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The people that piss themselves over arguing about how much they hate Fall Out Boy, or any other band for that matter only come off as ignorant and closed minded.
I like it, I agree, you're absolutely right!!!
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ok someone sort of touched on this earlier but I'm going to expand with a metaphor that I think is dead on. Fall out boy and Panic! etc. are the Backstreet Boys/N*Sync etc. of now. The only difference is they replaced the dancing with guitars and I don't think all the members of these groups are in on the joke. I mean look at the target demographic-Teenage kids who and are easily swayed to want and subsequently purchase something if it is marketed right. These bands are a perfect example, they are cookie cutter and will be thought of pretty much the same way that BSB are now. The funny thing is that if anything they are more successful than the second wave of boy bands circa 2000 were. What these guys do is attract not only the little girls in training bras and sketcher shoes who love Lindsay and Paris but the naive "punk" kids who see this and are able to distinguish "Pop" from "Rock" but when they become blended so efficiently like the way they are in these groups they don't know any better. Which is why so many people also despise them like no one else in recent memory.
Don't get me wrong, people hated the Backstreet Boys and their ilk but not the way they hate these guys. I think the reason for this is the same as the unsuspecting kid in a green day shirt (whom by the way have almost become a New Kids on the Block if I can extend my analogy. After American Idiot, punk was popular-I don't mean people stopped listening to it becasue that's a bunch of BS- but popular in that it was on teh charts and what is on the charts is what people who watch TRL and listen to Rick Dees experience therefore creating a market for catchy sing along pop-punk songs that had faded away) waiting to download the new Panic! single from Myspace. Because these kids who think of themselves as actual punks or so many people from the board who are having problems seeing the product as anything more than that-if you can tell that Madonna and Britney are just selling something and are not artists why is it so much harder to tell now? Either way it's a marketing coup for whoever decided to push these bands as hard as they did.
P.S-I think Pete Wentz does write the lyrics hence the attention
can i clear this up? fall out boy is gay and always will be. i know i should respect other peoples taste in music, but id rather burn for all eternity than listen to FOB
there'll be time for laughin'
there's no time to cry
soon i will be leavin'
look me in the eye
no matter what's in front of me
it's your face that i'll see
Fall out boy and Panic! etc. are the Backstreet Boys/N*Sync etc. of now. The only difference is they replaced the dancing with guitars and I don't think all the members of these groups are in on the joke.
If one wants to be fair though, FOB and Panic do write and play their own music; neither Nsync nor BSB did that- those groups were created by that strange older guy by auditioning or something no? Whether you like the music or not, I think that is an important distinction.
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Questions about this band,.,..
Don't really knnow much about them except for their singles.
My question is....why does the bass player (Pete Wentz??) get all teh attention. He is the face of the band. Does he write all of the songs or something? You would think he is the frontman. The singer gets no attention??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_out_boy
when you click on his name, it says he is frontman and lyricist. But the first page of the article says the other guy is the lead vocalist. I'm not familiar with them, just heard that song of theirs on the radio.
If one wants to be fair though, FOB and Panic do write and play their own music; neither Nsync nor BSB did that- those groups were created by that strange older guy by auditioning or something no? Whether you like the music or not, I think that is an important distinction.
Granted but the point is these bands have become a product first and foremost, like the boy bands I mentioned (as well as countless other singers but that's getting off point). Both are aimed at the same group of people etc. so while they may have started off as different once they reached a point where someone thought it was a good idea to really push and market them like that they became the same.
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If one wants to be fair though, FOB and Panic do write and play their own music; neither Nsync nor BSB did that- those groups were created by that strange older guy by auditioning or something no? Whether you like the music or not, I think that is an important distinction.
just because you write your own music doesn't let you off the hook -- if it sucks, it sucks. i don't know why people have sunken to the level of, "oh, at least they write their own stuff..."
it's not an important distinction.
i'd rather listen to a phony piece of shit band like kings of leon or the strokes who get a whole lotta help writing their songs from industry folks than listen to a talentless, mtv-horny band who does do all the writing. it makes no difference if they write it or not when you're talking about the quality of the music.
Fall Out Boy has much more talent than Kings of Leon. The Strokes aren't really all that great either but a bit more talented than KoL.
