Fall Out Boy

[cimorene]

So my better half has been listening to a mix of The Killers and Fall Out Boy for a couple of weeks and practically nothing else, and then came the part when she was constantly talking about them, so that I now know all kinds of things about Pete Wentz's character and tattoos and dog and fashion sense and romantic track record and penis (well, I know all about why and how it's on the internet at least) - you get the picture.

(It should be noted that over the course of our relationship, I have absorbed no fewer than five fandoms from her by osmosis, reading everything I could find about them over the course of weeks or months without so much as a glimpse of the canon. So it's not like it's new. Sometimes her fandom appreciation is really loud.)

Last night Brother Windows took me out to dinner to thank me for babysitting his offspring for nine hours encompassing three changes of clothes, two trips out of the house with a stroller, over two hours of food preparation and two screaming fits. The video for a song whose chords were forever engraved upon my memory of the last two weeks came on MTV!

me: Hey, this song - it's Fall Out Boy. Wax is obsessed with these guys, she talks about nothing else!
Brother Windows: This - who did you say it was?
me: Fall Out Boy.
Brother Windows: Really? I thought this song was by Maroon 5!

And OMG he is totally right! "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" sounds like "Harder To Breathe".

And then last night I was anxious and exhausted, and having no slash of my own to read, I turned on wax's monitor and cannibalised some pete/patrick from her open tabs and then I... um... tripped and just sort of fell in thegoldsky's recs? I'm sure it's nothing but good to add more fandoms to my del.icio.us.

Comments

[ida-pea.livejournal.com]

I went to high school with Peter. It's so bizarre to me that he's famous now. I can't say that I saw it coming.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I went to school with Tobey Maguire and it's the same feeling. A complete disconnect.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

The whole band seem very... ordinary/"real" person-ish in the youtube clips I've seen. So Midwestern and suburbian and... recognisable.

[penm.livejournal.com]

dude, it does sound like maroon 5!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Q: is that a step up for Maroon 5, or a step down for FOB?

[penm.livejournal.com]

i have no idea, but your post makes me want new music.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Hee! I just bookmarked some the other day that sounded good. They're here (http://del.icio.us/kyuuketsukirui/bandslash). I've only made a tag for bandslash, rather than individual bands, but these are all Fall Out Boy.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

woo, thanks!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I'd already bookmarked one of them myself, it turns out. The second one is an AU where they meet via Craigslist. The idea of this AU is so inherently wonderful/hilarious that I was moved to overlook some bits that tripped my embarrassment squick and some dialogue I sort of disliked (not necessarily for being bad, just for being, like... sort of trite and awkward, which could arguably be realistic, but I wouldn't know).

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really liked the sound of that one. I think all the ones I bookmarked were AUs. There was one where Pete is a cult leader.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I read it! It's mis advertised. I mean, it's AU in the sense that he's not really a cult leader, but what it actually is is "dark!fic" about the band as they are now. Where they just have a kind of secret... semi-bdsm thing with added charisma. Think that universe of telesilla's where Liam and Jason and Sean Bean and Carrie Ann have a business that's secretly run with d/s and boot-licking.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Interesting, though not as much as actual-cult-leader!Pete.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heh. Both Maroon 5 and FOB (and very, very specifically Patrick himself) have this sort of rock/soul thing pushing them rather than a pure rock aesthetic, so...yes. There are a *lot* of similarities, mostly 'cause I figure that musically and vocally, they're coming from the same kind of place. Erm. Anyway. Hi.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hi. :) Yeah, I think it's the vocals that are most recognisable, although the similiarities are deeper than that. I wouldn't have recognised that sound as a soul influence, but I'll be thinking about that now, I'm sure.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heee. It's interesting, actually, because you can hear that progression from pure pop/punk to er, soul-flavored punk/rock with the FOB albums. Evening Out With Your Girlfriend and TTYG are both pretty standard in terms of their place and sound in the rock sphere and then there's FUCT and it gets determinedly more pop-y and the r&b/soul influences sneak their way in and then woo! Infinity on High and some really, really clear r&b/soul influences. Like, you know, Babyface doing some of the production.

Mostly, I'm totally just amused by the combo of Babyface and Butch Walker on IOH and Jay-Z doing the intro on "Thriller" and Kanye West doing a remix of "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race." It's like when NERD started doing *NSYNC stuff and you could hear that shift in the way the music sounded.

Sorry, I'm just all excited about this as music *and* as a fandom (pete! loves patrick so much! though, in fairness, most people seem to love patrick so much! like butch walker! andy! so cute! joe! awww!) and I'm kind of running out of places to talk about it without annoying everyone on my flist.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I'm also reminded of the Linkin' Park/Jay-Z remix, even though it's not really (quite) the same genre. In a way hip-hop/rock is more exciting than hip-pop because it's more rare. (Although god knows that was extremely welcome news with NSYNC, after the German/bubblegum origin.)

wax_jism is in the same boat as you and has been going and finding people to friend with whom to share her squee. I am semi-excited about the music and the fandom too, at this point, but not at the mainlining YouTube stage or the trolling the web for gossip stage. (My attention span's short; I may never reach those stages. Especially if I run out of fic recs in the near future.)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the Linkin Park/Jay-Z thing. And I find the whole hip-hop/rock...movement? shift? something to be entirely awesome. I love that I can turn on KROQ and hear Gnarls Barkley or Outkast or, more obviously, the Beastie Boys. And Red Hot Chili Peppers is totally working the rock/funk groove and that's equally awesome. So, in general, I'm a happy girl listening to the radio.

And there's a *lot* of good fic. Also, awesome videos. Like with vampire hunters! and Fight Club-esque serial killer/investigators! And geek dopplegangers! So, yes. Much to play with in this sandbox.

[thegoldsky.livejournal.com]

ahahah. IT'S SO SLIPPERY.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, your comment is SO LATE (though obviously not inaccurate...). I've already read like EVERY Patrick/Pete story that doesn't suck and at least half of the ones that do. Seriously, I read all the headers back to skip=400 at the patrick/pete community. o.O I feel a little dirty. I think I may have to give up follow wax to Panic! At the Disco give up.