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So, it’s let’s dump on Fall Out Boy** time is it? Those trilby-hatted tykes in the popular music press have decided that, actually, Pete Wentz and the boys aren’t the saviours of music so much as a bunch of preening, arrogant, corporate sell-outs, slowly warping the minds of the kids into thinking that their dullard, pop-pap bluster is like, totally real.
Well, yeah.
And all of the above is entirely true. Fall Out Boy have very little going for them in the world of art and culture. They’re about as nourishing as a single Chicken McNugget. And all the above proves is that you were wankers for bigging them up in the first place.
The only thing they have going for them is ‘The Take Over, The Breaks Over’, which, poor grammar aside, is absolutely brilliant. It’s a giant, salacious, FM-straddling, K-ROQ-humping amp-ed up power ballad.
Not that you’d fully realise that until 1:36 into the track, where, thinking that the song had already expulsed its by-numbers generic emo chorus, drops a second chorus that’s worthy of placement on a Rocky soundtrack. Which, as well as meaning that chorus one is now an awesome pre-chorus, renders this track a pop gem.
Still, shit band though.
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I once gave Fall Out Boy a good review
I think james_delve bullied me for a while
I haven't heard the single
and I'm not a fan but this is a very brave review.
Well done
best review
i've seen in a long while
but they do steal that breakdown bit from MCR. oH!
I like Fall Out Boy
I don't really do "emo". But then nor do they. They do "pop".
So, like the new single, huh?
The video on this page should rapidly disabuse you of any lingering good thoughts:
http://www.falloutboyrock.com/falloutboy/disco.php
This song is douche and this band is fucking emo. You want proof? You tell me who other than an emo band could shit out lines like this:
"They say your head can be a prison
And these are just conjugal visits"
Really?
I was under the impression that 'conjugal' wasn't usually in the lexicon of Emo bands.
But yeah, shit band.
OT sorta
KROQ used to be a great station. They'd do funny stuff like "Hey that was a really great Buzzcocks tune, I think I'll play it again."
Now, they play Fall Out Boy. meh.
fall out boy blows
seriously, one of least favorite bands, but this song is okay.. the verse and the second chorus that is...
i quite like this and the new MCR single as well
i tried to resist and i do hate myself. but theyre not actually bad
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