The two subsequently divorced in In a May tumblr post , singer-guitarist Patrick Stump remarked that the punk-pop rockers had no plans to head into the studio but always had every intention of doing another record. Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz officially divorced.
It's the first single off their sixth studio album, Save Rock and Roll , which hits stores worldwide on May 6 and 7, That date also happens to mark the 10th anniversary of their debut disc, Take This to Your Grave. The album is finished? I self-produced. I did have an engineer, and a friend who is also a producer, and they kind of both co-produced. They did a really good job.
Is it scary to step out on your own with lyric writing? Did you ever consider a stage name for the solo project? And had I known that we would have gotten somewhere, I probably would have changed my name.
I always thought Stump was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. I remember I really liked the word Axon [for a stage name]. How conscious were those decisions? I started losing weight for health reasons.
I was in really bad shape, and you know, you get older, things start happening …. Wait, how old are you? I lost a lot of weight; I buckled down and worked out. All of a sudden you can try on good-looking stuff.
I really only bought shirts and ties and sports coats and stuff. It seems like a front man from a popular band going solo and trying a different musical direction is something that would find more acceptance now than it might have ten years ago. I look around and there are a few people doing it. Near the end, Blink's Mark Hoppus shaved Wentz's head in a move Rolling Stone would later describe as a "symbolic cleansing of the past, but also the beginning of a very dark chapter for the band.
By the time the break began, Stump was the heaviest he had ever been and loathed the band's image as an "emo" band. Coming home from tour, drummer Andy Hurley "went through the darkest depression [I've] ever felt. I looked at my calendar and it was just empty. Previously known as the "overexposed, despised" leader of the band, Wentz "simply grew up," sharing custody of his son and embracing maturity: "There was a jump-cut in my life.
I started thinking — like, being old would be cool. During the hiatus, the band members each pursued individual musical interests, which were met with "varying degrees of failure. In addition, he married his longtime girlfriend and lost over sixty pounds through portion control and exercise.
Stump blew through most of his savings putting together a large band to tour behind Soul Punk , but ticket sales were sparse and the album stalled commercially.
Stump revealed that fans harassed him on his solo tour, hurling insults such as "We liked you better fat," and noted that "Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again. The project released one single before album delays led to Rexha's departure in Wentz also completed writing a novel, Gray , that he had been working on for six years outside the band, and began hosting the reality tattoo competition show Best Ink.
Hurley ventured farther into rock during the hiatus, drumming with multiple bands over the three-year period. He continued to manage his record label, Fuck City, and drummed for bands Burning Empires and Enabler.
Despite this, the members all remained cordial to one another; Wentz was Stump's best man at his wedding. The hiatus was, all things considered, beneficial for the group and its members, according to Hurley. And Pete is a million times better.
Stump and Wentz met up for the first time in several years in early for a writing session. Wentz reached out to Stump after he penned his letter, as he too felt he was in a dark place and needed a creative outlet. He was at first reluctant to approach Stump, likening the phone call to reconnecting with a lover after years of acrimony. We paid for each other's houses and you don't know my kid," Wentz remarked.
The result, "three or four" new songs, were shelved with near immediacy, with the two concluding that "it just wasn't right and didn't feel right. The band decided that if a comeback was in order, it must represent the band in its current form: "We didn't want to come back just to bask in the glory days and, like, and collect a few checks and pretend Afterwards, the quartet held an all-day secret meeting at their manager's home in New York City where they discussed ideas and the mechanics of getting together to record.
Trohman was the last to be contacted, through a three-hour phone call from Stump. As Trohman was arguably the most excited to begin other projects, he had a list of stipulations for rejoining the band.
Stump supported Trohman's ambition saying Trohman "needed to be writing more. The band members' main goal was to reinvent the group's sound from scratch, creating what Trohman called a "reimagining of the band," which focuses more on pop.
Sessions were not without difficulties, as the band struggled initially to produce new material. Walker had doubts about the band's volatility, feeling the record would not get made following "meltdown after meltdown. While specifically denying that the group's announcement was a reunion because "[the group had] never broke[n] up", the band announced a reunion tour and details of Save Rock and Roll on February 4, The quartet's announcement included a photo of the group that had been taken earlier that morning of the band members huddled around a bonfire tossing copies of their back catalog into flames at the original location of Comiskey Park, the location of 's Disco Demolition Night, a baseball promotional event which involved destroying disco records.
A message on the group's website read "when we were kids the only thing that got us through most days was music. It's why we started Fall Out Boy in the first place. This isn't a reunion because we never broke up. We needed to plug back in and make some music that matters to us. The future of Fall Out Boy starts now.
Save rock and roll The arrival of Save Rock and Roll posted the quartet's third-biggest sales week, and earned the group's second career number one on the chart. The band's chart success was best described as unexpected by music journalists. Rolling Stone called the band's comeback a "rather stunning renaissance", and Entertainment Weekly called the number one a "major accomplishment for a band whom many in the industry had dismissed as kings of a genre whose time had passed.
It was certified 3x Platinum in the US for over 3 million sales. Inspired in part by Daft Punk's Interstella The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem , the band released a music video for every song on the album in a series titled The Young Blood Chronicles between February and May On June 2, , Wentz stated that he and Stump were writing new music: "We're writing.
I was just listening to something Patrick had written in the trailer. So we're writing, finishing out the album cycle in South Africa in September. By the s, there were few rock bands achieving success on mainstream radio and the charts, but "Centuries" defied the odds to peak at No. Another song titled " Immortals " was released October 14, , as part of the soundtrack for the Walt Disney film Big Hero 6.
The recording of the song was released in November The band played two small venue release shows in January , in London and Chicago. From February through March, the band played at the Australian Soundwave festival for the first time, with two additional side shows in Sydney and Brisbane. The remix album features a remade version of each track from the original record, each featuring a different rapper.
The album was released on October 30, The beginning of Mania's production began after Stump introduced the future leading single " Young and Menace " to Wentz at Reading and Leeds Festival in , which inspired both of them to record a complete song. The album was originally going to be released on September 15, worldwide.
However, Stump announced that the album was moved to be released on January 18, Stump took to Twitter to say - "The album just really isn't ready, and it felt very rushed. I'm never going to put a record out I genuinely don't believe is at least as strong or valid as the one that came before it and in order to do that we need a little bit more time to properly and carefully record solid performances.
On November 6, , Fall Out Boy announced on social media that the album was completed and released the track listing. The album received mixed reviews from music critics. While widely considered to be a pop punk band, Fall Out Boy has also been described as pop rock emo, and emo pop, and cites emo group The Get Up Kids as an influence among many other bands.
Wentz responded by "handing over the first two New Found Glory records". The band acknowledges its hardcore punk roots as an influence; all four members were involved in the Chicago hardcore scene before joining Fall Out Boy. Wentz described the band's affiliation with the genre by saying "I think the interesting thing is that we are all hardcore kids that are writing pop music
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