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New Fall Out Boy Video Derailed By Product Placement Controversy

9/26/08, 9:01 am EST

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The new video for Fall Out Boy’s Folie A Deux single “I Don’t Care” hit the web yesterday, only it wasn’t the video Pete Wentz wanted you to see. After seeing that the video for sale on iTunes was full of product placement shots for Nokia phones, Wentz took to his blog to say, “This will probably end up deleted either by me or someone else but the version of the video that we worked on night after night is not the version that aired. Yet somehow a cut full of glorious camera phone shots did. Just to let you know. It doesn’t make any sense to us. That bag of money is being donated straight to a cause far more worthy.” Wentz was right; the initial post was deleted and replaced with a still of Popeye with “Censored” taped over his mouth. The band’s label pulled down the Nokia cuts of the video that popped up on YouTube. Did the label really surreptitiously sneak product placement into videos while keeping Wentz out of the loop? Detective Wentz is on the case.

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Anonymous | 9/28/2008, 7:04 am EST

ilove fall out boy

Fozzie Bear | 9/26/2008, 8:59 pm EST

You really appreciate it, Kathryn?? Pete the Douche is just brownnosing his fans whilst trying to get more tang from Jessica. He could have just as easily went straight to his label and ask that they remove it. WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA!!!

Olive Oil | 9/26/2008, 7:14 pm EST

ohh Popeye! but seriously, that’s cool that he took the time to call BS on the companies who were trying to just throw their product placement in the videos. Oh by the way have you checked out the new Motorokr on motorola.com /e8 LOL

Kathryn | 9/26/2008, 2:14 pm EST

I appreciate the fact that Pete is actually taking the time to point out to us that they were not intending to be cell phone salesman.

OMG POPEYE | 9/26/2008, 11:26 am EST

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!! SO FUNNY!!!!

Popeye the Sailor Man | 9/26/2008, 11:05 am EST

Well blow me…… down. I didn’t give Mr. Wentz permishkin to use me face on the website. Or to have a “censored” tape over me mouth. I gots me a noggin to eats me some spinach and give that Wentz a good pulverizing. Uck ka ka ka ka.

Chuck | 9/26/2008, 10:37 am EST

Where did Fall Out Boy get the nerve to sneak their music into what would have been a perfectly good Nokia commercial?

Chuck | 9/26/2008, 10:36 am EST

Where did Fall Out Boy get the nerve to sneak their music into what would have been a perfectly good Nokia commercial?

Steve | 9/26/2008, 9:29 am EST

This guy sucks

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