The torture of small talk with someone you used to love... 💔
(FOBbruary Day 11, watercolor/dried florals)
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american beauty/american psycho so good when you don’t have a bitch in your ear telling you new fall out boy isn’t good
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everyone's done the whole "what's your fave fob opener?" and "what's your fave fob closer?" poll, now get ready for...
(don't be rude about what's winning or what's not winning in the notes, peace and love on planet fava beans <3)
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My favorite hobby is slowly bringing people in the fob fandom, so slow that in fact they don’t know it’s happening until it’s too late. One minute, all they know is fob is a band and few of their popular songs, the next minute, they’re neck deep into Pete’s live journals wondering how the fuck they got there
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hii! here's my other piece from the zine Sing It Like The Kids That Are Mean To You (created by @thrashbeatles and laid out by @birdloaf, get your physical copy here (when its in stock) and your digital copy here)
Pete Wentz is, in many ways, the driving force behind Fall Out Boy, and he is a biracial black man. It is no surprise, then, that blackness is ever-present within the band’s art, through genre, through lyrics, through politics. Let’s talk about how race colours their work.
To start, black genre influences are scattered throughout the band’s discography. The album art of Take This to Your Grave is an homage to John Coltrane’s iconic album Blue Train. Infinity on High is filled to the brim with funk, soul and R&B influences on songs like I’m Like a Lawyer with the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You) and This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race. American Beauty/American Psycho was an experiment in emulating mixtape culture, filled with samples and electronic beats, and getting its own remix album, Make America Psycho Again. M A N I A drew its influence from dancehall and reggae, especially on Sunshine Riptide and HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T. They haven’t been shy about incorporating black genres into their work, and in fact, it seems to be a staple for them.
Additionally, Pete Wentz’s lyricism in and of itself is in fact heavily influenced by black art, and one could argue it is quintessentially the work of a black poet. In his lyrics are strategic plays on words, inversions and remixes of classic phrases, and an endless stream of cultural references, all akin to the wit and flow of a rapper. Think lines like “I’m a painter and I’m drawing a blank,” or “You take the full, full truth and you pour some out.” Indeed, in his words you’ll even find braggadocio, a staple in hip hop, though his comes with a helping of self-deprecation, like in the line “Signing off, I’m alright in bed but I’m better with a pen/The kid was alright then it went to his head.” This is arguably a feature which endears so many people to his work, and it is the one which shows his blackness most evidently.
Finally, while Fall Out Boy itself is not an overtly political act, the band has at times used their music to espouse black politics. In You’re Crashing, But You’re No Wave, the lyrics tell the story of Fred Hampton Jr’s conviction for aggravated arson following the 1992 LA riots protesting the acquittal of the police officers who murdered Rodney King. The song Novocaine also deals with black politics, being inspired by the murder of Trayvon Martin and primarily about the corruption of and threat posed by the police to black youth.
The core idea behind Fall Out Boy is to make music “for the kids who feel like they don’t fit in anywhere”. When that sentiment is espoused by a man who grew up as part of the only black family in his neighbourhood, it gains a whole new meaning. Fall Out Boy is, in a very real way, for niggas.
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Here’s some mood boards I made for each of fob’s albums a while back <3
Take This To Your Grave / From Under The Cork Tree
Infinity On High / Folie à Deux
Save Rock And Roll / American Beauty/American Psycho
Mania / So Much (For) Stardust
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YOURE SECCOND HAND SMOKE SECCOND HAND SMOKE I BREATHE UOU IN BUT HONEY I DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING TO ME MON CHERI BUT THR TRUTH CATCHES UO TO US EVENTUALLY!!!! TRY TO SAY LIVE LIVE AND LET LIVE BUT IM NO GOOD GOOD AT LIP SERVICE ACCEPT WHEN THEYRE YOURS MI AMORE IM COMING FOR YOU AND IM AMKING WAR
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Day 90 of drawing every @falloutboy song! Today is Twin Skeletons, and I wanted to draw the skeletons on the cover of the Believers Never Die album with the crow flying above them for this one! This is a fantastic song and I love listening to it so much.
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I wish I dreamt in the shape of your mouth but it's your thread count I really care about, stay up til the lights go out stay up stay woahhh ohhh you take the full full truth then you pour some out, you take the full full truth then you pour some out and as we're drifting off to sleep all those dirty thoughts of me they were never yours to keep keep woahhhh oahhh
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