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Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago,  in 2001.

While Fall Out Boy's music has been typically described as pop punk and pop rock, the band were generally seen in the mid-2000s at the forefront of the "emo pop" explosion.

 

Patrick Martin Stumph ( April 27, 1984), known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stumpsinger-songwritermusician(guitars, piano), record produceractor, and music critic

Joseph Mark "Joe" Trohman (September 1, 1984),backing vocals, record producer and guitars. 

 

Peter Lewis Kingston "Pete" Wentz III (June 5, 1979) bassist and primary lyricist 

 

Andrew John "Andy" Hurley (May 31,1980) drumspercussion, backing vocals

The band's 2005 major-label breakthrough, From Under the Cork Tree, produced two hit singles, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "Dance, Dance", and went double platinum, transforming the group into superstars and making Wentz a celebrity and tabloid fixture. Their 2007 follow-up, Infinity on High, landed at number one on the Billboard 200, and produced several hit singles, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and "Thnks fr th Mmrs". Folie à Deux, the band's fourth album, created a mixed response from fans and commercially undersold expectations.

The band took a hiatus from 2009 to 2012 to "decompress", exploring various side projects. They regrouped and recorded Save Rock and Roll (2013), which gave the band their second career number one and produced the top 20 single "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)".

I discovered this band, not on a music channel but on TV shows, " One Tree Hill" with the songs "Dance, Dance", yeah I admit, I love this TV shows, in a good way, it made me discover many artists. Anyway, I loved that song, so catchy that the only things you want to do it's to jump and dance and the video clip so funny. On the Tv shows, Pete made an appearance on few episodes, so funny. Just to say that this is how my love for this band came.

I found something pretty interessing on their song on Wikipedia:

Fall Out Boy's albums Take This to Your Grave and From Under the Cork Tree are both said to have pop punk as well as punk rock sounds and influences, and Infinity on High features a wide range of styles and instrumentation, including orchestral and choral arrangements ("Thnks fr th Mmrs" and "You're Crashing, But You're No Wave") and a slower piano ballad ("Golden"). R&B influences on Infinity on High are on songs such as "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and two of the album's tracks are produced by R&B singer/producer Babyface. On Folie à Deux, Fall Out Boy continues to evolve their sound, with less of a pop punk sound and increasing the use of piano ("What a Catch, Donnie", "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet", and "20 Dollar Nose Bleed"), synthesizers, and guest artists. The band also shows a number of influences, with the opening track borrowing a chord sequence from The Who song "Baba O'Riley". The group has worked with many producers and artists, including The NeptunesTimbalandLil Wayne and Kanye West, the latter of which Patrick Stump described as "the Prince of his generation."

A central part of Fall Out Boy's sound is rooted in the band's lyrics, mainly penned by bassist Pete Wentz, who commonly uses irony and other literary devices to narrate personal experience and stories. "I write about what I’m going through most of the time, or what I imagine people are going through most of the time." He draws inspiration from authors such as Charles BukowskiErnest Hemingway, and JT LeRoy, as well as rappers such as Lil Wayne, who he described as his primary influence while writing Infinity on High. On Fall Out Boy's earlier works, Wentz wrote primarily about love and heartbreak. Themes addressed on From Under the Cork Tree include narcissism andmegalomania, while many tracks on Infinity on High discuss the ups and downs of fame. While writing Folie à Deux, he explored moral dilemmas and societal shortcomings, as well as concepts such as trust, infidelity, responsibility, and commitment. While the album does contain political overtones, the band wanted to avoid being overt about these themes, leaving many lyrics open to interpretation for listeners.

 

This 4 songs is so far the best of Fall Out Boy.  Their video clip are so funny, don't you think?!?, its always a pleasure to watch it. The video clip for the last albums are pretty interesting, they told us a violent story, and you have to wait that a song is released to see what's happen next.... You have to take a look...

What I like about this band its the mixed between rock, R&B and Hip Hop, all what I love, in fact they collaborated with many hip hop producer and singer which is rather good... Their last album, my god its just killing me, so swinging.

 

 

For I think 8 years I listen to this band, on March 12th 2014, I finally went to their gig. Yeah I know, when I was younger I wasn't so into the gig, and they took a break for 3 years, so here I am.

The funny part, its I should not go to the gig, the same day Virgin radio gave some place if we sent an email so I did it and so lucky I won the tickets, they warned me at 4 p.m and the gig was at 7 p.m so I went with my brother who like the band too.

The first part was The Pretty Reckless lead by Taylor Momsen ( the little Jenny from " Gossip Girls " ), the sound was too heavy, I knew her band but just 1 song " Make me wanna die " , that 's it, its not really the sound I like, so I wanted it to end quickly. The scene was simple, a huge cross behind written " Going to hell " , so you knew what kind of song would be.

 

Oh my, Fall Out Boy came to the stage wearing a hood and began their shows, I love it, the guitar's sound was omnipresent throughout the gig ( Pete, Patrick and Joe).

Unfortunately, there was some problems on the sounds as with The Pretty Reckless, sometimes we couldn't heard the singer. In spite of this sound there were so awesome !!! Pete and Joe did some looping with their guitars, amazing.

The stage was impressive, they were a huge scene behind and there was a piano, coming out for one song. They got so much energy running, dancing, it was impressive.

At the middle of the gig, there was a small scene at the back of the venue, and they went there for a acoustic version, everyone moves at the back but I stayed where I was otherwise I would lost my spot, a sweet moment.

About the staging, it was not the american shows, just some big balls threw in the crowd, that's it, not crazy we expected from a rock band, well they have given us their energy and good mood, so it doesn't matter.

To resume, in spite of the bad sound on some songs, the band was so energetic, very cheerful, the guitar's sound was so good to hear, they teased between them, so funny and Pete always tried to communicate with us, since he was so close to me, we could see his face, nice, you'll see on the picture.

The video below are taken by me if you want to see more, take a look to my Youtube Channel.

The fun part is some of my video was used to make an article for a people magazine, Public and I wondered why my views increased, well I don't mind my video are public, but it would be nice to have a mail for it.

Fall Out Boy, its been a long time I listen to them, and I hope, they are not going to take again a long break, I still want to listen to their music.

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