/2008, 5:32 pm EST

Fall Out Boy is alright, but I wouldn’t go far as calling them the best song writers of our generation. Yes offense, Pete’s lyrics makes no sense, and yes offense their instrumental style is a bit too easy, especially with Pete on bass. For God’s sake, he uses a pick. Anyways, Patrick’s, I think, the most anticipated musician in FOB, he’s great :D

lucy birch | 10/21/2008, 12:59 pm EST

fall out boy are the best. pete wenz is so fit im only 11 but are well.

lucy birch | 10/21/2008, 1:00 pm EST

fall out boy are the best. pete wenz is so fit im only 11 but are well.

lucy | 10/26/2008, 4:24 am EST

i think pete wenz is fit so why both come on this web if u dont like them

lucy birch | 10/26/2008, 4:35 am EST

i hope fall out boy come to manchester soon so i can see them i would love seeing pete he iis soooooooooooooooooo fit

lucy birch | 10/26/2008, 4:35 am EST

i hope fall out boy come to manchester soon so i can see them i would love seeing pete he iis soooooooooooooooooo fit

lucy birch | 10/26/2008, 4:35 am EST

i hope fall out boy come to manchester soon so i can see them i would love seeing pete he iis soooooooooooooooooo fit

Michelle | 12/9/2008, 3:01 pm EST

To everyone on this, shhhh!!! Especially the fans with the all caps in their posts. It is okay for people not to like the band, not syaing that they should bash them. The fans will know that FAll Out Boy is awesome. we all get it.

To all the 13 year old girls on here posting things, you aren’t helping the casue of making FOB a not tennie band. SOrry but if you are 13 and like them, you are a teenie ,maybe not in a bad way but still a teenie.

AND for everyone who thinks that FOB sucks or only has a young fanbase. I’m 20!!! My mom is 39, and we both love Fall Out Boy.

Pete never said the album was going to sound like Ac/Dc, he was talking about the riffs and comoparing it to the fact that AC/DC uses awesome guirtars riffs, alot!

The article isn’t really relevant anymore anyway.

FOB lover =D | 2/17/2009, 2:24 am EST

if you dont like them dont listen dont say your bull s*** about them if you hate them so much y r u on some thing about them. GET A LIFE. come on your friends might not like them so u act like them f***ers. they r very fantastic. we like them you may not but leave them the hell alone.i will always love FOB i loved them from 2001 i was 9 and now im 17 not just 13 yr. old girls like them now F*** OFF

JKline778 | 9/30/2009, 9:48 am EST

This band has provided a great deal of help in putting the nails in the coffin of rock. Pete Wentz has no right to even mention AC/DC in an interview, better yet compare them to his band’s god awful music which has aided in the destruction of rock music as an art form and culture. Fuck FOB and especially you Pete Wentz.

karl | 11/10/2009, 12:49 pm EST

WTF air headed girls get off FOB they’re getting poppy because of you!!! sto listening to FOB if all u know is PETE Wentz is sooooooooooo hawt!air headed girls,you messed up FOBs music

karl | 11/10/2009, 12:53 pm EST

WTF i like fob and ac/dc nirvana slipknot and i don’t think there’s anything wrong with fob except their air-headed girl fans who made them a really hated band!!!!!!!

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