Comments on: FALL OUT BOY – “Thriller”

By: cis

cis — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:18:10 +0000

tbf part of the reason i like FOB is the feeling of being fifteen – or at least, of being in that indeterminate messy bit of life where clever lyrics and power chords are these huge pieces of meaning you can cling to.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:22:46 +0000

Yeah the 15yos thing is a bit lazy given that the people who got me to stop being silly and like FOB were Cis (20s) and Maura (30s).

Anyway, thankyou all for looking at my review – the power of Twitter, eh? To the people saying its defensive – it’s part of a “top tracks of the 00s” series so for regular readers I’m kind of taking the “this is rly good” bit for granted and trying to dig into other stuff.

By: Hollie

Hollie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:12:24 +0000

excellent review and for all those who think Fall Out Boy is for 15 year olds…. I’m 29 and I wear my Overcast Kids button on my lanyard that holds my badge for my real grown up job. Always have. Always will.

By: Heresyourverse

Heresyourverse — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:47:01 +0000

It doesn’t matter what people think when it comes to music. Since when did liking something require explanation? Music is one of the last things people have to explain who they are. When someone asks me who my favorite band is I say fall out boy, half of the people hate them but I really don’t care because I like them and they don’t have to. I just don’t think you have to write a blog entry defending why fall out boy is on your iPod. Get over the fear that someone might look at you the wrong way because you want to like your music.

By: 911I Dont Care

911I Dont Care — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:01:36 +0000

Yes, I agree. I LOVE Fall Out Boy and don’t care if people judge me. Heck, I’m getting a Pete Went’z signature bass guitar. They are my favorite band and they have inspired me. They do things their own way and I like that. Their song “I Dont Care” (my all time favorite song) is perfect for their public outlook on things.

By: boomerang

boomerang — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:50 +0000

LOL, I love it when insecure people are embarrassed of liking what they like and have to write 500-word articles to defensively explain that they only like this uncool thing for cool reasons.

You’re too old for guilty pleasures, dude! Just be out and proud. Let your freak flag fly.

By: Leoni Horton

Leoni Horton — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:07:30 +0000

well i think fall out boy are amazing. and i would always say im a fan even if people judge me as a fangirl. i feel really privileged to have been to two of their gigs. I love them so much i want to thank them.!

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:06:58 +0000

this is a great review. i’m also always hesitant to say they’re my favorite band, because people judge. at this point, whenever someone asks me my favorite band, i say “i like bands that everyone else hates.” people think fall out boy are too mainstream, too poppy, too self-aware… but i really wouldn’t give a crap if they went on mtv and told everyone “we like money and fame and don’t care about you guys,” because i still love the music.
and thriller is my absolute favorite song, ever. :] good choice. i think it kind of sums up the position they were at when they wrote infinity on high.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:35:11 +0000

thats so weird.
I was listening to Thriller as I was reading this, and “Long live the car crash hearts” came up just as I read that line. Creepy :P

By: Katherine Jepson

Katherine Jepson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:25:28 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this, it made my day :)

By: Renée

Renée — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:32:13 +0000

I see it the exact same way. But still when people ask my favorite band I can neve say fall out boy because people judge you as a fangirl. Really they know what they’re doing. Maybe they aren’t the best musicians but they manage to be this hugely popular world wide band that even people who say they hate them really don’t. Try have it figured out.

By: Steve Mannion

Steve Mannion — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:04:23 +0000

‘w.a.m.s.’ from their last album is a real favourite – an album in one song!

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:06:51 +0000

as “postmodernism” has become one of those words which means 20 difft clusters of things for every 20 ppl that use it, which bits are you calling postmodern richaod? stuff that tom said or other stuff he didn’t say?

(apologies: as a sub-editor i ave pretty much taken to crossing this word out in copy i work on, and firing off a query “plz say concretely what mean? no two readers agree on content of term”)

By: Richaod

Richaod — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:51:40 +0000

Another excellent writeup – Fall Out Boy’s postmodernism does make them… almost representative of the decade in a way, at least for me. But at the same time, they’ve kind of gradually transformed into a far more classicist pop-rock entity than anything resembling terribly defined “emo”. Hmmm.