I don't care if some music elite thinks that listening to FOB is gay. At least they're more fun than those boring ass bands who don't take any chances in their music and have no vibe at all.
Fall Out Boy has much more talent than Kings of Leon. The Strokes aren't really all that great either but a bit more talented than KoL.
I don't care if some music elite thinks that listening to FOB is gay. At least they're more fun than those boring ass bands who don't take any chances in their music and have no vibe at all.
to say fall out boy is taking chances is to say there have been no casualties in Iraq.
My main problem with this band is that they're live shows are horrible. I'm not alone in thinking this. I've heard their fans say it. I've heard critics say it. I think I even read somewhere where they said their shows are infamously bad. What the fuck? Anyone can sound good in a multi-million dollar recording studio with 81 takes to get it right, each person recording separately, but if you can't back that shit up live, you're nothing but a hack.
The correct answer was "Fall Out Boy amount to less than the tiny worms in puppy shit."
you're a tiresome person
can i clear this up? fall out boy is gay and always will be. i know i should respect other peoples taste in music, but id rather burn for all eternity than listen to FOB
ah I see, so we are to believe your opinion is more valid than a fall out boy fan's, in spite of your 12 year old's utilisation of "gay" as an insult. are you genuinely homophobic or just unable to gather together enough words to actually articulate your feelings on fall out boy? is it their supposed homosexuality that bothers you? no? ok then...
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Questions about this band,.,..
Don't really knnow much about them except for their singles.
My question is....why does the bass player (Pete Wentz??) get all teh attention. He is the face of the band. Does he write all of the songs or something? You would think he is the frontman. The singer gets no attention??
a) women have told me this singer is kind of overweight and unattractive
b) that douche made a sex tape
Which came first,
the bad idea or me befallen by it?
My main problem with this band is that they're live shows are horrible. I'm not alone in thinking this. I've heard their fans say it. I've heard critics say it. I think I even read somewhere where they said their shows are infamously bad. What the fuck? Anyone can sound good in a multi-million dollar recording studio with 81 takes to get it right, each person recording separately, but if you can't back that shit up live, you're nothing but a hack.
They were BRUTAL on SNL.
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I like it, I agree, you're absolutely right!!!
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You're overanalyzing the situation.
there's no time to cry
soon i will be leavin'
look me in the eye
no matter what's in front of me
it's your face that i'll see
If one wants to be fair though, FOB and Panic do write and play their own music; neither Nsync nor BSB did that- those groups were created by that strange older guy by auditioning or something no? Whether you like the music or not, I think that is an important distinction.
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
gets to me every time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_out_boy
when you click on his name, it says he is frontman and lyricist. But the first page of the article says the other guy is the lead vocalist. I'm not familiar with them, just heard that song of theirs on the radio.
Granted but the point is these bands have become a product first and foremost, like the boy bands I mentioned (as well as countless other singers but that's getting off point). Both are aimed at the same group of people etc. so while they may have started off as different once they reached a point where someone thought it was a good idea to really push and market them like that they became the same.
Chris Cornell
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just because you write your own music doesn't let you off the hook -- if it sucks, it sucks. i don't know why people have sunken to the level of, "oh, at least they write their own stuff..."
it's not an important distinction.
i'd rather listen to a phony piece of shit band like kings of leon or the strokes who get a whole lotta help writing their songs from industry folks than listen to a talentless, mtv-horny band who does do all the writing. it makes no difference if they write it or not when you're talking about the quality of the music.
I don't care if some music elite thinks that listening to FOB is gay. At least they're more fun than those boring ass bands who don't take any chances in their music and have no vibe at all.
to say fall out boy is taking chances is to say there have been no casualties in Iraq.
ah I see, so we are to believe your opinion is more valid than a fall out boy fan's, in spite of your 12 year old's utilisation of "gay" as an insult. are you genuinely homophobic or just unable to gather together enough words to actually articulate your feelings on fall out boy? is it their supposed homosexuality that bothers you? no? ok then...
a) women have told me this singer is kind of overweight and unattractive
b) that douche made a sex tape
the bad idea or me befallen by it?
They were BRUTAL on SNL.
Did someone in Fall Out Boy kill your puppy? Sheesh...