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MTV I Love Live: Fall Out Boy
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Tue, Feb 3 @ 10pm (MY), 9pm (SG/HK)
Fri, Feb 6 @ 6.30pm (MY), 5.30pm (SG/HK)
MTV I Love Live: Fall Out Boy
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| Full Biography |
| "Honestly, we have never been a critically acclaimed band or 'cool' band, but we have always moved the needle because of our fans and we don't want that to change."
Fall Out Boy bassist/lyricist Pete Wentz wrote that blog entry a few weeks before finishing Folie à Deux, the band's fourth full-length album. Although the group has grown exponentially in its seven-year existence, there's a consistency to the group that can't be measured simply by record or ticket sales. FOB achieved its first taste of mainstream success with the 2003 record, Take This to Your Grave, a pop-punk masterpiece that revitalized what had been a tired genre. After several high-profile tours, the band released its biggest-selling album to date, 2005's From Under the Cork Tree, which landed two songs ("Sugar We're Going Down" and "Dance Dance") in the Billboard Top Ten. The band was also nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist. In 2007, the group released the #1 record Infinity on High and began a series of headline arena tours. The band also attempted to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by playing all seven continents – sadly, weather prevented the group from entering Antarctica. While Folie may not initially sound like the same band that was birthed in the Chicago punk/hardcore scene, but it inhabits the same spirit. It's adventurous, vibrant and, well, damn catchy—all characteristics that the band and its fanbase have come to expect over the last decade. Remarkably, Folie à Deux feels both like result of seven years of hard work and something that could only be produced right now. It's both cynical and hopeful, lyrically and musically challenging, personal and political, and easily the most diverse record FOB has ever recorded. This is what Folie isn't: a "grown up" record (read: boring, middle-of-the-road); if anything, the album—whose title translates as "a madness shared by two"—is the most hard-hitting album in the band's career. Although Wentz has claimed the record "isn't overtly political," there is some social commentary coursing through Folie. Musically, Folie finds the band heading out into a number of new, often epic directions. No stranger to grand concepts in the past, the band recently launched a viral marketing campaign for the album entitled "Citizens for Our Betterment," which starting off as a series of cryptic web messages and eventually included a free download mixtape of new and demo songs from FOB and various Decaydance bands. In the end, Folie à Deux is simply the artistic statement Fall Out Boy wanted to make in 2008. |