Fall Out Boy
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

Super-glossy production drenching this, the stupidly-titled second single lifted from Fall Out Boy’s Infinity On High LP, can’t save it from being interpreted as just another routine, production-line pop-emo piece of three-and-something minute hook-filled chart fodder. But then again, if something ain’t broke…

The Chicago quartet have perfected their chosen art, chiselling humungous riffs off at the edges and sanding the roughness away to allow silky pop drapes to slide on over the top of their by-the-book creations. This is thrilling stuff if you’re a ten-year-old just taking their first steps in the world of rock music, but anyone with water under the bridge is sure to find ‘Thnks Fr Th Mmrs’ just as over-egged, despite its best efforts to separate itself from the pack spawned in its makers’ successful wake, as anything else in Fall Out Boy’s gooey back catalogue.

Entirely inoffensive and far from turn this off right now-able, this song’s a radio hit for sure, and the existing hardcore are certain to see it as another step towards everlasting fame for these punk-rock-schooled megastars in below-the-radar band tees. Fall Out Boy have worked for their current status as lynchpins of a scene genuinely bulging with makeweights, and their ability to knock out excellently realised pop-rock is admirable. But will this single change the minds of those already exasperated by the band’s saccharine delivery and teenage angst lyricism?

Nope. But then again, if something ain’t broke…